Pokémon: Shadow of the Dawn

"Ding--"

Arriving at the twelfth floor, the elevator door opened and Wang Jin went straight to his small bedroom.

Only after he closed the door, sat on the sofa and closed his eyes for a while did Wang Jin feel a little safe.

Without taking any more time to rest, he quickly took off his backpack and took out all the Poké Balls.

The day after tomorrow is when the gym trip officially begins. Although I don't know how the group will arrange it, time is tight. It's five o'clock in the afternoon and it's getting dark soon. I have to count the spoils, feed Pokémon, eat, and other miscellaneous tasks in the remaining time of today.

Wang Jin took the things out of his backpack one by one and counted them together with the Poké Balls.

A water stone obtained from the Turtle Foot tribe in exchange for energy cubes, although only of intermediate quality, is worth hundreds of thousands of Alliance coins.

A wild Toad King, level 40. The pinnacle of the gym owner level, with the ability to swim freely. It should also be worth hundreds of thousands of Alliance coins.

A newly captured Pokémon, a king-level bear.

A burning insect egg, plus the breeding method of insect Pokémon.

Finally, there are two unknown totems with added super powers.

"Hmm..." Wang Jin thought for a moment, and first flipped through the insect Pokémon breeding notes from Bolton.

When he was in the wilderness before, he just casually read a few pages in the middle to confirm the authenticity, and did not read it carefully. Now he has to find the part about the burning worm... Although Bolton looks rough, his notes are well written and well organized.

Wang Jin quickly found the part about the burning bugs at the end.

[I have searched all the channels and found all the information I could find about the Burning Bug and the Vulcan Moth... The Burning Bug is a rare Pokémon with both fire and bug attributes. Logically, the bug attribute should be extremely incompatible with the fire attribute. But in the body of the Burning Bug, it can perfectly fit... I know! The reason why the Vulcan Moth is so powerful... Fire is its essential energy! The bug is just a body! ]

Wang Jin seemed to be thinking about something and read till the end.

[If you want to make the Incinerator eggs hatch quickly, it's best to find a Pokémon with a flaming body... Unfortunately, this Incinerator's characteristic is not a flaming body, otherwise it should be able to speed up the hatching speed. ]

[The key point of cultivating the Vulcan Moth is the fire attribute. It is actually a fire-attributed Pokémon with extremely high potential, and the insect attribute is just a byproduct... A large amount of fire-attributed resources must be used to accelerate its growth process. ]

[I purchased five Fire Stones, spending more than eight million Alliance Coins. I ground them into powder and applied them on the surface of the burning insect eggs. The effect was remarkable. The red light inside the burning insect eggs was much stronger.]

[High-quality charcoal is essential for daily use. Use this charcoal to make a nest suitable for burning insects to hatch, and then add fire stone powder...]

"Charcoal, fire stone..." Wang Jin immediately thought of the top-quality fire stone he had left for Growlithe.

But that stone has already been reserved by the dog, and it is impossible to waste it on helping the burning worm grow.

It just so happens that he has a lot of spending quota this month, so maybe he can get a dozen Fire Stones for free?

Thinking of this, Wang Jin walked out of the bedroom with the intermediate-quality water stone and the wild toad king with the characteristic of swimming freely, and rushed to the elevator.

It’s a good time to go to the black market and buy everything.

"Ding--"

The elevator reached the fifteenth floor, and Wang Jin walked onto the soft red carpet. He looked at the doors of each room one by one. After finding a vacant room with a green light on, he pushed the door and walked in.

"Welcome, my dear Mr. Wang Jin."

The black market merchant sat at a low brown wooden table and turned to greet them enthusiastically.

If Wang Jin hadn't been able to see the guy's face clearly through the hood, he would have almost felt like he was home.

Every black market merchant knew him. According to Maru, it was the same when he went in. All the black market merchants knew him.

Should these super-powered people be able to share the same super-power network?

Wang Jin made random guesses. The black market merchant in front of him was indeed silent, which was completely different from the time when he often probed into his inner thoughts and gave him advice.

"Hello?" Wang Jin waved twice in front of the black-robed merchant.

"You don't have to test me. I can see it." The black-robed merchant's tone seemed to be smiling. "It's just that I can't hear your inner voice. Your mental strength seems to have increased significantly?"

A big increase?

Wang Jin suddenly thought of the time when he was training his superpowers every day. Could it be that the training during this period...

At this moment, the voice of symbol A suddenly came into my mind:

"How could that little bit of training make such great progress? I set up a superpower protection barrier in your brain. Otherwise, what if you had some crazy thoughts in your mind and exposed us?"

"how could be..."

Wang Jin is still somewhat confident in himself. He usually forgets about things that he shouldn't think about, or focuses on money and business.

"Do you have any needs? You can just tell me..." the black-robed merchant asked at this time.

Wang Jin came back to his senses from talking to Xiao A and asked first:

"How much of my group spending quota is left?"

"Hmm..." The black-robed merchant groaned for a moment and replied, "Since you have just completed a task... after adding the reward, your spending limit is 60 million Alliance Coins. What do you need?"

60 million? That's a lot...

Wang Jin couldn't remember how many Alliance Coins he had left, but since he still had 60 million... he asked:

"Do you have a Fire Stone?"

"Fire Stone?" The black market merchant asked doubtfully, "Didn't you buy a top-grade Fire Stone before?"

Wang Jin was too lazy to explain and said directly:

"Anyway, we still need it now. We need a lot. How much do you have on the black market?"

How big is the black market?

The merchant was silent for a moment, having never thought that a customer would ask such a question. But he still did his duty and responded with his supernatural powers:

"There are more than a hundred low-grade Fire Stones, fifty-seven mid-grade Fire Stones, and twelve high-grade Fire Stones. The only top-grade Fire Stone has been taken away by you."

"Okay..." Wang Jin thought carefully for a moment and said, "Give me thirty intermediate fire stones and six advanced fire stones...how much?"

"Are you here... to purchase goods?" the black market merchant couldn't help but ask.

Thirty-six evolution stones? Who has the time to buy so many fire stones? Are they for collection? Or for reselling?

The businessman added:

"Our black market prices are definitely higher than those outside, with a 20% to 50% premium. Our main advantage is that we are safe, widely available, and have good services. If you want to resell them, it will never work."