Chapter 21
You must be Little J.
[Moving to a new home, reward 10000 Action Points]
Amidst the envious glances of his roommates, Wei Xin moved his personal belongings from his old dormitory to his new home. Although he was eager to try out Xiao Gang's cooking skills, the sun was already high in the sky outside the window, and it was past noon.
"There's no time to cook at this hour. How about we finally eat out today?" Wei Xin asked Laluras for her opinion.
In fact, most Pokémon are born with the ability to digest regular food. MooMoo Milk and various energy cubes are more like health supplements than food, and are something that wild Pokémon cannot get.
This is why Pokémon are willing to be kept as pets by humans.
Trainer: "Feel the horror, Pokémon! You will suffer the pain of enslavement!"
"From now on, you will live inside Poké Balls and undergo rigorous training, eating the food I prepare for you, until you become strong enough to defeat other Pokémon."
"And you'll have to fight for me. If you perform well, I'll let you breed with other excellent Pokémon and enslave you and your offspring for generations to come."
Pokémon: "You mean, as long as I follow you, I won't have to struggle to survive in the wild, and I can have a small, detached house with plenty of food and drink?"
"Both its physique and combat strength can become stronger than its own kind. It only needs to occasionally come out to fight other Pokémon, and there is no danger to its life."
"There's also specialized medical care, and if I perform well, you'll arrange an equally excellent spouse for me, and eventually even my unborn child will find stable employment?"
Team Plasma and the Pokémon Protection Association: "Pokémon are free. Humans should not enslave Pokémon. Humans should give Pokémon freedom and release them into the wild."
Pokémon: "I advise you not to meddle in other people's business!"
"Ralu!" Ralulas nodded in agreement.
However, being new to the area, Wei Xin wasn't sure where to find good restaurants, so as he walked out of the school gate, he stopped a woman wearing a delivery uniform, a helmet, and sunglasses who was squatting by the roadside eating.
"Miss, do you know which shops are clean and have good food?"
"Huh?" J, disguised as a food deliveryman, had a pastry in her mouth. Startled, she looked up and met Wei Xin's gaze.
【You're a student of Donghuang, why are you asking me?】
A student from Donghuang? From the way she addressed him, Wei Xin knew that the woman in front of him was not a local. It seemed that even foreigners were coming to take over the market share these days.
Wei Xin sized up the woman's figure in front of him.
Yo-shi.
You're better off delivering regular takeout.
How long is this kid going to keep watching? Has he recognized me already?
Upon closer inspection, this kid is actually quite good-looking; there might be someone who likes that type.
【Or, we could take him somewhere no one knows... I've never done this kind of job before.】
I sat up in shock while on my deathbed and realized that the takeout I was ordering was for myself.
[Forget it, it would be troublesome if we attracted Officer Jenny from the Eastern Empire.]
[Ugh, it's already annoying that the order fell through, and now my account is frozen. I'm broke and have to steal takeout orders to survive.]
If word gets out, won't my peers laugh at me?
There's also the possibility of being singled out by a client.
Well, at such a young age, to have ended up like this, he's a pitiful person.
Wei Xin took out his wallet and, among several red bills, took out a yellow bill.
"Miss, here's twenty yuan. Can you recommend a shop?"
You think you can get rid of me with twenty dollars? I used to not even bother looking at orders below six figures!
But when you withdrew the money, you clearly used a sonic punch.
After taking the money from Wei Xin's hand and remaining silent for a moment, J wiped the scum from his lips and said in a hoarse voice.
"I recommend you go outside the school, walk two blocks, there's a Grandma's Bakery there, the taste is okay and the price is cheap."
"Okay, thanks," Wei Xin said without thinking much of it. Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly seemed to remember something, stopped, and put his hands together in front of J.
"Female benefactor, the sea of suffering is boundless; turn back and you will find the shore."
Promise me you won't steal other people's takeout anymore, okay?
After saying that, Wei Xin turned and left, leaving J standing there, staring blankly at Wei Xin's receding figure and the Ralts behind him.
"A Shiny Ralts, I think someone will be willing to pay a high price for it."
He then looked down at the twenty yuan he had left in his hand and sighed.
"Fine, let's just consider it a low-price deal."
It's not because I'm afraid of Miss Officer Jenny from the East! It's not!
J quickly finished the pastries in the bag, pressed the button on the left side of the helmet, and a complete city map appeared on the helmet.
"We haven't found the spaceship yet, no rush. Let's find the Flying Dragon first. This location should be... the supermarket warehouse."
J then rode the stolen electric scooter from the roadside and headed in another direction.
First, go buy some food to fill your stomach completely before going to bring back the Salamence.
As for the Pokémon Celebi that appeared in the Eastern Legends, as the customer mentioned, let's wait and see if there's a chance.
……
A commercial food street outside the school.
The aromas of various foods mingled together, making Wei Xin, who was starving, almost unable to move.
Many students and teachers majoring in battle brought Pokémon and stood in front of their stalls, making the shopping street very lively.
"Is the jujube zongzi better, or the meat zongzi? The ones without filling seem pretty good too. The people of Donghuang are really talented; they can develop so many ways to eat one kind of food."
"Sorry, classmate, our buffet does not serve Snorlax."
"This isn't Snorlax, it's a Dynamax Shiny Jigglypuff."
"I still have a giant slap here, do you want it?"
"Miss Officer Jenny, I just saw two strangely dressed men with painted faces following a female college student outside the school. They had lewd expressions on their faces."
Wei Xin and Lalulla searched for a long time, but they still couldn't find the legendary Grandma's Cake.
Damn it, are you trying to make fun of me, you delivery guy?
Until he suddenly heard a voice.
"Boss, could you give me ten, no, twenty elderly grandmothers?"
Whose soldier boy is he?
Looking in the direction of the sound, Wei Xin saw a girl with a black and yellow Morubek hairstyle on her head, two thin red ribbons tied into black pigtails at the back of her head, wearing a grass-green Donghuang school uniform with the three white characters "Jian Ding Town" written on the back.
"Young man, this is not a nursing home," the stall owner said helplessly.
Don't you have a grandma? Why do you have to come out and buy them? One isn't enough, you need twenty?
Or should I dig my grandma out for you?
"???" Mary looked up at the sign above the stall owner's head, then pulled a notebook out of her pocket, opened it, and carefully searched through the pages.
【Found it! I don't know how to pronounce these two characters, but the book says they refer to an elderly grandmother in the Donghuang language. That's right.】
Standing behind Mary, Wei Xin looked up and saw the three big characters "Wife Cake" prominently displayed on the stall's sign.
His darling, his wife refers to his elderly grandmother, then let me ask you, does the bride refer to his young mother, and the groom to his newborn son?
Who taught you to translate, a Martian?
At that moment, he suddenly understood what the delivery girl meant by "grandma's cake".
I really can't stand you men.
Wei Xin shook his head with pity, then turned to Ralts and said, "You must study hard in the future, otherwise you will end up like her, being tricked into becoming someone's wife."
After saying that, Wei Xin took a step forward, leading Ralts.
No problem, I'll help you.