It was getting late, the setting sun fell lazily in the sky, radiating a lazy, warm sunlight, and the breeze was running around the grassland like a child without rules, sometimes brushing the top of little Kangaskhan's head, sometimes rolling in the grass.
Or maybe it was mischievous and lifted Whitley's hat.
Whitley crouched in the grass, pressed down on the top of his head to dismantle the hat blown away by the wind, and then tilted his head to look at Rope beside him.
At this time, Rope was observing the Kangaskhan group not far away from them with great interest.
Downwind they were lurking well, and so far not a single Kangaskhan had detected their presence.
This kind of concealment skill was indeed a necessary lesson for researchers. Observation was inevitable for research, and observation naturally led to close proximity, and close proximity was inevitably dangerous, so it was best not to show their faces if they could.
As for Rope's strength... that's another matter, as a researcher, Rope has a morbid obsession with the original ecology and wild survival state.
The reason why Professor Oak circled his backyard so big is because only the bigger the place can provide the Pokémon with a more normal and closer to the original ecological living environment, and for Professor Oak, who researched the relationship between the Pokémon and human beings, this is undoubtedly an important condition for the research.
That's exactly why Rope, who followed Professor Oak's study, naturally learned everything he should and shouldn't have learned.
However, Rope also has a habit that he hasn't learned...
He still doesn't like to cook ramen in a beaker...
How did Professor Oak develop this habit? Putting aside the point of whether eating instant noodles is healthy or not, judging from the fact that Professor Oak was still able to beat up that Green girl at the League Conference at such an old age, there is no need for Rope to worry about Professor Oak's physical fitness.
Emm, it's been a while since I've heard from Green... nothing has happened to that dead girl, right?
...Auspicious people will always have a chance (Woe is me.)
The key is that Professor Oak is not afraid that he took the wrong beaker that day? Although he has a separate set of beakers for cooking instant noodles, it would be a big deal if he took the wrong one...
This is also the reason why Daisy and Rope teamed up to watch over Professor Oak to make sure he eats normally...
Although the child-like Professor Oak is reliable most of the time, he is also a bit of a fool when it comes to fooling around. But when it's time to goof around, he doesn't fall short at all...
Rope looks at Kangaskhan in the distance, puts his fuzzy thoughts away for a moment, and then carefully begins to tap the quantities.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7..."
"127, 128. a hundred and twenty-eight of them now."
Rope said in a rather emotional tone.
"What's wrong with that number?"
Whitley asked suspiciously.
"The numbers are up quite a bit from when they first got here." Rope said with a grin on his face and a look of pride in his eyes.
"Emm, don't tell me you moved the Kangaskhan pack here." Whitley said rather breathlessly as he pointed at the large group of Kangaskhan over there.
"Not really, it was me and Professor Oak who hosted it. I was just Professor Oak's second-in-command at the time. Also, it wasn't just the Kangaskhan group." Rope didn't look back at Whitley, but was still staring at the Kangaskhan group. Like the winner of a tournament looking over his medals."
Whitley quickly grasped Rope's meaning...
Good lord, this guy means...
"Safari Zone is your Professor Oak's lead???"
Whitley couldn't help but exclaim as her two beautiful eyes widened in shock.
Her exclamation of shock caused the Kangaskhan to be alerted. They looked at the grass where Rope and Whitley were hiding, then silently retreated towards the distance, seemingly without any desire to fight...
This is normal, after all, when Kangaskhan with children are faced with danger, their first instinct is always to duck and try to keep their children out of danger.
This was the reason why there were rumors that Kangaskhan were mild mannered and didn't like to fight.
As for why Rope said it was a rumor...it was simple...he had actually seen Kangaskhan's fight with other Pokémon.
Kangaskhan are not benign Pokémon, and when they do fight, they're crazy as hell...
Anyway, Rope would never want to push a Kangaskhan pack to the brink of extinction or move the little Kangaskhan...
That would go horribly wrong... Rope looked at the nonplussed Whitley and said, "What's wrong? It's worth being surprised. You really think I'm a one-step, one-step man. I was a famous researcher before I published that paper. The bosses may not have thought much of me at the time, but there was no researcher in the younger generation who could compete with me. Although now I don't need to compete with them anymore."
It's true that he doesn't need to compete with the younger generation anymore, Rope is already a level above the fellows who are still working for the bigwigs. He was already a big brother...
Whitley thought about it carefully, although he hadn't heard anyone say the exact time of Safari Zone's establishment, he thought it was only four or five years. The timing would be right...
But really, I haven't heard this about Rope!
"I said why you know so much about Safari Zone and are so interested in it. So this place has such a deep relationship with you!"
Whitley's eyes sparkled as she looked at Rope, like she was looking at a big intriguing puzzle.
Rope saw the connotations of Whitley's eyes with just a glance. It wasn't so much a taciturn look, but mainly because he'd seen such a look so many times. From Professor Oak in the beginning, to everyone else later on. Just by talking more, they all basically had a curiosity about Rope, a guy who seemed to be completely different from what they seemed to be.
The corner of Rope's mouth twitched slightly, then hurriedly changed the topic.
"Let's go, let's go, let's change places, it looks like they're doing just fine, let's go see the other two guys."
With that, he got up, then walked in the other direction.
"Eh? The other two guys? Who is it!"
Whitley also hurriedly got up and followed Rope, then looked at Rope and asked curiously.
"Ever heard of the legend of Safari Zone?"
Rope didn't answer positively, but instead asked rhetorically.
"Emm," Whitley mused and pondered for a moment, then looked up and asked, "Is it the legend of Dratini of the Safari Zone?"
Rope snaps his fingers, then says, "Correct answer! No prize though..."
Whitley didn't really care about the matter of whether there was a prize or not, and nodded, "I always thought that was just a legend... wait..."
Whitley As if she suddenly thought of something.
She looked at Rope with an odd expression on her face, like she was looking at some rare Pokémon.
"What's wrong?" Rope couldn't read her question this time, so he opened his mouth and asked.
"You know that's a Pseudo-Legendary hatchling, right..."
"Nonsense, it's not like I've ever seen a Dragonite or anything, even though it's cherished and the difference between pre-evolutionary and post-evolutionary is ridiculously large, but I sure as hell know what a Dratini is something!"
Rope gave Whitley a blank stare, and he probably guessed her next question.
"Then why don't you take them in??" "Then why don't I take them in?"
Rope and Whitley uttered the words at the same time.
Then Rope said helplessly, "Why does everyone of you who knows about this have to ask me such a question."
"Because it doesn't make sense alright!" Whitley followed Rope while not hesitating to give Rope a big blank stare.
Come to think of it, Pseudo-Legendary, that's as close to the top of the pyramid of Pokémon as the average person can get. Even some Legendary Pokémon packs couldn't match the growth of a Pseudo-Legendary.
Although Rope never thought that racial talents could determine the upper limit of a Pokémon's abilities. But it had to be recognized that racial talent could indeed determine the lower limit of a Pokémon's ability.
Some Pokémon just don't exercise for their entire lives, but they just exceed the efforts of Pokémon from certain weak groups for half a lifetime, or even their entire lives...
This kind of thing, such as talent, has always been possessed by a small group of people since the beginning of time. Putting it on Pokémon naturally fits this point.
Pokémon with talent were already a minority, and those whose talent was strong enough to break through their own racial ceiling Pokémon were naturally few and far between. And if they wanted to reach that level, the resources required were definitely not comparable to breeding a racially powerful Pokémon.
More and more resources, fewer and fewer numbers.
That's why Beedrill only has one of Giovanni's bosses, and Swinub only has one of Pryce's...
Pikachu has two... one of Ash's, and one of Red's...
I can only say that it's not bad for being the most rowdy Pokémon ever! ...
So the race theory argument really can't be considered wrong... this kind of breeding method where the investment and reporting are not proportional in the short term has not been very popular throughout the trainer community either.
"And how would I care about a Pseudo-Legendary specifically?"
Rope also smiled helplessly and bitterly.
"At that time, I followed Professor Oak and didn't have a single Pokémon on hand, I just didn't want one. At that time, you don't say put Dratini in front of me, you even give me a fully evolved Dragonite, I don't even want it, okay."
Rope tone with helplessness, in fact, he now also kind of look down on himself at that time, self-hatred, eating Professor Oak's family meal, full of himself home. He didn't tell them anything, all he could think about was his own safety and security, and he always had varying degrees of mistrust of other people.
Now that I think about it, Professor Oak and the others are really nice people. If not for Rope's behavior at the beginning, anyone else would have left Rope behind.
But to be honest, if it wasn't for the bond that Professor Oak and the others had left behind for Rope, then if Rope could live to find himself in Liu Nian, then he wouldn't have hesitated to go back, and the life and death of this world would have nothing to do with him.
In a sense, if Rope succeeds in saving the world in the end, then there must be a part of Professor Oak, Daisy, Blue, Red, and Cynthia on the military medal as well...
"And don't underestimate me too much, okay, Pseudo-Legendary? This kind of thing is treasured to others, but to me, it's just the difference between wanting it and not wanting it."
Rope really wasn't wrong about that, for people like him and Blue, Pseudo-Legendary was precious, but not that precious.
And the advantage of a high Pseudo-Legendary lower limit is outweighed by the vast amount of resources that are available. So Pseudo-Legendary was dispensable for them.
Although Whitley also followed Professor Juniper, but unlike Rope, Rope is a disciple who was raised as his own grandson. While Whitley was just an assistant...
Rope touched Whitley's head and said, "What? You want a Pseudo-Legendary? Tell me which one you want... Dratini will be fine, but I can get you one of the others. How about an Beldum? I've been friends with Steven for a while, and he has a colony of Metagross at home. Sending you one isn't a problem..."
Whitley had the feeling that his worldview was crumbling.
Honestly speaking, this kind of trendy style of giving away Pseudo-Legendary is really quite overwhelming...
Of course, if you think about it carefully, you will know that Rope is not lying. The two major Pseudo-Legendaries in Kanto and Johto, Dragonite, are of course the largest wild Tyranitar gathering place is at Mt. Silver.
There isn't a Pokémon in Silver Mountain who hasn't been beaten up by Red...
Naturally, the other regions aren't much of a problem, not to mention the friends, but Rope's doctorate can be exchanged for privileges. Although it's actually quite a loss to trade the Doctor's privileges for Pseudo-Legendary...
But Whitley is happy, so Rope has no problem giving it away.
"I think it's better for you to use a Goomy, at least this Pseudo-Legendary looks quite pleasing to the eye. And..."
"Oh come on, stop it you, I can't help but want one later..."
Whitley hurriedly interrupted Rope, she was really afraid that if she said too much later, she'd really want one!
"If you want it, you want it. It's not a big deal."
Rope said with a smile on her face, somewhat helplessly.
Rope really didn't feel like it was a big deal, including when he had taken in Entei before. Honestly, in his previous life when he played the game, how dare you go out and meet people without a full Pokédex?
What was Pseudo-Legendary? As long as you weren't playing ranked games, as long as you didn't have to collect them, the difficulty of collecting them would still be comparable to the Legendary Pokémon and Mega evolved Pokémon?
Brushing a Pokédex until you vomit blood...
Therefore, Rope's view on the Pseudo-Legendary thing was really quite low.
It's fine to have it, it's fine not to have it, even for Legendary Pokémon, it's all up to fate...
Whitley blankly glanced at Rope, although she didn't know how Rope had developed this kind of bland mentality in the face of cherishing such a top-tier resource as a Pokémon, she knew that Rope's past experiences definitely had scenarios that were unimaginable to her... unimaginable scenes...
There was no way that this guy had not only seen Legendary Pokémon alone, but had even subjugated them...
But before she could open the next topic, she saw a red penguin flying in the sky...
" Rope... that one in the sky... is that Delibird... why is Delibird here..."
Rope followed the sound of the voice and looked over, "It's kinda weird haha... "
"Why do I get the feeling it's about to land?"
Whitley tilted her head and blocked the sunlight with her hand.
"I feel the same way... and isn't there something about this landing spot? It's like he's going to land on my face..."
Rope muttered...
"Damn! On my face!"