Average IQ, Decent EQ

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

Since the plan related to the Paldea Great Pit was still in the restarting phase, it meant that the Time Machine had not yet been built by the couple. In other words, perhaps everything could still be changed.

The plot of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet basically had no deep-seated grudges and was filled with the feeling of an "ideal world."

The only major regrets were Professor Sada and Professor Turo, who would die in the future, and Arven, who had lost both parents.

Perhaps he could change some things in the future.

The moment Professor Sada began talking about Area Zero, she displayed a chatterbox talent on the same level as Arven's—perhaps even a tier above him.

Perhaps she also wanted to pique Luo Mu's interest in Area Zero.

Professor Sada's words poured forth in an endless stream, technical terms popping out one after another like beads seamlessly linked on a string.

By the time his head was spinning, Luo Mu had only understood one thing.

Arven's nagging was probably inherited from his mother.

What stopped Professor Sada's chanting was neither natural disaster nor human calamity, but a piercing alarm that suddenly sounded from among the pile of advanced research equipment behind her.

"Looks like it failed again." Olin sighed, stopping her endless speech. With practiced ease, she put on Gloves and walked over to the machinery, using tweezers to pick up a clearly ruined special core, her face full of frustration.

The experiment on enduring spatial transmission had failed again.

The Wild Pokémon in the Paldea Great Pit were extremely powerful. To enter its depths, establish stable research facilities and observation stations, and travel freely between them, they had to develop a transmission device between observation stations based on Poké Ball transfer technology.

With a transmission device, they would no longer have to traverse the complicated terrain of the Paldea Great Pit every time they transported supplies.

The technical calculations had already been completed. The only problem was that the core experiments kept failing, and they could not find the reason.

At this rate, the plan to restart Tera Research would have to be delayed. That was something Professor Sada and Professor Turo, who longed for Pokémon from the past and future respectively, did not want to see.

Looking at the core Olin held in her tweezers, Luo Mu suddenly wanted to test the Hint System's capabilities and asked curiously in his mind, "System, can you give me a hint for this?"

The blue solution in the second bottle to the doctor's left can be mixed with the pink solution in the fourth bottle.

Luo Mu followed the system's hint and looked over. Those two bottles really were there. He suddenly asked, "Professor Sada, could you tell me what those two solutions on your left are?"

"No problem." Though puzzled, Olin picked up the two bottles Luo Mu had mentioned. Gently shaking them, she slowly explained, "They are, respectively, Space Solidifier and an extract of the psychic energy contained in Abra saliva."

"Space Solidifier?"

"To put it simply, it shrinks and stabilizes the range of space."

Luo Mu did not really understand the profound scientific knowledge coming from Olin's mouth. He only saw that, as she spoke, she seemed to have an inspiration. After calling out to Luo Mu, she buried herself in research.

Perhaps because she had already gone through countless failures, Olin's movements were exceptionally skilled. She took out several cores that were obviously just empty shells and began testing her sudden idea.

There was no need to elaborate on the number of failures. Luo Mu waited another hour and a half. After several failures, Olin, who had been constantly muttering formulas, finally produced two cores that emitted a faint green glow.

She installed the cores into the device on the floor. As the ring of light on the device lit up, her expression instantly turned excited.

"It worked!"

Luo Mu, who had traveled here from the modern world, never tried to understand any of the Pokémon world's black technology. After all, it would only be a meaningless waste of brain cells.

But the moment Professor Sada activated the device, he still recognized what it was.

"Hiss."

Wasn't this the black technology from the games that let people teleport back and forth between observation stations?

Olin cautiously placed an empty beaker on the transmission device. Her right hand trembled slightly as she pressed the retro red button, as though it could launch a nuclear missile.

After a faint hum, a somewhat dazzling green glow lit up and faded. The beaker appeared on another transmission device four or five meters away.

Luo Mu was dumbfounded. Was research and invention really this easy?

It was absurd. Whether it was the seemingly omniscient Hint System or Professor Sada, who had inexplicably reached enlightenment, it was all ridiculous.

It gave Luo Mu a frustrated feeling that his intelligence had been completely crushed.

Luo Mu exclaimed in his mind, "You're that awesome?"

Hehe!

Even though it was just two short words, Luo Mu could tell from how much they wobbled that This guy was very pleased with itself.

Fine, let it be pleased. Its absurd yet controllable hint function would definitely contribute to the farm's development in the future.

Luo Mu had that much foresight.

After entrusting the raw ore of the Tera Orb to Professor Sada, she seemed to believe that she had successfully made the transmission device because of Luo Mu's reminder.

While expressing her thanks, Olin enthusiastically invited Luo Mu to switch careers and become a researcher. She could offer better treatment than Naranja Academy, and the only requirement was that he might occasionally need to work overtime.

That "might" and "occasionally" were very telling. Luo Mu vaguely remembered that after the couple devoted themselves to researching Area Zero, Arven truly became a left-behind child in the literal sense.

Over several years, the number of times he could meet his parents could be counted on one hand.

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

He was taking his leave!

Seeing Luo Mu inexplicably reject her invitation with a resolute expression, Olin could only give up regretfully. She took several bags of suspicious-looking seeds without any labels from a preservation refrigerator nearby and handed them to Luo Mu.

Olin said, "I happened to obtain these bags of seeds while researching ancient history. I don't know their species, but the energy inside them is extremely active. They probably aren't ordinary plants."

Luo Mu picked up one of the bags and examined it carefully for a while, but even with his scant knowledge, he could not determine what species it was.

Once his farm was built, he would definitely need to grow crops to make money. These seeds were of unknown origin, and he did not even know what variety they were. Even if he grew them, they might not sell.

Luo Mu's IQ was not particularly high, but his EQ was not low either.

Though he wondered what these seeds could do, they were still a token of Professor Sada's goodwill. He could accept them, store them away for now, and plant them in some spare space once the farm was on track.

After all, someone had once said that one should make lots and lots of friends.

Before Luo Mu left with the seeds, Olin seemed to suddenly remember something and called after his back, "Teacher Luo, please take care of Arven for me at Naranja Academy!"

Luo Mu's departing steps halted. His expression instantly became strange, and he inexplicably felt his stomach begin to hurt.

Since Arven would become his student—

Didn't that mean he would run into all the other protagonists and problem children too!?

Gulp. Don't let that happen!

Before he had even started work, Luo Mu already wanted to resign.