The entire Beedrill Forest maintained a strange balance. Internal conflicts and the powerful Pokémon around them kept the number of Beedrill from ever increasing.
Qing Wu saw that the largest Beedrill colony was the one he had passed through with Thunder.
However, the fighting between the Beedrill colonies had indeed benefited Qing Wu.
Qing Wu had plundered quite a lot of Beedrill honey. Both Beedrill honey and Vespiquen honey could be used to make Pokémon food.
Long-term consumption could even strengthen the human body and promote good health.
"Zubat, use Aerial Ace on the Beedrill. Kecleon, use Rock Blast to finish off the Beedrill."
Qing Wu had provoked another Beedrill colony. More than thirty Beedrill followed close behind, pursuing him relentlessly.
Some of the Beedrill only saw a flash of white light. Then their wings suddenly hurt, and they fell from the sky one after another. The white light transformed into a smug-looking Zubat.
Ever since Zubat had learned Aerial Ace from Beautifly, Aerial Ace had become its favorite move.
Kecleon's Rock Blast was super effective against Beedrill. Of the thirty Beedrill, nearly two-thirds were knocked down by Rock Blast.
"Let's go, Kecleon, Zubat." Qing Wu headed toward the Beedrill hive. The Beedrill just now had been the last adult Beedrill in the colony.
From the grass, Qing Wu looked at the countless Kakuna hanging from the trees. Beside the treetops stood a gigantic hive.
The hive was made of beeswax. From far away, Qing Wu could already smell the distinctive scent of Beedrill honey.
Beedrill were different from Queen Bee. The Vespiquen under Queen Bee would build a gigantic Amber City—the hive of the Vespiquen—where their young were raised and honey was brewed.
But a Beedrill hive only allowed Beedrill to enter and leave. It was where Beedrill brewed honey, and it was not in the same place where they hatched their Pokémon Eggs.
The Pokémon Eggs and Beedrill honey were Qing Wu's objectives this time.
Qing Wu looked at the Kakuna hanging from the trees and smiled.
"Zubat, use Hurricane on the Kakuna." Qing Wu was still afraid of trouble and planned to strike first.
Qing Wu estimated that there were more than a hundred Kakuna here. They were the central force of the Beedrill hive.
For Kecleon and Zubat, which had just expended their stamina, this number was somewhat difficult to handle.
The Kakuna were instantly alarmed. Zubat's Hurricane contained Air Slash.
Countless Kakuna were blown from the treetops. Aside from a few Kakuna that evolved into Beedrill in their fury, the rest lost consciousness one after another.
Moreover, the newly evolved Beedrill were easily defeated by Kecleon.
"Come on, Zubat. Give me a lift." Qing Wu did not weigh 100 kilograms. Since Zubat could carry Kecleon, which weighed 100 kilograms, it could naturally pull Qing Wu as well.
Zubat hooked its feet over Qing Wu's shoulders, and Qing Wu instantly rose into the sky.
"Zubat, take me to the Beedrill hive first." Zubat easily carried Qing Wu to the hive.
Qing Wu directly took two-thirds of the honey from the hive. He would not drain the pond to catch all the fish.
As long as Beedrill remained, the Beedrill honey would continue to be produced.
Even if something unexpected happened to the Beedrill Qing Wu had knocked down, the remaining Kakuna would evolve into Beedrill and guard the hive.
Qing Wu filled bottles and jars with honey. Beedrill honey was extremely expensive, and even on the black market, it could sell for as much as 1,000 League Currency per gram.
"Come on, Zubat. Take me to where the Beedrill Pokémon Eggs are kept." The Beedrill colony Qing Wu had found was of medium size. The Pokémon Eggs inside were neatly arranged in nests made of leaves.
Qing Wu counted the Pokémon Eggs. There were roughly more than a hundred. There were already so many Kakuna, let alone the Pokémon Eggs.
Qing Wu immediately activated the system and began scanning.
"Red Potential. Red Potential. Red Potential." Qing Wu was speechless.
In the entire nest, only two Pokémon Eggs had Orange Potential. The sample size was simply too large.
No wonder Qing Wu rarely saw Beedrill with Yellow Potential.
After all, if the parents' potential was poor, how could their offspring possibly have good potential?
"No wonder Team Rocket ordered the construction of breeding farms." Qing Wu rubbed his chin and muttered.
Following the principle that even a tiny gain was still a gain, Qing Wu stuffed the Pokémon Eggs into his Space Backpack.
Team Rocket's breeding farms were established throughout the world. Team Rocket members captured Pokémon with good potential from all over the world and placed them in the farms.
Some of the Trial Participants' Pokémon came from these breeding farms.
This was an unavoidable method. After all, the potential of wild Pokémon could not be controlled, and most of them had Red Potential.
Only by gathering Pokémon with high potential through human intervention and carefully feeding and raising them could they possibly give birth to offspring with even higher potential.
Qing Wu returned directly to the Team Rocket base with his Pokémon. The person on duty at the Exchange Office had changed again.
This time, it was an old man with a smiling, honest-looking face. People called him Tiger Lord, the Smiling Tiger.
Tiger Lord was leisurely cutting open a cigar. He stuffed a stick of high-quality sandalwood into it, then carefully lit the cigar only after finishing that. Wisps of white smoke slowly rose.
This way of smoking cigars was very popular in the Pokémon World. It removed the cigar's harsh spiciness while adding a faint sandalwood fragrance.
The Exchange Office soon filled with choking smoke, though a faint, pleasant fragrance lingered within it.
Tiger Lord took a deep drag and exhaled two streams of white smoke from his nostrils.
"So, what do you want to exchange?" Tiger Lord asked amid the swirling smoke.
"I want to exchange Pokémon for points." Although Qing Wu disliked the smell of smoke, he did not show it on the surface.
Controlling his expressions was one of the skills Qing Wu had learned in Team Rocket.
"Oh? Take out the Pokémon and let me have a look." Tiger Lord immediately became interested.
Qing Wu took out all the Pokémon he wanted to exchange for points from his Wristband and lined them up.
"Please inspect them. Do you need me to call an appraiser?" Qing Wu raised his hand toward Tiger Lord.
"No need. I'm the appraiser." Tiger Lord took an item resembling a Pokédex from a drawer below. He aimed it toward the Poké Balls and pressed it once, causing several waves of light to appear.
Before long, detailed data on the Pokémon appeared.
"This is a Pokémon Qualification Scanner? I didn't expect it to be developed so quickly." Qing Wu was somewhat shocked.
Tiger Lord seemed to notice Qing Wu's surprise and drawled, "Tiger Lord here is taking a shortcut. This is Team Rocket's unfinished prototype, specially made to test Pokémon potential."
"However, the results aren't particularly accurate. If you object to the test results, I can conduct a more detailed examination." Tiger Lord exhaled a series of smoke rings.
"Sure." Qing Wu had participated in research on Pokémon potential appraisal.
Naturally, he knew that this device possessed epoch-making significance. In fact, much of the information in Qing Wu's system had come from this Pokémon potential database.
However, judging by the current point in time, this scanner could at most identify Pokémon with Green Quality or lower.
Before long, the appraisal results came out. Tiger Lord printed them all onto paper.
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