Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 104 Fish Food No. 1

Over the next few days, Dongdong Mouse and his friends gradually got used to life on the ranch.

Every morning, the big-toothed fox would diligently go to the lake to help Su Yu retrieve pearls. After several days of hard work, almost all the pearls that had accumulated in the lake had been retrieved.

Nowadays, the giant raccoon basically only needs to scoop out the pearls produced by the giant clams from the lake each day.

In addition to this job, the Bigtooth also took the initiative to clean up the debris such as branches floating in the lake and built a dam at the lake's outlet.

This behavior is simply the instinct of the giant raccoon. However, it's actually beneficial, as it helps the lake accumulate fresh water and expand its surface area.

The Pokédex even specifically emphasizes that Bidoof's behavior is beneficial to the environment, although Su Yu doesn't know why.

The Drummer and Patchlet would run to the edge of the breeding pond every morning to charge their energy storage devices.

This energy storage device looks like a giant refrigerator. It is said that the amount of electricity it can store, once fully charged, can power ten households for a month.

However, for Dongdong Mouse and Patchlitz, fully charging this refrigerator-like device seemed rather difficult. After several days of effort, Dongdong Mouse and his companions had only managed to replenish the device's current to 15%.

After all, they are relatively weak electric mouse Pokémon, and the amount of electricity they can generate each day is quite small.

However, this is more than enough. All this power supply needs to provide is a few oxygen generators and feeders.

As long as these machines function properly, the fish in the pond will have enough oxygen and food. Su Yu doesn't need to worry about any other unexpected situations; Squirtle will keep an eye on things for him.

As for the mantises and gophers, they seemed to have a more relaxed lifestyle. The gophers had nothing to do, while the mantises were busy because the crops in the field hadn't ripened yet.

Su Yu planned to call the Scyther over when the crops were nearly ripe. Its two scythe-like blades would surely be very useful for harvesting crops in the field.

It is under such circumstances that time flies by.

Everyone has their own things to do, and the ranch is operating steadily.

On this day, Su Yu was trying out a new fish food recipe. Over the past few days, he had tried it many times and had already found a number of recipes that worked very well. However, he had high standards, so he did not stop trying.

The formula we tried today seems to be even more effective than the previous ones, and has even been affirmed by the system.

The system provides the following evaluation:

"Fish Food No. 1: A high-quality fish food formula finally developed after numerous trials. After use, it can double the growth rate of aquatic creatures that consume this food, make their flesh more delicious, and greatly increase their maximum growth size."

"Review: This is a very high-quality fish food. Perhaps you could try feeding it to your Pokémon."

Okay, it's finally done!

Upon seeing the system's evaluation, Su Yu's expression shifted. He had worked so hard for so many days just to create a special fish food that would be recognized by the system.

However, the difficulty involved far exceeded Su Yu's imagination. Su Yu did not expect that, apart from cooking, making a feed that would be recognized by the system would be so difficult.

Fortunately, it finally worked this time. And the results were quite good.

In this way, all his efforts over the past few days have not been in vain.

As for the last note... Su Yu glanced at it, wondering if he had any Pokémon at home that were suitable for using this kind of fish food.

Squirtle is a turtle, it probably wouldn't like to eat this kind of fish food. But I think we still have a Magikarp that we caught while fishing and have been keeping as a pet?

Having just remembered the Magikarp, Su Yu took the small bag of freshly prepared fish food and went to the fish tank by the living room window to take a look.

It's been almost two months since Su Yu caught this fish. During this time, he's been letting Frost Fairy take care of it. As long as he remembers to feed it on time, this carp king won't starve.

Upon seeing Su Yu, the Magikarp was also bewildered, blowing bubbles as if it had not yet developed any intelligence.

Seeing this, Su Yu smiled and said:

"You didn't sneak away? Well, you're lucky; your opportunity has come your way."

Judging from its appearance, this Magikarp seems to be the rather dim-witted type. Furthermore, its potential doesn't seem very high; it doesn't look like it has much hope of evolving into Gyarados.

If it hadn't met Su Yu, this Magikarp might have lived an ordinary life in the lake.

But things were completely different when it came to Su Yu. Seeing that the Magikarp was bewildered and didn't respond, Su Yu simply didn't say anything more and just sprinkled some of the fish food he had just made into it.

As he sprinkled the powder, Su Yu said:

"Alright, here's the fish food for you. Hope you grow up quickly."

After feeding the Magikarp, Su Yu went to the food-making machine and made some more "Fish Food No. 1" to feed the fish in the pond.

Soon, the fish food was ready, but correspondingly, all the ingredients were used up.

"According to this recipe, I will need to order more ingredients so that I can make enough fish food."

Many of the ingredients for making fish food were ordered by Su Yu from other places. After all, the ranch can't have everything; it always needs to spend money to buy things.

After preparing the fish food, Su Yu summoned the tropical dragon and had it lead him to the lakeside to add the fish food to the feeder.

Just then, Big Toothbill retrieved a few pearls from the lake. On the shore, there were Drummer, Frostfair, and their companions who had come to watch the spectacle.

Seeing this, Su Yu went over to take a look. Coincidentally, Uncle Yang was also driving his one-horned rhinoceros past the edge of the pasture.

Seeing that Su Yu's ranch had so many more Pokémon, Uncle Yang asked curiously:

"Oh... it's Su Yu. You've caught another new Pokémon? How come you have so many Pokémon on your farm all of a sudden?"

Pachirisu, Dedon, and Bibarel—these were Pokémon that Uncle Yang hadn't seen when he first came. Naturally, Uncle Yang assumed that Su Yu had recently caught these Pokémon.

However, Su Yu denied this:

"No, no, these Pokémon are all wild Pokémon from the forest. I just happened to hire them to help me with some work."

...Huh, a servant?

Upon hearing this somewhat unfamiliar term, Uncle Yang was taken aback. Could it be that wild Pokémon could be hired to help with chores?

And judging from their appearance, these Pokémon seem to be having a lot of fun doing their work.

This surprised Uncle Yang greatly.

You're the one who really knows how to have fun; you always come up with something new and exciting.

However, after pondering for a while, Uncle Yang suddenly said:

"Then you'd better remember to explain it clearly to the forest rangers first, otherwise they might misunderstand."

What, a forest ranger?

I hired wild Pokémon to help me, what does that have to do with the forest rangers?

(End of this chapter)