Pokémon: The Climb

Time flies by so fast, and it’s already the end of August before I know it.

Yang Yan has been studying and working at a high intensity during this period. Although he has gained a lot, his energy and state have seriously declined.

Fortunately, starting tomorrow, September 9st, he can finally relax a little after being busy for more than a month.

He came back extra early today because he had to pack his things and prepare to go to a place called Linyao Town under the jurisdiction of Miare City.

Since the development of the first energy cube until now, Nagai has made many optimizations and improvements to it, and it is now in the 4th edition.

Unfortunately, Nagai was still not satisfied with the results.

The development process of other doctors, like Nagai, seems to have reached a bottleneck.

The reason lies in these raw materials.

Even if we combine the information found on the Internet and the data analyzed by ourselves, we still dare not say that we have fully understood these raw materials, and the Carlos Alliance is unwilling to give them this information.

After much thought, Nagai decided that he still needed to understand the state of these raw materials before they were collected.

It is best to understand everything including the geological environment of growth, growth cycle, changes after picking, etc.

Nagai definitely couldn't go and observe in person, and doing this would require traveling outside for a long time, so naturally, this arduous task fell on Yang Yan.

After all, Yang Yan is a trainer, and his experience in the field is much better than Chinatsu, a person who spends almost all his time on studies and experiments.

The first stop of Yang Yan's mission is Linyao Town.

A kind of medicinal material unique to Carlos is grown there, and Yang Yan needs to go there to truly understand the properties of this medicinal material.

Of course, it was impossible for him to just go there. After all, it was impossible for the locals to casually tell others what they had eaten.

Inquiring is definitely not possible, Yang Yan needs to observe and analyze it himself.

Fortunately, with Nagai's guidance, Yang Yan's ability in this area has improved by leaps and bounds. Coupled with the relevant information and tools provided by Nagai, he is fully confident in completing this mission.

When going to a new place, it is best to have a legitimate purpose, so that it is less likely to arouse suspicion from others.

Of course Yang Yan could use travel as an excuse, but people who travel would not stay in one place for too long, and Yang Yan's mission would never be completed in two or three days.

After some thought, Yang Yan thought it would be perfect if he could receive a task that needed to be completed in Linyao Town.

As mentioned before, Yang Yan's information in the mission hall is still an intermediate trainer, and he needs to complete one more mission before he can receive the promotion mission.

Completing the promotion in Carlos was something he planned early on.

At first, he just went to the mission hall with the intention of giving it a try, but he didn't expect to find one for him.

"Protect the medicine garden!"

That's the name of the mission.

To put it simply, trainers need to patrol around the medicine garden to drive away wild Pokémon or deal with thieves trying to steal medicinal materials.

The remuneration for the task is 5000 yuan/day, and the task duration requires at least half a month.

Judging from the information above alone, this kind of mission should be very popular, the type that will be picked up as soon as it comes out.

But if you think about it carefully, you will realize that it is not simple.

The first is the reward. To be honest, this reward is at the bottom of the mid-level tasks. Yang Yan has never taken on a task with such a low unit price before.

After all, the Pokémon in his hands are not weak, and there are high-level ones. Therefore, the tasks he took before were all difficult even for intermediate levels, so the rewards will naturally not be low.

There is also a problem with the duration of the mission, at least half a month, which is also a long time among the intermediate missions that Yang Yan has done.

These alone are certainly not enough to mean that this task is so problematic that almost no one is willing to take it.

The most critical point is still the content of the task.

At first glance, it seems quite simple, but in fact there are big problems inside.

Drive away wild Pokémon. Who knows how many wild Pokémon will come and what their strength will be?

Drive away thieves, who knows what kind of fighting power the thieves have?

What if you can't beat the opponent with your own strength?

Of course, the probability of this happening is relatively small. After all, it is very rare for wild Pokémon to attack villages and towns in large numbers. Once it happens, it will be big news.

Thief, you say you are a thief, who would become a thief if he is capable? Isn’t it good to make money openly and honestly?

The above is actually just the first question.

In Yang Yan's view, the main reason why no one took up this task was the word "protection".

This means that the person who accepts the mission needs to be vigilant at all times, and the Pokémon's combat power and status also need to be maintained. As a result, no training can be done in the past half month.

It's time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the rewards are low. Naturally, everyone doesn't like this kind of thankless task.

However, these problems are not a problem for Yang Yan, and he only does the tasks incidentally, and having reasonable access to medicinal materials is what matters most to him. So Yang Yan took over the task without saying a word, and tomorrow was the day he needed to report.

Before leaving, Yang Yan had one more thing to do, because today happened to be the day he and the Lantern Ghost agreed to open the channel to the spirit world and come back.

The first two times he came back, the light ghosts told him that they had sensed an area with relatively strong energy ahead.

If it weren't for this reason, Yang Yan would actually give up.

After searching for a month in the spiritual world and still not finding it, giving up was a helpless move.

But just when Yang Yan was about to give up, the Lantern Ghost and the others said they seemed to have found it, but they were far away.

After coming back last time, the light ghost said that they were very close to there and might arrive in two or three days.

Therefore, Yang Yan is now waiting for their good news.

By the way, they still haven't encountered other creatures in the spirit world along the way, which is good news.

In addition, I found another Spirit World Cloth, and now I happen to have one of the two Night Patrol Spirits each, so there is no need to switch.

As for the curse talisman, I found two, but both of them were more damaged than the one in the hand of Huhunyan. One of them even completely lost its effect not long after it was taken out from the spirit world.

Although it was broken and the effect was very poor, but with the idea that a little improvement is also an improvement, Yang Yan handed the still usable curse talisman to the shelling ninja.

The one that had lost its effect was now lying in his space ring. Yang Yan thought that he might have a chance to repair it one day, so he stayed.

Opening the book, Yang Yan planned to kill some time. He listened for more than a month, but the effect was still there. He gained a lot, and he became more confident in passing the assessment.

There is still one month left before the assessment, and Yang Yan needs to seize the time to consolidate.

At 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, Yang Yan and the light ghost agreed on a time.

Baddie and other Pokémon were standing in formation around the Night Patrolling Spirit, waiting for the moment when the passage to the spirit world opened.

The 12 o'clock bell rang on time, and changes immediately occurred under the Night Patrolling's feet.

"Have you found it this time? Has the light ghost completed its evolution?"

Yang Yan wanted to know the answer very much.