Chapter 253 Traveling to Soroya
Energy cubes, officially called Poké cubes, sound very high-end, but in fact they are just an upgraded version of "dog food".
Its principle is to use some kind of black technology to concentrate the energy and nutrition of multiple tree fruits and compress them into a sugar cube-sized cube for easy carrying.
In principle, eating 4 tree fruits is equivalent to eating energy cubes made from 4 tree fruits.
It's just that the latter is easier for elves to absorb after processing, more delicious, easier to carry and eat.
The essence of making energy cubes is actually to continuously improve the ratio of tree fruits to adjust the nutritional components, and improve the production method to make the finished product more delicious and palatable.
Therefore, different people have different production methods. In addition to referring to the ingredient list provided by the machine for fool-proof one-button operation, they need to rely on their own experiments to continuously find the formula and parameters suitable for their own elves.
"It looks so troublesome. Let's use the built-in mode according to his recipe first."
After carefully reading the manual of the machine, Zhou You, who was already sleepy at 8 o'clock, felt dizzy and dizzy. Perhaps he should not read the manual and just start to operate it.
So he used a sharp knife to process 2 wild apples and 2 orange fruits, and threw them into the feed port of the energy block maker.
As the start button was pressed, the machine made a sound similar to the washing machine spinning.
After about five minutes, the machine stopped, and 4 crystal clear red cube-shaped objects fell from the discharge port.
This is the energy block required to participate in the gorgeous competition in the game.
It is difficult for Zhou You to imagine what kind of technology can compress the ingredients of 4 tree fruits into 4 sugar cube-sized things...
"Red cubes? According to the manual, this shows that I only put in spicy flavored tree fruits."
If it is not done well, it will be burnt black, 4 flavors will be white, 3 flavors will be gray, and only 1 to 2 flavors and the production level is very high will be gold.
Pure spicy, astringent, sweet, bitter and sour tastes correspond to five colors of energy cubes: red, blue, pink, green and yellow.
If you have two flavors, the five colors of purple, green, tea, sky blue and yellow-green will appear according to which of the five flavors is higher.
Under extremely special circumstances, the formed energy cubes will occasionally be rainbow-colored, but the specific reason for this is still unclear.
After checking the instructions, the energy cubes have cooled down, and Zhou You tried one without thinking.
It is a bit spicy but not too spicy. It tastes like a mixture of apple and orange. The texture is crispy and easy to eat. Even if you don't chew it, it will slowly melt by itself after a while.
It looks like a casual snack like candy, and it doesn't seem to be special.
And what's incredible is that Zhou You only ate a small piece of energy cube, but he actually felt a little full in his stomach.
Can such a small thing make people full?
"The power of science (black technology) is really great." He could only sigh like this.
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Just as Zhou You, who had received his new toy, was excitedly trying various formulas to make energy cubes.
Eden and Leftovers also walked slowly from Pallet Town to Vermilion City.
The Internet in this era is not yet well developed. If you want to buy boat tickets or plane tickets to distant areas, you need to go to the train station or the pier in person. Phone booking is not available for the time being because phones are not yet popular. In fact, they can consider cooperating with the Elf Center.
"There are too many humans. Is the ticket hall so busy at this time?" Looking at the ticket hall where people are still coming and going, Eden, who was lying on Leftovers' head, frowned slightly. "The more people there are, the easier it is to see the flaws of the illusion. Let's go find a restaurant to eat something first."
Although being seen through is not a big problem-it is not uncommon for elves to go shopping on behalf of humans-but Eden mainly wants to eat some local food outside.
"Woof?" Eating in a restaurant, do you have money?
"Qiao Qiao gave me a large sum of money before we went out. After dinner, we can go to the market to buy them some gifts and tomorrow's food. By the way, it's on the way anyway. After we buy the ticket and go back, let's go to the Elf Tower in Lavender Town to see the suspected overlord. What do you think?"
"Woo..."
Leftover couldn't help but fall into deep thought after hearing this.
Vermilion City is in the south-central part of Kanto, Pallet Town is northwest of Vermilion City, and Lavender Town is northeast of Vermilion City?
Is this really on the way?
It couldn't figure it out.
While thinking, before he knew it, Leftover was taken to a restaurant by Eden, who had transformed into a human, for a delicious meal. After visiting the market, he went to the ticket hall to buy a boat ticket.
When he arrived at the Elf Center in Lavender Town after a long time, it was almost midnight.
As soon as he arrived at the Elf Center, Eden called Zhou You through the equipment inside.
"What's wrong, Eden?" The latter looked at the other party with sleepy eyes, not knowing what the little fox wanted to do by calling him at this time.
"Qiao Qiao, the boat ticket to Windy City in Unova has been purchased. Shengfan and I thought it was on the way, so we just came to Lavender Town and planned to explore the Elf Tower."
"On the way... Are you planning to go around this planet and then return to Pallet Town?"
Pallet Town is in the west, so it's on the way if you go east. The earth is round, right?
After being criticized, Eden immediately argued: "Well, anyway, Leftovers and I can be teleported back to Pallet Town through the Pokémon Storage System, so it doesn't matter which Pokémon Center we go to, right?"
Is there no Pokémon Center in Vermilion City?
Zhou You shook his head and said nothing more. He just glanced at the time and said, "If you have to go to the Elf Tower to explore at midnight, be careful. Ghost-type elves are mostly more active at night. Then don't leave after you hang up the phone. Log in to my account and I will send Arthur to you."
"Okay, the more members there are in the adventure, the more lively it will be!" Seeing that Qiao Qiao agreed to go on the adventure, Eden immediately promised, "Don't worry, if there is danger, I and Leftovers will definitely teleport and take other elves away."
After thinking for a while, Eden added, "By the way, I also bought some gifts for everyone and ingredients for tomorrow's lunch. I will also store the props in the storage system later. Qiao Qiao, you must remember to take them out."
"What did you say..."
Before Zhou You finished his words to stop the other party from using his prop storage system account, Eden wisely hung up the phone.
"..."
With no other options, Zhou You had to go to the Stone Forest Mountain area to bring the dozing Arthur back to the research institute. After giving him a few instructions, he gave him a bunch of energy cubes he had made that night, and then teleported Arthur to the Elf Center in Ziyuan Town.
After sending the Charizard away, he logged into the item storage system with a headache, searching through a pile of outrageous items for the dishes, ingredients, and gifts that Eden had bought.