Pokémon: The Climb

Because it was the first time Yang Yan made it, he only made one.

He thought that with his careful preparation, he wouldn't fail so quickly, but he didn't expect that after baking in the fire, the shell suddenly cracked when it was put in water to cool!

Tomioka checked it again, and then asked Yang Yan some details about the previous injection of potion, and then discovered the problem.

Only then did Yang Yan realize that what he thought was a work of faith was just wishful thinking.

It is still very early for him to truly master this technology.

In the period that followed, Yang Yan repeated it five times before successfully completing this step under Tomioka's guidance.

The next step is to install some very delicate parts inside the nut shell. It is precisely because of the presence of these parts that the nut shell becomes a Poké Ball!

The production methods of these parts are of course also found in the books Yang Yan read, but unfortunately, there are only production methods but no production principles.

There is no doubt that the Poke Ball involves space rules, but no one seems to be able to explain it very clearly until now.

It is said that the elf ball was born under this very coincidental situation, and some people say that it was a gift from a certain mythical beast.

In short, these parts can play this role as long as they are combined together.

Of course, what Yang Yan had in his hands was taken out of the box. Not to mention that he had no time to do it, he didn't even prepare the relevant materials and tools, so it was naturally impossible to prepare them in advance.

The assembly of parts is also a technical job. In addition to ensuring that every part is in its proper place, the most critical thing is to connect these parts to the shell to make it a complete entity.

Then you just need to bake it again to make the shape really stable, and then you're done.

However, what was produced in this way was just the ancient elf ball from many years ago.

The biggest difference between ancient Poke Balls and modern Poke Balls is that modern Poke Balls have a zoom function!

It is this function that completely swept the Fruit Poke Ball into the dust of history!

If the Poke Ball made by Yang Yan was just like this, no one would buy it!

Tomioka's ancestors naturally didn't want the means of survival to be abolished like this, so they spent a lot of effort and did not know what means to learn the scaling technology of modern Poke Balls, and modified it into a tree fruit Poke Ball suitable for them. version of.

It was a very complex and exquisitely designed ring, and the maker needed to delicately integrate the ring into it without affecting the existing parts.

The Poké Balls made later will have the zoom function.

It is precisely because of the existence of this technology that the Tomioka family's craftsmanship has been passed down to this day.

Other families with similar technologies, according to Tomioka, have disappeared one after another in the past hundred years or so.

The making method of this ring has always been kept in the hands of the owner.

It’s very important after all!

Moreover, there were many people who coveted this thing at the beginning. Otherwise, it would not be enough to feel at ease.

The head of the family only needs to make this thing, and other clan members only need to make elf balls as before.

Tomioka didn't teach him how to make this ring from the beginning, because he bit off more than he could chew. Yang Yan didn't have any grudges about this.

Of course he knew about teaching his apprentices to starve their masters to death. Let’s not talk about whether Tomioka didn’t tell him whether he had this intention. Simply looking at the behavior of the ancestors of the Tomioka family, we can know that there is nothing wrong with the old man’s intention. .

Moreover, what if Yang Yan has no talent at all? When the time comes, instead of not knowing when it will attract the covetousness of others, it is better to take it to the soil together.

Yang Yan carefully handled each tangerine fruit, and before he knew it, it was already dark. During this period, Yang Yan didn't know how many times he failed, but unfortunately, every time he felt just a little bit worse. .

Until Aunt Quan called them to go back for dinner, Yang Yan still failed.

Tomioka told him that Yang Yan has mastered it very well now, and all that is left is to practice more. When the time comes, it will fall into place naturally.

Yang Yan thought to himself: Just practice as much as you can, it just hurts to waste so much material.

At first, Yang Yan thought that most of the cost of the Fruit Elf was in the fruit, but later he learned that the cost of those parts and potions was at least more than the price of one tree fruit.

So even if he can make it now, based on the market price, the profit he can get from each ball is only about 100 yuan.

This alone seems to be inferior to the energy cube.

But don’t forget that the success rate of making tree fruit elves will increase with the increase of proficiency. Even reaching 100% is not impossible. Unlike energy cubes, it is extremely difficult to increase the damn success rate. .

Moreover, when making energy cubes, Yang Yan can only make one portion at a time without stopping in between, because that can easily lead to failure. It's not impossible to make several copies if you want, but that not only requires replacing equipment, but if it fails, the money wasted will be much more than it is now.

The Tree Fruit Elf Ball is different. Almost every step can be taken apart to make it.

Not to mention the potions and various parts, you can do it whenever you want.

So as long as Yang Yan has time and materials and equipment, he can start the furnace at any time.

If you don't have enough time, you can stop at any time after a step is completed without any impact at all, which is very convenient.

The most important thing is that some steps can be carried out at the same time, such as the part of baking in the oven. As long as the oven is large enough and heated evenly, you can put as much as you want.

Yang Yan calculated that if he only made one tree fruit elf ball, it might take him an hour now.

The main reason is that his proficiency is not good enough now. When it improves in the future, not counting the time to make parts, it will take him at least more than half an hour to complete it.

It was almost as long as it took Yang Yan to make the energy cube.

This is about the same time as recorded in the book.

In fact, the most critical part of making a Fruit Poké Ball is the parts. In the past, people could only rely on hand-making and forging by themselves, so this is the most time-consuming part, and some people even specialize in this.

Things are different now. With the development of industrial technology, the Tomioka family has specially designed a set of mechanical equipment to forge these parts.

Although the equipment is not big, you can make it by yourself as long as you put in the materials and turn on the power, but the accuracy is completely trustworthy.

As for the most critical ring-making equipment, this thing has always been in the hands of the clan leader, and the design drawings of this equipment are only in the hands of the clan leader.

Of course, Yang Yan has no chance to see him at the moment.

He didn't even know how many rings Tomioka still had.

……

After dinner, Yang Yan returned to the workshop alone. Now in Tomioka's eyes, Yang Yan no longer needed him to keep an eye on him.

A full five hours passed, and just as the whole world fell into sleep, a burst of laughter suddenly came from the fire-lit workshop.

Yang Yan picked up the elf ball he had just inspected and laughed wildly: "I finally succeeded!"