The next day, at the Celadon City Airport.
Su Sheng and the others came to see off Lihua, Damalanqi, and Kona.
"Take this."
Taking advantage of the lack of outsiders, Su Sheng secretly handed Zoroark to Lihua.
In front of Damalanqi and other alliance executives who knew that the masked woman's true identity was Lihua, Lihua used Zoroark's ability to "disguise" herself.
Now that she was acting alone, she naturally needed this little guy.
"I'll give you a surprise when I come back."
Lihua gave Su Sheng a mysterious smile.
Su Sheng returned a smile.
Although he didn't know what Lihua was up to, he believed that she wouldn't harm him.
"You can take Chairman Damalanqi's private plane, anyway, you're going back to Kanto. Oh, right, since you want to collect badges, go to Viridian City first to find Uncle Sakaki. I've already sent him a message."
Su Sheng whispered.
Lihua nodded, "Yeah, if I look for him, I can directly get the Green Badge and the Crimson Badge, I know."
When she went to Viridian City to talk about a deal with Yanagi, Lihua learned that Kiyo was a member of Team Rocket.
Moreover, she originally planned to go back to Kanto to find Sakaki, so she could get the badges of the two strongest Gym Leaders in Kanto without even fighting.
However, what Su Sheng didn't know was that Lihua had other purposes for finding Sakaki.
"I'm afraid it's more than just two badges..."
Hearing Lihua's words, Su Sheng muttered in his heart.
"A Sheng, the plane is about to take off, is your companion ready?"
Damalanqi shouted towards this side.
"Coming."
Su Sheng led Lihua to the private plane boarding gate.
Lihua waved to Su Sheng while walking into the boarding passage with Damalanqi and his party, while still not forgetting to glance at Kona on the other side of Damalanqi.
The reason why Lihua agreed to hitch a ride on Damalanqi's private plane was not for convenience.
But to prevent Damalanqi, this old lecher, from leaving Kona behind when she left.
After all, during this period of time, anyone who wasn't blind could see that these two old things, Rose and Damalanqi, were constantly pushing the beautiful Gym Leaders and big-boobed Elite Four from their respective regions onto Su Sheng.
Rurina, Lihua didn't care at all, just a weakling who became a Gym Leader by relying on her face.
Moreover, after a few short days of getting along, Lihua found that Rurina was quite inferior when talking to Su Sheng, and even didn't dare to take the initiative to talk to Su Sheng.
Well, her best friend Sonia called it a pro move.
And Kona needed to be heavily guarded against.
Putting aside everything else, just those Electrode... damn it, why are they so big?
Although Kona verbally said that her feelings for Su Sheng were just battle friendship like for Drasna... ha, you can deceive your sisters, but don't deceive yourself.
After confirming that Kona was also going back to Kanto, Lihua was relieved.
...
After Lihua, Damalanqi, and Kona left.
Rose came up and invited Su Sheng to attend the upcoming Pokémon Encyclopedia press conference.
Su Sheng didn't refuse. Since he was already here, he might as well finish the matter in one go.
That night, Rose booked the most luxurious Rundoros Hotel on the west side of Celadon City and held a grand banquet to welcome Su Sheng and wash away the dust.
Su Sheng met many heavyweight NPCs he had encountered when playing games in his previous life.
Popura and Kabu, these older Gym Leaders, Su Sheng could basically recognize at a glance.
Kibana and Nezu, these younger ones, Su Sheng only recognized with Rose's introduction.
"Dr. Su Sheng, let me introduce you. These two are descendants of the two heroes who saved Galar from the disaster [Darkest Day] 3000 years ago."
Rose introduced Su Sheng to two people.
Looking at the two people in front of him wearing custom-made blue and red suits with bizarre hairstyles, and hearing Rose's introduction to them, Su Sheng was stunned, "What?"
"Hello, Dr. Su Sheng, I am Sordward."
"I am Shieldbert."
The two gave Su Sheng a polite noble salute, but their eyes still carried a bone-deep pride.
After all, they were descendants of heroes. Rounding it up, they were heroes!
Looking at the two people's sword and shield hairstyles.
Su Sheng was even more confused.
Zacian and Zamazenta and their dog son?
...
...
"Isn't this the Pokémon version of Sun Wukong and Satan's plot..."
Su Sheng, who had finally managed to get away, stood in the corner of the banquet hall, threw a cracker into his mouth, and glanced at the Sordward and Shieldbert duo who were showing off their identity as descendants of heroes in the crowd, ruthlessly complaining.
He remembered now that these two were characters from the second week of the game "Sword and Shield", so he didn't remember them for a while.
Just like Kotei before, they were purely clown characters, so he didn't remember them for a while.
"A Sheng, what are you saying?"
Itsuki carried a plate full of grilled meat and desserts, his fat face stuffed like a hamster, and asked Su Sheng with unclear speech.
When the banquet was about to end, Rose let Olivia let the media in.
Immediately, the banquet hall became a press conference site.
Rose straightened his tie, stood on the podium and announced:
"The first generation Pokémon Encyclopedia will be officially released on the first day of the Galar Star Tournament next month. Children who come to the venue to watch the game can get the encyclopedia for free as long as they show their Galar ID card. Starting next month, every Galar rookie trainer who is 10 years old can receive the encyclopedia for free. Of course, trainers who transfer to our Galar will also receive the same treatment."
Boom——
Although the media knew in advance that the encyclopedia would only be sold in Galar and Alola.
But he didn't expect Rose to be so generous and give it away directly.
And Rose's last sentence clearly meant to poach people from other regions.
Su Sheng felt that Rose was almost saying, "Want a Pokémon Encyclopedia? If you want it, I can give it all to you. Come to Galar? I've put all the encyclopedias there!"
Uh... it's still a bit unrealistic, because Alola's trainers also have it.
"Next, let us welcome the founder of the Pokémon Encyclopedia, the Pokémon Alliance's greatest scientist, Dr. Su Sheng to the stage to speak."
Just when Su Sheng was thinking wildly, Rose on the stage suddenly made a "please start your performance" gesture towards Su Sheng.
Instantly, all eyes in the audience turned towards this side.
Fortunately, Su Sheng was already used to such occasions.
Su Sheng went on stage and shook hands with Rose. Before he could let go, the reporters under the stage couldn't wait to ask:
"Dr., why did you hand over the distribution rights of the encyclopedia to Macro Cosmos Group?"
"I think the two legends of the Galar region, Galarian Articuno and Galarian Moltres, are very suitable for my two companions, so I reached a cooperation with Chairman Rose."
Su Sheng didn't hide it.
"Is it really not because of Gym Leader Melony?"
Another reporter asked.
Instantly, a large part of the people at the scene turned their heads to look at Melony, who was still holding her third son and holding her second son's hand.
Melony: ???
Melony, who had just lost her husband at the beginning of the year, was speechless.
She herself didn't know what was going on, but suddenly she had a scandal with a young man who was more than ten years younger than her, and who hadn't said a word so far!
"Gym Leader Melony is a very excellent woman, and I also admire her as a Gym Leader, but there is no such relationship between us. I hope the relevant media will stop this kind of rumor-mongering."
Su Sheng said seriously.
Hearing Su Sheng's righteous answer, Melony also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
At least she wouldn't encounter someone asking her if she was going to remarry in the future.
She didn't know if it was her illusion, but her three sons and one daughter looked at her strangely.
"That... old woman."
At this time, the eldest son, Makuwa, came over.
"Yo~ Did the sun come out from the west today?"
Melony teased in surprise.
Since Makuwa ran away from home, he hadn't taken the initiative to contact her. Today, he actually took the initiative to talk to her.
"Why don't you try to fight for it?"
Makuwa hesitated for a while, and finally said in a low voice.
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
"I said, why don't you try to remarry? I, I think Dr. Su Sheng is quite suitable."
Makuwa winked at Su Sheng on the stage.
Su Sheng spent so much effort to get two legends, just for his two companions.
This kind of affectionate and righteous behavior deeply moved Makuwa... well, to be honest, he was just jealous, he also wanted legends.
As long as Su Sheng became his stepfather, he, as an adopted son, would have to show something, right?
Melony's eyes widened, and she almost fainted without taking a breath.
And the reporters were still asking: "Then, you don't have any special relationship with Chairman Lusamine either?"
Su Sheng said expressionlessly, "Sorry, today I will only answer questions related to the encyclopedia."
Damn it, is this endless?
"Radiant."
On the other side of the banquet hall, Rurina watched Su Sheng, who was talking eloquently on the podium, with emotion across the media.
Beside her, a beautiful girl with a beauty completely inferior to Rurina's, but with a completely different temperament, with an orange side ponytail, more inclined to a plump figure compared to Rurina's tall supermodel figure, teased: "I heard that Chairman Rose is acting as a matchmaker for you and him?"
"Don't be silly."
Rurina gave her best friend a white look.
The girl in front of her was her best friend Sonia, and also Dande's childhood friend.
She is also currently challenging Galar to collect badges.
"I can understand your feelings."
Sonia sighed.
Her relationship with Dande is becoming more and more distant for this reason.
The other party is too dazzling, dazzling to the point that she feels out of reach.
Now the other party is the Galar League champion, and she has participated in the Galar Star Tournament several times in a row, and has not even achieved a good ranking.
...
The next day, the news of the press conference was naturally flying all over the sky.
Crimson and Green, who were two years away from the minimum age requirement for rookie trainers, were not disturbed by this.
After all, they had already obtained the encyclopedia from Su Sheng.
But those who were given the encyclopedia by Su Sheng were still a small number of lucky ones.
Most of the young people who will reach the age of rookie trainers in the near future, but are not from Galar or Alola, gnashed their teeth in hatred for Rose's behavior after seeing the news.
But there was no way, either you took the risk and forcibly embarked on a journey.
Or you join.
Under this psychology, in the Sinnoh region, a boy named "Reis", who had just turned 10 years old and reached the age of rookie trainer, decided to move to Galar with his 5-year-old brother and become a citizen.
After him, there was also a boy named "Ye Yue" in the Fengyuan region who was also 10 years old and had just obtained the initial elf Torchic.
And in the Chengdu region, a cute girl named "Mashu", who was over 12 years old and had already traveled around her hometown of Chengdu, began to struggle with whether to go to Galar or Kalos after seeing the news.
That's right, Mashu originally planned to move from Chengdu to Kalos.
Although the Kalos League is weak to death, it is a world-renowned romantic fashion capital.
This made Mashu, who dreamed of becoming a fashion designer, very yearning.
Originally, Mashu had planned to move to Kalos.
But with the release of the Pokémon Encyclopedia, Mashu struggled again.
Why don't... I go to Galar first?
And there were countless rookie trainers like them who chose to change their affiliations for the sake of the encyclopedia.
After all, anyone with eyes could see the importance of the encyclopedia for traveling.
That was a magical weapon that could really improve your survival rate.
And these rookie trainers who chose to move for the sake of the encyclopedia, or rather the parents of these rookie trainers, did not all choose Galar.
Don't forget, there is also Alola.
But after all, Alola is a new alliance, let alone the Elite Four, they haven't even gathered eight Gym Leaders.
The only selling point is that there is only one Su Sheng there, so the attraction is indeed not as good as Galar.
But even so, there was a mother who was attracted by Alola's beautiful environment and enthusiastic folk customs and planned to move her daughter from Kanto to Alola.
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...
On the other side, in Viridian City, Kanto region, Viridian Gym.
In the Team Rocket base behind the secret door of the Gym, Sakaki sat on his boss's chair as usual, stroking his beloved Persian cat, opened the drawer with his left hand, took out something and placed it on the desk.
"A Sheng has already told me in advance, take it."
Lihua, who was standing opposite, fixed her eyes and instantly her pupils shook.
The Green Badge of Viridian Gym and the Crimson Badge of Vermilion Gym were what Lihua had expected from the beginning.
But this pile in front of her... the Orange Badge of Vermilion City Gym.
The Pink Badge of Fuchsia City Gym.
The Golden Badge of Saffron City Gym.
A full five badges!
Even Lihua, who had seen many big scenes, was stunned.
The Viridian Gym Trainer Sakaki and the Vermilion City Gym Trainer Kiyo are members of Team Rocket, so their badges are here, Lihua can understand, then these three...
"Are you surprised? These three badges are actually..."
Seeing Lihua's expression, Sakaki was about to explain, but Lihua interrupted him, "No need, I'm not interested in anything other than A Sheng."
Hearing this, Sakaki didn't say much, just shrugged and smiled.
"I have another thing to ask you to do, or rather ask Team Rocket to do..."
Lihua said another main purpose of her coming here.
After hearing this, Sakaki pinched his chin and said, "Worthy of A Sheng's legend? emmm... this is not easy to find."
"Rose, who represents the alliance, has found two, Team Rocket can't do it, right?"
Lihua provoked.
"Hehe~ Little girl, you have a sharp tongue. Go collect the remaining three badges first. In the meantime, I'll be investigating."
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...
Walking out of the Pewter Gym, Rika couldn't help but glance again at the five badges that filled half of her badge case, and ruthlessly commented, "The Indigo League is doomed."
If they were just mediocre Gym Leaders, it would be one thing.
But now that she took a closer look, Rika realized that these Gym Leaders were all major forces in Kanto.
Giovanni of Team Rocket, the Champion-level 'Giovanni of the Earth,' and Blaine, the veteran Elite Four member 'Blaine the Hot-Blooded Quiz Master,' were givens.
Sabrina and Koga both had one foot in the Elite Four level, and were super potential candidates who were almost certain to become Elite Four members in the future.
Among the five, Lt. Surge, at the very least, could be considered an elite among Gym Leaders.
That these five people were all like this... Rika sincerely felt that the Indigo League was finished.
At least, the future days in the Kanto region would definitely not be peaceful.
Johto might be a little better... oh wait, don't forget about Pryce.
"Whatever, it's none of my business anyway."
Saying this, Rika left without looking back.
Then she should go and collect the remaining three badges first. The closest one to here seems to be... Pewter City, right? The Gym Leader is Roark, who uses Rock-type Pokémon.
I have something to tell everyone. There will only be one chapter update today, and I will make it up tomorrow, because the author needs to get a recommendation, and the requirement for this recommendation is to update 4000 words, no more.
So I will make it up to everyone tomorrow, and I also thank Fellow Cultivator Jiaxu Xianren and many other bigwigs for their rewards. I will try to add more updates for everyone tomorrow, which means four updates tomorrow.
I am extremely grateful.
