There seems to be something wrong with these Pokémon

Just as the five of them walked out of the Withered Leaf Gym, Xiaozhi proudly showed off his orange badge when a dark shadow suddenly pounced on them, and then Xiaoye felt a weight on his shoulders and his cheeks were wet.

"Well, it seems that Ibrahimovic still remembers you, Xiaoye."

The familiar voice immediately made the five of them stop, and Xiaozhi could call out his name without even turning his head.

"Professor Oak!?"

"Why do you look so surprised?" Professor Oak came over and teased, "I'm not that old that I can't even walk. It's normal to go out and travel occasionally, right?"

"Doctor, are you visiting Vermilion City?"

Xiaoxia stood aside modestly, and it took her a long time to utter a word.

Although she had met Professor Oak several times through the computer screen, she was still a little nervous when they met for the first time in real life.

"Yes, this famous port city has undergone a remarkable transformation."

Professor Oak took a deep breath, and the refreshing sea breeze flowed into his heart, as if all the fatigue from the past few days was washed away.

“When I came to Vermilion Leaf City, there was no such a big dock here, and the huge cruise ship was just a small boat.”

Before Professor Oak could continue to express his poetic feelings, a glowing badge was almost stuffed right under his nose.

"Is that an orange badge?" Professor Oak's face was stiff. He took a small step back to avoid the hand wearing a green glove and asked the question even though he knew the answer.

"Oh?! How did you find out, Professor Oak?"

The boy who pretended to be indifferent suddenly brightened up his eyes, and he finally put down his hand that was about to be raised to the sky, touched his nose casually and chuckled.

"In fact, I have more than just the orange badge. Now I also have the blue badge and the gray badge."

"Uh... not bad, not bad."

Professor Oak smiled awkwardly, gave a few false compliments, and then, as if he suddenly remembered something, he leaned forward slightly and whispered in the ear of the smug boy.

"But Xiaomao got the fifth badge not long ago. Your progress is still too slow, Xiaozhi."

Xiaozhi's whole body tensed up and his shoulders slumped. He squatted on the ground, drawing circles and stopped talking.

Xiao Mao... it's him again... as a strong rival, how come he always progresses so fast...

It was not until Professor Oak had had enough of Satoshi's embarrassing look and laughed a few times that Xiaoye spoke.

"Professor Oak." The boy lifted the Eevee sitting on his shoulder and asked with his saliva-covered face.

"What is this Eevee...?"

"Have you forgotten so quickly?" Professor Oak kept it a secret and said, "Take a closer look and don't let people down."

Upon hearing this, Xiaoye looked closely at the Pokémon whose tail drooped in disappointment, and a sense of guilt unconsciously crept into his heart.

However, the Ibrahimovic in his hand quickly perked up after noticing the boy's gaze, and looked at him with wide eyes.

Xiaoye's fingertips brushed across the messy hair, and the slightly curled hair tips suddenly reminded him of the scene in the forest.

"Is it... the Eevee from the Dead Leaf Forest?"

Ibrahimovic's ears stood up and he swayed his limbs.

"Haha, you guessed it right."

Professor Oak nodded and spread out his right hand to explain.

"Things like traveling will have to be put on hold for now. Today, I am appointed by the Pokémon League to come as an observer to measure the physical condition of the Pokémon in the Dead Leaf Forest."

"As for this Ibrahimovic..."

Professor Oak paused, turned his wrist in front of everyone, and took out a Poké Ball like a magic trick.

"It looks like you want to complete your journey with Xiaoye."

When Eevee saw Professor Oak handing over his Poké Ball, he became even more excited. His tail wagged as fast as a fan. He jumped onto Professor Oak and looked at him with pitiful eyes.

The bright eyes in the forest illuminate its desperate heart.

The faint fragrance at the tip of your nose blows away the dead smell of withered grass and trees.

Ibrahimovic always remembers the look he gave them after leaving them.

High in the sky, he could only watch the Savior who had perished in the sea of ​​fire being licked by the flames.

But it, which should have been consumed by the flames, escaped and ascended to heaven.

This is gratitude, a request, and a return of favor.

Xiao Ye looked at Eevee, whose eyes seemed to shine like stars, and stretched out his hand to hold the slightly cool Poké Ball.

"Then Ibrahimovic, let's work together from now on?"

The Pokémon widened its eyes after receiving the response, and after a moment it jumped excitedly between Misty, Professor Oak and Xiaoye, and finally threw itself into Xiaoye's arms and swept the boy's arm with its big furry tail.

Professor Oak took the opportunity to record this scene with the camera he carried with him.

When everyone came to their senses, they saw Professor Oak straighten his expression and said seriously.

"Xiaoye, since Eevee is already your Pokémon, as its trainer, you should know some of its 'problems'."

"Problem?" Xiao Ye immediately lifted up Ibrahimovic and observed it from top to bottom. After confirming that it was not injured, he held it back in his arms and asked in confusion, "Where... is it injured? Will it affect its daily life?"

"No, no, no, that's not the case." Professor Oak hurriedly explained.

"Eevee is a Pokémon with very unstable genes. It has three evolutionary forms that have been discovered so far, but they all need to come into contact with the corresponding evolution stone to complete the evolution."

"But this Eevee was forced to evolve due to the interference of evolution noise. Pokémon like this that need to rely on evolution stones to assist in evolution cannot evolve on their own, so they will fall into a state of 'pseudo-evolution'."

The people surrounding Ibrahimovic obviously didn't quite understand such academic sentences, but they could still hear that it must have suffered a lot in the forest before being discovered by Xiaoye.

"False evolution..."

Kitazawa Reisuke, who seemed to be deep in thought, continued what Professor Oak said.

"Does it mean that the Eevee's body mistakenly thought that it had already started evolving, so it activated the genes that represent evolution. However, without the guidance of the Evolution Stone, the body cannot determine which attribute the Eevee should evolve to, so it can only express all the evolution genes at the same time?"

"Yes." Professor Oak glanced over, amazed at the boy's comprehension ability, and continued to explain, "Generally speaking, Eevee cannot survive for a long time in this chaotic evolutionary state, but fortunately, the evolutionary noise stopped at the limit it could bear. The body realized its mistake at the moment the noise stopped, and activated a hidden gene to correct it."

"We named it the degeneration gene."

Degenerate genes…?

From the name, we know that it can help Pokémon degenerate, but is it really possible to do something that goes against the growth and development process...?

"After this, this Eevee became a very contradictory Pokémon."

Professor Oak took out a stone from the pocket of his white coat and handed it to Xiaoye, who felt a tingling sensation when he touched it.

"Every time it uses the Evolution Stone to evolve, its body will mistakenly think that Eevee has fallen into 'false evolution' again. After a period of observation, it will activate the 'degeneration gene' to degenerate the already evolved Eevee again."

"The time we have measured so far is about fifteen minutes."

Xiao Ye lowered his eyes and stroked the still smiling Ibrahimovic. He couldn't imagine how dangerous the process that Professor Oak described so lightly would be for Ibrahimovic.

"Wouldn't it be possible to use this to help other Pokémon that were forced to evolve?"

Kitazawa Reisuke asked the question and received an admiring look from Professor Oak.

"In theory, it is feasible. Unfortunately, this gene is currently incompatible with other Pokémon. If it is forcibly implanted, it may cause the original gene to collapse."

Professor Oak looked at the five disappointed people and smiled.

As a researcher, he is full of optimism about this future.

"At least we now have a clear research direction, thanks to a miracle."

"Come on, Pokémon trainers, you shouldn't stop here. Let us professionals solve these problems!"

After saying this, Professor Oak said goodbye to the five people and went to the forest to find out what was going on under the protection of Miss Junsha.

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Soon after, the Pokémon League sent a notice to all cities.

Not only does it contain an authoritative Pokémon doctor who provides scientific knowledge on the current status of Pokémon in the forests near Vermilion City.

The Four Heavenly Kings from the Kanto region also appeared to explain to all trainers how to properly train Pokémon and the harm that forced evolution would cause.

Dr. Oak appears at the end of the notice and preaches to everyone.

"Currently, the Pokémon in the forest near Vermilion City that have completed their final evolution will not affect trainers' captures. Some Pokémon will have problems such as smaller size due to forced evolution, but they can be restored through acquired training."

"If you find any Pokémon with physical disabilities please minimize their damage and transport them to the Oak Laboratory!"

"Trainers, please contribute your strength for all the Pokémon in this world!"

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A small incident occurred while Xiaoye and his friends were in the hospital.

A decisive man descended from the sky into Vermilion Leaf City.

He had short red hair and was wearing a cape. He stopped at the hospital entrance on a Dragonite. He ignored the reporters who came after hearing the news and broke into Xiaoye and Xiaoxia's wards. He took them, along with their caregivers Kitazawa Lingyou and others, to the hospital's conference room.

Everyone recognized this highly recognizable man, and Xiaogang almost suffocated here.

Du! This is one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Kanto region!

Everyone was on pins and needles, except for Xiaozhi, who was an optimistic person and didn't care about the natural pressure from men. He talked casually with the man who showed his Pokémon Investigator ID so as not to make the atmosphere too awkward.

But the focus of Du's visit today was not on Xiaozhi and the others. He had already consulted Junsha and Joey about the matters concerning the Pokémon Center and Vermilion City in advance, so he didn't need their elaboration.

But only Ma Zhishi, Xiaoye and Xiaoxia knew what happened in the forest. Ma Zhishi was still having trouble communicating, so he had to get the answer from the remaining two people.

Although these two young boys and girls are not like professionally trained gym trainers who can make statements and identify problems in an organized manner, they can barely restore the scene at that time by filling in each other's words.

Watari nodded and recorded it before getting up and leaving. He reported everything to the Pokémon League while continuing to track down Kasir.

He has been trying to find Cahill since he received the mission not long ago, but this old fox hid very well and fabricated many unfounded "traces" to deceive the Du who came to track him down.

However, there is always a loophole, and he was eventually caught by the fox's tail.

He can't run far.