At this moment, the elite Beedrill that Vespiquen led out had been dealt with by Yanmo. These elite Beedrill were also obediently subdued by Qingwu into Poké Balls.
Each of these elite Beedrill was only Level 35, and their aptitude was yellow, which came as an unexpected surprise to Qingwu.
"Why do these Beedrill all look like they were hatched by this Vespiquen? But shouldn't Vespiquen's offspring all be Combee?" Qingwu scratched his head.
Currently, only Vespiquen and Yanmo were facing each other in the air. Qingwu could clearly see the clash of needles between these two Pokémon.
Ultimately, Vespiquen couldn't hold back. Vespiquen flapped its wings, and flying-type energy quickly gathered like thin wings, forming countless air masses around Vespiquen's body.
At this moment, Vespiquen used a Swift-style state. Vespiquen flew rapidly towards Yanmo.
"Swift + Quick Turn! This Vespiquen is quite resourceful." Swift was originally a move to increase speed, and Quick Turn was to rapidly rush towards a Pokémon and then quickly return.
"Yanmo, don't be afraid. Use Air Slash." Qingwu gave a precise command, but saw a faint smile curling at the corner of Vespiquen's mouth.
"No, something's not right." Qingwu felt Vespiquen's smile was very strange, but he just couldn't pinpoint what was off.
Just then, Qingwu saw Vespiquen's honeycomb skirt flutter, and a Super Vespiquen, even larger than the elite Beedrill just now, popped its head out from the honeycomb.
"So this Vespiquen was Vespiquen's trump card all along." Qingwu suddenly realized.
Because Vespiquen's subordinate was not a Combee, Qingwu mistakenly thought that Vespiquen's honeycomb was just a decoration, unconsciously neglecting a hidden attack.
This Super Vespiquen was hidden in Vespiquen's honeycomb, ready to launch a fierce attack when Yanmo was not paying attention.
This Vespiquen and Vespiquen merged, transforming into a white light. The sharp needle of the Beedrill was pointed directly at Yanmo.
Yanmo had already discovered this Vespiquen and immediately used Air Slash, flashing behind Vespiquen and using Air Slash.
Yanmo's wings twisted, generating a fierce whirlwind between them. Yanmo increased the frequency of its wing beats, and wind blades instantly formed, landing on Vespiquen's back.
Crack, a yellow translucent film enveloped Vespiquen's entire body. The wind blades shattered like bubbles in the light film.
This was Vespiquen's Protect skill, capable of defending against all damage for a short period.
"Yanmo, use Hurricane." Qingwu knew Vespiquen had used Protect.
However, using Protect had a time interval.
When Vespiquen's Protect skill disappeared, it opened its mouth towards Yanmo, and a large Bug Buzz attack emanated from Vespiquen's mouth.
Bug Buzz was extremely piercing. Vespiquen wanted to use this method to interfere with the communication between Yanmo and its trainer.
"Brave Bird Attack." Qingwu said expressionlessly. His relationship with Yanmo was very good. Yanmo knew what Qingwu wanted to express by looking at Qingwu's lip movements.
After receiving the command, Yanmo glowed with white light, gathering a Wind Armor, and carrying flying-type energy, it directly clashed with Vespiquen.
At the moment of impact, Yanmo flew backward due to the recoil of Brave Bird Attack, while Vespiquen used Quick Turn and returned to its original position.
Yanmo's wings were injured, cut at a corner, and purple blood oozed out.
Vespiquen revealed a triumphant expression. At the moment of impact with Yanmo, Vespiquen used X-Scissor.
The fierce poison, combined with the Wind Armor and Quick Turn, created a thread of attack that inflicted damage on Yanmo, and also successfully poisoned Yanmo.
"If it were before, I really might have fallen for your trick, but now it's different." Qingwu fed Yanmo a Poison Gem. Although Poison Gem generated fierce poison, it also absorbed poison.
Poison Gem could help Yanmo comprehend the profound meaning of poison. When the other two Insect-type Pokémon appeared, Qingwu even avoided carrying Yanmo.
Qingwu's Yanmo was already highly skilled in flying energy, but its comprehension of Insect-type skills was still in its early stages.
Qingwu also planned to choose his next Pokémon. He currently had Poison Gem and Life Orb in his hands.
Poison Gem was suitable for Pokémon with poison properties. Only Nidoqueen (Poison Heal) and Nidoking (Poison Point) had poison properties.
Qingwu hadn't thought about what kind of Pokémon to choose.
Life Orb was suitable for powerful small Pokémon. Nidoking and Nidoqueen were both options. Qingwu was looking at where he could find a suitable Nidoking and Nidoqueen.
At this moment, in the sky,
Yanmo's entire body flashed with purple light. The Poison Gem took effect, and the fluid that had previously seeped from his wings was as good as new.
Vespiquen at this moment was extremely ferocious. To create an attack opening for Vespiquen, Vespiquen's needle, after striking the Brave Bird Attack, broke in two.
This was equivalent to Vespiquen's trump card being directly destroyed by Yanmo. Vespiquen and Super Vespiquen, after destroying countless Pokémon stronger than them, were now trapped and bogged down here.
Vespiquen was truly enraged. Its flapping wings created a storm. The huge wind pressure caused the trees in the orchard to sway violently, and countless leaves were swept into the storm.
This move had no threat to Yanmo.
Yanmo already understood the nature of the storm. Yanmo's wings lightly sliced through the storm created by Vespiquen.
The storm eventually stopped, and the swirling airflow dissipated into the sky.
"Yanmo, protect the fruit trees well." The fruit trees were blown about, scattering leaves everywhere. Qingwu felt a little apprehensive. The mission was to drive away the Beedrill and protect the safety of the fruit trees, not to have a big battle with the Beedrill.
The originally blooming fruit tree flowers were reduced by half.
This Vespiquen brought an opportunity for Yanmo. Two sharp needles appeared in Vespiquen's hands, dripping with purple poison.
Vespiquen's hands intertwined, and six jewel-sized Power Gems gathered around Vespiquen. However, Vespiquen was no longer aiming at Yanmo but would release the Power Gems onto the fruit trees.
Qingwu's words just now reminded this clever Vespiquen.
"Do you think this can threaten me, Yanmo? Don't play around! Let's finish this quickly!" Qingwu roared loudly.
Yanmo's eyes became extremely sharp. Yanmo finally became serious, approaching Vespiquen with lightning speed.
Vespiquen instantly felt Beedrill's aura was different. To prevent Yanmo from getting close, Vespiquen used Power Gem in advance.
The Power Gems lined up, overlapping one another, like a meteor shower crashing towards the fruit forest. Vespiquen, on the other hand, turned its body, using the force of the wind to fly rapidly into the distance.
"As long as the green mountains remain, there'll be wood to burn." Vespiquen thought this in her heart, but she didn't realize that her most prized Power Gems were ineffective.
Instead, Yanmo's double-edged scythes broke the energy nodes, dissipating them during flight.
"You can't escape, Vespiquen. Surrender obediently and leave!" Qingwu's voice came from behind. Vespiquen turned its head, "Ugh, aiya!" It unexpectedly let Yanmo catch up.
Yanmo, clad in white armor, used Brave Bird Attack, heavily impacting Vespiquen's waist.
"My old waist is about to break!" Vespiquen cried. Its spine seemed to be fractured. Vespiquen fell rapidly like a kite with a broken string, but was then subdued by Qingwu with a Poké Ball.
Qingwu walked to the center of the fruit forest. Besides the Beedrill, there were countless Ironclad Beedrill and Unicorn Beetles. In the center of the fruit forest stood a giant beehive. There was a human-sized hole in the center of the beehive, and it seemed that Vespiquen had broken out from here.
These Ironclad Beedrill, upon seeing Qingwu arrive and preparing to evolve and emerge, were mesmerized by Sarada's Hypnosis, stopping their evolution process in a white light.
They were all sleeping Ironclad Beedrill and Unicorn Beetles.
"Come on, Yanmo. We won't let a single Ironclad Beedrill or Unicorn Beetle escape. Sweep this entire fruit forest with your supersonic waves!"
Qingwu knew that once a Unicorn Beetle escaped, it would quickly evolve into a Beedrill, and its sting would be particularly powerful.
Extermination required thoroughness. Not a single Unicorn Beetle could be spared!
Qingwu and Yanmo cleared the entire battlefield, using a total of 538 Poké Balls to capture the Beedrill in the beehive. However, Qingwu did not find Vespiquen's queen in the beehive.
This dramatic battle finally subsided. The old king looked at the Beedrill that had finally been driven away and the messy fruit forest. He himself wasn't feeling too well.
The only thing worth celebrating was that many fruit tree flowers were still preserved.
Not all fruit tree flowers needed to be preserved. Too many fruits would affect the quality of the fruit and the nutrition of the mother plant. The old king had to prune the flowers with his staff every year, pruning some branches.
The previous battle had knocked down many flowers, but now it saved him a lot of trouble.
Qingwu also very carefully captured all the Unicorn Beetles and Ironclad Beedrill to avoid any omissions.
"...Thank you, bounty hunter. This is revenge." The old king finally breathed a sigh of relief. This star, this moon, finally sent away the ancestors of the Beedrill.
Although the fruit forest suffered some losses, it was better than nothing at all.
Moreover, when the bounty mission was originally issued, the price was particularly cheap, so no one was willing to come and drive away the Beedrill. Now, even if they earned some money, they still had to falsely report some prices to account for it.
The old king secretly praised himself. After all, it was about capturing over 500 large Beedrill, so the bounty had to be high.
Qingwu also inwardly exclaimed that he had made a huge profit. This deep green-aptitude Vespiquen was actually hiding in the fruit forest. If Qingwu hadn't guessed wrong, this Vespiquen was worth almost 100 million Alliance coins. This old king was making a mistake!
Because the two were not on the same wavelength in their thoughts, everyone looked at each other,
and all secretly mocked each other's foolishness.
Qingwu scanned all the subdued Beedrill's aptitudes and found that the proportion of yellow aptitudes was not small. The only one that had been hiding in Vespiquen's body was a deep green-aptitude (King Nohara).
Qingwu felt a leader's aura on Vespiquen. This leader's aura was the belief gathered by a tribal leader. The stronger the tribal cohesion, the stronger the leader's aura.
Leader's aura could invisibly enhance the aptitude of Beedrill. This Super Vespiquen should be the previous leader of the Beedrill tribe, only because it was attracted by Vespiquen, it was willing to stay in the Peony flower (a metaphor for Vespiquen's domain or presence), and live a carefree life.
So Qingwu also felt a leader's aura on Vespiquen. Vespiquen's and Super Vespiquen's auras were very close. These should all be light yellow spirits forcibly broken through to deep green by the leader's aura.
This cultivated elite Beedrill was probably the descendant of Vespiquen. It's just that the leader's aura could only boost its own attributes.
The reason it cannot improve the aptitude of its offspring is that the offspring it gives birth to are basically of yellow aptitude.
However, two spirits of deep yellow aptitude still have a certain probability of giving birth to a Beedrill of green aptitude.
This time, driving away the Beedrill made Qingwu gain a full harvest. Besides the elite Beedrill, Qingwu also selected out the remaining yellow-aptitude Beedrill, Ironclad Beedrill, and Unicorn Beetles.
The remaining Unicorn Beetles, Ironclad Beetles, etc., would evolve into Beedrill and be sold together with this batch of Beedrill.
Qingwu knew that the Blazing Rock Team and the Water Fleet had recently had quite a few small skirmishes, and they were in need of a batch of Pokémon.
Qingwu decided that this Beedrill tribe would take the elite route. This way, the Pokémon born from these Beedrill would have increasingly better aptitude. After Qingwu sold off the Beedrill with yellow aptitude or lower, the excellent genes would become more and more prominent.
Qingwu's breeding house also gained three new economic sources: Vespiquen's Royal Jelly, Beedrill Honey, and Beedrill.
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