Zhuqing Breeding Center.
Seven days passed, and new employees arrived at the Breeding Center one after another.
Comrade Leon and Comrade Wenhui were in charge of recruitment.
Li Wei, Da You, and Rui Xi were responsible for training the new hires.
Da You and Rui Xi quickly got the hang of things and had already adapted to life here.
Before the start of the day's work, Leon announced good news to everyone:
"To help everyone get acquainted quickly, we're having a welcome banquet tonight!"
"Don't worry, there won't be forced performances or self-introductions; we'll just eat to our hearts' content!"
The expansion of the Breeding Center also required employees to be familiar with each other and work in tacit agreement to provide better service for the Pokémon boarded there.
"Ow!!!"
"Long live Little Boss!"
Another busy day of life began.
"Mr. Haru, this is your Liepard. Please take it."
Xiao Rou, the front desk lady, presented the customer with his boarded Pokémon with her sweet smile.
Haru checked Liepard's newly learned moves with his Pokedex.
"Very good, I am satisfied."
[Ding, Haru is satisfied with Liepard's breeding. Mission progress (36/100)]
In seven days, Li Wei's main mission progress was very encouraging.
However, Li Wei was not happy at this moment; he was still pondering how to help Feebas regain its confidence.
The good news was that Feebas was eating.
The bad news was that it wouldn't show itself to people at all.
Li Wei and Feebas had already developed a tacit understanding: he would leave after placing the food.
Feebas would wait until no one was around to eat.
As more and more people came to the Breeding Center, Feebas had fewer and fewer opportunities to come out.
"Feebas, you still need to try to come out. I'll make sure people don't get close to the fish pond."
Li Wei used his Little Boss's privilege to ask the staff to bypass the fish pond, but he couldn't always keep an eye on customers.
Da You suggested, "Why don't you just put up a caution tape here?"
Rui Xi and Da You had both tried to help, but it had no effect.
Li Wei snapped his fingers, "Good idea."
Li Wei immediately made a wooden sign and simply put up a caution tape.
Most people who were willing to bring their Pokémon to the Breeding Center loved Pokémon.
After all, this was a paid service, and most of them could understand.
...
The popularity of the Breeding Center was gradually increasing.
Comrade Wenhui was calculating, her calculator clattering loudly.
"I never thought business would be this good."
Comrade Leon said cheerfully, "Xiao Wei's videos uploaded on Eevee Net probably contributed a lot. Big Brother really had foresight!"
Li Wei uploading videos on Eevee Net was based on his uncle Li Wen's suggestion.
Comrade Wenhui then reminded him, "The business license has been approved. Go to the city center this afternoon to pick it up."
After recruiting new employees, they took time to apply for a Pokémon food business license.
This meant they could sell Energy Cubes, Poffins, and a series of other Pokémon foods.
"Alright!"
Hearing that the license was approved, Comrade Leon was full of motivation.
Comrade Wenhui was a decisive person; the Berry trees in the yard had already been planted.
After putting up the caution tape, Li Wei temporarily stopped bothering Feebas.
He had given Feebas seven days to adapt, but Feebas was completely unresponsive to communication.
Li Wei even sent Lucario to communicate, but it was ineffective.
"Should I try the praise method?"
"Should I try to melt its heart with love?"
"Or should I find Xiao Huang?"
Li Wei now especially envied Viridian Lilac's Tokiwa Power.
"Never mind, let's just record a video for now."
Li Wei planned to make the fourth episode of "PokémonTrainer Employment Guide."
The third episode was temporarily changed to Smoked Round Citrus Juice due to Red's urging for an update.
Li Wei was not worried about someone learning how to make Smoked Round Citrus Juice.
The system had specifically stated that the special effects of unique dishes were only effective when made by Li Wei.
If others learned it, at most, it would just taste good.
For that video, Li Wei invited Da You, Rui Xi, Incineroar, and others as tasters.
His parents and Lucario had all tried it, but there was no special program effect.
This Smoked Round Citrus Juice, improved from the specialty Berry Juice of the Johto region, received praise from Red and helped the account's followers surpass ten thousand.
Red highly praised Li Wei's method of improving Berry Juice and teaching it for free.
The two also made a PY deal and added each other as friends.
Although the two barely chatted.
Red was busy battling on Mt. Silver every day.
Li Wei was busy with the Breeding Center's affairs.
Busy, all busy, being busy is good...
Li Wei was just afraid that Red would challenge him to a battle.
He had already received the mission rewards:
Specialty Dish Pokedex * 1 and two Item Lottery Tickets.
[Crispy Apple (A-rank)]: A Chinese imperial dessert, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. The puff pastry requires repeated folding and chilling of the dough, and strict control over the heat. After consumption, gain a 'Double the Effort, Half the Result' BUFF (12 hours).
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Daily production attempts (0/1)
Friendly reminder: Please try again after raising your cooking level, do not waste ingredients. You can also start practicing with the simplified version.
Undoubtedly, this was a dish Li Wei could not challenge at the moment.
The simplified version meant omitting the puff pastry and simply coating it with egg wash and breadcrumbs.
Li Wei glanced at his cooking level.
Cooking (Intermediate): Slight (3,457/10,000)
Now that there were more employees, Li Wei would level up his cooking faster.
The two Item Lottery Tickets drew an Everstone and a Muscle Band.
[Everstone]: When held, suppresses the Pokémon's evolution.
[Muscle Band]: When held, increases the power of physical moves.
The Everstone was of no use to Li Wei.
For someone running a Breeding Center, who doesn't have a couple of Everstones hidden in their warehouse?
Some Pokémon simply don't want to evolve, and some Trainers also wish their Pokémon to remain as they are.
For example, Rui Xi's Glameow didn't want to evolve and carried an Everstone.
Li Wei gave the Muscle Band to Metang, tying it to its right arm.
The third mission of [I Really Didn't Want to Be an UP Host] mainly had two objectives:
100,000 followers (27,589/100,000)
Million-view videos (3/5)
Mission Reward: Random Pokémon Item Lottery Ticket 3, Random Specialty Dish 1, Random Skill (Intermediate) * 1
...
Inside the room.
Li Wei set up the camera in front of him and adjusted the shooting angle.
"Without further ado, let's get into today's fourth instructional video. Today, we're making Energy Cubes!"
"Today, we'll start with the colors of Energy Cubes."
In front of Li Wei were five colors of Energy Cubes: Red, blue, pink, green, and yellow.
Undoubtedly, they were all high quality.
"These five colors correspond to Cool, Beautiful, Cute, Smart, and Tough, respectively. Everyone should pay attention to the distinctions."
While Li Wei was filming, his phone received a message.
Grandpa: [Your teacher will arrive tomorrow morning at nine.]