Chapter 74 Caracalla and Gala Gala
Because Eden temporarily left the team and was unable to challenge the more difficult Super Gym, Zhou You took his elves to Route 8 for an outing.
The roads near big cities like Golden City are very well-maintained. The short distance from Ziyuan Town is basically a straight road with trees planted on both sides to separate the sidewalk from the habitat of wild elves.
The gym trainers of the Golden Gym will usually patrol the surrounding areas from time to time and repel the more powerful Pokémon away from the sidewalks.
Having said that, the Pokémon world in this era is a standard society with high welfare and a low birthrate.
A series of simple tasks such as animal husbandry, planting, production, labor and even power generation can be solved by the elves. Human beings use their own intelligence advantages to assist and guide the elves on how to use their power.
In addition, the world is vast and sparsely populated. In order to avoid being threatened and attacked by wild elves, humans tend to gather in major cities and villages in areas dominated by the alliance.
Most of the mechanical labor is basically done by the elves. The work that ordinary non-technical and intellectual humans can do is actually quite limited.
However, thanks to the elves, most of the resources in the Pokémon world are basically overflowing. You can maintain your life at the stage of subsistence and well-off by just doing anything - even the ordinary underage insect-catching boy on the roadside. You can even hang Poké Balls filled with insect-type Pokémon on your body!
Poké balls costing 200 yuan each have long entered the homes of most people, and a monthly ration of 400 to 500 yuan per ball can meet all the nutritional needs of non-combat elves.
Black technology is so advanced that the prices of artificial evolutionary props such as fire stones are also decreasing year by year. Even in the distant Hezhu region, even artificial meat is being put into the experimental stage amidst the calls of people who love elves.
Of course, raising 6 cats is still a bit of a burden for the average family. Even among the natives who travel around the world and live in capital cities, how many families have 6 cats/dogs?
At least the author's family only has one corgi and one Shiba Inu. They just added a tabby cat last month.
Even if the financial situation is good, if there are too many pets, there is no energy to take care of them...
Human beings here really only focus on their own interests and pleasure when they choose to work.
Moreover, every household basically has one or two elves. Who would be eager to have children if there are elves?
Perhaps in the past, there was an era when humans and humans and humans and elves conquered, plundered, and killed each other, but now, under the guidance of many legendary Pokémon in charge of the priesthood, peaceful coexistence between humans and elves is the main theme of this world.
Traveling around can be said to be traveling to an era of paradise difficulty.
Having said that, although it is easy to ensure a well-off life, it is actually quite difficult to take the next step - the bicycle worth 1 million in Hualan City is still fresh in my memory when I travel around today!
Most of the art, collectibles and luxury goods are very expensive and beyond the reach of ordinary families.
It’s just that with such high benefits and an easy and happy life, most people don’t have that motivation anymore.
It does not matter.
Yet for both types of people, money is never enough.
One is a trainer like Zhou You who does not have a stable income or background, but still aims at a career.
It's like a family-like person who wants to pursue art as his lifelong pursuit. Often he doesn't even take the first step and has to change his career to a more profitable job to make ends meet.
Like purging Jews or something?
The other kind is a lazy dog doing nothing. After all, even if they rely on the alliance's perfect social welfare, they can only have enough food and clothing.
Rockets... Rainbow Group, which is apparently a large-scale trans-regional legal listed company, specifically accommodates a large number of these two types of people as well as anti-alliance elements.
They captured common elf weapons in batches, with high deterrent power, low training difficulty, and fast formation speed, and used high welfare and high treatment to win over their members. It took two generations and more than ten years to form an army in the Guandong and Chengdu areas. A behemoth that even the Alliance cannot eradicate.
There are even some people within the league who have colluded with the Rockets.
(Player Perspective) As we all know, senior intellectuals such as Xia Bo and Dr. Fuji, who are well-known in the league, have cooperated with the Rockets to conduct inhumane experiments that are not allowed by the league due to temporary delusions.
And the result of that experiment is the artificial elf who will take revenge on all mankind in the near future - Mewtwo!
Short-sighted humans will eventually pay the price for what they have done.
"It was obviously just an outing, why did I suddenly think of such an unpleasant thing?"
Zhou You sighed silently, and then looked at the looming Pokémon Tower not far away.
The Pokémon Tower is a 7-story Pokémon Cemetery. Kanto people usually bury Pokémon there after they pass away. People visit there almost every day to pay their respects.
Unknowingly, he had arrived near Ziyuan Town on foot.
Since he didn't like staying in the elf ball, Zhanfan, who was let out by him and ran wildly outside, followed his line of sight and immediately scratched the ground with his legs and started barking as if he was facing an enemy.
It sensed something dangerous.
"Don't worry, I'm probably the most fearless trainer in the world." Zhou You smiled and patted the dog's head, "Shall we go to the Pokémon Tower to collect a high-level Gengar to use as real-time combat power?"
"Woof?"
Although I didn't quite understand where this person's confidence came from, he couldn't figure it out and stopped thinking about it. Within a few seconds, Zhanfan lost his memory and started to have fun in the wilderness again.
In contrast, Arthur, who has only two short legs and low endurance, is not so keen on long-distance travel outside the Poke Ball, and is still sleeping beautifully in the Poke Ball.
After receiving a lot of training, it is almost impossible to make any progress at this stage of Charmander, so it is currently adjusting its state for the final sprint, just waiting for the best opportunity to evolve and make a splash.
Just as Zhou You was planning to continue heading towards Ziyuan Town, he heard what sounded like human noises not far away from the sidewalk.
"Woof?"
Having received police dog training, it immediately reminded Zhou You to be more careful, and calmly waited for the other party to issue instructions to investigate.
"Let's go over and take a look at the situation, but be careful." After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Youyou, who was worried that someone would be attacked in the wild, decided to go over and investigate.
After taking a few steps, he really heard the human voice mentioned by Zhengfen before.
"Hurry up and catch up! Caracalla's cubs can be sold for a lot of money!"
"What the hell, how dare you bump into me! Go catch the caracara, and I'll teach this rattle a lesson!"