In Asia, there is one country that accounts for about 1/5 of the world's total population, and that is China. In China, compared with other countries, Pokémon battles started relatively late, and compared with Russia, the United States, a war powerhouse, whether it is the development of the industrial chain or the country's attention, it is completely incomparable. As China, which aims to become a sports power in terms of sports competition, has finally begun to vigorously develop the Pokémon battle business in the past ten years, although because of the population problem, the treatment of ordinary trainers is not comparable to that of some backward countries in Southeast Asia, but it has finally developed. Then, such a person appeared, and the appearance of this person can be said to have directly shortened the gap between China's Pokémon battle career and other countries by 10 years in one go, and this person is Li Long! Not from any Pokémon trainer cultivation center, he was still an ordinary junior high school student at the time, with the Pokémon trained by himself in his spare time, in the provincial competition with no age limit, starting from the first round of the qualifiers, he won all the way and won the championship in one fell swoop, and then, he just became a high school student, and won the championship of the national competition under the age of 20 in one go, and then played against some national players, and he did not show weakness, even winning more and losing less, Pokémon battles are different from other sports competitions, most of the other projects are consuming the physical fitness of players, and youth is the basic requirement, but Pokémon battles are different, combat experience can be said to be more important than any point, generally thirty or forty years old is the time when a trainer is the strongest, and he, a teenager, has joined such a group of adults. So although he hasn't entered the university yet, he has become one of the strongest trainers in the country who are sought after by tens of thousands of people, and he is basically named a "genius" in China and then hyped up. In anyone's eyes, he has a bright future.

However, in that case, he himself was not satisfied at all, although there were still some very powerful characters around him, and he did not defeat all of them, but after the battle, Li Long understood that these people were no longer worthy of his own target. Therefore, Li Long boldly went abroad to participate in foreign competitions. At that time, although Chinese players had begun to appear frequently on the world stage, they basically did not get a good ranking, and everyone felt that this was because China's career in this area had just started, and there was nothing to do, so they did not delve into it. But Li Long doesn't think so, first of all, Li Long doesn't understand the first point, that is, his country's Pokémon is backward in the battle, where is the backwardness? system? treatment? These problems do exist, but they basically happen to the trainers at the bottom, although they also climbed up from the bottom, but now don't think about the problems at the bottom, no matter what, these problems don't exist in themselves and these high-class Pokémon trainers around them. So it's a question of how to train Pokémon? In this regard, the country has also invested a lot of money, buying a large number of the latest Pokémon training equipment from the United States and Russia, and introducing well-known coaches to help formulate training plans, but you say that grassroots trainers can't enjoy it, but the people at the top can enjoy it, so the people at the top should be stronger, so after considering these points, Li Long still can't find out where the national team on his side is "lagging behind" In foreign countries, not to mention that after becoming famous, Li Long also had the opportunity to meet a lot of strong trainers from the United States and Russia, in their mouths, when they became stronger, they didn't use any training machinery at all, what coaches, they simply relied on their own research and hard work, even if they have become professional players now, although they will go to the coach and use those machines, but basically they are mainly based on their own meaning, so whether they are strong or weak, they have come to the conclusion that it is not anything other than the Pokémon trainer himself! Maybe it's because he always feels that he has lost in hardware, and he pursues these hardware facilities too much, but neglects his own exercise? However, Li Long did not discuss this matter with his colleagues in the national team, although he is still only a senior life, and can only be said to be a little hairy guy, but even so, he understands that it is useless for them, they are already thirty or forty years old, and they are already deeply rooted in their thinking, and it is impossible for them to accept this idea, just like they want to completely change their playing style from now on, after all, accept it, just wait for them to accept that they have done useless work for several years, more than ten years and decades, which is impossible。 Then it was only at this time that Li Long felt that his country needed fresh blood and young people like him, and it was only at this time that Li Long in turn noticed the problem of the system, and inexperienced young people could not break through the threshold guarded by the old people, and they who could not break through, naturally they could not get better facilities and conditions, and they would slowly be reduced due to the pressure of reality and the shattering of ideals, and even give up their enthusiasm for Pokémon, and in this way, they could not achieve good results and enter a vicious circle. Although he understood that he was only a high school student, and things would definitely not be as simple as he thought, Li Long still decided to trust his childish judgment. On this basis, for the current situation that the newcomers below can't come up, and the old people above can't make further progress, Li Long feels that he has to do something, but Li Long, a high school student, doesn't know what to do about it, but there is definitely no way to continue to stay in China, so he resolutely went abroad.

Li Long, who went abroad, went well at first, winning a number of competitions, and his mind was not mature at that time, but he immediately began to feel a little fluttery, and the joy of victory made him forget what he was out for. However, this victory was indeed short-lived, and the winning streak was suddenly followed by a big defeat, and it was not the United States, Russia and other powerful countries that knocked him down, but a player from North Korea, who is also from East Asia. It can only be said that the situation is worse than that of Lee Long, because the country itself is relatively poor, and he has not spent much energy on the Pokémon battle career, this North Korean player is the only player who has come out to participate in world-class competitions in the past two years, and then the time he defeated Lee Long was also his debut match in the world. For Li Long, who won several championships in Asia at that time and was in the limelight, this was undoubtedly a slap in the face. However, if it is just one person, it can also be regarded as a special case for that person, and Li Long, who has such a naïve idea, was invited to Russia. There are matches going on every day against Russia, a big country, because Li Long also wanted to see what the battle against the world's strongest Pokémon was like early on, because Li Long also won a lot of championships in Asia, so he has a certain world ranking, and he also has a certain diplomatic element here, so he participated in a lot of competitions, all of which skipped the qualifiers and went directly to the main competition.

And then......

That month......

It can be said that it was a nightmare for Li Long at that time......

Li Long, who is young and frivolous, thinks he is very powerful, in the competition in Russia, let alone win the championship last time, there is no way to even win a victory! Even if the opponent is not a seeded player, he is only killed from the qualifiers, and even someone younger than himself is powerless, and the experience and playing style he has cultivated in his own country is completely useless in front of these people, if you use water to extinguish the fire, the opponent will use a more powerful flame to break up your water! If you use the electrical system to fight the flying system, the opponent will knock you down at a faster speed that can't even catch up with the electric current! If you use grass to draw water, the opponent will use the water current that can break the rattan whip and the flying leaf knife to fight! It can only be said that some of the battles at that time were not even battles, and they were all torture and killing. Even his trump card, the Flame Chicken, is a big step behind the opponent in terms of strength and speed in the duel of fighting. After the battle, Li Long himself felt lost, and he didn't know what he was doing before and what he was working on. In the end, Li Long failed to win a single victory in this month, so he returned to China. I originally thought that in Russia, they were all foreigners, and it was normal for no one to comfort them, but I didn't expect that when I returned to China, I was greeted by all kinds of abuse from my compatriots in my motherland, and my colleagues treated me like a lost dog, and for "colleagues" like myself, in the subsequent national competition, Li Long also "repaid" them with all 6:0. Even if he has been defeated abroad, he has indeed become stronger, and he has become stronger than these old men in China. No, maybe it should be said that after fighting abroad, Li Long has completely understood his shortcomings, and his own shortcomings are basically the shortcomings of the old people in his own country, and he is just reproducing what he encountered abroad. However, even with such a big victory, he was only labeled as the so-called "glory of the civil war" by netizens, and did not receive any praise. Seeing that the people who touted themselves back then are now ridiculing themselves, Li Long also suddenly has a feeling that he has taken a big step forward. Li Long now remembers that at that time, he only left a sentence on his official webpage: "Those who belittle me now, please don't praise me again in the future!" He didn't know what happened to this sentence on the Internet at that time, because he never opened that webpage after typing this sentence.

And after venting all his arrogance in that sentence, Li Long also devoted himself to the Pokémon training that he thought was correct. The coaches sent by the state were all removed by Li Long, and the training equipment only left basic weight-bearing materials, as well as targets and the like, and the venue was also from the national training base, and returned to the countryside where his hometown was located, and he was originally suspended from high school, but now he is restarting school. Everyone thinks that Li Long is giving up on himself, but no one has been able to shake him in the national competition, although there is less time to go out to participate in world-class competitions, but when he goes out, he will inevitably get a good ranking. Li Long's world ranking has steadily risen in this way, and has reached unprecedented heights reached by Chinese. Then, after seeing that Li Long was indeed successful, the state also began to seriously consider a series of opinions and demands put forward by Li Long, including abolishing some old systems, introducing a large number of new trainers, strengthening the treatment of grassroots trainers, and holding a high-value prize competition to attract foreign strong players to participate and provide domestic trainers with opportunities to fight against foreign strong players. Then under the implementation of these policies, powerful "newcomers" did slowly emerge. Li Long himself has become very strong, even if he goes to Russia to participate in the competition, he will no longer lose miserably, and he can also achieve the top position. Although in the World Series after that, Li Long did not win any particularly good rankings because of the grouping, and he was once questioned again, but with the good results in some competitions after the World Series, the doubts slowly disappeared.

Then, before I knew it, 4 years had passed since the last World Championship, and Li Long, and a new wave of fighters who were basically composed of "newcomers", once again embarked on the journey to the new World Championship.