Heavy rain lasted almost a week.

Despite the fact that the drainage system in Huangtie Town worked hard, it was still a GG in the face of rainfall of this magnitude.

Mines were flooded, warehouses were flooded, and many low-lying residential buildings were completely flooded.

Fortunately, the timely rescue is not terrible, but it also makes Shan Minoru have no good face these days, and looking at Kashiwagi's expression, it is as if he owes him hundreds of millions.

But Kashiwagi was wronged, Lokiana volunteered to make it rain, and he was drowned like many of the saplings planted by the Balza siblings.

Who is not a victim yet!

Seriously.

At this point, he had reason to suspect that Lokia's guy was actually taking revenge on the Oulei Continent, otherwise how could it rain for a week without stopping.

Do you think you're the original returning Gaioca?

"And it's too irresponsible to leave it alone after it rains...... Kashiwagi recalls borrowing Hupa's light wheel to stop the rain a few days ago, but he was almost swept away by the ocean currents under the sea and burst by the water pressure.

Fortunately, he kept an eye on it and let the highly adaptable Polymon II. go over and take a look first, and a catastrophe was averted.

According to the observation of Polymon II, the Lokias are estimated to be in a deep sleep, and even if they are woken up, it will be difficult to stop the torrential rain that covers most of the area.

And most of them do more than just rain.

It turns out.

Kashiwagi guessed very correctly.

In the days after the rainstorm stopped, the overall temperature in the southern part of the Oulei region slowly rose, but the maximum temperature at noon was much lower than usual.

The humidity of the air also exceeded the previous level, and even the humidity-sensitive Heterochromatic Menas said that he had recently become more comfortable and spent less time in the pool.

The sky is no longer bare all the time, only the sun is high, and the number of clouds has increased.

Even the wind blowing through the town has become gentle.

Of course.

Short-term climate change is not convincing, and it is impossible to prove the deep impact of the rainstorm on Oulei.

However, the torrential rain did leave a number of "lakes" of various sizes in the south, one of which was close to the Platinum Silver Mountain, attracting many water-type wild Pokémon.

It is surprising that plants grow in many desert areas around several human settlements, making people wonder when and who planted the seeds.

"Altered monsoons and ocean currents...... I hope it's a good thing for the Ouray region. ”

The cypress soon stopped worrying about the climate.

Because the original plan to go to the Xionghuang Pagoda was postponed for more than a week, and now it is finally possible to head there.

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Yellow Tower.

It was built with the investment of the original Shadow Team.

Located between Huangtie Town and Silicon City, it is an integrated high-tech arena with both entertainment facilities and battle facilities, and a small town has been established in the center of it in the past six months.

And in a way, it symbolizes the level of science and technology in the Ouray region.

The purpose of Kashiwagi's visit is to replicate the periodic battle exchange and cooperation set with the Silicon Arena, and by the way, learn about the strength of the trainers in the Xionghuang Arena.

"It's magnificent."

From a long distance, he saw the yellow pagoda that looked like a wine glass, and the top was composed of three small and one large and four platforms.

There are many towering buildings built on top of the platform, and those buildings that cannot be accessed in the game seem like useless decorations, but now the textures in the game have become real buildings.

Aren't these all high-rise buildings?

Not long after the hoverbike drives, the noisy town comes into view.

"That's a lot of people!"

He looked at the entrance of the town in amazement, and saw large and small Pokémon everywhere entering and leaving Xionghuang Town, this kind of scene was difficult to see in both Huangtie Town and Silicon City.

Are they all alien trainers?

Kashiwagi found a place to park the hoverbike, and thought for a moment to release three evil dragons.

"Whoa!"

The Husky howled excitedly, rubbing his head against the trainer's face, and was pushed away before observing his surroundings.

It was slightly stunned when it saw the Yellow Tower.

Kashiwagi smiled, "How's it going, it's spectacular, isn't it?" Walk! Take you inside and have a look! ”

He walked forward first, and the three dragons hurriedly followed the trainer, looking around curiously.

Usually, shopping with a trainer is often the exclusive property of a big-mouthed baby, not because of the eccentricity of the cypress, but because most of the friends are not interested in crowded places.

The three dragons like to stick to the Trainer, but hate street shops that don't allow large Pokémon to enter, or simply don't allow Pokémon to enter.

Every time someone stopped it, it was extremely indignant, and it wanted to burn down the shops that were not allowed to enter.

The town is very lively.

Kashiwagi took the three evil dragons for a casual walk twice, but no one recognized them, and he didn't notice any difference between this place and ordinary city streets, so he went straight to the Xionghuang Tower.

The plaza at the entrance and exit was as expected crowded with trainers who wanted to enter.

The human voice and the beast's roar were mixed together, and it seemed extremely chaotic.

He found the staff who was in charge of guiding the crowd, and learned from the other party that there were two ways to enter the Xionghuang Pagoda -

One is the identity of tourists, but the recent heavy rain has caused the Xionghuang Pagoda to be closed for a week, and many tourists who came to the rainstorm have not been able to enter and choose to stay, and new tourists have been coming in the past two days, so that the tickets have been sold out two days ago.

The second is the challenger status, but the challenger must hold an exclusive membership card for the Yellow Tower.

The way to obtain the membership card is the recommendation system, that is, the old with the new model.

It's complicated.

Kashiwagi did not hesitate to take out his mobile phone to contact the insiders of the Xionghuang Tower, and the number was specially asked for by him from Shan Minoru, just to cope with the situation that he couldn't get in.

The phone is connected.

The administrative director who claimed to be the Xionghuang Pagoda on the other side quickly became respectful when he heard his name, saying that he asked him to wait and come out to greet him immediately.

The slightly subtle tone can't help but make Kashiwagi feel strange, is it too polite? He's not a leader.

Did Minoru say hello in advance?

It's possible.

Let's go in first.

Kashiwagi found a place where there were few people but could see the entrance and exit clearly, so as to prevent the three evil dragons from being squeezed by the Pokémon that came and went, and he never thought that he suddenly heard some familiar names.

"Wait for me! Kenta! Marina! ”

Kenta? Marina?

When he heard the voice, a young man with a cockscomb head appeared in the crowd, and a little further forward stood an energetic young man wearing a baseball cap and a blue-haired girl with a double ponytail.

Ooh!

Isn't this the animated version of the gold and silver protagonist!

Kashiwagi was surprised to see them in the Ouray region.

The prototype of the young man named Kenta is the second-generation gold and silver version of the male protagonist Ah Xiang, and the prototype of Marina is the heroine Chrissy, as for the brown-haired cockscomb......

One of the NPCs of the animated feature film, remembered as "Junichi", once fought fiercely with Ash at the Silver Tournament and lost the preliminaries.

All three of them appear in a special edition ova related to Lei Gong, and in one fell swoop they destroy the crystal system that Kashiwagi also destroyed, and rescue Lei Gong who was captured by Team Rocket.

I didn't expect it to be so fateful.

Kashiwagi was thinking about whether to go over and get acquainted, and the three of them had already entered the Xionghuang Pagoda with their membership cards.

“……”

Disturbed.

He silently swept his gaze away, looking for the next "acquaintance" who might exist.

However, until several staff members suspected of coming to pick him up, he was unable to find a second group of "acquaintances", which shows that the Ouray region is not enough to attract famous people from all over the world.

"I'm here!"

Kashiwagi approached with three evil dragons.

The other party and his party seemed to be very familiar with his appearance, and the moment of their gaze, they immediately stepped forward, ignoring the strange eyes of others, and bent down in unison to greet: "I'm sorry for the loss!" Welcome President Kashiwagi to visit us! ”

President...... Also come to the guide......

The corners of his mouth trembled slightly, these people used to be in the shadow team, right?

"It doesn't have to be that way, I'm just here to talk to Mr. Eltex, the manager of the arena, about things with him." Kashiwagi hurriedly helped the leader up and said, "Let's go in first, shall we?" ”

There are more and more people looking this way, and he doesn't want to be looked at as a rare Pokémon.

Smoothly enter the Xionghuang Tower.

Several people take the automatic humanoid path to the core, and the translucent glass wall reveals the lush flowers and trees outside.

In the game, the view from the passage is a wasteland, but now it is lush vegetation, which is also pleasing to the eye.

"The name of the contemptible man is the ...... of Heber"

The leader of the staff was the administrative director on the phone, who claimed to have admired his name for a long time, and introduced the various facilities of the Xionghuang Pagoda with great enthusiasm.

It can only be said that it is worthy of the crystallization of high technology, except that it cannot provide accommodation conditions, and the Xionghuang Pagoda is no different from a small city.

Coming to the core area, there is an empty hall.

It's much quieter than the noisy entrances, with visitors being directed to a dedicated elevator to the Sky Platform, and trainers sitting in different positions, comforting the Pokémon around them, occasionally looking up at the multi-faceted screen directly above.

There are distribution tables on the screen that are similar to the flow of events, and there are also many scenes of Pokémon battles.

Take the elevator up.

Perhaps because Director Herb had informed him in advance, Kashiwagi didn't have much effort to meet the manager of the Xionghuang Arena at the top of a cylindrical building-

Eltex, one of the cadres of the second generation of the Shadow Team.

This middle-aged man with red hair and sunglasses has changed his fantastic costume from the game to a normal suit.

"Kashiwagi?"

He looked over.

Kashiwagi bowed: "It's me, Mr. Eltex, who has taken the liberty of bothering me. ”

"Your name has been quite loud in Orray in recent months, and the real people are as different as the rumors. So you made a special trip from Huangtie Town to Xionghuang Pagoda, what is the matter with me? War? Eltex asked curiously.

He quickly replied: "I have this idea, but I also hope to achieve a cooperation and exchange between the two arenas." ”

"Like the Silicon Arena?"

Eltex obviously knew that Zhengyi had brought people to Huangtie Town to exchange about the battle.

It's normal, the Ouray region is so big.

Kashiwagi said unsurprisingly, "Yes." ”

"In this case, you may be disappointed, the trainers who used to belong to the Xionghuang Pagoda were disbanded by me a few months ago." Eltex shook his head.

"Disbanded?"

"Yes, after the complete liberation of the Oulei region, the Xionghuang Tower no longer needs so many forces to defend it, and I would rather make the Xionghuang Tower a pure Pokémon Battle Tower than an armed force."

Battle Towers!

Kashiwagi didn't expect to hear this familiar word from Elteis's mouth, but it was true that as the other party said, the Yellow Tower was a very suitable facility to transform into a battle tower.

"It's a pity that I can't help you with the matter of battle exchanges, but I can provide you with some membership cards for your arena members to come to the Xionghuang Pagoda to fight and practice." Eltex leaned his hands behind his back and said slowly.

That's a good idea.

He nodded, "Thank you, Mr. Eltex. So the thing about playing against you? ”

"Xionghuang Pagoda recently issued a rule: only those who have reached the top of the ranking battle can compete against the owner of the arena for the final honor, and I have no plans to go out recently......"

Eltex fully demonstrated the meanness of a middle-aged man, and he smiled: "I think if Kashiwagi participates in the qualifying competition here, you will definitely be able to attract more powerful trainers to come to the Xionghuang Tower, right?" ”

“…… Actually, if you say it, I will agree. Kashiwagi said speechlessly.

The cooldown of the simulator needs to be reduced by a stable, high-volume, high-quality matchup.

Those rookies in the arena were far from satisfying him, so he would definitely not let go of the Xionghuang Tower, a place that was popular with outside trainers.

It's just that Eltex, a threat that is not a threat, is really a bit embarrassing.

"Ah~ So it's true that I did something wrong, in this case, this card should be regarded as my apology."

Eltex took out a black card and smiled politely: "All the paid items in the Xionghuang Pagoda can be free as long as you present it, there is no upper limit and no additional requirements." It's not a particularly precious gift, but I hope you look at it and don't care about my little offense. ”

This man.

I'm afraid it wasn't prepared early in the morning.

Kashiwagi wanted to roll his eyes, compared to some people he knew before, this former shadow cadre Eltex was simply as smooth as a loach.

It was hard to believe that he would say to his father Death Kim and his brother Aldus that everyone should turn themselves in together and accept legal punishment.

Fortunately, although the goal was only half achieved, the effect was even better than planned.

Isn't it better to come to the battle tower battle to promote growth than the exchange battle that only comes once in half a month? Blessed are the guys in the Yellow Iron Arena!

Kashiwagi, who had taken the black card, said goodbye and left, and was led by Herb to another hall.

"You can complete the registration and submit the battle application at the front desk, and if there is a matching opponent, a staff member will guide you in."

Herb said respectfully.

Kashiwagi was embarrassed to disturb him for too much time, so he thanked the other party for his guidance first, and then said that he would understand it slowly.

Herb walked away in amusement.

In the center of the hall is a multi-faceted screen like the ground hall.

He saw a ranking chart and looked for the names of Kenta, Junichi, and Marina.

Hey?

Isn't Marina a top coordination trainer? Actually participate in the trainer's competition...... Well, he's also a top coordination trainer.

Kashiwagi secretly slandered his own prejudices, and saw the bottom of the ranking all the way: "The last place is nine hundred and thirty-five, less than expected." ”

I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of trainers in the town outside the Xionghuang Tower, and the contestants in this Xionghuang Tower's ranking have to go through strict screening?