Pokémon: Start with an Admiral Crab!

No one has time to fight in gyms anymore. What if they damage the fossil pterosaur?

It is very valuable now!

In fact, with the strength shown by Wang Yao, it is more than enough to obtain the first badge.

Wu Neng brought the Pterosaur's Poké Ball and accompanied Wang Yao to the Pokémon Center with Xiaogang.

“Beep! Beep!”

This time the video call was picked up quickly.

"Hello! This is Windsor Farm—Oh~ It's Master A Yao!"

The person who answered the phone was still the blonde girl.

“It’s actually the Windsor Cultivation House!!”

Before Wang Yao could say anything, Xiaogang beside him could no longer sit still!

"——I didn't expect that the breeding house you mentioned, Ayao, would be this one!"

"Hello! I am Xiao Gang from Deep Gray City!"

"…Although I am still a gym leader, I have always aspired to become an excellent Pokémon breeder!"

Xiaogang instantly squeezed into the video screen and introduced himself to the blonde girl.

"As for Pokémon breeders..."

"...Miss Windsor! Your father, Master Enidon, has always been my idol!"

As he spoke, Xiaogang's face showed a look of longing.

"Uh...hahaha...it's...it's okay, not that exaggerated!"

The blonde girl Windsor smiled awkwardly.

Although he always brags that his ranch is the best in Kanto.

But she really didn't think that her father was a so-called "master".

After all, an uncle who works on the ranch every day and looks rustic doesn't look like a master at all.

"Alright! Alright! Xiaogang! Get out of the way first!"

"Please don't waste everyone's time with this nonsense of worshipping this and that."

Wang Yao reluctantly pushed Xiao Gang away and continued to chat about business with the blonde girl.

"So the ranch was named after you? You are Windsor..."

Wang Yao just spoke nonsense.

"Ahem... Actually, this time I contacted you, I wanted to ask if there are any Dittos on your ranch..."

"…Because I have a fossilized pterosaur here. You guys who run the breeding house should know…"

"...This kind of elf is currently very rare...so I hope to breed a large population with it!"

Wang Yao didn't hesitate, but directly expressed his thoughts.

When it comes to price, Wang Yao added another sentence.

"It's fine if you want to charge extra, but it's too expensive..."

But before he could finish, the blonde girl on the other end of the phone was so excited that she almost jumped up!

"It's free! Absolutely free!"

“Regarding the fostering of fossil pterosaurs - you must continue to choose our Windsor breeding ranch!!”

Halfway through her speech, Miss Windsor turned her head and shouted outside the screen.

"Dad! Dad! Come here quickly!!"

"Ouch! Don't bother maintaining Kairos's big horns yet!! There's a big job!"

"Hehe... please wait a moment..."

Windsor smiled apologetically at the camera.

Then he said earnestly: "Master Yao, you may not know that if you hatch rare Pokémon eggs, the alliance will also improve the rating of the breeding house!"

"What's the matter... calling me over here in a hurry - you are not ladylike at all!"

A strong and rich middle-aged voice came from the other end of the phone.

“That’s it—!”

Windsor stood on tiptoe, got close to his father's ear, and began to whisper openly.

“…the one just now…actually has…in this way…hehehe…the first one…whose reputation spreads far and wide…must be…that’s it!”

Although it was a whisper close to the ear, Windsor was too excited and his voice was still a little louder.

After all, a few words leaked out from the microphone, allowing Wang Yao, Wu Neng and others to hear the general idea.

"This girl laughs too loudly..."

"This guy's thoughts... are so easy to understand..."

"Why do I feel like she seems more positive than us..."

Looking at the video, after whispering to his dad, Windsor stood innocently beside the screen, pretending to whistle and let his dad take the lead in the video...

The corners of Wang Yao's eyes twitched speechlessly.

Especially for Xiaogang, who just shouted that he wanted to become a Pokémon breeder...it seemed that his beautiful fantasy about the Windsor Breeding House was also shattered.

"Hello, guest... Of course our breeding house can accept the fossil pterosaur, and as a token of sincerity, all expenses of the fossil pterosaur at the ranch will be fully covered by our breeding house!"

Compared to his daughter's lively personality, Enniton, as a father, looks much more stable.

Enniton in the picture has golden curly hair and a beard. He looks very strong because he has been working on the ranch for many years.

He was dressed in ordinary clothes, wearing a blue work suit for farm work and a straw hat on his head.

"Oh - so you don't need to take up my spot in the senior ball?!"

Wang Yao was excited! He had originally thought that he would have to pay a high-level ball to get the fossil pterosaur egg!

"In that case...how about this!"

Wang Yao thought for a moment and came up with a plan for the Dark Gray Gym and Windsor Ranch to cooperate with each other.

The gym needs the fossil pterosaur to open up the situation, prosper again, attract apprentices, and attract investment.

The ranch also wants the fossil pterosaur to expand its fame and obtain more alliance resources - such as an additional fossil pterosaur-exclusive breeding mountain range and more breeding subsidies.

The two sides hit it off immediately!

As the middleman, Wang Yao only had to pay 10 Baoke yuan for the long-distance call and he could get a fossil pterosaur egg!

……

……

"Fossilized Pterosaur! You'll have a great time every night when you get there! Meals will be filled with delicious food! Don't worry about the Dark Gray Gym!"

Wang Yao persuaded the fossil pterosaur, which was still nervous and hesitant.

"Roar……"

"What XX cups!? I won't let you call them that!"

"——They are all Ditto sisters with independent thoughts and noble sentiments! You should communicate with them well! Learn more and interact more!"

"Alright! That's it! Uncle Enidon! Take over there!"

Wang Yao put the fossil pterosaur back into the Poké Ball and quickly teleported it to the ranch.

"We will take good care of him...don't worry!"

Uncle Enidon took the Poké Ball from the teleporter and made a promise to Wang Yao and Wu Neng on the screen.

"Okay! That's it!"

As Wang Yao hung up the phone, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank you so much! Ayao!"

Xiaogang was the first to speak.

"Not only did it solve the gym's operating difficulties, but it also gave me the opportunity to meet a Pokémon breeding expert like Master Enidon!"

"Don't flatter me! I only wanted the fossilized pterosaur! You're actually taking advantage of me!"

Wang Yao felt a little embarrassed.

"No! A Yao! Not only did you save the Deep Gray Gym, you also solved the knot in my heart!"

Wu Neng interrupted Wang Yao's humble refusal.

"If you hadn't shown up in time and scolded me to wake me up... I don't know how long it would take before I could face Xiao Gang and the others calmly!"

Wu Neng sounded somewhat self-blaming.

"Yes... Dad can come home! It's all thanks to you, Ayao!"

"Oh yeah - the gym challenge just now was interrupted! But..."

Xiao Gang said as he took out a gray octagonal badge.

"——This is the gray badge! Please accept it!"

"With your strength, Yao, you are fully qualified to accept it!"

Wang Yao would not be allowed to refuse—although he would not refuse either!

Xiaogang stuffed the gray badge directly into Wang Yao's hand.

"Oh! Is this the Gray Badge..."

Wang Yao curiously raised the badge in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully.

I have the impression that the number of badges in the game can increase the player's level of conquering.

Even different types of badges can increase the attributes of the Pokémon in battle.

As for what happens in reality... he doesn't know.

I think there should be no connection... After all, even without the badge, the Tyrannosaurus Rex are quite obedient!

"The material seems very special? Did you make it yourself, Xiaogang?"

Wang Yao rubbed his fingertips on the gray badge, feeling the material.

"Oh... Yao, you have a keen sense of observation!"

Xiaogang's tone was somewhat excited, as if he had found a like-minded friend.

"I made these badges from the [hard stones] that fell off Onix!"

"I can't say anything else - but the gray badge is definitely the hardest of all the gym badges in the Kanto region!!"

Xiaogang's tone was very confident.

After all, most gym badges are just handicrafts, but he used natural Pokémon items as raw materials.

"I see... Anyway, I got it! The gray badge!"

Wang Yao raised his badge and made a “yeah!” gesture.

There was a pin on the back of the badge, and Wang Yao pinned it to the strap of his cross-body bag.

"Is this really your first badge?!"

Xiao Gang was surprised and somewhat unbelievable.

"Yeah...why would I lie to you?"

Wang Yao scratched his head. What was there to be confused about the fact that he was a rookie trainer?

Other rookie trainers have already used miracles to exchange for a level 19 Black Rayquaza.

……

After chattering for a while, Xiaogang and Wu Neng decided to go home first because they were worried about Jiro and the others - their home was just behind the gym, a spacious three-story house.

Because lunch time was almost over, Wang Yao stayed at the Pokémon Center to eat at noon, but accepted Xiaogang's invitation to dinner.

He also wanted to try the cooking skills of the mother of the most popular man in Kanto.

The lunch at the Pokémon Center is still the familiar curry rice bowl.

In fact, there are additional choices such as sandwiches, hamburgers, and pasta... but Wang Yao still prefers the feeling of eating rice mixed with soup.

Today's lunch is smoked sausage with vegetable curry rice.

The drink is grapefruit-flavored soda.

……

"Haha~~"

After eating and washing up, Wang Yao got into bed.

"Coward - wake me up before three!"

Wang Yao placed the coward next to his pillow as an alarm clock and pointed at the communication watch on the bedside table.

"Gujiji~"

Exhausted from two days of traveling in the underground caves... Wang Yao fell into a deep sleep.

……

If you want to know what’s fun in Deep Gray City, it’s probably the Deep Gray Science Museum!

With the wake-up service of the cowardly bug's [sharp sound] alarm clock, Wang Yao got up on time at three o'clock.

Dinner was scheduled to start at 5:20. Wang Yao still had some time to wander around Deep Gray City.

After asking Miss Joy at the front desk about places to visit, Wang Yao soon arrived at the museum located in the northwest of Deep Gray City.

The Dark Gray Science Museum is one of the famous attractions here. Ordinary people need a ticket of fifty Baoke yuan to enter the exhibition hall, but as Wang Yao owns the gray badge, the staff at the door let him enter for free.

However, even if it charges a fee, the ticket price is not enough for a meal. Wang Yao estimates that this museum should also enjoy subsidies from the alliance.

Wang Yao looked around the exhibition hall on the first floor curiously.

Perhaps there were not many tourists in the afternoon, Wang Yao was the only visitor in the exhibition hall on the first floor.

The first layer mainly contains various Pokémon fossils, even including fossils of pterosaurs and sickle helmets.

But with today's fossil resurrection technology, they are still exhibited as fossils, probably because these fossils are too incomplete... Wang Yao can indeed see many traces of plaster repairs.

Wang Yao is not very interested in these fossil Pokémon... He likes fossil pterosaurs purely because they look powerful enough, and it has little to do with whether they are ancient Pokémon.

After a quick tour, Wang Yao walked into the second floor.

There is a space expo on the second floor, the most eye-catching of which is a model of a space shuttle.

On the second floor, there was already a person who was not sure if he was a tourist, staring at the space shuttle model behind the glass window in deep thought.

The reason I say this is that the man was not dressed in casual clothes like an ordinary tourist, but was dressed in a white coat like a researcher.

"Oh...are there tourists visiting at this time...it's really rare."

The man dressed as a researcher turned around and spoke to Wang Yao.

Judging from the tone of his voice, he should be a staff member of the museum.

"I'm Ayao... I came to Deep Gray City as a trainer. After I got the Gray Badge, I took the opportunity to wander around the city."

Wang Yao briefly introduced himself.

"Can you beat a trainer as powerful as Gon? That's amazing!"

"Oh - sorry! I'm a researcher at the Deep Gray Science Museum! My name is Li Ke!"

Li Ke pushed his glasses and introduced himself to Wang Yao.

"Ayao, what do you think of the museum's collection?"

"Uh... it's just so-so, and I feel like a lot of places are a bit empty..."

Wang Yao was telling the truth. He felt that this museum was just a subsidy scam.

Apart from a few incomplete fossils, there is nothing noteworthy.

"...It's not surprising that you have such an idea - to be honest, the museum is looking for a [treasure of the town]!"

"Ah? Is that so?"

Wang Yao responded with some confusion.

"Ayao! What do you think about the origin of Pokémon?"

Researcher Li Ke suddenly asked.

"Origin? I just..."

Wang Yao had the impression that Arceus created the world... but he didn't know who created Pokémon.

After all, strictly speaking, Arceus itself is also a type of Pokémon.

So he couldn't answer Li Ke.

"I have always deeply believed that Pokémon came from the universe!"

Before Wang Yao could think clearly, Li Ke had already given his answer!