"Stinky Boy"

"Bang~" sounded again, and Merlin's head was hit hard again by Mr. Zang's thin and thick knuckles.

"The little bastard who doesn't know it"

"Smack~", it's again.

"How dare you give me such an extreme trick before the opening of the conference;"

"Slap~", "Slap~" is a double attack this time.

"Are you so short of money?"

"Pap~", "Pap~", "Pap~", this time it's a set of triple hits.

Merlin, who still maintained the movement of bowing his head and waist, did not dare to move, let alone reply or talk back, so he could only maintain his movements and honestly face the old man's admonition. The old man's kung fu of beating chestnuts can be called perfect, not only very loud, but also full of strength and extremely accurate, and the landing points of each hit are exactly the same and completely coincide. After a series of popping chestnuts were beaten, a small lump bulged on the back of Merlin's ravaged head.

The old man's reprimand, combined with this string of explosive beatings, educated Merlin in front of the public for three to five minutes. Probably because Merlin neither dodged nor replied, and the lesson was really boring, Mr. Zhuang stopped destroying Merlin's head after finishing with a powerful snap of his finger in the center of the head.

"I'll settle accounts with you later," the old man put away his right hand, which had been hovering behind Merlin's head, but he didn't forget to threaten Merlin.

"Hiss~~Huh~~"

After the old man withdrew his hand, Merlin dared to secretly gasp and let out a little scream. He didn't dare to straighten his waist, so he could only raise his right hand and press it to the place where the pain was severe with each heartbeat, and sure enough, he touched a big swollen bag that was still swollen, and he grinned again.

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded in Merlin's ears that had been heard through the media for a long time, "Quartz Conference Contestants"

Secretly looking up for the source of the sound, Merlin quickly locked on to the location of the young man who emitted amazing light and heat like the sun. The tall, handsome young man stood in the corner of the hall of the service center, surrounded by trainers and staff who had been busy with their own work. Although Wataru is not in the center of the hall, his presence has become the center of attention and center of everyone.

The Supreme Wataru and the four Heavenly Kings were surrounded by a growing number of young people, who were talking in the crowd and giving uplifting and morale-boosting impromptu speeches, while the Four Heavenly Kings were either cool or close to the people and acted as decorations.

People who can become supreme, in addition to suppressing the Four Heavenly Kings in terms of combat power, I am afraid they also need enough on-the-spot adaptability, oratorical talent, and a certain amount of leadership charisma, after all, the more meaning of their existence is the regional leader launched by the alliance and the banner with a glorious image, rather than just a special trainer with high combat effectiveness and Pokémon Master reads;.

More and more trainers gathered in the hall of the service center. Although today's trainers lack a convenient instant messenger that allows them to contact each other at all times and get together in time to join in the fun. But because of the image of the Supreme and the Heavenly King and his entourage, and the sense of presence that people have to pay attention to, there are still enough young people who are willing to join in the fun and witness the idol with their own eyes.

In just a few minutes, the originally empty service center was filled with trainers and onlookers who came to join in the fun. On the contrary, Mr. Zang, the old man who entered with the Supreme and the Four Heavenly Kings, has always been unattended, standing alone in the corner, staring at the swollen Merlin who is covering the back of his head in the distance.

"How did you get here?" asked Merlin in a whisper.

"I want you to take care of it" The old man rolled his eyes very ungracefully, choked Merlin, but still opened his mouth to explain: "The Guandu Alliance is in an eventful autumn, and the quartz conference, as an important event, can appease the hearts of all parties if it is successfully and smoothly held. So this time, the alliance has mobilized the greatest strength to ensure the smooth holding of this conference," the old man glanced at Merlin, "If it weren't for the extreme actions you instigated to ensure the stability and peace before the conference, do you think those little tricks of you and your fox friends would be able to run so smoothly?"

Merlin sneered, "That's not what I meant to be," he explained, "and while I don't deny my responsibility in it, I really didn't think of all of them. ”

"Hmph. Don't try to clean yourself. The old man didn't listen to Merlin's explanation at all, "Let's be honest, how much money did you make?"

"What came into my hands is about 100,000,000," Merlin scratched his sideburns, "They have no capital to buy, but I have the real money." He added. The amount of money should be referred to in yen

"Just for such a small profit," the old man gave Merlin a look full of contempt, "You're really good." ”

"Isn't this a lack of money, and I really can't help it." Merlin said with a bitter face, "I have to find some way to open up sources and reduce expenses and create some income." ”

"How did I hear that you kid made a lot of money on Pusina's side, and even made a trick of wheel warfare," the old man continued to despise Merlin, "and he couldn't finish it in the end, so he had to flee." ”

"It was completely unexpected, and it wasn't my responsibility at all." Merlin put away his expression and said solemnly: "I've never done any wheel warfare tricks, they were all made by those idle and bored mountain men who chewed their tongues. I won a few games against them, and after winning a little money, they were unwilling, so they maliciously spread rumors and slandered me on the mountain road."

"You don't have to explain it to me." Mr. Zang put his hands into his sleeves, "I'm still familiar with what happened to these things, even more than you, so you don't need to explain it to me." ”

Merlin was silent.

"The Golden Pavilion is doing a very good job under the leadership of Nazi's little woman, and all levels of the alliance for adopting superpowered children and educating superpowered teenagers have also expressed their basic approval and affirmation, after all, superpowers are really some unstable and unsafe factors in the early childhood and adolescent stage, and there is always some threat to be placed in the homes of ordinary citizens or in society." Mr. Zhuang also became serious, "But, wouldn't it be more dangerous to gather them together, after all, the alliance has not tried in that regard, but the results are not optimistic." ”

"In the final analysis, the antisocial tendencies of superpowers stem from the unpleasant experiences of their childhood, and the discrimination and bullying they suffered as children make them hate the ordinary people and the alliance government for those who claim to be innocent," Merlin said bluntly, but while he was speaking, he was still paying attention to Mr. Zang's expression, and when he found that the old man did not have too obvious emotional changes, he dared to continue: "Moreover, the adoption behavior that the alliance has taken is actually more accurate to say that it should be containment, Detention or internment, I think you know better than I do what happens in those so-called superpower shelters. I think you know better how many superpowered people who have entered the shelter have joined their command when the Ideal Country was in turmoil."

"But if we hand it over to the Golden Hall, this kind of problem will not occur, after all, we are also superpowers, we are all a family, at least there will be no unreasonable discrimination and prejudice, as well as unfounded vicious curses and bullying." Merlin said sincerely: "I don't want superpowers to be in the crowd, but I just want them to grow quietly." At least let them grow up in an environment where there is no discrimination that they do not understand, and there is no fear that they have no reason for. In this way, when they grow up, they should not all become so-called bad people. ”

"The so-called bad guys" Mr. Zhuang glanced at Merlin meaningfully, "Are the crimes they have committed and the bad things they have done just so-called?"

"There is a cause before there is an effect." Merlin met Mr. Zang's eyes head-on, "Sow evil causes and get evil results, and do evil things to get evil rewards." Not all bad people, wicked people, are born with the intention of dying, many of them are just taking worse revenge for the harm they have suffered. Many things do not have strict right and wrong, right and evil, but because of the continuous cycle of countering evil with evil and violence with violence, they become unrelieved, and eventually form a dead knot. I think we should all make an effort to dissolve the hatred that we both have planted. ”

"Have you come into contact with those great monks recently?"

"Nope."

"Then why are you so noisy?" Mr. Zang gave Merlin a huge roll of the eyes, "Forget it, don't talk about these useless things with you long-winded guy." But what I told you better remember for me. At the very least, you have to give me the top four results in this conference. ”

"Why do you have to be in the top four," Merlin blurted out directly. This question has been bothering him for a long time, and he has never known why the old man must limit his conference results to the top four. "The strength of the participants in this conference is not weak, and it should even be said that it is very strong. To be honest, if I had met Red or Green in the first few rounds, I wasn't sure I would have beaten them. ”

"You won't run into any of them in the first few rounds." A strange smile appeared on Mr. Zang's crumpled old face, "It may not be convenient for the alliance to directly arrange the grouping of the conference, but it is still feasible to intervene to some extent. There are several seeded players in this edition who have to look forward to exciting battles in the next few rounds, with an all-out battle of 6-6 on the main court. ”

Merlin's face suddenly became a little exciting. For the first time, he confirmed the rumor that the league could manipulate the grouping of players in the conference.

"Don't be stupid." Mr. Zhuang said angrily: "This is not for service, but for the ratings of the conference, and it must be carried out for the sake of the alliance to push new stars." Valuable and potential players are given special care so that they don't meet each other before they are fully matched. Of course, occasionally you need to detonate the eyeballs of Bobo once or twice. It's for the sake of service. ”

Mr. Zang's mouth,It is the conference lottery issued by the alliance,It is a legal、With the welfare nature of the lottery to obtain the income of a subsidy for the league's expenses,Part of it is used to run the conference、Part of it is used to inject the prize pool of the lottery behavior,In fact, to put it bluntly, it is a kind of government-controlled national gambling behavior。 However, the regional conventions are held once a year and still attract enough attention, which is precisely because of the existence of this mechanism. Ordinary people can get different levels of bonuses by predicting the winner of each match, guessing the Pokémon of the participants in each match, predicting the Pokémon that will win a single round, predicting the winner of each round, and even predicting the champion, runner-up and runner-up at the end of the tournament.

Every year, there will always be a few lucky people who instantly become rich and rich through this kind of conference lottery, and there are always some original rich people and rich people who have gone bankrupt because of their bold behavior.

In addition to the official lottery issued by the alliance, some large consortia, companies, or underground organizations in various regions will also issue some black lottery tickets that are not officially recognized or simply open illegal gambling stalls to collect funds for illegal gambling. As far as the Kanto area is concerned, the Red Rocket Convention lottery under the Rocket Consortium and their various underground casinos and online casinos are very well-known and even semi-public underground gambling systems.

And as far as Merlin knows, because of the emergence of red and green, two strong players with absolute strength enough to crush the other contestants, so the lottery distribution of this conference seems to be a bit difficult, most of the interested citizens are very supportive of the two young heroes to win the championship, and all the focus is only around the champion will be the two of them.

And Merlin also paid attention to his odds and market, in fact, to put it bluntly, it was Wizier who was paying attention. He found that his odds were quite flat, and he also belonged to the group of players who were favored and expected to hit the top few places. This disappointed Wizl, who had planned to make a big bet on himself to become a dark horse and make a lot of money. Judging from Merlin's current odds, even if he really wins the championship in one fell swoop, it will only be about a loss of about 1.3, although it is also a profit, but it doesn't feel very worthwhile.

However, after Merlin heard that he might not meet those championship seeds in the first few rounds, he instead got the idea of buying some lottery tickets and placing some bets. Anyway, there is a profitable deal, and you can still play it.

Seeing Merlin involuntarily showing a relieved expression, Mr. Zang on the side suddenly showed an evil smile. Merlin, who is immersed in the big plan to make money by buying lottery tickets, seems to have forgotten that the league aspect that Mr. Zang just mentioned occasionally makes some of the favorites collide in advance to attract attention. Looking at the meaning of Mr. Zang's evil smile, I'm afraid that the poor guy who was detonated is Merlin.

Poor Merlin didn't know it, and was still calculating the odds and the possible benefits with Wizil in his mind.

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Ahem, I don't know if the content involved in this aspect will be harmonized