Ever since Xinhai set out on his journey, not counting the investments from several Gyms and the Joy family.
During these past six months or so of traveling, aside from the batch of high-quality Thunder Stones he obtained when he caught Alolan Golem in Granite Cave, all his own earnings only amounted to around twenty or thirty million League Coins.
It could be said that exchanging for these items would send all the money he had painstakingly earned over the past half year straight back to square one.
No, it was even worse than square one—he still owed more than twenty million.
"Eevee?" Eevee sat beside the coffee table, her large brown eyes looking at Xinhai as she tilted her little head slightly, seemingly noticing the change in his mood. "Eevee?" (Xinhai, what's wrong?)
Xinhai came back to his senses. Seeing the confusion written all over Eevee's fluffy little face, he could not help but laugh.
He reached out and rubbed Eevee's little head, his fingertips passing through her soft, fluffy fur as he felt the warmth of her body.
"It's nothing. I was just doing the math."
"Eevee?" Eevee blinked, clearly not understanding what "doing the math" meant.
Xinhai smiled and did not explain further.
As he continued looking at the resources in the wooden box, each gleaming in different colors beneath the light, he inwardly sighed at how difficult it was for ordinary people to improve their strength.
If he did not have such a good relationship with Gym Leader Mura and Flannery, he would probably have needed to bankrupt himself just to exchange for these resources.
No, even going bankrupt probably would not have been enough.
Some resources, such as that 89% quality Fire Stone, that Dragon Fang from an Elite-level Charizard, and that Dragon Scale from