Returning Long He's belongings marked a new chapter in Baimu's life back in Pyrite Town.
After discussions within the Valley of Origin, its people agreed to work with the Rescue Organization and N as agricultural advisers. A new Agriculture Department was established to oversee the partnership.
They planned to find two suitable sites for the main trials: one near Silicon Beryllium City and the other in Pokémon Valley, where N lived.
Baimu's mountain would serve as a secondary trial site for growing a range of crops.
There would be no trial site near Pyrite Town. The town was an important mineral-exporting area for Orre and housed a transit warehouse linking Gateon Port and Silicon Beryllium City. It was hardly suited to clearing large tracts of farmland.
Meanwhile, the mountain Aggron had been dreaming about finally got a name—
Platinum Silver Mountain.
Baimu had deliberately modeled the name on Johto's Mt. Silver, earning himself a round of teasing from Shan Ren, who asked why he had chosen it.
Baimu offered just one answer: "There's no Red on Mt. Silver, but there's Baimu on Platinum Silver Mountain."
Shan Ren spent the whole night thinking about it and still couldn't work out what Baimu meant.
Once the plans in Silicon Beryllium City were settled, Platinum Silver Mountain soon welcomed its first Agriculture Department advisers—Balza and Fantina.
There were only two of them, but Balza, the next village chief of the Valley of Origin, was remarkably capable.
Baimu heard that before Balza had left to search for the Prison Bottle, Ghris had already entrusted him with the family fields. The young man was a farmer through and through.
So when Balza discovered that Baimu had planted precious Berry seeds haphazardly, he gave him a merciless scolding.
"You can't plant Berries by thinking only about