Average Intelligence, Decent Emotional Quotient

However, Dr. Jacq's words brought Luo Mu a sigh of relief.

Since the plans related to the Great Crater of Paldea were still in the restart phase, it meant the time machine hadn't been created by the couple yet, which implied everything could potentially be changed.

The plot of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet was largely free of deep-seated hatred, giving off a feeling of a "utopia."

The only real regrets were the impending loss of Dr. Jacq/Dr. Futaba in the future and the plight of senior student Pepper, who lost his parents.

Perhaps he could change some things in the future.

When Dr. Jacq spoke about Area Zero, she displayed a talkative talent on par with, or even surpassing, Pepper's.

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

Dr. Jacq's endless stream of words was like a string of pearls, with professional terms seamlessly strung together.

Dizzy from listening, Luo Mu finally understood one thing.

Pepper's chattiness was likely inherited from his mother.

What stopped Dr. Jacq from her monologue wasn't disaster or man-made calamity, but a sharp alarm suddenly blaring from the pile of high-tech research equipment behind her.

"Looks like another failure," Dr. Jacq sighed, ceasing her torrent of words. She skillfully put on gloves and reached into the equipment, using tweezers to pick up a clearly damaged special core, her expression troubled.

The experiment on tolerance to spatial teleportation had failed again.

The wild Pokémon in the Great Crater of Paldea were incredibly powerful. To enter the depths, establish stable research stations and observation posts, and move freely, they needed to base their work on Poké Ball teleportation technology and, on that foundation, research teleportation devices between observation posts.

With teleportation devices, they wouldn't need to traverse the complex environment of the Great Crater of Paldea every single time they transported supplies.

The technical calculations were complete; the only problem was the repeated failures in the core experiments, with no reason found.

If this continued, the plan to restart the Too Rare research would have to be postponed, something Dr. Jacq and Dr. Futaba, who yearned for past/future Pokémon, did not want to see.

Looking at the core Dr. Jacq was holding, Luo Mu, who suddenly wanted to test the alert system's functionality, curiously asked in his mind, "System, can you give me a hint about this?"

[The blue solution in the second bottle on the Doctor's left hand and the pink solution in the fourth bottle can be mixed together.]

Luo Mu followed the system's hint and looked over. Indeed, those two solutions were there. He suddenly said, "Dr. Jacq, can you tell me what those two bottles of solution on your left are?"

"No problem." Although puzzled, Dr. Jacq picked up the two solutions Luo Mu mentioned, gently shaking the bottles as she slowly said, "They are a spatial solidifier and an extract of psychic energy from Abra's saliva, respectively."

"Spatial solidifier?"

"Simply put, it's to shrink and solidify the range of space."

Luo Mu didn't quite understand the profound scientific knowledge Dr. Jacq spoke of. He just saw that as she spoke, she seemed to have an inspiration. She beckoned Luo Mu and then buried her head in research.

Perhaps due to the countless failures already experienced, Dr. Jacq's movements were very skilled. She took out some cores that were clearly just empty shells and began to try out her sudden inspiration.

The numerous failures need not be recounted. Luo Mu waited another hour and a half. Dr. Jacq, muttering formulas to herself, finally produced two cores emitting a faint green glow after several failed attempts.

She installed the cores into a device on the ground. As the light ring on the device lit up, her expression instantly became excited.

"It succeeded!"

Luo Mu, who had traveled from modern times, never tried to understand the black technology of the Pokémon world, as it was simply a pointless waste of his brain cells.

But the moment Dr. Jacq activated the device, he recognized what it was.

"Hiss..."

Wasn't this the black technology from the game that allowed teleportation between observation posts?

Dr. Jacq tentatively placed an empty beaker on the teleportation device and, with a slightly trembling right hand, pressed the retro red button that looked like it could launch a nuclear bomb.

After a slight humming sound, a dazzling green fluorescence lit up and then extinguished. The beaker also appeared on another teleportation device four or five meters away.

Luo Mu was stunned. Was inventing and researching this easy?

It was too absurd, both the alert system that seemed to predict the future and Dr. Jacq's sudden enlightenment.

This gave Luo Mu a sense of frustration, as if his intelligence was completely crushed.

Luo Mu exclaimed in shock in his mind, "You're this good?"

[Hmph hmph!]

Even with just two simple words, Luo Mu could tell from the way they seemed to vibrate that it was very pleased with itself.

Let it be pleased. Its heaven-defying yet controllable hint function would surely contribute to the farm's development in the future.

Luo Mu had this foresight.

After entrusting the raw ore for the Terastal Orb to Dr. Jacq, she seemed to believe that she was able to successfully create the teleportation device because of Luo Mu's reminder.

While expressing her gratitude, Dr. Jacq enthusiastically invited Luo Mu to consider a career as a researcher, offering better compensation than Orange Academy, with the only requirement being the possibility of occasional overtime.

That "possibility" and "occasional" were very telling. Luo Mu vaguely remembered that after the couple threw themselves into researching Area Zero, Pepper literally became a child left behind.

In those few years, he could count the times he met his parents on one hand.

If the employer was like that, how busy must her subordinates be?

"No, thank you!"

Seeing Luo Mu inexplicably and resolutely refuse her invitation, Dr. Jacq could only give up regretfully. She took out several bags of suspicious-looking seeds with no labels from a nearby preservation refrigerator and handed them to Luo Mu.

Dr. Jacq said, "These are a few bags of seeds I accidentally obtained while researching past history. Although I'm not sure of the variety, the energy within 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. Even with his meager knowledge, he couldn't determine what kind of plant it was.

After his farm was built, he definitely wanted to grow crops to make money. He didn't know what kind of plants these unknown seeds would produce, and they might not even be sellable.

Luo Mu's intelligence wasn't high, but his emotional intelligence wasn't low either.

Even though he was unsure what these seeds were for, they were still a kind gesture from Dr. Jacq. He accepted them and decided to put them away for now, planning to plant them in a spare spot once his farm was on the right track.

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

Before Luo Mu left with the seeds, Dr. Jacq seemed to remember something and called out to his retreating back, "Professor Luo, please take care of Pepper at Orange Academy!"

Luo Mu's departing steps faltered. His expression instantly turned strange, and he inexplicably felt a pang in his stomach.

If Pepper was going to be his student...

Did that mean he was going to run into all the other protagonist groups and problem children?!

Gulp. He really didn't want that!

Luo Mu felt like resigning before he had even started working.