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

Chapter 116 A Gift from the Gods: Ingredient Collection

Soon the Pokémon had eaten and drunk their fill.

The special Pokémon asked, "What brings you to this forest?"

"Crunch~ Crunch~" We're here to find ingredients.

The obedient little charcoal servant explained the reason to it.

"I see." The Pokémon nodded knowingly. "In that case, as payment for eating your food, I'll take you somewhere."

As it spoke, it chose a direction and leaped towards it.

Upon seeing this, the two Charcoal Spawn quickly packed up their things, then climbed onto the back of the Fragrant Pig and chased after the Pokémon.

"Yao~ Yao~"

Circle Bear wanted to follow, but suddenly a mist spread through the forest, and in the blink of an eye, Charcoal and the others disappeared. Circle Bear was so angry that he stomped his feet on the spot.

Tanjiro and the others ran and ran behind that Pokémon. After running for an unknown amount of time, a cave tunnel appeared in front of them.

"Come on."

The Pokémon turned around and glanced at Tanjiro and the others, then stopped and waited for them for a while.

As they continued walking through the tunnel, a light soon appeared in Tan Shi's sight. When they got closer, they realized that the light was another exit of the tunnel.

As they exited, a valley appeared before Tan Xiaoshi and his companions. The valley was filled with vast fields of bean pods, all of which were ripe. Some of the pods had even burst open due to over-ripening, and the beans inside had fallen to the ground and rotted in the soil.

The Pokémon said to the two Samurai and the two Politoed, "This is a special kind of bean called Rolling Bean. It has been growing here for a long time. You are free to pick it."

"Clatter~" Is there an owner here?

"Good boy Charcoal Servant asked."

Upon hearing this, a hint of tenderness flashed in the Pokémon's eyes as it looked at the well-behaved Samurai. It replied kindly, "Don't worry, this place is well-hidden. No Pokémon had discovered it before. I found it by accident."

"Clatter~"

"Cough cough~"

Upon hearing this, the two Charcoal Puppies and the two Fragrant Pigs breathed a sigh of relief and cheered excitedly before rushing into the valley to pick bean pods.

Because the weather was quite dry and the pods were too ripe, they were not easy to pick. They would burst open if touched even slightly, so the four Pokémon looked distressed after picking for a while.

Then the Pokémon said in a gentle voice, "Let me help you."

As it spoke, purple light emanated from its eyes, and in an instant, all the beans were controlled by a mysterious force, floating into the air and drifting towards its direction, so that they didn't even need to be shelled.

"Come here," the Pokémon called to Tanjiro and Scented Pig.

The four Pokémon quickly ran to its side.

"Open your backpacks," it said.

"Clatter~ Clatter~"

The obedient little charcoal servant stepped forward, took off his backpack, and opened it.

Under the Pokémon's control, the beans transformed into a torrent, pouring into the backpack.

The backpack was quickly filled, and there were still nearly half of the beans left to pack. The four Pokémon scratched their heads in frustration.

What should we do?

Then the Pokémon said with a smile, "I'll put the beans in the tunnel ahead. You can come back for them next time."

"Clatter~ Clatter~"

"Cough cough~ cough cough~"

The four Pokémon jumped and danced excitedly, and thanked the Pokémon.

After picking the beans, Tanjiro, Samurai, and the other three, along with the Pokémon, exited the tunnel.

"Let's part ways here," the Pokémon said. "I hope I'll have the chance to eat food made with Diglett next time."

"Clatter~ Clatter~"

"Cough cough~ cough cough~"

The four Pokémon extended an invitation to it once again.

"Okay, I'll definitely go if I have the chance."

After saying that, the Pokémon leaped away and disappeared in front of Tanjiro and the other three.

"Cheers~" Goodbye!

"Cough cough~" Goodbye!

The four Pokémon shouted.

After a long while, the obedient Charcoal Servant, seeing that it was getting late, turned its gaze away from the distance and said to its three companions:

"Clatter~ Clatter~" Let's go home.

"Clatter~"

"Cough cough~"

"Cough cough~"

The crybaby Tanjiro and the two fragrant pigs nodded in agreement.

So the two Charcoal Little Samurai rode the two Fragrant Pigs and headed home in the sunset.

However, as they walked, they suddenly realized that they seemed to be lost.

The four Pokémon stood bewildered in the forest, unsure which way to go, as the forest was far too vast.

"Clatter~ Clatter~"

The crybaby Tan Xiaoshi was scared, and with a smirk, he thought he was about to drop a little pearl.

"Phew~"

Suddenly, at that moment, a dark shadow flashed past their heads.

"Chaka~ Chaka~" It's a Komaru!

After holding back his tears, the crybaby Tanji shouted loudly.

"Clatter~ Clatter~" The tree-pillow koala must be heading home too, let's follow it!

"Good boy Charcoal Servant said cleverly."

"Cough cough~"

"Cough cough~"

The two fragrant pigs' eyes lit up.

Although the tree-pillow koala was just caught in a flash by being held by something and has now disappeared, the two fragrant dolphins have their proud noses!

Sure enough, after sniffing the air intensely, the two fragrant dolphins easily found the scent left by the tree-pillow koala. They ran wildly along the scent and soon reached the edge of the forest, where they could see the lush grasslands of the Nibel Plateau in the distance.

By the time they got home, it was already getting dark, and the other Pokémon were already having dinner.

From afar, the obedient little Charcoal Servant, with his exceptional eyesight, saw Anjie standing on the wall, anxiously looking around. Upon seeing them, Anjie's face lit up with a look of joy and relief.

He jumped down from the wall, strode over to the four Pokémon, and said with a worried expression, "Why are you so late today? I was so worried about you."

Although the words were slightly reproachful, somehow, the four Pokémon felt a warmth in their hearts, as if something had filled them up.

"Come on, let's go home and eat. Are you hungry?"

Anjie lifted the two Charcoal Little Servant from the backs of the two Fragrant Pigs.

"Clatter~ Clatter~"

"Cough cough~ cough cough~"

The four Pokémon described their day's experiences to Ange as they walked.

"Really? You even invited Sprout Deer to your house for dinner? Of course, no problem. I'd be thrilled if Four Seasons Deer knew."

Based on the vague descriptions given by the four Pokémon, Angeli mistook the mysterious Pokémon they encountered for a budding deer.

The four Pokémon had never seen Sprout Deer before, and they felt that Shiki Deer did look somewhat like that Pokémon, so when Angel said it was Sprout Deer, they also believed it to be Sprout Deer.

And so, the misunderstanding arose.

After dinner, the four exhausted Pokémon yawned and went back to the staff dormitory to sleep, leaving the backpack containing the Beans with Ange.

Anjie hadn't expected them to bring back anything extraordinary, but when he opened the package and saw it filled to the brim with beans, he was stunned.

"Is this a rolling bean?"

He grabbed a handful of beans and examined them in his palm. He saw that each green bean was plump and glossy, a rare sight indeed.

And the rolled beans are one of the key ingredients needed for the fermented bean paste recipe rewarded by the system.

Doubanjiang (fermented broad bean paste) is made with a special recipe. Ordinary beans cannot be used as raw materials to make it; it must be made with special rolled beans.

However, there are no wild-grown wild beans for sale in the market. It is said that wild-grown wild beans are only found in the wild and are extremely rare. If you hear that wild-grown wild beans are for sale in the market, the probability of them being fake is as high as 99.9%.

He was previously worried about where to find rolling beans to make fermented soybean paste, but he didn't expect to find them so easily!

With so many soybeans, he could make a lot of fermented soybean paste.

Anjie had considered growing Rolling Beans herself, but just like the Waterside Herbs, the system store didn't sell Rolling Bean seeds, only a Rolling Bean planting guide.

After buying and examining it, he discovered that the reason why Rolling Bean cannot be artificially cultivated is because it requires Pokémon to cultivate it in a grassy area.

Pokémon that can learn Grassy Terrain are very rare, so using them to grow beans is a bit unrealistic.

Now that he had the seeds for the rolling beans, Anjie had the idea of ​​planting them, but the grassy field was indeed a headache.

He remembered that the goat mount could learn to graze on grassy areas, so he'd ask around tomorrow to see if any of them knew how.

With so many mountain goats to ride on the plateau, surely not one of them can ride one?

Speaking of using rolled soybeans to make special recipes for fermented soybean paste, Anjie thought of another high-end recipe: qingtuan (green rice dumplings).

The raw material for making qingtuan is a kind of grass called Biluqingcao, but he searched through all the information and still couldn't find out what kind of grass Biluqingcao is.

It's really frustrating.

Just then, Diancie walked over.

"Anjie, we have a mission. Do you want to take it?"

Anjie answered without hesitation, "Answer it!"

"Okay!"

As Tianxi finished speaking, Anjie received a system notification. He opened the taskbar and saw that several new tasks had appeared.

【Ingredient Collection Task 1】Collect Rolling Bean Seeds - Completed, reward to be claimed.

【Ingredient Collection Task 2】 Tame a female three-necked bee - To be completed.

【Ingredient Collection Task 3】Collect Want Want Valley Seeds - To be completed.

【Ingredient Collection Task 4】Collect glutinous mushroom spores - To be completed.

【Ingredient Collection Task 5】Collect a certain amount of Jianjian Ore - To be completed.

【Food Cultivation Task 1】Planting Rolling Beans and Getting Them to Survive - To be completed.

【Ingredient Cultivation Task 2】Cultivate three female honeybees into queen bees – To be completed.

【Food Cultivation Task 3】Plant Want Want Valley and it survives - To be completed.

【Food Cultivation Task 4】Planting glutinous mushrooms and ensuring their survival - To be completed.

Anjie was dumbfounded by this series of tasks. So many at once?

This is clearly a series of missions.

Moreover, both Want Want Valley and Sticky Mushroom, like Rolling Beans, are not ordinary ingredients and are not sold in the market. The only normal way to obtain them is by collecting them from the wild.

Everyone knows that anything that can only grow in the wild can not be produced in large quantities. Whether it's Rolling Beans, Wangwang Valley, or Glutinous Mushrooms, they can only be collected by adventurers in the wild. But encountering them is all a matter of luck. Therefore, even if adventurers collect them, they will only sell them secretly through their own channels or use them themselves. They would never sell them on the market.

So Anjie was in a real bind. Where was he supposed to find the seeds of Wangwang Valley and the spores of glutinous mushrooms?

There are also three bees.

The Tribeca Pokémon is very special. Most members of its colony are male, and usually only the queen is female. In other words, female Tribeca are extremely rare.

Where can he look?

This system is really something, suddenly it's making things difficult for people.

And that Jianjian Mine, damn it, it's also one of the food collection tasks!

While most Rock-type Pokémon do indeed eat minerals...

Fortunately, the system didn't throw out a cultivation task that required him to cultivate solid ore.

There's no time limit for system tasks, so take your time, no rush.

Besides the Rolling Bean, Anjie also found the Miracle Seed and the Sun Stone that Tan Xiaoshi and Piaoxiangtun had found in the forest in his backpack.

Miracle Seeds can be held by Pokémon.

The Sun Stone can evolve Gloom into Bellossom, but its employees only include Oddish and not Gloom yet.

However, you can let the Electrifying Lizard use it first, and the Sun Stone can evolve it into the Electric Lizard.

I'll go back and talk to the electric lizard about it! With that thought, Anjie put both items away.

When the time came, he took his apprentices to the training room for special training in cooking skills and aura manipulation, while Metagross went to the staff dormitory alone.

The classroom where it previously taught breeding courses to Crocodile and Curly-Eye has now gathered quite a few Pokémon, including Crocodile, Acornra, Diglett, two Farfetch'd, two Charcoal, and Psychic Rumblebee.

Upon seeing Metagross enter, the Pokémon simultaneously stood up and greeted it, "Hello, teacher!"

They learned this from TV; they haven't wasted their time watching TV.

Metagross gestured for everyone to sit down, and then began to teach them based on his prepared lessons.

After Ange and the others finished their training, Metagross's class also ended, and the Pokémon went back to sleep.

Anjie claimed the reward for [Ingredient Collection Task 1] before going to sleep. Unexpectedly, the reward for the task was also valid after she got the seeds.

Congratulations, Master, on completing the [Ingredient Collection Task 1] - collecting Rolling Bean Seeds. Reward: Individual Values ​​+2.

Without much thought, Anjie directly added the attack power to Munchlax. Munchlax's current stats are as follows.

Snorlax (Evolution Stone)

[Attribute] General

【Characteristics】Thick fat

[Gender] Male

[Level] 44

【Skills】 Impact, Lick, Round, Recycle, Craving, Bite, Charge, Swallow, Mount Tai Press, Throw, Instant Amnesia, Slam, Act Cute, Seed Bomb, Break Tiles, Double Payback, Freeze Fist, Lightning Fist, Flame Fist.

Individual Value

Blood volume: 31

Attack: 29

Physical defense: 20

Special Attack: 31

Special Defense: 10

Speed: 31

As for the rewards for the three daily tasks, they are quite ordinary, so I won't go into detail.

The next morning, when Anjay took Snorlax, Lizard, and Bulbasaur out for training, she saw Crocodile and Agarthaurus training in pairs.

Wooden stakes were erected on the grass, and a Pokémon was taking turns leaping rapidly on one stake, training its speed and balance.

Who else could it be but the Super Elegant Ostrich?

After watching silently for a while, Anjai continued running with the little Snorlax and the others.

Next, Anjay went to work at the Snorlax House, and the two Charcoal Squires rode the two Scented Pigs out again to bring back the remaining Rolling Beans.

When Anjay returned from Snorlax's house at noon, he wanted to go into the kitchen to help with the cooking, but he was pushed out by his three apprentices, Snorlax, Lizard and Gastly, who were in charge of lunch today.

Alright, it's time for my father to enjoy his newfound ease.

With nothing else to do, Anjie went to find a goat to ride.

The mountain goats were leisurely grazing with their calves. With the fruit trees planted and no work to do, they were naturally very relaxed.

When they saw Anjie coming, they happily surrounded her.

Anjie touched each of them one by one, then asked, "Does any of you know how to play on the grass?"

The goats looked at each other, then shook their heads.

"You don't know any of these?" Anjie looked disappointed.

The goat and its lambs shook their heads again.

Anjie: "That's such a pity."

"Meow~ Meow~"

At that moment, a little lamb on a mount bleated twice.

"Do you know who can?" Anjie asked in surprise.

"Baa~ Baa~" The little sheep mount nodded.

"Good boy, come and tell me quickly," Anjie urged.

"Meow~ Meow~"

The little lamb bleated twice more. Anjie slapped his forehead after hearing it. Oh right, how could he have forgotten about the Orinoo! One of the two Orinoos seems to know how to graze on the grassy field!

So much time had passed that he had completely forgotten about it if his little sheep mount hadn't reminded him.

The little lamb on his steed told Angie that besides Orionu, Flower Leafy could also do it.

Anjie hadn't really paid attention to Huayedi, mainly because he usually didn't use his Eye of Observation to look around randomly when he had nothing to do, since he didn't need everyone to fight.

He wanted to see the stats for the Tree Pillow Koala and Metagross, but unfortunately, he couldn't.

Just as Anjie was about to say goodbye to his goat and lamb mount, he suddenly remembered something and asked them:

"If Orinho and Florito are willing to teach you, would you like to learn how to play on the grassy field?"

That's a great skill!

The riding goats and their offspring looked at each other, and finally the leader of the riding goats stepped forward and nodded to Anjai, indicating that they were willing to learn.

Since they're just killing time anyway, and Anjie wants them to learn, let them learn; it'll be a good way to pass the time.

Seeing this, Anjie squinted her eyes in delight.

"They're all good kids. I'll go and discuss it with Orinyu and Flower Leafy right away."

Anja then found Orion and Flower Leafy, and through the Eye of Observation, he found that one of Orion and Flower Leafy was indeed in the Grassy Field.

Anjie told them about his idea of ​​using the grassy field to cultivate rolling beans, and also discussed with them his plan to have them teach the riding goats and riding lambs the grassy field.

The two Pokémon readily agreed.

(End of this chapter)