Pokémon: Start with an Admiral Crab!

The stone crab whose disguise was exposed did not run away, but looked at Wang Yao in front of it curiously.

Because there are very few foreign humans and Pokémon in the crater.

That's why it secretly followed Wang Yao, intending to see what this strange human was going to do...

"Silly... Forget it, go find someplace else to play!"

Wang Yao looked at the stone crab and saw that it hadn't made any movement, so he didn't bother to pay attention to it.

He turned around and planned to continue walking into the cave.

He guessed that the giant crab and the cowardly worm must have found something good in the cave, which was why they hadn't come out for so long.

"babble?"

The stone crab looked at Wang Yao's departing back, and its eyes moved left and right.

It lifted its little house with its pointed tail hidden in its stone shell and followed curiously.

Wang Yao heard the rustling sound of insects behind him, but he knew it was the stone crabs making the noise, so he didn't pay any attention to it.

The further you go into the cave, the larger the space becomes.

At the same time, the temperature is rising.

After walking back underground for a few detours, a lava river appeared in front of Wang Yao.

The fiery red magma continued to emerge from underground cracks, but solidified into a black crust in the air.

Through the cracks in the outer shell, you can see the magma inside flashing and surging.

“Hey—!”

Wang Yao took a few steps back, then took a big leap, crossed the more than five-meter-wide lava river, and continued to explore forward.

"babble……"

Ten seconds later, the stone crab also followed Wang Yao's footsteps and came to the lava river.

call out--!

With a flick of its feet, the stone crab easily jumped over the lava river, carrying its stone shell on its back.

……

"It seems a bit hot... Is there really anything good in a place like this?"

Wang Yao pulled out a bottle of delicious water from his backpack and drank it in a few gulps.

As we went deeper underground, the surroundings became brighter.

"Makko~" (Japanese version of the voice from the 241st episode of the anime, "Mala Snail! Conquer it with a burning heart!!")

A leisurely voice came from the rock wall on one side.

The bright red magma body and the flaming black snail shell...

Lava Snail, one of the most common Pokémon found inside volcanoes.

It is also the source of light around Wang Yao.

"Guji~"

"Ji Ka~"

Just when Wang Yao was hesitating whether to continue exploring inside the cave, the giant crab and the cowardly worm happened to return from inside the cave.

"Where do all these fruits come from?"

Wang Yao looked at the full load of insects and crabs and went over to them curiously.

"Hmm... isn't this a chocolate fruit?"

Wang Yao picked up a fruit from the pile of fruit on the giant crab's head.

The chocolate fruit has a light red surface with ridged depressions, and both the skin and the flesh inside are hard.

Wang Yao weighed it in his hand for a few times, and it felt very solid. Chocolat and tomato are both common sources of spiciness in curry rice, so Wang Yao was quite familiar with them.

Unlike the eggplant, which can be chopped and cooked directly, the fruit of this tree is very hard...

It is not the type that can be eaten directly and needs to be ground into powder before it can be used as seasoning powder.

Although the taste is equally spicy, it becomes sweeter after heating, making it an excellent condiment for those seeking a mellow taste. Therefore, its price is much higher than that of chili eggplant.

"I remember that this kind of fruit grows in tropical areas..."

Wang Yao muttered.

Would you say the interior of a volcano is tropical?

It’s hot enough… but it probably also lacks the sunlight and water that plants need to grow, right?

"Ji Ka~"

The claws of the cowardly bug and the grooves of the armor around its waist were filled with chocolates, so it staggered as it walked.

"Put them away first, and then take me to where I found them."

Wang Yao took off his backpack and packed up the Choco-fruits that the two Pokémon had harvested.

One chocolate fruit weighs more than half a pound. Wang Yao roughly calculated that there are about a hundred pounds here.

If you package the ground seasoning powder into 50-gram bottles and sell them in the market... you can at least get one or two million Baokeyuan.

However, considering Wang Yao's current net worth, this amount of money was not worth the trip, so he simply kept it for himself.

Under the guidance of Pokémon, Wang Yao came to a "fruit orchard" deep in the cave.

"This is!?"

What comes into view is an underground space that looks like a circular dome.

The temperature in space is much lower than that outside, and most importantly, there is "sunshine" shining in the sky.

The inside is filled with identical chocolate trees. The few near the entrance have been picked clean by giant crabs and cowardly bugs, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.

The chocolaty trees inside the cave are lush and green, growing in clusters that stretch as far as the eye can see.

Plus, it’s harvest time now, so almost every tree is full of fruits.

How many thousands of kilograms? Or tens of thousands of kilograms?

Wang Yao is not a professional fruit farmer, so he cannot estimate the approximate fruit output of this orchard at the moment.

But this underground orchard was only slightly novel to Wang Yao; there was something else that really attracted him.

"Good baby!"

Wang Yao looked up and saw a bright, transparent gem as big as a car embedded in the ceiling of the cave right above the orchard!

No wonder it can grow without sunlight, the light emitted by this gem is much brighter than the sunlight outside.

"There is actually such a place..."

Wang Yao did not rush to take the treasure, but looked around at the miracle of this underground orchard.

Originally, a Pokémon probably left its leftover chocolaty fruits on the ground, and because the environment was suitable and there were no other plants competing with it for nutrients.

The sunlight needed for plant growth is replaced by a strange glowing gem on the top of the cave.

I just don't know where the water comes from...

Wang Yao guessed that there must be an underground river... or the rainwater channel leading to the surface converges here.

Plus the nutrients provided by the volcanic soil itself are sufficient.

So these chocolat trees began to grow in large numbers in this large underground cave.

"It's outrageous... Didn't the two of you see this glowing stone?"

Wang Yao pointed at the large gem that served as the sun in the orchard and asked the two disappointing Pokémon.

Even though he didn't have the slightest knowledge of gem identification, he knew that this stone would be extremely valuable!

"Goo-chi?"

"Ji Ka?"

The giant crab and the cowardly bug looked at each other.

Then he looked up at the glowing gem in the sky.

In the end, I felt that the fruits of the tree were more useful - wouldn't they be perfect for the barbecue dinner tonight?

"But after we pick the gems, this orchard will become disposable!"

Wang Yao looked at the lush chocolate trees around him, stroking his chin and thinking.

This orchard is located who knows how many meters underground, and the only source of light is the gem.

If the gems were taken away, the entire orchard would die in no time.

Is it better to have glowing gems that have a chance of making you rich overnight... or is it better to have an underground tree orchard that has a steady flow of income and can harvest large quantities of precious spices every year?

Wang Yao fell into deep thought.

"Let's first ask Xiao Gang to identify the composition of this glowing gemstone..."

Wang Yao squinted his eyes and thought as he looked at the translucent gem on the top of the cave a hundred meters high that was still emitting dazzling light.