At the northernmost edge of Fuchsia City stood the entrance to a massive complex, utterly different in style from the outside world.
The sign displayed silhouettes of various rare Pokémon, with several large words beside them: Safari Zone.
"Welcome to the Safari Zone! Just pay a 500-yuan admission fee, and you'll receive 30 Safari Zone-exclusive Poké Balls. You can catch rare Pokémon throughout the vast park until you run out of steps or Poké Balls!"
Listening to the ticket seller NPC's lines, Wang Qiuer's pink-blue eyes instantly widened as the abacus in her mind began clacking madly.
"Five hundred bucks? Thirty balls?!"
Wang Qiuer's voice cracked slightly with excitement. "At the Poké Mart, even the most ordinary red-and-white ball costs two hundred bucks! But thirty balls here only cost five hundred? That works out to just over sixteen bucks per ball?!"
"Oh! Free shopping is here!"
Her blood boiled completely at that moment.
Without hesitation, Wang Qiuer slapped down the enormous sum of five hundred yuan, took the thirty green Safari Balls, and charged through the Safari Zone gates like a starving wolf.
The moment she entered, Scarlet King hurriedly reminded her from beside her, "Qiuer, watch the step limit in the upper-right corner! The rules beside the park say that every step you take inside uses up one step. Once all 600 steps are gone, the system will forcibly kick you out, so don't run around aimlessly."
"Don't worry! No one understands careful budgeting better than I do!" Wang Qiuer nodded.
To conserve those precious 600 steps, she even began walking with extreme caution.
Then she discovered a god-tier trick—if she stood still in the grass and turned in place, she could trigger encounters without using any steps!
"An encounter!"
The Screen flashed, and a handsome Pokémon shaped like