On the sea, the battle between the Three Legendary Birds and Lugia continued.
Mu Li found some new gains in the laboratory.
"Lugia Capture Plan": By restraining Lugia with the Three Legendary Birds, a protective shield will be set up on the sea level to prevent Lugia from escaping.
According to Doom-Thunder's assessment of the Three Legendary Birds' strength, even if the Three Legendary Birds combined, it would be difficult to directly confront Lugia. Therefore, Apocalypse Thunder Corporation specifically genetically modified the Three Legendary Birds.
By implanting biological chips in the Three Legendary Birds' skulls, these chips can continuously stimulate the elemental power within the Three Legendary Birds, achieving the effect of continuously strengthening the Three Legendary Birds' energy attacks. However, such continuous stimulation is not without cost.
The elemental power stored within the Three Legendary Birds is limited. Once these powers are exhausted, the Three Legendary Birds will overdraft their life force to strengthen their attacks.
At the same time, Doom-Thunder also injected the Three Legendary Birds with rapid recovery ability and sustained endurance, which came at the cost of overdrawing their life force.
This means that if this battle continues, even if the Three Legendary Birds ultimately win, their remaining lifespan will not be much.
However, they still had to continue, because the biological chips in their skulls would also bring them continuous pain, making them unable to be distracted and forcing them to obey Doom-Thunder's commands.
"So, the Three Legendary Birds are consuming their life force now!" Mu Li couldn't help but exclaim with emotion, "It seems I need to act faster, otherwise, after this fight, these three silly Birds will die!"
With that, he didn't care about anything else and instructed Gardevoir: "Gardevoir, Calm Mind and pinpoint the location. Have Alakazam send the Rotom Phone to me."
At this moment, Alakazam, who was meditating in the Mushroom House, changed his expression slightly. A vertical eye appeared out of thin air above his head. This eye suddenly opened, as if it had transcended time and space, directly bringing Mu Li and Gardevoir's situation into its field of vision.
Immediately, Alakazam's spoon in his hand swiped in the air, and a half-meter-long spatial rift appeared. Alakazam waved his spoon again, and the Rotom Phone, which was being Charged, was directly pulled from the charging station and stuffed into the spatial rift.
"Cannot comprehend, Luotomu!" The Rotom Phone let out a scream and disappeared into the spatial rift.
Alakazam sighed, casually closed the spatial rift, and everything returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.
In the spaceship's command cabin, the middle-aged man referred to as the commander was staring intently at the battle between the four Pokémon.
"An hour has passed, why haven't we taken down Lugia yet?" The middle-aged man was a little anxious.
A staff member beside him looked troubled: "We seem to have severely underestimated Lugia's combat skills. Its current performance is completely unlike that of a wild Legendary Pokémon; instead, it's more like a rigorously trained Pokémon. Its combat skills have even compensated for its original flaws."
"Originally, Electric-type and Ice-type could cause it severe damage, but it would rather suffer full damage than dodge Electric and Ice attacks, which is enough to show that its combat quality has improved."
"And although Lugia's speed was originally fast, its massive size also made its movements inflexible. When facing fast and agile Pokémon, it often couldn't adjust its posture in time. However, Lugia's current flexibility hasn't changed, but it uses various flying techniques that only human fighter jets would use to dodge and even predict attacks, which we hadn't anticipated."
The middle-aged man's face stiffened, as if he was suppressing his anger: "So you're telling me now that this Lugia has been trained? You're telling me, who in this world can capture Lugia?"
"This..." The staff member didn't know how to answer.
"Don't make it difficult for him, he doesn't know either." A strange voice suddenly sounded. The middle-aged man and the staff member's expressions changed. They were about to reach for the Poké Ball at their waists.
"Immobilization Spell." The strange voice sounded again, and a pale blue light flashed. The middle-aged man and the staff member both found themselves unable to move.
Immediately after, the Poké Balls at their waists were also enveloped in a blue light, floating directly up and flying to where the strange voice came from.
A person gradually walked over and stood in front of the two.
The person was Mu Li.
"Arrest them," Mu Li commanded, "Rotom, prepare to take over control of the entire spaceship."
"Received, Luotomu." Rotom directly detached from the phone and drilled into the command room's computer.
Seeing Mu Li suddenly appear, the middle-aged man's expression remained unchanged as he asked in a deep voice, "Who are you? Why are you on our spaceship?"
Mu Li simply rolled his eyes and commanded, "Let him sleep for a while, it's annoying."
A light flashed from the shadow and quickly spread over the two. The middle-aged man and the staff member instantly fell into a dream.
"Villains die from talking too much, don't I understand this principle?" Mu Li pulled out a phone from the middle-aged man's hand. The contact list interface happened to appear on the phone. "Still want to make a call? This method is too old-fashioned."
"Rotom, block all signals on the spaceship and have those three silly Birds come back, lest they get killed." Mu Li commanded.
Directly infiltrating from the central computer, Rotom quickly took over control of the entire spaceship. The barrier that had been sealed on the sea level also disappeared, and the drones, along with the Three Legendary Birds, flew back to the spaceship.
"Humans, what you are doing is tantamount to self-destruction!" An angry voice came over. Such a fiery temper, it must be Moltres at a glance.
Looking at the three silly Birds whose eyes were full of anger, Mu Li couldn't help but feel a headache: "Um, can't you tell at all that I'm not with them?"
The three Birds were stunned for a moment, their eyes still full of doubt.
"Forget it, I don't have time to explain to you now," Mu Li said. "For that thing in your heads, I'll figure out a way for you when I get back. For now, just follow the spaceship back. Someone will come to meet you later. Remember, don't hurt anyone."
Mu Li didn't care if these three silly Birds understood and directly summoned Ninetales.
"You're responsible for watching this ship, don't let anything go wrong," Mu Li instructed.
"What are you going to do then?" Ninetales asked.
"I'm going to visit their headquarters and blow up their research lab while I'm at it." Mu Li smiled, then floated up and flew out from the open deck, landing directly on Lugia's back.
"Oh, and remember to have them report my safety to me and the Mushroom House." Mu Li's voice sounded again.
Ninetales yawned grumpily: "Such an exciting thing you don't take me, but for this kind of trivial chore, you call me."
California, USA. This is Doom-Thunder's largest laboratory on Blue Star.
"Report." A staff member also wearing a thunder-patterned uniform rushed into the laboratory director's office.
"What is it?" A middle-aged woman couldn't help but scold, "Why are you in such a hurry?"
"Just now, the signal feedback from the Trident disappeared." The staff member ignored the middle-aged woman's reprimand and spoke directly.
"What exactly happened? Have you found out the reason?" The woman stood up with a start.
"I don't know, the signal suddenly disappeared, and no information was sent back from there." The staff member was already sweating profusely with anxiety.
The woman's expression also changed. She quickly dialed a phone number: "BOSS, the Trident's signal has disappeared, and the reason is unknown."
It was unclear what was said on the other end of the phone, but after the woman hung up, she instructed, "Quickly investigate the reason. It's very likely that Lugia's storm power caused the signal loss."
The staff member was about to leave but was called back by the woman: "Where was the last known location of the Trident?"
"It was in international waters, but very close to China." The staff member answered truthfully.
"China? Could it be that China detected the Trident?" The woman immediately shook her head, "Impossible, the Trident is a spaceship we built by gathering the world's top technology, at least thirty years ahead of contemporary technology. China couldn't possibly detect it. It must be electromagnetic interference affecting signal transmission."
Six hours later, California, which had been relatively clear, suddenly began to rain for some unknown reason.
"Still no news of the Trident?" The woman's expression was already very ugly.
"No." The staff member replied, "The nearest drone was dispatched three hours ago to investigate the situation and should reach the destination in about an hour."
Although the woman was anxious, she still sat down, took a deep breath, and forcibly stabilized her emotions.
"How is that thing doing?" The woman suddenly changed the subject.
"That guy still has no reaction, not even brainwaves or anything. I suspect it doesn't even have consciousness." The staff member sighed, "Our experiment this time is probably another failure."
"No!" The woman gritted her teeth, "This is our closest to success yet. This clone has survived for a hundred days, far exceeding all our previous test subjects. This time, it will definitely succeed."
"Test subject? What test subject? Let me see?"
In a room with only two people, a third person's voice suddenly sounded. The woman's pupils immediately widened.
From her pupils, Mu Li's figure could be clearly seen.