Chapter 50: Professor Sycamore
After confirming that he was indeed not dreaming and that the reward was not some kind of trap, Bai Feng finally felt a sense of reality. He lowered his head to look at the document in his hand and began to seriously understand the information about the fruit tree.
This was a Dragon Eye Fruit fruit tree, with a tree age of a full eight hundred years. It was an A-grade fruit tree achieved entirely through the accumulation of time.
This Dragon Eye Fruit tree was 18 meters tall. Compared to other trees several hundred years old, this wasn't considered tall at all, but for a Dragon Eye Fruit tree, it was indeed a tall tree.
Dragon Eye Fruit is a relatively rare fruit. The taste is a bit strange for humans, but it is very popular with Pokémon.
This tree has a trait: it grows slowly. There is a saying in the Pokémon World that if a person plants a Dragon Eye Fruit tree seedling when they are young, the fruit tree will only grow and bear fruit after they have a grandchild.
This shows how slow the growth rate of Dragon Eye Fruit trees is, and it is precisely because of this that very few people plant this fruit tree on a large scale, as it is simply not cost-effective.
Rarity makes something valuable. The fact that few people plant this fruit tree means that this fruit has a relatively high price on the market and is also not easy to buy.
This fruit tree not only grows slowly but also doesn't grow tall easily; it is actually more likely to grow horizontally.
Although the Dragon Eye Fruit tree Bai Feng received is only a little over ten meters tall, its trunk would likely require over ten or twenty people linking arms to embrace it. This shows that its tree shape has nothing to do with being slender; it is completely a "short and stout fellow."
According to the records on the document, this fruit tree originally grew in a large mountain somewhere in the Kalos Region. Its original owner was an Altaria.
Later, this Altaria was caught by a powerful Pokémon Trainer, and the fruit tree was consequently brought back.
To be able to possess such a fruit tree, Bai Feng guessed that the Altaria must have been quite extraordinary.
After Bai Feng had a general understanding of the fruit tree's situation, Officer Jenny said to him, "Find some time to transport it away. You can't keep occupying our training ground; we can't train like this."
Bai Feng nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'll find someone to take it away tomorrow."
Afterward, Bai Feng chatted with Officer Jenny for a while longer before returning to the Hotel.
Teacher Omura saw that Bai Feng's mood had visibly improved after going to the Police Station, so he joked, "What, did Officer Jenny give you money?"
Bai Feng beamed and said, "No money, but it made me even happier than getting money."
So Bai Feng told Teacher Omura about getting an A-grade fruit tree. Teacher Omura was also quite shocked.
"The Pokémon League is truly generous!" he exclaimed with emotion.
At this moment, Bai Ye walked over with Brionne and the others. Bai Feng excitedly wanted to hug Larvitar, but after trying, he found it a bit difficult, so he just patted its head and said,
"Little guy, your meals are sorted!"
[?] Larvitar looked confused, not understanding what Bai Feng was saying. It ate until it was full every day!
Because he was in a good mood, Bai Feng took everyone out for a feast. This time, they went to a High-end Restaurant in Lumiose City and even booked a private room.
Teacher Omura knew Bai Feng was in a good mood, so he didn't say anything discouraging about waste or saving money at this time. He happily joined Bai Feng in celebrating.
After returning to the Hotel, Bai Feng made a telephone call to Dongyu, telling him the news about obtaining an A-grade fruit tree. He asked him to be prepared to receive the fruit tree tomorrow. He would arrange for someone to transport the fruit tree back, and Dongyu would be responsible for handing the fruit tree over to Diggersby and the others to plant it properly.
He had already thought about the location for planting the fruit tree; it would be planted behind the house at his Home.
After receiving this news, Dongyu was very happy for Bai Feng. He felt that following Bai Feng was becoming more and more promising for his future prospects. Now that they had the first A-grade fruit tree, there would be a second, a third... Would having an entire A-grade Orchard be far off?
For a time, Dongyu was full of expectation for the future.
The next day was the last day of the Berry Exhibition Convention. On this day, Bai Feng and Teacher Omura did not go to the Venue early as usual.
Bai Feng asked Teacher Omura to wait for him at the Hotel, while he himself went to find a Delivery Company in Lumiose City and entrusted them with transporting the Dragon Eye Fruit fruit tree to Biyi City.
Because the Dragon Eye Fruit tree was relatively valuable, even though Lumiose City and Biyi City were not far apart, the shipping fee was quite expensive. Moreover, the volume of the Dragon Eye Fruit tree was indeed a bit large, making transportation more troublesome.
In addition, for the transportation of valuable items, Bai Feng also needed to sign a contract and an insurance agreement with the Delivery Company. In short, it took quite a bit of time.
By the time Bai Feng returned to the Hotel, it was already noon. He simply went out for lunch with Teacher Omura and the Pokémon, and then packed up before heading to the exhibition Venue.
The last day of the exhibition was much quieter. Many exhibition booths were already empty, and the number of visiting guests was incomparable to the previous days.
As soon as Bai Feng and the others arrived at their exhibition booth, they saw a young person, about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, standing beside their exhibition booth, looking around.
"Excuse me, can I help you?" Bai Feng walked over and asked.
Seeing Bai Feng and Teacher Omura, the young person was very pleasantly surprised: "Are you the owners of this exhibition booth?"
"That's right." Bai Feng nodded. He felt that this young person looked a bit familiar.
"That's great! I thought you weren't coming today!" Hearing Bai Feng's answer, the young person visibly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Professor Sycamore. I was just assigned here by the Pokémon League not long ago. I'm a Pokémon professor, and my Research Institute is near the Central Plaza."
Hearing Professor Sycamore's introduction, Bai Feng instantly understood where the sense of familiarity came from. This was Professor Sycamore when he was young! His hair was still that familiar medium-length hair, but his face was much younger, his skin tone was much fairer, and his face was clean-shaven, without a single beard.
With such a youthful appearance, it was no wonder Bai Feng only felt familiarity but didn't recognize him.
Bai Feng pretended to be surprised and said, "A professor, indeed! My apologies, I didn't expect Mr. Sycamore to be a Pokémon professor at such a young age!"
Coming from an eleven or twelve-year-old child, Professor Sycamore felt a bit awkward, but he still humbly said, "Not at all, I still have a long way to go."
Bai Feng then asked, "Did the professor come here to find us?"
Professor Sycamore nodded and replied, "That's right..."
It turned out that Professor Sycamore's Research Institute had only moved to Lumiose City a few days ago. His Gible was very unable to adapt to the new environment, so it was completely unable to eat, and even its stomach and intestines had problems. It had become much weak in just a few days.
Professor Sycamore was extremely anxious about this.
He originally just wanted to come to the Berry Exhibition Convention to see what the situation was, but he didn't expect to learn about Bai Feng's existence from others.
He asked others for a berry they had obtained from Bai Feng. Unexpectedly, Gible liked it very much after eating it, which is why he came here.
In fact, he had already come once in the morning, but he still didn't see anyone, so he had no choice but to come again in the afternoon.
Because Bai Feng and the others came late, Professor Sycamore thought they weren't coming! Fortunately, hard work pays off, and Bai Feng and the others finally came.
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(end of chapter)