A golden Shiny Magikarp successfully hatched in the Class A laboratory.
The news reached every senior executive in Team Rocket as quickly as possible.
Along with it came clear footage recording the entire hatching process.
When the executives saw that dazzling golden light flare from the incubator in the conference room, the entire room fell deathly silent.
They might not have understood what "probability simulation" or "environmental parameter variables" meant.
But they understood what the words "rare" and "special" meant on the black market.
An ordinary Magikarp might only be worth a few hundred.
But a golden Shiny Magikarp was worth dozens, even hundreds of times as much as an ordinary one.
More importantly, it represented the potential for replication and mass production.
Apollo stared fixedly at the golden Magikarp on the screen. For the first time, his view of that "department of weirdos" he had once scoffed at began to change.
He was a rough man, but he was no fool.
He knew that if this technology could be perfected, Magikarp would not be the only Pokémon they could mass-produce.
It would be an inexhaustible gold mine.
The atmosphere in the conference room grew feverish.
Greed and excitement gleamed in everyone's eyes.
Ye Li himself, however, was not satisfied.
He submitted a second proposal to Giovanni.
"Boss, aside from its ornamental value and rarity, a Shiny Magikarp has no value in actual combat."
Ye Li wrote in his report.
"Our goal should not be such flashy but impractical 'works of art.'"
"Our goal should be Shiny Pokémon with powerful combat capabilities that can equip our troops."
"What we need is mass production!"
At the end of this report, Ye Li wrote his next target in bold.
A Pokémon abundant in the Kanto Region, with tremendous potential, that possessed ghostlike speed and exceptional strength after evolving.
-Zubat.
Crobat was renowned for its terrifying speed and powerful harassment capabilities.
An ordinary Crobat was already enough to give most opponents a headache.
What about an army made up of exceptionally gifted Shiny Crobat?
That would be every enemy's nightmare.
A green unit of ghostlike Shiny Crobat, launching a surprise attack in the dead of night.
Simply imagining that scene was enough to make the Pokémon League's regular troops tremble at the mere mention of them.
Ye Li's proposal, along with that vividly rendered vision, sent every executive in the conference room wild.
An army of Shiny Crobat!
The idea was like a dose of the most potent stimulant injected into everyone's hearts.
They could almost see that green ghostly unit gliding silently through the moonlight, reaping their enemies' lives.
"Approved!"
Giovanni's voice rang out in the conference room, carrying unquestionable resolve.
"I order every Team Rocket branch and every operational squad to cooperate fully with the Strategic Development Department's work, effective immediately."
"Regardless of cost or expense, collect every high-quality Zubat egg and send them all to Ye Li's department!"
Giovanni's orders once again expanded Ye Li's authority to unprecedented heights.
He now not only controlled Team Rocket's most critical technology, but also possessed the privilege of mobilizing the entire organization's resources to serve his department alone.
The Strategic Development Department, once an empty shell, was becoming the most sought-after core of the entire Team Rocket organization at a speed no one had anticipated.
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