I run an orphanage in the Pokémon world.

Teng Shu's lips twitched. The fact that such a prompt had popped up showed just how unique the situation was. Locke also walked over curiously, and when he saw the strong radiation, he gasped and took a few steps back.

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Teng Shu waved his hand. He was completely unaffected, and the effects wouldn't remain on him. Teng Shu was well aware of this.

Locke breathed a slight sigh of relief upon hearing this. It was good that everything was alright. But what was going on with this six-tailed creature? Why was it a different color on each side? That was too strange.

Tengshu also rested his chin on his hand, looking at the Vulpix in front of him. This Pokémon was truly unique.

“This Vulpix… seems to have been used for experiments.” Locke offered his opinion. Tengshu paused for a moment, then nodded. Locke’s words made sense. This Vulpix did indeed look like the kind of Pokémon that had been used as an experimental subject. After all, such Pokémon were usually like that, and it had also been exposed to strong radiation, making it even more wary of humans.

Chapter 627: Rogue

Are there natural sources of radiation in the Pokémon world? Of course there are. After all, the Pokémon world is so big that there may be some strange sources of radiation. There are quite a few of these sources, so wild Pokémon can be affected by radiation. However, the situation in question is an exception.

Most Pokémon have their own common sense. If they feel uncomfortable, they will run away or leave instead of waiting to die. Therefore, the Pokémon here are usually not affected by radiation for too long.

Thinking about this, Tengshu can now be certain that the Vulpix in front of him is most likely an affected Pokémon, and most likely affected by human technology. Tengshu feels somewhat helpless about this, but the good news is that his system has been upgraded, otherwise Tengshu might not have been able to find the Vulpix. And if the Vulpix's situation is not addressed, it will be very dangerous.

"But such strong radiation needs to be reported, right?" Locke stroked his chin. If it weren't for the fact that the six-tailed fox was already inside, Locke himself would have had the urge to leave and go far away. After all, strong radiation is not a good thing for most people.

"The Officers should be here soon." Teng Shu glanced at his phone; it showed a reply from Officer Glow with an exclamation mark. Just after Teng Shu finished speaking, the door opened.

Officer Jenny rushed in, and when she saw the vine, she showed a complicated expression. Then a group of Officer Jenny came up and began radiation detection.

This process took a full half hour before the test could be considered barely completed.

"It's a radioactive material, usually used only in experiments, and it's quite expensive; ordinary people can't buy it." Jun Sha Guang received a test result, and her expression wasn't very good as she looked at the document in her hand. Teng Shu, upon hearing this, revealed an expression of "I knew it."

Teng Shu knew very well that in this world, only professionals could usually do something like Vulpix causing genetic problems in Pokémon. And judging from the current situation, this was probably being done in a laboratory. It was just unknown how Vulpix came to be. Generally speaking, such Pokémon would be disposed of by the people in the laboratory.

After all, once Pokémon go outside, it's easy for them to be noticed, which would be troublesome if Officer Jenny noticed. Thinking about this, Teng Shu felt that this incident was probably related to those illegal research projects.

The Pokémon League prohibits inhumane and illegal research, such as exploring the spirit world, as well as other research that is explicitly forbidden. However, some people want to use this research to achieve their own nefarious secrets, so over time, such illegal research has emerged. These people usually cleverly disguise themselves and then carry out some extremely cruel research.

The League once handled a major case where researchers were studying how to force Pokémon of other types to possess the Ghost type, in an attempt to develop Ghost Pokémon.

However, these ghost Pokémon do not refer to Pokémon like Gastly, but rather to those "ghost" Pokémon that retain their original Pokémon appearance. After this was discovered, the League initially estimated that as many as tens of thousands of Pokémon had died as a result of the experiments, which was horrifying. As a result, the League cracked down on these illegal researches even more strictly, which even affected some legitimate research institutions.

After all, being constantly contacted by the monitoring departments of these alliances is indeed quite troublesome.

"So, this matter is most likely...?" Teng Shu looked at Officer Jenny, who nodded. This matter is most likely the story: the Six-Tails was taken to do experiments, and then somehow escaped and was eventually found by Teng Shu.

"But are you alright? The radiation source on the Six-Tails is very strong. You were holding it, and a lot of your DNA was broken." Officer Jenny looked at Teng Shu with some concern. Teng Shu waved his hand indifferently. He really didn't care much about this issue, since there was nothing to talk about.

Moreover, he himself was unaffected; otherwise, Teng Shu wouldn't have dared to do that. A strong source of radiation—that's no joke. That's why people often advise others not to pick up random things on the street. Although the probability is very low, sometimes you might indeed pick up some random stuff. Teng Shu had seen news reports before about people finding radioactive materials and getting scammed badly.

Therefore, it's best not to pick up things randomly from the roadside.

Although Teng Shu knew his situation, he couldn't explain it to Officer Jenny, so he just said he was fine. Officer Jenny, however, was a little suspicious and called Officer Jenny over to check on Teng Shu. Once she confirmed that he was alright, she breathed a sigh of relief and then went to the place where Teng Shu had found the Six-Tails to conduct a further investigation. They wanted to check on the Six-Tails' condition and whether there were any radioactive remnants there.

As for that unlucky fellow who blocked Tengshu's way, Tengshu naturally told everyone about it, and Officer Jenny went to deal with him.

For a moment, Teng Shu felt much more relaxed. He yawned and decided to go back and wash his car. There was some residual radiation on his car, so it needed to be cleaned. The cleaning method was simple, since a small amount of residual radiation was not a big problem.

Just as Tengshu was about to clean up, he heard the cawing of a dark crow. Tengshu looked up and saw the dark crow circling in the air, cawing incessantly. Tengshu frowned slightly upon seeing this and then went to the door. The dark crow meant that someone had come.

"I remember no one wanted to adopt today. Didn't Xiao Mu already adopt the Qixi Bluebird?" Teng Shu was a little curious about this, but he still rushed to the front door. As soon as he opened the door, he saw a man and a woman who looked somewhat mature and about the same age as him. Their eyes darted around after Teng Shu opened the door, looking around with an expression that made people inexplicably uncomfortable.

"Who are you?" Teng Shu frowned as he looked at the two people in front of him. He had never seen these two guys before and had no impression of them at all, so he was a little confused about what they were doing here. But judging from their clothes, they didn't seem to be salesmen. After all, salesmen in the Pokémon world usually wear slippers.

"Hello, Xingzhen is my uncle, and I am his nephew. My uncle died here, and you're not going to do anything?!" The man said as soon as he opened his mouth, and Tengshu paused for a moment upon hearing this.

Grandpa Xingzhen...has a nephew?

Teng Shu was genuinely unaware of this. After all, he wasn't particularly interested in such trivial matters. In his view, these things weren't that important. Moreover, Grandpa Xingzhen had complained to him that after his family's fortunes declined, none of his so-called relatives ever came to visit him again. Therefore, the old man had a lot of complaints about these relatives.

So when the old man died, Teng Shu didn't let anyone come over, just wanting to give the old man some peace and quiet. But he never expected that a nephew would come knocking on his door.

Moreover, the woman immediately demanded compensation. Teng Shu was all too familiar with this kind of person. He only just noticed that the woman next to him was holding a portrait of Grandpa Yukima, and she also had some items unique to the Pokémon world used to commemorate the dead.

"The old man has been buried. Is there anything else?" Teng Shu squinted at the people in front of him, then silently sent a message to Officer Jenny. It was best to let Officer Jenny handle such a mess, which would avoid some trouble later.

"Work injury! My uncle is dead! You have to pay compensation!" The woman's shrill voice hurt Teng Shu's ears. Teng Shu almost laughed in anger when he heard this. These guys really dared to say such things.

Teng Shu was genuinely amused and exasperated. He never imagined he would encounter such a ridiculous situation. After all, for Teng Shu, such a dramatic event was beyond words. He had previously thought that such absurd things could only happen in novels and TV dramas, but when he experienced it firsthand, he realized that novels and TV dramas were far too conservative.

"Nonsense." Teng Shu closed the door, but the two men insisted on blocking it, shouting that Teng Shu should pay compensation. They said things like, "It's only right that someone dies and you have to pay compensation," with such conviction. Teng Shu smiled slightly when he heard this, and then casually shut these idiots out of the door, leaving Officer Jenny and the others to deal with them.

Soon after, Officer Jenny arrived.

"Your demands are utter nonsense. Although Mr. Xingzhen did sign a contract, it was a welfare and benefits contract with the alliance. Moreover, Mr. Tengshu took care of Mr. Xingzhen for a long time and even took him to see a doctor, fulfilling his duty as a boss. If it goes to court, it's your problem." Officer Jenny said with a dark face, but these two guys were obviously old hands and didn't care about Officer Jenny's threats at all.

"If someone dies, you have to pay compensation! Such a big welfare home! If he doesn't pay hundreds of thousands, what's the point of running a welfare home!" the man shouted, while the woman fell to the ground and threw a tantrum, constantly yelling that Teng Shu had killed her uncle and that Jun Sha was even planning to help this heartless boss, Teng Shu.

Teng Shu frowned slightly upon hearing this. He turned his head and looked around, and saw a person holding a mobile phone, filming the scene.

"What are you filming?" Teng Shu walked over quickly, and the other person looked at Teng Shu with a grin.

"Can't we even take pictures?" the other person said with a smile. Teng Shu laughed when he heard this. He was wondering why someone had come knocking on the door so soon after the old man had only been gone for a short time. It turned out that he had been targeted.

These days, even in the world of Pokémon, medical disputes still exist, and there are quite a few of them. After all, it's become an industry chain. In my previous life, the government cracked down on it, otherwise it would have been even more rampant. Teng Shu could only sigh that the world is going to the dogs and people's hearts are no longer what they used to be.

In the world of Pokémon, this industry was just emerging, so naturally some people took notice. The inhabitants of the Pokémon world at this time were kind and friendly, but also easily manipulated and influenced, and used as pawns.

People in the Pokémon world naturally sympathize with what they perceive as the vulnerable, so once a conflict arises, it sparks heated discussions and online bullying. Therefore, the Pokémon League is working urgently to address these issues.

However, it takes time for a regulation to be implemented, so these are currently in a trial phase.

“Take a picture. I have surveillance cameras here too. If you take things out of context, then don’t blame me.” Teng Shu smiled, then suddenly moved his hand with incredible speed, faster than an ordinary person could react. By the time the guy realized what was happening, Teng Shu had already given him a half-smile before leaving.

The other person knelt on the ground, curled up, and convulsing.

"What's wrong with this man?" Officer Jenny was busy dealing with the shameless couple when she noticed this place and asked with some confusion. Teng Shu smiled when he heard this.

"They probably found those two guys so funny that they laughed until their stomachs hurt," Teng Shu said casually.

Of course, the actual situation was that the other party was punched by Teng Shu. One punch was enough to knock the other party down. Moreover, Teng Shu hit the most painful spot, but it wouldn't leave any injury or pose a threat to life. It was very well hidden. Even if the other party wanted to call the police, they wouldn't be able to find any evidence.

"Pay up! Otherwise, we'll come back tomorrow with banners!" These two were clearly planning to act like scoundrels. Teng Shu was used to it; all they ever did was put up banners and big-character posters and bang on a gong and drum. What else could it be?

I've seen vines all the time, so I'm not surprised anymore.

"Come on, we'll arrest you for disturbing public order." Officer Jenny said from the side. The two of them fell silent. They hadn't gotten the money and were going to be detained, which wasn't worth it. But seeing their persistent looks, Teng Shu sneered. These guys still didn't seem to have given up. But that made sense. How could these guys give up? They'd already abandoned all pretense of decency, so naturally they wanted to make as much money as possible.

Teng Shu snorted coldly, closed the door, then picked up a stone and waved it in front of them. The two looked at Teng Shu strangely, and then saw Teng Shu crush the stone into powder with his bare hands, which made the two of them break out in a cold sweat.

"For me, crushing a person's bones wouldn't be much harder than this," Teng Shu said with a half-smile. The two swallowed and fell silent.

You have to be even more ruthless and vicious than these scoundrels, otherwise you'll be bullied like a coward.

Chapter 628 Feast

"The world is so big, there are all sorts of wonders." Teng Shu sighed. He really didn't expect to encounter such people. In Teng Shu's opinion, these people were no longer human. Strictly speaking, these guys were a bunch of cowardly rats, and the kind who were greedy and lustful. After all, these guys only dared to cause trouble in places like this, but not in other corners, which made it quite ironic.

If these guys had come to visit Grandpa Xingzhen while he was still alive, Tengshu wouldn't have had much trouble talking to him. But the problem is, these guys only dare to show up at times like this to annoy people, so Tengshu naturally doesn't have a good attitude towards them.

Moreover, Teng Shu felt he had done his best for Grandpa Xingzhen, so he had a clear conscience. He thought any employee who viewed their boss the way he did would probably be happy and wouldn't have any objections, since Teng Shu truly considered these people his friends.

Although he was disgusted by these guys, Teng Shu didn't take it too seriously. If they continued to cause trouble, Teng Shu would take drastic measures to deal with them. He knew that there were some unreasonable people these days. If you encountered such people, the simplest way to deal with them was to retaliate in their own way. If you swallowed your anger, they would only become more arrogant.

These days, being an honest person can lead to being held at gunpoint, and when others are looking for someone to blame, they'll instinctively pin it on honest people.

Does that mean honest people deserve to be bullied?

Yes, brother, yes.

If you don't dare to fight back against injustice, you'll only be bullied to death. So, when facing these issues, you still need to have some backbone.

"Locke..." Teng Shu was about to go and chat with Locke, but as soon as he got there, he saw Locke playing with a glass vessel. Teng Shu raised an eyebrow when he saw this. What was Locke looking at?

"Dean, what's wrong?" Locke casually placed the thing on the table. Teng Shu walked over curiously, glanced at it, and then his expression became somewhat subtle.

He saw something peculiar; it looked like some kind of human organ—not the kind that shouldn't be shown, but rather...

"You even preserved your appendix?" Teng Shu was a little confused. He could still tell the true identity of this small, round thing.

appendix.

“Yes, after all, it was cut from my body, and the hospital provides specimen preparation services, so I made it into a specimen.” Locke said matter-of-factly. Teng Shu clicked his tongue when he heard this. This was indeed quite impressive. However, Locke was indeed a ruthless person. If it were Teng Shu, he felt that he probably wouldn’t be able to do this.

"Your taste is quite..." Teng Shu's expression was somewhat complicated. He didn't know what to say, but looking at Locke in front of him, Teng Shu still couldn't help but sigh. Locke was really a bit outrageous.

Locke wasn't too bothered. There are all kinds of people in this world, and Locke himself knew that his tastes were somewhat unique. However, when he was discharged from the hospital and searched online, he actually found an organization called "The Self-Organ Collection Society." The people in this society all liked to collect their own body parts, but most of them were appendixes and tonsils. After all, these are the only two parts of the human body that can be removed without having a significant impact.

So most of the discussions here revolve around this topic. The group owner is a ruthless person; he had a heart transplant, so his collection consists of his own heart, preserved in formalin in excellent condition.

"Dean, speaking of which, is there something you need from me?" Locke looked at Teng Shu curiously. Teng Shu raised an eyebrow after hearing this, and stopped paying attention to the organ. Instead, he complained to Locke about the two rascals and asked about the Six-Tailed Fox.

"Regarding the Six-Tails' situation, I can only say that I've tried my best to comfort it, but frankly, I don't know if it will work. After all, the Six-Tails' thoughts, based on the experiments..." Locke shook his head. He could only say that he didn't have absolute certainty about this matter.

According to Pokémon Psychology, Pokémon that have been tortured or experimented on by humans often have a strong aversion to, or even loathe, humans. This makes it very difficult for these Pokémon to return to the human world. Otherwise, the League wouldn't have a special "Psychological Trauma Pokémon Rehabilitation Area".

That place is basically for these Pokémon to live in, but although the League is trying to do better, there are still some discrepancies, so it is inevitable that some Pokémon will not be suitable for living in this sanatorium.

“Sigh, these people…” Teng Shu shook his head.

It's unavoidable that Pokémon are used for experiments. After all, there are no lab rats in this world, and there are just too many types of Pokémon. Although most of these Pokémon have a similar genome, there are also great individual differences. So if you want to do testing, you have to use these Pokémon for experiments. Many items like Poké Balls and Pokédex come from this.

The Poké Ball is the most troublesome one. In order to test whether the Poké Ball is universally applicable or effective against specific types, the company that makes the Poké Ball needs to spend a lot of time conducting experiments. Basically, every Pokémon has to be tested, except for some legendary Pokémon that cannot be tested.

Then, if this kind of Poké Ball has the ability to catch most Pokémon and does not have a particular type advantage, then it is a Poké Ball. If the success rate of catching Pokémon is even higher, then it is a Great Ball, and even higher is an Ultra Ball.

If this Poké Ball has a special catch rate for Water-type Pokémon, then it's the Dive Ball. Anyway, testing Poké Balls is extremely tedious. Currently, the latest news about Poké Ball development should be the legendary Master Ball. The Master Ball is an ultimate Poké Ball developed that can guarantee catching almost all Pokémon, but the current prototype is simply too expensive.

So it's hardly been officially deployed yet, there are only some concept images and such. Teng Shu isn't too surprised by this, after all, it's a Master Ball.

Someone once asked why we don't make a catching ball for a specific Pokémon. The reason given was that the cost was too high and it would be too difficult to recoup the investment, so we didn't make it. And that's actually true. If we developed a ball that could only catch Pikachu, it would be difficult to lower the price of that ball, which would cause the price of these balls to remain high, making it much more cost-effective to use regular Poké Balls.

“However, your appendix looks rather serious.” Teng Shu glanced at the appendix on Locke’s table. The appendix in the bottle had turned black, and it was so black that it looked like it was about to explode at any moment.

"Yes, the doctor said my condition is quite serious and I need to have surgery as soon as possible, otherwise it will be very troublesome if there is a perforation." Locke said with a smile, and even took out his medical record to show Teng Shu. Teng Shu glanced at it and saw that it said acute appendicitis, and the appendix was necrotic, which is why it had become like this.

Teng Shu stroked his chin, but he felt it was better not to remove it. After all, the appendix had been found to have some uses, specifically to accommodate some intestinal flora, so it was effective and not as useless as it used to be. The appendix also contains abundant lymphocytes, which is one of the reasons why it needs to be removed as soon as possible once it becomes inflamed.

Just as Teng Shu was about to pick it up to take a look, his phone vibrated. Teng Shu frowned slightly, then picked it up and glanced at the phone. It was a message from Jun Shaguang. When he saw that it was from Jun Shaguang, Teng Shu instinctively wanted to run away. After all, a message from Jun Shaguang was definitely not good news. However, Teng Shu still answered it with a dark face.

"Um... I'm at the orphanage... Ah? Okay, I understand, I'll be there in a bit." Teng Shu hung up the phone, his brows furrowed. Locke, seeing Teng Shu's expression, was also curious. What had happened?

"Locke, I might need to ask you to do some psychological counseling later. Four Pokémon that survived the feast are being sent to me." Tengshu said to Locke, and Locke immediately sat up straight upon hearing this. The feast?!

This is a very difficult psychological problem to deal with, much more troublesome than experiments. Thinking of this, Locke also wanted to complain a bit. Why does Tengshu always encounter such situations?

However, considering that this was an orphanage, Locke felt relieved. Pokémon wouldn't be sent here unless there was something wrong with them.

Tengshu left in a hurry. He needed to check on the Pokémon that was about to be delivered, and he also needed to check on other things.

The so-called "feast" is exactly what this awful place is for, as you can tell from its name. Yes, this awful place is for eating, but what they eat here is Pokémon, and it's usually done illegally. The biggest victims here are Baskin and Farfetch'd, especially Farfetch'd, which is almost always present.

The reason is simple: Farfetch'd is a Pokémon whose deliciousness has been unanimously recognized by the Pokémon League professors. And when paired with the green onion it carries, the taste is said to be absolutely amazing. It's the kind of dish that would glow without any preparation if thrown into another world.

Although the alliance has been protecting Farfetch'd, countless people still take the risk in the face of huge profits, so the protection of Farfetch'd is now a difficult problem. However, overall, it is still acceptable. At least the number of Farfetch'd has been steadily increasing and has not reached the point of near extinction as before.

"These guys, really..." Teng Shu frowned, somewhat helpless. The issue of eating Pokémon was a hotly debated topic in the League, but a feast was absolutely out of the question. Such feasts were incredibly cruel, involving preparing Pokémon while they were still alive, supposedly to ensure the freshness of the ingredients...

Therefore, almost every Pokémon that survives from these places possesses extremely strong aggression, attacking humans on sight. However, if these Pokémon harm a person, they will undoubtedly be executed.

For these reasons, these Pokémon have a hard time surviving and can only be sent to traumatized areas to live.

However, this creates an information cocoon where Pokémons who share the same hatred for humans communicate with each other, confide in each other, and then together brew their hatred for humans into a fine wine, ultimately becoming something that cannot be changed. This is the information cocoon of Pokémons, and the League is aware of this, but the problem is that this problem is very difficult to deal with.

These Pokémon have all been tortured by humans, so they harbor great malice towards them. Releasing them into the wild would inevitably cause them to harm people, so they can only be placed in sanatoriums. However, the League cannot keep only one Pokémon in each sanatorium, so information cocoons are formed. The League's current solution is to release all these Pokémon into nature reserves, which can minimize the chances of humans encountering these Pokémon. However, this is only a temporary solution, since Pokémon can walk, run, and fly.

So sometimes injuries do occur, but the league really has no other choice; they've done their best.

Tengshu rode Salamence to the Pokémon Center. At first, Officer Jenny meant for Tengshu to just wait, but Tengshu knew very well that these Pokémon were in special circumstances and needed to be dealt with as soon as possible, so he came immediately.

After Tengshu dismounted the Bloodwing Wyvern and went inside, he saw the victim of this incident, which was quite obvious.

Two green onion ducks, their feathers plucked and with burn marks on their bodies.

There were also two particularly fat Savage Bass. Teng Shu paused for a moment when he saw this. Savage Bass? And they were even red-striped.

That makes sense, though. This kind of Pokémon has been served on the dinner table before. The fish has a high fat content, making it suitable for young people. It is said to taste quite good. But these two are too fat; they look like they were force-fed.

"Teng Shu? You came really fast." Officer Jenny also saw Teng Shu. She thought Teng Shu would drive over, but she didn't expect Teng Shu to fly over.

"Hmm, leave it to me. I'll take them back." Teng Shu frowned slightly. He could only treat them slowly. After all, there was only one medical pod available, and the other was being used by the Six-Tails, so there wasn't much he could do but make do for now.

Chapter 629 The Dream-Inducing Baku: I Want to Study Dean Teng Shu

"Not yet. These four Pokémon are still undergoing basic medical tests, and we need to check their condition further, since all four of them have been force-fed," Officer Jenny explained to Tengshu. Upon hearing this, Tengshu looked at the four Pokémon again and confirmed that they had indeed been force-fed.

Force-feeding, in essence, is forcing Pokémon to swallow large amounts of food, usually specially prepared to make them gain weight quickly. It is essentially a special food with strictly limited use, as it is specifically designed for certain Pokémon that may need to gain weight rapidly in a short period of time.