My Pokémon Story of Seasons

Chapter 88 Opening Your Eyes to the World

"Good afternoon, viewers. Welcome to Almia TV's 'News 30 Minutes'."

"Let's take a look at the detailed report—"

The two hosts read the opening remarks in a very professional broadcasting voice, and then proceeded with a series of continuous news broadcasts.

These midday news programs typically report news from last night to this morning, which can effectively increase the timeliness of information in areas with underdeveloped communication.

After watching for a while, Tong Hua suddenly felt that it wasn't very interesting.

"The Almia region is still too vast and sparsely populated; more than half of the news reports are about nature reserves in the wild."

There are six nature reserves in the entire Almia region: Line Drawing Plateau, Sea of ​​the Roaring Whale, Vast Desert, Pot Island Volcano, Cold Wind Valley, and Wind-Swept Forest.

The Rangers Alliance can generate half a day's worth of news every day just by patrolling these six locations. After watching too much of it, it feels like watching a documentary about wild Pokémon. It's too homogenous and quite boring.

"Find the remote control—"

Jessica went outside to prepare food for Rapidash and Miltank, and hadn't returned yet, so Tong Hua started searching in her living room, trying not to rummage through anything else.

"Oh my?" "Terrifying." "Fufu—"

The three Pokémon also helped look for it, but then again, remote controls are something that you always find you can't find when you need them.

"Found it, it was on the TV cabinet."

In the end, Tong Hua found the remote control herself.

Just as he was about to change the channel, he heard a rapid shout in his ear.

"Wow!" Both Celebi popped up, seemingly unwilling for Tong Hua to change the channel.

They love news reports about nature reserves; aren't these natural scenes beautiful?

However, just as the two Celebi were about to take the remote control from Tong Hua, Jessica suddenly entered the house.

"Xiaotong, did you turn the TV on?"

Perfect timing! Quickly switch to channel 6; they should be showing a movie right now. I want to watch it.

Just press the down button; our TV only has six channels.

The two Celebi quickly hid again, and Tong Hua replied with a "okay" and pressed the channel change button.

However, instead of pressing the button directly as Jessica suggested, he chose to slowly switch from channel 1 to channel 6.

Tong Hua pressed the up button repeatedly, switching from news channel 1 to variety show channel 2, and then back to news channel 3.

However, unlike Channel 1, Channel 3 does not broadcast news from Almia, but rather news from the Sinnoh region.

The large "Celebrating TV Station" logo in the upper left corner of the screen perfectly illustrates this point.

The program was broadcasting a grand competition. Tong Hua glanced at it and didn't recognize a single character on screen.

"I wonder if Team Galactic is causing any trouble in Sinnoh right now."

Ultimately, will the things I'm familiar with still happen in this world? Will the characters from those familiar stories appear?

In fact, if we only analyze the current situation, Tong Hua feels that he is neither in the game's world view nor in the comic's world view because the two main characters in the Ranger game have already appeared, while the two classmates who are key supporting characters have not yet graduated.

This alone makes no sense compared to the few works that Tong Hua knows.

"At this point, I can only guess that this is a world with a plot that is roughly the same as what I know, but there may be some discrepancies in the details..."

After thinking for a while, Tong Hua pressed the channel change button again, urged by Jessica.

Channels 4 and 5 then broadcast variety shows and cartoons from the Sinnoh region, respectively. It's worth mentioning that the cartoon channel was quite good and immediately captured the attention of the kids.

As for Channel 6, it is a special channel that only broadcasts movies.

The song playing right now is Kareni's breakthrough performance, the champion female star of the Carlos region.

Miare Holiday.

"Ah, I've already seen this one. Never mind, you can watch whatever you want."

I'll go to the kitchen and make you something to eat.

After saying that, Jessica turned and left the living room, going into the kitchen.

Seeing this, Tong Hua switched the TV to the cartoon channel and let the kids watch it by themselves.

"Sit further away, don't sit too close to the TV."

"Terrible!" "Oh my!" "Fufu!"

The three Pokémon sat obediently on the sofa, watching a cartoon on TV, while Tong Hua followed Jessica into the kitchen.

"Hmm? What's wrong, little boy? Are you looking for something?"

Jessica, who was preparing ingredients, saw Tong Hua come in and asked.

"Sister Jie, why don't you let me do it?"

Tong Hua looked around the kitchen and was surprised to find that it had so many professional equipment.

This induction cooker, microwave, oven, faucet, and large refrigerator! It's so much better than his old earthen stove and the well that could barely be used to chill things—

"Oh? No way! There's no way we'd let our guests cook for themselves. I'll do it myself. Or do you not trust my cooking skills?"

"No way," Tong Hua quickly waved her hand. "To be honest, I'm actually a little itchy to practice. Anyway, I have a competition this afternoon, so I'll just consider it a chance to practice a bit more. Could you lend me the kitchen?"

Jessica glanced at Tong Hua's expression and noticed that he kept looking at various things in the kitchen. She immediately understood what was going on and then smiled slightly.

"Alright then, thank you for your help."

She wiped her hands and generously offered her seat, saying, "Take whatever ingredients you need; there should be plenty in the fridge."

Tong Hua opened the refrigerator and was amazed by the dazzling array of ingredients inside.

There are meat, eggs, milk, vegetables, and some packaged ready-to-eat products.

The refrigerator was almost completely crammed full, with various foods and ingredients haphazardly arranged.

This is only the upper part of the refrigerator compartment; Tong Hua didn't dare to look into the freezer below.

He started rummaging through the refrigerator above, using the [Recipe Guide] function to check the best dishes that could be made from each of these ingredients.

In the end, he actually found a pretty good dish.

【Mushroom Rice with Pan-Fried Salmon: Quality B, made with shiitake mushrooms and fish, requires the following ingredients for preparation.】

[Effect: Minor increase in Comprehension, permanently increases Intelligence, effective only once.]

[Review: A wise fish from Norse mythology; be careful not to get burned!]

This kind of once-in-a-lifetime, permanent enhancement effect is exactly what Tong Hua wants right now.

What's even more unexpected is that it boosted intelligence! Can this really be improved by eating? This is incredible!

Tong Hua excitedly took out the ingredients from the refrigerator and cooked the rice in the rice cooker. He had experience cooking rice before, and with the upgraded skills and various convenient modern tools, Tong Hua cooked the dish almost effortlessly according to the given recipe.

Meanwhile, Jessica and her three Pokémon in the living room also smelled the delicious aroma coming from the kitchen.

The four people who were lying down to watch couldn't help but sit up from the sofa and walk to the kitchen door.

"Dinner will be ready soon." Tong Hua opened the rice cooker and placed the pre-prepared salmon on it.

The heat from the rice melts the oil from the salmon, and the final step is complete!

Fresh mushroom rice served with pan-fried salmon, all done!