Two days later.
Lucas was currently eating fried dough sticks and drinking soy milk freshly ground by Gothorita.
As soon as he got the soy milk maker, Lucas taught Gothorita and Mime Jr. how to use it.
So he could drink delicious soy milk first thing in the morning.
Lilligant, with Roselia, opened the Breeding House's main door and then hung up the Breeding House's sign.
They looked at the rumbling large vehicle in front of them, a bit confused.
Lucas heard the rumbling sound from the entrance and looked over.
Mayor Quinn, wearing a hard hat, rushed in.
"Shopkeeper Lucas, are you awake?"
Lucas, with his mouth full of fried dough sticks, nodded.
Mayor Quinn came to the counter and took a breath.
Seeing the fried dough sticks in front of Lucas, he had never seen such a breakfast.
He casually picked one up and took a bite.
His eyes immediately lit up.
Then, in the blink of an eye, he finished the breakfast in front of Lucas.
Lucas looked at Mayor Quinn, who had a big belly.
How could he be so shameless? Coming over first thing in the morning to eat my breakfast?
When he saw Gothorita bring another new breakfast, Lucas was incredibly moved.
As expected of his little aunt.
She really knew how to take care of people.
Gothorita handed Mayor Quinn a cup of soy milk. Mayor Quinn took it, took a sip, smacked his lips, and then drank it all in one go.
"What is this? It's quite good."
Mayor Quinn glanced at the cup, then returned it to Gothorita.
Immediately after, he grabbed Lucas, who had just picked up a new fried dough stick and taken a bite, and walked towards the door.
"Come on, Shopkeeper Lucas, the construction team has arrived. Let's go discuss and explore how to proceed with the specific construction."
Lucas looked at the breakfast on the table.
He reached out to pick up a fried dough stick but found it was a bit out of reach.
"Hey, wait, my breakfast!"
Lucas protested, but Mayor Quinn still dragged him out.
"Gothorita, please guard my breakfast!"
Gengar finished his breakfast and glanced at the plate at Lucas's spot.
He was a bit confused.
"Kou jia?"
Lucas isn't eating?
"Kou jia—"
In that case, I won't be polite!
Listening to the message Lucas sent back, Gengar nodded.
He threw all the fried dough sticks into his mouth.
Then he gulped down the soy milk.
Waste is shameful!
After saying that, Gengar floated up and followed behind Lucas.
Being dragged to the construction team, Lucas found that the person in charge of the construction team was the same person in charge from two days ago.
He greeted him.
Then the person in charge began to explain his plan.
Hearing the serious matter, Lucas also became serious.
Since he had already been pulled out and couldn't go back for breakfast, he might as well work seriously.
"After a full day of surveying yesterday, we found that our main problem is that after we plan a road of a certain width, there will be many trees and bushes blocking our way."
The person in charge brought up the pictures Rotom took yesterday and showed them to Lucas and Mayor Quinn.
Lucas looked at them and realized that this was indeed the problem. Because the road couldn't be too narrow, after choosing an appropriate width, many untended trees would block the middle of the road.
At the same time, a portion of the planned optimal route would also pass through the forest.
This led to another problem: choosing the original path that people frequently used could avoid more tree interference, but the journey would be much longer. If the optimal route was chosen, then these trees would need to be properly dealt with.
For a moment, everyone fell into contemplation.
"What if we move these trees to the sides of our planned road?"
Mayor Quinn suggested.
The person in charge shook his head.
"This would be very costly and not worth doing, and currently, there isn't enough manpower."
This road was too long.
Everyone knew that.
It would take most of the day for a normal person to walk it.
Even the optimized road would take about half a day.
"Why not just cut them all down?"
Lucas suggested.
"No, that absolutely won't do."
Mayor Quinn immediately responded.
Lucas shook his head, looked at them, and said:
"My idea is to cut them all down, and then replant them along the optimal route. "
"And we can choose to plant some Berries, so that some wild Pokémon have something to eat, and some passing pedestrians and Trainers can pick some to rehydrate when they are thirsty."
Lucas stated his idea.
After all, in the world of Pokémon, the Growth cycle of Berries is particularly fast.
Other trees would also grow much faster than normal.
"However many trees we cut down, we will plant double that amount back, making this road even more perfect, and it won't be a disservice to the trees we cut down."
Listening to Lucas's words, the person in charge and Mayor Quinn exchanged glances.
Afterward, they handed the decision-making power to Mayor Quinn.
After all, he was the Mayor.
Mayor Quinn struggled for a while before gritting his teeth and nodding.
"Alright, we'll do that."
"However, even cutting down these trees requires a lot of manpower, and currently, our manpower is still insufficient."
Listening to the person in charge's words, Lucas thought about it, and it was true.
Just as Lucas was about to prepare to do what he could, Vulpix gently rubbed Lucas's pant leg with her head.
Lucas looked down and found that Vulpix was indicating the direction of the Breeding House with her head.
Lucas immediately understood Vulpix's meaning.
"Thank you, Vulpix!"
After saying that, he picked up Vulpix and then asked the two to wait a moment.
Not long after, Lucas saw Vulpix return.
"Not enough manpower, don't worry, the Breeding House has plenty of Pokémon."
After saying this, Lucas swallowed and continued: "I just went to ask, and they all expressed great willingness to help us."
Listening to Lucas's words, the person in charge and Mayor Quinn were overjoyed.
With the help of so many Pokémon, it would indeed save a lot of time and money.
After making the decision, Lucas returned to the Breeding House, hung up the 'Temporarily Closed' sign, then got into the person in charge's car, and marked all the trees that needed to be cut down one by one.
Like these marked trees, all bushes needed to be cleared.
Then Lucas planned to plant some flowers nearby, and when they bloomed, the scenery would probably be beautiful.
Looking at these marked trees that needed to be dealt with, Lucas felt a little pained.
But this was a necessary task for road construction.
Lucas explained the matter of cutting trees to Lilligant and instructed her to organize the forest Pokémon to help.
Lilligant nodded, then returned to the backyard with Roselia.
Meanwhile, Lucas took out his phone and asked the Seed Shop if they had the seeds he wanted.
After telling the Seed Shop's grandparents about this, they agreed immediately and also said they would deliver the seeds to the Breeding House in the afternoon.
After hanging up the phone, Lucas returned to the kitchen to prepare a large quantity of Energy Cubes in advance.
At the same time, he asked Gothorita and Mime Jr. to prepare today's lunch.
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