Elf: Starts with small diamonds, then mutates into Diancie.

"Brother, you're so handsome, you can't be a bad person. Can you help me find my sister?"

Su Hao: ...Why aren't you playing by the rules?

Carrying the worry that this child is too easily abducted

Su Hao led her toward the escalator, intending to find the lost children's rescue center on the third floor of the children's playground to report the lost child.

While riding the escalator, Su Hao asked the little girl curiously why she had run into the toilet to hide.

The little girl said she has a name, Bai Yue, and her nickname is Yueyue.

Yueyue's way of expressing herself was very abstract, and Su Hao had to use all his strength to extract the essence from her incoherent answers.

1. Yueyue came to the children's playground with her older sister today.

2. While playing, my older sister ran out to answer the phone, so she had to wait while playing and building sandcastles.

3. Suddenly a Pokémon appeared and started playing a chase game with her. As they chased each other, they ended up in the first-floor restroom, where the Pokémon ran through the wall.

A quick summary reveals that Yueyue was likely tricked by a mischievous Ghost-type Pokémon, which is why she ran to the men's restroom to hide alone.

Su Hao, leading Yueyue who had changed from her previous bewildered state, quickly arrived at the lost children's rescue center on the third floor.

The staff here are very professional. After hearing that Su Hao said he had a lost child, they asked a few insightful questions to obtain information and then started searching for Yueyue's sister directly through the mall's public address system.

The broadcast accurately stated the keywords, and parents searching for their children could usually recognize whether it was their own child after hearing it.

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"Hello, the description of the missing girl on the radio matches my sister very well. Can I confirm?" Bai Zirou ran to the front desk of the rescue center with messy steps and asked the staff anxiously.

"Yes, miss, are you Bai Yue's sister?"

"Correct."

"Then please go that way. Bai Yue and the boy who brought her are in that room." The receptionist pointed to a room next door.

After saying thank you, Bai Zirou quickly walked towards the room with the door slightly ajar. When she pushed it open, she saw Yueyue sitting obediently on a small chair listening to a handsome boy tell a story. Her anxiety mixed with regret finally subsided.

"Yueyue!"

"Sister, you're here? Can we wait until Brother Su finishes his story before we leave?"

Bai Yue blinked her bright eyes and looked at Bai Zirou pitifully.

Feeling guilty for causing her sister to go missing due to her own mistake, Bai Zirou naturally agreed.

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Bighead fish

Chapter 75 A Small Goal

"Thank you so much, otherwise I still wouldn't be able to find Yueyue."

Seeing the pretty girl in front of him bow slightly, Su Hao waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, just a small favor."

Su Hao genuinely felt this was a minor matter, since before the auction, he had only been idly wandering around the mall during training.

Just as Su Hao was about to say goodbye, the girl seemed to remember something and took out a jade box from her crossbody bag.

"As a token of my gratitude, please accept this dragon's tooth. You may use it to sell or for your own use."

Bai Zirou had observed Su Hao, and Su Hao's appearance suggested he was either a high school student or a college student, and he was likely also a trainer.

This dragon tooth is her usual snack with Hakkoryu. If she takes it to the official store to recycle, it will probably fetch around 100,000 Shenzhou coins.

Whether Su Hao takes it to recycle or he has a Dragon-type Pokémon that can absorb its energy, it can still be effective.

What the heck? Are people just throwing money around like that?

Su Hao was shocked to see the girl in front of him throwing money around without warning.

"It's so valuable... isn't that inappropriate?" Su Hao asked weakly.

"No, this is just a small token of my appreciation, please accept it," Bai Zirou said firmly.

"Brother, please accept this. My sister is very rich."

For her, born into a top family in the Divine Continent Alliance, this dragon tooth was indeed just a small token of affection.

After several attempts to refuse, Su Hao had no choice but to accept the gift from the two sisters who were determined to give it to him.

Su Hao was speechless as the Bai sisters left, completely satisfied.

He was just helping out with a small favor.

What kind of family do these two sisters come from? They just give away a Dragon Fang worth over 100,000 Shenzhou coins like that. Are people this extravagant these days?

Now the money spent on the incubator and nutrient solution for the baby dragon has been earned back.

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With several hours to go before the auction began, Su Hao went to the second floor to eat and drink his fill, and then left the mall.

He went to a private club outside the mall, intending to book a training room.

He had already done his daily training this morning, and now he was going to tally up the training progress and maximum combat power of the three Pokémon.

Su Hao did not intend to follow the conventional path of taking the college entrance examination.

Once he collects all four badges, he can report to the Alliance and choose any university to enroll in without taking an entrance exam.

He might not even need to choose them himself; his father had told him that some universities were already paying attention to his schedule and were just waiting for him to collect all four beginner badges.

Su Hao's Pokémon had the experience boost from the system, making leveling up in the early stages a smooth process.

However, this only applies to players at the professional level who can play without any pressure.

If Pokémon at the professional level can increase their strength by accumulating energy, then even a slow and steady approach can gradually raise their level.

However, this rule no longer applies from the elite level to the professional level.

If battles between elite Pokémon are like small-scale firearms exchanging fire, then battles between professional Pokémon represent a sublimation of their overall life level and a specialization in a particular skill.

Professional-level Pokémon are far superior to elite-level Pokémon in terms of basic stats and move power.

In a more fantastical way, a Pokémon specializes in its strongest and most outstanding aspect before advancing to the professional level, and only then can that Pokémon hold the key to becoming a Gym Leader or Elite Four Pokémon.

Although the experience points provided by the system allow Little Diamond and the others to level up without any accumulation, as long as they keep fighting.

However, if you simply level up without developing your core abilities, your combat power will be inferior to those Pokémon that have truly defined their own path.

For example, Su's father's trump card—the King-level fire-breathing dragon.

Charizard was his starter Pokémon, which evolved after Su's father was promoted from Normal to Elite level during his freshman year of college.

Su's father was adopted by an orphanage when he was a child, but he was lucky enough to be selected as a little dragon in his senior year of high school. However, he did not have enough resources to raise him, so his progress was very slow before college.

Looking at the entire Shenzhou League, those who can achieve this at the high school level

There are actually very few people who can train Pokémon to the elite level.

This is why Su's father said that my son has the bearing of a great emperor.

Before his sophomore year, even with Charizard, a starter Pokémon with great potential, Su's father couldn't compare to those from elite families and geniuses.

Until one day, Su's father met an old man.

The old man was the former Fire-type King of the Divine Continent Alliance. Seeing that the Charizard that Su's father had cultivated despite limited resources had such a solid foundation, he decided to take him on as a disciple.

After being accepted as an apprentice, with the support of his teacher and resources, Su's father, like a poem, transformed into a dragon when the wind and clouds came his way.

He rose through the ranks and eventually became one of the top-ranked Fire-type Gym Leaders among the eighteen elemental gym leaders.

After reaching Elite level, Su's father's Charizard received guidance from his master and shifted from all-around development to specialization in moves and energy.

Aside from Su Hao's three Pokémon blessed by the system, there are bottlenecks in the improvement of Pokémon's strength in this world.

Each breakthrough in a bottleneck will filter out a large number of Pokémon.

Because once an elite Pokémon breaks through to the professional level, its overall stats are greatly improved.

Even if you are a Speaker Cricket, once you break through from Elite to Pro level, you can still crush Elite-level Dragon-type Pokémon with sheer strength.

The enormous positive factors correspond to an extremely high level of difficulty in achieving breakthroughs.

Some scholars have compared the difficulty of breaking through from elite level to professional level to professional level, which is even more difficult than breaking through from professional level to dojo level.

The reason is that not every Pokémon can achieve a complete sublimation of its overall life level.

Until a genius breeder perfected the breakthrough method of "specialization".

Specialization, simply put, is about using the different strengths of different Pokémon to break through to the professional level.

For example, Su's father's Charizard specifically trained the intensity of its internal fire-type energy when it was at the elite level, so that only its own [fire-type energy] broke through to the professional level, and its physical attributes increased slightly.

Pokémon that specialize in a particular skill to reach the professional level are much weaker than the very few that truly achieve the professional level through all-around abilities.

But what's the point of such a flawed breakthrough?

When Su Hao asked his father this question, his father replied:

While Pokémon that specializes to the professional level may not be as good as a very small number of Pokémon at this stage, this shortcoming can be made up for.

As long as you are willing to expend certain resources at the professional level, other shortcomings can be made up for after breaking through to the gym level.