Wimpod Appeared on the Trainer Panel (Please Follow)

"Ah-choo! Ah-choo!"

The Caterpie walking along the country path sneezed several times in a row.

After several days of training and growth, Caterpie had clearly become much more lively.

After leaving the classroom and entering the country path, Caterpie spotted several dandelions and pounced over to play with them.

Its repeated sneezing seemed to be because it had inhaled dandelion seeds.

But apparently, that was not all.

Somehow, Caterpie seemed to sense something. It turned back toward the school. Just as it had sneezed, it felt as if something had been talking about it...

Unlike humans, Pokemon bloodline genes were remarkably mysterious, containing all kinds of supernatural powers.

Mark, who was gently stroking Caterpie's head, failed to notice that the Run Away Ability had flashed briefly in Caterpie's Ability section on the Trainer Panel.

It had appeared, then vanished.

As its body reached a bottleneck, after awakening the Shield Dust Ability and the move Bug Bite, Caterpie had begun showing signs of awakening a second Ability: Run Away.

Neither Caterpie nor Mark had noticed it.

In the Pokemon games, the Run Away Ability meant that when a Pokemon was frightened, it could ignore any restricting effects and flee from battle.

But in the real world, the Run Away Ability leaned more toward a form of perception. Often, before it even discovered powerful enemies, a Pokemon with Run Away would flee in advance.

Yes, the true Run Away Ability took effect before its user even faced a powerful enemy.

In fact, this was also why the Caterpie Group in Clear Stream Forest had remained undiscovered by humans to this day. Many of the Caterpie there had awakened the Run Away Ability.

It was not that Clear Stream Forest produced an abundance of Caterpie with Run Away, but that most of the Caterpie without the Run Away Ability had been eaten by bird Pokemon.

This was also a kind of survivor bias among Caterpie.

Caterpie stared in the direction of the school for a while.

Without dwelling too much on its confusion, it raised its round forelimb and pointed at the dandelion seeds dancing through the air.

"Si si, si si si?"

The old Mark had been a foolish idiot incapable of communication, so Caterpie rarely spoke with him in the past.

These days, Mark had recovered his memories as a transmigrator and possessed exceptionally broad knowledge. Caterpie had become like a curious child, always asking all sorts of questions.

For example, why the day was bright while the sky turned dark at night, why the sky was blue, and why the markings on its body were green.

Caterpie was doing the same now, asking Mark why dandelion seeds could scatter and drift through the air.

It was worth mentioning that Caterpie never asked such questions in the Dream World after the points had been added.

In that world, both Caterpie and Mark had been affected by something inexplicable. They would only become interested in certain specific things and would never consider anything else unrelated.

Because of this, Caterpie's knowledge had not changed much during those more than forty years in the Dream World.

Mark thought for a moment, then plucked a dandelion from the roadside as well. "Dandelion seeds drifting all over the sky may seem like a simple phenomenon, but it actually contains a great many principles. The scope involved may be even broader than the other questions you've asked these past few days."

"Si?"

Caterpie looked utterly curious.

Mark smiled. "First, you need to understand why dandelions grow seeds. Plant seeds are like Pokemon Eggs for Pokemon—they exist to reproduce and carry on their lives.

These seeds drift away with the wind and land in places far away.

The environments in those places differ, but there will always be somewhere suitable for the seeds to grow. This is precisely the effort dandelions make to continue themselves.

As for why these parachute-shaped seeds can float through the air, that involves density.

If I remember correctly, you can float in water, right? Water has density, and air has density too.

Under Gravity, when an object with low density is placed in a liquid or gas with higher density, it is compressed and rises.

Your density is lower than water's, so you can float on its surface. The overall density of dandelion seeds is slightly higher than air, but not by much, so they can remain suspended in the air for a long time without sinking.

As for why floating dandelion seeds drift everywhere, that involves how wind forms.

First, it is still the matter of density. Let's expand on it a little. If two liquids of different densities are placed in the same container, separated by a partition, then once the partition is removed, under the effects of Gravity, the denser liquid will quickly flow toward the lower part on the other side, while the less dense liquid will do the opposite and flow toward the upper part on the other side.

This is the basic principle behind wind and ocean currents.

Applying that to where we are now, the direction of Clear Stream Forest has a higher specific heat capacity, while the village we're in, the grasslands to the north, and the Tomato Garden have lower specific heat capacities. Under sunlight, the temperatures differ, causing..."

After Mark's explanation, Caterpie quickly ended up with a completely bewildered expression.

It could barely understand that dandelion seeds were like Pokemon Eggs, but everything Mark said afterward only made its head spin more and more.

Mark smiled and rubbed Caterpie's head. "It doesn't matter if you don't understand yet. As long as you have some impression of it now, you'll gradually understand everything. Oh, right—after counting backward all morning, did you find any tricks?"

"Si si, si si."

Caterpie nodded, then shook its head. It looked as though it had made some progress, but not much.

Mark nodded slightly and opened the Trainer Panel.

As he had just taught Caterpie about dandelion seeds, the Experience Bar had risen a little. It seemed Caterpie had learned quite a lot; perhaps he should explain more things like this in the future.

Then, as Mark continued looking over the Trainer Panel, he suddenly noticed something.

Mark

Class: Trainer

Experience: 13%

Points: None

Pokemon: Caterpie, Wimpod (Unhatched) (2.38%)

The Experience Bar was steadily climbing at 13%, nothing unusual there. But under his Pokemon section, there was now a second entry besides Caterpie—it was the Wimpod Pokemon Egg he carried in his backpack.

"So once Wimpod hatches, it can become my Pokemon?"

"Cater?"

Seeing Mark pick up his backpack and mutter to himself, Caterpie curiously moved closer as well.

In truth, Caterpie had complicated feelings about the Pokemon Egg in Mark's backpack.

It was curious. It had always been curious about what a Wimpod was, and what exactly would hatch from that Pokemon Egg.

It was jealous, too. After all, this Wimpod had been given its own Pokeball before it was even born, while it could only be said to own half a Pokeball now.

There was also an indescribable feeling. Before, Mark had only it for company, but now there was another one. It felt a little uncomfortable. Though the Trainers on television all had many Pokemon, and this was perfectly normal, it still didn't feel good.

Caterpie's expression was easy to read, and Mark quickly understood what it was thinking.

It was much like when a family had their first child, then became pregnant with a second and third—the eldest child's feelings were probably much the same.

Mark did not really have any good solution for this.

He placed Caterpie back on his shoulder and gently stroked its head. "I remember you said back in the village that you wanted to battle like the Pokemon on television."

"Cater, cater!"

Mark smiled. "But you can't defeat those opponents by yourself."

Caterpie froze slightly. It wanted to argue, but then it seemed to think of something and lowered its head.

It was just an ordinary Caterpie, without any particular talent. It was far, far behind geniuses like Dugu Qiubai, Lu Dongbin, and Li Er. Otherwise, it would not have worked so hard for decades, only to helplessly watch its Trainer grow old and die.

Mark lightly patted Caterpie on the head. "That's why we need more companions. This Wimpod will be our first companion. Do you want to fight alongside it?"

"Cater, cater!"

Caterpie's mood changed very quickly. After hearing Mark's words, it immediately became fired up. When it looked at Wimpod's Pokemon Egg again, there was no longer any jealousy—only eager anticipation.

They would be comrades fighting side by side!

"Cater, cater?"

"You're asking when it'll hatch? Well... huh?"

Mark, who had been looking at the Trainer Panel, noticed something. His brow lifted slightly...

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