I'm popularizing ecology in the Pokémon world.

After meeting, Chen Mu and Li Jia first found a beverage shop to sit down together.

During the meeting, Lijia explained to Chen Mu in detail the rules for the hunting season and the responsibilities he would have as a guide.

The hunting season lasts about twenty days, during which three types of tickets are sold.

One type is the most basic sightseeing ticket, where tourists form a group of twenty to thirty people, take a bus into the hunting area, and tour, sightsee, and camp along a fixed route.

Each tourist who purchases a sightseeing ticket will be given two hunting balls.

Even during the open hunting season, catching Pokémon in the hunting area is not entirely unrestricted—everyone can only use the officially issued hunting balls to catch Pokémon in the area, and is not allowed to use any other type of Poké Ball, otherwise it will still be considered poaching.

Since the tour route with the sightseeing ticket is fixed, the actual chances of tourists encountering rare Pokémon are not high.

Even so, a five- to seven-day sightseeing ticket still costs between 200,000 and 300,000.

This does not include all food and lodging for tourists in the starting town.

The next level up ticket is called a hunting ticket.

Tourists holding hunting tickets form small groups of three to five people, who are not only provided with guides, but also with professional trainers to provide guidance.

The routes are no longer fixed. Instead, an ecological map of the entire open area is distributed before entering the hunting area, allowing visitors to plan their own routes.

Purchasing a hunting ticket will get you two to three hunting balls, which cost between sixty and one million!

Finally, there's the highest-tier VIP ticket!

Even when traveling alone, you can still be accompanied by a guide and a professional trainer. You can specify the Pokémon you want before entering the hunting area.

Visitors can collect up to six Hunting Balls and be taken directly to the designated Pokémon's habitat by a professional trainer, who will provide guidance and assistance as much as possible while the Pokémon is being caught.

The price of VIP tickets varies depending on the type of Pokémon the visitor chooses, starting at one million and with no upper limit!

After listening to Lijia explain the ticket prices for the hunting season, Chen Mu immediately understood why the Alliance could do something as daring as spending millions to dig a tunnel through the deep mountains and forests.

The economic value of Pokémon in this world is truly astonishing! It opened his eyes to a whole new world!

According to Lijia, although the hunting seasons in spring and autumn each year only last for less than two months, the direct and indirect economic benefits they can generate are in the hundreds of billions!

Rika then added, "On the Indigo Plateau, the two most popular Pokémon that attract tourists every year are Eevee and Growlithe."

So, Mr. Chen, you can be even more proud. Your good deeds in the forest really did the League a huge favor.

Even without considering its significance for the restoration of the regional ecosystem, your actions have at least saved hundreds of millions of dollars in economic losses!

"Maybe the alliance will even award you a medal for outstanding contribution later this year."

Chen Mu was a little embarrassed by Li Jia's praise.

Upon hearing Eevee mentioned again, Chen Mu couldn't help but think of the cheerful little Eevee that had accompanied them throughout their journey in the forest.

Even though only a day had passed since they parted, Chen Mu already started to miss her.

That Eevee truly had the personality of an angel. Despite living in an environment it wasn't quite suited to, it was cheerful, lively, and full of energy every day.

Even though she herself was only one year old, she took the initiative to take care of her younger brothers and sisters the whole way.

Thanks to the temporary experience with the power of Viridian, Chen Mu was able to communicate with the Eevee pack throughout the journey. As a result, he could often "hear" the little Eevee recounting the adult Eevees' thoughts about their homeland at night, and then tell those scenes to the younger newborn babies in the pack, encouraging them to persevere and not give up.

It was thanks to the help of this little angel that Chen Mu and his group were able to successfully bring all the Eevee to the Indigo Plateau, with none of them falling behind and none of their families being left behind.

Furthermore, during their several-day journey, Eevee and Ralts developed a certain bond.

When the red Pikachu teaches skills, the two little guys often sit together to listen to the lesson, and then talk, study, and playfully practice together afterward.

I wonder how that little guy is doing now?

Hopefully, she and her parents—that Sylveon lady and the aloof Umbreon father—will receive proper treatment and care.

Thinking of this, Chen Mu finally couldn't help but ask, "By the way, Gym Leader Rika, may I ask about the Eevee pack that came back to the Indigo Plateau with us yesterday? Will they also be joining this year's hunting season?"

Lijia replied, "I guess not. Putting aside the fact that most of the Eevee newborns still need to undergo a period of treatment and observation, since the League plans to connect the Quartz Plateau Ecosystem with Viridian Forest, it naturally hopes that Eevee Moon and Eevee Leafeon can spread the habit of living in the south to more local Eevee through exchanges with their own kind."

So I guess the area they live in won't be open during the hunting season this year.

Upon hearing this, Chen Mu immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Noticing his unusual behavior, Rika smiled and said, "What's wrong? Did Teacher Chen form a bond with an Eevee during the past ten days in the forest? Should we hurry back and visit them? The hunting season doesn't start for another three days, so there's no rush. We have plenty of time."

"I... alright, then I'll go back and take a look. Thank you for your understanding, Director Rika."

"It's alright, Teacher Chen, our work here isn't in a rush."

Meanwhile, in a temporary shelter south of the Quartz Plateau, near the mountain boundary, staff are continuing to examine and treat the migrating Ibrahimovic animals.

But just then, a commotion suddenly broke out in the area.

A Pokémon doctor wearing a mask rushed over and asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"

A volunteer who was temporarily acting as a nurse hurriedly apologized, saying, "I'm so sorry! I must have handled it wrong and stressed out a little Eevee. She's very agitated now, and we can't control her at all."

An experienced doctor quickly suggested, "Little Eevee? Is she a juvenile? Where are her parents? It would be more effective to have her adult parents comfort her."

The volunteer was sweating profusely with anxiety, "It's precisely because her parents aren't home that it's causing this trouble."

Her mother is a Sylveon, and she has a serious old injury on her hind leg. After examining her yesterday, Nurse Joy determined that surgery was the only solution, and she has already been taken under anesthesia. Her father, Umbreon, was also just brought to stay with her.

"Neither parent is here." The doctor couldn't help but rub his forehead. "What are we going to do? When a young Pokémon is stressed in an unfamiliar environment, even professional breeders have a hard time calming it down. This is a real headache."

Misaka Joy was performing another surgery elsewhere at the time and had no healing power to help comfort her.

The young volunteers around him were so anxious they were almost in tears.

However, at that moment, a cry of alarm suddenly came from outside.

"Oh no! That stressed Eevee has run away! We're doomed, we're doomed! Huh? Huh? This... how could this be..."

The doctor rushed out and asked, "What happened?"

"It seems like everything is alright now."

"What?"

"Because that amazing Professor Chen has arrived."