After a few days off, Xin Mu and the others completed their registration and began taking courses in their specialty.
In a sense, what they studied was more like wilderness survival.
Rock-climbing techniques, precautions for diving, how to live in the wild, how to identify poisonous plants, and so on.
Xin Mu and the others were now trainee Pokémon Ecology Investigators. The job was bound to take them into the wilderness frequently, and to avoid disturbing the Pokémon living in their natural habitats, they would rarely use heavy machinery.
The knowledge in their textbooks was fixed, the fruit of their predecessors' research. They only needed to remember most of it.
Even a leading authority in the field couldn't guarantee they had memorized every punctuation mark. In actual practice, they still needed to consult reference documents.
Practical techniques were important to them too. With frequent hands-on practice, many things weren't all that complicated to master.
Lü Ming also had them take part in some experiments, and they were paid for the work. Although they earned less than full-fledged research institute staff, their pay was still higher than that of ordinary interns.
For example, they experimented with removing static from Liyang's wool, developed new wool products, analyzed the composition of the vegetable oil produced by Arboliva,
and used it to create new cosmetics.
Sometimes, they spent quite a while in the laboratory.
Litten's training also got on track, which made Squirtle feel that this spring had grown a little chillier.
"Squirtle... (Here we go. Another training maniac...)"
It was the same familiar treadmill. Squirtle vaguely remembered Riolu sweating away on it in just the same way a few months ago.
Now Riolu had evolved into Lucario, and his training equipment had become more complicated too. Every so often, he even dragged Squirtle