Time always passes quickly when it is fulfilling; the fourth day had already arrived.
"Everyone's here, so I won't waste words. Our mission is to go to Viridian Forest to pick medicinal herbs."
"Yes, Captain!" ×3
After Yingcai finished speaking, he led the three of them toward the base gate. They saw Yingcai place the mission card on a touchscreen machine, and the gate opened.
Seeing that the captain didn't say anything, the three didn't dare ask casually either, and just obediently followed behind Yingcai.
The sun was bright, a light breeze brushed through the forest; it should have been a kind of weather that makes people happy.
But the scene before their eyes made Nobunaga and the other two extremely frightened and uneasy.
A cold voice came from Yingcai's mouth: "The first rule of the jungle: the weak are prey to the strong. The strong won't show mercy just because you are weak."
Yingcai's Arbok looked at Nobunaga and the other two with a playful expression, as if the one that had just swallowed the corpses of two Raticate wasn't it.
Seeing that Arbok was full, Yingcai only then walked forward, heading in the direction from which the Raticate had just darted out.
Pushing aside the bushes to take a look, it turned out there were 4 Rattata hiding in the bushes, trembling.
Yingcai and the other three also seemed to understand why those two Raticate had desperately run toward the east side of the forest.
As they went deeper and deeper into this ancient Viridian Forest, the woods also became quieter and quieter.
Under Yingcai's lead, everyone harvested quite a bit of smoke grass, snake grass, and some other poisonous grasses and various berries.
At this time, in front of a gloomy patch of woods, Yingcai stopped.
"In this patch of woods lives a Zubat group. If you want to capture Zubat, I can rest here for a while, but if you lure the Zubat over, then…"
Yingcai didn't finish his sentence. Nobunaga and the other two understood what he meant, but if there really were danger to their lives, they would probably still run over to him.
The three entered this gloomy woods as a team, paying close attention to their footsteps and breathing.
When they had gone two hundred meters in, they saw many Zubat hanging upside down from the branches of towering trees.
But it was daytime now, and these Zubat were all sleeping. The three chose for a while, and on a small tree beside a big tree they found three Zubat that were resting.
They exchanged glances and decided that Nobunaga's Koffing would lure the Zubat out of the woods.
The three slowly withdrew from the woods, while Nobunaga's Koffing stayed in place. After seeing the three withdraw from the woods, it used "Mud-Slap" on the Zubat.
The Zubat were attacked and quickly woke up. Seeing that a single Pokémon like Koffing actually dared to attack the three of them, they charged toward Koffing.
Seeing this, Koffing rolled its round, bulging eyeballs, turned around, and ran.
Outside the forest, the three lay in ambush in a patch of bushes. Seeing Koffing run out, Tajima and Minato quickly had their own Pokémon prepare.
The three Zubat had just chased out of the woods when one of them got hit in the face by a Move, instantly losing its ability to battle.
The other two were somewhat panicked; they had been surrounded.
Ekans, Koffing, and Minato's Zubat surrounded the two Zubat from three directions.
With Nobunaga's Koffing continuously attacking, the two Zubat had no power to fight back, and soon both lost their ability to battle.
The three stepped forward and captured the Zubat, then locked the Pokémon Balls.
"After we get back, we'll slowly build feelings [bond] then!" Nobunaga said, looking at the Pokémon Balls.
Although Tajima's face was gloomy, he was also someone who liked to joke: "Minato, you have two Zubat now—are you planning to be a bat king? Hehe!"
Minato, seeing this, said: "A Pokémon like Zubat isn't weak in attack methods, and it can fly and scout. In the end, after it evolves, it can even carry people flying. If I really can be a bat king, I'll accept it."
After they finished chatting, they hurried to meet up with Yingcai.
Seeing the three return with happy expressions, Yingcai knew they had already captured Zubat. "Alright, since you've already captured Pokémon, I've rested enough too. We can take a U-shaped route back now. Along the way, pick some more herbs and berries, and then we can go back and turn in the mission." Yingcai instructed the three.
The group of four immediately set off on the return route.
By evening, under Yingcai's lead, Nobunaga and the other two turned in the mission. After Yingcai finished distributing the mission pay that they should receive, he said: "Today I just brought you to do a simple logistics mission to get familiar with it. The day after tomorrow we'll carry out a high-difficulty mission; you get ready."
After hearing Yingcai's words, the three hurriedly said: "Thank you, Captain. We'll all listen to the captain."
After hearing the three's words, a trace of a smile also appeared on Yingcai's face, and he then left.
"Then everyone, disperse!" Nobunaga said.
They each went their own way.
Nobunaga walked to the trade market. Hearing the hawking cries from the various stalls, he bought some food for Koffing, and also bought a case of Tauros cow blood. He returned to his room and put the things away, then took a bag of blood packs and went to the training ground.
In the center of the training ground, Nobunaga took out two Pokémon Balls. Two red flashes passed, releasing Koffing and Zubat.
Zubat saw Koffing, which had defeated it during the day, and the human standing beside it.
"You've already been captured by me. Are you willing to be my partner from now on?" Nobunaga asked Zubat.
Zubat looked at Nobunaga, then looked at Koffing, and pointed its wing at the gas egg [unclear].
"So you still want to fight another round! Koffing, use Mud-Slap!"
Zubat didn't hold out for long before it was defeated. Nobunaga took the prepared blood pack, went up and opened it for Zubat, and Zubat began to suck it in small mouthfuls.
Seeing this, Nobunaga took out healing spray and sprayed it on Zubat.
As Zubat sucked the cow blood, in its heart it thought: "This human seems not that bad."