Chapter 8: The Illustrated Book of the Elves
College Playground.
The two were preparing to summon their respective elves. Sora took out a piccolo, and Shigeru was a pager.
Dr. Ohki's research institute is located in Shinshin Town, south of Tokiwa City, and it used to be a little bit away. The siblings usually live with their grandfather, but because they often go to school in Joban City, they also have real estate in Joban City.
Originally, there was no need for such trouble, but because the doctor felt that his alma mater was very good in education, and he was worried that Xiao Mao was too withdrawn to make friends, so he insisted on letting him enroll with Sora. Once he is engaged in research, he will not be able to take care of two children, and he knows that it will be more reassuring if there are familiar children to take care of.
But apparently Shigeru still prefers to live with his family, and his sister thinks so too. Nanami is five years older than Shigeru, and after being a little more sensible, she fires her maid and takes care of her younger brother by herself. So the two have been very independent since they were children, and their relationship is also very deep.
"Whew-"
When the flute is blown in the air, the sound it makes is not loud, but it is a little low, but according to my mother, this flute can travel far away, and only the elves can hear it.
Generally speaking, it should take a while to arrive at the speed of the carving, but today I waited for almost 10 minutes and still haven't seen any trace of it.
"Why hasn't it arrived yet?" Sora played the flute again with some strange feeling.
"Probably hunting." Shigeru's big-billed finch didn't come either.
The two waited for a while, and just as they were about to take the car, two figures flew in front of them and behind them in the sky.
Faster than the eagle, it landed on the playground first, and Sora immediately noticed that it was injured.
The fluff on the abdomen was bald, and there were faint traces of blood oozing, and the majestic feather on the head was also broken and drooped on the head.
"What are you doing here?" Sora hurriedly took out the healing spray (commonly known as wound medicine) from his bag and sprayed it on the wound of the eagle, and the bleeding stopped at once.
The next moment he knew.
"Quack—" Xiaomao's large-billed finch barked at the eagle as soon as it landed.
The eagle turned his head disdainfully.
Then Sora saw that the foot of the large-billed finch had bent one. The feathers on his body looked even more messy, and there were scratches everywhere.
Is this a fight?
It seems that they encountered it on the way over, and they got into a fight when they didn't like each other.
When I went to school in the morning, I felt that the two of them didn't deal with each other, and something would really happen without the restraint of the trainer. The empty is a little helpless, but judging from the results, neither side has fallen into the favor, so it should be regarded as a tie.
After a small episode, the two appease their Pokémon and plan to go to Dr. Ohki's research institute first, and then to Kamio's mother.
Fortunately, the two elves didn't hurt their wings just now, otherwise they would have really had to take a taxi. Taxis are available, only to the edge of the city. There is a No. 1 road between Tokiwa City and Shinshin Town, which is not long, but it is often infested with elves.
The teenager is on the way......
Five minutes later, the two landed in the open space in front of the Oki Research Institute.
The exterior of the institute looks like a small two-story bungalow, a little further from the town, and there are no other homes nearby. But do you think that's the whole picture of the institute? It's too naïve.
The two mountains behind the institute and thousands of acres of mountains, ponds, and woods are all the private property of the doctor. Even if the land in the countryside is cheaper, there are so many elves in it that ordinary people can't afford it. Now you know how rich PhDs are.
Dr. Ohki's full name is Yukinari Ohki, the champion of the first Alliance Master Cup, the authoritative doctor of Pokémon, and a senior scholar and inventor of the Alliance. There are many titles, but the doctor's favorite is the title of Elven Ecology Expert. According to Kamio's father, the doctor refused the original generous salary because he was dissatisfied with some of the practices of the alliance back then, and went to the countryside to do research alone.
But it seems that if you leave the alliance, you may earn more. Empty in the heart of complaining.
Sora used to see that there was often only one doctor in the research institute in anime works, and he thought that the doctor was researching alone, but in fact it was impossible. All kinds of equipment need to be operated, a large amount of information needs to be sorted out, and the elves in the laboratory also need to be raised, how can one person be enough.
In addition, the research institute to which Kamio's mother belongs, and the ultimate responsible person is also Dr. Ohki. He has a lot of top-notch research teams like this at his disposal.
Originally, PhDs used to go out to collect data on their own, but as they got older, a lot of research delayed their training, so they slowly entrusted this work to a few trustworthy students. Kamio Kazuhei is one of them, helping out at the institute as an intelligence gatherer.
Xiao Mao stepped forward and rang the doorbell, and sure enough, no one answered. Then he took out his door card himself and entered the institute with a void.
It had been empty many times, and there were a few fruit trees in the yard that had been gnawed by the elves, and there were not many fruits, and it was clear that its owner had little effort to take care of them.
"Doctor!" "Grandpa!" The two shouted at the entrance.
No one answered.
"Probably do the experiment in the basement, or go to the back mountain. Grandpa has always been like this. Xiao Mao's words showed a little dissatisfaction, but he was used to it. After speaking, he took out a pair of slippers for Sora.
Sora nodded, changed his shoes, and followed Xiao Mao to the second floor.
The doctor lives on the first floor, and gives up the two rooms with the best lighting on the second floor to Shigeru and Nanami, even if he is always obsessed with research, the doctor still cares a lot about the two children.
Mao's room is simple, with only a bed, a wardrobe and a desk.
Taking advantage of Xiao Mao's change of clothes, he looked at it casually, and there were several posters on the wall, all of which were painted with some powerful elves. There is a doll on the bed, which is the one that Xiao Mao has been holding in his hand since he was a child, although it is a little old, but it can be seen that his owner cherishes it very much and maintains it very well.
"Don't you bring this?" Sora picked up the doll and said to Shigeru.
"Humph! Don't worry about it. Xiao Mao, who was ashamed, snatched it and stuffed it into his bag.
Do you really want to bring it......
After packing up their clothes, the two went to the basement again, and sure enough, they found the doctor there, and they didn't know what they were messing with.
Neither of them spoke, and quietly walked behind him. When I got closer, I saw that Dr. Ohki was holding a welding torch in one hand and holding down the circuit board with the other, and was loading parts on it. There are a bunch of wires, instant noodle bowls and other miscellaneous items on the side.
Sora looked at the things in the doctor's hand, and thought to himself, could this be the prototype of the elven illustrated book, did it do this?
After loading a part, the doctor wiped the sweat from his forehead, and when he turned his head, he saw Sora and Xiaomao standing silently behind him, and he was immediately startled.
"Wow! You two have trespassed into my lab again! ”
"Because no one answered after calling several times before, I wanted to see if grandpa was here." Xiaomao replied.
"That's right. But aren't you supposed to go to school in the city now, why are you here with me? "It's worthy of a doctor, and he gets to the point in an instant.
Hearing this, Xiaomao looked at the sky and motioned for him to explain.
Wow, it's like it's all my fault. Obviously, I agreed to say it at the beginning.
"It's early after school today~ By the way, Doctor, what are you making? Computers? "Sora pretended to be interested.
"Haha, this is much more powerful than a computer, and it's my latest research achievement." Sure enough, when I talk about my research, the doctor gets carried away.
"It's not done yet, but I'll show you first." As he spoke, the doctor plugged the board into a boxy, red-and-white device that looked like an old red-and-white machine, and then connected a camera to Nana on her empty shoulder.
The device's indicator light flashed.
"Look." The doctor gestured to the monitor next to him
The two hurried over, only to see a large amount of information densely packed on it:
Name: Eevee
Attribute: Normal
Genre: Evolution Pokémon
Trait: Adaptability
Synopsis: Genes are very unstable and will evolve into different types of Pokémon due to differences in the surrounding environment.
Skills: Flash, Gnaw, High-Speed Star, Slam, Shadow Ball......
……
It's so detailed, but something seems wrong. Sora immediately notices that there is something wrong with Eevee's skill bar.
"No, Doctor, my Nana didn't learn the skill of shadow ball."
"It's empty, I found out so quickly. That's the goal for the next stage, how to determine the skills that the elves have mastered so far. The doctor habitually lit a cigarette, intending to explain to Sora.
"Didn't you tell Grandpa not to smoke?" As a result, he was pinched by Xiao Mao before he took a few puffs and threw it into the trash.
"Ah~ sorry, sorry, get used to it." It doesn't seem to mean to quit, but there is a whole bag in the pocket of the clothes.
"Where did I just go? Oh, the next stage goal! The doctor continued, "As you saw earlier, the camera scans the elves, searches the database based on various physical features, and outputs the results. At present, the name, attributes, and even characteristics of the elf can be correctly judged, but the skills are different, how can you determine what skill the elf will have if it is not used? So I can only show all the skills that the elves may have mastered first. I've also considered solving this problem in terms of elf gene fragments, but this field is not my strong point, so I might have to consult Professor Xia Bo from Red Lotus Island......"
"Wait, Doctor, may I ask a question?" Sora interrupted the Doctor's tirade that was about to begin.
"You say." Dr. Ohki also wanted to hear what Sora had in mind.
"Who is this device for? Or rather, what is it used for? ”
The doctor thought for a moment and replied, "The original purpose of this thing is to help young trainers with dreams, and also to let more people know and love elves. ”
"So if it's to help trainers, why deprive them of the ability to explore on their own?" Sora paused, and then said: "When I first met Nana, I was very excited and curious, and I didn't know what kind of skills she had, so I stayed with Nana all day, and I didn't even take a bath and sleep. Slowly I knew that she could be electric and high-speed, that she had sharp ears and that her tail could be used to maintain balance. There are many, many other things that I learned while living with Nana. If it all were directly displayed in that machine, I would have lost a lot of good memories and would not have been so close to Nana. So I thought, why make this device so powerful? Wouldn't it be nice for the trainer to collect and analyze the information themselves and then enter it? ”
This passage is completely heartfelt, and it is about his experience after coming into this world.
Then he saw the Doctor look at him with a look he had never seen before, and burst into laughter.
"Aha!"
Xiao Mao has rarely seen his grandfather so happy, and the last time he remembers it was when he celebrated for his sister to win the winning ribbon of the gorgeous contest for the first time.
The doctor finally managed to stop laughing, and he patted the empty shoulder and said, "I didn't expect to be lectured by a child." Sure enough, researchers should listen to other people's ideas, otherwise no matter how hard they try, they will not be able to achieve something satisfactory. You're right, I didn't develop this device so that trainers could rely on it. It's called the Pokédex, and I originally wanted to make it something that would be able to record the ecology of every Pokémon the trainer encountered. Later, new technologies continued to appear, and I wanted to make it more powerful, but it turned out to be a bit contrary to the original intention. You're right, there are some things that should be discovered by the trainers themselves, and the future is yours. ”
"But if it's used as a guide, this thing is too big, and it feels so inconvenient." Xiao Mao was a little puzzled.
"That's why I need to do research." Dr. Oki stroked Aison's hair, "You know, a few years ago, it was just an idea, and it couldn't be realized due to the technology at that time. And now that it has taken shape, I believe that with the development of science, it will definitely be able to be made into a real elven illustrated book that can be carried around. ”