The sudden windfall from the cicada husk greatly alleviated Qingwu's financial deficit.
Qingwu looked at the Crobat that had returned from scouting ahead, hearing Ralts's instant translation.
"Qingwu, there's a Scyther swarm ahead. Their levels are quite high. If possible, let's take a detour."
Ralts said with some concern.
"Alright, a detour will only take half an hour at most." Qingwu looked at the distant high mountain.
Qingwu didn't use Dragon Scale for a clear reason: he was afraid that rare Pokémon would feel the Dragon Scale's pressure and flee in panic.
The ecosystem of Dragon Island was still very good. After taking a detour, Qingwu saw a sea of flowers.
Standing amidst the flowers was a castle made of beeswax. Countless Pokémon, resembling beehives, were collecting nectar in the sea of flowers.
These little darlings had a pair of transparent wings, and the entire flower field buzzed with their sounds.
"It's actually Combee! What a rare Pokémon!" Qingwu was overjoyed; when luck arrived, it couldn't be stopped.
As long as he captured a female Combee with good aptitude and nurtured it to evolve into a Vespiquen,
there would be a continuous supply of honey. Combee's three honeycombs were born together and would constantly collect sweet honey from the flowers for the queen.
The higher the level of the Combee, the better the quality of the honey produced.
Qingwu decided to secretly capture a Combee with good aptitude and bring it back to the Day Care.
There were thousands of Combee in the sea of flowers. Qingwu knew that the Combee in the castle would have better aptitude.
However, Qingwu didn't have the courage to incite the Zubat to plunder Combee from the castle.
After scanning the thousand Combee, Qingwu felt a slight disappointment; there wasn't a single one with yellow aptitude.
Combee were just tools, so how could they have such high aptitude? Vespiquen would also guard against high-aptitude Combee.
This was the cruelty of a matriarchal society: adult Vespiquen would kill their excellent offspring to maintain their dominance.
Only if a Vespiquen died unexpectedly would a female Combee gain high aptitude under the enhancement of leadership aura and become a high-aptitude Pokémon.
Among the thousand Combee, there were only a few with orange aptitude, and none of them were female.
Just as Qingwu was about to leave in disappointment, a dozen Ursaring burst into the sea of flowers.
Ursaring are extremely ferocious Pokémon, with brown fur all over their bodies and a circular white mark in the middle of their stomachs, which is why they are called Ursaring.
Ursaring and Beedrill are known as the tyrants of the forest, both having violent temperaments.
Ursaring especially loved to eat honey, particularly Combee's honey.
Qingwu felt that the Combee looked very serious, and at this moment, they had all given up collecting nectar.
Countless Combee gathered together to form a bee wall, which was Combee's method of attack.
At this moment, the Ursaring looked serious; they knew that if they wanted to eat honey today, they would have to endure the most vicious beating.
The Ursaring didn't even think, opening their mouths to unleash a Hyper Beam.
The thick Hyper Beam split the Combee's bee wall in half with one strike, and then the Ursaring launched a full-scale charge.
The Bug Buzz of the Combee could not stop the Ursaring's advance to eat honey.
Seeing this, Qingwu's eyes darted around.
"Gastly, quietly enter Ursaring's shadow and secretly steal some of the Combee's honey."
Qingwu trusted Gastly's skills.
Gastly could hide in his backpack for dozens of days without him noticing, let alone other Pokémon.
Gastly licked its lips with its tongue, responding clumsily.
In a flash, it used Shadow Sneak, plunging into Ursaring's shadow.
The leading Ursaring leader felt a chill down its spine, quickly looking around but finding nothing.
The Ursaring swung its bear paw and used Hammer Arm, scattering the giant Combee blocking its path with a single blow.
Its bear paw heavily smashed onto the beeswax castle.
With a crash, a breach was opened. The Ursaring leader charged in, shouting, "Charge! For the honey!"
The Ursaring leader didn't notice that a Gastly had infiltrated the honey pool, opening its gaping maw. The honey pool seemed to have a whirlpool, swallowing half of the honey.
At this moment, the Ursaring leader knocked out a Combee with a slap and led the charge into the honey pool.
How strange, the Ursaring leader found that the honey in the honey pool was so scarce. The simple-minded Ursaring didn't think much of it and lowered its head to gulp down a few mouthfuls.
The honey in the honey pool was not much to begin with, and after dozens of Ursaring joined in, the honey pool was licked clean.
This enraged the Combee swarm. Qingwu saw these dozens of Ursaring directly blasted into the sky by a Power Gem.
This Vespiquen's strength must be at least Elite Four-level, if not even close to Champion-level.
Qingwu watched the Ursaring vanish in a flash of light, thinking that the Ursaring would surely shout, "I'll be back!"
At this moment, Gastly appeared in Qingwu's shadow, its task done, leaving without a trace, its achievements hidden.
This blame was squarely placed on the Ursaring.
Although he didn't catch a Combee with excellent aptitude, obtaining a large amount of honey alleviated much of Qingwu's disappointment.
After returning from Dragon Island, Qingwu would go to the Hunter Association to see if he could buy a Miltank with good aptitude.
Combee's honey and Miltank's fresh milk were the best nutrients for newborn Pokémon.
Although Miltank's fresh milk was also sold on the market,
it was scientifically proven that Miltank's fresh milk was best consumed within two hours of being squeezed, paired with Combee's honey. This was the optimal time.
This mountain was steep and majestic, with clouds and mist swirling around it. Gradually, the fog grew thicker, and the summit completely disappeared into the clouds.
Qingwu knew that Dragonite's cave was located at a spot on the summit.
They were now not far from Dragonite.
"Let's go, everyone. The path ahead won't be easy," Qingwu said to his Pokémon, looking at the distant high mountain.
This high mountain was a gathering place for Flying-type and Dragon-type Pokémon. Ten-grade winds constantly blew on the mountain, which felt like a gentle breeze to Dragon-type Pokémon.
The Pokémon living on the mountain became stronger the higher up they were. Dragon-type Pokémon at the summit even had extremely high Ice-type resistance.
The high mountain was covered in thick snow. Qingwu was currently climbing the peak with Crobat.
At this moment, Crobat was unusually exhausted, its feet even starting to frost over.
Its wings were almost numb from the cold, but it kept beating them mechanically, relying on its tenacious willpower.
Being a Flying-type originally, it was doubly weak to Ice.
Qingwu was wearing a thick down jacket and long boots made from Mareep wool.
Fortunately, Gastly had stored this set of winter equipment in its Dimensional Space. Qingwu truly wondered how he would have managed without it.
Qingwu and Crobat were connected by a rope, so Qingwu wasn't afraid of being blown away by the ten-grade wind.
The strong wind cut at Qingwu's face like a knife.
Qingwu's goggles and mouth were covered in a layer of frost.
The weather on the high mountain was unpredictable; one moment it would be clear skies, the next it would be dark clouds pressing down on the city.
Clusters and clumps of snow fell continuously, first small snowflakes, gently drifting and fluttering.
Qingwu opened his palm, and crystalline snowflakes landed on his hand, appearing transparent. Slowly, the snow melted.
"No, Crobat, the snow is getting heavier. We need to find shelter from the snow. Crobat, use Secret Power!"
Crobat nodded. It couldn't take it anymore, truly wondering how these Dragon-type Pokémon endured it.
Crobat glowed with white light and used Secret Power towards the rock wall.
Crobat held its wings against the rock wall. After just ten-odd seconds, the entire rock wall became as soft as tofu.
Under the strong wind, it was blown away like willow catkins, and a cave roughly sixty square meters in size was created.
"Gastly, spit out some firewood," Qingwu said to Gastly.
At first, Qingwu was worried whether the Combee honey would be contaminated by other items in Gastly's stomach.
Later, after Gastly's explanation, Qingwu realized his worries were unnecessary.
In Gastly's Dimensional Space, each item was stored in a different sub-space.
Facing Gastly's unique talent, Qingwu wondered what surprises Gastly would have if it obtained Palkia's Spatial Orb.
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