"hiss?"
The green caterpillar put down the branch and looked at the village elder with a puzzled expression.
Although it is a little stupid, it shouldn't be difficult to learn to count, right?
You must know that the owner has been teaching it for almost a day, and it already had the concept of numbers before. Numbers often appear in human language, and over time it will understand a little bit.
The only problem is that it is learning to count backwards. It always feels that its brain cannot turn, so it has never been able to do it well.
The green caterpillar was still thinking when he saw the village elder taking out the elf ball.
Along with a ray of red light, a sturdy fighting elf appeared. It was Old Man Qian's strange power.
Old Man Qian looked at Guai Li and said, "Check the number. It should be over twenty."
Guai Li scratched his head and without thinking too much, he followed his master's instructions and started counting.
Different from the powerful force and wrist strength before evolution, the evolved Wei Li not only became stronger in shape, but also had two more arms on the back.
And this directly doubled the range of Wei Li's numerical statistics.
Guai Li was seen fiddling with his twenty fingers and muttering. When he found that the number was not enough, he quickly sat on the ground and fiddled with his four toes.
Although there are five fingers on Guai Li's palms, there are only two toes on the soles of his feet.
Just like that, as the count reached twenty-four, the strange power suddenly stopped and fell into a dazed state similar to a brain shutdown.
Old Man Qian looked at Wei Li sitting on the ground and cracking his toes, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, then turned to look at Mark's green caterpillar.
This is a green caterpillar!
Although the monster has strong limbs and a simple mind, it is not inferior to the green caterpillar.
Old man Qian, who has been running the green caterpillar breeding base in Qingxi Village for many years, has a deep understanding of the intelligence of green caterpillars.
To say that the green caterpillar's intelligence is equal to that of Magikarp is to insult the green caterpillar, but even if the green caterpillar's intelligence is stronger than that of Magikarp, it is not much better and is far below the average elven IQ.
Among all the elves, Wei Li's IQ can barely reach the average level.
Suddenly, Old Man Qian noticed something. He saw the pattern written on the ground by the green caterpillar holding a wooden stick not long ago.
Although they look crooked, these patterns are clearly numerical symbols.
Not only did you learn to count, but you also learned to write numbers?
Is this a green caterpillar?
Old Man Qian looked at the green caterpillar again, and saw the green caterpillar approaching the strange force and enthusiastically pointing the strange force to count, without any hint of pride or complacency.
Old Man Qian took a deep breath unconsciously.
He did realize that Mark's green caterpillar was smarter than ordinary green caterpillars, but he never thought it would be so smart.
Reminiscent of the green caterpillar's excellent [collision] skills in the yard a few days ago, coupled with the size and strength of the ordinary green caterpillar, plus the fact that Mark, this kid, takes the green caterpillar to Qingxi Forest every day, training hard like an ascetic. .
The right time, the right location, and the right people are all in place.
As long as this continues, this green caterpillar will definitely have a promising future.
Even if Mark fails to pass the Elf Academy in the future, when this green caterpillar evolves into a big butterfly, Mark can easily join an insect gym at the level of a small town, and then naturally become an official trainer.
Although it is impossible to compare with Qian Erniu and Lin Tong, Mark's life is already guaranteed.
Old Man Qian's thoughts were changing all the time, but Mark didn't notice it. He just thought there was something wrong with his approach.
He walked up to the old man Qian who had been stunned for a while and asked doubtfully: "Village chief, will there be any problems if I let the green caterpillar learn mathematics?"
Old Man Qian came to his senses and wanted to praise him, but after thinking about it he gave up.
At Mark's age, it is the time to guard against arrogance and impetuosity. Excessive praise can easily have the opposite effect.
He rubbed the stubble on his chin and said: "Is there a problem... No problem for the time being. You can continue to follow your method, but you must pay attention to the intensity of actual training and don't let your green caterpillar overdraw your body or suffer any injuries." Permanent damage, as for how you just said how to teach the green caterpillar to count backwards, you have already seen my strange power, in fact, this is also an area that I am not very good at."
A few meters away, Wei Li, who was still clasping his fingers, heard something and looked at his master with some confusion. He saw Old Man Qian holding up the elf ball.
A red light flashed, and strange power was absorbed into it.
The green caterpillar came over with a curious expression, staring intently at the elf ball containing strange powers.
Old Man Qian raised his eyebrows slightly, thought of something, touched the green caterpillar's head and said, "You like Poké Balls very much?"
"Hiss!"
Old Man Qian smiled slightly: "If you like it so much, well, if you can learn to count backwards, I will help your owner fund half of your Poké Ball. However, when I say counting backwards, I only count them out. No, you have to write it on the ground with a wooden stick like you just did, and you can’t write it crookedly.”
"Hiss!"
The green caterpillar jumped excitedly onto Old Qian's shoulders and rubbed Old Qian's cheek.
Mark glared at the smug Green Caterpillar and walked up to Old Man Qian, "Village Chief, you don't have to do this. Regarding the Green Caterpillar's elf ball, I myself..."
Before Mark could finish his words, he was interrupted by Old Man Qian with a wave of his hand.
Old Man Qian had a straight face, soothed the lost green caterpillar twice with his hands and said: "Cultivating an elf is like nurturing a child. What I just said has given it expectations. If you directly dispel its expectations like this, you know you will give it How much negative impact does it bring?
That's the deal. As long as it can figure out counting backwards and write it down with a stick, I'll fund half of its Poké Ball.
Green Caterpillar, do you have confidence? "
"Hiss!!"
The green caterpillar jumped down from Old Man Qian's shoulder, first made a determined pose, and then immediately picked up the small wooden stick from before, started writing and drawing on the dirt floor, and entered a state of hard study.
Old Man Qian glanced at Mark, gently rubbed the stubble on his chin, and showed a half-smiling expression.
Although Mark's performance made him feel like a new generation had replaced the old, in terms of experience in cultivating elves, Mark was obviously still far behind.
Old Man Qian said: "I'm not very good at teaching green caterpillars to count backwards, but you can learn this method of motivating elves. I can see that your green caterpillars are very sensible, but they must also take advantage of the situation. , study and exercise with different mentality, the results are often very different."
Mark glanced at the green caterpillar writing on the ground, and then looked at the rising experience bar on the spiritual master's panel.
After some encouragement from Old Man Qian, the Green Caterpillar's experience bar increase rate through learning mathematics increased by at least 30%.
Mark nodded solemnly and said: "I learned it, thank you for your advice, but the elf ball is still..."
Mark's words were interrupted again by Old Man Qian waving his hand.
"Even if it's my support for you and the Green Caterpillar, I am the village chief of Qingxi Village. Shouldn't I help the potential young people in the village?
In fact, if I weren't afraid that you would become dependent on my funding, I could directly fund a Poké Ball once the green caterpillar completes the conditions.
Okay, we've been delayed a lot. You and the green caterpillar haven't eaten, so we'll just have a quick meal and then go to the village school to report.
By the way, when it comes to eating, the more rice you eat, the better. Eighty percent... no, seventy percent full is enough..."
