There seems to be something wrong with these Pokémon

"Nibi City, should it be the city in front?" Xiao Ye stepped onto a huge rock and stood on it to look at the vague outline of the city in the distance. He took out the map again to confirm his location and pointed to Nibi City, which was close at hand on the map.

Xiaoye took Snake and Ditto back into the Poké Ball to rest. Suddenly, without their response, Xiaoye was not used to it, so he put away the map and sat on the boulder to rest for a while.

The gyms in Nibi City are rock-attribute gyms.

Nibi Gym, the headquarters of the Rock Pokémon, uses the hardness and coldness of the rocks to tell Pokémon trainers that this is an excellent gym with seriousness as its essence.

Xiao Ye had heard of this city a long time ago. This was because there was a place in Nibi City that he had always been very interested in. He had always wanted to go there but had no way to get to Nibi City directly, so he had to give up.

This place is the Nibi Science Museum that Xiaoye longs for day and night.

Xiaoye's interest in the Nibi City Museum stems from a piece of news he accidentally saw in a newspaper of Dr. Oki's Institute a year ago. It said that the Nibi Science Museum accidentally obtained a gem fragment, which was identified to contain unimaginable huge energy, and its specific use was still unknown.

There was also a photo of a gem fragment published in the newspaper. Xiao Mao came over to take a look and complained, "The Nibi Science Museum is playing tricks again. The picture shows glass fragments. There is no luster at all."

Xiao Ye was stunned when he heard this, and looked down again.

Indeed, the picture in the newspaper looked just like the broken glass we see every day, but it clearly didn't look like this just now.

When Xiao Ye looked at the newspaper for the first time, he was attracted by the glittering gem fragment. He felt as if the fragment was calling him from across the air.

"Young man, how long are you going to sit on my merchandise?"

Xiao Ye withdrew his thoughts and was startled by the sudden sound. He stood up reflexively and looked around for the source of the sound.

"I'm down there."

After being reminded, Xiao Ye finally spotted the uncle who was setting up a stall under his feet. He was wearing a red knitted hat, and the beard on the lower half of his face was dense, covering his facial features, but from the muscle lines of his arms exposed under his rolled-up short sleeves, he was a very strong man.

The shelf next to him was filled with various stones with clearly marked prices. From Xiaoye's point of view, he did not notice the difference in the value of these stones, but the price difference was terrifying. The cheap ones were only a dozen yuan, and the expensive ones were hundreds of thousands.

I guess the stone I had just sat on for a long time is also the commodity that this uncle wants to sell?

Xiao Ye quickly took a step back and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I didn't notice."

"No problem." The uncle was a good talker. He shook his head and asked a question, "Are you also a novice trainer?"

"Yes."

"Then your purpose of coming to Nibe City must be to challenge the Nibe Gym here, right?" The uncle seemed to have anticipated Xiaoye's answer and quickly continued with the next sentence.

"Challenging gyms is indeed one of the reasons why I came to Nibe City." Xiaoye nodded and continued, "But my Pokémon and I have been in the Evergreen Forest for almost two weeks. I don't plan to start challenging gyms so soon. I plan to give everyone some time to rest and recover."

"That's a smart move." The old man crossed his arms and continued, "The rock-type gym in Nibe City is very strong. Even if you use all your strength, it will be difficult to win. It's better to stretch out the battle line and slowly capture it."

"So, uncle, you are very familiar with the Nibi Gym?" Xiao Ye slid down from the top, patted his pants, took out the cheapest stone and put it in his hand, and handed the money to the uncle. "I want this stone. Uncle, can you tell me about the situation of the Nibi Gym?"

The uncle took the money in the blink of an eye, and his tone suddenly became warm, "Of course, don't call me uncle, my name is Wu Neng."

"Okay, Uncle Wu Neng." Xiao Ye pretended to be listening attentively.

"The current Nibi gym trainer is called Xiaogang, and he's a very powerful trainer." Wu Neng took off his white gloves and rubbed them gently with his thumbs. "Being a gym trainer is a waste of his talent for him."

Wu Neng didn't say anything else after saying this, but just kept carefully wiping the dust off his white gloves.

"I see." In order to keep the topic from ending, Xiao Ye continued, "Then the Pokémon he uses must be very powerful too, right?"

"Of course." Wu Neng nodded and continued, "Both Geodude and Onix are experts in guarding the Nibe Gym. The power they display together with Brock is not something you novice trainers can easily defeat."

After Wu Neng finished speaking, he looked up at the sky, as if he remembered something, and stood up and left.

"It's getting late. You should go to the Pokémon Center and get some rest."

"What about you, Uncle Wu Neng?" Xiao Ye pointed at the goods that were randomly placed on the roadside and asked, "What will happen to these goods if you leave?"

"Don't worry about it." Wu Neng waved his hand and said, "They are just some miscellaneous stones. Whoever wants them can take them. It won't be a big loss."

Looking at Wu Neng's departing back, the stone in Xiaoye's hand suddenly became heavy.

"So the uncle also knew that these stones can be found everywhere on the roadside." Xiaoye reluctantly put the stone back to its original place and walked towards the Pokémon Center in Nibi City. "Have a good rest tonight and go to the Nibi Science Museum tomorrow morning."

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The city of Nibi is very prosperous.

The next morning, Xiao Ye got up early and took the Poké Balls of Snake and Ditto and walked on the streets of Nibe City, and couldn't help but sigh.

It was still dawn, but the whole city of Nibi had already woken up. Children were chasing and playing on both sides of the road, old people were strolling around leisurely with their Pokémon, and vendors were enthusiastically calling for customers to come.

Xiao Ye was also infected by this atmosphere and couldn't help but walk to the door of a snack bar and buy a box of meatballs to try.

"Here! Please keep it!" The vendor took the money and handed the food over, saying "Be careful, it's hot."

"Thank you." Xiao Ye took the lunch box, smelled the unique aroma, and felt the heat from her fingertips. "It looks delicious."

"Of course!" The praised vendor pointed to the advertisement on the side with pride and said, "I'm not lying, this is my family's secret recipe passed down from generation to generation! You can't taste it anywhere else!"

Xiao Ye nodded, took a bite and gave the vendor a thumbs-up. The vendor also smiled and greeted the next customer.

After Xiao Ye left the snack bar, he didn't walk far before arriving at the entrance of the Nibi Science Museum.

The Nibi Science Museum is truly one of the museums with the richest collections in the Kanto region. You can feel its grandeur just by looking at it from the outside.

But since he was not allowed to bring food into the museum, Xiao Ye could only stand at the door and eat the three or four meatballs left.

His eyes were darting around boredly, but his attention was drawn to a pair of siblings.

They stood under a tree, hand in hand, and stared intently at a room on the top floor of the museum.

Xiaoye followed their line of sight, but saw nothing except a big tree reflected in the museum's special anti-peep glass.

Just as Xiao Ye turned his eyes away and continued to pick up an octopus ball, he found that the brother and sister had run to his side and were clinging tightly to his body.

Especially the older brother in the pair, he was about half a head taller than Xiaoye, which made it convenient for him to hug Xiaoye tightly from behind, and turn his head to sniff Xiaoye's neck gently with his nose.

The younger sister was no less cute, she was wearing pigtails and she clamped her legs tightly around Xiaoye's legs, looking for something with her hands.

"Excuse me..." Xiaoye's hair stood on end, and he asked with great effort, "Do I smell something? Or is there something else?"

At the same moment he asked the question, the brother and sister stopped their strange movements, looked at each other, and then glanced at Xiaoye, their eyes full of confusion.

Xiao Ye, who thought the matter was over, breathed a sigh of relief and asked with a forced smile, "Did you find the wrong person?"

The brother and sister didn't pay any attention to him. The brother even started to pull his hair apart to look for something, while the sister locked her eyes on the fragrant little ball in his hand.

Seeing that they didn't respond, Xiao Ye thought he had encountered a ghost, so he quickly dodged his brother's hand and ran forward. Just when he turned around and was about to say something, the brother and sister had disappeared without a trace.

He looked around, but could not find any trace of the siblings. If it were not for the heat gradually dissipating from his hands, he would have thought it was an illusion.

Xiaoye thought for a moment, then raised his arm, pulled open his sleeve, put it under his nose, and sniffed lightly.

But I couldn't smell anything except the scent of shower gel.

"Is it not that I have a smell?" Xiao Ye's eyes were full of confusion. He searched all the pockets on his body, but found nothing except the small snacks he fed the vine snake at any time.

Xiao Ye put the matter behind him, not wanting this little thing to affect his mood for the whole day.

Anyway, I couldn’t finish the dumplings, so apart from their slightly weird behavior, the brother and sister did a good deed, right?

Xiao Ye comforted himself and handed the ticket and schoolbag he had just purchased to the guard at the door for inspection and confirmation. Then he excitedly walked into the Nibi Science Museum, which he missed every night.

"Wow!" Xiaoye's eyes sparkled as he looked at the display case in front of him. "Is this a fossil of an ammonite?"

"That's right." The tour guide walked forward and said, "You have a sharp eye. This is one of the famous exhibits of the Nibi Science Museum, the fossil of an ancient Pokémon."

"This one here is a toe bone of a pterosaur, and the one behind you is a sickle fossil of a sickle helmet." The tour guide pointed to the one in front of him and said, "And what you are looking at now is the complete shell fossil of an ammonite."

"So awesome..." Xiao Ye muttered to himself. The toe bones of the fossilized pterosaur alone were almost as big as his palm. He couldn't imagine how huge these Pokémon would be if they were still alive in the world.

"Really?" The tour guide likes tourists who look like they have never seen the world, which makes him feel superior.

So he explained more vigorously, "It's far more than that. In addition to fossils, our museum has two important collections. One is the cabin of the first space shuttle after it crashed, and the other is an unknown gem fragment that was discovered only a year ago."

"Especially the gem fragment. Originally, it was the least favored collection. After all, it looked no different from a piece of glass. But..."

"But?" Xiao Ye repeated the commentator's words, urging him to continue explaining as he suddenly kept the secret.

"But not long ago, scientific research experts discovered a way to use it. Under certain conditions, it will release a sound of a special frequency. It is basically undetectable by human ears and can only be detected by special instruments."

The narrator, who was suddenly too proud of himself, seemed to remember something and said quickly, "Please don't spread it. This research result has not been officially released yet, but I think it will be announced soon."

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone." Xiao Ye replied, and then asked with a puzzled look, "Then how did you know about this?"

"I...I...?" The commentator's eyes rolled around and he stammered, unable to answer.

Just as the tour guide had finished making up a moving story, a shrill alarm suddenly sounded throughout the museum.

“Warning – warning –! An outsider has broken into the research lab. Warning – warning –! An outsider has broken into the research lab. Requesting support, requesting support!”

As the alarm sounded, all exhibits immediately initiated defensive measures.

The fossil exhibits that had just been placed in front of Xiaoye were seen to be sinking from the inside and disappearing, and the entire museum was filled with dazzling red light.

"Everyone, get out of here quickly!"

A group of armed men with guns broke into the museum from the entrance. One of them threw a Poké Ball and shouted, "Alakazam, use telekinesis to throw them out!"

As blue light began to glow around his body, Xiao Ye found himself unable to move!

Even the tour guide who had just been talking big was no exception. Almost everyone on the first floor was enveloped by the blue light and was "invited" out of the museum without any ability to resist.

Xiao Ye fell to the ground and rubbed his aching tailbone. There were people lying on the ground in various strange postures around him.

"What the hell!" screamed one of the women who was thrown out like an octopus. "I will definitely complain!"

"That's right!" "Complain!" "My ass!"

The people who were thrown out immediately echoed the woman's words, and the huge crowd headed towards the city complaint handling base.

Xiao Ye did not follow their steps because when he got up, he seemed to see the girl with pigtails again.

She was still standing by the tree, holding something tightly in her hands, but her brother was no longer beside her.

The thing she was holding emitted a cloudy and dim light from between her fingers.

There were tears in the sister's eyes, and with a gust of wind, she disappeared from Xiaoye's sight again.