Pokemon Settler

When Rock first chose to buy the Meili sheep, he had some expectations for their evolution.

Although the evolved velvet sheep seem to have lost more than half of their wool, the quality of their hair has improved a lot.

As an animal fiber, the quality and thickness of wool have a great relationship.

After the velvet sheep evolved, due to changes in the properties of their body hair, more electricity can be stored in their hair.

The side effect of this is that the hair from the chest to the top of the head becomes particularly thin and elastic.

Compared with pre-evolution wool, the purchase price of furry wool is one hundred yuan per kilogram.

The wool-picking cycle of the velvet sheep is the same as that of the Yili sheep. They are shaved every two weeks during three months in the spring and three months in the autumn, but only about 200 grams of velvet wool can be obtained each time.

Despite this, the annual wool value of a Rong Rong sheep is around NT$240, which is more than 30% higher than the income that a Meli sheep can provide.

And this is not all the benefits that Rong Rong Sheep can produce. They also have an important product with huge value.

That's cashmere.

Every winter, a thin layer of fine velvet will grow from the roots of the furry sheep's hair, and the layer of fine velvet is cashmere.

Cashmere has better properties than wool. Cashmere products far surpass wool products in terms of softness, fineness, and warmth.

Moreover, the production of cashmere is very rare. As far as Rock knows, the only Pokémon that can produce cashmere are Velvet Sheep and Hairy Horn Sheep.

What Rock finds interesting is that before time travel, cashmere only grew on goats.

However, in the Pokémon world, the goat, the only goat Pokémon mount, does not have cashmere.

The rare quantity and excellent performance make cashmere extremely expensive, so expensive that it is sold in grams. For example, the purchase price of cashmere from Rong Rong Sheep is five yuan per gram.

Cashmere will fall off the sheep after the beginning of spring and will not grow back until winter again, so it can only be collected once a year.

A healthy velvet sheep will produce about 50 grams of cashmere each time, so the cashmere income will be 250 yuan per year.

Together with the wool, a downy sheep can bring Rock an income of 490 yuan a year. This income is roughly the same as that of Woolyhorn, another Pokémon that also grows cashmere.

Hairy horn sheep are mainly distributed in the Galar region and are the evolved form of braided sheep.

Rock also had some knowledge of this type of pastoral elf whose main output was wool.

If we only compare wool, whether it is quality or yield, braided sheep and hairy horn sheep are better than milley sheep and velvet sheep.

But if you look at the quality of cashmere, velvet sheep are better than hairy horn sheep. In addition, only the gray hair around the face of woolly horn sheep can produce cashmere, which has no advantage in terms of yield.

The output of these two Pokémon has its own emphasis, and the value produced after comprehensive consideration is also very different.

The reason why Rock chose the Meili sheep between the two is because the Meili sheep is considered a local breed.

If he wanted to raise braided sheep, without taking into account environmental changes and the acclimatization, the shipping cost from the Galar region to the Kanto region alone was not something he could afford now.

And I think the furry sheep are pretty cool, right?

Rock withdrew his thoughts and returned his gaze to the evolved Rongyang Sheep.

咩咩～

Hearing Rock praising them, the furry sheep straightened their upper bodies and put their two short little hands on their waists.

Haha, let's go.

With the joy of successful evolution, Rock and the elves set out on their way home again.

The evolved Rong Rong Sheep is a little stronger, so the speed of dragging the trunk is accelerated again.

Looking at the furry sheep in front of him, whose tails were wagging like several small dinosaurs, Rock began to plan to continue to increase the number of Meli sheep.

At that time, he chose to buy Meili Sheep with all his savings. An important reason was that he saw their economic potential.

However, not everyone can realize this potential.

In the Kanto and Chengdu regions, there are many pastures raising Meli sheep, but there are very few pastures with Rongrong sheep.

This is because the evolution of the Meili sheep requires relatively harsh conditions.

The first is the environmental conditions. Most of the pastures are located in developed plains. Due to the lack of external pressure in such areas, the levels of elves on the pastures are generally low.

In addition, according to the research of Dr. Kong Mu in the Johto area, the probability of evolution of Meli sheep in hillside areas will be greater. Although the exact reason has not yet been found, a common speculation is that it has something to do with the strong hind leg muscles of velvet sheep.

In addition to environmental factors, constraints under one's own conditions are also an important factor affecting the evolution of the Meili sheep.

As a very docile herding spirit, Pokémon such as Meili Sheep are naturally not suitable for combat, so it is difficult for them to grow in level like normal trainers can cultivate Pokémon.

These harsh conditions make it difficult for the number of woolly sheep to grow among the pastoral elves. Even in some pastures that specialize in raising Rongrong sheep, the ratio of Rongrong sheep to Meili sheep is between 1:2 and 1:3.

But for Rock, he has all these conditions.

His territory is in an inaccessible wilderness, surrounded by mountains and hills to the east and north. The level of wild elves in the entire ecological environment is very high. In such an environment, even with the protection of the Darubi tribe, the Meili sheep will passively improve their levels over time.

Moreover, in view of the poor fighting ability of the Meili sheep, Rock effectively trained them through a series of transportation tasks, so that the scene of the collective evolution of the Meli sheep just happened.

I didn't expect that accidentally going to a remote place to open up wasteland turned out to be my advantage...

Rock couldn't help but feel satisfied with his choice. He felt that given the natural conditions of his territory, even if he no longer deliberately trained them through transportation work, the ratio of Rongrou sheep to Meili sheep in his territory would still be one to one.

In this case, he can continuously buy Meili sheep and wait for them to evolve to increase profits.

Compared with Meili sheep, there are basically no ranches for sale of Rongrong sheep, and even if they are sold, the price will be very high.

For the current Rock, the next main goal is to increase the number of sheep in the territory.

Just as Rock was imagining the scene of herds of cattle and sheep in his future territory, a fragrant fragrance hit his nostrils.

He looked up in the direction of the scent and saw that the linden forest at the foot of the mountain was in bloom.