Chapter 34: Chapter 34 Return to Caterpillar Territory
"Actually, this land certificate should have been given to you after the Chaos Pokémon Tide ended ten years ago, but you were still young at that time, and then you became like that, so there was no point in giving it to you.
The land certificate you have now was applied for by me in Sanshan Town a few days ago.
In fact, according to the normal process, this certificate will take at least several months to come out. However, two people with special abilities were born in our village, so many things are now given the green light.
This is not only about your family's land certification, but also about opening a Pokémon Center.
I originally thought that I might have to wait until next year, but the construction team of the Pokémon Center is coming in the next two days, and they said that they will deliver two large milk tanks to match the Pokémon Center in a few days.
If your Caterpillars perform well in counting backwards, I will give you half of the Poké Ball subsidy and a few boxes of Moo Moo Milk."
Old man Aaron's face was full of joy and he looked very happy.
It can be seen that Old Man Aaron must have just received the news that the Pokémon Center is about to start construction, so he is eager to find someone to share his joy.
Mark put away the land certificate with a slight scent of ink, bowed and thanked: "Village Chief, I..."
Before he could finish his words of thanks, Old Man Aaron interrupted him with a wave of his hand.
Old Man Aaron patted Mark on the shoulder and said, "I just did it for you. Your house and land originally belonged to you. Why thank me? Besides, you and I are relatives."
Mark was slightly stunned. He had always thought that he was an orphan after traveling through time. How could he have relatives?
Noticing Mark's expression, Old Man Aaron shook his head and explained, "It's not what you think. You and I are very distant relatives, but we are somewhat related. Your father, Flint, has always called me Third Brother.
In that case, you should call me Third Uncle, or Third Uncle Aaron, from now on, and stop calling me Village Chief all day long."
"Third uncle?"
Mark looked at old man Aaron carefully. Although old man Aaron looked strong and healthy, he looked to be at least seventy years old. How could he just call him Third Uncle?
"Well, you can call me that from now on. I will show you your house now. You are still young, so you should live with me for the time being. When you grow up a little, we can consider renovating your house..."
After Old Man Aaron finished speaking, he took Mark to the east side of the village.
Not far from where the Pokémon Center was going to be built, Mark came to a deserted courtyard.
The entire courtyard is about one thousand square meters. The house is half brick and half wood structure, about one hundred square meters. The overall framework is still intact, but there are many dilapidated places, overgrown with weeds, and even the old tiles on the roof are covered with weeds.
As we approached the house, several Bobos emerged from a hole near the roof and seemed to have built a nest near the hole.
Old Man Aaron looked the house up and down and said, "It seems that your house didn't suffer much damage during the chaotic Pokémon tide ten years ago. It's just that no one has lived in it for a long time, so it looks rather dilapidated. I guess it won't be too difficult to repair it.
Oh, I forgot to ask you how your school was today. Did those naughty bug-catching guys cause you any trouble? "
Mark shook his head slightly, "Not bad, Teacher Emira is very serious and responsible. As for those insect-catching guys, they are far away from me and have not communicated with me."
Old Man Aaron said thoughtfully, "It seems that you scared them after beating them up, so they don't dare to cause trouble for you."
"Um?"
Mark looked puzzled, but the Caterpillar seemed to have thought of something and gestured with its legs, as if helping him recall.
Soon, Mark learned what had happened from Old Man Aaron.
It's probably about a few naughty kids who want to bully a fool for fun, and then get beaten up by the fool. According to old man Aaron, there was an insect catcher who had three of his teeth knocked out by the fool, um, baby teeth.
Unfortunately, Mark couldn't recall this memory no matter how hard he tried.
Maybe to his subconscious, this is an insignificant matter. After all, compared with those dangerous wild elves in the forest, the threat posed by human imps is not that high.
Old Man Aaron patted Mark on the shoulder and said, "That's good. Then you should study hard in school. Although Teacher Emira is not very old, it will not be a problem for him to teach you."
Mark shook his head slightly, "Village…Uncle Aaron, I have actually applied to Teacher Emira for self-study, and I may rarely go to school in the future."
"Apply for self-study instead of going to school?"
Seeing the expression of old man Aaron blowing his beard and glaring, Mark quickly explained: "It's not what you think. Teacher Emira gave me two questions to test me. Teacher Emira will also regularly check my self-study progress in the future."
Old Man Aaron's expression eased slightly, and he asked suspiciously, "Did Teacher Emira really agree to let you study on your own?"
"Um."
"That girl actually agreed... Well, it's your own life, you decide for yourself, just don't regret it later."
"No."
"Hiss!"
The green caterpillar on the side echoed Mark's words and expressed his position towards Old Man Aaron.
Old Man Aaron glared at the caterpillar and said, "What do you know? Just follow your master's example and express your views. Don't learn from your master and become a troublemaker..."
Old Man Aaron sighed, waved his hand, and quickly left the house left by Mark's parents.
Mark and the Caterpillar wandered around the dilapidated house.
Mark couldn't find anything useful among the broken furniture and debris.
There were no papers or writings left in the house. In the middle of the hall, there was a rotten and decayed square table that fell apart after he shook it twice.
There is a wardrobe in the bedroom of the room. Due to a hole in the roof, a vine has grown inside the wardrobe due to long-term sunlight exposure, and some unknown mushrooms are growing inside.
The only thing that was somewhat intact was a white ceramic cup. In the abandoned vegetable patch overgrown with weeds in the backyard, he found some melons. They seemed to be the melons planted by his parents and had reproduced on their own over the years.
Mark put the ceramic cup into his backpack as a water cup, picked a few melons, and continued to head towards Qingxi Forest with the caterpillar.
A few hours later, as the sun was about to set, Mark brought the Caterpillar to the Caterpillar territory again.
As always, the atmosphere was tense.
The swarm of green caterpillars began to surround Mark and the green caterpillars, and it was estimated that they would launch an attack after the encirclement was completed.
But this time, there were some changes.
The Caterpillar leader suddenly appeared and gave instructions to the ordinary Caterpillars.
The swarm of green caterpillars that surrounded them slowly dispersed, leaving only the green caterpillar leader and several of the leader's guards.
Looking closely, these chief guards were the ones he used the [Impact Training Method] on yesterday.
The Caterpillar leader hissed and seemed to say something.
Mark didn't quite understand, but fortunately the Caterpillar relayed it.
He couldn't quite understand the words of the wild caterpillars, but he could still understand most of the words of his own caterpillars.
What the Caterpillar leader meant was that they had already lost.
The Caterpillar leader agreed to let his Caterpillars return to the tribe, and even gave up his position as Caterpillar leader.
Caterpillars shouldn't hurt each other like this.
Hearing this, Mark looked at the Caterpillar leader and shook his head, saying, "You misunderstood. The Caterpillar and I came here not to return to the tribe or seize the leader or anything like that. We came here to train and continue to grow through training."
Beside Mark, the green caterpillar nodded in agreement: "Hiss! Hiss!"
I was pulled into a Pokémon organization yesterday, and I read a book today.