Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 194 A Suicune in the North? The Forest Ranger of Tundra City

I learned some more basic knowledge about the mission from Yang Wen.

The so-called missions are usually requests for assistance from Officer Jenny in a certain area due to insufficient local defenses. These requests are posted in the family hall, and most missions involve helping the local area solve a certain problem.

"However, generally speaking, if the local area is really in need of assistance, it is usually the family that makes the assignment. So this mechanism is more for those trainee Officer Jenny, to make it easier for them to go to various places to broaden their horizons."

"At the same time, this can also increase the local defense capabilities to some extent, so it's a win-win situation."

Yang Wen explained.

Upon hearing this, Su Yu nodded, indicating that he understood. This is probably similar to summer internship assignments or similar programs offered by some schools, right?

Then, he looked at the Tropius and Arcanine behind him:

"Let's stay here a little longer until Arcanine has finished bathing in the sacred fire, and then we'll head back to the ranch."

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The next day, when Su Yu arrived at the Officer Jenny's family's mission hall, it was packed with people.

It seems there are quite a few new trainers in Officer Jenny's household. They all appear to be here on a mission, preparing to go out and broaden their horizons.

On the task notice board not far away, Su Yu also saw all sorts of tasks.

Some messages were sent by forest rangers, while others were sent by local Officer Jenny. In addition, there was a situation in a certain area where manpower was scarce due to the arrival of a new Mystic Realm, and trainers were needed to go there to maintain stability.

Su Yu even caught a glimpse of a blue photo among them. Upon seeing the photo, he paused, startled. Although the photo was very blurry, he could vaguely make out what Pokémon it was.

"This is...Suicune?!"

One of Ho-Oh's three guards, revered as the embodiment of the North Wind, the elegant and handsome legendary Pokémon that was once extremely popular—Suicune.

Of course, all of that is in the past. As the saying goes, the past is the past, and the present is the present. Nowadays, Suicune's image has plummeted ever since he was caught by a group of ordinary people with a net in the anime.

"But Suijun has arrived so early? How far behind can Raikou and Entei be?"

Su Yu glanced at the mission description. It seemed that Officer Jenny in some place had discovered a poaching gang tracking a Pokémon she had never seen before, and that's why she reported it to the mission system.

Currently, Officer Jenny is tracking the location of this poaching gang in an attempt to identify the suspects.

"Those poaching gangs, they wouldn't be carrying fishing nets, would they...?"

Su Yu thought to himself.

Just as Su Yu was about to accept the task, the task system notified him that he was temporarily unable to accept it because his contribution level within the system was insufficient.

"Do I need to accumulate 200 contribution points? That's not difficult."

Su Yu casually accepted the two missions closest to the location where Suicune was discovered. He calculated that once he completed these missions, he would reach his cumulative contribution points.

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Near the city of Sumitomo, Tundra City was discovered.

This city is named after the Pokémon "BearTundra" that was discovered here, and because of this, even though it's already April, the temperature here is still below minus ten degrees Celsius.

After getting off the plane with Arcanine, Su Yu didn't fly over on Tropical Dragon because the weather in the north was quite cold.

After all, just by looking at its name, you can tell that Tropius is not suited to living in the north, not to mention that it is four times weak to ice.

It's reasonable that Pokémon with "Dragon" in their name but not actually being dragons are 4x weak to Ice.

"Ouch...it's so cold!"

Having lived in the south since childhood, Su Yu felt a chill as soon as she stepped off the plane.

Seeing this, Arcanine also lay down and barked at Su Yu.

"Are you asking me to ride on top of it?"

"Awoo~!"

Upon hearing this, Arcanine nodded, and Su Yu then mounted it.

Feeling the broad back and warm body of the Growlithe, Su Yu felt much more comfortable now.

As I rode my Gyro Dog out of the airport, people around me cast envious glances my way.

"That's Arcanine, it looks so cool!"

"Yes, this must be one of Officer Jenny's young trainers traveling and gaining experience, right?"

After leaving the airport, the speed dog stopped and looked at Su Yu with questioning eyes, asking where he should go next.

"Let me see... Let's go to the hotel to drop off our luggage first, and then go to the store to buy some warm enough clothes."

When they left the ranch, they hadn't expected to end up in such a cold place. Therefore, Su Yu hadn't brought any warm clothes with him.

After buying a suitable outfit at the mall, Su Yu also bought some warm clothing for the tropical dragon, as well as some custard apples.

In this way, when the heating device is powered, the tropical dragon can also move freely out of its shell, which reduces some of the restrictions.

"Alright, let's see what our first task is."

Having solved the problem of keeping warm, Su Yu opened the mobile task system on his phone. The first task seemed to require him to go to the mountains behind Tundra City to help the forest rangers patrol there.

It wasn't too difficult; it did meet the level Yang Wen had previously described as "training newcomers."

"In that case, let's set off immediately..."

Su Yu had actually studied the Suicune quest in detail. It seemed that because the photo was too blurry, or there were no relevant records, or they didn't know what rare Pokémon it was, the League didn't really value Suicune that much.

Poaching gangs share the same attitude. They simply think that since they've never seen this Pokémon before, it might fetch a high price.

Furthermore, given Suicune's elusive nature, the League and poaching gangs probably won't be able to catch it anytime soon. However, anything can happen, so Su Yu decided to complete these tasks as quickly as possible to meet the requirements for accepting Suicune's mission.

After checking out of the hotel at the front desk, Su Yu rode his speedhound and braved the wind and snow to head up the mountain.

Today, Arcanine has mastered Extreme Speed, and its running speed is almost as fast as that of a Tropius in its normal flight. Legend has it that Arcanine can even run 10,000 kilometers in a single day and night.

"So, the average speed of the speed dog is as high as 416 kilometers per hour?"

This doesn't even include the obstacles encountered along the way. After all, when running on land, you'll always encounter various obstacles like mountains, rivers, and forests.

At this moment, the icy wind stung Su Yu's face. Seeing this, Su Yu lowered his head and leaned against the furry back of the Growlithe to avoid the cold wind.

"The evolved Arcanine is really reliable!"

Leaning against the warm back, Su Yu thought to himself.

Before long, Arcanine arrived at its destination. Su Yu immediately jumped to the ground, walked to a wooden house, and knocked on the door.

After waiting a while, an elderly forest ranger came to open the gate. Upon learning Su Yu's identity, the old ranger chuckled and said:

"Oh, so you're from the Officer Jenny family. Please come in, would you like a cup of hot tea?"

Upon hearing this, Su Yu looked to the side. There, there was a teapot. The black tea the forest ranger mentioned seemed to have been poured from it.

Waving his hand, Su Yu said:

"No, this time I'm here primarily for the mission. Please don't hesitate to ask if there's anything I can do for you."

The old forest ranger listened and nodded with a smile. He handed Su Yu a temporary forest ranger's certificate and said:

"The reason I invited you here is because a new secret realm has recently appeared in the Spine Mountains."

"That secret realm is home to many rare Pokémon, but the handover to the reserve is not yet possible, and I'm also worried that poaching gangs might take advantage of this opportunity to steal them. That's why I issued this mission."

"Your task is to guard this mountain forest, patrolling at least once every hour. For now, it's just the two of us here, so you guard the daytime, and I'll guard the nighttime."

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(End of this chapter)