NOVEL WEB Chapter 10: CH 10
Time flew by, and five days passed in the blink of an eye.
As usual, the Pokémon came to the shop to eat on this day. When they came, most of them would bring a gift or two. Sometimes it was a flower, sometimes a berry, or even some part of their body. No matter how light or heavy the gift was, Diancie would gladly accept it.
Following Slowpoke's fur, An Jue later successively received Meowstic's claws, Dedenne's whiskers, Bellsprout's roots, and Sudowoodo's skin fragments.
According to the Eye of Observation's appraisal, they could all be used to make TM.
Unfortunately, the device for making TM was too expensive, and An Jue couldn't afford it at all.
Listening to the cheerful laughter of the Pokémon outside, An Jue hummed a little tune unconsciously while steaming steamed buns.
Suddenly, there was a burst of exclamations from outside. An Jue's heart trembled. Could something have happened? He hurriedly peeked out from the door frame, only to see a group of Pokémon gathered together with their heads lowered, not knowing what they were looking at, and making noises as they watched.
What on earth happened? An Jue was extremely curious, but everyone was surrounded too tightly, and he couldn't see anything at all. Even Diancie was there watching the excitement.
However, judging from Diancie's reaction, it shouldn't be anything bad.
Hmm?
Gradually, An Jue seemed to notice wisps of blue and white light leaking from the encirclement.
That is…
An Jue's eyes widened.
"Fuu~ Fuu~~"
Suddenly, a cry came. Diancie brought out a brand new Pokémon from the encirclement. It was a Scatterbug!
It turned out that the Scatterbug that often came to An Jue's house to eat had evolved!
The food made by An Jue had an effect comparable to Pokémon food. These days, Scatterbug had been able to eat its fill at An Jue's house every day. With enough energy accumulated, it naturally evolved.
Through the Eye of Observation, An Jue looked at the Scatterbug in Diancie's arms from afar, and its data naturally appeared in his line of sight.
Scatterbug
[Attribute] Bug
[Characteristic] Shed Skin
[Gender] Female
[Level] 9
[Skills] Protect, Harden, Poison Powder, Bug Bite.
[Individual Value]
HP: 5
Attack: 6
Defense: 9
Special Attack: 12
Special Defense: 17
Speed: 8
It was indeed the level to evolve, but all the data was very mediocre.
After Scatterbug evolved, everyone was very happy, and the atmosphere in the store became even more enthusiastic.
In order to celebrate Scatterbug's evolution, everyone even wanted to give their food to Scatterbug to eat. It was just a pity that Scatterbug was the transitional form between Scatterbug and Vivillon. During this form, it would no longer eat except for drinking some dew until it completed its evolution.
It must be said that the Pokémon on the Nibel Plateau are very united with each other. They will be happy for other people's happy events, and they will also be sad for other people's grief. If any Pokémon has difficulties, other Pokémon will not hesitate to lend a helping hand.
An Jue liked the Nibel Plateau very much, liked the way the Pokémon got along here, and was also very fortunate that the system had placed his residence here.
Withdrawing his gaze from Scatterbug, An Jue opened his system interface, only to see the taskbar showing:
Entertain 50 Pokémon, deadline 10 days. (50/50) — Completed, reward to be claimed.
As of today, his second task has also been completed, which took one day more than expected, but five days earlier than the deadline given by the system.
An Jue claimed the reward without hesitation, and the taskbar interface popped up a pop-up window.
Congratulations to the master for obtaining the reward: Physique +1!
In an instant, An Jue felt a force injected into his body. He felt that he could punch a Tauros to death at this moment!
Hahaha~~ Exaggerated, exaggerated.
Look at the personal information interface again.
An Jue
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 16 (+500)
Physique: 3
Intelligence: 2
Cooking Evaluation: An edible newbie.
Physique did increase by one point. It's just that there was no achievement reward this time, so intelligence didn't increase.
Although An Jue hadn't figured out the effect of intelligence, since the benefits of increasing physique points were so obvious, then intelligence points couldn't be useless.
I'll explore it slowly in the future.
Look at the happiness points again: 7900.
Not even 10,000, An Jue felt a little sad.
The morning passed quickly. Diancie sent the Pokémon who had finished breakfast out one by one, and shouted to Litwick and the others: "Litwick, remember to bring Pancham and the others to help in the afternoon!"
"Moo hee~" Got it!
Litwick responded loudly.
What Diancie said was naturally about letting Litwick and the others help plant vegetables. Although this plan was formulated a few days ago, An Jue had to choose which vegetables to plant and which seeds to choose, so it was delayed for a few days.
After a few days of getting along, Diancie had completely become familiar with Litwick and the others, but it was a pity that Litwick and the others still seemed restrained, flustered, and even afraid when facing An Jue.
After seeing off the Pokémon, Diancie started cleaning.
An Jue had previously discussed with Diancie that they would only be open for business in the morning from now on. It would be enough to be busy for half a day. The remaining half day would be busy with other things, or leisurely, casual, and idle for half a day.
Anyway, he can't live a hard life at all.
Diancie was cleaning the hall outside, and An Jue was cleaning the kitchen inside.
It's just that as soon as he wanted to put the unused dough into the refrigerator's crisper, he turned around and saw a Pokémon standing not far away staring at him straightly.
An Jue was startled, and almost smashed the dough in his hand out.
Damn, I've been discovered!
"Snorlax, what are you doing here?"
However, to An Jue's surprise, Snorlax was not as afraid of him as other Pokémon, but tilted his head calmly and asked:
"Gao~ Gao Bi~" Are you a human?
Unfortunately, An Jue couldn't understand Pokémon language.
"An Jue? Snorlax? What are you doing?"
Diancie happened to bring the rice bowl into the kitchen at this time.
An Jue explained: "Snorlax doesn't know how he ran into the kitchen."
Diancie patted her head, "I was just saying, when I sent everyone away just now, I always felt like someone was missing. It turned out to be you!"
"Gao~ Gao~~"
Snorlax grinned, and then asked the question just now again. This time, with Diancie acting as a translator, An Jue finally understood.
"Yes, yes, yes." He replied a little guiltily. He was really afraid that he would scare Snorlax away.
"Gao~ Gao~ Gao~~" But everyone says that humans are bad guys and will bully us.
Snorlax said puzzled.
"Gao~ Gao~ Gao~~" But I think you smell so good, you don't look like a bad guy at all.
As he said that, he leaned closer to An Jue and sniffed.
"Gao~" It smells so good.
An Jue had just finished steaming the steamed buns, and there was still the fragrance of steamed buns on his body, but the fragrance of steamed buns was not very strong, not to mention that it had been a while since he finished steaming the steamed buns, but Snorlax could easily smell it.
An Jue was a little surprised, this Snorlax's sense of smell is quite sensitive!
At this moment, Diancie explained to An Jie, "The steamed buns you eat every day are made by An Jie. Do you still think he's a bad guy?"
Hearing Diancie's words, Snorlax's eyes immediately widened, shining brighter than two light bulbs.
"Garr... Garr..." Really? Really?
An Jie felt like there were stars in Snorlax's eyes as it looked at him.
"Yes... yes," An Jie nodded, then couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you afraid of me?"
"Garr... Garr..." Makes delicious food, not a bad guy.
Snorlax replied with absolute certainty.
"Garr... Garr..." You're amazing! Very amazing!
An Jie: Is this the belief of a foodie?
He seemed to see a hint of admiration in Snorlax's eyes.
Just then, Diancie suddenly exclaimed, "An Jie, there's a temporary mission!"
A temporary mission?
This was the first time he'd heard of such a thing!
"What is it? Let me see," An Jie quickly said.
Diancie walked to An Jie's side and showed him the mission acceptance pop-up.
Capture a Pokémon with chef qualifications and make it the owner's sous chef! Accept?
Yes
No
A Pokémon with chef qualifications?
An Jie subconsciously looked at the Snorlax across from him, who was curiously sizing him up.
Could it be referring to Snorlax?
That must be it. This temporary mission came at such a convenient time; it must be to have him capture Snorlax.
Come to think of it, there will definitely be more and more Pokémon coming to the restaurant in the future. If he doesn't have any help, wouldn't he be worked to death if he's the only one cooking?
It seems the system is very considerate.
Accept!
An Jie made his decision.
At this moment, Snorlax was full of doubt. It couldn't see the system interface, and only saw An Jie and Diancie gesturing at the air, almost thinking that the human and Pokémon were going crazy.
After accepting the mission, he looked at Snorlax and asked, "Snorlax, would you be willing to stay and learn cooking from me?"
"Garr..." Learn cooking?
Snorlax looked puzzled.
"That's right!" An Jie nodded. "After learning to cook with me, you can make your own delicious food and eat it whenever you want."
The more An Jie spoke, the brighter Snorlax's eyes became. Glistening droplets appeared at the corners of its mouth, and its face was full of longing, as if it could already see itself showing off its cooking skills and then eating heartily.
"What do you think? Do you want to come with me? You can eat your fill at my house every day, and you'll never have to go hungry again," An Jie continuously enticed Snorlax.
"Garr!!!" I want to learn cooking!
Snorlax suddenly clenched its fist and said with a determined expression.
An Jie's face lit up when he heard this. "Once you decide, you can't go back on your word."
"Garr... Garr..." Won't go back!
Snorlax nodded heavily.
"Then it's settled. I look forward to working with you," An Jie said, extending his right hand towards Snorlax.
"Garr..."
Snorlax solemnly shook An Jie's hand.
The moment the human and Pokémon shook hands, the system mission interface changed.
Capture a Pokémon with chef qualifications and make it the owner's sous chef! — Completed, reward to be claimed.
Of course, An Jie didn't hesitate to claim it.
The system immediately popped up a notification.
Congratulations, Master, for obtaining the temporary mission reward: Constitution +1, Individual Value +1, Cooking Training Room activated.
An Jie was stunned the moment he saw the reward. He understood Constitution +1, but what was Individual Value +1? And what was the Cooking Training Room activation?
At this moment, the corner of his eye glanced at his personal information interface. He saw that in addition to the Happiness Points and Shop boxes, a "Individual Value" box had been added, and the box was displaying a solitary number "1".
An Jie subconsciously clicked on the Individual Value box, and the personal information interface immediately popped up a window, which displayed three options.
Diancie
Komala
Snorlax.
Among them, the Diancie and Komala options were grayed out, and only the Snorlax option was lit up.
He tried clicking on Diancie and Komala, and as expected, there was no response. But after clicking on Snorlax, a pop-up window immediately appeared, displaying 6 options.
HP: 29
Attack: 16
Defense: 20
Special Attack: 6
Special Defense: 10
Speed: 31
Obviously, An Jie's guess was correct. This Individual Value was added to the Pokémon. The reason why Diancie and Komala couldn't be added might be because Diancie's 6 Individual Values were already full, and he couldn't check Komala's Individual Values with his Eye of Observation.
"Diancie, come and take a look."
In order to ensure that his guess was correct, An Jie confirmed it with Diancie, and as expected, his guess was not wrong at all.
Since Diancie and Komala couldn't add Individual Values, this point of Individual Value was of course added to Snorlax, and it just so happened that this point of Individual Value was obtained because of it.
Thinking like this, An Jie clicked on the Attack option. In an instant, the number in the Individual Value column was cleared, and in Snorlax's Attack Individual Value column, the number changed from 16 to 17.
Under the Eye of Observation, Snorlax's current data is as follows:
Snorlax
[Attribute] Normal
[Characteristic] Thick Fat
[Gender] Male
[Level] 18
[Skills] Tackle, Lick, Defense Curl, Recycle, Covet, Bite, Body Slam, Play Rough, Seed Bomb, Brick Break, Counter.
[Individual Value]
HP: 29
Attack: 17
Defense: 20
Special Attack: 6
Special Defense: 10
Speed: 31
In the dark, Snorlax seemed to feel the changes in its body. It subconsciously clenched its fist, but it didn't understand what had happened, so it simply put it out of its mind.
Not only did Snorlax's data change, but An Jie's personal data also changed.
An Jie
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 16 (+500)
Constitution: 4
Intelligence: 2
Cooking Evaluation: A newbie who can make edible dishes.
Looking at the bright number "4" in the Constitution column, An Jie laughed wildly in his heart.
"Ahahaha~~ I'm getting stronger again!"
Right, right, there's also a reward, the Training Room is activated!
An Jie quickly consulted the guiding sprite—Diancie.
"Diancie, what is the Cooking Training Room?"
However, Diancie started playing coy with him.
"Clean up the kitchen first and I'll tell you!"
Helpless, An Jie had no choice but to continue cleaning the kitchen.
Snorlax felt that it was already a member of the family, and quickly stepped forward to help, but it had never done it before and didn't know where to start.
Seeing it flustered, An Jie touched the top of its head and said, "Snorlax, watch me first and learn well, and then you can do it after you learn, okay?"