The Pokémon livestreaming scene was booming.
But most streams consisted of simple interactions with Pokémon, visiting shops, showing off looks, chatting, dancing, and similar content.
Pokémon appraisal and Pokémon battles, on the other hand, placed high demands on the streamer.
Appraising Pokémon required the streamer to possess extensive professional knowledge and appraisal skills. How could some ordinary young kid possibly have the eye to identify Pokémon through a screen?
As Hu Yue recalled, Ye Yinchuan had started livestreaming right after graduating high school.
As for battles, they required strong Pokémon. Usually, only Professional Trainers had a certain level of appeal.
Otherwise, streamers could only piggyback off others by broadcasting professional trainers' battles, Gym Battles, or matches held in various Arenas.
Whoa, Sailor Mercury was a beauty!
A Pokémon looks streamer with over a hundred thousand followers? Why was she sending gifts to someone else? The world had truly gone mad!
The viewers in the Live Stream Chat noticed Hu Yue's gift, clicked into her user profile, and immediately understood the situation.
At that moment, "Nidoran♀ is my Wife" had returned with his friend.
The two stepped in front of the camera. Little Fatty's friend was skinny and tall, with somewhat monkey-like features. He was clearly a high school student too.
"This is the streamer you hired? He doesn't even have any followers. Can he really be trusted?"
Skinny Monkey showed Ye Yinchuan no courtesy at all, saying that straight into the camera.
Lmao, this streamer really had no clout at all.
Even high schoolers looked down on him. Sheesh!
Seeing those Bullet Comments, Hu Yue felt a little indignant on Ye Yinchuan's behalf. These netizens could really be too much sometimes.
Did small streamers not deserve any dignity?
"We already agreed to it, so let's give it a try." Little Fatty pursed his lips. "Besides, it's free."
That sentence felt even more like an arrow piercing Ye Yinchuan's heart.
An independent streamer!
If I were the streamer, I wouldn't be able to take that!
Ye Yinchuan was so angry that he laughed and fired back directly, "Oi! You two brats, don't take people for granted! I'm appraising your Pokémon for free, and this is how you talk? Don't get too full of yourselves just because someone gives you an inch!"
Hearing this, Skinny Monkey shook his head and chanted, "A tiny streamer, what a joke! No popularity, yet giving appraisals for free! Little skill, big temper!"
"Those rhymes just keep coming, huh? Planning to take the grad school entrance exam?"
Skinny Monkey had come up with a little rhyme on the spot to mock him, and Ye Yinchuan finally snapped. "Enough nonsense. Bring out the Pokémon! Today, I'll show you what it means to know your place! What a capable streamer really looks like!"
Little Fatty tugged on Skinny Monkey as well, signaling for him not to go too far.
The two quickly got things ready and moved the camera to another room. A Pokémon Breeding Box sat there, and inside it rested an exceptionally fine-looking Nidoran♀. It looked gentle and relaxed.
That Nidoran♀ really was beautiful.
No wonder she looked down on ordinary Nidoran♂!
If the breeding works out, I'd like to buy an egg!
She's so docile. She doesn't look like the type to attack on her own. Could it be that the Nidoran♂ they paired her with is too ugly?
Bullet Comments swept across the screen, while Ye Yinchuan studied the Nidoran♀. His Appraisal Eye was taking effect.
Poison Pin Pokémon: Nidoran♂ Level: 18 Type: Poison Gender: Male Base Stats: C-Rank (273) Individual Value: B-Rank (150) Ability: Rivalry Nature: Adamant Moves: Leer, Poison Sting, Peck, Fury Swipes Status: At Ease Evolution Line: Nidorino - Nidoking Special: Shiny
The moment the panel appeared, Ye Yinchuan's expression froze, confusion mingling with disbelief.
What the hell? This was clearly an exceptionally fine-looking Nidoran♀, yet the panel was telling him it was a Nidoran♂?
Though the two were Pokémon of the same species, their differing genders gave them noticeably distinct traits and habits. They were the sort whose gender could be identified at a glance!
Ye Yinchuan even rubbed his eyes, wondering if he had read it wrong.
Or perhaps there was something wrong with the panel.
Only after checking several times with painstaking care did Ye Yinchuan become certain—this was a Nidoran♂ with an unusually striking bone structure that looked exactly like a Nidoran♀!
The reason was simple: it was a Shiny Pokémon!
Shiny Pokémon generally referred to Pokémon whose colors differed from those of ordinary Pokémon.
But in some cases, even their appearance could differ, and they still fell within the category of Shiny Pokémon.
This Nidoran♂ was unquestionably male. It just happened to look like a Nidoran♀ due to its Shiny coloration, which was why it had been raised as a Nidoran♀...
So using a male Nidoran♂ to breed with him—wasn't that male on top of male?
No wonder this Nidoran♂ had resisted so fiercely and had even launched an attack!
Its Ability, "Rivalry," was also part of the reason.
Rivalry only took effect on Pokémon of the same Gender. When another of the same Gender was nearby, it triggered a certain instinct, making it more aggressive and increasing the power of its Moves.
So when this Nidoran♂ was placed in the same space as another male, a fight was inevitable.
"Damn it. It looks so pretty, but it's a male Nidoran♂. Isn't that like one of those pretty little boy dressers among us humans?"
Ye Yinchuan could not help making the connection.
In a sense, Little Fatty's Nidoran♂ was a rare specimen—perhaps even one of a kind.
There would probably be people willing to pay a high price to buy it for collection or research.
If it could successfully breed and produce more Shiny Nidoran♂ like itself...
Creating value was one thing, but after large-scale breeding, Nidoran♂ and Nidoran♀ might become impossible to distinguish by Gender.
How could one tell whether I was female or male?
Still, Ye Yinchuan guessed that this kind of Shiny trait had a low chance of being inherited. Otherwise, Shiny Pokémon would not be so rare.
Why was the Streamer Stunned?
This isn't a frozen image. Please verify carefully!
Did Snorlax Appraisal lag out?
By then, Little Fatty and Skinny Monkey had already released the Nidoran♂ intended for breeding.
This was also a fine-looking Nidoran♂.
When that Nidoran♂ saw the "Nidoran♀," its eyes immediately lit up, and it was already struggling to restrain itself.
After all, in its eyes, this was an exceptionally charming and beautiful female.
"Easy, don't rush."
Skinny Monkey soothed the Nidoran♂, thick protective gloves covering his hands.
This Nidoran♂ was not his Pokémon; it had been borrowed.
As a Poison-type Poison Pin Pokémon, Nidoran♂ had poisonous spines on its head and back. Getting pricked by one carelessly would be agonizing, and in severe cases, it could even be fatal!
Therefore, people who raised Nidoran♂ or Nidoran♀ usually kept Antidote on hand at home. Protective gloves that could not be pierced by poison spines were also the fourteenth essential item.
Just as Skinny Monkey was about to place the Nidoran♂ into the "Nidoran♀'s" Breeding Box—
The "Nidoran♀" twitched its ears and sensed something. It spun around in a leap, its face full of vigilance and aggression, its ears flapping like wings—a gesture of warning and attack!
"This just won't work!"
One look told Little Fatty that it was going to fail. "Streamer, you see it now, right? This is exactly what happens!"
Skinny Monkey, however, was unwilling to give up and still tried to lower the Nidoran♂ in his hands.
"Let's try again!"
Ye Yinchuan finally snapped out of it. He anxiously shouted at the camera, reaching out as if to stop them.
"Stop! You got it wrong, you got it all wrong! That isn't a Nidoran♀—it's a Shiny Nidoran♂!"
At those words, Little Fatty and Skinny Monkey's pupils contracted, and their bodies jolted as expressions of disbelief appeared on their faces.
The way they looked at the camera seemed to say, Are you fucking kidding me?
The Bullet Comments in the Live Stream Chat exploded instantly!
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