Elf: I am really a civilian trainer

Mark thought of something and said, “By the way, Village Chief, I am currently using my free time to teach Green Caterpillar mathematics.

As you know, Butterfree has the skill of [telekinesis] in its bloodline genes, so I plan to use mathematics as a starting point to train the Caterpillar's brain power in advance, so that when the Caterpillar evolves into Butterfree in the future, the [telekinesis] it can master will be even stronger.

I just taught the caterpillar a while ago, and it has learned the counting skills within 100. However, it can count forwards, but it can't find the trick when counting backwards. Do you have any method?"

Facing Mark's words, Old Man Qian gradually widened his eyes and showed a surprised expression.

By teaching the Caterpillar mathematics, the Caterpillar's brain power can be improved. This way, when the Caterpillar evolves into Butterfree, the telekinesis it can control will be even more powerful.

This technique of training caterpillars was the first time he had heard of it, and it sounded very reliable.

If he had a green caterpillar, he would even like to try Mark's method.

At this moment, he sincerely felt that the old generation was being replaced by the new one, and he felt old.

Suddenly, Old Man Qian realized something and came to his senses.

Old Man Qian looked at the caterpillar writing and drawing on the ground with a puzzled look on his face and said, "You just said that your caterpillar has learned to count within 100. With the intelligence of a caterpillar, can it learn to count?"

Chapter 29: Ginger is still spicier when old

"hiss?"

The caterpillar put down the branch and looked at the old village chief with confusion.

Although it is a little stupid, it shouldn't be difficult for it to learn to count, right?

You have to know that the owner has been teaching it for almost a day, and it already had the concept of numbers before. Numbers often appear in human language, so over time it understood some of them.

The only problem is that it is now learning to count backwards, and it feels like its brain can't figure it out, so it can't get it right.

While the Caterpillar was still thinking, he saw the old village chief take out the Poké Ball.

Along with a red light, a sturdy fighting-type elf appeared, which was the old man Qian's super power.

Old Man Qian looked at Guai Li and said, "Check the number. It has to be more than twenty."

Guaili scratched his head and without giving it much thought, he followed his master's instructions and started counting.

Unlike the strong force and arm strength before evolution, the evolved strange force not only has a stronger body, but also has two more arms on the back.

This directly doubles the statistical range of the strange power.

I saw the strange creature fiddling with its twenty fingers, muttering to itself, and when it realized that the number was not enough, it quickly sat on the ground and started fiddling with its four toes.

Although Guili has five fingers on his hands, he only has two toes on his feet.

Just like that, as he counted to twenty-four, his strange power suddenly froze and he fell into a state of confusion similar to a brain crash.

Old Man Qian looked at the strange man sitting on the ground and bending his toes, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and then he turned his head to look at Mark's caterpillar.

This is a green caterpillar!

Even though he has great strength and a simple mind, he is not inferior to Caterpillar.

Old man Qian, who has been running the caterpillar breeding base in Qingxi Village for many years, has a deep understanding of the intelligence of caterpillars.

Saying that the Caterpillar's intelligence is equal to that of Magikarp is an insult to the Caterpillar, but even if the Caterpillar's intelligence is stronger than that of Magikarp, it is not much stronger and is far below the average IQ of elves.

Among all the elves, Guai Li's IQ is barely average.

Suddenly, Old Man Qian noticed something. He saw the pattern that the Caterpillar had written on the ground with a wooden stick not long ago.

Although they look crooked, these patterns are clearly digital symbols.

Not only learned to count, but also learned to write numbers?

Is this a green caterpillar?

Old Man Qian looked at the Caterpillar again and saw the Caterpillar approaching Guai Li and teaching him how to count very enthusiastically, without any pride or complacency on his face.

Old Man Qian took a breath of cold air unconsciously.

He did notice that Mark's caterpillar was smarter than ordinary caterpillars, but he never thought it would be this smart.

Considering the Caterpillar's excellent [impact] skills in the yard a few days ago, plus its larger and stronger body than an ordinary Caterpillar, and the fact that Mark took the Caterpillar to Qingxi Forest every day and trained hard like an ascetic.

The three elements of right time, right place and right people are all in place.

As long as it continues like this, this green caterpillar will definitely have a promising future.

Even if Mark fails to enter the Pokémon Academy in the future, when this Caterpillar evolves into Butterfree, Mark can easily join a Bug-type gym of a small town level, and then naturally become a formal trainer.

Although it is impossible to compare with Qian Erniu and Lin Tongxiaozi, Mark's life is already guaranteed.

Mark didn't notice that Old Man Qian was thinking in a complicated way. He just thought that something was wrong with his approach.

He walked up to Old Man Qian, who had been in a daze for a while, and asked doubtfully, "Village Chief, is there any problem if I let the caterpillar learn mathematics?"

Old man Qian came back to his senses and wanted to give him a good compliment, but after thinking it over he gave up.

At Mark's age, it is time to be cautious about arrogance and impatience. If he is praised too much, it will easily have the opposite effect.

He rubbed the stubble on his chin and said, "Problems... No, for now. You can continue with your method, but be careful about the intensity of the actual combat training. Don't let your caterpillar overdraw its body or suffer any permanent damage. As for how to teach the caterpillar to count backwards, you have seen my strange strength. In fact, this is also an area I am not very good at."

A few meters away, Guili, who was still counting on his fingers, heard something and looked at his master in a daze, and saw Old Man Qian raising the Poké Ball.

A red light flashed, and the strange power was absorbed into it.

The Caterpillar came over with a curious look on its face, staring intently at the Poké Ball containing supernatural power.

Old Man Qian raised his eyebrows slightly, thinking of something, and touched the Caterpillar's head and said, "Do you like Poké Balls very much?"

"Fizz!"

Old Man Qian smiled and said, "Since you like it so much, well, if you can learn to count backwards, I will help your master finance half of your Poké Ball. However, when I say count backwards, I don't mean just counting. You have to write it on the ground with a wooden stick like you did just now, and it can't be written crookedly."

"Fizz!"

The caterpillar excitedly jumped onto Old Man Qian's shoulder and rubbed his cheek.

Mark glared at the complacent Caterpillar and walked up to Old Man Qian. "Village Chief, you don't have to be like this. Regarding the Caterpillar's Poké Ball, I can do it myself..."

Before Mark finished speaking, he was interrupted by Old Man Qian waving his hand.

Old Man Qian had a stern face, and he used his hands to comfort the lost green caterpillar twice, saying: "Raising an elf is like raising a child. My words just now have already given it expectations. You directly dispel its expectations like this. Do you know how much negative impact it will have on it?

It's settled, as long as it can figure out how to count backwards and write with a stick, I'll pay for half of its Poké Ball.

Green Caterpillar, do you have confidence? "

"Hiss!!"

The caterpillar jumped down from Old Man Qian's shoulder, first made a determined gesture, then immediately picked up the small wooden stick, wrote and drew on the ground, and entered a state of hard study.

Old man Qian glanced at Mark, rubbed his chin stubble lightly, and showed a half-smile.

Although Mark's performance gave him the feeling that a new generation was replacing the old, Mark obviously still lacked a lot of experience in cultivating elves.

Old Man Qian said, "I'm not very good at teaching the caterpillar to count backwards, but you can learn this method of motivating the spirits. I can see that your caterpillar is very sensible, but you must also take advantage of the situation and use a different mindset to learn and exercise. The results are often very different."

Mark glanced at the green caterpillar writing and drawing on the ground, and then looked at the experience bar on the Spirit Master's panel that was constantly rising.

After Old Man Qian's encouragement, the rate at which the Caterpillar's experience bar increased by studying mathematics increased by at least 30%.

Mark nodded solemnly and said, "I understand. Thank you for your advice, but the Poké Ball is still..."

Mark's words were interrupted again by Old Man Qian waving his hand.

“Even if I’m helping you and Caterpillar, I’m the village chief of Qingxi Village. Shouldn’t I help young people with potential in the village?

In fact, if I wasn't afraid that you would become dependent on my funding, I could directly fund you with a Poké Ball once Caterpillar fulfilled the conditions.

Well, we have wasted quite a bit of time. I guess you and the Caterpillar haven’t eaten anything. Let’s just have a quick meal and then report to the village school.

By the way, speaking of eating, the more you eat, the better. Eighty percent... no, seventy percent full is enough..."

Chapter 30 Qingxi Village School (Seeking follow-up reading)

The teacher in Qingxi Village is named Sun Ting.

She looked to be in her early twenties, with the temperament of a rich girl, but not dainty. She looked pure and charming in a white dress, without any special decorations, which made her look rather plain.

However, no matter how simply she dresses, Teacher Sun Ting does not fit in with Qingxi Village.

According to Old Man Qian, Teacher Sun Ting graduated from the Rui'er Pokémon Academy in the capital of Shia Country and is a formal trainer with professional training.

Normally, a formal trainer like Sun Ting, even if he chooses to become a teacher, will at least work in a city like Sanshan Town.

According to some gossip that Old Man Qian got from somewhere, it seemed that Teacher Sun Ting took the initiative to choose to be transferred to the remote mountain village of Qingxi Village.

As for why Teacher Sun Ting came, Old Man Qian had no idea.

When Mark and Old Man Qian arrived at the school, Sun Ting was organizing lesson plans in the lounge next to the classroom.

It can be seen that this is a very serious and responsible teacher.

Sun Ting had heard from Old Man Qian about Mark's gain of wisdom in the aptitude test.

After asking Mark a few simple questions, she arranged a seat for him at the back of the classroom.

Qingxi Village is a small mountain village with more than 200 households, and the total number of students in the school is only over 30.

The school is responsible for teaching knowledge related to elves, while the most basic enlightenment education is provided elsewhere, either by parents in each household or by the village chief himself.

Due to the large age range of the students, more than thirty students were divided into three groups with three learning progress levels.

Every day, Teacher Sun teaches a lesson to each of the three students at different progress levels, while the rest of the students study on their own during the lesson.

Not long after Mark sat down in his seat, the children from the village began to arrive.

Several familiar-looking bug catchers were chatting about the bug catching tournament, saying that if they won a place in the competition, they would be able to get a Scyther Pokémon Egg, and also have the opportunity to join the Bug-type Gym in Maple Leaf City in Fallen Leaf Province and become the last disciple of the Bug-type master trainer Mackendi.

Similar to Mark’s experience before he crossed over, as the number of people increased, the entire class became chaotic.

A little fat boy named Li Lei started to tease his green caterpillar and asked it questions, acting very familiar.

It is worth mentioning that this little fat guy has the same elf egg backpack as him.

From the looks of it, old man Qian gave one of the remaining three cowardly spirit eggs to this little fat man.

As for the other two, one should have been given to the super-powered boy Lin Tong, and Mark did not find the other one in the classroom, so it should have been given to someone else.

The classroom became more and more chaotic until Sun Ting finished talking with Old Man Qian outside the classroom and entered the classroom.