Yearning for Love

After lunch, Marie volunteered to clean up the dishes and took the long-haired troll and Morpeko into the kitchen. Ralts went to play games, while the delinquent frog remained squatting in front of the living room's French windows, staring blankly at the onion in its hand.

Wei Xin returned to his room and put the kangaroo mom's pajamas and the Classic of Mountains and Seas scroll in the cabinet, planning to test the effect after returning from the research center.

Just as I was about to leave the room, my phone rang in my pocket.

It was my senior's phone call.

"I heard that you were taken away by Officer Jenny after you left the research center with Ralts?"

There were no pleasantries, no euphemisms, just a direct and straightforward approach that would definitely cause misunderstandings if overheard, along with the calls of various Pokémon in the background.

"It's just a misunderstanding," Wei Xin explained as he walked out of the room and behind Ralts, watching her operate Infernape on the screen.

After the morning's training, Ralts' intelligence has improved significantly.

She can now execute a combo smoothly, easily defeating the AI ​​in normal mode, and is currently enjoying the pleasure of crushing the AI.

Wei Xin patted Ralts' head as encouragement, then operated the controller to change the mode to Hard.

Ralts: ∑(O_O；)

I just finished the normal mode and I'm not ready to face the hard mode yet.

Wei Xin gave Ralts a thumbs up.

You must believe in your abilities, just as I believe in you.

Alright, since the trainer believes me, and encouraged by Wei Xin, Ralts turned around and began to tackle the hard mode AI opponents.

After explaining the whole story, Wei Xin asked, "Have the new students arrived? I'll head back to the research center now."

"Ah, no need. Anyway, the research center is well-staffed, and Lillie is back. You showed your prowess this morning, so it's time for the senior students to take over this afternoon. Otherwise, if word gets out, people outside will think that our research center is exploiting new students."

"Besides, the original purpose of calling you here was to help with the solution."

"I'm just making a call to see if I need to notify the professor to bail you out. Since everything's alright, just relax and rest at home with Ralts."

During the conversation, Wei Xin heard a heart-wrenching scream coming from behind his senior sister.

"Help! Can someone help me get rid of these hyenas?"

If Professor Birch didn't refresh at the research center, then Lillie must have been harassed by Pokémon again.

Senior sister, can you really rest assured?

Although somewhat worried, Wei Xin readily agreed to his senior's request for a holiday.

Today's holiday is here today, but tomorrow's make-up work will be a worry tomorrow. Wei Xin happens to have a bunch of things to deal with.

After hanging up the phone, Wei Xin sat down at his desk, turned on his computer, found the official website of Shanghai Publishing House, located the Pokémon serial story submission column, sent the first chapter he had prepared yesterday to the publisher, and then just had to wait for the publisher's reply.

Then came Ralts' training plan. Wei Xin opened Ralts' panel with a thought.

[Race: Ralts (Variant)]

[Attribute: Psychic Fairy]

[Egg Group: Humanoid Group, Amorphous Group]

【Characteristic: Telepathy】

[Feature Development Level: Basic]

[Reaction Speed: Average]

Movement speed: Poor

Physical Strength: Average

[Special Strength: Good]

Combat Skills: Poor

After three days of feeding and development, Ralts's many attributes are steadily improving.

"Reaction time should be honed through gameplay, but combat skills haven't improved at all. It seems we can't just rely on theory."

"Movement speed, let's take Ralts out for a run later. I remember Ralts can learn Shadow Clone."

"My body also needs proper exercise."

Although Pokémon battles do not require trainers to participate in the battle, a Pokémon battle requires trainers to constantly observe, analyze, and think, which is equivalent to taking an exam with ever-changing questions.

Keep in mind that even if you do nothing, your brain consumes 20% of your body's energy a day, which is close to 300 to 400 calories, let alone a tense and exciting Pokémon battle.

If the Pokémon is still standing during a battle, the trainer will be stunned...

Look at this trainer, he's so lame.

Moreover, Wei Xin also planned to take Ralts on a trip and adventure during the holidays, but the fragile college student's four points of physique were simply not enough.

And there's also the payment for Mary...

"Things will work themselves out; let's deal with them one by one."

Wei Xin first designed a training plan template based on the system panel, and then swallowed the props provided by the system to add two points of intelligence to himself.

As his feet gradually left the ground, Wei Xin felt many thoughts flooding his mind, so he wrote them down one by one.

Not long after, Mary, having finished cleaning the dishes, returned to the living room with Morubeco in her arms. Seeing Wei Xin typing away on the computer, her curiosity was piqued.

But she didn't say anything, worried that she would disturb Wei Xin's inspiration, so she went to the sofa and slowly lay down, using her phone to search for jobs she could handle.

Although she now works as Wei Xin's bodyguard and her accommodation and meals are guaranteed, she still has to take care of her own daily expenses.

The bodyguard duties only include situations where Wei Xin might encounter danger while traveling, and when he is at home.

For some reason, Mary felt that if she told Wei Xin about this, he might help her find a solution.

Or he could take the initiative to cover her expenses, but then their relationship would become unequal.

After all, Wei Xin is her first and currently only friend in Donghuang.

This friendship must be carefully maintained.

If it were yesterday, and Wei Xin had asked her for help, she might have refused, even if she was offered a generous reward.

Since Pokémon hunters are all dangerous individuals, and this isn't Galar, she doesn't need to put herself in danger.

But if it were her now, even without the pressure cooker explosion and not being penniless, even if Wei Xin couldn't offer a reward, she might choose to take the initiative to help.

This seems to have gone beyond just a friendship? Mary, who is making friends her own age for the first time, doesn't understand.

Mary, embracing the warmth of a spring afternoon and drifting off to sleep, didn't understand why her mindset had changed.

So Mary had a dream, a beautiful dream that would disappear once she woke up. In the dream, it seemed that someone had come, as if afraid of disturbing her, quietly came, gave her something, and then quietly left.

Taking a moment, I pulled a blanket from the room, walked to the sofa, and gently covered the sleeping Mary and Morbeco with it.

Wei Xin poured a glass of milk for himself, Ralts, and the delinquent frog that was squatting by the window in a daze.

Back at his computer, Wei Xin unplugged the USB drive and planned to go out to buy groceries that evening. He also planned to print out his completed plans and see if he could buy the necessary training equipment and his own workout gear along the way.

Looking down at the computer screen, the time was around 3 PM.

"At this time, the other students should be in the research center, developing a relationship with their initial partners."

Hehe, while you guys are still deeply mired in the pretense of five minutes of wealth and glory in this pyramid scheme, I've already developed a good relationship with Ralts.

Wei Xin opened his WeChat Moments. Since photography was not allowed at the research center, there were only comments from students.

"Family members, the quality of the Pokémon at the research center is really good. The Eevee here can even do backflips."

"That's terrible. A group of small crocodiles dragged a hog from the research center into the pond. I hope he's alright."

The research center's rating is 8.6, because Lillie has a rating of 1.4.

"I chose Heracross as my starter Pokémon. If I don't win the freshman tournament, I'll eat Grimer right here and now."

Hey kid, if you want to eat it, just say so. Do you need to make up an excuse?

"The fiery monkeys at the research center are so old they can barely walk. Can they really participate in the battle?"

"I met a little Snorlax in the eco-park. It was as slender as me, and it was incredibly cute."

Baby Munchlax is indeed cute, but girls should still take care of their health, otherwise, it might evolve into a giant Munchlax that won't fit in a Poké Ball.

"Didn't they say there was a shiny Ralts at the research center? Why can't I find it?"

The flower language of Ralts is "first come, first served".

Does anyone know how to contact Guangkuo, the top student in the entire school? Anything except QQ is fine.

Why don't you want a Tencent QQ account? Is it because you've been blocked?

"The second course for freshmen competitions has been announced. Freshmen are encouraged to register."

The second course review has been approved? Upon seeing the message, Wei Xin closed his WeChat Moments and opened the second course app, which he usually couldn't be bothered to look at. The second course for the freshman competition was on the cover.

Wei Xin walked up to Ralts, and after she lost to a difficult AI opponent, he placed his phone in front of her and asked.

"Ralts, how about we sign up for this competition?" Seeing that Ralts didn't quite understand, Wei Xin explained, "If you participate in this competition, you'll have to battle other Pokémon, just like Gengar and Marowak did yesterday afternoon."

Upon hearing this, the delinquent frog, who had been squatting by the window in a daze, turned its head and stared at Wei Xin and Ralts.

"Ralts." Ralts sensed that the trainer wanted to participate, so she decided to let him participate.

She was getting a little itchy to play games all the time, and losing to the AI ​​too many times was making her annoyed. She planned to find an opportunity to vent her frustration.

Without saying a word, Ralts placed her hand on the registration button.

Seeing this, the venom sacs on the wicked frog's cheeks rose and fell, making gurgling sounds, as it looked at itself in the mirror.

……

"Exactly the same?"

After Wei Xin left, Officer Jenny from the police station lowered her head, her white-gloved hands resting on either side of the desk, her gaze fixed on the desk.

There were two yellowed workbook sheets on top, which had recently fallen from the hands of a suspicious person.

On her phone was a photo she had taken that morning of the boy's Ralts exercise book.

The workbook was the kind you could find anywhere in Donghuang Bookstore, but the contents made Miss Officer Jenny's pupils tremble violently involuntarily.

"Both the questions and the answers are identical, even the handwriting is exactly the same."