Chapter 291: Su Hao on the Verge of Bankruptcy

Lying on the hotel bed, Su Hao counted on his fingers while pulling at Incineroar's paws: "Right now, Drakloak needs to consume one Dragon Gem and one Ghost Gem every day. The berries given by Hydreigon are almost finished, and the stock of energy cubes has hit rock bottom."

"Dragon Gems are 50,000 Shenzhou coins each, and Ghost Gems are 45,000 Shenzhou coins each. Given that life energy becomes harder to replenish the further along one goes, the 3 million Shenzhou coins I have left on me wouldn't last even a month if I only fed little Drakloak, and it might not even last that long once little Drakloak's absorption ability improves along with its strength..."

Su Hao felt his abs suddenly get a bit itchy. He withdrew his hands from pulling at Incineroar's paws and plucked the mischievous Drakloak from inside his T-shirt, placing it on top of his head.

"Come to think of it, back when Diancie was still a Carbink, its strength skyrocketed without consuming any resources at all. Perhaps that's because it had Xerneas's power inside its body..." Su Hao turned his head to look at Diancie, who was practicing its shaping ability even while watching TV.

"As for Milotic, its brother and sister used magic to seal part of the power of the two 'Red and Blue Planes' into it, which is much higher quality than the resources circulating on the market. Now it only needs normal food intake." Su Hao made eye contact with Milotic, who was floating and wandering near the ceiling.

In a sense, the resources Milotic needs for growth have been completely covered by Latios and Latias...

After counting back and forth, it turned out that Milotic and Incineroar, who only ate energy cubes and candy, were relatively more cost-effective...

Strength doesn't grow out of thin air, though. Besides energy cubes, he still had to find rare resources with powerful effects to provide for Diancie and the others.

"In the end, I'm only good at spending money and not making it. I have to find a way to make money..."

Some people look glamorous on the outside, taking on ten at a time in the arena and soloing the main force of the Magic City University team, but in reality, they are about to be eaten into poverty by their Pokémon (sad).

The "Big Tiger" couldn't bear to hear these words. Incineroar looked at Su Hao in shock, its tiger eyes wide open.

Our family, we're not going to be able to afford food anymore!?

Su Hao didn't notice Incineroar, who was aggrievedly retracting its paws with an expression that suggested it should eat less in the future. He continued to frown and ponder.

The acquisition of Dragon Gems and Ghost Gems was also a problem. These items in the Alliance store were often swept clean as soon as they were listed. The two types of gems he had managed to scrape together from the Gym warehouse thanks to his father's connections last time only had two left in total...

Gems of the Water, Fire, and Grass types basically had mineral deposits in many mountain ranges. As the most basic attributes, the conditions for forming these three types of gems were simple, so their prices were the lowest, and their stock and output were both high.

Next were the slightly rarer gems. For example, Steel Gems only had a chance to be produced in places rich in mineral resources, and Flying Gems were only easy to find in dangerous places like cliffs and precipices.

The production of something like Ghost Gems was very metaphysical. Some people said they were produced near graveyards and tombstones where ghost energy was thick, while others said Ghost Gems were produced in the legendary Spirit World.

No new Secret Realms had descended in these years, so the amount of these resources produced naturally couldn't quench the thirst. Most of the mines had been dug out, and the prices were constantly climbing.

Every year, more and more of the new generation were embarking on the path of a trainer, and the older generation of trainers were also consuming resources.

This was why when a new Secret Realm was about to descend near the high seas, countries all over the world attached such great importance to it, even proposing regulations to decide resource allocation through battles.

In the final analysis, it was just four words: there were no resources left.

"And then there's this thing, Electrium..."

Su Hao fiddled with the yellow crystal in his hand that occasionally released a "faint" current of 220 volts, making his palm feel slightly numb.

This was something that a flustered Cui Wenyao had brought from the Electric Room before he left Magic City University.

At that time, Cui Wenyao had very carefully warned Su Hao that this thing must be handled with insulation measures, otherwise the current emitted by just this one piece of Electrium would be enough to pose a threat to the human body.

He had solemnly handed the Electrium, with its protective measures made watertight, to Su Hao.

Magic City University was alright; he had only expressed a little interest, and they actually gave him a piece of Electrium.

"There's actually no way to buy this thing right now; it's completely monopolized by the United States Alliance. I wonder where Magic City University got enough Electrium to build the Electric Room..."

Su Hao asked Incineroar, who was aggrievedly practicing horse stance and punching on the side, to come over.

"Big Tiger, come see if the current and energy inside this can be used?" Su Hao tossed the Electrium in his hand toward Incineroar.

"Ka-roar??"

Incineroar showed a look of disdain as it touched the Electrium. The occasional current it emitted couldn't even break through the defense of its fur; it wasn't even as powerful as Magnezone's Thunderbolt!

After trying all the methods to draw out Electric-type energy and current, Incineroar shook its head at Su Hao, indicating that let alone absorbing it, it couldn't even extract it.

Incineroar's evaluation: Not as powerful as a Thunder Stone.

Su Hao was speechless. What kind of structure was this Electrium? Could it be that it really required multiple Electrium stones to form a magnetic field before it could be used?

He put away the Electrium that Incineroar handed back and considered his future plans.

Jiang Chengcheng had just told Su Hao in the group chat the opening time of the University Cup: the preliminary selection matches would be held in various provincial capital cities in early June to decide the trainers who would represent each province in the knockout tournament.

The eight students from Yang City High School, including Su Hao, were all assigned to Chengdu for the preliminary selection matches.

There were still three weeks left, so the time was still quite ample.

Su Hao planned to finish handling things in Magic City and then say goodbye to his mother and Eevee. He planned to go to Imperial City University to take a look.

The University Cup didn't put much pressure on him; the main thing was the Seed Project knockout tournament related to the possibility of healing Eevee—that Nirvana Secret Realm which might contain Ho-Oh.

Then there was the fifth or sixth Pokémon. If possible, he wanted to catch an Electric-type or Flying-type Pokémon.

Also, Miao Yin was currently in the Imperial City. He said that when Su Hao arrived in the Imperial City, he would take him to pick a Pokémon... With this, the six slots recorded by the Alliance would be full. If he wanted to increase the number of Pokémon he could capture, he would have to become a Professional-level trainer or make some kind of contribution or achievement to increase the number of Pokémon captures.

The Poké Balls of the Shenzhou Alliance didn't have the function of recording the data of the Pokémon inside; they could only know whether a Pokémon had been captured in the ball and then upload it to the database. ===== CHAPTER 292 =====