Chapter 1 Fang Yuan
June 9, 2016, Summer.
The weather was fine, with clear skies for thousands of miles.
But Fang Yuan, who was lying in bed fast asleep, suddenly felt a chill.
"I feel like I've forgotten something..."
Opening his eyes, Fang Yuan looked at the ceiling and rubbed his head.
That's right!
Today was the day of the college entrance exam, and it was the last day.
Reaching for his phone to check the time, Fang Yuan was immediately shocked. It was noon?!
"Did the alarm not go off..."
After hurriedly putting down his phone, Fang Yuan's heart sank. Crap, he had made plans with his senior classmate, who was taking the college entrance exam, to cheer her on today... but... but he overslept?
Logically speaking, he went to bed very early last night, so even if the alarm didn't go off, he shouldn't have slept until noon.
Picking up his phone again, Fang Yuan felt extremely bad, considering how to apologize to his senior classmate.
However...
Ding! Just then, a message box popped up on the system.
Senior Classmate: The battle exam this morning went smoothly. My opponent's Pikachu was too weak.
"Haha, looks like the result is good."
Fang Yuan was about to reply with congratulations and an apology, but suddenly, he felt that something was not quite right.
Battle exam?
Pikachu? You're supposed to be taking the college entrance exam, do you think you're playing Pokémon!
"I must still be asleep."
At this moment... another bunch of message boxes popped up, from Penguin News.
The title of the first news item was very bizarre. Fang Yuan glanced at it and felt even more uneasy.
"Four Professional Trainers Explore the Liaoxi Grand Canyon Secret Realm, Encounter a Ferocious Aerodactyl from the Ancient Times, Only One Survivor!"
Fang Yuan frowned and opened the comments.
See You Later: Aerodactyl? Dragon? Have they discovered a new species of Dragon-type Pokémon? The Big Picture is Important: It seems the Liaoxi area is going to be lively. Whoever captures this Aerodactyl will definitely become famous, but even four professional trainers were no match. This Aerodactyl's strength must be extraordinary.
Book Mountain Pressure is Great: What? Another new species of Pokémon has appeared? Strong protest! Resolutely resist adding new Pokémon information to textbooks! At this moment, Fang Yuan's head hurt even more. When Psyduck has a headache, it awakens psychic powers, but his headache awakened a bunch of memories.
A few minutes later, Fang Yuan, who was in excruciating pain, suddenly revealed a complex expression.
He understood what was going on.
"No wonder, I'm still Fang Yuan, that's right..."
"But the history of this world..."
The Pikachu the senior mentioned, and the Aerodactyl reported on Penguin News, are indeed real.
A hundred years ago, countless special spaces called "Secret Realms" suddenly appeared all over the world. After investigation by various national expedition teams, it was discovered that each Secret Realm was a new world independent of Earth, where various "Magical Beasts" lived. These Magical Beasts possessed terrifying abilities that surpassed the power of cold weapons and hot weapons.
Years later, the Secret Realm "Viridian Forest" merged with Earth for the first time. Magical Beasts descended upon Earth for the first time. Among them were Magical Beasts with strong aggressiveness, but there were also individuals that were close to humans.
As more Secret Realms merged with Earth's space, the first war between humans and Magical Beasts broke out in the world, historically known as the Magical Beast War. This war led to the rapid development of human technology and a greater understanding of Magical Beasts.
When the first Magical Beast War ended, an organization called the Pokémon League was established in response to the situation. Its members were various countries around the world. The Pokémon League had a leading position in the world. It was also in this year that Magical Beasts were officially called "Pokémon" by humans.
Soon after, the Modern Poké Ball for capturing Pokémon was invented by Professor Ron at Celadon University. At the same time, in order to prevent harm from the Secret Realms and to prevent anyone from privately enjoying the huge benefits that the Secret Realms might bring, countries established Trainer Associations one after another. The profession of Trainer appeared on the world stage for the first time.
In the 21st century, all countries around the world hoped to cultivate more Trainers. The reason for this was a top national secret of each country. Therefore, in order to ensure the quality of schools as educational institutions and the healthy development of Trainer aspirants, our country reformed some universities, redefined the concept of key universities, implemented the 16-year-old Trainer Law, increased the proportion of Pokémon-related subjects in scoring, and included Pokémon battles in the college entrance examination.
"So it really is Pokémon..."
Fang Yuan patted his cheeks.
Waking up, the world had changed drastically. The creatures of the Pokémon series had merged with the real world. Could there be anything more absurd than this? Fang Yuan quickly ran to the bathroom, splashed some cold water on his face, and re-sorted out the current situation, but his heart was still beating fast.
Fortunately, he was still a soon-to-be senior at Peaceful City First High School. His parents hadn't changed, his home address hadn't changed, and his interpersonal relationships hadn't changed. What was different was that Peaceful City First High School in this world was a key high school, the kind that cultivated Trainers. Therefore, unlike ordinary high schools, Peaceful City First High School mainly taught Pokémon-related knowledge during the senior year, and during the summer vacation of the sophomore year, every key high school student would have their own Pokémon and register as a Trainer.
Among them, the difference between ordinary high schools and key high schools was not only in the subjects, but also in tuition fees.
Key high schools aimed at cultivating Trainers would invest a lot of resources in students. The tuition fee for the senior year alone was 200,000, not including the cost of registering as a Trainer. Therefore, economics was the threshold for most people to become Trainers.
Fang Yuan would also register as a Trainer this summer vacation to prepare for the upcoming college entrance examination.
Lightning, flames, water currents, hurricanes—the Pokémon, initially called "Magical Beasts" by humans, possessed powerful forces. Humans, as Trainers, would capture Pokémon, train Pokémon, battle with Pokémon, and breed Pokémon. An excellent Trainer could maximize the potential power of Pokémon.
The extraordinary power of Pokémon was like the hands and feet of a Trainer, which could replace the Trainer in completing many things that could not be done by human power alone.
This emerging profession had already become the mainstream of the world, and all walks of life were closely related to it.
However, Fang Yuan also noticed something strange.
In this world, because of the appearance of the Secret Realms, the Pokémon series of works had not appeared. The number of Pokémon species explored by humans had only remained at 702.
There was a big gap from the more than 800 Pokémon in his memory.
Characteristics, moves, tactics, attributes, and rare treasures were all in the exploration stage. In less than 100 years, humans had obviously not fully understood the Pokémon species. There was no systematic work that recorded it more comprehensively.
With a wry smile, Fang Yuan picked up his phone again, replied "Congratulations" to his senior, and apologized for waking up late.
He really should congratulate her. If the top student of a key high school successfully entered university and then studied hard for the next four years, then there was a great chance of becoming a professional Trainer in the future. Professional Trainers, unlike ordinary Trainers who anyone could register as if they had money, were both a profession and a class. With a professional Trainer's license, they could use 95% of the public facilities in various countries for free, and the benefits were first-class. This was also "Fang Yuan's" dream.
ps1: The worldview and settings are derived from the scrapped plan of the old Pokémon worldview and Hunter x Hunter.
ps2: A new book is not easy, please collect and recommend votes to support, thank you very much!
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