Chapter 5
Barley Ranch is located north of Stone Town and is the largest ranch in the vicinity. It is famous for its high-quality Mareep wool and Moomoo milk.
Located in the center of Barley Ranch, sits a wooden three-story building.
"Whoosh."
Barry pushed open the door, and the dazzling sunlight shone directly on him. He couldn't help but raise his arms to block his eyes.
After a long while, Barry put his hand down and looked at the vast fertile pasture in front of him. A sense of pride appeared in his eyes, but then he lowered his head and sighed softly.
"well."
As the eldest son of this generation of his family, Barry took over the ranch since his father retired two years ago and became the new rancher of Barley Ranch.
However, due to the recent market downturn, the ranch's income has been decreasing, and Barry has gradually become deeply worried about his ranch's future.
Shaking his head, as if to shake off the worries in his mind, Barry took a step forward, ready to go to the ranch to carry out his daily work.
Barry walked to the warehouse next to the house, dragged out several large bags of different kinds of heavy feed, and poured them one by one into a bowl-type machine.
Then he took out a small box from deep in the warehouse, carefully took out a few yellow fruits from it and put them into the machine.
After closing the lid of the feed machine, Barry gently pressed the button on it. A buzzing sound was heard, and fine grains of feed with a yellow glow were produced.
This is the Barley Ranch's special Mareep feed. If Mareep eat this feed for a long time, the quality of their wool will be enhanced, making the clothes made of their wool more durable and more gorgeous and beautiful.
Unfortunately, with the emergence of artificial synthetic materials recently, the sales of this specialty wool from Barley Ranch have become increasingly low.
"Maa..."
As Barry's small truck loaded with feed slowly drove into the pasture where the Mareep were raised, the surrounding Mareep swarmed over.
Their dark blue skin was covered with fluffy light yellow wool, their ears and tail were black and yellow, and at the end of their long tails was an orange ball-shaped object, in which you can occasionally see some electric current.
Barry led the feed into the feed pool, leaned against the car, and looked at the Mareep in front of him eating with their heads down, and a look of relief appeared on his face.
However, what he didn't notice was that in the corner, an ordinary-looking Mareep had a gleam of wisdom in its eyes.
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Today is the second day since Lu Yun was born into Barley Ranch
Although he became a Mareep, Lu Yun was very happy.
Because he knew that as a human-bred Pokémon, his safety was extremely reliable.
He can live a carefree life, develop peacefully, and work hard to accumulate points without worrying about any danger.
Lu Yun opened the system and looked at his attributes.
Race: Mareep
Level: 1 (17/100)
Skills: Tackle, Growl
Evaluation: A common ranch-bred Mareep
Items: [Individual Value Enhancer (Small)], [Technical Machine: Hidden Power]
"Huh? There's an additional column."
Lu Yun discovered that compared to before, there was an additional column "Items" in his system screen.
"How do I use it?"
Lu Yun was studying it, and suddenly, when his eyes were focused on the props, the system made a sound.
"Ding!"
"Do you want to use [Individual Value Enhancer (Small)]?"
Lu Yun looked up at the Mareep around him, ran to an inconspicuous corner, and muttered to himself.
"use!"
A warm current suddenly surged down from his head and swept through his whole body.
Lu Yun only felt waves of comfort coming from all over his body.
Not long after, as the warm current gradually subsided, another system prompt sounded.
"The item [Individual Value Enhancer (Small)] has been used."
HP +2
"Special Attack +3"
Speed +3
Lu Yun's heart moved and he was secretly delighted.
"Looks like I'm pretty lucky. The potion that adds a maximum of 10 points, I actually added 8."
"But how do I view all my individual values?"
"Ding!"
"Individual values are hidden attributes and cannot be queried."
Lu Yun frowned and had to give up.
In the Pokémon world, when a Pokémon is born, its individual value is fixed and cannot be changed even by evolution.
Individual values are divided into six categories: HP (health), special attack, physical attack, special defense, physical defense, and speed. The value of each item is between 1 and 31.
The individual value determines the growth ability of each attribute of Pokémon.
The same type of Pokémon may not have much difference in strength at the beginning, but as the level increases, the growth rate of Pokémon with higher individual values will be much faster than that of Pokémon with lower individual values.
In the game in Lu Yun's previous life, players would often breed Pokémon to obtain Pokémon with high individual values and train them as competitive Pokémons.
In general, individual value is equivalent to what people often call "talent".
The [Individual Value Enhancer (Small)] used by Lu Yun, an item that can change one's innate fixed talent, is naturally extremely precious.
Although Lu Yun cannot check his individual value, he believes that as a Pokémon with a human soul,
Even though his qualifications were low, he was confident that he could improve himself step by step, not to mention that he also used special props.
"Next...it's your turn!"
Lu Yun's eyes turned and he decided to use another item he had exchanged before.
"Ding!"
"Do you want to use [Move Learning Machine: Hidden Power]?"
"Use!"
There are all kinds of strange skills in the Pokémon world, and "Hidden Power" is one of the strangest ones.
Firstly, this move is extremely versatile and can be learned by almost any Pokémon;
Secondly, although the attributes of "Hidden Power" are general, the type energy emitted by each Pokémon through "Awakening Power" is not fixed.
For example, a fire-type Tepig may awaken the water-type Hidden Power.
A water-type Mudkip may also awaken Hidden Power of the electric type.
As the props were used, tiny specks of dark blue light slowly emerged in the air around Lu Yun.
With a sense of elegance and nobility, the light fragments slowly gathered towards Lu Yun, gradually gathering around Lu Yun's body to form a translucent dark blue halo.
"Buzz!"
As if converging to a zenith, the deep blue halo suddenly shrank inwards, then expanded outwards, and powerful energy with a gorgeous halo gushed out in a ring shape.
"Sizzle!"
The tall grass around Lu Yun was completely torn apart the moment it came into contact with the deep blue energy.
If you look from the sky, you can see that the halo has torn all the grass within a five-meter circular area around Lu Yun, leaving it in a mess.
"Maa..."
The nearby Mareep seemed to be frightened as well and fled in all directions.
Lu Yun's heart moved and he quickly fled from the "crime scene".