Pokémon Era: Starting as a Team Rocket

The entire Beedrill forest maintained a peculiar balance. Internal strife and the powerful Pokémon surrounding them prevented the Beedrill population from increasing.

Qingwu saw that the largest Beedrill hive was the one he had encountered with Leiming.

However, the conflicts between Beedrill hives indeed benefited Qingwu.

Qingwu plundered a lot of Beedrill honey. Beedrill honey and Combee honey could both be used to make Pokémon food. Humans consuming it long-term could even strengthen their bodies.

"Zubat, use Aerial Ace on Beedrill. Aron, use Rock Blast to defeat Beedrill."

Qingwu had provoked another Beedrill hive. Over thirty Beedrill followed closely behind, giving chase.

Some of the Beedrill only saw a flash of white light, then felt a pain in their wings. The Beedrill fell from high in the sky, and the white light transformed into a smug Zubat.

Ever since Zubat learned Aerial Ace from Butterfree, Aerial Ace had become Zubat's favorite move.

Aron's Rock Blast, which was super effective against Beedrill, took down almost two-thirds of the thirty Beedrill.

"Let's go, Aron, Zubat." Qingwu headed towards the Beedrill hive. Those Beedrill just now were the last adult Beedrill of the hive.

Qingwu looked through the grass at the countless Kakuna hanging from the trees. Next to the treetop was a huge beehive.

The beehive was made of beeswax. From afar, Qingwu could smell the unique scent of Beedrill honey.

Beedrill hives were different from Vespiquen hives. Vespiquen's Combee would build super huge amber cities, which were Combee beehives, where young were raised and honey was brewed.

However, Beedrill hives only allowed Beedrill to enter and exit. The hive was where Beedrill brewed honey, and it was not in the same place where Beedrill hatched Pokémon eggs.

Pokémon eggs and Beedrill honey were Qingwu's goals this time.

Qingwu looked at the Kakuna hanging from the trees, a smile appearing on his face.

"Zubat, use Hurricane on the Kakuna." Qingwu was still afraid of trouble, so he decided to strike first.

There were over a hundred Kakuna here, Qingwu calculated. They were the main force of the Beedrill hive. For the recently exhausted Aron and Zubat, this number was a bit too much.

The Kakuna were instantly alerted. Zubat's Hurricane contained Air Slash.

Countless Kakuna were blown off the treetops by the Hurricane. Except for some Kakuna that evolved into Beedrill in anger, the other Kakuna all lost consciousness.

And the newly evolved Beedrill were also very easily defeated by Aron.

"Come, Zubat, give me a hand." Qingwu's weight was not more than 60kg. Zubat, capable of carrying a 60kg Aron, could also carry Qingwu.

Zubat's feet rested on Qingwu's shoulder, and Qingwu instantly flew into the sky.

"Zubat, take me to the Beedrill hive first." Beedrill easily took Qingwu to the hive.

Qingwu directly took two-thirds of the honey from the hive. Qingwu would not over-exploit.

As long as Beedrill existed, their honey would continuously be produced.

Even if the Beedrill Qingwu had defeated met with an accident, the remaining Kakuna would evolve into Beedrill to guard the hive.

Qingwu filled bottles and jars with honey. Beedrill honey was very expensive, selling for as much as 100 alliance coins per gram on the black market.

"Come, Zubat, take me to the place where the Beedrill eggs are kept." The Beedrill hive Qingwu found was a medium-sized one. The Pokémon eggs inside were neatly arranged in nests made of leaves.

Qingwu counted the Pokémon eggs; there were over a hundred of them. That's right, there were over a hundred Kakuna, so it was no surprise there were that many eggs.

Qingwu immediately activated the system to scan.

"Red potential, red potential, red potential..." Qingwu was speechless. In the entire hive, only two Pokémon eggs had orange potential. The base number was simply too large.

No wonder Qingwu rarely saw Beedrill with yellow potential. After all, if the parents' potential wasn't good, how could the offspring's potential be?

"No wonder Team Rocket ordered the construction of breeding grounds," Qingwu muttered, stroking his chin.

Following the principle of "every little bit helps," Qingwu put the Pokémon eggs into his space backpack.

Team Rocket's breeding grounds were built all over the world. They were where Team Rocket members placed Pokémon with good potential that they caught from around the world.

Some of the trainees' Pokémon came from these breeding grounds.

This was a last resort, as wild Pokémon's potential was uncontrollable, and most of them had red potential.

Only through artificial intervention, concentrating high-potential Pokémon and feeding them well, could they hope to produce offspring with higher potential.

Qingwu returned to the Team Rocket base with his Pokémon. The person on duty at the exchange counter had changed again.

This time, it was a smiling, very honest-looking old man, known as Lord Tiger, the "Smiling Tiger."

Lord Tiger was slowly cutting a cigar and stuffing a good quality sandalwood stick into it. After doing this, he carefully lit the cigar, and white smoke billowed upwards.

This way of smoking cigars was very popular in the Pokémon world. It eliminated the cigar's spiciness and added a hint of sandalwood flavor.

The exchange counter soon filled with the choking smell of smoke, but there was also a faint fragrance.

Lord Tiger took a deep puff of his cigar and exhaled two streams of white smoke from his nostrils.

"Speak, what do you want to exchange?" Lord Tiger asked, shrouded in smoke.

"I want to exchange Pokémon for points." Although Qingwu disliked the smell of smoke, he didn't show it on his face.

Facial expression control was a skill Qingwu learned in Team Rocket.

"Oh? Bring out the Pokémon to have a look," Lord Tiger immediately became interested.

Qingwu took out all the Pokémon he wanted to exchange for points from his wristband and lined them up.

"Please proceed. Do you need an appraiser?" Qingwu gestured to Lord Tiger.

"No need, I am the appraiser." Lord Tiger took out a device similar to a Pokedex from a drawer below, pressed it towards the Poké Balls, and several light waves appeared.

In a short while, the detailed data of the Pokémon appeared.

"This is a Pokémon potential appraisal instrument. I didn't expect it to be researched out so quickly," Qingwu was a bit surprised.

Lord Tiger seemed to have noticed Qingwu's surprise and said leisurely.

"I'm being lazy, Lord Tiger. This is Team Rocket's semi-finished product, specifically used to test Pokémon's potential."

"However, the test results are not particularly accurate. If you have any objections to the test results, I will conduct a more detailed test," Lord Tiger exhaled rings of smoke.

"Understood." Qingwu had participated in the research of Pokémon potential appraisal.

Of course, he knew that this instrument had epoch-making significance. Many of the materials on Qingwu's system came from this Pokémon potential appraisal database.

However, according to the current timeline, this appraisal instrument could only appraise Pokémon with green potential or below.

Soon, the appraisal results came out, all printed on paper by Lord Tiger.

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