On the day the reservoir was completed, all the Pokémon in the orchard came to watch. Among them, the Gyarados and the Clauncher were the most excited, because this would be their new home in the future.
"It's almost time, open the sluice gate!" Eddie shouted.
After hearing Eddie's instructions, Nidoking and Nidoqueen, who were standing beside the sluice gate, worked together to slowly pull the sluice gate up.
As the dam was slowly opened, the water from the tributaries instantly poured into the reservoir, and soon a large amount of water accumulated in the reservoir.
"Roar~"
"Roar~"
"Roar~"
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Upon seeing this, the eight Gyarados couldn't wait to dive into the water, roaring excitedly and stretching their strong bodies freely.
It's still more comfortable in the water! The Gyarados sighed in their hearts.
The Clauncher were not to be outdone. They jumped into the water one after another, flapping back and forth in the water, their little tails slapping the water surface rapidly.
Seeing that Gyarados and Clauncher were having fun, Vaporeon couldn't help but join them. For a while, the reservoir was very lively.
When he returned home in the evening, in order to celebrate the completion of the reservoir, Eddie gave all the Pokémons a thorough health check-up, and the Pokémons were so happy that they went crazy.
Please do this kind of good thing once a day.
Several days have passed since the reservoir was built. Gyarados and Clauncher have adapted to their new home very well. Even Vaporeon likes to go to the reservoir most of his free time and now he has become a permanent resident there.
In order to train his younger brothers, Brionne also goes there every few days.
Eddie plans to wait for a while until the reservoir environment stabilizes, then he will look for some economic crops suitable for growing in water.
At the same time, Eddie also began to consider hiring a new nanny.
After finishing his work every day, Eddie still had to help with the housework. He was so tired that he could hardly straighten his back. He was really fed up with it.
But where can you hire Pokémon? It's not easy to find Pokémon that are good at doing housework.
Because of this matter, Eddie was a little distracted when he was in school.
"Eddie, what's wrong with you? Are you worried about something?" Conner asked with concern.
"I'm fine, just thinking about something." Eddie shook his head, and then he thought that maybe classmate Conner could help him with some ideas. "Here's what happened..."
So Eddie told Conner about his troubles.
"I see..." Conner lowered his head and began to think.
After a while, he seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly raised his head and asked, "Eddie, do you know the Pokémon Shelter?"
"Pokémon Shelter?" Eddie looked confused.
"Yes, it's the Pokémon Shelter." Conner nodded and said, "You know, there are some stray Pokémon in every city. In order to prevent stray Pokémon from affecting the city's image, some cities will set up a Pokémon Shelter to take in those stray Pokémon and provide them with basic living guarantees."
"There is such a place?" Eddie said in surprise, "I have never heard of it. This place looks great."
Conner shook his head and said, "The Pokémon inside can only guarantee the most basic life. In fact, most of the life is not very good."
"So you want me to go there and take a look?" Eddie asked.
Conner nodded and said, "The Pokémon in the Pokémon Shelter are all adoptable, and the Alliance encourages trainers or families to adopt Pokémon there."
Eddie thought: I could definitely go and take a look.
"Do we have a Pokémon shelter in Coumarine City?"
"Of course." Conner nodded, "If you want to go, I can go with you after school."
Eddie said happily: "That's great, but I'm sorry to bother you."
"It's okay. I don't really want to go home too early anyway." Conner said.
Eddie knew almost everything about him, so he had no reservations when talking to Conner.
After school in the afternoon, Eddie and Conner went to the West District together.
Conner had been to the Pokémon shelter in Coumarine City before. With his guidance, Eddie quickly arrived at his destination.
The Pokémon Shelter is in a very remote place in the West District. Although it is called the West District, it is actually in a corner where the West District and the East District meet.
The entire shelter is located in a large yard. It is a bit similar to Eddie's home, except that the house is rather dilapidated and seems to have been built a long time ago.
Conner explained: "This was originally a villa of a wealthy family. Later, because it was haunted, the family sold the villa to the Alliance at a low price."
"Later, the Alliance sent trainers here to check the situation, and finally found that the ones playing tricks in the villa were actually just a few Ghost-type Pokémon."
"Later, when Coumarine City needed to build a Pokémon shelter, the Alliance allocated funds for this dilapidated courtyard. However, due to insufficient funds and lack of attention from the higher authorities, the courtyard has never been repaired."
Eddie nodded suddenly.
The two walked to the gate of the villa and rang the doorbell.
"Who is it?"
At this time, the door creaked open, and a slovenly middle-aged man rubbed his eyes and walked out. He seemed to have just woken up, and his hair was as messy as a bird's nest.
"Hello," Eddie greeted politely.
The uncle saw two children standing at the door and asked impatiently, "What do you want?"
Eddie replied: "I heard that you can adopt Pokémon here, so I wanted to come and take a look."
The uncle looked at Eddie straight in the face and said doubtfully, "You want to adopt a Pokémon? Do your parents agree?"
Eddie smiled and said, "Don't worry about that."
The uncle looked at Eddie in silence for a while, then stepped aside and said, "Come in."
"Thank you, uncle." Eddie said with a smile.
"Thank you, uncle." Shenmu also said.
After entering the yard, Eddie began to look around the environment.
The yard is indeed very big, even bigger than Eddie's house. It is worthy of being a villa of a wealthy family. There are many rooms in the yard, but many of them are completely damaged and look uninhabitable.
There are quite a few Pokémon in the yard, some are working, such as sweeping the floor; some are playing, such as playing hide-and-seek... The Pokémon all have smiles on their faces, so they must be living a good life.
The arrival of Eddie and Conner caused the Pokémon to stop what they were doing and look at the two with curious eyes.
The uncle turned around and urged the two of them, "Hurry up."
"Here it comes!" Eddie hurriedly chased after him.
Led by the uncle, Eddie and the others came to a dim room. It seemed that this should be the uncle's office and residence.
The uncle sat behind the desk, picked up a pen, and asked without looking up, "What's your name?"
"Eddie."
"Where do you live? Who else is in your family?" the uncle continued to ask.
"I live in the Bluebird Orphanage, and there are also..."
Eddie's current household registration is still in the Bluebird Orphanage. He cannot register for a separate household registration until he reaches adulthood.
Hearing Eddie's answer, the uncle looked up in surprise.
"You are an orphan? You are an orphan and you want to adopt a Pokémon? You..."
The uncle didn't say the rest of the words, but Eddie probably knew what he wanted to say, which was nothing more than "Do you raise good Pokémon?"
"Orphans can't adopt Pokémon?" Eddie asked back.
The uncle didn't answer, but just continued to register Eddie's information.
"Why do you want to adopt a Pokémon?"
"I run an orchard. I'm very busy at work and can't take care of my family, so I want to invite a Pokémon home to help share the housework."
Hearing Eddie's words, the uncle raised his head in surprise again and asked, "Didn't you say you were an orphan?"
Eddie nodded and said, "Yes, is there any problem?"
"Then you said you run an orchard!" the uncle said unhappily.
"That's right, orphans can't run an orchard?" Eddie asked again.
The uncle was choked by Eddie's question. There is indeed no such rule, but your behavior is unreasonable. How old are you? You already have your own orchard?
The uncle said to Eddie unhappily: "Show me your ID!"
Eddie nodded and pulled up his ID on his phone.
The uncle carefully compared the photo on the ID card and found that it was indeed Eddie. At the same time, the ID card also clearly stated that Eddie was an orphan.
As for whether Eddie has an orchard, the materials will be submitted when the adoption procedures are completed, and their authenticity will naturally be verified, so the uncle doesn't need to worry about it.
After confirming Eddie's identity, the uncle asked again: "How many Pokémon do you want to adopt? What kind do you want to adopt?"
Eddie did not answer, but asked: "Can I go and see the Pokémon here before deciding?"
"What a hassle!" The uncle threw the pen in his hand impatiently, "Come with me."
Led by the uncle, Eddie and the others came to the yard again. The uncle took out a loudspeaker and shouted into it:
"Everyone, come out! Come out! Come out!"
As the sound spread in the yard, Pokémon came out of the rooms one after another, and soon filled the entire yard.
Eddie roughly estimated that there must be at least hundreds of Pokémon living here, and it would be difficult for this uncle to manage them all.
In fact, Eddie really misunderstood. The Pokémon here are not managed by the uncle, but they manage themselves.
Because of the special nature of this place, the Pokémon living here are very well-behaved, for fear that if they get into trouble one day, Coumarine City will close the Pokémon shelter, leaving them homeless.
Although the conditions here are not the best, the Alliance will provide them with food expenses regularly.
The uncle is the manager here and although he usually doesn't take care of things, he won't deduct their food. The Pokémons are very satisfied with this.
Of course, the food allowance from the Alliance was not enough to feed them every meal, but at least they would not starve to death, which was much better than wandering outside.
"This young boy is here to adopt a Pokémon. All of you should behave well. If you are chosen, good days will come!" The uncle shouted to the Pokémons with a loudspeaker.
As to whether he believes this or not, no one knows.
The Pokémon looked at each other, showing no signs of high desire. They had gotten used to life here and did not have high expectations of being adopted.
There were Pokémon that were adopted in the past, but they never saw each other again, and no one knew how the adopted Pokémon were doing now.
Pokémon are somewhat resistant to the unknown life.
Seeing the performance of the Pokémon, the uncle angrily said, "Pooh!" and whispered, "A bunch of useless people."
Conner was a little angry when he heard this, and seemed to want to say something, but was stopped by Eddie.
There is no need to conflict with the uncle. If this uncle is really mean to the Pokémon, if you rashly conflict with him, after they leave, the only Pokémon will suffer.
Moreover, according to Eddie's previous observations, the Pokémon did not seem to hate the uncle. When they looked at the uncle, they were very calm, without any fear or nervousness. It can be seen that their relationship with the uncle was okay, or at least not bad.
At this time, Eddie stepped forward and said, "My name is Eddie. I live in the East District of Coumarine City and run an orchard. You won't have to worry about food and drink when you come to my place. It's also very close to here. If you want to come back and take a look, you can come back anytime."
Eddie has roughly guessed the mentality of these Pokémon. They have completely adapted to their current stable and peaceful life and don't want to change at all.
Seeing that everyone was still indifferent, Eddie felt a little helpless and could only continue to say: "My work is not heavy, it's just doing housework. Is anyone among you good at housework?"
The Pokémon's eyes were wandering, but Eddie still noticed that the one they looked at the most was Hattrem.
In fact, Eddie noticed Hattrem hiding among the group of Pokémon from the very beginning.
The most eye-catching thing about this Hattrem is the very hideous and terrifying scar on its cheek.
The original habitat of Pokémon like Hattrem is in the remote Galar region. It is not a common Pokémon and it should not be easy to see in the Kalos region, but this one appeared in the shelter.
Eddie couldn't help but ask the uncle about Hattrem's situation.
The uncle did not hide it from Eddie and told Eddie all the reasons why Hattrem appeared here.
It turns out that this Hattrem was smuggled from the Galar region by Pokémon hunters several years ago.
Hattrem is already a relatively rare Pokémon in its original habitat, the Galar region, and if it could be sneaked into Kalos, its value could almost double.
Unfortunately, this poaching gang was unlucky and was noticed by the police shortly after arriving in the Kalos area.
During the battle, the spaceship the poaching gang was riding on exploded violently, killing almost all the Pokémon caught by the poaching gang on board.
Most of the Pokémon caught by the poaching gangs at the time were in their initial forms, having been born not long ago. They had almost no self-protection ability and certainly could not withstand an explosion of that magnitude.
Even Hattrem was still just a Hatenna at that time.
Relying on the stress protection of her psychic powers, Hatenna barely survived the explosion, but a huge wound was left on her cheek by the fragments of the exploding spacecraft, and even healing skills such as healing waves could not heal the wound.
As the wound healed, a horrible scar was left on Hatenna's face, and the scar became more obvious as it evolved into Hattrem.
In fact, if someone is willing to spend a lot of money and use the power of medical technology, the wound on Hatenna's face can actually be cured.
But who would be willing to spend so much money on a piece of "junk"?
Perhaps it was because it was too shocked. Since Hatenna woke up from the explosion, it has never used any skills again and was judged to be a useless Pokémon.
Nurse Joy checked Hatenna's condition and said that there was nothing wrong with Hatenna's body. It was unwilling to fight and use skills, probably because of psychological problems.
With such a problem, no one would be willing to take Hatenna in, even though it was a rare Pokémon.
After it became unclear where Hatenna came from, it was sent to this Pokémon shelter.