Chapter 3: Team Member Assessment
The quicksand team is a second-rate force.
It's not comparable to Team Rocket's super-large criminal organization that spans several regions.
As a result, its approach to recruiting new members is not as well-prepared as Team Rocket's, and even a little rough.
The danger also greatly exceeds the assessment of Team Rocket.
"Your task is very simple, there are fragmentary jade mines in the depths of the mine, find jade stones of any shape, take them out and hand them over to me, and the time limit is until the sun rises tomorrow morning."
The tall, rugged man held a piece of white jade in his hand and shouted at the gangsters in front of him, next to him like a short-legged proboscis elephant in heavy armor, Dunjia let out a low roar.
Not far away.
Several bottomless abandoned craters exuded a cold and claustrophobic atmosphere, and the foul smell of dust irritated everyone's nostrils.
"It's an abandoned mine again, it's going to die, right?"
"Where no one is constantly maintained, people are going to die, what do you think? Didn't they die last year? ”
"A jade mine in the depths...... What should I do if I can't find it ”
"Shall I dig one out there?"
"You should first care about whether you can come out alive, I heard that there are Pokémon in it that will attack you!"
"Isn't it......"
The cypress in the crowd listened to the noise around him, and couldn't help but touch the iron ingot hidden in his chest.
This thing is not difficult to obtain in Huangtie Town, and as a peripheral member of his quicksand team, he can easily get it when he goes to the smelter and says it.
He was mainly curious about how this thing would work in the future.
In yesterday's second simulation, the fixed talent has not changed, and there is less hot-blooded teenagers in the selection of talents, and more [never abandon (will not abandon Pokémon)].
He has suffered a loss after eating [Peach Blossom Repeatedly], and this time he chose [Hairy Hands and Feet (Pokémon Health Management Rough)].
The classic Nibi City Shorts Boy who started with a small Lada came into being, and the progress was not as smooth as the Insect Catcher Boy, and the gym was all about luck and blood, but the difference was that he caught a lot of the same Pokémon......
For example, repeating multiple small Lada, Bobo, or something.
You say he's picking strong individuals, and the shorts boys let them on each of them, and the rain and dew are all on the ground to engage in training and fighting, so that the overall strength has not improved much, and it is extremely difficult to advance.
Therefore, even if there was no drag from the relationship, he had to stop when he barely reached the sixth gym, and experienced the torture of eight battles and eight losses.
Even if it's a pixel style, Kashiwagi can see that the mentality of the shorts boy has exploded, so much so that until the beginning of the conference, it was still in the sixth gym.
The door that still hasn't seen the quartz conference made Kashiwagi quite speechless, and chose Pokémon below lv.30 to upgrade to one level, and [Move: Brute] went to sleep.
Then the next day was full of energy.
The official members of the quicksand team are not only free Pokémon, but also have much higher benefits than peripheral members. Although freedoms have been further restricted, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.
It's better to fight for it.
"Kashiwagi, aren't you nervous?"
His thoughts were interrupted by the words of his colleague.
Kashiwagi turned his head and looked at the other party's strange dress like a mountaineer, "I'm afraid it's not good for you to bring so much." ”
"I think it's okay......" The man jumped twice, looking very relaxed.
It's okay for now.
Kashiwagi touched the miner's hat on his head, and in order to facilitate his movement, he only carried a miner's hat, a dust mask, and a manganese steel pickaxe, as well as some necessary water and compressed food.
It's never a secret that the quicksand team has an entry assessment, and they like to artificially set up obstacles, such as putting a few Pokémon in to attack the participants, creating traps or something.
Hence the importance of flexible activity.
While waiting.
There was a commotion not far away.
"A dead poor ghost like you also wants to pass the assessment? I'm laughing to death, hahaha-"
The shrill taunt made Kashiwagi frown.
He glanced at his colleagues he knew well, and walked over to the other side of the voice.
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and the quicksand team, an organization that gains status by force, is even more so, and there has never been less internal disputes.
There are countless helpless poor people like Kashiwagi in the quicksand team, and on the contrary, there are similar existences with a little money and a little background. Both sides have their own small groups, and they are hostile to each other and look down on each other.
This is where the importance of huddle for warmth comes in.
The group approached the source of the sound, and suddenly saw a bunch of guys with relatively clean appearances and different demeanors from the minions around them.
These thugs pushed a relatively thin young man, giggling, glancing at the other minions watching from time to time, and turned their heads proudly when they found that the others did not dare to look at each other.
"Yo yo yo! The leader of the poor ghost is here, what's the matter, support your dead poor ghost, do you have the strength? ”
When the gangsters at the head saw them coming, they approached with their hands in their pockets and approached very wildly, aiming at Kashiwagi, who was the tallest and most steady.
It's a pity that he is close to the latter, so he can only raise his head and look at him again, with a provocative face.
The gangsters also laughed strangely and let go of the thin young man, and stood in front of Kashiwagi and the others.
The two sides glared at each other, and there was a big fight that did not agree with each other.
"You'll know if there's this strength assessment or not." Kashiwagi pulled the thin young man behind him, his gaze swept over the other party and the others, and raised his hand slightly.
The thugs were startled and involuntarily took a half step back.
Seeing that his companion was so timid, the leader couldn't help but get angry and sneered: "Are you very good at fighting? It's a fart! When you come out to mix, you have to talk about the power and the background. Little deflated three! Wait and see! ”
Let's talk about it.
He walked to the other side with a group of people.
The tense man next to Kashiwagi suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and began to comfort the thin young man.
"Don't be nervous, they are not strong enough to interfere with the assessment, relax."
Some older people stood up and spoke up, trying to reassure some of the potential concerns.
The name of the person who finds fault is Shibata, and his uncle is the middle level of the quicksand team - a figure at the level of a squad leader. Although it is still necessary to put the nephew in a dangerous test, it is already a great existence for them who are mud legs.
In this assessment, I think it will also create some convenience for Shibata.
As for whether they will be attacked, there is a question mark.
The quicksand team is very short of people, so when the people at the bottom fight, the middle and senior management stipulate a limit that is not allowed to be broken, such as no human life, no disability and labor force, etc.
One of the reasons why these hard-headed minions dare to fight against Shibata and the others is that they don't believe that the other party will take their own lives, and trust that the cadres of the quicksand team will maintain the balance between the two sides.
There has always been no mistake, as long as they firmly fight in a group, someone will come forward to mediate, and Shibata's uncle doesn't dare to do anything to them.
However.
What about the possibility of sneaking them in the assessment?
Knowing that the East Window will be liquidated after the incident, but still want to fight the new blood that the quicksand team must replenish?
It is the most ridiculous to expect the small leaders in the gangsters to have a big picture, and they have their own special way of thinking.
Being a thief for a thousand days is already trembling, and guarding against thieves for a thousand days is even more unbearable.
There has to be a way to do it once and for all......
It's easy to say, but the assessment is not easy, where is there still room to harm Shibata.
Kashiwagi has a headache.
The contradictions between the two sides have been irreconcilable since before the crossing, and he directly broke off his idea of doing things in a low-key manner.
No way.
Shibata and the others have been in power in a crowd of peripheral minions for a long time, bullying I don't know how many people, and denounced some people who keep to themselves as soft bones, until they met Kashiwagi and others who knew how to hold together.
The bones are relatively hard, and they undoubtedly made Shibata and the others deflated.
The two sides also fought several times, each time by Kashiwagi by force.
Therefore, Shibata and others have always regarded them as a thorn in the flesh, and they come to find trouble twice in three days.
Today is no exception.
In the final analysis, the laissez-faire and semi-Gu cultivation method of the upper echelons is the cause of the disaster.
A group of illiterate people who have little intelligence and have not even gone to school rely on their shallow family background to do whatever they want.
In Huang Tie Town, where the law is weak and relies on lynching within the team, similar scenes are not uncommon.
The general environment has affected Shibata's thinking, since he tasted the sweetness of bullying others without paying the "price", all kinds of bad behaviors are rarely restrained, and "flattery and bullying" has become the basic logic in his heart.
Fortunately, Kashiwagi has a good physique.
The human body in the Pokémon world is very interesting, it can be weak enough to stay in bed all year round, or strong enough to break the wood with a fist and a leg, and fight with many fighting attributes of Pokémon one-on-one or even use moves.
He's working in the back direction, and now he's far ahead of his peers.
He was delighted with such a superior physical gift.
"The assessment begins! The first batch of people who went down to the cave came to inspect it, and some of the people who carried the jade handed it over by themselves! Don't blame me for not reminding you when I smell it! ”
The examiner's yelling and Dunjia's mooing came and went.