“October 12th, Wednesday, Clear weather.” “While executing a daily patrol mission today, I unexpectedly discovered a Pokemon poacher…” Having cleaned himself up, Chase began recording the day’s events in the Ranger log on his computer.
Anything related to the system definitely had to be omitted, so in the end, the record stated that Chase had discovered the poacher himself.
Recording daily encounters was one of the most important duties of his profession.
His predecessor, the senior veteran, had recorded over fifty physical notebooks and thousands of gigabytes of graphic and textual data, day after day for twenty years.
With the development of the times, a lot of video footage was now added as well.
The collection of all this data served as an important reference source for the Sinnoh League to grasp the situations in various locations within its borders.
There were many places in the Pokemon world that humans could not set foot in, such as the territories of powerful Pokemon and deep, remote forests untouched by human footprints.
Unlike in Chase’s previous life, where wearing protective gear and carrying a shotgun would let you roam through most no-man’s-lands, many places in the Pokemon world really weren’t somewhere ordinary people could just casually go.
Even Gym Leaders leading a team of high-level Pokemon might run into randomly spawning Elite Four-level or even Champion-level Pokemon in unexpected places and end up getting a Game Over.
Therefore, aside from powerful Trainers with a pioneering spirit, most people generally kept a respectful distance from places like remote forests.
At most, they would just wander around the outer perimeter.
If you don’t believe it, just look at today’s poacher; he was clearly on the run, yet still didn’t dare to venture deep into the forest, which tells you something.
Humans temporarily had no way to delve deep into these places, but that didn’t mean they wouldn’t do their homework in advance.
Otherwise, if one day the higher-ups wanted to explore or develop them, only to find scattered, fragmented information, that would truly be a headache.
Thus, positions like Chase’s and his senior veteran’s were better described as information-recording observers rather than Forest Rangers.
Of course, the actual Ranger duties weren’t discarded either.
For instance, just like when Chase went to arrest the poacher today, even without the rewards given by the system, he couldn’t have just pretended not to see it.
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Clack clack clack…
Chase’s hands continued to rhythmically tap across the keyboard.
“Up to this point, with the help of Pidgeotto, the information on the outer perimeter of the forest left for me by Grey has been completely verified, and there won’t be any major changes in the short term.” “…” “My next plan is to do my absolute best to train Zangoose to the high-level stage, and then start exploring the situation in the central area of the forest bit by bit together with it.” After typing the last word, Chase saved the file in a folder on his computer, then stood up and stretched with satisfaction.
The area of this forest was said to exceed 100,000 square kilometers.
Previously, Grey had stayed here for twenty years, and even then he had only managed to completely explore the outer perimeter near human activity zones and about one-fifth of the central area.
There was no helping it; his own strength was insufficient.
Even with Blaze’s protection, Grey didn’t dare to risk his life.
The data he had collected over the years had basically all been reclaimed by the Sinnoh League.
What was left for Chase was only a rough map of the outer perimeter and a small portion of information about the central area.
The rest he had to explore on his own.
The reason Chase was willing to rescue the Pidgey, and even used a Junior Potential Enhancement Potion on it, was precisely because he valued the reconnaissance advantage from the air.
Otherwise, relying solely on his own two legs, even if the time was doubled, he probably wouldn’t have been able to confirm much.
Initially, when he was first assigned here, Chase actually held the mentality of working peacefully through these ten years, and then officially starting his own path as a Trainer after his term ended and he returned to the League.
At most, during his time as a Ranger, he would see if he could encounter a Pokemon with good talent and seize the opportunity to catch it.
For example, ever since Chase officially took office, he had been planning a blind date between Blaze and that Officer Jenny’s Arcanine.
For no other reason than hoping that when they had children someday in the future, they might entrust one to him.
With both parents having Blue-tier potential, the offspring would likely also be Blue, barring any accidents.
And a Growlithe with Blue potential was something that even an Elite Four-level Trainer would absolutely not turn away.
But now, with the system’s awakening, Chase felt that he could try to make his previous plans a bit more aggressive.
From the mission issued today, it could be seen that unless he no longer wanted to rely on the system’s power, there would definitely be even more dangerous missions waiting for him to complete in the future.
Therefore, cultivating some powerful Pokemon was of utmost urgency.
Starting from scratch now definitely wouldn’t make it in time, so Zangoose was taken as the first step of this plan.
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“What’s that noise outside?” Chase’s ears twitched.
He walked out of the room, and then saw Aipom from the shelter area staring anxiously at the gate.
“Ooh, ooh!” Seeing Chase, Aipom immediately began gesturing wildly, and finally pointed to the shelter area with an excited look on its face.
“Are you saying there’s a problem in the shelter?
It’s those three Zigzagoon!” Chase instantly guessed the reason.
“Ooh ooh!” Aipom nodded vigorously.
“I got it, let’s hurry over.” Chase scooped up the mobility-impaired Aipom and dashed straight for the shelter area.
When he arrived, he saw Kricketot and Starly huddled together, shivering.
Not far from them, the three black-and-white little guys were feasting on the stored food in the shelter, the entire space filled with the gulping and snorting sounds of their eating.
“Oh no!” Chase quickly realized what was happening and hurried forward to pick the Zigzagoon up.
“Zig Zigzagoon!” Forcibly separated from their food, the Zigzagoon immediately fell into a manic state, struggling constantly.
It wasn’t until they realized that the person holding them was Chase that they barely calmed down.
“Zig Zigzag?” Although the three little ones no longer resisted, they still couldn’t help but question why Chase wasn’t letting them continue eating.
They were so hungry.
By this time, Chase had already used [Eye of Insight] to look over the three Zigzagoon.
Sure enough, they all had the Gluttony ability.
Pokemon with this ability naturally had a larger appetite than their peers.
Coupled with the fact that the poacher definitely hadn’t fed them properly during the escape, it had clearly left the young Zigzagoon with a bit of psychological trauma.
You have to know, that was nearly three days’ worth of rations for Aipom and the others, and in just that short while, at least more than half of it had been devoured by the three of them.
This kind of gluttonous, binge-eating method was definitely unacceptable, so Chase quickly fetched some highly satiating Pokeblocks, and finally managed to soothe the Zigzagoon.