Pokémon: Thunder Shatters the Darkness

Plant the last bit of weeds within sight into the loose soil.

Yang Xiao stood on the ground, hunched over, put his hands on his knees, and began to breathe heavily.

Then he gently wiped the sweat from his cheeks with the back of his hand to prevent the dirt on his fingertips from getting on his cheeks.

Next to him, Apprentice Bear was lying on the ground with his arms and legs spread out, his whole body covered with brown and yellow mud.

The bear's eyes looked very empty, even dazed.

what am i doing?

Am I not here to evolve? Then why am I here to plant grass?

"call."

Taking a deep breath, Yang Xiao shook his head gently.

Not only is it hard work, but there is also a feeling of lack of oxygen.

This place is located on the top of a mountain. When the blood in the body has not adapted to this place, strenuous exercise will cause breathing difficulties.

Just a little weird.

Yang Xiao barely straightened his back, his eyes full of thought.

Logically speaking, when he climbed the Baili Mountains, which were higher in altitude than here, even though it was a long journey, it was not as tiring as it is now.

This feeling was as if all the lungs in his body were burning, and Apprentice Bear felt it much more intensely than him.

"Blank."

Accompanied by a standard Chinese curse, the young man who seemed to have completely recovered from the rumination state just a short distance away crawled directly on the ground.

He arrived late and had to use all his strength to barely keep up with Yang Xiao's speed.

At this moment, he looked like he was doing a plank.

Next to him, a gray-green skinned Pokémon looked much better than its trainer.

Perhaps it is due to its natural genes or attributes that its current state even makes it look more normal than its bear apprentice.

Baby Gilas, a rock-skinned Pokémon.

Belongs to the [Monster Group], a rock/ground dual-type Pokémon.

Yang Xiao glanced at its figure and suddenly remembered the data he saw through the Eye of Truth when it first appeared.

This made him turn and look at the young man with a more serious look in his eyes.

This Pokémon is pretty good.

It was cultivated quite well.

It can be said that among all the Pokémon of the same level that he has observed with the Eye of Truth in his life, apart from the bear apprentice, there is no other one that can be compared with it.

This includes the Electric Shock Monster and the Charcoal Maid.

Although the trainer looks stupid, the Pokémon are really good. Is this the result of coming from a big city?

Yang Xiao finally looked at it calmly twice, then shifted his gaze away.

But it has nothing to do with me.

far away.

The Taoist lay leisurely on the rock, with his legs crossed and his eyes closed, not moving a muscle.

Beside him, a few lazy old men were gently waving palm-leaf fans that they had taken out from somewhere, fanning the Taoist with breeze.

In front of the stubborn stone.

The two little kids squatted on the ground, making toys out of mud, and occasionally looked up at the two rice planters who were working hard and were already exhausted.

"Senior brother."

"Ugh."

The little Taoist boy finished shaping a clay doll, and placed it on the ground with a smile, waiting for it to dry. Then he turned to look at his junior sister with a smile, waiting for her next words.

"that is……"

The little girl's expression was a little awkward: "Master, is he asleep?"

"No."

The little Taoist boy didn't even think about it, and rejected it with a smile: "Master is resting his eyes..."

Before he finished speaking, a snoring sound came into his ears.

The little Taoist boy's mouth twitched a bit, and he quickly changed the subject and said:

"This is called the art of nourishing qi. After all, the pilgrims still have a long time to cultivate the grass..."

next to.

The charcoal servant, who was not allowed to enter the open space to plant rice, turned his head slightly and looked at the electric monster who was also not allowed to enter.

Then the two Pokémon took a step towards the two little ones at the same time.

The little girl's eyes flickered, as if she had never heard of the snoring. She looked at the little Taoist boy and said, "Brother, I don't understand."

"It's okay, I'll tell you slowly."

The little Taoist boy patted his chest:

"These grasses are not ordinary weeds. Instead, they carry with them a tiny herb that produces a special powder. It can react chemically with the incense burning in the big furnace in our dojo."

The little girl didn't say anything, but just tilted her head in even more confusion.

"The chemical reaction produced has the effect of calming the mind and accelerating blood circulation, thereby accelerating the consumption of physical energy and..."

The little Taoist boy was showing off in front of his junior sister, shaking his head and talking halfway, when the smile on his face suddenly faded.

broken.

And what?

"...and...and everything, huh."

The little Taoist boy exhaled in panic and ended hastily:

"In short, all pilgrims who stay overnight need to go through this step, because the style requires Pokémon to focus their minds and 100% deployment of their muscles."

“After this step, the beginning will be much smoother.”

so close.

The little Taoist boy immediately looked away after he said this, with a look of luck on his face.

Junior sister must not have noticed the pause in my voice.

"That's it..."

The little girl avoided his gaze.

Oops!

My senior brother said a lot of gibberish, but I didn’t understand a word he said!

Swah——

The electric monster pondered for a moment and shook his head at Tan Xiaoshi.

Tiezi, I didn’t understand either.

Tan Xiaoshi turned around and walked back to his original position slowly.

It's okay, I understand.

The electric monster scratched his head and looked at it suspiciously.

I understand. Don't I need to tell the trainer?

Returning to his original position, Tan-shi sat down cross-legged and continued to leisurely look at his trainer and his bear apprentice who was struggling to get up.

Needless to say.

It's not important, and the trainer will guess it.

...

Is it something to do with grass?

Yang Xiao casually pulled out some of the weeds that had been planted.

I was only focused on planting before and didn't take a close look at these things that looked like weeds.

Now it seems that there are indeed some differences.

"tired."

The sound still came from the side.

The young man gritted his teeth, stood up with difficulty, patted the dirt off his body in disgust, and turned to look at the bear apprentice in front of Yang Xiao.

Just as the look in Yang Xiao's eyes changed when he looked at him, a lot of contempt also disappeared from his gaze towards Yang Xiao.

He recognized Yang Xiao's face from the Internet.

He disdained the so-called official guarantee.

I originally thought that this person was just a packaged guy who came to make some quick money on the Internet.

But I really didn’t expect…

There was a hint of surprise in the boy's eyes.

This peer named Yang Xiao seems to appear on the Internet once in a while.

But the public's memory of his Pokémon still remains at the final of the Baby Cup.

How long has it been since then?

The boy's eyes gradually became serious.

He once watched a video of Yang Xiao's battle and sneered at it.

Because he was the same age as Yang Xiao, his strength had already surpassed the sandalwood level at that time.

But now he is only one step away from becoming a professional trainer, and the other party seems to be the same.

How many months has it been?

Taking a deep breath, the boy couldn’t tell whether it was due to lack of oxygen or because of Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao naturally noticed the boy's gaze.

You look at me, I look at you, and both sides have a clear idea of ​​each other, so there is no problem.

After all, we still have to live here together for 15 days.

Looking at the seedlings planted by the two, the little Taoist boy regretfully stopped playing house with his junior sister, stood up, climbed onto the rock, and gently pushed the Taoist.

The sound of the Taoist waves remains the same.

Push again.

The sound of the waves stopped abruptly.

"..."

The Taoist priest stood up and sat firmly in an instant, adjusted his clothes, and there was no trace of embarrassment on his body.

Even though there were sleep marks on his face.

Looking up at the sky, the Taoist said, "You're doing it pretty fast. I thought it would last until night..."

"Ouch."

He took the palm-leaf fan handed to him by the lazy old man and shook it gently while saying in a deep voice:

"Forget it. They are probably almost neutralized now. Since there is still some time before dinner, you should pull them out as quickly as possible."

"what?"

Before Yang Xiao could say anything, the boy raised his question loudly: "Huh?"

The Taoist dug his ear with his little finger and pouted: "You heard me right, hurry up, so that I can castrate you at night, and you can eat pickles again in a while."