Pokémon, but cultural invasion

"Yes, are you a member of the Calm Calculations team?"

Quanshu sat down nervously. Surely there really wasn't an old man typing 100,000 lines of code all night.

The old man's next words put him at ease.

“My name is Wiegel, and I am not a member of the Calm Calculations group.”

"First of all, please allow me to offer my sincere apologies. Calm calculations deceived you. They are not human, but a group of Pokémon from my work farm."

Quanshu waved his hand: "It's alright, I've roughly guessed it."

"After all, that's not the kind of efficiency humans should have."

A smile appeared on Wiegel's aged face: "Thank you for your generosity. Please order whatever you like; I'll pay."

"No, no, no, as a calculating employer, how could I possibly do that?"

After some initial refusals, Wiegel, unable to refuse his enthusiasm, said after he agreed, "I would like to ask you to continue to treat the Calm Calculators as ordinary employees; they have no ill intentions."

"To be honest, our previous cooperation has always been very pleasant, and that's what I was planning to do as well."

The two were chatting happily when an extra voice suddenly came from below: "I heard everything, old man, you sold Metagross out completely."

Quanshu turned his head and saw two children standing next to him. They were short, with half of their heads sticking out of the table.

"Xiao Feng, how dare you speak to Grandpa Wieger like that! It's so rude!"

The girl with the short braids among the two children scolded.

Xiao Feng stiffened her neck and said defiantly, "Don't think that just because you were born a few seconds earlier you can lecture me like an older sister. I'm just stating the facts."

"Who are these two?"

The spring and the tree asked a question they already knew the answer to.

He recognized them at a glance as the gym leaders of Green Moss Gym, the only two gym leaders in the entire league.

Quanshu remembers that Xiaofeng and Xiaonan in the game were of one mind and could understand each other's thoughts.

But these two don't seem to have reached that level yet, and they even keep arguing.

"Hello, I'm Xiao Nan, the future headmaster of the Green Ridge Gym." The young girl was very polite.

"I should be the future owner of the museum, right?"

Xiao Feng interrupted her, saying, "My superpowers are clearly stronger."

"But you've never beaten me in a single match, and I'm your older sister."

"what?"

But Xiao Feng had no way to refute it.

"I'm sorry, you must have found this amusing."

Wieger apologized, explaining, "Their parents work at the Green Ridge Space Center, and I'm the one who usually takes care of them."

The two children were almost fighting.

Wiegol coughed twice and said, "Do you remember what Daigo asked of you?"

“None of you currently meet the standards for a gym leader, so you can only be candidates.”

"Do you want to be candidates for life?"

Xiao Nan complained, "Grandpa Wieger, it's not that I don't want to improve, it's just that Xiao Feng simply won't cooperate with me."

"Where did I not cooperate with you? It's clearly you who likes to act on your own."

The two men stood face to face, forehead to forehead and nose to nose, glaring at each other angrily.

Wiegard said with a headache, "Twins should be very in sync, so why are you always arguing?"

"Humph!"

"Humph!"

The two of them snorted coldly.

"Even if Big Brother said that to become the Green Mine Master, one must develop a tacit understanding, it is absolutely impossible to do so with a guy like this."

"That's my line!"

Watching the two locked in a fierce confrontation, Wieger couldn't help but sigh.

"If you need to develop a tacit understanding, I have a crooked method here."

"Ok?"

The two of them looked at Izumi, who had interrupted.

"This method is crooked because it either forces the two people to cooperate or burns out their friendship."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Feng and Xiao Nan realized that the benefits had been explained, but what about the cost?

The two said in unison, "Please be sure to tell us!"

Have you ever played a two-player game where you want to beat your stupid partner to a pulp?

Chapter Fifty-Five: Stepping outside, then bumping into a dragon girl.

"Superpowered people don't like playing games."

Xiao Feng spoke with absolute certainty, as if it were the truth.

Xiao Nan mercilessly exposed him: "Who was it that was so obsessed with it when they were young that they didn't eat or drink and got a beating from their father?"

The two continued arguing.

Wiegel said, "You've disturbed the customers in the coffee shop."

“If Mr. Quanshu doesn’t mind, I have electronic devices at my residence near the manor. You may want to go and try them out.”

Quanshu readily agreed.

On the way to Zvog Estate, Wieger and his frankly calculating employees are the Metagross monsters kept by the Zvog family.

Because of Xiao Feng's loose tongue, the Metagross was exposed, and Wieger claimed to work at the manor.

Having the ability to support a group of Megalomon monsters and being located in Green Ridge City, continuing to conceal this would be an insult to the intelligence of both parties.

"I have a favor to ask. I hope Mr. Izumi can continue to pretend that he is unaware of the situation. Otherwise, Metagross will make a fuss if it finds out that I have betrayed them."

"I understand."

Wieger explained the basic situation: "Although Master Daigo has returned to Green Ridge City, he needs to patrol and investigate Mount Shojin, and will not be back at the manor for a few days."

Mt. Kami is as famous as the Pokémon Tower in the Kanto region, the Lost Tower in the Sinnoh region, and the Paradise Tower in the Unova region. It is a place where the souls of dead Pokémon are laid to rest.

Izumi knew that Mt. Sacred was far more complex than it appeared. Besides a large number of Ghost-type Pokémon, the mountain also contained a crimson jewel and an indigo jewel that could awaken the two Hoenn Pokémon.

It belongs to the alliance's key protected area.

As the Hoenn Champion, Steven has to check the condition of Mt. Pyrenees every now and then to see if there are any signs of invasion.

The responsibility of protecting Mount Songshen in the future will be entrusted to the Green Ridge Pavilion Master, and then, unsurprisingly, an accident occurred.

Wiegold's residence, separated from the Zvoch Estate by only a tree-lined path, was far more luxurious than ordinary houses.

In the fountain gardens of Zvog Estate, many Metagross monsters, having heard the news, ran to the lawn behind the iron fence and wandered around pretending to be there.

As soon as Quanshu got off the bus, he saw a group of big iron lumps imitating bronze statues behind the fence, glancing at him every now and then.

Even though he was mentally prepared, seeing seven or eight quasi-gods that looked like they were cast in steel still gave Izumi a slight shock.

The Metagross, with its metallic sheen, seems even cooler than in the Pokédex.

Unfortunately, after a short while, the Metagross monsters suddenly all left, their communication channel filled with the leader's furious roar:

"You're all crowding onto the lawn by the wall, as if you're afraid people won't notice something's wrong? Metagross eats grass, so why are you pushing and shoving?"

Xiao Nan and Xiao Feng jumped out of the car, each crossing their arms and sulking.

"Please come in."

The water-cooled PC in the computer room didn't seem like something Weigel would buy. Quanshu pressed the power button, wondering how long it had been since the computer had been used before it could run normally.

"Would you like some black tea, photographer?"

"I can do it."

A-Che sat on the sofa, feeling uneasy, his legs shaking as if he were operating a sewing machine.

He just finished faking a fight with the champion, and now he's sitting in someone else's house. Life is unpredictable.

Xiao Nan and Xiao Feng looked at the four big characters "Two People in One" on the screen, one on each side. It was a simple game without even any animation.

"Can this thing really build teamwork?"

Xiao Nan couldn't hold back any longer and immediately asked a question.

"of course."

Quanshu's affirmation failed to dispel his doubts, and Xiaonan clicked the start button with some skepticism.

Izumi returned to the living room sofa without saying a word, letting the two children enjoy their game.

Because the code wasn't finished, what they got was a half-finished product; some parts were missing, and the cutscenes and story hadn't been completed yet.

Can a half-finished game really cultivate teamwork? The answer is no.

But Xiao Feng and Xiao Nan are special. They are twins born with superpowers, possessing talents and bonds that ordinary people cannot match.

Otherwise, the league wouldn't have listed the two young boys as gym candidates.

Quanshu wasn't trying to cultivate a tacit understanding; the bond between them was already deep enough. What they lacked was a bridge for calm communication.

If arguing doesn't stop face-to-face, then face the difficult hurdles together.

When two people work together, their tacit understanding naturally emerges.

Ache felt uncomfortable and said, "When did you become so kind, helping two little brats play games?"

Quanshu glanced at Wigel, who was brewing black tea in the kitchen, and whispered, "Those aren't ordinary kids; their doubles level is at the gym leader level."

"Master level?"

A-Che's tone rose several notches.

The owner of the museum represents the top combat power of a city or even a region.

“I also want to test the feasibility of a two-player game,” Quanshu said slowly.

His expectation for two-player games is that they can genuinely improve teamwork, but achieving that is difficult.

Improvements are needed, at least in gaming devices, such as virtual stealth, but that's a pipe dream.

Without the help of certain mythical beasts, Izumi Tree estimated that he would never be able to unlock such advanced technology in his lifetime.

"please--"

Wieger poured black tea for the two of them.

“Young Master Daigo is not here, so I am not authorized to invite you to tour the manor, but it is no problem for you to visit the distinctive architecture of Green Ridge City.”

"Green Ridge City is not large. Its most unique attraction is the Whale Beach, where tourists from all over the world come every year to watch the Hoenn whales migrate north."

"Secondly, the center of the universe, where huge crowds gather when rockets are launched. Xiaofeng and Xiaonan's Sun Rock and Moon Stone were brought back from the universe by their parents."

Quanshu took a sip of the fragrant and rich black tea.

Green Ridge Space Center has the financial resources to launch rockets regularly, and he doesn't believe it's unrelated to Devon Corporation.

The center of the universe is probably more than just studying the universe.

He recalled that in the comics, Devon Corporation was involved in the operation to capture Rayquaza, and the rocket launched into the sky was very likely tasked with finding Rayquaza.

It's normal that Wiegand was unaware of such confidential matters; he simply treated the center of the universe as a normal tourist attraction.