Escape from the Dense Forest

It took Hu Yang an entire morning to adapt to this body which was twenty years younger, and he finally accepted the reality of his time travel.

Six hours ago, Hu Yang was still a wizard selling magical Pokémon on TaoBao Network.

He had just accepted a custom order for three hundred 6V top-tier Pokémon and was preparing to stay up late to edit these top-tier Pokémon, but as soon as he finished editing one, everything went black, and when he opened his eyes again, he had arrived in this world.

After stiffening his body and watching a thirty-centimeter green bug crawl across him with his own eyes, Hu Yang finally confirmed that he had traveled into the world of Pokémon.

As a fan of Pokémon and being all alone in that world, being able to travel to the world he loved was naturally something worth being happy about.

However, his current predicament made Hu Yang unable to get excited at all.

Damn it! When other people traveled, they soul-transmigrated into big cities; he transmigrated directly into a deep, uninhabited mountain forest!

A few minutes ago he had just escaped from Caterpie's habitat, and now he had run into a dense thicket where Beedrill lived!

As everyone knew, Pokémon like Beedrill had a violent, irritable temperament, and their territorial awareness was extremely strong. If anyone trespassed into their territory, ninety-nine point nine percent of the time they would be attacked.

Looking at the Beedrill in front of him with a pair of red eyes and two large, thick white poison stingers flashing terrifying cold light in the shadows, Hu Yang couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

If he were stabbed in the body by that pair of poison stingers, would his trainer career that hadn't even started be over?

"Buzz buzz!"

A strange buzzing sound came from Beedrill's mouthparts, and Hu Yang dared to guarantee that it was definitely not any kind of friendly, coquettish sound.

Sure enough, the next second, the bushes all around swayed, and immediately after, pairs of eyes like red rubies emerged in the shadows.

Hu Yang turned and ran.

The sound of Beedrill's thin wings vibrating behind him was close at hand.

A fork in the forest path appeared in his field of vision, and Hu Yang suddenly had the feeling that he was playing Temple Run.

"Splat!"

A pain in his waist instantly pulled Hu Yang's attention back to reality.

Wuwuwu, he was hit by Beedrill's Poison Sting, so painful!

Heaven is going to destroy me! Hu Yang thought miserably.

However, right at that moment, a river suddenly appeared on his left-hand side.

Hu Yang was so excited when he saw this scene that he almost wept with joy.

He quickly changed direction and plunged right in.

At this time, he was extremely grateful that he had learned how to swim before transmigrating.

River Water-type poured into his ears and nasal cavity, and Hu Yang held his breath, blindly touching a hard thing in his panic.

He opened his eyes and saw a fellow with dull eyes and a body covered in red scales amidst the roaring rapids.

Oh my goodness, wasn't that the legendary Magikarp?

His body was grabbed, and that Magikarp began to struggle. Carried along by the current, Hu Yang failed to get a secure grip.

The next moment, he personally experienced the feeling described by the lyric, "The cold, merciless rain lashes wildly against my face."

Hu Yang was beaten until the skin around his eyes turned red, and even more pitifully, he couldn't surface.

Because through the Water-type surface, he saw that group of Beedrill still lingering above, their appearance clearly showing no intention of letting him off easily.

He couldn't stay here.

Hu Yang held his breath and began swimming forward in the direction the river's Water-type was flowing.

After swimming ten meters, he surfaced to catch his breath and then dived back down again.

Not knowing how long he swam, upon making sure that those hateful Beedrill hadn't chased after him, Hu Yang finally went ashore.

Looking at the handsome face reflected on the Water-type surface, even though he was twenty years younger, Hu Yang still recognized at a glance that this was himself at age ten.

As expected of me, at ten years old I was already quite the handsome guy.

After the commotion just now, his clothes were completely soaked through.

Hu Yang had previously noticed the leaves in the forest beginning to turn yellow, and if he wasn't mistaken, the current season should be autumn.

What he was wearing now were the clothes he had on before transmigrating: a white short-sleeve on his upper body plus a blue athletic jacket, and a pair of gray sweatpants on his lower body.

After making sure there was no danger here for the moment, Hu Yang took off his clothes and checked the wound where he had just been struck by Beedrill.

Because of the obstruction from his clothing, that semi-transparent purple poison stinger had not completely pierced into his body.

Hu Yang used a leaf to pull out the poison stinger, discovering that the skin near the puncture site had already turned a faint purple and was accompanied by a lingering burning pain.

Clearly, he was poisoned.

Hu Yang felt very despairing.

When Pokémon were poisoned, their stamina would slowly drain away until they finally fainted, but what about humans?

Hu Yang didn't dare to imagine.

At this time, the rumbling sound coming from his stomach added insult to injury.

He was hungry.

Previously he noticed that the trees in this forest grew many fruit-like things, which should be what this world commonly called "berries".

Only unlike fruits, different berries possessed different abilities.

For example, the Cheri Berry that could cure paralysis, the Rawst Berry that healed burns, and the Pecha Berry for treating poison that he currently needed most.

He just did not know if berries worked on humans.

Besides berries, Hu Yang also saw many ordinary fish in the river.

Just as he thought, apart from Pokémon, ordinary animals still existed in the Pokémon world.

Hu Yang brought his jacket over to place under himself and prepared to lie down to rest for a bit; the recent intense exercise had greatly consumed his stamina.

He looked through the mottled tree canopy toward the clear sky.

The most important thing at present was to walk out of the forest, find a human town, and look for a way to cure the poison.

After all, with the forest being so large, finding a berry tree was already very difficult, let alone whether he could find a Pecha Berry with detoxification effects.

Amidst his thoughts, Hu Yang suddenly felt something jab his waist.

He stood up, picked up his jacket, and fished out a small purple sphere from the pocket position.

Uncertain what spot he touched, that sphere rapidly grew larger in his hand, restoring itself to its normal form.

Upon seeing the appearance of this thing clearly, Hu Yang froze.

Purple on top and white on the bottom, with a white button at the connection point in the middle, and above the button was an "M" logo.

This was... the Master Ball from the games.

How could it be?

He tried pressing the button on it, and accompanied by a click, the Master Ball opened, shooting out a beam of white light from within.

Emerging in the white light was a sprite with a body of orange feathers.

Yet it was not completely orange; the feathers on its chest and near its neck were a distinct white, looking very much like the napkin tied around a Westerner's neck during a meal.

"Quack!"

The sprite supported its head with its wings, looking over foolishly with those vacant, round eyes.

Hu Yang looked at it.

It looked at Hu Yang.

The next second, a large amount of information abruptly emerged in Hu Yang's mind.

[Species: Cramorant ♂ (Shiny)]

Type: Flying, Water-type

Ability: Gulp Missile

Base Stats: 1530 (HP: 255, Attack: 255, Defense: 255, Sp. Atk: 255, Sp. Def: 255, Speed: 255)

Known Moves: [Precipice Blades], [Origin Pulse], [Spacial Rend], [Roar of Time]

(Note: This book is not a book restricted to four moves, moves are not restricted, do not ask again)

Current Mood: ＆＃?+!＃

Physical Condition: Perfect

Friendship: 100 (You are its most beloved Trainer, it loves you more than it loves itself)

!!!

Hu Yang was shocked.

Was this not the first Pokémon he had just finished modifying for a customer?

Cramorant, Shiny Cramorant, a Pokémon from the Galar region.

Regarding Cramorant in the games, the introduction went like this:

[Though Cramorant is very forgetful, it will never forget the Trainer that has built a relationship of trust with it.

Yet if its food is snatched away, even if the opponent is its Trainer, it will launch an attack without mercy.]

Because it was the first Pokémon used for testing, the six Base Stats of this Cramorant were set absurdly high.

The four moves it knew were also deliberately pranked by Hu Yang.

Not only this Cramorant, even the software for modifying this Cramorant's data had crossed over with him.

He already saw the corresponding information in his mind!

Pokémon Modifier (Trial Version 1.0.2)

Functions:

○ Appraise

○ Move Teaching

○ Shiny Modification

○ Trait modification [Corresponding template missing, unable to use]

○ Base stats modification [Corresponding template missing, unable to use]

○ Individual values modification [Corresponding template missing, unable to use]

Bug fix: This product is currently in the trial stage. If you discover any bugs during use, you can take a screenshot and send it to the author's email."

Author's Note: 1. This is not a mindless power-fantasy novel about blindly catching everything and killing everything.

2. An alternative take on traditional Pokémon fiction.

3. The author doesn't know how to write women, so there is no female lead.

4. This world has ordinary animals, and other people eat Pokémon, but the protagonist won't eat them, nor will he modify Pokémon to sell them.

5. This is not a dark novel.