There were plenty of people in the uninhabited zone. Every few steps, they could see someone wandering around, clearly hoping to find fossils left behind.
"Are these fossils all worth a lot of money?"
Chu Xin watched the people roaming the uninhabited zone with curiosity, clearly unable to understand why they were doing it.
"They're worth a fair bit. Once these fossils are brought out, the authorities assess them according to the regulations. One fossil might earn them a thousand or two. That's not much, but it's the slack farming season right now, and these people don't have much else to do, so they come here to try their luck. After all, a thousand or two is half a month's income for them."
Chu Xin nodded. Put that way, coming here to try their luck really was a decent option.
Beside him, Chen Huan gazed at the scene outside with a touch of emotion.
"The authorities are paying more and more attention to this now. In the past, a fossil wasn't much use. People would just throw it away like any other rock. Otherwise, that Dragonite Fossil we discovered wouldn't have been left lying there."
Ai Xing nodded as well.
"That's true. The country is taking fossils more and more seriously. After all, they're tangible pieces of history. Being able to glimpse what happened in the past through them is very meaningful."
Chu Xin nodded. Fossils were indeed one of the easiest traces of history to discover. But aside from their historical value, he knew of another use for them: creating Pokémon.
In other worlds, fossils might only serve as records of history. But in the world of Pokémon, fossils could retain the power a Pokémon had possessed while alive. Through science, the energy within a fossil could be extracted