I was forced to become a Pokémon master
Chapter 35 Smash and Fusion
Chapter 35 Smash and Fusion
"Master Wu Qinglan is invited to come on stage!"
As soon as Yu Shitao finished speaking, a beautiful woman with long silver-white hair walked in at the door of the conference room, and beside her was an extremely elegant and elegant cat.
Her face looked like she was about 24 or [-] years old, her tall figure was uneven, and her delicate facial features made all the men present salivate.
Standing in front of the big screen, Wu Qinglan smiled at everyone with her big eyes blinking, saying, "Hi everyone, I am Wu Qinglan, but don't call me a master, I am still a long way from being a master."
Her crisp and gentle voice lingered in everyone's ears, and everyone couldn't help but blush.
"Such a young quasi-master." Wang Zheng sighed, he thought he would be at least 50 or [-] years old to give lectures, but he didn't expect to be so young and so beautiful.
He has to admit that this is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and even Sirona is a bit inferior, but it's not that she is inferior in appearance, but that Wu Qinglan has more charm of a mature woman than Sirona.
"Master Wu Qinglan, you are too low-key. Who in the world doesn't know that you are only a piece of paper away from the master level, and you may break through tomorrow." Yu Shitao quickly answered.
Wu Qinglan smiled wryly and shook her head. A layman doesn't understand at all. The level of a master may be broken through tomorrow, or it may not be broken through in a lifetime. Although there are not many quasi-masters in the world, there are also many, and there are only a few dozen real masters.
Instead of continuing this topic, Wu Qinglan looked at everyone in the audience and said: "Let's not waste time talking about other things, let's go straight to today's topic. Today I will pass on my experience in making advanced energy cubes to you, hoping to improve your success rate."
Everyone was a little disappointed to hear that Wu Qinglan said nothing else, and they wanted to hear more gossip about Wu Qinglan.
On the contrary, only Wang Zheng touched his chin and looked at Yu Shitao beside Wu Qinglan. He felt that Yu Shitao and Jiasheng Company would make a big move recently.
Wang Zheng knew that some time ago, Yu Shitao first searched everywhere for geniuses who made energy cubes like Wang Zheng, and promised them various benefits and various kinds of help, and only asked for help when the company was in trouble in the future.
And now people like Wu Qinglan have been invited to teach the company employees the experience of improving the success rate.
You must know that these experiences are the most precious wealth of every coordination trainer.
So Yu Shitao and Jiasheng Company must have had a lot of bleeding before they invited Wu Qinglan to teach the production experience.
Thinking of this, Wang Zheng suddenly regretted that his liver hurts. He can also make advanced energy cubes, and now the success rate is very high. The key is that he will not charge such a high fee, as long as half of Wu Qinglan's is enough.
"If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't have hidden my clumsiness." Wang Zheng sighed heavily, he felt that he had just passed by overnight.
On the stage, Wu Qinglan has already begun to explain her experience in making advanced energy cubes, and she uses the energy cube making machine beside her to demonstrate for everyone.
Everyone in the audience quickly recorded in their notebooks as if they had found a treasure. These people are all people who can make medium-energy cubes, but the success rate is not high.
Now that they have heard about the production experience of advanced energy cubes that are higher than medium energy cubes, some of their previous questions have been answered.
Wang Zheng also pretended to open his notebook and wrote it down. Originally, he wanted to listen to other people's production experience, but after listening, he realized that everyone's experience at this level is almost the same.
Wang Zheng was a little disappointed, he guessed that only a true master could make him improve.
Time passed quickly, and Wu Qinglan finished talking about her experience, and then asked every company employee in the audience to make one with the machine beside her, and she guided beside her.
Wang Zheng also went up to make it once. He originally wanted to make a medium-quality energy cube under Wu Qinglan's guidance. After all, today is his home game, so Wang Zheng didn't intend to steal the limelight from him. In the end, he accidentally made a high-end energy cube.
Everyone, including Wu Qinglan, was dumbfounded. At this age, he has produced high-quality, and the quality is very good. Genius is not enough to describe him.
Wang Zheng realized that it was not good, and quickly pretended to be stupid, saying that it was because of his blessing to the soul and the bonus of Wu Qinglan's goddess halo that he succeeded.
Wang Dafu drove everyone to his full potential, and everyone believed his words. After all, there is no one in the world who is unwilling to admit that he is really powerful.
As a result, Wu Qinglan favored Wang Zheng a lot. She knew exactly what kind of talent was needed to produce such a fine and high-quality energy cube by coincidence.
Moreover, Wang Zheng's own image is also good, he is definitely a handsome guy if he is dressed up, and his partner Pikachu is also well-trained, so she thinks that if Wang Zheng is trained, he will definitely be a very good coordination trainer, even no less than her.
She sent an invitation to Wang Zheng, saying that she was willing to train Wang Zheng. Although she herself was still very young and not yet ready to accept apprentices, she suddenly developed a love for talents and did not want Wang Zheng to be buried.
But Wang Zheng declined her kindness.
Just kidding, it is already very reluctant for him to be a combat trainer, now that he has finally adapted to the rhythm of daily training, he is not willing to add more troubles.
Wu Qinglan shook her head regretfully, this was the first time someone rejected her, but she couldn't force Wang Zheng.
In the end, she and Wang Zheng exchanged contact information and added each other as friends on social software. She told Wang Zheng that if one day he changed his mind, he could contact her.
Wang Zheng hesitated before agreeing, the beauties in the circle of friends are also good.
Seeing Wang Zheng's unwillingness, the people in the audience shed sour tears.
After Wang Zheng returned to his seat, Wu Qinglan on the stage hesitated for a while, and decided to teach her a little trick of pressing the bottom of the box, so that Wang Zheng could experience it, and maybe he would change his mind.
"I'll talk a little bit more today, but it's not quite right to say it. It should be a show for everyone." Wu Qinglan said and glanced at Wang Zheng who was sitting in the last row.
"What I want to demonstrate to everyone is the fusion of energy cubes." Wu Qinglan cleared her throat, "As the name implies, the fusion of energy cubes is to make two kinds of tree fruits with different functions into one energy cube."
Everyone in the audience opened their eyes wide. They knew about the fusion of energy cubes, but they were limited to fusing two kinds of berries with similar functions to improve the efficacy. Moreover, the production method of this energy cube was many times higher than that of ordinary ones.
But now Wu Qinglan not only wants to fuse the two, but also wants to fuse the two with different functions, which is theoretically impossible.
But everyone is looking forward to it, because it is said that master trainers are good at making the impossible possible. Although Wu Qinglan has not reached that level yet, it is not far away.
Hearing her words, Wang Zheng also became serious, she knew that Wu Qinglan was going to show her bottom pressing skills.
Wu Qinglan on the stage took out a pomelo fruit and a persimmon fruit.
The effect of grapefruit, which is often used to make energy cubes, is to restore the elves' physical strength, while the effect of persimmon fruit is to relieve the confusion of elves.
In theory, it is impossible to make these two kinds of energy cubes, but.
Everyone watched nervously as Wu Qinglan cut the two fruits into cubes of equal size, and then slowly put the two fruits into the machine carefully.
Her other hand has been constantly adjusting the speed of the machine, fast and slow, fast and slow.
Some sweat oozed from Wu Qinglan's forehead, and one can imagine what kind of fine manipulation she was doing.
"Gulu." Everyone in the audience swallowed unconsciously, they were also very nervous.
Soon, 10 minutes passed. Normally, a normal energy cube can be produced in 5 minutes, but now it has been 10 minutes and Wu Qinglan is still operating the machine meticulously without any intention of stopping.
After 10 minutes, Wu Qinglan's movements slowly eased, and everyone guessed that it was coming to an end.
But the ending alone took a full 10 minutes.
After a total of three to ten minutes, Wu Qinglan finally stopped.
She stretched out her hand, and her partner, Elegant Cat, wiped her sweat with the handkerchief handed over by her tail. It could be seen that her spirit was exhausted.
"Ding dong." While she was wiping her sweat, the energy cube came out.
This energy cube is different from the usual single tone, but a mixed tone of yellow and pink, which looks like a crystal jelly.
Wu Qinglan looked at the appearance of the energy cube and nodded with satisfaction. Fusion of energy cubes is one of the directions for her to break through the master level.
Master-level coordination trainers have their own advantages and disadvantages, which are different from the master-level of combat-type trainers.
To evaluate whether a combat trainer is a master or not, you only need to look at the strength, but there are many directions to evaluate whether a coordination trainer is a master.
Some have unique attainments in the production of energy cubes, some have incomparable creativity in performances, some have the exclusive right to speak on the cultivation of elves, and so on.
Of course, in addition to combat and coordination trainers, there are many masters in other directions. For example, Dr. Oki in Kanto is also a master in the academic field. He can be called a master if he achieves the ultimate in a certain field.
Wu Qinglan has great ambitions. She wants to become a master in the production of energy cubes and performances, but this also makes her unable to truly advance to the master level.
Wu Qinglan held up a fusion energy cube and said: "The key to this production is to smash and fuse."
Wu Qinglan on the stage continued to explain, while Wang Zheng in the audience was shocked when he heard the shattering and fusion, and then he was ecstatic.
He feels as if he has found a solution to a problem that has been bothering him.
"It's not too late, try it now, before you forget this feeling."
Wang Zheng couldn't wait to start experimenting.
He closed his eyes, mobilized a little bit of his mental power in the depths of his consciousness, and then spun that ball of mental power crazily. When the speed reached the fastest, the mental power was directly scattered and scattered into countless small dots.
Wang Zheng stopped those small points of mental power, then mobilized the wave guides, and made them into small groups in the same way.
In the end, some small points in the spiritual power and some small points in the waveguide were fused together.
"Buzz!"
A familiar voice sounded in Wang Zheng's head. Before, he would faint every time he heard this voice, but now he didn't feel faint, and his brain was very clear.
Feeling the waveguide in his head exuding a powerful aura after qualitative change, Wang Zheng knew that he had succeeded.
He opened his eyes and saw Pikachu who was still playing with his mobile phone, found the waveguide connection between them, and then passed the qualitatively changed waveguide to Pikachu.
"Boom"
Pikachu fainted immediately.
Wang Zheng: ( ̄ー ̄)
Feeling Pikachu's steady breathing, he knew that Pikachu was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief and then sighed helplessly.
When one problem is solved, another problem arises. When can I master this skill.
When Wang Zheng finished the experiment, Wu Qinglan also finished explaining on the stage. Wang Zheng was the first to stand up and applaud. Now he is really grateful to this future master. If it weren't for her, Wang Zheng doesn't know how long it would take to integrate spiritual power and waveguide.
He guessed that the reason why Wu Qinglan could not become a master for a long time may be that her fusion technique took too long and the output was too low. In the final analysis, Wu Qinglan's mental power was not strong enough, and she did not have enough control over the details.
So Wang Zheng decided to wait for him to fully control his huge mental power, and tell Wu Qinglan the method he summed up on controlling mental power, as a reward for her.
Wu Qinglan was also a little happy to see Wang Zheng who was applauding. She felt that Wang Zheng had already recognized her, so it would not be far from Wang Zheng changing his mind and willing to be her apprentice.
In fact, she didn't even realize that she didn't know why she wanted to accept Wang Zheng as a disciple so much.
In the evening, Wang Zheng returned to school, put Pikachu gently on the bed, and then touched his chin and began to recall the various situations when he met poachers. He wanted to find out why he was able to pass the qualitatively changed waveguide to Pikachu, and Pikachu also successfully accepted his waveguide.
"Pikachu and I at that time" The complete memory ability allowed Wang Zheng to recall every detail of that time.
"By the way, Pikachu and I were in a state of rage at the time! That is to say, emotional resonance!!"
In a flash of inspiration, Wang Zheng found the crux of the matter. At that time, he and Pikachu had emotional resonance to use that power smoothly, but the tacit understanding between him and Pikachu is too poor now, let alone emotional resonance.
So in the end, we still need to cultivate a tacit understanding.
Wang Zheng patted Pikachu who was soundly asleep, and then began to practice the method of fusing waveguide and spiritual power, which should be called hot iron.
(End of this chapter)
"Master Wu Qinglan is invited to come on stage!"
As soon as Yu Shitao finished speaking, a beautiful woman with long silver-white hair walked in at the door of the conference room, and beside her was an extremely elegant and elegant cat.
Her face looked like she was about 24 or [-] years old, her tall figure was uneven, and her delicate facial features made all the men present salivate.
Standing in front of the big screen, Wu Qinglan smiled at everyone with her big eyes blinking, saying, "Hi everyone, I am Wu Qinglan, but don't call me a master, I am still a long way from being a master."
Her crisp and gentle voice lingered in everyone's ears, and everyone couldn't help but blush.
"Such a young quasi-master." Wang Zheng sighed, he thought he would be at least 50 or [-] years old to give lectures, but he didn't expect to be so young and so beautiful.
He has to admit that this is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and even Sirona is a bit inferior, but it's not that she is inferior in appearance, but that Wu Qinglan has more charm of a mature woman than Sirona.
"Master Wu Qinglan, you are too low-key. Who in the world doesn't know that you are only a piece of paper away from the master level, and you may break through tomorrow." Yu Shitao quickly answered.
Wu Qinglan smiled wryly and shook her head. A layman doesn't understand at all. The level of a master may be broken through tomorrow, or it may not be broken through in a lifetime. Although there are not many quasi-masters in the world, there are also many, and there are only a few dozen real masters.
Instead of continuing this topic, Wu Qinglan looked at everyone in the audience and said: "Let's not waste time talking about other things, let's go straight to today's topic. Today I will pass on my experience in making advanced energy cubes to you, hoping to improve your success rate."
Everyone was a little disappointed to hear that Wu Qinglan said nothing else, and they wanted to hear more gossip about Wu Qinglan.
On the contrary, only Wang Zheng touched his chin and looked at Yu Shitao beside Wu Qinglan. He felt that Yu Shitao and Jiasheng Company would make a big move recently.
Wang Zheng knew that some time ago, Yu Shitao first searched everywhere for geniuses who made energy cubes like Wang Zheng, and promised them various benefits and various kinds of help, and only asked for help when the company was in trouble in the future.
And now people like Wu Qinglan have been invited to teach the company employees the experience of improving the success rate.
You must know that these experiences are the most precious wealth of every coordination trainer.
So Yu Shitao and Jiasheng Company must have had a lot of bleeding before they invited Wu Qinglan to teach the production experience.
Thinking of this, Wang Zheng suddenly regretted that his liver hurts. He can also make advanced energy cubes, and now the success rate is very high. The key is that he will not charge such a high fee, as long as half of Wu Qinglan's is enough.
"If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't have hidden my clumsiness." Wang Zheng sighed heavily, he felt that he had just passed by overnight.
On the stage, Wu Qinglan has already begun to explain her experience in making advanced energy cubes, and she uses the energy cube making machine beside her to demonstrate for everyone.
Everyone in the audience quickly recorded in their notebooks as if they had found a treasure. These people are all people who can make medium-energy cubes, but the success rate is not high.
Now that they have heard about the production experience of advanced energy cubes that are higher than medium energy cubes, some of their previous questions have been answered.
Wang Zheng also pretended to open his notebook and wrote it down. Originally, he wanted to listen to other people's production experience, but after listening, he realized that everyone's experience at this level is almost the same.
Wang Zheng was a little disappointed, he guessed that only a true master could make him improve.
Time passed quickly, and Wu Qinglan finished talking about her experience, and then asked every company employee in the audience to make one with the machine beside her, and she guided beside her.
Wang Zheng also went up to make it once. He originally wanted to make a medium-quality energy cube under Wu Qinglan's guidance. After all, today is his home game, so Wang Zheng didn't intend to steal the limelight from him. In the end, he accidentally made a high-end energy cube.
Everyone, including Wu Qinglan, was dumbfounded. At this age, he has produced high-quality, and the quality is very good. Genius is not enough to describe him.
Wang Zheng realized that it was not good, and quickly pretended to be stupid, saying that it was because of his blessing to the soul and the bonus of Wu Qinglan's goddess halo that he succeeded.
Wang Dafu drove everyone to his full potential, and everyone believed his words. After all, there is no one in the world who is unwilling to admit that he is really powerful.
As a result, Wu Qinglan favored Wang Zheng a lot. She knew exactly what kind of talent was needed to produce such a fine and high-quality energy cube by coincidence.
Moreover, Wang Zheng's own image is also good, he is definitely a handsome guy if he is dressed up, and his partner Pikachu is also well-trained, so she thinks that if Wang Zheng is trained, he will definitely be a very good coordination trainer, even no less than her.
She sent an invitation to Wang Zheng, saying that she was willing to train Wang Zheng. Although she herself was still very young and not yet ready to accept apprentices, she suddenly developed a love for talents and did not want Wang Zheng to be buried.
But Wang Zheng declined her kindness.
Just kidding, it is already very reluctant for him to be a combat trainer, now that he has finally adapted to the rhythm of daily training, he is not willing to add more troubles.
Wu Qinglan shook her head regretfully, this was the first time someone rejected her, but she couldn't force Wang Zheng.
In the end, she and Wang Zheng exchanged contact information and added each other as friends on social software. She told Wang Zheng that if one day he changed his mind, he could contact her.
Wang Zheng hesitated before agreeing, the beauties in the circle of friends are also good.
Seeing Wang Zheng's unwillingness, the people in the audience shed sour tears.
After Wang Zheng returned to his seat, Wu Qinglan on the stage hesitated for a while, and decided to teach her a little trick of pressing the bottom of the box, so that Wang Zheng could experience it, and maybe he would change his mind.
"I'll talk a little bit more today, but it's not quite right to say it. It should be a show for everyone." Wu Qinglan said and glanced at Wang Zheng who was sitting in the last row.
"What I want to demonstrate to everyone is the fusion of energy cubes." Wu Qinglan cleared her throat, "As the name implies, the fusion of energy cubes is to make two kinds of tree fruits with different functions into one energy cube."
Everyone in the audience opened their eyes wide. They knew about the fusion of energy cubes, but they were limited to fusing two kinds of berries with similar functions to improve the efficacy. Moreover, the production method of this energy cube was many times higher than that of ordinary ones.
But now Wu Qinglan not only wants to fuse the two, but also wants to fuse the two with different functions, which is theoretically impossible.
But everyone is looking forward to it, because it is said that master trainers are good at making the impossible possible. Although Wu Qinglan has not reached that level yet, it is not far away.
Hearing her words, Wang Zheng also became serious, she knew that Wu Qinglan was going to show her bottom pressing skills.
Wu Qinglan on the stage took out a pomelo fruit and a persimmon fruit.
The effect of grapefruit, which is often used to make energy cubes, is to restore the elves' physical strength, while the effect of persimmon fruit is to relieve the confusion of elves.
In theory, it is impossible to make these two kinds of energy cubes, but.
Everyone watched nervously as Wu Qinglan cut the two fruits into cubes of equal size, and then slowly put the two fruits into the machine carefully.
Her other hand has been constantly adjusting the speed of the machine, fast and slow, fast and slow.
Some sweat oozed from Wu Qinglan's forehead, and one can imagine what kind of fine manipulation she was doing.
"Gulu." Everyone in the audience swallowed unconsciously, they were also very nervous.
Soon, 10 minutes passed. Normally, a normal energy cube can be produced in 5 minutes, but now it has been 10 minutes and Wu Qinglan is still operating the machine meticulously without any intention of stopping.
After 10 minutes, Wu Qinglan's movements slowly eased, and everyone guessed that it was coming to an end.
But the ending alone took a full 10 minutes.
After a total of three to ten minutes, Wu Qinglan finally stopped.
She stretched out her hand, and her partner, Elegant Cat, wiped her sweat with the handkerchief handed over by her tail. It could be seen that her spirit was exhausted.
"Ding dong." While she was wiping her sweat, the energy cube came out.
This energy cube is different from the usual single tone, but a mixed tone of yellow and pink, which looks like a crystal jelly.
Wu Qinglan looked at the appearance of the energy cube and nodded with satisfaction. Fusion of energy cubes is one of the directions for her to break through the master level.
Master-level coordination trainers have their own advantages and disadvantages, which are different from the master-level of combat-type trainers.
To evaluate whether a combat trainer is a master or not, you only need to look at the strength, but there are many directions to evaluate whether a coordination trainer is a master.
Some have unique attainments in the production of energy cubes, some have incomparable creativity in performances, some have the exclusive right to speak on the cultivation of elves, and so on.
Of course, in addition to combat and coordination trainers, there are many masters in other directions. For example, Dr. Oki in Kanto is also a master in the academic field. He can be called a master if he achieves the ultimate in a certain field.
Wu Qinglan has great ambitions. She wants to become a master in the production of energy cubes and performances, but this also makes her unable to truly advance to the master level.
Wu Qinglan held up a fusion energy cube and said: "The key to this production is to smash and fuse."
Wu Qinglan on the stage continued to explain, while Wang Zheng in the audience was shocked when he heard the shattering and fusion, and then he was ecstatic.
He feels as if he has found a solution to a problem that has been bothering him.
"It's not too late, try it now, before you forget this feeling."
Wang Zheng couldn't wait to start experimenting.
He closed his eyes, mobilized a little bit of his mental power in the depths of his consciousness, and then spun that ball of mental power crazily. When the speed reached the fastest, the mental power was directly scattered and scattered into countless small dots.
Wang Zheng stopped those small points of mental power, then mobilized the wave guides, and made them into small groups in the same way.
In the end, some small points in the spiritual power and some small points in the waveguide were fused together.
"Buzz!"
A familiar voice sounded in Wang Zheng's head. Before, he would faint every time he heard this voice, but now he didn't feel faint, and his brain was very clear.
Feeling the waveguide in his head exuding a powerful aura after qualitative change, Wang Zheng knew that he had succeeded.
He opened his eyes and saw Pikachu who was still playing with his mobile phone, found the waveguide connection between them, and then passed the qualitatively changed waveguide to Pikachu.
"Boom"
Pikachu fainted immediately.
Wang Zheng: ( ̄ー ̄)
Feeling Pikachu's steady breathing, he knew that Pikachu was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief and then sighed helplessly.
When one problem is solved, another problem arises. When can I master this skill.
When Wang Zheng finished the experiment, Wu Qinglan also finished explaining on the stage. Wang Zheng was the first to stand up and applaud. Now he is really grateful to this future master. If it weren't for her, Wang Zheng doesn't know how long it would take to integrate spiritual power and waveguide.
He guessed that the reason why Wu Qinglan could not become a master for a long time may be that her fusion technique took too long and the output was too low. In the final analysis, Wu Qinglan's mental power was not strong enough, and she did not have enough control over the details.
So Wang Zheng decided to wait for him to fully control his huge mental power, and tell Wu Qinglan the method he summed up on controlling mental power, as a reward for her.
Wu Qinglan was also a little happy to see Wang Zheng who was applauding. She felt that Wang Zheng had already recognized her, so it would not be far from Wang Zheng changing his mind and willing to be her apprentice.
In fact, she didn't even realize that she didn't know why she wanted to accept Wang Zheng as a disciple so much.
In the evening, Wang Zheng returned to school, put Pikachu gently on the bed, and then touched his chin and began to recall the various situations when he met poachers. He wanted to find out why he was able to pass the qualitatively changed waveguide to Pikachu, and Pikachu also successfully accepted his waveguide.
"Pikachu and I at that time" The complete memory ability allowed Wang Zheng to recall every detail of that time.
"By the way, Pikachu and I were in a state of rage at the time! That is to say, emotional resonance!!"
In a flash of inspiration, Wang Zheng found the crux of the matter. At that time, he and Pikachu had emotional resonance to use that power smoothly, but the tacit understanding between him and Pikachu is too poor now, let alone emotional resonance.
So in the end, we still need to cultivate a tacit understanding.
Wang Zheng patted Pikachu who was soundly asleep, and then began to practice the method of fusing waveguide and spiritual power, which should be called hot iron.
(End of this chapter)
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