Chapter 7: Average Intelligence, Decent Emotional Quotient

However, Dr. Sada's words made Luo Mu breathe a sigh of relief.

Since the plan related to the Paldea Crater was still in the restart phase, it meant the time machine had not yet been created by the couple; in other words, perhaps everything could still be changed.

The entire plot of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet basically lacked any deep-seated hatred, filled with a sense of a "utopia."

The only great regrets were Dr. Sada/Dr. Turo, who would perish in the future, and Senior Peony, who had lost both parents.

In the future... perhaps he could change some things.

As soon as Dr. Sada started talking about Area Zero, she displayed a talent for chatterboxes on the same level as Peony, or even a rank higher.

Perhaps there was also the reason of wanting to spark Luo Mu's interest in Area Zero.

Dr. Sada's ceaseless words flowed like a string of pearls, with professional terminology emerging one after another, like beads seamlessly connected on a string.

Listening until he was dizzy and confused, Luo Mu ultimately understood only one truth.

Peony's nagging was most likely inherited from his mother.

What stopped Dr. Sada from chanting like a sutra was neither a natural disaster nor a man-made calamity, but the sharp alarm sound that suddenly rang out from the pile of high-precision, cutting-edge research instruments behind her.

"It seems another failure," Sada sighed, stopping her endless stream of words; she skillfully put on gloves, approached the instrument, used tweezers to pick up a special core that was obviously scrapped, and wore an expression of extreme distress.

The experiment on tolerance to spatial teleportation had failed again.

The wild Pokémon in the Paldea Crater were extremely powerful; to establish stable research institutes and observation stations deep within and travel freely, they had to base their work on Pokémon Ball teleportation technology and, on that foundation, develop teleportation devices between observation stations.

With teleportation devices, there would be no need to traverse the complex environment of the Paldea Crater every single time supplies were transported.

The technical calculations were complete; the only problem was that experiments on the core repeatedly failed, and the cause could not be found.

If this continued, the plan to restart the Terastal research would have to be postponed, something Dr. Sada and Dr. Turo, who longed for past and future Pokémon, did not wish to see.

Looking at the core held by Sada, Luo Mu, suddenly wanting to test the functions of the Hint System, curiously asked in his mind, "System, can you provide a hint for this?"

【The blue solution in the second bottle to the Doctor's left and the pink solution in the fourth bottle can be mixed together.】

Following the System's hint, Luo Mu looked over and indeed saw those two bottles of solution; he suddenly said, "Dr. Sada, could you tell me what those two bottles of solution on your left are?"

"No problem." Although puzzled, Sada still picked up the two bottles of solution Luo Mu mentioned; gently shaking the containers with her hand, she slowly said, "They are respectively a Spatial Solidifying Agent and an extract of the Psychic energy contained in Abra saliva..."

"A Spatial Solidifying Agent?"

"Simply put, it shrinks and solidifies the spatial range..."

Luo Mu did not quite understand those profound scientific knowledge points coming from Sada's mouth; he just saw that as she spoke, she seemed to have some inspiration, so she called out to Luo Mu once before burying her head in research again.

Perhaps due to having experienced countless failures already, Sada's movements were extremely skilled; she took out some cores that were obviously just empty shells and began trying out her sudden inspiration.

There is no need to elaborate on the number of failures; after waiting another hour and a half, Sada, who had been constantly muttering some formula in her mouth, finally produced two cores emitting a shimmering green light after experiencing several failures.

She installed the cores into the device on the ground, and as the light rings on the device lit up, her expression instantly became excited.

"Success!"

Having traveled from the modern era, Luo Mu never attempted to understand any black technology in the Pokémon world; after all, that was just a meaningless consumption of his own brain cells.

But at the moment Dr. Sada activated the device, he still recognized what this thing was.

"Hiss..."

Isn't this thing the black technology in the game that allows teleportation back and forth between observation stations?

Sada tentatively placed an empty beaker on the teleportation device, her right hand trembling slightly as she pressed the retro red button that looked as if it could launch a nuclear weapon.

After a faint humming sound, a dazzling green fluorescent light flared up and then extinguished, and the beaker appeared on another teleportation device four or five meters away.

Luo Mu was dumbfounded; was research and invention this easy?

It was too outrageous, whether it was the Hint System that seemed to foresee the future, or Dr. Sada who had inexplicably achieved sudden enlightenment.

This gave Luo Mu a sense of frustration as if his intelligence had been completely crushed.

Luo Mu exclaimed in shock within his mind, "Are you this awesome?"

【Hmph hmph!】

Even though it was just two short characters of text, just by looking at the amplitude of its shaking, Luo Mu knew this fellow was very proud.

Let it be proud; this heaven-defying yet controllable hint function would definitely contribute to the development of the farm in the future.

Luo Mu still had this much foresight.

After entrusting the raw Terastal Orb ore to Dr. Sada, she seemed to believe that she had been able to successfully create the teleportation device only because of Luo Mu's reminder.

While expressing her gratitude, Sada enthusiastically invited Luo Mu to consider changing careers to become a researcher; she could offer treatment better than that of Naranja Academy, with the only requirement being that he might occasionally have to work overtime.

This "might" and "occasionally" were very flexible; Luo Mu vaguely remembered that after the couple devoted themselves to research in Area Zero, Peony truly became a left-behind child in the literal sense.

Over several years, the number of times he could meet his parents was countable on one's fingers.

If the employer was like this, how busy must the people under her be?

Farewell!

Seeing Luo Mu reject her invitation with an inexplicably determined look on his face, Sada, despite her regret, could only drop the matter; she took several bags of seeds that looked very suspicious and bore no labels whatsoever from a nearby preservation refrigerator and handed them to Luo Mu.

Sada said, "These are a few bags of seeds I accidentally obtained while researching past history; although the varieties are unclear, the energy inside the seeds is very active, so they should not be ordinary plants."

Luo Mu picked up one of the bags and examined it carefully for a while; relying on the meager knowledge in his brain, he was unable to determine exactly what variety it was.

After his farm was built, he would definitely need to plant crops to make money; with seeds of unknown origin and unidentified varieties, even if they grew, they might not necessarily be sellable.

Luo Mu's intelligence was not high, but his emotional intelligence was not low either.

Even though he was puzzled about what these seeds could do, this was still Dr. Sada's kind intention; after accepting them, he could temporarily store them at the bottom of a box and plant them in empty spaces once the farm was on the right track.

After all, that person had once said that one should make as many friends as possible.

Before Luo Mu left with the seeds, Sada seemed to only just remember something and called out to his back, "Teacher Luo, please take care of Peony at Naranja Academy!"

Luo Mu's departing footsteps stalled, and his expression instantly became strange; he inexplicably felt his stomach starting to hurt.

Since Peony would become his student...

Didn't that mean he would run into all the other main characters and problem children as well!?

Gulp... I don't want that kind of thing to happen!

Before even going to work, Luo Mu already wanted to resign.