Chapter 61: The Son Sells the Father's Land Without Feeling Pain

Although the decision to return to the village was made, it was not until three days later that Mark and Caterpie actually returned to the village.

After all, there is a lot to deal with.

The first thing was the shade and shelter of the Metapod placement, which took Mark a whole day.

It is midsummer now, and more and more Metapods will evolve, increasing from a few hundred to about three thousand in late summer. Then in early autumn, they will all evolve into Butterfree and fly to the sea of ​​flowers in Sunrise Province.

Therefore, the shaded area should be as large as possible to reserve space for the Metapods that will evolve next.

In addition to the Metapod, the stabilization work of Caterpie colony also needs to continue, as Caterpies are still not used to Caterpie King leaving.

According to Mark's original estimate, it would take several days or even more than ten days, but with the help of Butterfree, it would be almost done after these three days.

Even if Caterpie, the king of insects, leaves the territory for three to five days, Caterpies in the territory can still maintain normal operations.

Mark estimated that this time could be further extended if Caterpies were allowed to get used to independent living.

It may be a bit of an exaggeration to say that it can maintain stability for a month, but it should be possible for a dozen days.

In addition, Mark also took time to practice the natural dance related to Clear Creek Forest with Caterpie during these three days.

As he practiced the dance, both his [Power of the Clear Stream] and Caterpie's [Self-Regeneration] were enhanced.

Although the improvement is not much, it is still a significant growth over time.

It is worth mentioning that by practicing this natural dance, you can also increase your experience bar, and the increase is significant.

Although Mark and Caterpie have not conducted any actual combat training these days, with the help of this natural dance, he and Caterpie can gain 5% experience points every day, which is only 1% less than the previous actual combat training.

The only problem is that this kind of natural dance is very exhausting and you need to rest after dancing for a while.

In fact, it wasn't just Mark and Caterpie who did this dance.

Mark also gave some instruction to Butterfree and Chitterling. At present, Butterfree's learning progress is pretty good and it is estimated that he will be able to learn it in a while.

It's hard to describe Wimpod. At the slightest disturbance, this little guy will either quickly hide in his clothes or go back into the Poké Ball. From time to time, he will be frightened to the point of peeing or fainting.

That is the case now.

On the way back to the village, in the simple camp built by Mark and Caterpies, Wimpod was eating food when he was suddenly frightened by a purple mouse that came out. The mouse whooshed into his clothes and then vibrated continuously like a small electric motor.

Mark pulled Wimpod out of his clothes. The latter looked around in panic and saw that the little Raticate had disappeared. Only the familiar Caterpies were around, and then he gradually stopped shaking.

After Mark put it down, the little electric motor looked around for a while before continuing to devour its food.

In fact, this is because Wimpod has experienced several years in the dream world and has become very familiar with Caterpies. Otherwise, when seeing Caterpies around him, Wimpod might be so scared that he couldn't even eat.

Yes, at this time, there were about two hundred Caterpies near Mark's camp.

After finally returning to Clear Creek Village, Mark naturally would not return empty-handed, so he picked some Caterpies from Caterpies group who liked a stable life.

On the one hand, he can let these Caterpies enjoy a leisurely life at the breeding base, and on the other hand, he can make some money.

In three months he will apply for the Pokémon Academy in Hakim City, so it would not be a bad idea to prepare some funds.

"Chirp~Chirp~"

Wimpods make sounds while eating.

Wimpod has a small habit, which is that after eating its favorite food, it will hum while eating.

Mark watched Wimpod eating unknown sour and bitter fruits, and at the same time watched the experience bar rising on the Spirit Master's panel, and shook his head unconsciously.

The reason for shaking the head is nothing else but the experience efficiency gained by Wimpod through eating.

The experience efficiency of Wimpod in eating is very low. When eating the same kind of food, the experience efficiency it generates is less than a quarter of that of Caterpie.

It's not that Wimpod gains less experience through eating.

Although the experience generated by eating is not very efficient, the appetite of the coward worm is huge. As a white sea cockroach living in the waters of the Rom Federation, Wimpod is an extremely famous scavenger. They live in groups near the coast and specialize in swallowing some marine garbage.

In terms of food intake, the timid worm eats more than four times as much as Caterpie.

Yes, the experience efficiency is one quarter, and the food intake is more than four times.

The total experience gained by Wimpod through eating is slightly more than that of Caterpie, but not much more.

This also made Mark give up the idea of ​​breeding big-eating Pokémon such as Snorlax.

It turns out that the same weight of food means different things to different Pokémons.

The food that can allow an ordinary Caterpie to evolve after a month of feeding can be eaten by Snorlax in one meal.

Such food has completely different meanings to the two elves, and the amount of experience points it can generate is naturally also vastly different.

Mark pinched his chin lightly.

In fact, Snorlax is his next choices after obtaining the transportation Pokémon.

But now, this option has been rejected by him. Since he cannot gain excess experience points, there is no point in him training this kind of gluttonous Pokémon.

So, after he had dealt with the transportation elf, what elf should he choose next?

Mark, who was in deep thought, suddenly found that Caterpies in front of him were in a commotion. At the same time as the commotion occurred, the electric motor that was eating quickly hid under his clothes again and began to vibrate continuously.

It was not until the culprit who caused the riot showed up that Wimpod tentatively crawled out of Mark's clothes and continued to eat the sour fruit.

The one who caused Caterpie swarm to riot was none other than Mark's Caterpie.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss!"

Caterpie looked excited as he handed him a piece of paper similar to a supermarket promotional flyer. It seemed that he had picked up a flyer while looking for fruit nearby. It might have been left in the forest by insect catchers or forest rangers.

The flyer came from the Pokémon Supply Store in Stone Town. It contained a lot of discount information on Pokémon supplies, Pokémon feed of various flavors, energy cubes, Carp King energy drinks, Phoenix King Moo Moo Milk, and various kinds of fruits.

Mark also saw the information about orange fruit, which was 119 Pokédollars per catty, which was similar to the price Uncle Aaron mentioned. It was sold at 100 Pokédollars per catty, and would cost around 120 Pokédollars to buy.

In the most eye-catching position of the flyer is a blue and white super ball, which is priced at 29,800 Pokédollars.

Although Caterpie didn't say it explicitly, Mark had already seen what Caterpie was thinking.

Mark said, "You don't want your original Poké Ball anymore, and you want to exchange it for this one?"

Caterpie nodded continuously at first, then quickly shook his head.

"Hiss, hiss, hiss."

Mark looked strange and asked, "You want this super ball, but you also want to continue using the Pokémon you are using now?"

"Hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss!"

Caterpie nodded continuously. It had an idea when it picked up the flyer. It would live in one of the two Poké Balls every other day, so that it would feel fresh every day.

As for the money to buy this Super Ball, Caterpie felt that it could just sell a few hundred more Caterpies in the territory to the old man, so that it would have the money to buy the Poké Ball.

Listening to the words of Caterpie, the corners of Mark's mouth twitched slightly unconsciously.

Caterpie's words made him inexplicably feel that his father's land was sold by his son without any regret.

Obviously, he had to think carefully before selling one or two hundred Caterpies to avoid any negative impact on Caterpie population. As the owner of the territory, why could Caterpies feel so at ease selling their own people?

When it sells it this way, has it ever considered what these Caterpies think?

While thinking, Mark glanced around and the corners of his mouth twitched again.

Well, Caterpies around who are about to be sold look very happy. I guess those stupid Caterpies in the territory will also be happy to hear that they are being sold...