Pokemon Speechless

"I'm so exhausted..."

Ling evenly divided the large plate of elf food into six portions, and after giving it to the six elves that Shinji had released to taste, he slumped down on a chair beside him, rested for a while, and then started making energy non-stop. blocks.

After all, in her eyes, elf food can only be regarded as filling her stomach. If she really wants to cultivate it, she still has to use energy cubes.

However, making energy cubes is much simpler. Just take out the tree fruits, compare them, and put them into the energy cube machine you carry with you (in fact, this thing is the latest portable model obtained from the alliance through application, and one appears outside) can be sold at sky-high prices), start the manual mode, put in the prepared tree fruits, concentrate on cutting, and complete.

Energy cubes originated from Fang Yuan. Her father Beidou is good at customizing recipes according to the elf's own conditions, and her mother Caiko is not only a master of coordination and training, but also a good hand at making energy cubes.

As the most popular staple food in the world, elf food is already considered a luxury item even in friendly stores, not to mention that energy cubes that require higher levels of production technology and difficulty are completely priceless. Most training Anyone who gets a small jar would treat it like a treasure, and only Ling, who has mastered her breeding skills, can take out a handful of energy cubes and fill them up for all her elves to eat as afternoon tea.

In a sense, it is also a luxury.

In fact, the homemade elf food and energy cubes that Ling carried were originally enough, but after traveling with Shinji, Ling naturally took over the job of making food for Shinji's elf - by Shinji of course. To pay for it, the amount of food had to be doubled, so after the Yaoyi Gym Competition, I hurriedly started to replenish the amount of food, so as not to end up with an elf during the subsequent travel and have to eat tree fruits. A field of living.

What, let Shinji do it himself?

exm?

Have you forgotten what happened to the raw materials when Shinji made elf food by himself in the last chapter?

After seeing that the food and energy cubes he made according to the customized recipes were well received by Shinji's elves, Ling rubbed his temples and said, "Let them eat for now. I will record them in the forest in a few days." taste."

"Taste...taste?" Shinji frowned and asked.

really……

Ling glanced at him helplessly: "Shinji, people like you who feed your elves the same elf food sold in stores probably don't know that elves have their own favorite flavors. Although There are traces of elf taste based on personality and attributes, but it still needs to be tested once."

Shinji shook his head in confusion.

He really didn't know.

Ling rolled his eyes silently in his heart, waved his hand and said, "Forget it, you don't care about this anyway."

Shinji: ...

#I always feel despised by my friends#

"ずっと, ずっと, この地で, ずっと, ずっと, laugh いあって..."

[Translation: Always at this distance, always smiling...]

Suddenly, an elegant male voice floated in the kitchen. Ling's eyelids jumped and he took out a mobile phone from his bag. After saying sorry to Shinji, he hurried out to answer the phone, leaving a group of elves and Shinji behind. .

Looking at the words displayed on the phone screen, Ling sighed and pressed the answer button.

"Ling..." A tender voice came from the other end of the phone, soft and gentle, but with a little hesitation.

Just by hearing this voice, Ling could picture the other person's current face and expression in his mind.

Her long blue hair is tied up high with a red hairpin, and she has a kind smile on her face. Even though she is nearly forty years old, she still retains her charm.

The word gentle is a perfect word to describe this person.

The former top coordinator of the generation, Ayako Ochiai, is now known as Ayako Minazuki.

"Mom..." This soft call contained many complex emotions. The name that came out of his mouth felt as far away as a world away to Ling.

She hadn't spoken to her family on the phone for a long time, after Minazuki Hokuto—her father, a companion who had traveled with her mother, and the youngest top breeder in the alliance—passed away.

"Ling, your father's death anniversary is coming soon, won't you... come back this year?" Caizi's words made Ling stunned.

Yes, my father’s death anniversary is next week, isn’t it?

Her father was not in good health in her memory, especially since he had been living in the hospital not long after Xiaoguang was born.

The hospital is far away from Binhai City, and the road is really inconvenient, so Caiko will take Xiaoguang and her to visit the hospital every one or two weeks.

Ling once asked Caizi why she didn't move to Binhai City. She just smiled and shook her head without answering.

She didn't quite understand Cai Zi's intention at the time, but she probably knows it now.

I'm afraid it's just a last ditch effort for myself. I believe that my father will get better and return to this home, this first warm home.

After saying goodbye to brother Raiji Shinji at the Yamanashi Research Institute three years ago, she left in a hurry, with the purpose of rushing to the hospital to say goodbye to her father.

Unexpectedly, this side turned out to be the last side.

Minazuki Hokuto died less than a year after her trip.

Since she was in Carlos at the time, even though she rushed back that night after receiving the news that her father was critically ill, she was unable to catch up with him for the last time.

Even now, she is still brooding about this matter and finds it difficult to feel relieved about it.

After the people from the Elf Alliance learned the news, they hurried back and held a grand funeral for their father.

But death is like a lamp going out.

My father is all gone, so what’s the point of having a grand funeral?

——And those who come to worship do not know how many of them are sincere.

In all Ling's memories, Minazuki Beidou was a very competent father even if he was not in good health. He had always doted on her. Even when she found out that she had forgotten almost all the memories of her previous life and had been ignoring people for a while, Minazuki Beidou always stayed by her side.

Not long after Xiaoguang was born, Caiko's attention was all on Xiaoguang, but as her father, Beidou never ignored her, so she had a very deep relationship with Beidou, and she was even closer to Beidou than Caiko. This father.

During that time, she was in a very depressed mood, crying to sleep every night. It was not until she sorted out her emotions that she embarked on the journey again.

Since then, she has intentionally never set foot on the land of her hometown, and she has never even gone back for the anniversary of her death last year. She just asked Cai Zi to speak for her during the memorial service. She probably subconsciously avoided it intentionally. Open up that piece of your own sad place.

The number of communications with my family can be counted on one hand, and most of them are just calls from Cai Zi or Xiao Guang. As for Ling, there are very few calls.

The most recent phone call was from Xiaoguang to thank her for the birthday gift she gave her as her sister - an elf egg.

This elf egg is the child conceived by the most cooperative couple in her second team - the ice elf and the water elf.

Eevee has probably been hatched by now. I really look forward to what form it will evolve into in the future, Ling couldn't help but think.

"Ling...?" Caizi's voice made Ling recover from his fugue state.

"Well... it's the same as last year... I don't really want to come back this year..." Ling leaned against the wall and thought for a while, then added, "I probably won't come back in the next few years. I'm going to wait for me now." After you get the seventh-level breeder certificate, you can consider coming back."

As the world's top elf breeder, his father had never accepted an apprentice, but it would be a pity that no one could inherit his mantle. Ling knew that Xiaoguang had a frisky nature and was not suitable for the profession of being a breeder, which requires care and patience, so he spontaneously She followed her father to learn how to be an excellent breeder - even though she did not want to be a breeder as her main career, the content he taught included the preparation of elf food, customization of recipes, the functions of specific herbs, etc. .

Most trainers will buy elf food for their elf at friendly stores. But they rarely pay attention to how these small brown cylindrical pellets are made.

It has long been a consensus that the taste buds of elves are very different from the taste buds of humans. Some things that are difficult to enter, swallow, or taste unpalatable to humans are often seen by elves as Supremely delicious. This undoubtedly brings a considerable degree of trouble to every breeder who is trying to solve the problem of "how to make better elf food that is more popular with elves".

Because of this, the unique formula that was successfully obtained after countless failures is particularly precious. These unique formulas in the hands of different breeders are generally not shared with others. The formula in Ling's hands was personally taught to her by her father, who is a top breeder. Countless breeders dream of it - or can't get it. ——A unique formula that only exists in legends.

As we all know, every breeder has different habits in preparing elf food. Some may take the elf's taste preference more into consideration and mix in a large proportion of tree fruits, while others may add calcium tablets and eggs. Such artificial nutrition products, and some will go to the barren mountains and ridges to find rarer specific herbs as raw materials, and worry about how to get rid of the little sprites that most herbs have. Disliked bitter taste.

Ling doesn't have any particular preference for this, but he usually pays attention to the taste of his own elves when making food. No matter how bad it is, he can still make elf food that is acceptable to most elves.

Of course, when she makes elf food, she usually adjusts it at any time based on the observed physical condition of the elf.

"Tailor-made things are more satisfying than anything else. Instead of spending time on flashy things, it is better to focus on the users, carefully observe what they desire and need most now, and then configure it."

——This is what Minazuki Beidou said to her most often when she was teaching Ling Shi step by step.

At the same time, Ling's backpack has a storage box for specific herbs.

About twenty years ago, herbs and medicinal materials were the main raw materials used to make traditional Chinese medicines with excellent efficacy. But Minazuki Beidou, who was still a handsome young man at the time, discovered that mixing certain herbs into raw materials to make elf food could better adjust the elf's health.

After making this major discovery, he took his partners—including his wife Caiko—for six months in the barren mountains and ridges rich in medicinal herb resources, and summarized about twenty kinds of usable medicinal herbs. specific medicinal herbs and reported the relevant results to the alliance.

Since then, it has become common knowledge among breeders to mix these specific herbs into raw materials to make elves.

And his body, due to the miasma in the mountains and fields, has been getting worse day by day since then - of course, it is also related to Minazuki Hokuto's own poor physical condition.

With this outstanding contribution that benefited the vast majority of trainers, breeders and elves, Minazuki Hokuto, who was already a famous top breeder at the time, was quickly upgraded to this level after being approved by the top management of the alliance. There are only a handful of top breeders in the world.

This incident caused great controversy in society at that time.

So far, those who have been able to obtain the title of top breeder are seniors who have served in this field for most of their lives and have extremely solid and rich business experience. Although this young man in his twenties has unique talents and luck, and has become quite famous in this field, why can he be on an equal footing with those long-known seniors?

Does his ability reach the level expected of a top breeder?

——This is something that many breeders can’t wait to verify and know for themselves.

And Minazuki Beidou has indeed used his excellent skills to deal with the difficulties and doubts raised by most senior breeders. It proves that this is an honor he deserves and that he is also capable enough to shoulder this title.

To Minazuki Hokuto, the title of top breeder is just something that he will get sooner or later. But for many breeders who have worked hard for most of their lives but still failed to achieve their goals, this is their lifelong pursuit, so he has become a thorn in the side of these breeders.

Later, Minazuki Beidou compiled the more than twenty specific herbs he summarized into a book and submitted it to the alliance headquarters for unified printing.

This book later became a must-read for every breeder when starting out, and it can be called a textbook.

Although Minazuki Hokuto's research results have caused a great sensation and subsequent impact in the field, there are still questions about what proportion of specific herbs should be used to achieve the best effect, and how they should be ground to better preserve their properties. The efficacy of the medicine - that is, not destroying its main ingredients too much, the most appropriate step to add the raw materials for making elf food, and other detailed information are not known to the outside world.

Just because this is Minazuki Hokuto's personal patent, they cannot force Minazuki Hokuto to dedicate it selflessly.

So, things reached a deadlock.

Although the set of medicinal herbs written by the inventor Minazuki Hokuto himself details the name, origin, growth environment, distribution area and general effects of these specific medicinal herbs, and also attaches high-definition photos of the medicinal herbs. But for the older generation of breeders who have never tried adding specific herbs to raw materials to make elf food before, this is simply a subject that can kill countless of their brain cells.

Even if you know what specific herbs are, success does not happen overnight. There are countless variables and uncertainties in every link, so the older generation of breeders began to try, fail, try, fail, try, fail, It’s a sad journey of trying... failing countless times and getting more and more frustrated, struggling to the end.

A few successful people treasure the formula for success that they have worked so hard and painstakingly to find as if it is their own lifeblood, and are simply unwilling to share it with others.

Since then, how to develop their own elf food formula has become an unavoidable issue and personal test that every advanced breeder must face, and it has caused misfortune to countless people who want to be promoted to top breeders. Senior breeder.

So, in a way, Ling is very, very lucky.

Because it was difficult for countless breeders to rack their brains and think hard to obtain specific information, her father Minazuki Hokuto personally handed it over to her slowly when she was a child.

Moreover, these are just the most basic things for Ling.

Under the guidance of his father, Ling, who has been familiar with the effects and processing methods of these specific herbs since he was a child, even knows how to prescribe the right medicine for the elf's current physical condition, and how to use different types of specific herbs to prepare exclusive medicine for him. Elf Food, and has a thorough knowledge of where each type of specific herb is found and how to identify it.

Elf trainers often travel to many places when they travel, but many times when they see those specific herbs, they just treat them as ordinary weeds and never take them to their hearts. But Ling Corresponding tools will be used to pluck the herb completely and preserve it for future use.

You know, once the information about a specific medicinal herb is released, the price rises like the birth rate in the middle of industrialization. Together with the Poke Balls and elf-specific medicines, it has become one of the main sources of income for Friendly Stores.

Although there is no shortage of money in the card, why don’t you want these specific herbs that are available for free (lu) (shang) (cai)?

Ling will not spend the money he can save in vain.

Caizi on the other side of the phone heard this, sighed, and said: "You have always liked to make your own decisions since you were a child, so I won't force you. Come back when you want. Is there anything else you want me to say this year?"

Not long ago, Ling sent back the fifth-level breeder certificate he passed in the Chengdu area. With the guidance of his father, who is a top breeder, in the past few years, it has been easy for Ling to obtain the seventh-level breeder certificate. .

This also means that Ling has the intention to come back.

Unless she deliberately did not go to participate in the annual breeder grade examination, which is held simultaneously in each region and is invigilated by the staff of the alliance, and the examination is marked by specialized personnel of the alliance.

Before setting off for the trip, Ling took the breeder's level exam three times at his father's instruction and successfully obtained the certificate.

Shortly after receiving the third-level breeder certificate, Ling turned ten and could receive the initial elf.

After embarking on the journey, apart from being too sad for Beidou's death in the first year, Ling was not in the mood to take the exam. In the next two years, Ling did not miss the breeder level exam once and passed them all in one go. Excellent results.

The alliance initially thought that Ling was another genius who emerged out of nowhere, but after looking through her information, they felt that this was normal.

After all, she bears the surname "Mizunazuki" from her father.

Ling pursed his lips and said: "Tell father, I have lived a good life in the past few years, and so have Liebite Lusha and Menas. I have conquered many elves, so you don't have to worry too much about me there. I just got it not long ago I have a Level 5 Breeder Certificate. This year I am going to participate in the league competition in the Johto area, and then I will take the Level 6 Breeder Exam..."

Ling talked a lot by himself, while Caizi just listened silently. After speaking for more than half of the time, he paused and continued: "I am traveling with a partner now. He is the one I mentioned to you, the one named Shinji. Boy, he is a very good person..."

At the end, Ling added another sentence, which made Cai Zi's nose sore:

"I miss you, Dad..."