Pokemon: I am really a civilian trainer

"hiss?"

The caterpillar put down the branch and looked at the old village chief with confusion.

Although it is a little stupid, it shouldn't be difficult for it to learn to count, right?

You have to know that the owner has been teaching it for almost a day, and it already had the concept of numbers before. Numbers often appear in human language, so over time it understood some of them.

The only problem is that it is now learning to count backwards, and it feels like its brain can't figure it out, so it can't get it right.

While the Caterpillar was still thinking, he saw the old village chief take out the Poke Ball.

Along with a red light, a sturdy fighting-type elf appeared, which was the old man Aaron's super power.

Old Man Aaron looked at Guai Li and said, "Check the number. It has to be more than twenty."

Guaili scratched his head and without giving it much thought, he followed his master's instructions and started counting.

Unlike the strong force and arm strength before evolution, the evolved strange force not only has a stronger body, but also has two more arms on the back.

This directly doubles the statistical range of the strange power.

I saw the strange creature fiddling with its twenty fingers, muttering to itself, and when it realized that the number was not enough, it quickly sat on the ground and started fiddling with its four toes.

Although Guili has five fingers on his hands, he only has two toes on his feet.

Just like that, as he counted to twenty-four, his strange power suddenly froze and he fell into a state of confusion similar to a brain crash.

Old Man Aaron looked at the strange man sitting on the ground and bending his toes, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and then he turned his head to look at Mark's caterpillar.

This is a green caterpillar!

Although it has strong limbs and a simple mind, it is not inferior to a green caterpillar.

Old man Aaron, who has been running the caterpillar breeding base in Qingxi Village for many years, has a deep understanding of the intelligence of caterpillars.

Saying that the Caterpillar's intelligence is equal to that of Magikarp is an insult to the Caterpillar, but even if the Caterpillar's intelligence is stronger than that of Magikarp, it is not much stronger and is far below the average IQ of elves.

Suddenly, Old Man Aaron noticed something. He saw the pattern that the Caterpillar had written on the ground with a wooden stick not long ago.

Although they look crooked, these patterns are clearly digital symbols.

Not only did he learn to count, he also learned to write numbers?

Is this a green caterpillar?

Old Man Aaron took a breath of cold air unconsciously.

He did notice that Mark's caterpillar was smarter than ordinary caterpillars, but he never thought it would be this smart.

Considering the Caterpillar's excellent [impact] skills in the yard a few days ago, plus its larger and stronger body than an ordinary Caterpillar, and the fact that Mark took the Caterpillar to Qingxi Forest every day and trained hard like an ascetic.

The three elements of right time, right place and right people are all in place.

As long as it continues like this, this green caterpillar will definitely have a promising future.

Even if Mark fails to enter the Pokemon Academy in the future, when this Caterpillar evolves into Butterfree, Mark can easily join a Bug-type gym of a small town level, and then naturally become a formal trainer.

Although it is impossible to compare with Amy and Alden, Mark's life is already guaranteed.

Mark didn't notice that Old Man Aaron was thinking in a complicated way. He just thought that something was wrong with his approach.

He walked up to Old Man Aaron, who had been in a daze for a while, and asked doubtfully, "Village Chief, is there any problem if I let the caterpillar learn mathematics?"

Old man Aaron came back to his senses and wanted to give him a good compliment, but after thinking it over he gave up.

At Mark's age, it is time to be cautious about arrogance and impatience. If he is praised too much, it will easily have the opposite effect.

He rubbed the stubble on his chin and said, "Problems... No, for now. You can continue with your method, but be careful about the intensity of the actual combat training. Don't let your caterpillar overdraw its body or suffer any permanent damage. As for how to teach the caterpillar to count backwards, you have seen my strange strength. In fact, this is also an area I am not very good at."

A few meters away, Raticate, who was still counting on his fingers, heard something and looked at his master in a daze, and saw Old Man Aaron raising the Poke Ball.

A red light flashed, and the strange power was absorbed into it.

The Caterpillar came over with a curious look on its face, staring intently at the Poké Ball containing supernatural power.

Old Man Aaron raised his eyebrows slightly, thinking of something, and touched the Caterpillar's head and said, "Do you like Poke Balls very much?"

"Hiss!"

Old Man Aaron smiled and said, "Since you like it so much, well, if you can learn to count backwards, I will help your master finance half of your Poke Ball. However, when I say count backwards, I don't mean just counting. You have to write it on the ground with a wooden stick like you did just now, and it can't be written crookedly."

"Hiss!"

The caterpillar excitedly jumped onto Old Man Aaron's shoulder and rubbed his cheek.

Mark glared at the complacent Caterpillar and walked up to Old Man Aaron. "Village Chief, you don't have to be like this. Regarding the Caterpillar's Poke Ball, I can do it myself..."

Before Mark finished speaking, he was interrupted by Old Man Aaron waving his hand.

Old Man Aaron frowned, patted the lost green caterpillar twice with his hands and said: "Raising an pokemon is like raising a child. My words just now have given it expectations. You directly dispel its expectations like this. Do you know how much negative impact it will have on it?

It's settled, as long as it can figure out how to count backwards and write with a stick, I'll pay for half of its Poke Ball.

Green Caterpillar, do you have confidence? "

"Hiss!!"

The caterpillar jumped down from Old Man Aaron's shoulder, first made a determined gesture, then immediately picked up the small wooden stick, wrote and drew on the ground, and entered a state of hard study.

Old man Aaron glanced at Mark, rubbed his chin stubble lightly, and showed a half-smile.

Although Mark's performance gave him the feeling that a new generation was replacing the old, Mark obviously still lacked a lot of experience in cultivating elves.

Old Man Aaron said, "I'm not very good at teaching the caterpillar to count backwards, but you can learn this method of motivating the spirits. I can see that your caterpillar is very sensible, but you must also take advantage of the situation and use a different mindset to learn and exercise. The results are often very different."

Mark glanced at the green caterpillar writing and drawing on the ground, and then looked at the experience bar on the Spirit Master's panel that was constantly rising.

After Old Man Aaron's encouragement, the rate at which the Caterpillar's experience bar increased by studying mathematics increased by at least 30%.

Mark nodded solemnly and said, "I understand. Thank you for your advice, but the Poke Ball is still..."

Mark's words were interrupted again by Old Man Aaron waving his hand.

"Even if I'm supporting you and Caterpillar, I'm the village chief of Qingxi Village. Shouldn't I help young people with potential in the village?

In fact, if I wasn't afraid that you would become dependent on my support, I could directly support Caterpillar with a Poke Ball once he fulfilled the conditions.

Well, we have wasted quite a bit of time. I guess you and the Caterpillar haven't eaten anything. Let's just have a quick meal and then report to the village school.

By the way, speaking of eating, the more you eat, the better. Eighty percent... no, seventy percent full is enough..."