bookmarkrole Chapter 249 Speaker-Style Squirrel Warrior? The name alone is hilarious! A joke, not a laugh riot! T
Chapter 249 Speaker-Style Squirrel Warrior? The name alone is hilarious! A joke, not a laugh riot! T
Chapter 249 Speaker Squirrel Warrior? The name alone is hilarious! A joke, not a laugh riot! The training plan for the strongest speaker squirrel?
"So, a new Vulcan moth will be born directly from within this giant fiery cocoon?"
The captain of the Pokémon Center squinted at the screen, feeling utterly incredulous.
I've almost never seen Pokémon grow so fast.
The egg hatches as soon as it hits the ground, grows rapidly into a cocoon, and then evolves.
Everyone says that Bug-type Pokémon grow and evolve quickly, but this is just too fast.
[Is Torch Moth really that cool?]
[That huge fire moth just decomposed so cleanly?]
[Thanks to the streamer, thanks to the Pokémon Center, and thanks to AhChong for letting me witness a once-in-a-lifetime moment!]
Ye Yinchuan was also observing the fire cocoon.
Although the drone captured images, it made no sound, but the vibrations produced by the pulsating fire cocoon were still visible to the naked eye...
With each pulsation, the cocoon of fire grew larger, accompanied by corresponding shockwaves that rippled outwards, stirring up ashes and flames from the ground—a truly spectacular sight.
Furthermore, every time the cocoon glows, you can see the outline of the original firefly transforming into that of the fire moth inside...
The six twisted horns, without anyone noticing, unfolded into six wings.
When the first crack appears on the shell, the remaining flames and energy in the entire fire zone are also converging one last time...
The scene was hard to describe; it was an extraordinary power. All the flames seemed to come alive, enveloping the cocoon of fire...
The fire brigade and the water-type Pokémon, who were working hard to stop the fire from spreading, were still struggling, but when they saw the flames receding like the tide and even disappearing from sight, they felt a sense of bewilderment, as if they were punching cotton.
However, this is ultimately a good thing, since the fire ended on its own without needing to be controlled.
But is it really over?
No one, human or Pokémon, dared to be careless, but the fire could disappear in an instant, only to burst forth again just as quickly.
[My God, is this the power of the Volcano Moth? A fire of this scale, it comes and goes so easily?]
It's hard to imagine how we humans managed to survive and develop to where we are today when Pokémon were still monsters.
After glancing at the comments, Ye Yinchuan didn't know whether to say that Pokémon was awesome or that humans were awesome.
The question of why, given how powerful Pokémon are, humans are the ones who rule the world is a well-worn one.
Humanity's possession of technology is a very important aspect. In anime and comics, many villains rely on technology to defeat or even control mythical beasts.
In addition, there is a theory that humans themselves are a kind of Pokémon.
Even if we remove Ash, who is a complete rookie, there are still some people in the original work who are extremely powerful or have special abilities.
For example, some Fighting-type trainers are so powerful that they can fight against their own Pokémon, and even taunt them during the fight.
For example, when Team Rocket's Jessie caught Seviper, she relied purely on her physical strength to overpower it, without even using any Pokémon.
Not to mention in the anime, there's a gym leader named Sabrina who has the ability to shrink living beings into dolls... This is pure psychic power, and it's an ability that even Pokémon might not be able to match.
Ye Yinchuan suspected that in some ancient era, there were humans whose fighting power was no weaker than that of Pokémon. In fact, according to Arceus's abandoned case, the boundary between humans and Pokémon was very blurred. Who could tell the difference between the children born to humans and Pokémon?
However, as humanity gains control of the world, these abilities may become obsolete. With the passage of time and the changing of eras, they are gradually hidden away, leaving only a lucky few to possess them...
On the other hand, Ye Yinchuan believes that a theory based on time travel can also be applied.
That is because many people underestimate the fighting power of humans. The reason why humans appear weak is simply because they have no need to fight, because even if they are injured in order to save the life of the other party, it is still a loss...
However, once a human is injured and enraged, they transform into a terrifying upright ape, at which point their true fighting power is revealed.
Of course, there's another theory: if the concepts of humans and Pokémon are similar in the Pokémon universe, then humans would also have differences in their Individual Values (IVs)...
The characteristic of humans is that their individual values are generally low, but the strong are still very strong.
In the brief moment Ye Yinchuan was distracted, the giant fire cocoon burst open, and a brand new fire moth was emerging from it...
Ye Yinchuan glanced at the stats of this fire moth and found that it was almost identical to its mother's. The only difference was that its level had become 51, its size had decreased, and its individual values had increased by 10 points!
"Wait a minute... the color of this fire moth seems to be more golden."
Ye Yinchuan retrieved the replay of the live stream, compared it, and came to the following conclusion:
"If these fire moths can be passed down from generation to generation, with each one inheriting the energy and abilities of the previous one... will their color also continuously transform towards gold, eventually becoming a pure golden fire moth?"
Ye Yinchuan seemed to be deep in thought.
In the anime, there is a special Vulcan moth that is entirely golden.
The Shiny Varcanthus in the game is also almost gold in color.
"The shimmering, heterochromatic color is itself an outward manifestation of power and talent. Could it be that it can also be created through this kind of inheritance? But should this be considered innate or acquired?"
Ye Yinchuan had some whimsical ideas.
After hatching, the fire moth looked around at its surroundings and seemed to sense something—the aura of its blood relatives. Everything about its mother had transformed into energy and blood, flowing through its body.
It looked around with some reluctance, then flapped its six wings and slowly flew off the ground, drifting towards the higher and farther sky.
"Hey streamer, where is it going? We can't just leave this disaster-causing Pokémon alone..."
The battalion commander was starting to get nervous.
"Yes, we definitely need to keep an eye on it. If this thing flies into the city, it will be a real disaster. But there's no need to worry too much for now. This fire moth has just completed its evolution, its energy is contained, and it hasn't even released any scales yet, so there's no immediate danger... Based on my judgment, this fire moth is probably going to where it's supposed to go to start a new life cycle."
Ye Yinchuan admitted that his initial judgment was not entirely correct.
I originally thought that the old Volcano moth came here to find a new territory for its offspring to develop slowly.
But now it seems that fire moths with this trait don't have a developmental process at all, or rather, they complete it in just a few minutes...
This area was probably not used as territory, but rather as a medium for combustion, a consumable material similar to a sacrifice, allowing the Volcano Moth to reproduce.
How so? Volcano moths can absorb burning flames, and flames need combustibles to burn. According to the law of conservation of energy, this will produce more energy that can be absorbed.
"Looks like the Pokémon Centers and fire stations in the area Volcarona will be busy tonight... Snorlax, I have to thank you, otherwise we might have been in big trouble tonight!"
Ye Yinchuan nodded:
"This is what I should do. There's another person I need to thank, your specialist Xiao Wang. If it weren't for his proactive initiative, I probably wouldn't have gotten involved. I hope your Pokémon Center won't punish him for the violation, but rather give him the recognition and reward he deserves!"
"No problem, that's for sure, and I welcome everyone's supervision!"
Afterwards, the people at the Pokémon Center left the live stream, as they had many other things to do.
Before things settle down, no one can guarantee that the fire moth will not cause another disaster, so as Ye Yinchuan said, it is necessary to continue to track and monitor it.
Ah Chong is also planning to leave the wilderness and return to the city.
Before ending the call, Ah Chong asked a question:
"Host, do you think it's possible to catch a Pokémon like Volcarona?"
Although Ah Chong appeared calm on the surface, Ye Yinchuan could still see the excitement in his heart and the longing in his eyes.
"It should be possible. However, in my eyes, Volcarona is almost second only to legendary Pokémon. If someone can catch Volcarona, then their strength must be incredibly astonishing..."
I think taming a Firefly before it grows stronger is much more feasible than taming a Volcarona...
Furthermore, I believe that the best approach with this kind of Pokémon is to use a gentle, persuasive strategy, or at most a combination of soft and hard tactics...
Even if you forcibly subdue it, and it obeys you out of fear while it's a Flameworm, it might lose control and even retaliate once it evolves into a Volcarona!
Ye Yinchuan could only say that forced love is never sweet, especially when the melon is as thick as a thigh!
End the connection.
Although Ye Yinchuan couldn't help but want to follow up on the Vulcan moth's fate, he had to continue his live stream.
@SpeakerStyle:
[Host, I have a grand plan that needs your witness and participation. Please connect with me!]
Looking at the username and connection request, Ye Yinchuan's mood instantly became complicated, and he hesitated to smile.
The last one to claim to have "a great plan" was that Rat King, and now there's another one, the Speaker Cricket Warrior...
[This name cracked me up. "Speaker Scooter"? Does that Pokémon look like a hero? Speaker Scooter, my friend! Try evolving it a level before naming it that!]
[There are no weak Pokémon, only weak trainers. I searched online and found that this quote was said by the SpeakerKing itself.]
[What kind of amazing plan is this? Could it be that they're trying to breed a powerful speaker bug?]
[Stop talking, streamer. Krillin is really not worth watching. It's probably one of the weakest Pokémon ever, right?]
To be fair, netizens are all talented, but whether they speak politely or not is another matter.
For Ye Yinchuan, these comments gave him a sense of déjà vu, like a Pokémon reference from before his transmigration was being recreated in another world.
"No, I want to connect. In my livestream, while I can't treat all Pokémon equally, I at least have to avoid discrimination."
Although Ye Yinchuan found the "Speaker Cricket Warrior" meme amusing, he believed that one should laugh at the meme, not the person. Moreover, in the context of this meme, the speaker cricket was simply a symbol of ordinariness, and to mock ordinariness would be too arrogant.
Especially in this real-world Pokémon world, Krillin is no longer a virtual character, but a living Pokémon.
As a streamer with such a large following, he needs to be more mindful of his public influence. If he looks down on Speaker Shuai, that would be very bad.
"Furthermore, the crickets aren't entirely useless. They can convey emotions through melodies and even have the ability to improvise melodies. Moreover, the melodies they can play vary from individual to individual. Some villages even hold special entertainment activities to compete in the sound of crickets, selecting the cricket with the best sound and rhythm."
Based on his knowledge, Ye Yinchuan gave the speaker a fair evaluation.
Bai Zhi, standing beside him, looked at him with a slight gleam in her eyes. She loved his attitude towards Pokémon; it resonated with and impressed her from the bottom of her heart.
[You have accepted the connection request from user "Speaker Hero"!]
[Connection successful!]
"Host, thank you so much, I'm really touched that you're speaking up for the speaker cricket... As you can see, I'm a speaker cricket enthusiast and dedicated to researching speaker crickets..."
As you can see, everyone thinks the Speaker Crab is too weak, but I believe it has special potential, and I hope that one day it can appear on the battlefield!
Upon hearing the speaker's aspirations, Ye Yinchuan nearly choked on his water.
Is this kid really planning to develop the Speaker Cricket into a battle mode?
As far as Ye Yinchuan knew, in the original Pokémon series, the only trainer who used Krillin in battles, and even as a main trainer, was that guy named Shangzhi.
Moreover, that speaker cricket can not only battle, but also participate in grand competitions, making it a cricket with two uses.
Well, the base stats of the Speaker Krill are too low. Its total stat is only 384, and its highest base stat, Attack, is only 85. The rest of its stats are evenly distributed, making it uniformly weak.
As for its features, there's nothing particularly outstanding, so it's hard to find anything truly remarkable about it...
If we were to pinpoint the only factor that gives Speaker Krill powerful combat abilities, or rather, lethality, it would probably be the move "Song of the End".
In the game, the effect of the song of the end is to cause the Pokémon listening to the song to fall into a near-death state for three turns, but the effect will disappear after the Pokémon is replaced.
In reality, this would be a very dangerous move.
The effect is simple and brutal: the End Song will cause the life and energy of the Pokémon that hears it to be quickly depleted, faint, or even die!
There's no "replacement" method as described in the game; only the following methods can be used to break the game—
First, they possess sound-based techniques and can use special sounds and melodies to disrupt the End Song that enters the brain.
Second, powerful or special purification methods can directly dispel the Song of the End.
Third, defeating the unit that releases the Song of the End, thus severing its connection with the Song of the End, also has a high probability of breaking the Song of the End.
"It's good for young people to have ambition, but your ambition is probably quite difficult to achieve. You can treat it as a hobby, but please don't turn it into a career!"
Ye Yinchuan gave his own evaluation.
He knew that people like the online influencers were usually quite fanatical, and direct dissuasion would be ineffective and might even have the opposite effect.
It's better to guide than to block.
"Don't worry, host. I'm still a college student and I don't make a living from this. I've established a speaker cricket club, which is full of like-minded people who study speaker crickets."
After graduation, if all goes well, I'd like to continue working in Pokémon research. I'm thinking of making my graduation thesis a study of Krillin. What do you think?
Upon hearing this, Ye Yinchuan roughly understood. No wonder his eyes were so clear and his ambitions were unusual; he was a college student, which made sense.
"That's good. Those who study crickets usually focus on their melodies. If you want to study combat, this might fill a gap in your knowledge."
You need to ask your teacher about this to see if it's appropriate. What if your graduation thesis fails and you can't graduate? That would be embarrassing!
"Okay, streamer, you know what? You're really my idol. I even came up with this name on a whim after watching your Dolphin Hero livestream..."
"Also, that Ironfist Ladybug also left a deep impression on me. I thought Ladybug was like Krillin, a Pokémon that was generally considered weak..."
But I never expected there to be such a powerful Ladybug, so I was wondering if it's possible that the Speaker Squirrel also has something like Dolphin Man or Iron Fist Ladybug?
Upon hearing this, Ye Yinchuan nodded in agreement.
He realized that he still had some stereotypes about speaker crickets.
Because I initially thought Krill was weak, I assumed there wouldn't be any suitable Krill for battle in this world...
But anything is possible, right?
Upon arriving here, Ye Yinchuan's attitude became serious, and his view of the contact's ambitions clearly changed:
"Let's talk about your plans. What do you want me to do for you, or how can I witness your progress?"
In response to Ye Yinchuan's question, the interviewer excitedly replied:
"I prepared a lot of Snorlax eggs and then tested and observed them. Snorlax evolves into Evolve, and Evolve can evolve into Snorlax very easily, in less than half a week if you're fast."
I believe that quantitative change will lead to qualitative change. If I select those Snorkeling Crickets with fighting potential and let them breed, sooner or later, I'll cultivate exceptionally powerful Snorkeling Crickets!
Upon hearing the plan from the person in charge, Ye Yinchuan's eyes lit up. This selective cultivation and the idea of quantitative change leading to qualitative change were on the right track.
If we really take it seriously and do it on a large scale, we might actually be able to breed a powerful speaker cricket!
(End of this chapter)