Dawn of Pokémon

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Entering the brightly lit lobby, the young trainers couldn't help but exclaimed.

This is a quite high-end hotel, with dazzling decorative sculptures and paintings decorating the room, and the long table in the center is filled with exquisite snacks.As soon as everyone walked in, enthusiastic greeters came forward to greet them. There were no shortcomings except that the name of the hotel was a bit unfriendly to patients with acute phobias.

"Welcome to Thousand Needlefish Islands Hotel." The greeter read the invitations in everyone's hands one by one, and then introduced everyone into the banquet hall with a smile, "This is a special dinner held for this year's top [-] players. In order to So that you can relax as much as you want, there will be no interviews during the dinner. In addition, we have carefully prepared the program, so you can enjoy the dinner while waiting for the next surprise."

"Oh, there is actually a program, as expected of the Quartz Alliance!" Xiaoling applauded the audience very much.

The Pichu in Xiaoye's pocket was already hungry. As soon as he entered the banquet hall, he smelled the creamy aroma of the dessert and immediately ran to the long table.Xiaoye let it sprint towards the food, while she stopped and looked at the people in the banquet hall.

Before the seven of them entered the door, two people had already arrived.One of them was a girl with short black hair in casual clothes. She was sitting in a corner of the banquet hall, wearing headphones and tapping on a laptop on her lap.When she saw a group of people walking into the room, she quickly took off her earphones and bowed as everyone looked over. She seemed a little nervous.

"Who is she..." Yang Zhen muttered, feeling that this girl with a particularly standard salute seemed a bit familiar.

He didn't mean to ask the people around him directly, he just said something casually.But Kyoji seemed to hear him talking to himself, and turned around and replied: "Her name is Akita Saki. She is the seventh seed player in this competition. She is a free trainer who is good at fighting in sandstorm weather."

Xiaojie didn't remember the player's name for a moment, but he suddenly realized it after Jingji reminded him.

Although she is the seventh seed in this competition, this girl named Akita Saki does not have a prominent background like Natsuhi Takuma, and her fighting style is not as eye-catching as Greyhound. She really has no sense of presence.

Another person who had already arrived was standing by the wall, looking at the exquisite paintings on the wall.Wearing a pure white formal kimono, with a wooden sword hanging from his waist, he simply nodded in greeting when he saw someone entering the room.

Xingyu Bailan - Of course, everyone had no doubts about his name. They didn't even need to look at his face. They could determine his identity just by his clothes.

Xiaoye's eyes stayed on the face of the boy with short blue hair for a moment.The other party didn't pay any attention to her, as if he didn't notice her true face hidden under her sunglasses and hat.

"There are nine people present now... Who are the remaining top [-] players?" Tongye asked casually after looking around.

"I just saw Greyhound heading towards the exit of the contestant village. He probably doesn't plan to come to the dinner party." Xiaojie also counted the number of people enthusiastically, "Besides him, there are six people who didn't come."

"Xiaoyun is also one of the top sixteen, but she has been missing since noon today, and I don't know where she went..."

Before Kiriha's voice sounded slightly worried, Keiji had already taken over, "Sugino Yun should not be in the contestant village right now. Criminals suspected to be from Team Rocket defrauded the contestants of their Pokémon and fled at noon today. They chased them into the village." The ones in the Silver Mountains are two of the top 1 players, Satoshi Yamaguchi [Note [-]] and Hiroshi Miyagawa. Player Yun Sugino is a hometown friend of the former, and it is said that he is now working with the police to find their traces."

After a pause, Kyoji continued, "The fifth seed Matsuda Asaka and the sixth seed Shibayama Daishi both successfully advanced in the afternoon. The two of them are childhood sweethearts and may soon become lovers. They seem to plan to go together tonight. I am eating in Mihara City and will not attend this dinner. And the last person in the top [-], Yamashita Yoshiki, is a low-key person and most likely does not like this kind of gathering."

After Jingji's words, not only the six people standing beside him, but also Bailan and Sashi looked over, their eyes looking straight and strange.

"What?" The chestnut-haired boy asked in confusion.

"No, what...how do you know so much about them?" Xiaojie stuttered and asked what everyone wanted to ask.

"They are all strong opponents who have reached the top [-]. It is basic knowledge to fully understand their opponents. ...Huh? Why are you so surprised?" Jingji raised his eyebrows seriously, as if he was seriously exploring the reason for everyone's doubts.

"..."

Everyone had complicated expressions on their faces, shouting in their hearts "This is too much to understand" - let alone how he knew the whereabouts of so many seeded players, why even "the two of them are childhood sweethearts, maybe soon." Will they become a couple? Do you have this kind of information?

The air suddenly fell into an eerie silence. Tuliu Kyoji had a puzzled but serious expression. Even his friend Kiriha held his shoulders and started laughing silently, making him even more confused.

After laughing enough, everyone dispersed in twos and threes.Xiao Ye walked to the long table and saw that little Pichu's face was covered with butter. She took out a tissue and wiped his face with ease.

There was a faint, depressing and low atmosphere in the air.Xiaoye seemed to have woken up and looked back at the entire banquet hall.

She saw Xiaotian and Tongye walking to the bookshelf with similar interests and browsing the foreign language books on it.The golden retriever brothers and sisters gathered at the long table like her, and seemed to be chattering about what to eat first.Kyoji was chatting with a young waitress and took a drink from her hand.Yang Zhen, who seemed out of place in the dinner party environment, looked relaxed and at ease. He waved to a sommelier and said, "Give me a glass of corkscrew, please."

Xiaoye: ...What?What awl?Does it look like a flat-blade screwdriver?

Xiaoye watched the sommelier bring a light cyan cocktail with a smile, and the two of them chatted about the origin and processing method of lime... She just felt like she was recalling the time when she was thrown into a bar in Kuye City. I was confused by the introduction of the wine list that I couldn’t understand.If Yang Zhen were not wearing punk casual clothes that were very suitable for soul rock, he would look like an aristocratic boy talking at a Western-style banquet.

Shaking her head secretly, Xiaoye felt that she was still suitable to eat snacks in silence with her golden retriever brothers and sisters.At this time, the Pichu that was originally hanging on Xiaoye's arm suddenly slipped down.

Xiaoye quickly caught the little hairball to prevent it from falling directly to the ground.The electric mouse fell asleep at some point, smacking its lips while sleeping, as if still reminiscing about the feast just now.

The purple-haired girl was stunned, suddenly feeling a strong sense of violation.She does have a few companions who like to lie down and sleep after eating, such as Charizard and Snow Boy; but Pichu never sleeps immediately after eating, but is more willing to run around and jump for a while to digest food.

The faint feeling of depression that I had noticed before was like a fine needle, piercing into the girl's back bit by bit.She was excited and grabbed the dessert that Xiaojie was about to put into her mouth, "Don't eat it!"

Xiaoye had no time to look at the shocked expressions of Xiaojie and Xiaoling, so she immediately turned around and shouted: "Yangzhen, don't drink that glass of wine!"

The half-raised wine glass in the gray-haired boy's hand froze in the air, and the wine barely flowed into his mouth.Not only did he look at Xiaoye in shock, but other people in the banquet hall were also alarmed and looked over.

At this time, the lights in the banquet hall suddenly went out one by one, and the room fell into darkness.The projector at the front worked silently, projecting a sheet of snowy white on the screen.

"Hello, young and promising top [-] players." As the voice sounded, a man wearing a naughty thunder bomb mask appeared on the curtain.His voice was sharp and weird, and he had obviously turned on the voice-changing device.

"Welcome to this banquet held for you. Although all 16 people are not here, it doesn't matter - thank you for providing me with information and letting me know that the remaining top [-] players are not an eyesore in the player village." The man in the naughty thunder bomb mask chuckled, "It's just a little bad. I sent someone to prepare the dessert carefully, why don't you try it? It will be easier for you to have a good sleep after eating it. "

Before he could finish what he said, everyone else realized that something was wrong.Xiaotian, who was sitting at the table and flipping through a book, suddenly stood up and ran to the center of the banquet hall. Bailan even released Eluredo with a cold expression.

"But that's okay. Since you don't want to have a good night's sleep, then please witness the miracle of this night with your own eyes."

As soon as the words fell, all the vases on the table suddenly exploded, and thick smoke spread, instantly filling the entire banquet hall.Xiaoye reacted very quickly and hugged Xiaojie and Xiaoling behind her, using her sleeves to block the splashing vase fragments. The power of the waveguide spread rapidly to the surroundings at the same time, but all she detected was a strange chaos.

A muffled sound was mixed in with the sound of breaking porcelain.Tongye looked around as if he was aware of it, and the image left a second before his vision was swallowed up by the smoke made his pupils shrink suddenly.

The chestnut-haired boy fell to the ground silently, and half of the juice left in the cup spilled out and seeped into the carpet, spreading a blood-like red.

"Akyo!"

His panicked shouts were swallowed up by a louder sound.Heavy metal plates rumbled down along the walls, sealing off all doors and windows.The strange voice of the man wearing a naughty thunder bomb mask loomed in the roar.

"We are the ones who drive the divine crow. We want to... light a big firework..."

In the midst of the chaos, Elureduo shouted low, and his strong spiritual power turned into airflow, whistling and beginning to disperse the smoke.When everyone could barely see, they discovered that the waiters, sommeliers and even the fallen Kyoji Kusama who had been walking around in the banquet hall had disappeared, replaced by pairs of blood-red eyes and faces full of hostility. growled lowly.

Before anyone could make a move, a violent shock suddenly struck.The plates with snacks on the long table fell to the ground one after another, making crisp cracking sounds.Everyone was also swaying like an earthquake, unable to stand firm.

At this moment, a deafening explosion swept through the entire player village.Countless splashes of fire engulfed the night, and the hotel inside was like a thin boat swaying in the wind and waves. It could capsize completely at any time and sink to the bottom of the sea together with the nine passengers it carried.

Immediately, the projector went out, and the last light on the "boat" disappeared.