Yesterday, after David and the others left, several people had approached the area throughout the day.
However, Zorua managed to send them away with her illusion abilities.
One of them was wearing clothes that looked similar to those worn by the people they had dealt with before, so Zorua also hypnotized him and made him press the distress button himself.
He probably wouldn't even know why he had pressed the distress button when the rescue team took him away from the scene.
"Well done, Zorua!"
David listened to Zorua's narration, stroked her small head, and praised her heartily.
He had no good feelings toward the schools that had secretly agreed to deal with them, wanting to bring down First High.
Moreover, the system had assigned a related task.
Zorua's handling method was quite to his liking.
"Zorua~ Zorua~ (There's one more thing. Yesterday, Ursaring also found the camp by following the scent we left behind. It seemed to have something it wanted to tell you, David, but after realizing you weren't there, it left.)"
David thought about it and figured it was probably because of the matter he had entrusted to Ursaring earlier—asking the Pokémon in the vicinity to collect the supplies dropped by the League.
"Never mind. I'll still go to Ursaring's place later!"
David thought, feeling that this wasn't an urgent matter that needed to be completed immediately. So after a short rest, he slowly set off toward Ursaring's den.
Half an hour quickly passed, and soon they reached their destination—the large tree in the center of the jungle appeared before them.
However, on the way to Ursaring's den, David was surprised to find that various Pokémon were constantly coming and going from Ursaring's territory.
Among them, some individual Pokémon were even species that were particularly prone to conflict with each other.
But at this moment, they were all obediently staying within Ursaring's territory.
"Ursaring, Zorua said you were looking for me."
As soon as he entered the area, David saw Ursaring lying at the entrance of its den like a wealthy landlord.
Beside it, various sizes of black packages were piled up, forming a dense small mountain, which surprised David greatly.
And various Pokémon were gathered around it.
Pidgey, Pidgeotto, Spearow, Scyther, Nidoran♀, Noctowl, Oddish... In short, all kinds of common forest Pokémon had gathered here, and David even saw many Pikachu.
This reminded him of a certain Team Rocket member's line: "Pikachu are as common as stray dogs."
He secretly chuckled to himself.
Even the Beedrill, who usually had a poor relationship with Ursaring, had appeared here.
"Roar~"
Seeing David appear, Ursaring excitedly ran forward and roared at him.
Throughout the previous day, Ursaring obviously hadn't forgotten the task David had given it.
"You mean you've notified most of the Pokémon in this jungle?"
"You told them that as long as they found these black packages, they could exchange them for food, so all these packages here were brought by them?"
Ursaring nodded.
"Roar! Roar roar~"
"You said you also don't know which ones are edible, and you were afraid of damaging the useful items inside, so you left them all for me to handle."
"You went to find Zorua earlier for this matter too."
"Roar~ (That's right!)"
"Thank you, Ursaring."
Hearing Ursaring's words, David was quite moved, so he quickly stepped forward to open the packages for them and sort out the food.
After opening the packages, most of the official supplies were still primarily food and water.
David kept a small amount of human food and the "tithe" he had promised Ursaring, then distributed all the Energy Cubes and Pokémon food.
According to Ursaring's memory, based on the number of packages each Pokémon present had brought, everything was distributed to the gathered Pokémon.
After sending all the surrounding Pokémon away, David then calculated his harvest this time.
"Let me see."
"Hmm... this is 20 points~"
"This one... this one... 60 points."
After David and the three little companions he had brought with him finished counting, he realized how great his harvest was this time.
Not to mention the specific uses of these miscellaneous items—the points contained within them alone had already caused David's points to surge by nearly 1,000.
At this time, his accumulated points had already broken through the 2,000 mark and were heading straight for 3,000.
It could be said that most of the supplies in this jungle had gathered here with David.
Just the specially assessed food was already enough for David and his Pokémon to eat freely until the assessment ended.
However, David didn't react much to the storage. After all, as long as it was enough, that was fine—having more wouldn't serve any additional purpose.
The reason for collecting it was merely to obtain points.
On the other hand, Ursaring—for whom David had left a portion of all the Pokémon food and Energy Cubes as its reward—was now practically napping on top of the various foods. It was as if it were enjoying itself, swimming in a sea of delicacies.
"Roar!"
Basically, all the packages in the entire jungle had been gathered together.
Even if only one-tenth was taken from each portion as Ursaring's reward, with the massive base quantity, it was still an astonishing amount when added together.
It was fortunate that Ursaring had helped. Otherwise, if David had to search for them one by one himself, it would have been much more troublesome.
After dealing with matters here, David slowly returned in the direction of the camp.
Since the supplies in this vicinity had been mostly collected, now shouldn't he also complete the task the system had given him?
This was his first time encountering such a large-scale special event, and he didn't know what the rewards would be like.
If the rewards were as generous as they were during the Novice Cup last time... "Hehe!"
Looking at their Trainer in front of them—who was grinning foolishly, having no idea where his thoughts had wandered—the three Pokémon looked at each other, then helplessly shook their heads and chuckled.