Elf: Seriously? You only get a cheat code when you're about to die?

Chapter 11 Let's go, let's go to training.

"Gang~ Gang~~"

The little Snorlax nodded quickly, then obediently stood aside and quietly observed Anjaw washing dishes, scrubbing pots, and tidying the stove, looking very serious about learning.

Anjie glanced back at it and couldn't help but smile: It's so cute.

Angie quickly finished tidying up the kitchen, and around the same time, Tianxi finished tidying up the living room.

"Now you can tell me about the culinary training room!" Anjie said.

"Have you forgotten we have a third floor? The culinary training room is over there!" Tianxi explained. "Let's go take a look."

"The third floor?" If Tianxi hadn't said anything, Ange would have almost forgotten that his house had a third floor.

When Anjie first moved into the building, he wanted to tour the entire house inside and out. The first floor was a shop, and the second floor was where he and his Pokémon lived. When he tried to go up to the third floor, he was blocked by an invisible force.

At that time, Tianxi told him that he did not yet have permission to enter the third floor.

"So I have the permissions now?"

"Yes, yes, let's go take a look." Tianxi pulled Anjie's hand and headed up to the third floor.

Anjie quickly waved to Munchlax, "Mumplax, come on over! This will be your home from now on. Let's tour it together."

"Gang~ Gang~"

Upon hearing this, the little Snorlax happily followed behind Angel.

Just as Tianxi said, Anjie could easily climb to the third floor, which she couldn't reach before.

He saw many doors on the third floor, and randomly chose one to try to open, but after turning the lock for a long time, he still couldn't open it.

Seeing this, Tianxi explained, "You've only gained access to the culinary training room. You'll need to unlock the other doors step by step to gain access."

"All right."

Anjay had no choice but to let go of the doorknob and continue walking forward with Diancie, accompanied by Snorlax.

When she reached the end of the corridor, Tianxi stopped in front of a door with the words "Culinary Training Room" written on it.

"Is this the place?"

Tianxi nodded, gesturing for Ange to open the door.

Anjie stepped forward, grasped the doorknob, and turned it, successfully opening the door.

Upon entering the room, Anjie found it to be an empty, white space.

Tianxi followed closely behind, guiding Anjie according to the system's prompts: "Anjie, say 'Cooking training begins!'"

Although Anjie was puzzled, she did as instructed.

"Culinary training begins."

As Anjie finished speaking, the empty room underwent a dramatic transformation, instantly becoming a spacious kitchen filled with all sorts of cooking utensils; anything Anjie knew could be found there.

Directly in front of the kitchen is a platform-like area, and behind the platform is a large screen.

Diancie walked to the podium and introduced, "From now on, you and Munchlax can practice your cooking skills in this room. Time flows 10 times faster in this room than outside, and you can use ingredients without limit. However, the ingredients and the food you make are virtual, and you cannot take them out of the training room."

"Holy crap! That's amazing!" Anjie couldn't help but exclaim.

"I think it's amazing too!" Tianxi said. After all, she didn't know about these features much earlier than Ange.

The little Snorlax was already dazzled by the luxurious kitchen; it could hardly take it all in with its eyes. It had never seen such high-tech equipment before.

Then, Tianxi pointed to the large screen behind her and introduced, "You can choose the food you want to practice making here, and the training room will automatically prepare the ingredients for you."

However, Anjie, you've only unlocked steamed buns as a food item so far, so that's the only type available for practice in the training room.

Anjie looked at the big screen and saw that the list only included steamed buns. He couldn't help but complain, "When will I be able to unlock the next food item?!"

It's not that he can't make other foods, but since they're not unlocked by the system, he can't earn happiness points even if he makes them, which is really not worth it.

Tianxi comforted him, saying, "It'll be soon, it'll be soon, don't worry."

"Fine," Anjie resignedly replied.

"Do you want to use the training room now?" Tianxi asked.

Anjie shook her head. "Let's talk about it tonight. I made plans to plant vegetables with the Candle Spirits this afternoon."

"That's true, let's talk about it later." Tianxi nodded.

After touring the culinary training room for a while, Anja called Diancie and Snorlax to go outside.

At noon, after the family of four had lunch together, they went to the back of the small building, where Anjie planned to start a vegetable garden.

Even if the vegetables he grows aren't used in the store, he can still enjoy them occasionally, since he doesn't gain any happiness from them anyway.

Soon, the Candle Spirits arrived with their friends as promised to help. To Anjie's surprise, they also brought two helpers he had never seen before.

They are two ground squirrels.

"Mmm~ Mmm~"

Candlelight Spirit introduced the two ground squirrels to Anjie. It turned out they were friends of the snake bear. After learning that Anjie was going to cultivate the vegetable garden today, the snake bear specially asked its friends to help.

The soil turned over by Diglett becomes softer and more suitable for planting, and their droppings are more fertile than those of other Pokémon.

Anjie gratefully thanked the snake-striped bear, saying, "Snake-striped bear, thank you!"

"Chirp~ Chirp~"

The serpentine bear shyly covered its head with its two little paws.

"Now that everyone's here, let's get to work!" Anjie announced.

"Mmm~"

"Ya cha~"

"Kick~"

……

The Pokémon responded to him with great enthusiasm.

Then, just like when she planted flowers last time, Angel assigned tasks to the Pokémon.

However, this time you don't need to look for dead branches and compost to make fertilizer, because the fertilizer made from the last time you planted flowers is still in use.

Similarly, there's no need for everyone to look for stones anymore. This time, Anjie plans to use wooden sticks to build a fence around the vegetable garden. The vegetable garden is much larger than the flower bed, so using wooden sticks to build a fence is far more efficient than using stones.

After the tasks were assigned, Naughty Panda, Headband Rascal, Cheeky Cat, Little Lion, and Melt-Eater all ran off to find sticks, leaving only Angel, Diancie, Tree-Pillow Koala, Snorlax, Diglett, and Float Bubble behind.

"Tree pillow koala, please take care of me," Anjie said to the tree pillow koala, who was swaying back and forth while hugging the tree pillow.

Upon hearing this, the tree pillow koala rolled to the location designated by Anjie, picked up the tree pillow, used the mallet skill, and slammed it into the ground. Instantly, the ground cracked, the land rose, and a piece of land was reclaimed.

Next, it was the gophers' turn to appear. Two gophers burrowed into the soil that the tree-pillow bear had turned over, and they moved around in the soil. Before long, the large clumps of hard soil became soft.

This is much more efficient than Ange and Tianxi using hoes to chip away at the soil bit by bit.

"That's awesome!" Anjie gave the two groundhogs a thumbs up.

Hearing the praise, the two groundhogs burrowed even more diligently.

The serpent bear told them that if they did a good job, they would get something good to eat!

Angie called to Tianxi and the others, "Let's get to work too, instead of just standing around."

As he spoke, he, Diancie, and Snorlax went into the ground and cleared away the grass roots mixed in with the soil, then had Litwick bake the soil again.

As the sun was about to set, Anjie and his team finally finished cultivating the vegetable garden.

Looking at the square piece of land in front of him, Anjie felt a great sense of accomplishment.

Anjie divided the cultivated vegetable garden into five plots. The first plot was planted with scallions and garlic, the second with green peppers and chili peppers, the third with ginger and scallions, and the fourth with some common spices such as Sichuan peppercorns, cumin, bay leaves, and star anise. Only a little of each was planted, as spices are consumed relatively slowly, and planting these would be enough even if only for the store.

As for the fifth plot of land, Anjie planted some common vegetables, such as bok choy, water spinach, tomatoes, radishes, etc., just a little bit of each, which was just enough for his family to eat.

As for the vegetables used in the shop, we can grow new ones when needed in the future. After all, we don't know what dishes the system will unlock in the future. Anyway, the vegetables grow quickly, so we will definitely have enough time in time.

The Nibel Plateau has a unique climate, so crops can be harvested at any time.

After planting, Anjie surrounded the fence and said to the floating bubbles, "Floating Bubbles, could you please water them?"

"Pfft~~~"

The floating bubble nodded and flew over the vegetable garden. Soon, a light drizzle began to fall in the garden. Having learned from its experience of watering the flowers last time, it controlled the amount of rainfall very well this time.

After watering the Pokémon, Ange said to them, "Let's go back and take a bath, then we'll go eat!"

Upon hearing this, the Pokémon cheered.

After laying out the bathing supplies, Angel put Snorlax and Komamura into the water, lathered them with bath gel, and then said to the other Pokémon:

"You're all grown-up Pokémon now, shouldn't you learn to bathe yourselves?"

Upon hearing this, the skunk, foam squirrel, and umbrella electric lizard immediately jumped into another bathtub, imitating Anjie's actions, applying shower gel to themselves, and then rubbing their bodies.

Seeing this, Anjie reminded him, "Remember to ask your friends to help scrub the areas you can't reach by yourself, so you don't miss any spots."

Skunk Poo, Foam Chipmunk, and Umbrella Electric Lizard immediately understood and spontaneously mastered the skill of scrubbing each other's backs. Foam Chipmunk, who loves cleanliness, washed the most enthusiastically and did not forget to supervise its companions, not allowing them to miss a single spot.

With the three skunks taking the lead, the other Pokémon also helped each other take a bath.

Anjie specially prepared two extra bathtubs this time, so there's no need to worry about not having enough.

While everyone was taking a bath and playing in the water, the cheetah still didn't like taking baths. When its friends held it down and dragged it into the water, it let out a heart-wrenching "wailing".

The Candle Spirit, who doesn't need to bathe, and two gophers quietly watched everyone bathe and play. The afterglow of the setting sun shone on them, making them look even more gentle and harmonious, like a painting.

Candlelight Spirit felt that this kind of life was too wonderful, so wonderful that it was like a dream, a beautiful dream that seemed to be awakened at any moment.

It turned its head and looked at Ange, who was chatting and laughing with Munchlax.

Recently, everyone has become less afraid of Anjie and their relationship with him has become closer, including Anjie himself.

It is both captivated by this beauty and unconsciously afraid that at some point, this wonderful life will shatter as suddenly as that wonderful time in the past, wounding it deeply.

Litmus once had his favorite trainer, and they spent many wonderful times together.

However, one day, its trainer suddenly fainted. After an examination, it was told that it had unintentionally absorbed the trainer's life force, causing the trainer to become weaker and weaker until it eventually fell into a coma.

To revive its trainer, it must leave its trainer.

Ultimately, Lidgment was secretly given away by its trainer's mother, and after many twists and turns, it wandered to the Nibel Plateau.

It actually understood its trainer mother's actions. Even if the trainer mother hadn't sent it away, it would have quietly left on its own, but...

"Alright! We're all washed up. Let's go back for dinner. Our stomachs are growling."

At this moment, Ange's voice pulled Lidgment back to reality. It stepped into the house with Ange in the sunset, then had a delicious meal with everyone. Finally, it went home with its friends amidst the farewells of Ange, Diancie, and Snorlax.

After dinner, Anjay took Snorlax, Komaru, and Diancie to the cooking training room.

"Let's experience the features of this training room!"

After he finished speaking, he saw Tianxi stand on the podium, and a pointer appeared in his hand at some point.

Angie's heart skipped a beat. "Tianxi, what do you mean by this?"

Diancie flicked her coaching staff and said, "You guys are training me to supervise? What's the point?"

"You wouldn't physically punish students, would you?"

"How could that be?" Diancie smiled kindly. "I'm just a supervisor."

"Okay... alright."

Thinking of Tianxi's cold and ruthless attitude when he was training his cooking skills, his heart trembled involuntarily.

On the big screen, Tianxi selected the special training program for Anjie and the others. Immediately, the ingredients needed to make steamed buns appeared on the kitchen stove: flour, yeast, water...

"Practice begins, little Snorlax, you follow Angel and learn from him." Diancie transformed into a devilish instructor, cracking the podium with her pointer.

The little Snorlax nodded obediently. At this moment, it was wearing the same chef's uniform as Anjay, with a white apron and a tall hat, and it really looked like a chef's apprentice.

It's a bit short, so it stands on a stool to reach the stove and cutting board.

After the training began, Munchlax followed Angel's lead step by step, learning with a serious and focused expression.

*Snap!* The pointer slammed hard onto the podium.

"Snorlax, you added too much water!" Diancie's stern voice suddenly rang out.

Anjie's heart skipped a beat. He looked at Diancie, then at Munchlax. Thank goodness, it wasn't about me.

No, that's not right. I'm the head of the family. What do I have to be afraid of? With that thought, Anjie straightened her back again.

*Snap!* The sound of the pointer striking the podium rang out again.

"There's still too much water!"

With the system's enhancement, Diancie's eyes were practically superhuman, allowing no room for error, and Snorlax frantically tried to correct them.

slap~

"You kneaded the dough too hard, be gentler."

slap~

"I told you to be gentle, don't you know what 'gentle' means?"

slap~

"I told you to be gentle, not to not use any force. Didn't you eat enough for dinner? Who ate those huge bowls of steamed buns?"

In the training room, Diancie was always sharp-tongued, and the little Snorlax was so scolded that it shrank back and didn't dare to utter a word.

"Dianci, how about we take it slow..." Ange tried to plead for Munchlax from the side, but silently shut her mouth after being glared at by Diancie. The words that were about to come out were, "Mumplax, no pain, no gain. So that you can have a good life in the future, you have to work hard now! I'm firmly on your side."

After eating Ange's chicken soup, the little Snorlax's face stopped looking so bitter, and it worked even harder.

Only the tree-pillow koala was relaxed, swaying back and forth on the podium while hugging a tree pillow, it was hard to tell if it was really sleeping.

(End of this chapter)