Chapter 170: The First Summer Camp Activity
As the battle ended, the dark clouds in the sky gradually dispersed, and sunlight once again shone upon the grass. Primarina elegantly tidied up her little skirt.
"As expected, three consecutive wins feel great. No wonder Senior likes it," Bai Feng said with a refreshed look.
"You!!" Senior glared at Bai Feng, his lips moving slightly. It was unclear what he originally wanted to say, but in the end, he only asked, "What's your name?"
Bai Feng suddenly wiped the smile from his face. "Senior, we Trainers respect strength. As a weakling, you're not qualified to know my name!"
"Whoa~~" Daisuke whistled. "Well said!"
Senior's face turned red because these were the words he had said to Bai Feng and the others the day he moved into the dorm. Although he didn't say it exactly like this, the meaning was the same.
"What are you guys doing here?"
Just then, Teacher Kurita's voice suddenly rang out, and all the students who were watching scattered and ran off.
Bai Feng had originally planned to run too, but Teacher Kurita called out to him.
"Bai Feng, you're back?"
Bai Feng turned his head and said, "Yes... yes."
"What were you doing here just now?" Teacher Kurita asked again.
"Nothing much. I just got back and saw Senior here, so we had a spar. Right, Senior?" As he spoke, Bai Feng looked at Senior, who also hadn't managed to leave in time, with a half-smile.
"Yes... yes, that's right." Although Senior was unwilling to go along with Bai Feng, he was also afraid of being punished, so he could only nod reluctantly in the end.
However, he finally knew the name of the person who had defeated him.
Bai Feng!
Senior silently memorized this name in his heart.
Hearing Bai Feng's answer, the teacher immediately became interested. "A spar? Who won?"
Senior's face turned red from the question, and he stammered, unwilling to say. Bai Feng, meanwhile, watched the scene with his arms crossed, also remaining silent.
Teacher Kurita took one look at Furukawa's expression and instantly understood everything.
Furukawa was the Head Student of the fourth year in the Battle Department at Vermilion City Fourth Middle School, and also ranked first in battle performance for the entire Battle Department of the Fourth Middle School. Because of this, he had always been arrogant and looked down on everyone.
For him to show such an embarrassed expression, it could only mean one thing: he had lost to Bai Feng, and perhaps lost quite badly.
As a teacher in the Battle Department, Teacher Kurita's smile grew wider upon hearing this news, whether it was because Bai Feng won or because Furukawa lost at this moment.
Bai Feng winning showed that her decision to try and bring Bai Feng into the Battle Department was correct.
Furukawa losing was a good opportunity to curb his usual arrogant attitude.
"Not bad, Bai Feng. Your strength would be among the top even in our Battle Department. How about you consider transferring to our Battle Department?"
Bai Feng quickly waved his hand upon hearing this. "Teacher, I'm also first in the Breeding Department."
"Oh~ Don't be so quick to refuse. I have high hopes for you, and you're also a Psychic. It would be such a waste not to make good use of this talent!"
Teacher Kurita and Bai Feng walked and talked, completely forgetting about Furukawa.
Furukawa: Teacher, I'm your student! What's with you caring about students from other departments?
In the end, the conflict between Furukawa and Daisuke, Valen, Shenmu, and Bai Feng was still discovered by Teacher Kurita. She called all of them over.
"You are all students of Vermilion City Fourth Middle School. Now your conflict has reached the Kanto Region, even in front of students from other schools. Don't you feel ashamed?"
The few of them were so reprimanded by the teacher that they didn't dare to speak.
"I'm ashamed for you! If you have conflicts, you can come find me, the teacher. How ugly it is to make a scene."
"Senior is just too infuriating!" Daisuke muttered, saying it indignantly.
"I told you, you can report it to me, the teacher. Do you think I wouldn't handle it?" Teacher Kurita glared fiercely at Daisuke.
After speaking to Daisuke, she looked at Furukawa and said, "Furukawa, this isn't the first time you've done this. I've warned you many times before!"
Furukawa's eyes wandered, seemingly not taking Teacher Kurita's words to heart.
Teacher Kurita was quite angered. "Do you think you're amazing? That's just because your perspective is limited, and you haven't encountered many Trainers. Once you're outside, you're nothing. Look how completely you lost against Bai Feng!"
Hearing this, Furukawa's expression finally changed. He was somewhat unconvinced by the teacher's words, but his crushing defeat at Bai Feng's hands was a fact. For a moment, he was speechless.
"Never mind, never mind..." Teacher Kurita waved her hand, pressing her forehead with a headache. She truly didn't know how to handle Furukawa anymore. "You're not taking my words to heart now, but you'll suffer for it someday."
After thinking for a moment, Teacher Kurita said again, "Since your conflict is so big, how about I help you switch dorm rooms?"
"Okay, okay!" said Daisuke.
"Teacher, no need to trouble yourself!" said Bai Feng.
Shenmu: ???
Hearing Bai Feng's words, Daisuke stared blankly at Bai Feng, as if saying, 'What are you doing?!'
Bai Feng gave Daisuke a reassuring look. In the end, Daisuke could only brace himself and say, "Let's just forget about it."
Ultimately, the dorm room switch was unsuccessful.
After leaving Teacher Kurita, Daisuke whispered to Bai Feng, "Why didn't you let the teacher switch the dorm? I'm really fed up with him."
Bai Feng replied, "With his personality, if he switched to another dorm, wouldn't he just cause trouble for others? Don't worry, if he pulls any more stunts, I have ways to deal with him."
Daisuke thought about it and felt he was right. Causing trouble for others by switching dorms was indeed not right. "Then I'll trust you this once."
After that, Bai Feng returned to his normal Summer Camp life.
The Summer Camp Bai Feng and the others attended usually divided the day's lessons into two parts. In the morning, students would sit in classrooms to learn cultural knowledge, all related to Pokémon. In the afternoon was practical class, where teachers would take students outdoors for various practical activities related to Pokémon.
The morning's cultural class had ended, and in the afternoon, Bai Feng was to participate in outdoor activities.
At noon, Bai Feng and Daisuke ate together in the Research Institute's cafeteria, and then returned to the dorm to rest for a while.
Furukawa hadn't returned to the dorm and no one knew where he had gone, but no one cared.
The afternoon outdoor activities began. Bai Feng had already learned from Daisuke and the others that today's activity was the Bug-Catching Contest.
Behind Professor Oak's Research Institute was a mountain area that wasn't very large, which was actually also part of the Research Institute's grounds. Various Bug-type Pokémon had been placed inside beforehand.
The students' task for today was to enter the mountain and capture these Pokémon through battles.
Of course, simply capturing them wasn't enough. While capturing the Pokémon, students also had to record the corresponding basic information for that Pokémon, such as its Type, Ability, which Moves it had learned, and so on.
Only when the accuracy of the basic information recorded reached eighty percent would it be considered a valid capture. The team with the most valid captures in the end would win.
The winning team could receive rewards. For example, today's winners would not only get a delicious dinner but also a high amount of Points as a reward!
During this Summer Camp, for every test or activity participated in, students would be awarded a certain amount of Points based on their ranking.
By the end of the Summer Camp, the three students with the highest Points would receive a special reward from Professor Oak.
Professor Oak's reward! That's no small matter, so everyone was putting in their full effort to strive for the top.
Nearly two hundred people participated in the Youth Group Summer Camp this time. There were about thirty students per class, and each class had its own temporary Homeroom Teacher.
Bai Feng's Homeroom Teacher was a short-haired male teacher wearing black-rimmed glasses. He was said to be one of Professor Oak's students, named Haramoto.
In the afternoon, when it was time for the activity, students arrived at the foot of the mountain one after another, waiting for the teachers to come and announce the start of the activity.
After Bai Feng's class gathered together, Teacher Haramoto walked to the front and explained the rules for this Bug-Catching activity.
"This activity is not conducted individually, but requires you to complete it as a team. Your team's ranking will be your personal ranking, and the Points your team earns will be your personal Points. Therefore, you must pay attention to teamwork and avoid conflicts."
The rule is that a team consists of 2 to 5 people. Choose how many people you think is suitable for your team and form groups accordingly.
You can now form your teams freely."
After Teacher Haramoto finished speaking, the students below began to find people to form teams with. The situation was similar in other classes.
Bai Feng and the four of them (Bai Feng, Shenmu, Daisuke, and Valen) naturally formed a team.
More or less, there would be some people left alone in each class, like Senior Furukawa. He stood there coolly, seemingly indifferent about whether he could find teammates or not.
But this activity was designed to cultivate students' teamwork abilities, so how could the teachers allow anyone to be left alone?
In the end, Senior Furukawa was forced to form a five-person team with students from other classes who were also left alone.
Those who were left alone were usually either introverted or troublemakers like Senior Furukawa. In any case, none of the five were easy to get along with.
"After forming your teams, everyone come over and get your Poké Balls!" Teacher Haramoto shouted again.
Of course, capturing Pokémon requires Poké Balls. The Research Institute had already prepared the Poké Balls long ago!
So each team sent out a representative to queue up and collect the Poké Balls.
After the students had formed their teams and collected their Poké Balls, Professor Oak arrived late. He walked to the highest platform and said to the students:
"Everyone, although there are basically no dangerous Pokémon on the mountain, you can never be sure about accidents. So you still need to be careful and absolutely must not go anywhere outside of this mountain!"
That's all I have to say. Good luck everyone, I look forward to your performance. The competition starts now!"
As Professor Oak's voice fell, the students rushed towards the mountain one after another.
"Be careful!"
The teachers chased after the children, shouting, while simultaneously starting to control the drones in their hands to fly towards the mountain.
These drones would monitor the situation on the mountain, both to prevent cheating and to detect anyone who encountered an accident in time.
"Let's go, we should set off quickly too!" Daisuke cheerfully called out to Bai Feng and the others.
He was sleepy during cultural classes, but as soon as it was time for outdoor activities, he became full of energy. This was the legendary underachiever.
Bai Feng assigned tasks to everyone as they walked. "Later, those with Flying-type Pokémon should send them out to scout."
"Valen, when we encounter a Pokémon, we'll be responsible for battling and capturing it, and you'll be responsible for recording the Pokémon's basic information."
"Okay!"
Valen nodded and took out the paper and pen she had prepared from her backpack. Her combat ability was indeed the lowest among the three.
Bai Feng and the others chose a direction where no one was gathered and ascended the mountain. Bai Feng sent out Pidove, and Shenmu sent out Fletchinder.
Neither Daisuke nor Valen had Flying-type Pokémon.
"I should have captured a Flying-type Pokémon too. Sometimes it's really inconvenient not having one!" Valen said with a sigh, watching Pidove and Fletchinder fly off in two different directions to scout.
Daisuke, however, said indifferently, "I'd rather have nothing than something subpar. Anyway, I'm not a battle-type Trainer, so it's the same whether I have a Flying-type Pokémon or not."
Thinking of Daisuke's strange habits when capturing Pokémon, Valen couldn't help but roll her eyes, but then she heard Daisuke say:
"Sigh~ I didn't see Jynx today either."
"Get lost!" Valen gave him a hard kick on the butt.
At the same time that Pidove and Fletchinder flew out, Bai Feng also spread his Psychic Power around.
Sure enough, before Pidove and Fletchinder had found anything, Bai Feng had already made a discovery.
"Wait, let's go this way!"
Bai Feng suddenly stopped the other three and led them around a corner.
After walking a dozen steps, Bai Feng and the others indeed found a Caterpie wriggling in a patch of grass. Because its color was too similar to the grass, it was hard to spot.
"Bai Feng, you're amazing! Do you have an extra pair of eyes compared to us?" Daisuke said exaggeratedly.
Hearing this, Valen slapped him. "Did you forget that Bai Feng can use Psychic Power?"
Only then did Daisuke remember, and he scratched the back of his head sheepishly, saying, "Oh right, I forgot!"
"Shenmu, this Caterpie is yours. Valen, hurry and record!" Bai Feng shouted.
"Yes!"
Shenmu and Valen shouted at the same time.
Valen quickly began recording on the paper, while Shenmu waved his hand and called Fletchinder over.
"Fletchinder, Ember!"
As Shenmu's voice fell, small flames appeared on Fletchinder's wings and were controlled to shoot towards the Caterpie.
However, the flames didn't hit the Caterpie, but instead landed on the ground next to it.
This was, of course, not because Fletchinder had poor aim, but because Shenmu was probing, as they still needed to record the Caterpie's basic information.
Sure enough, as the Caterpie was startled, a barely noticeable cloud of powder suddenly rose from its body. Seeing this, Shenmu said to Valen:
"Caterpie's Ability is Shield Dust!"
Caterpie only has two Abilities: the standard Ability Shield Dust, and the Hidden Ability Run Away. It was clear that this one's Ability was Shield Dust.
"Got it!" Hearing this, Valen quickly scribbled it down on the paper.
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(End of this chapter)