"Buyi!"
Yingying followed along, hopping and skipping, without anyone noticing.
Its fluffy little face was full of curiosity, its little eyes staring intently at the lake surface. Then it stretched out its little paws and gently stirred the water, creating tiny ripples.
A bold ugly fish leaped out of the water, kissed Yingying's nose, and then quickly dived back into the water with a "plop".
"Bu Yi?!" Yingying was stunned, then excitedly ran around on the shore, as if she wanted to experience it again.
As Ai watched this scene, the corners of her mouth unconsciously turned up, revealing a faint smile. She muttered softly, "What...a bunch of idiots."
"Let me feed you little guys something."
As Yuzuru spoke, he gestured with his hand.
Not far away, in the spirit rice field carefully guarded by the Oddish family, two stalks of rice seedlings broke free from the earth's constraints and flew towards this side. At this time, the spirit rice was ready for harvest, and each grain was plump and round.
The rice grains fell into the lake, creating a splash.
The once calm lake surface instantly boiled over. The ugly fish seemed to have smelled the most delicious food in the world, and they rushed towards the food from all directions. The little guys pushed and shoved each other, jostling and fighting for it, and the scene was quite chaotic.
"As expected, spirit rice is definitely not inferior to tree fruit." Yu Shengnan nodded in satisfaction as he watched the ugly fish frantically fighting over it.
"These guys... are just like Genta when they eat together." Ai rubbed her forehead, but her gaze was unconsciously drawn to a particularly ugly fish.
It was an unusual ugly fish—it floated quietly in the middle of the water, disdainful of its companions' scrambling for food, its eyes even showing a hint of disgust, as if to say, "A bunch of country bumpkins who have never seen the world."
It just sat there quietly, as if the surrounding noise had nothing to do with it.
The main point is that it is seven parts elegance and three parts fullness.
"Huh?" Yuzuru Nan also noticed this peculiar, ugly fish. "Interesting..."
He deliberately picked up a few grains of spirit rice and threw them precisely in front of the ugly fish.
The rice stalks sank slowly, glistening in the sunlight.
The haughty ugly fish initially glanced at it disdainfully, but the enticing aroma emanating from the spirit rice made its little nose twitch involuntarily.
In the end, it slowly swam over and, with a "reluctantly tasting" attitude, gently took a grain of spirit rice in its mouth, chewing it slowly as if it were savoring some high-class cuisine, which was in stark contrast to its companions who were wolfing it down.
"Pfft..." Ai couldn't help but laugh out loud, pointing at the ugly fish and saying, "Why is this fish so arrogant?"
Yuzuru turned around and glanced at Ai.
Is it really appropriate for a proud and aloof little girl like you to say that?
Just as the two were joking around, the ugly fish suddenly turned around and swam into the depths. In the sunlight, something shiny seemed to be shimmering in its mouth.
"Wait!" Ai noticed something unusual. "Is it carrying something in its mouth?"
Yuzuru narrowed his eyes: "It looks like... a scale?"
As he spoke, it dawned on him—could it be...?
The next second, his eyes glowed with a faint golden light. In the state of his Eye of Insight, he clearly saw that what the ugly fish was holding in its mouth was a beautiful scale that emitted a seven-colored light!
"Beautiful scales?!" Hanyu Nan exclaimed in surprise.
"What is that?" Ai asked curiously.
"It's the key item for Feebas to evolve into Milotic!" Yuzuru's lips twitched slightly, his expression a mix of amusement and exasperation. "With it, Feebas can evolve directly without accumulating Beauty Points!"
The question is, why does an ugly fish have beautiful scales?
"System, did you kidnap a Milotic race?" Yuzuru asked the system, speechless.
He strongly suspected that his system, which always acted unpredictably, had directly kidnapped a Feebas family that included Milotic, and that the proud Feebas might even be Milotic's biological daughter.
So it turns out he was a human trafficker... a fishmonger.
(Milnarus: My child! Where is my child?)
system:"......"
Silence is the system tonight.
Hearing Hanyu Nan's words, Ai looked puzzled and tilted her head to ask, "Then why doesn't it evolve?"
"Well..."
Yuzuru stroked his chin. "Perhaps the time isn't right yet? Maybe it's waiting for some special opportunity, or maybe it has its own unique ideas about evolution."
As they were talking, the haughty ugly fish suddenly swam back to the surface, spat its beautiful scales onto a protruding rock, and then flicked its tail defiantly at Hanyu Nan, as if to say, "Want some? Come and get them~"
"Buyi!"
Yingying curiously stretched out her paw, wanting to touch it.
The ugly fish nimbly dodged, blew a bubble, and then gracefully sank into the water and disappeared.
Yuzuru: "......"
Good grief, we've run into a real troublemaker!
Seeing this, Ai couldn't help but laugh gleefully, teasing, "Looks like your charm doesn't work on fish~"
"Heh..." Yu Shengnan calmly took out a few specially made spirit rice fruits—the best quality of the first batch of spirit rice that the little maid had watered with the purification spring, containing a richer spiritual energy.
"You think I can't handle you?"
He gently tossed the spirit rice fruit onto the water's surface.
The arrogant Ugly Fish intended to maintain its aloof demeanor and ignore the spirit rice fruits.
However, the alluring aroma emanating from the spirit rice fruit, like an invisible hand, gently tantalized its olfactory nerves, making it unable to resist its inner desire.
In the end, it couldn't resist the temptation of the delicious food and slowly swam over, circling around the spirit rice fruit, its eyes revealing a hint of struggle and hesitation.
The "it smells so good" principle will never go out of style.
Faced with delicious food, even this proud, queen-like ugly fish finds it difficult to uphold its principles.
However, just as it was about to bite into the spirit rice fruit, Yu Shengnan suddenly snapped his fingers—
"Whoosh!"
The Spirit Rice Fruit vanished into thin air, replaced by a fine net woven from aquatic plants, which precisely caught the ugly fish!
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