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Magikarp is a red carp with long catfish-like whiskers and a golden crown-shaped fin on its head. The standard body length of Magikarp is about 0.9 meters, but it is an extremely weak Pokémon with almost no aggressiveness!

But once Magikarp evolves, it will turn things around!

"Caterpie and Magikarp, these two Pokémon are the easiest to capture and not very dangerous, but their growth potential is actually not inferior."

Alex Carter found a flat stone by the stream and sat down, deciding to make plans before taking action.

"Magikarp lives in the water, and it is difficult to catch it without a fishing rod and bait."

"But if you choose the Caterpie, you must enter the forest..."

"From the fact that even the weakest Pokémon, the Weedle, can kill me instantly, once I enter the forest, no matter what Pokémon I encounter except the Caterpie, it will be difficult for me to escape the fate of losing a life."

"Unless the Caterpie jumps out of the forest by itself..."

Thinking of this, Alex turned and looked at the forest behind him.

A white thread suddenly hung from a tree at the edge of the forest.

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!"

A green insect-like Pokémon swung slowly down along the thread. The Y-shaped red tentacles on its head were as bright as agate.

"It really jumped out!"

Alex's mood at this moment was like he suddenly saw a rabbit hit and die on a wooden stake. It was so exciting!

He held his breath and quietly took out a Poké Ball.

"Should I throw it directly over, or just throw it over?"

"But even if it hits, can it really be subdued so easily?"

"Or should we try to gain favor first?"

Just as Alex was hesitating, the Caterpie discovered him.

At that moment, the originally harmless Caterpie suddenly straightened its chest and abdomen and spat out a bunch of white silk from its mouth.

Alex reacted in time this time, but one of his hands was still entangled by the silk!

He subconsciously pulled his hand back. The Caterpie was hanging on the silk thread with nowhere to gain leverage, so he pulled it along and it was straightened in the air.

Alex immediately realized that the Caterpie had almost no other means of attack except spinning silk. Perhaps he could subdue it by using a head-on attack?

But in the blink of an eye, a sharp bird cry suddenly came from the air.

A big bird with three tufts of pink feathers on its head flew down quickly!

This big bird was extremely fast, as fast as lightning.

The wind blades shot out from its wings instantly cut off the silk threads on both sides of the Caterpie, and then it grabbed with its claws and clamped into the Caterpie's flesh!

After catching the Caterpie, the big bird didn't even look at Alex, flew high into the sky like the wind, and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Obviously, in its eyes, the Caterpie's meat is much more delicious than Alex's.

"Pipipi..."

Alex put down his arms, but there was no fear in his eyes, instead, there was an indescribable excitement!

"It turns out that the Pidgeot is such a powerful Pokémon! Its flying speed is not inferior to those third-level battle pets, and it is even faster! And this is just the speed at which it hunts in daily life. If it is trained a little bit..."

As an animation for children, "Pokemon" does not show enough about the combat power of Pokémon other than the legendary ones, which can easily lead people to misunderstand that some Pokémon are not strong enough.

But in fact, they are extremely powerful and extremely dangerous!

But only if it is strong enough is it worth conquering!

Alex peeled off the insect silk wrapped around his arm bit by bit. As he was peeling it, an idea suddenly occurred to him.

Isn't this insect silk just a ready-made fishing line?

Since we can't go inside the forest, we can make our own fishing rod and see if we can catch a Magikarp!

Alex had never fished in his previous life, but in this life, he is a resourceful person who is proficient in fishing and catching critters.

He used local materials and quickly gathered all the materials to make his own fishing rod and fish hook, using insect silk as fishing line.

Next, he began to look for earthworms in the soft, wet areas of the stream.

There is no doubt that there are earthworms in the Pokémon world.

About an hour later, Alex was ready and started fishing using his homemade fishing rod.

Fishing is a job that requires patience.

But Alex had already made up his mind not to go into the forest and die. As the saying goes, if you don't succeed, you die. If he really couldn't catch any fish, he decided to give up this mission.

Fortunately, there appear to be no penalties for daily tasks at this time.

Time passed by little by little.

Just when Alex thought that he had a high probability of not catching any fish, the fishing line moved!

A red shadow appeared faintly under the clear stream.

It's Magikarp!

Alex suddenly perked up.

The size of the Magikarp determines that it is very strong. Although wild Magikarp can basically only "splash and jump in the water," once it is hooked onto land, it can basically only lie down and wait to die. But it is not easy to hook it up!

Fortunately, Alex had anticipated this situation, so he tied a worm thread to the end of the fishing rod and wrapped it around a large rock behind him.

Really.

When Alex tried to lift the fishing rod, the carp began to struggle violently, pulling the silk thread straight.

Relying on the big rock to support him, Alex flexibly used the techniques of retraction and release, extending or retracting the worm line along the swimming direction of the Magikarp, and gradually draining its strength.

Faced with cunning humans, the Magikarp, whose brain was smaller than a walnut, ultimately could not escape the fate of being hooked.

Alex looked at the red Magikarp that was dragged onto the land, touched his chin, and his eyes flickered.

Is that it?

Oh, nightmare mission!

Alex once again took out the Poké Ball that he had taken out countless times and threw it at Magikarp.

"Bang!"

The Poké Ball was bounced away!

Alex was startled and simply walked to the side of Magikarp, took out another Poké Ball, and pressed it on its forehead.

This time, the Poké Ball was not bounced away.

In a flash of red light, Magikarp was taken into the Poké Ball.

The button on the Poké Ball began to flash.

Once the flashing stops, it means the capture is successful!

However, after a few flashes, the Poké Ball bounced off with a "pop" and Magikarp escaped.

Alex: "…"

Poké Balls are consumables. You can pick up the ones you missed, but if you use them once and fail to capture a Pokémon, you can't use them again.

The Magikarp's eyes were as dull as ever, but Alex seemed to be able to see its unique arrogance.

Alex was silent.

This is actually a rare and strong-willed Magikarp!

Alex stretched out his hand and gently pressed it on the Magikarp's head.

His talent as a "master cultivator" came into play, and he found that he could vaguely sense Magikarp's strong will despite its physical weakness.

Silence.

Alex squatted down, stared at the dull eyes of the Magikarp, and said in a low voice: "Since you are so unruly, then go back to your own world. You will always sink in the low-level fish pond, never meet the real strong, never accumulate enough experience to evolve, and always be a useless Magikarp, and never evolve into the domineering Gyarados... Just carry your unruliness and live like this forever!"

Then he stood up and looked up into the air.

The Pidgeot that had previously caught the Caterpie had flown back again at some point and was now circling in the air at high speed.

Alex lowered his head again, glanced at the struggling Magikarp, and turned around resolutely.

Magikarp: "Kalu! Kalu Kalu!"

It was not known whether the Magikarp was persuaded by Alex or suddenly discovered its natural enemy above its head, but it called out in a hurry.

Alex continued walking with an expressionless face.

"Kahkahkahkah!"

The cries became more rapid and panicked.

Alex stopped and turned around, staring at Magikarp silently, and threw a Poké Ball out.

The Poké Ball fell to the ground and rolled to the mouth of Magikarp.

Alex: "Move on your own."

"Lulululul!"

Driven by an unknown will, Magikarp lowered its head and poked the switch of the Poké Ball.

A red light flashed, and Magikarp was put into the Poké Ball again.

After a few flashes, the Poké Ball stopped moving.

…

[Ding! Mission completed.]

[About to exit the temporary dimension, 30s countdown begins.]

[The countdown ends, and the transmission begins.]

With a change of perspective, Alex found himself back in the pet shop.

A lone Poké Ball fell from the sky and landed right in his palm.

[Congratulations on completing the nightmare mission, reward skill: Charming Hand.]

[Pet Charming Hand: Touch your pet, get information, and make it happy.]

[Unlock pet: Magikarp]

[System prompt: The pet has been unlocked and can be obtained and sold from the system mall. The host has the right to set the price independently, but it must not be lower than 120% of the cost price. For each pet sold, the host can get 10% of the net profit, and the other 90% is used to pay for the pet capture cost, transportation cost, store maintenance cost, safety protection cost, and tax.]

[The current pet store level is Lv1, so only one type of pet can be sold, and the daily sales quantity is 10.]

Alex: "???"

Although I want to criticize someone, why am I speechless?

Alex looked through the system information. The skill description of the Charming Hand was already very clear. Excluding the additional effects, this was obviously an identification skill.

He was just about to release the Magikarp for inspection when he heard another system prompt.

[Ding! The first mission completed is nightmare difficulty, unlocking the rare title: Strategy Star. Get special rewards and open the one-star Dimension World Evergreen Forest Trial Mission. The trial mission can be entered once a month, the number of deaths is 1, and the time limit is 24 hours. Successfully clear the trial mission to unlock the Dimension World Evergreen Forest.]

"Trial mission? Unlock Evergreen Forest!"

Alex naturally knew what this meant.

It seems that choosing a nightmare difficulty mission is more meaningful than I thought.

But the Evergreen Forest is so dangerous, and the trial mission is not as simple as just taming the Magikarp. This trial opportunity once a month cannot be wasted.

It is best to train a battle pet and let Magikarp evolve into Gyarados before entering the trial.

But half of the month has passed, and it is obviously not realistic to evolve Magikarp within half a month.

Alex thought about it carefully for a while and decided to put it aside for the time being.

[System prompt: The initial mission has been completed, the pet shop is about to enter the transformation mode, please leave temporarily.]

Alex: "Transform? Are they going to transform into Transformers?"

[system:...]

The next second, there was a flash of white light.

Alex was teleported out of the pet shop.

He shrugged: "Okay, just consider it as leaving work early."

But not long after, he suddenly screamed: "By the way, you must protect the information on my hard drive!"

…

(End of this chapter)