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The next step was to evaluate the Caterpie.

Ye Yinchuan instructed the two children to point the camera at each Caterpie so he could pick the best one.

"This one won't do. Its individual values are too low."

"Next. This one has a bad personality."

"Hmm… This one only knows Tackle. Put it aside for now."

Since there were quite a few Caterpie, Ye Yinchuan sped up the evaluation process.

[Wait, is he really evaluating them this fast?]

[Streamer, we know you're skilled, but be honest—are you messing with us?]

[At least act like you're taking your time!]

The viewers who had been following him for a while were somewhat familiar with his skills, but the sheer speed of his evaluations was beyond their comprehension.

Other Pokémon evaluation streamers would spend at least ten minutes per Pokémon, carefully examining them before coming to a conclusion.

But Ye Yinchuan? He was scanning through them like an X-ray machine on a conveyor belt.

His evaluation process was so advanced it almost felt unreal.

At the city's Dream Protection Bureau, Officer Tan had just finished a live stream on online safety when he heard about the situation in Ye Yinchuan's stream. Curious, he returned to the stream to see for himself.

Ironically, he had just finished explaining how to spot fake Pokémon evaluation scams. One of the key points he had emphasized was that real Pokémon evaluations were complex and required careful analysis. Any so-called expert who evaluated Pokémon too quickly was likely a fraud.

Even professional Pokémon appraisers needed at least a full minute of hands-on assessment before making a rough judgment.

But here was Ye Yinchuan, casually breezing through evaluations in under five seconds per Pokémon.

[Officer Tan, does this mean this guy is fake too?]

[LMAO, so which side is wrong here?]

The chat in Officer Tan's stream was filled with confusion.

Officer Tan coughed awkwardly.

"Well… they say true masters exist among the common folk. If you were in my last stream, you'd know that this streamer—Kabir the Appraiser—is a true master. He must have some special, unknown evaluation technique!"

Trying to maintain his professionalism, Officer Tan grabbed a towel and wiped his forehead in a tactical maneuver.

After all, he couldn't just outright say that Ye Yinchuan's skills were questionable—not when he had just helped the Bureau identify a mutant Psychic-type Ponyta.

Back in Ye Yinchuan's stream, the boy watching his Caterpie being evaluated hesitated before speaking.

"Brother, why don't you take a break? Maybe in a few days, we'll get a new batch of Caterpie, and you can pick from those? We're in no rush…"

Seeing that almost all the Caterpie had been examined and that Ye Yinchuan had yet to find one that satisfied him, the boy seemed reluctant to accept the results.

"No. This one."

At the very last moment, when checking the final few Caterpie, Ye Yinchuan's eyes suddenly lit up.

"This one?"

The boy pointed at a strong, healthy-looking Caterpie.

"No—the one hiding in the back."

Ye Yinchuan's finger pointed past the sturdy Caterpie toward one that was thin and weak-looking, barely moving.

The Caterpie in question was visibly frail, its body significantly slimmer than the others. It looked sluggish and had almost no energy.

[Why is this Caterpie so skinny?]

[Wait… is it sick?]

[Streamer, are you sure about this? Don't mislead the kid!]

Even though Ye Yinchuan had built a solid reputation, many viewers couldn't help but doubt his choice.

Among all the plump, energetic Caterpie, he had picked the one that looked the weakest, the least promising.

More and more skeptical comments flooded in, especially from new viewers who had just joined the stream.

"True Pokémon evaluation always defies common sense. Just like how true experts are always misunderstood."

Faced with growing doubts, Ye Yinchuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration and uttered these words with complete confidence.