"Huh? You want to develop Floette's potential?" Cao Min's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this. "You're raising a Floette too?"
"Yes." Cheng Tian nodded. "But I haven't found a good training method. I keep feeling that Floette hasn't improved much since I caught it."
"I have a Florges among my Pokémon." Cao Min smiled. "I have a particularly large garden, and I rely on it to tend it for me. As for developing Floette's potential, I do have a few methods."
"Really?!" Cheng Tian asked in delighted surprise.
Cao Min nodded. "I wonder if you know anything about breeding experiments?"
"Breeding experiments?" Cheng Tian thought for a moment. "You mean those experiments where you observe how seeds germinate?"
"Hmm, I might not have phrased that accurately." Cao Min explained, "A large proportion of the vegetables and fruits we eat today have undergone genetic improvement. Finding ways to combine desirable genes from different plants to cultivate better plants-that's the kind of breeding experiment I wanted to tell you about."
"But what does that have to do with Floette?" Cheng Tian asked in puzzlement.
"You know Bulbasaur, one of the Starter Pokémon, right?" Cao Min said. "It carries a seed on its back, and that seed grows along with it as it evolves. Someone once conducted an experiment, putting thorn seeds inside the seed on a Bulbasaur's back. After that Bulbasaur underwent its first evolution into Ivysaur, the Vine Whips it used from its back were covered with thornlike spikes."
Something stirred faintly in Cheng Tian's heart when he heard this, as though an idea had begun taking shape somewhere in the haze.
"The experiment continued. Datura flower seeds and sundew seeds were stuffed into the bud on Ivysaur's back. After Ivysaur evolved into Venusaur, the flower on its back