Chapter 440: Xenophobic and Stubborn Townspeople

"Honeybug?"

Luo Mu was slightly stunned and looked at Wu Li in front of him carefully.

As if feeling a little shy and timid, Wu Li subconsciously looked away and looked elsewhere with a blushing face.

At this moment Luo Mu suddenly realized something.

It turns out that in the information given by Adek, the student who brought the strange apples and the fruitworms to Blueberry Academy and allowed Blueberry Academy to discover the new evolved form of the fruitworms was the Wu Li in front of him?
It seemed that there were few opportunities to show off himself like this. Wu Li nodded slightly, took out a Poké Ball and held it in his palm, and whispered, "Come out, Honeybug."

The next second, the light from the Poké Ball fell on the grass, and the appearance of a Pokémon gradually solidified into shape.

Judging from the appearance, the size of the honey beetle is indeed much larger than when it was a fruit-eating insect.

From the apple, a structure like a long knife is pointing straight to the sky, and the eyes of a honey beetle are sticking out from the side. Behind the apple, which seems to be dripping with syrup, a much larger tail is sticking out, which looks very interesting.

Compared to Luo Mu's fruit-eating bugs, the honey bugs seem to be braver and do not show violent reactions to the surrounding environment or the appearance of strangers.

As soon as the honey bugs appeared, a special fragrance appeared in the air, as if it was honey, sweet and rich, making people feel relaxed all of a sudden.

Wu Li introduced Luo Mu again: "This is the characteristic of the honey bug, the nectar of honey! This is a characteristic that has been discovered for the first time. It can confuse the opponent with the fragrance of honey and make them relax their vigilance and lose their alertness, making it easier for the honey bug's attacks to hit the opponent!"

"I see."

Luo Mu nodded. Even though he already knew it from the information given by Adek, he still responded politely.

Luo Mu took out the Poké Ball and released the Fruitworm and the Monarch Snake.

"I also want to find an opportunity for the fruit-eating worm to evolve."

He briefly explained to Wu Li why he chose to come to Apple Hill as his first stop.

Let’s not talk about the monarch snakes that scared Wu Li for now, but when Wu Li saw the fruit worms that Luo Mu was holding, his usually dim eyes suddenly lit up and showed an expression of surprise.

OMG!

It turns out that I, like my idol, have cultivated fruit-eating worms!
That's right.

Ever since the battle between Luo Mu and Adek at Blueberry Academy, the object of worship buried deep in Urina's heart has changed.

Originally, he admired the free-spirited champion Adek and fantasized that if he could one day become a powerful trainer like Adek, he would have the capital to be free-spirited.

But after the public exhibition match at Blueberry Academy, he was impressed by the extreme violence and powerful strength displayed by Luo Mu and Mega Swampert, and regarded them as his idols and goals.

He has poor academic performance, is timid and sensitive, and really wants to become someone as dazzling and powerful as Luo Mu.

The fruitworm was placed on the ground by Luo Mu. With the support of the monarch snake behind him, this kid actually dared to touch the black chestnut honeyworm.

The insect's fake snake power was played by it and it figured out the trick.

He had trained the black chestnut honey beetles very well, and when they saw the fruit gnats coming, they showed no hostility, but just stared at them curiously, as if they were looking at a mirror of their past.

Wu Li felt his heart beating fast. He opened his mouth, trying to muster up the courage to ask Professor Luo Mu how to become stronger.

At this time.

Danyu, who had been silent all this time, came trotting over with a basket of good-quality apples.

At some point, she actually left.

"Mr. Luo Mu, I went to someone I know and got some apples. Would you like to try some?"

Danyu raised the fruit basket in her hand, her face full of anticipation.

Suppressed by her sister's voice, Wu Li could only swallow the request she was about to make with a lonely look on her face.

After all, he vaguely felt that his sister also seemed to want to attract Mr. Luo Mu's attention, and he could not snatch it away from his sister.

Wuli picked up the honey bug and took a few steps back to make room for Danyu.

Luo Mu did not miss this scene. He thought about it thoughtfully and then accepted Danyu's kindness.

"Thank you."

Luo Mu took out three apples from the fruit basket, gave one to the fruit gnawer, another to the monarch snake, and kept the remaining one for himself to taste.

When you take a bite of the apple, the perfect crisp texture of the flesh and the sweet and sour juice burst in your mouth. The taste is really good.

Compared to the small piece that Sean gave Luo Mu to taste, the freshly picked Beishang Township apples are undoubtedly more delicious. There is a reason why they enjoy a certain degree of popularity all over the world.

Hearing Luo Mu's praise, Danyu became even more proud.

Wu Li and Honey Bug silently shared an apple without saying a word.

The monarch snake tasted the apple gracefully and left a comment that it was okay.

The unique growing techniques here may make the apples more distinctive, but for monarch snakes, the apples produced on the farm are the most delicious.

Especially those matured from its godson.

The reactions of fruitworms are even more intriguing.

It drilled into the apple that Danyu brought at lightning speed. After eating the flesh, Danyu thought that the fruit borer would definitely choose this apple produced in Beishang Township as its new home.

After all, the apples from Beishang Township are the best in the world.

But the truth left Danyu puzzled.

The cricket pupated in the apple produced in Beishang Township, ate the half-full fruit worm without any hesitation, and then returned to its own apple without even a moment's hesitation.

It was as if the apples in Beishang Township were not as good as the apple where it stayed.

Even Karuri's eyes widened in shock.

Are there fruit bugs that don’t choose to make their home in apples produced in Beishang Township?
In confusion, sister Danyu brought Luo Mu and brother Wuli to the center of Apple Hill.

There is a towering tree here, which is probably taller than several floors. It is hard to imagine that an apple tree can grow that tall. It is not scientific at all.

A large number of fruit bugs gathered on the tree. Although the fruit bugs definitely had more moves than Magikarp, they were not that many.

The moves they master are basically not very powerful, and many fruit-eating insects don't even master egg-eating moves, which leads to the fact that their fights are more inclined to use their bodies to collide with each other. Whoever is stronger can stay on the tree.

This also results in the situation where it is like dropping dumplings, with many defeated fruit bugs falling from the trees.

Fortunately, the apple shells of the fruit worms have been strengthened by themselves, so after falling from a height, they will only be dizzy at most, but will not be hurt.

At this moment, many residents of Cuilv Town gathered in the area next to the big tree. When they saw the fruitworm getting closer to the top of the tree, they all applauded.

The arrival of Luo Mu and the other two attracted their attention. However, they only glanced at Wu Li and Dan Yu, and then looked at Luo Mu with scrutiny for a long time.

Then he turned around and continued to watch the fight between the fruit bugs above.

Danyu noticed this and explained to Luo Mu in a low voice: "I'm sorry, Mr. Luo Mu. People in this town are a little stubborn and xenophobic. They looked at you for so long because they suddenly saw a strange face."

"xenophobic?"

Luo Mu tilted his head.

Doesn’t this green town often sell agricultural products to the outside world and also engage in tourism business?
What kind of contradictory literature is this?

Dan Yu looked around, nodded slightly, and said in a low voice: "But Mr. Luo Mu, you are our guest. As long as you don't do anything that touches their nerves, there will be no problem."

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Luo Mu was speechless after listening to this.

What era is this? Why is there still such xenophobia?

He didn't ask what "nerve-touching behavior" meant. Luo Mu was too lazy to think about it. He would only play here for a few days and then leave, so he might as well focus on watching the fight between the fruit worms above.

As there are fewer and fewer fruit borers on the tree, the faster ones have had the chance to touch the special apples, which look very conspicuous compared to ordinary apples.

It was an apple that looked mostly green, like a half-ripe apple.

Danyu didn't say anything, but looked at Wuli.

Wu Li's eyes lit up slightly, and he tried to explain in a low voice: "That's a sour apple, which can make the fruitworm evolve into an apple dragon."

As soon as Wu Li finished speaking, a dazzling light burst out from the big tree above.

It is the light of evolution.

Everyone's eyes were focused there, and when the light faded, a Pokémon flying in the air appeared in their sight.

It looks like a newly hatched reptile, except that it is wrapped in apple peel instead of eggshell.

Some fruit peels stuck to the hands and turned into wings, some peels stuck to the tail and turned into tail fins, and some peels were placed on the head like helmets.

One of the evolutionary branches of fruit-eating insects, the apple dragon!

Then, another fruitworm touched the item called Sweet Apple introduced by Wu Li.

The light bloomed and disappeared, and a Pokémon that looked like a turtle at first glance fell from the sky and landed on the ground.

Most of the apple skin disappeared, and the body of the fruitworm bulged and looked slightly fat.

Its high, bulging back is covered with woven fruit pie lace, and what look like ears are its eyes.

It is still one of the evolutionary branches of the fruit-eating worm, Fengmilong!

After that, there were fewer and fewer fruit-eating worms on the tree, until an Apple Dragon and a Honey Dragon evolved. Then the fruit-eating worms seemed to know that the opportunity for evolution had run out, so they climbed down one after another and returned to their own "homes" on the Apple Hill.

The townspeople, whose faces were filled with joy at the harvest, also dispersed with smiles on their faces, chatting about something.

But when they passed by Luo Mu, Dan Yu Wuli and the others, these people shut their mouths and walked past without saying a word. After they had a certain distance, they started discussing directly again.

"Sorry, they don't want outsiders to know the secret of apple cultivation in Cuilv Town."

Danyu apologized to Luo Mu in a low voice again.

Luo Mu didn't care. It was nothing more than the ripening characteristics of the fruit worms combined with some other conditions. Even if they didn't say it, he knew it.

He just asked curiously: "After watching for a long time, it seems that there is no evolution of the honeyworm."

Upon hearing this, Danyu and Wuli fell silent.

After a while, Wu Li whispered, "Because they don't want these fruit-eating bugs to evolve into honey-eating bugs. Before the fruit-eating bugs gather, someone will pick the honey apples first and then destroy them."

"Because... after they evolved into honey bugs, they can no longer make apples more delicious."

"Ali, you kid!"

Danyu was a little helpless. She didn't expect Wuli to tell all the negative information about the townspeople and the secret of why apples are so delicious.

Picking up the fruitworm, Luo Mu calmly replied, "It's a mature characteristic, I don't think it's a secret."

"Because I also run a farm, and the apples that the fruitworms are living in now are ripe apples, and the taste is no different from the apples from Beishang Township."

The two were slightly stunned.

They never thought that Luo Mu had known about it for a long time, and that Luo Mu had actually opened a farm.

Isn't he a teacher at Orange Academy?
But Wu Li felt excited, thinking that he was indeed the person he admired, not only as a teacher, but also as a trainer and a farmer, and his achievements in these three areas were so great!

It took Danyu a while to accept the reality. She sighed helplessly and said, "I also learned about it from my grandparents."

"This behavior probably started not long after Emerald Town introduced fruit-eating worms several decades ago. The townspeople who discovered this secret have been doing this repeatedly since then."

"As for Ah Li's honey bug, you can talk to Mr. Luo Mu yourself."

Danyu took a step back and pulled Wuli in front of Luo Mu.

Wu Li hugged the honey bug and whispered, "Maybe I'm lucky. One day when I was taking a walk with the fruit bug, I happened to pick up a honey apple that fell from a tree. I took it back to Blueberry Academy as food for the fruit bug."

"But when the fruitworms finished eating the apples and then drilled into the apples, evolution occurred. With the help of the teachers, we were able to determine the name of the honeyworm and the information that it is the third evolutionary branch of the fruitworms."

"With a research direction, the teachers found other honey apples, cultivated honey bugs, and even made the honey bugs evolve again. They are much better than me."

Listening to Wu Li's explanation, Luo Mu was silent for a long time.

At this moment, he didn't know what to say.

Because of the selfish desires of the residents of Emerald Town, the evolutionary path of the honey beetles, which should have appeared very early, was hidden for so long, and was finally brought out by Wu Li by chance.

No wonder both Danyu and Wuli felt a little guilty when they spoke.

As the few students in Emerald Town who entered Blueberry College, they obviously knew that this was wrong.

But they had no intention of stopping it, and Luo Mu found out about it instead.

Seeing that it was almost time for lunch, Luo Mu shook his head helplessly and gave the two men a way out.

"We are a little late today. We can talk about the evolution of the fruit gnawers tomorrow. Now let's go back to Mr. Xue Zhong's house and have lunch."

After saying that, Luo Mu looked at the fruitworm in his arms and the monarch snake beside him, asking for their opinions.

The monarch snake didn't care, but the fruitworm was a little confused after seeing three of its own evolved forms with its own eyes and hadn't made a decision yet.

Wuli and Danyu also felt hungry, so they walked down the stairs provided by Luo Mu, planning to go back to their grandparents' house for dinner.

afternoon.

After a hearty meal and drinking the sweet but slightly bitter tea, Xue Zhong asked with a smile, "Where are you going this afternoon?"

Wu Li and Dan Yu said nothing and looked at Luo Mu.

Obviously.

Wherever Luo Mu wants to go, they will take Luo Mu there.

"Well, first I want to go see the Baoban Square built for the three Baobans." Luo Mu stroked his chin and thought, and suddenly the scene he saw on Lingyou's horse emerged in his mind. He simply asked: "By the way, I seemed to see the top of a mountain glowing before entering the village. Do you know anything?"

(End of this chapter)