There seems to be something wrong with these Pokémon

The streets were filled with trainers holding unconscious Pokémon in panic.

Some trainers even went to hospitals that treat humans to seek help from doctors in desperation.

"Has Vermilion City's medical system collapsed?"

Xiaoye handed the medicine he had recently bought from the Dead Leaf Shop to Miss Junsha, hoping to reduce the burden on the city.

"Why are there so many injured Pokémon suddenly appearing in Vermilion City?"

"It seems that there is a disturbance of Pokémon in the nearby Dead Leaf Forest. They are wantonly attacking residents and Pokémon passing through the forest. Most of the injured people and Pokémon are running to Dead Leaf City for help."

Miss Junsha took the medicine with one hand, and without saying anything more, she raised the walkie-talkie to contact the police to maintain order in the Pokémon Center.

After receiving the reply, Xiao Ye immediately caught up with the team and shared the information with his friends.

"The Pokémon's agitation?" Xiao Gang frowned and asked in a low voice, "But the forest system and human activities were not restrained or resolved in time? The extent to which a city's medical system can be paralyzed is not something that just a few manic Pokémon can do."

Kitazawa Lingyou shook his head and said, "I don't know, but all doubts can be answered at the Pokémon Center."

"Yes." Xiaoxia agreed. "There are many trainers who have passed through the forest. They must know the reason."

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When Xiaoye and the others arrived at the Pokémon Center, there were already a lot fewer trainers here.

It is unknown whether they left because their Pokémon received timely treatment, or because the Pokémon Center was completely unable to provide treatment and was forced to leave and seek other methods.

There are a small number of police officers inside the Pokémon Center maintaining order in the hall to prevent stampedes.

Chansey and L'Husband were busy transporting batches of Pokémon into the treatment room or observation room, waiting for Miss Joy to perform treatment.

"Look over there!" Xiaoxia saw the tall figure in the crowd, "It's Mr. Ma Zhishi and Miss Joey!"

Everyone turned their attention to Miss Joy, who was operating the computer at the front desk. Next to her was Ma Zhishi, who was standing with his back to them and slightly bent over.

When the few of them finally squeezed through the crowd and came to Miss Joy's side, she was controlling her emotions and telling Ma Zhishi her speculation from the perspective of a Pokémon doctor.

"There must be something weird in the forest disturbing the Pokémon!"

Miss Joy's fingers tapped on the keyboard, her eyes never moving away from the flashing screen.

"It's not just a simple matter of the originally gentle Pokémon in the forest becoming restless. Many of the Pokémon sent here have shown a tendency to evolve. However, after inspection, it was found that they have not yet reached the time to evolve. This forced evolution will leave them with lifelong disabilities!"

Ma Zhishi frowned and endured the thrusts coming from behind. In the noisy environment, he shouted loudly, "Anything else you found?"

"Well, several trainers have reported a very strange phenomenon." Miss Joy stood up and walked towards the observation room.

Ma Zhishi followed quickly, and Xiao Ye and the others looked at each other and chose to sneak in at the same time.

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Miss Joy stopped outside the observation room with a look of distress in her eyes. She pointed through the glass at a Growlithe with horrific wounds all over its body and said, "This Growlithe lost blood after being attacked by a bird Pokémon with a sharp beak. According to its trainer, it was actually a large group of Pidgeots that attacked them."

Among the five people hiding behind the corner, Kitazawa Lingyou frowned and lowered his voice.

"Pidgeots never appear in groups. Did that person mistake Pidgeot for Pidgeot in his panic?"

Ma Zhishi was obviously also aware of this little knowledge and asked the question.

"I also doubted what this trainer said at first." Miss Joy put her hand on the glass and looked at the struggling Growlithe and said word by word, "But after checking the wounds on Growlithe, I found that most of them were deep and wide, which could not be caused by Pidgeot's beak, but they are completely consistent with Pidgeot..."

Ma Zhishi fell silent. The facts were before him and he couldn't help but believe this thing that completely overturned common sense.

"Not to mention that more than one trainer has encountered this situation. Many trainers claim to have been attacked by Pokémon that rarely appear in large areas, such as Butterfree, Pidgeot, and Infernape..."

Miss Joy wanted to say something else, but a scream in the hall that was loud enough to pierce the eardrums interrupted her narration.

Miss Joy and Ma Zhishi reacted quickly and immediately turned around and ran towards the hall.

Even after seeing Xiao Ye and his group around the corner, no one said much, except Ma Zhishi, "Don't run around!"

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"What should we do?" Xiaoxia grabbed Xiaozhi's clothes as she heard the miserable screams outside, her voice trembling slightly. "What happened outside?"

Xiaoye held his breath and concentrated, vaguely hearing a few unclear words.

Miss Joy, Pokémon, Noise…

It seemed that I did hear a faint noise before the scream appeared, but at that time all my attention was focused on the conversation between Ma Zhishi and Miss Joy, so I didn't pay much attention to it.

"Pikachu, what's wrong with you?!"

Before Xiaoye could think deeply, Xiaozhi, who was holding Pikachu, was the first to notice that Pikachu's expression was painful again.

A weak silver-white light emanated from Pikachu's body.

"This is……"

The experienced Xiaogang and Xiaoxia were very familiar with Pikachu's current condition and shouted in unison.

"evolution!"

"No." Kitazawa Lingyou reached out and touched Pikachu's tail, but did not feel any trend of change in its morphological characteristics.

"If Pikachu wants to evolve into Raichu, it must rely on the help of the Thunder Stone. It cannot complete the evolution by itself."

However, the symptoms Pikachu is currently displaying are exactly the same as evolution, as if it is trying its best to suppress its desire to evolve.

“It’s the noise!”

Xiaoye reacted and covered Pikachu's ears with both hands. "This noise will promote the evolution of Pokémon. We must find something to block it!"

Just when everyone came over and tried to cover Pikachu's ears, Xiaoye discovered that there was also a silver-white light flashing around Kitazawa Lingyou's waist!

His eyes quickly scanned everyone and finally looked at his waist.

As expected, all the Pokémon that everyone placed in the Poké Balls were suppressing their evolution without exception!

With Xiao Ye's reminder, everyone quickly discovered the abnormality of their Pokémon and took out their Poké Balls and held them tightly in their hands.

"What should I do? The Pokémon in the Poké Ball will be disturbed."

Xiaoxia knelt on the ground in panic and searched her bag for any container that could block out the sound.

Xiaozhi, however, had no time to care about other things. He only hated why he could not have four strong arms like Guili.

After a while, when everyone was at a loss, Miss Joy and Ma Zhishi ran in, followed by many Pokémon trainers who were also trying to suppress their desire to evolve.

When Ma Zhishi saw the five people's Poké Balls emitting silver-white light, he pulled up the girl who was kneeling on the ground and shouted, "Go to the treatment room, that place is soundproof!"

Miss Joy leaned one hand against the cold wall and entered the password into the closed door with a frown.

After the door opened, she quickly led everyone in.

The trainers immediately filed in. After all the trainers had entered, Miss Joy closed the door from the outside and ran towards the hall with Ma Zhishi.

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The moment the door closed, all the noise disappeared, leaving only the trainers' gasps after surviving the disaster.

Xiaoye and the others released all the Pokémon whose evolution had just been suppressed, and they finally felt relieved when they saw that they were safe and sound and were just slightly out of breath.

Misty, Satoshi, and Brock hugged their Pokémon excitedly, while Xiaoye stroked his and Kitazawa Reiyuu's Pokémon to calm them down.

Kitazawa Reisuke's gaze was fixed on the deepest part of the treatment room, and he made eye contact with someone.

The man's slightly provocative and teasing look made his brows tighten. He looked away, lowered his head, and said no more.

Not long after, the door of the treatment room opened again, and Miss Joy, Ma Zhishi, and Happiny ran in holding the Chansey eggs that were also in evolutionary crisis, and quickly turned around to close the door.

Happins immediately pushed the treatment chamber containing the Pokémon to the observation room next door, trying to ensure the quietness of the treatment environment.

Miss Joy didn't even have time to catch her breath before continuing to work. She clapped her hands to attract the trainers' attention and spoke.

"It's safe here for now. Now please hand over all the Pokémon that need treatment or are in abnormal conditions to me. I will check their bodies."

The vast majority of trainers followed Miss Joy's instructions and placed the Poké Balls in an orderly manner on the cart pushed by Happiny beside her. Soon, they were piled up into a small hill.

But at this moment, a discordant voice came from a dark corner.

"Why are we hiding here? Wouldn't it be nice to let Pokémon evolve?"

The young man with soft black hair huddled in the corner and spoke silently.

"Evolution brings more power, and I can defeat the Withered Leaf Gym..."

After hearing this, some trainers actually began to hesitate, and their grip on the Poké Balls tightened and unclenched.

"That's right. My Bulbasaur hasn't evolved in such a long time. I might as well take this opportunity to evolve it."

"If my little Rattata can evolve into Rattata, it will definitely be able to defeat Raichu, right?"

"I've challenged the gym twice with Pidgeot. I have no chance of failure! If I evolve Pidgeot into Pidgeot, maybe I can..."

"Evolution" is like the tempting apple hanging in front of every trainer in the Garden of Eden. There is a voice in their minds that has been tempting them.

Eat this apple and evolve the Pokémon. After evolving, they will have stronger power and can defeat all powerful enemies and take you to the stage of Quartz Plateau!

Even Xiaozhi was tempted by the vested interests at the moment, lowered his head and said softly, "If Pikachu evolves into Raichu..."

"Pikapi!"

Xiaozhi was brought back to his senses by Pikachu's call. He was stunned for a moment as he looked at Pikachu in his arms, who was shaking his head firmly at him, and then he recalled all the things they had experienced together.

Pallet Town, Viridian City, Viridian Forest, Nibi Gym, Moon Viewing Mountain, Cerulean Gym...

He recalled a question he had gotten wrong and was scolded by the teacher.

"Xiaozhi, please tell me why I got such a simple question wrong?!"

The teacher slammed the test paper on the table and scolded angrily.

"'Does every Pokémon grow in power as it evolves?' How could you get such a simple question wrong?!"

Xiaozhi had already forgotten how he responded at that time, but now he was very sure of his answer.

Since Pikachu chooses not to evolve, you should trust it instead of asking the Pokémon to evolve.

"Then don't evolve!"

Under Misty's slightly surprised gaze, Xiaozhi hugged Pikachu, who was also stunned for a moment, tightly and shouted.

"Who said Pikachu can't beat Raichu? Let's prove it to him!"

Pikachu was surprised and pricked up his ears to respond to his trainer, using their unique "electric shock" method to enhance their relationship.

Golden electric light flickered in the treatment room, forming the strongest contract.

Their story begins with Pikachu and naturally ends with Pikachu.

Evolution is never the dividing line of strength!

Xiaoye and Xiaogang were relieved when they saw Xiaozhi figured it out. They were really afraid that he would fall into this "Satan's trap".

Xiaoye respects the choices of Snake and Psyduck. Since they have just endured the evolution, it proves that the time has not yet come.

But many trainers' wills were not as strong as Xiaozhi and Xiaoye's, and they were quickly bewitched by the spreading emotions in the treatment room.

They put away their Poké Balls and walked towards the locked door, trying to rush out. No matter how Miss Joy tried to stop them, it was useless.

Just as the black-haired boy in the lead was about to touch the door lock of the treatment room, Ma Zhishi suddenly appeared and blocked their way like a wall.

"Get back!"

Most of these trainers shrank their necks and took a few steps back, obviously having deep psychological trauma towards the master of the Withered Leaf Gym.

But soon the black-haired boy recovered, still with a red neck, and said, "We need to evolve! The evolved Pokémon will have stronger power and can defeat you and get the badge."

"I'm talking about the natural evolution of Pokémon after they accumulate combat experience, not this kind of forced evolution!"

Ma Zhishi's head started to hurt again, as if the man who challenged the gym thirty-five times in a month appeared in front of him again.

"Not only will this forced evolution of Pokémon not gain any power, but most will also be left with lifelong disabilities! Is this what you want?"

After these words were spoken, many trainers hesitated and slowly withdrew from the team.

They desire power, yes, but they love their Pokémon even more!

If the price of gaining power is to make their Pokémon disabled for life, then they would rather be a weak, helpless and pitiful "little baby" who is ridiculed by the leader of the Witherleaf Gym every day.

Soon there were less than ten people left in the team, but they still insisted on their own opinions and argued with Ma Zhishi.

"My Bulbasaur will be able to evolve soon! It just lacks an opportunity! And now that the opportunity has appeared, I will not let it go no matter what!"

"I'm lucky! My monkey monster should be about to evolve, please let us out!"

"So does my green caterpillar!"

"And my walking grass!"

Ma Zhishi was disgusted by the annoying mosquito-like sound in his ear.

Unable to bear it any longer, he squeezed out a few words from between his teeth.

Although the sound was not loud, it made the nine trainers in front of him stop what they were doing, with faces filled with fear.

"If you insist on leaving, I won't stop you. But I will file a petition with the Pokémon League as the leader of the Withered Leaf Gym to cancel your qualifications as a trainer!"

"From now on, no matter where you are, you will not be able to possess Poké Balls or Pokémon Pokedex!"

After saying this, he stepped aside and stared at the nine people who refused to listen and asked.

"Who else wants to go out?"