Another Foolish Thing

"Yo yo, yo yo," Hearing the greeting, Poliwag was full of energy. It couldn't wait to evolve quickly, get hands, and help Yu Hai.

Yu Hai had a lot of tasks today. After putting down the bucket, he prepared to go scavenging for trash.

He had been changing the water bucket these past few days and passed by this rocky beach, where he had seen quite a few good things.

He hadn't scavenged for days, and his heart felt itchy. He just didn't know if he could still find Poké Balls. These things were equivalent to a natural refrigerator, very useful for storing ingredients.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to catch fish every day and eat them all on the same day. If he couldn't finish them, wouldn't that be a waste?

Cough, he hadn't even fished today. He was truly getting ahead of himself, even thinking about storing ingredients. He really dared to dream.

The rocky beach leading to the water point didn't have many fierce Pokémon, only some Caterpie, Spearow, Pidgey, and Weedle.

The most dangerous Pokémon would be group-dwelling insect Pokémon like Beedrill.

As long as one didn't enter Beedrill territory, they generally wouldn't attack others proactively. Beedrill had a strong sense of territory.

It was precisely this sense of territory that made Yu Hai feel that Beedrill were easier to get along with than the Kingler on the other side of the shelter.

His shelter was located right between these two terrifying group-dwelling Pokémon.

The reason he chose to scavenge near the Beedrill was that the beach was not Beedrill territory; the jungle was.

But on the other side, both the beach and the jungle were Kingler territory.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have called that group of Kingler "street punks," nor would he have hated them so much.

There were also Spearow and Pidgey. These two Pokémon were also very deadly to him, but humans were not on their diet, so he wasn't worried.

Actually, the scavenging spot wasn't far, just outside his shelter. He had just been too lazy to pick things up before.

"Poliwag, let's go scavenging," Yu Hai called for the little tadpole to follow him. The person and the tadpole came to the beach to scavenge.

The most common sight was white trash, white foam. Picking up too much of this was useless, but some foam boxes could be used to hold water.

Next were plastic bottles and plastic buckets. He didn't need the plastic bottles, but he could keep the plastic buckets. He could never have too many of these; they were perfect for holding water.

Clang clang clang—

"Oh ho, good stuff," Yu Hai found a metal pot. He picked it up and tapped it. He saw no rust, so it should be stainless steel. This was a good item, perfect for cooking.

He wouldn't have to boil water with that fist-sized Iron Cup anymore. Each time, it wasn't even enough for a single gulp. This time, the Lukewarm Water could be drunk to his heart's content.

The capacity of this pot was about the same as the inner pot of a household rice cooker, and its depth was moderate. It should be able to boil about five or six bottles of water at a time. Not bad, he kept it.

"Lifebuoy?" Yu Hai saw an orange lifebuoy again. This thing was quite good, he kept it.

He wasn't going into the sea anyway. Keeping it as a decoration wouldn't be bad.

"Small wooden table, plastic basin," Yu Hai continued picking things up and saw more good items. He kept them.

"Fishing net?" Yu Hai found a fishing net, but it was too tattered and tangled into a mess, unusable. He didn't keep it.

"Rope? This is good stuff," Yu Hai first pulled the rope. When he found he couldn't move it, and it hadn't been corroded by seawater, he took out his folding knife and cut off the part of the rope that wasn't pressed down by the large rock. He kept it.

On the rocky beach at the water intake point, Yu Hai walked around several times but didn't find the Poké Ball he was longing for.

It wasn't that he hadn't seen any at all; he only found half a Poké Ball, a broken one.

Since there was nothing else to pick up, Yu Hai collected some waterproof plastic and some rags, planning to reinforce the shelter when he got back.

There was no shortage of wood and similar items on the beach. The wood near the shelter was enough for him to burn for a long time.

The life of picking up trash was just so simple and unpretentious...

As Yu Hai prepared to return with his spoils, he realized that Poliwag, who had been following him, had disappeared.

He didn't know where the little glutton had run off to play. He put down the things he had picked up and looked around the beach, but couldn't find the little glutton.

However, he did see something else: a rope net on a foam ball. The net was repeatedly washed ashore by the waves and then swept back by the waves.

This was a good thing. He immediately put down what he was holding and rushed to the seaside, retrieving the foam ball. He tested the rope net on the foam ball and found it was still very sturdy.

He then dismantled the rope net from the foam ball, obtaining a Hammock.

He couldn't be blamed for this. When he saw this net, the first thing he thought of was a hammock.

The net was thick, and the gaps were large, making it unsuitable for a fishing net, but perfect for a hammock.

Slap slap slap, slap slap slap—

But as soon as he put the hammock with the previously collected items, he heard a familiar slapping sound. It was definitely the little tadpole using Chain Slap.

"Poliwag?" Yu Hai quickly turned around and looked in the direction of the sound. The beach there curved at a ninety-degree angle, so he couldn't see anything over there, only hear the sound.

Realizing it was likely Poliwag, he immediately dropped everything in his hands and sprinted towards that patch of beach. He quickly reached the end of the beach, turned the corner, and saw Poliwag using its tail to whip some silly thing?

"Huh? Magikarp? Why is it this silly thing again," Yu Hai secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw what Poliwag was whipping. As long as it wasn't something it couldn't beat.

He was afraid Poliwag would provoke something it couldn't beat, and then it wouldn't even know how it died.

Don't think that just because no one died in the anime, no one would die in the Pokémon World. In any real world, people die. It doesn't matter if you're the protagonist; if you're supposed to die, you die.

Seeing that the target being beaten was a Magikarp, he was no longer in such a hurry. Although this thing had little meat, even a mosquito's leg is still meat. As long as it could be eaten, it was fine.

He prepared to throw a Poké Ball to subdue the Magikarp's struggles first. This Magikarp should be slightly stronger than the previous one.

It had been hit by Chain Slap so many times and still hadn't fainted. It truly lived up to its title of having strong vitality; its stamina was indeed abundant.

However, the Magikarp had already been pulled onto the beach, like a fish on a cutting board, unable to escape.

He just didn't know where Poliwag had found the Magikarp. He had to admit, that little glutton had some serious luck.

"Yo-yo, yo-yo," Poliwag heard footsteps and turned to see Yu Hai. Its face lit up instantly, and it kept shouting loudly at Yu Hai, excitedly showing off its prize and seeking praise.

This Magikarp was prey it had caught all by itself...

Speaking of which, the protagonist used Poké Balls as refrigerators.

This point made some readers call it "toxic" again. Sigh... For those who can't accept the setting of eating Pokémon, or the setting of Poké Balls being refrigerators, there's nothing I can do...

As for these readers who called it toxic, how did they even get this far? Those who can't accept it usually wouldn't click in.

If you can see this, it means your resistance to "toxic" content is quite good