The smoke and dust in the distance quickly disappeared, as if it was just a Pokémon who was in a bad mood for a while, spat at the rock wall, and caused some harmless small damage. It's just that the roar-like movement is too unfamiliar, and the roar is far more powerful than an ordinary Pokémon brawl, and the trainer who is puzzled still decides to investigate.

- If the criminals want to attack the Pokémon in the reserve, they may even get a reward for reporting the crime in time.

Xiao Ye followed the direction from which the sound came from, and soon passed through the shrubs, branches and rocks, and came to the banks of the sparsely populated Bailang River.

The wisp of smoke had long since melted into the clear blue sky, and it was difficult for Xiao Ye to lock down the specific location, so he could only release the power of the waveguide and sweep forward like a wave.

Such a scribbled survey is like standing at a high altitude overlooking the earth, and you can only get a general idea of the terrain and environment, and it is difficult to detect whether there are any traces of battle. But in the midst of the chaos of dirt, trees, and water, there was a "spot" as bright as a flame in the night, and it almost instantly grabbed the attention of the ripples.

The trainer's expression moved, and his steps quickened. As the leafy foliage of the trees faded into view, and the wide white river surface came into view, Pichu, who hung on his shoulder, opened his eyes and let out a surprised "chirp".

An "ice sculpture" stands in the middle of the river, drifting slowly downstream with the current. It looked like a large spike ball, with ice edges sticking together in a radial pattern—and in the center of the spike, at the base of the ice edges, a stinging jellyfish was frozen in ice, motionless like a hand-carved work of art.

Even if you accidentally get hit by a move like a frozen beam in a melee, the appearance of being frozen into a big ice flower is too weird. After cautiously probing the surrounding waters and making sure that there were no other wild Pokémon nearby, Ghost Stone sent out Ghost Stone to pull the ice spike ball, which was two or three people tall, to the shore with a strong mental mind.

Before they got closer, the chill was already blowing in their faces, and almost instantly dissipated the summer heat. Pichu shuddered and swooped into Nighta's collar - only to forget that the trainer had changed into his summer clothes, and he fell out of his short-sleeved cuffs.

Xiao Ye was not surprised by this, and reached out to catch the hair ball.

Standing still in front of a frozen stinger jellyfish, the surging air makes you feel like you're in late autumn. Xiao Ye only felt that holding the snow boy was not so "cool", and reached out with an inquiring mentality, trying to touch the surface of the ice edge.

The warmth that came from my fingers was stronger than I had imagined. Although she quickly withdrew her hand, the fingertips that touched the ice still immediately turned from pale to red, and if she had stopped any longer, she might have formed a red and swollen frostbite.

This effect is almost like "long-lasting release of the frozen debuff", which makes Saya's heart sink and she begins to worry about the life of the frozen stinger jellyfish.

She immediately unleashed Charizard, motioning for it to try to melt the radiating ridges of ice first. The big guy who was named spewed out scorching flames energetically, burning for a while with the fire that even the tyrannosaurus was too hot, and stopped to look at it but was dumbfounded.

Not only did the ice edge not disappear, but not even a few drops of water fell.

Charizard puffed out his face in disbelief, as if he wanted to change the jet flame to a large character burst flame and try again. Halfway through one breath, the trainer raised his hand to stop it.

Sayo dragged the deflated Charizard and cautiously took two steps back away from the ice edge - realizing that this was a problem that she couldn't solve on her own, she took out her phone and dialed the Pokémon Conservation Society.

The area around Bailang Town is vast and sparsely populated, and the area of the Pokémon Sanctuary is also quite large, and the "Ice Stinger Jellyfish" is quite a distance away from the Conservation Officer's Lounge. Still, the people who received the call came fairly quickly.

Ten minutes later, the protection officers riding the Dabi birds landed on the riverbank one after another. The informant stepped forward and described what he had seen and heard to the protection officer.

The frozen appearance of the stinger jellyfish was not similar to the effect of any move, and the protection officers seemed to be a little confused. After confirming that the stinger jellyfish's vital signs were faint but still there, the protection officer began to try to rescue them, and Xiaoye, who couldn't help much, left his contact information and evacuated early to prevent causing trouble.

Pichu and the flamethrower, who were forced to leave the field, were full of question marks, and they chirped all the way to the trainer. Xiao Ye also searched blankly to see if there were ice-type Pokémon inhabiting below the snow line of the Wind and Snow Mountain, and then looked at the mobile phone screen that showed that the result was "none".

This strange phenomenon is really clueless, and in the end, Xiao Ye can only fool his Pokémon with "maybe a passing frozen bird sneezes", and stay away from the banks of the Bailang River in confusion.

After all this tossing, it was already dark. In order to make up for the training progress delayed by the accident, Xiao Ye simply had a picnic in the forest with ease, and took the well-fed Pokémon to practice a few sets of night battles. It wasn't until the night's poor-eyed compatriots showed that they were worried about hitting their heads against the trees, and the trainer retreated with the Pichu hairball and slowly returned to the town below the mountain.

It was close to nine o'clock, and the Trainer's Square was unexpectedly brightly lit with people coming and going. Trainers who had just finished their penance wandered around the square, looking for shops of interest, and young men who looked up to the ring excitedly went to the ring—it seems that living at the foot of the snow-capped mountains did not affect the enthusiasm of the southerners.

Stepping onto the colorful hard pavement of the square, Saya looked at the medicine house next to the Pokémon Center, and saw the shopkeeper surnamed Shimura leaning against the door, talking to a teenager in a tank top and shorts. Facing north, the nose still stands in the same position as during the day, staring motionlessly at the night sky to the south.

Saya was about to walk straight into the Pokémon Center, but felt a gaze fall on her. She hesitated and turned her head, her eyes meeting the owner of the medicine shop.

Trainers who "meet the eye" don't have to fight, it's always okay to say hello. Xiao Ye thought that the other party was probably worried about the progress of the collection of medicinal herbs, and after saying good evening, he took the initiative to report: "I have already collected half of the cold herbs, and I can complete the task tomorrow, you can rest assured." ”

Shimura was stunned and said in surprise, "Half?"

Xiao Ye knew that his performance in the morning was really not very reliable, and when he heard this, he immediately made a steady statement and swore that he would pack the ticket, saying that with the help of Ghost Stone, such a trivial matter as pulling weeds was not a problem at all.

The young boss's eyes are restrained and thoughtful, so that people can't tell whether he believes it or not. However, the young trainer who had been chatting with him before exclaimed, "Wow, you actually took on the task of collecting cold herbs? It's so far and troublesome, I thought no one would do it." ”

"People who are forced to make ends meet will do it. Xiao Yayi replied seriously.

The boy in shorts suddenly laughed, and put one hand on Xiao Ye's shoulder very familiarly, pulling the people who were forced to make a living into small talk.

The local boy named Aaron seems to be a regular at the medicine house, and is about the same age and size as Xiao Ya. Sayo thought that he was also planning to participate in the Battle of the Wind and Snow, but when he asked casually, he saw the boy shake his head into a rattle.

"Absolutely, absolutely, right!" Aaron's face palpitated, "I have a senior who participated last year, and he was carried down the mountain halfway through foaming at the mouth, and I don't want to become a joke in our school like a senior." ”

Sayo: "......"

Recalling the horror film theme of last year's Battle of the Snow, and the fact that 20 percent of those who were over-eliminated were frightened, the questioner suddenly felt speechless and decided not to mention his intention to compete, lest he bear the gaze of a martyr.

Aaron obviously didn't want to talk more about last year's horror films, and the topic turned to the "news" that he had a happy conversation with his boss Shimura before, "Oh, by the way, since you just came back from the mountains, have you heard that an ice goose with a head that grew too big was found by the river, and as a result, it was frozen in the ice? ”

“......”

Xiao Ye didn't know whether to refute that there were no ice geese in the Orange Islands first, or to complain about what newspaper was digressing while keeping up with current affairs, and finally gave up sorting out his messy brain, and chose an angle with a garbled face and answered, "It's not that high......"

"How do you know?" said the boy in shorts.

"I reported the case. "Garbled words.

As soon as these words came out, even Shimura, who looked blank because of the "ten-meter giant ice goose", looked over. Aaron was even more shocked, and the whole person almost pounced on Xiao Ye, and couldn't wait to ask, "So you saw the 'first scene'!

"Isn't its head hair ten meters long!!"

Xiaoye: "...... I think you might as well change your newspaper and read it. ”

After a lot of hard explanations, Xiao Ye made this classmate with a head full of ice goose feathers accept the simple truth. The three of them gathered in front of the medicine house, staring at the stinger jellyfish that had been frozen into the ice spike ball on Xiao Ye's phone, and exchanged a look with a question mark on each other.

Aaron admits that he has only been a trainer for a short time and has not seen much, and after asking the experienced pharmacy owner for help, the answer he gets is also "I have never seen such a freezing method".

The boy in shorts was immediately interested—but it was too late, and before he could spit out his speculation, a call from his mother urging him to go home was fired three times in a row, and the boy had to hastily end the conversation in order to save his life, and withdrew in a gloomy manner.

And it turns out that the curiosity of the young trainer of the southern country cannot be defeated by the vicious mother. Early the next morning, Saya learns from Shimura that Along rushed to the mountains before dawn to explore the secret of the stinger jellyfish being frozen in ice.

However, after entering the mountain, Xiaoye found that the protection officers had sealed off the area where the stinger jellyfish was found, and it seemed that the investigation was still ongoing, and the curious boy in shorts could probably return empty-handed.

Xiao Ye did not get close to the barrier pulled up by the protection officers, and changed the riverbank to continue the unfinished weeding operation yesterday. She picked a few more trees on top of the required number of trees to prevent any of the poor quality from failing, and then focused on pre-match training.

The "vigorous" sparring group is still playing very lively. On the other side, the movement of the single training group is not large, but the progress is not lagging behind at all.

Pichu, a member of the No. 1 training group, mainly practiced the moves of shadow clone and flash this time. Regarding the shadow clone, a common move, "36 Ways to Use Moves" provides practical direction for Xiao Ye. After several discussions, the final plan was "the fixed-point release of the clone".

Pichu's usual use of shadow clones is very casual, basically throwing off an electric rat as much as possible, which is very effective in making people dizzy. However, for Pichu who takes the dexterous guerrilla route, it is more conducive to tactical deployment to release a single shadow clone precisely where it is needed.

Xiao Ye didn't even need to go to the textbook to look through the specific cases, when the Quartz Alliance fought Xiao Tian, the clone that Yan released above the flame vortex was enough to say it all - even Charizard, the most brainless of them, nodded with deep understanding.

The training direction of the flash is "directional release of bright light". Although the trainer himself doesn't mind being dazzled all the time, considering the mood of his partner during team battles, he should still control the direction of the light - if this project is not put on the agenda, his compatriots who are dazed every day may have to beat up the electric rat.

Unlike his comrades, the forest lizard did not concentrate on honing a single move, but instead practiced all of his usual moves in turn. The blades of the magic leaf were scattered to the ground, swept up by the flash of lightning, and then reduced to splinters with the swing of the blade.

In terms of agility and quick moves, the forest lizard's talent is second only to that of Tabito, and it is the easiest member to cooperate with Koyo in high-speed combat. To that end, it is honing its speed of unleashing moves, and it will not be long before it becomes a new fighter in the high-speed combat system.

Presumably due to the positive effects of the food in the Flame Valley and the recent significant improvement in the quality of rations, Ghost Stone, who usually likes to fish, has been training with a lot of energy recently.

After successfully practicing the miraculous skill of breaking the ghost fire into eight hundred shapes, its new task is to break the Shadow Fist with it.

Ghost Stone's hands can be detached from his body, so he can completely control his hands to send out shadow punches from a distance, but his skills are not skilled enough and require more practice. At the same time, it was instructed to practice a small trick - to make the shadow fists of both hands collide with each other, creating a brief pitch-black storm to have the effect of blinding.

Ghost Stone clearly prefers the latter to long-range boxing. The moves collided with each other for a while, and he contracted 90% of the noise of the single training group by himself, and even occasionally had a tendency to overwhelm the double fire dragon to fight.

Standing in the center with a blank face, Xiao Ye took out the earplugs that had been prepared from her bag and took them with ease - without such an artifact, it would not take her days to become an inspirational deaf trainer.

Without the "frozen stinger jellyfish" and other vignettes, today's training mission ended smoothly before nightfall.

Xiao Ye flew back to the town in the glow of the setting sun on a large bird, and handed over the prepared bag full of cold herbs to Shimura, the owner of the medicine house, as promised.

The young boss seemed to have a sad face. Xiao Ye asked tentatively, and then heard bad news.

- Along, who set off for Fengxue Mountain early in the morning, has not yet returned.

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Small Theatre:

A night between Pichu and Ghost Stone: As we all know, as a qualified trainer, we need to prepare a few essential items before training a Pokémon - we sincerely recommend the blind brand sunglasses and deaf brand earplugs from the friendly store, the quality is excellent, the price is affordable, the fire is waterproof, the electricity is proof and the explosion is pro, be sure to prepare at least three sets in case of accidents. (tired smile)

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Growth Record Card:

- Pichu: Move [Shadow Clone] [Flash] proficiency up

Forest Lizard: Moves are up in speed

- Ghost Stone: Move [Shadow Fist] proficiency up

Team members (8): Charizard, Tyrannosaurus, Tabio, Pichu, Forest Lizard, Ghost Stone, Snow Boy, Leolu