Pokémon Heart Journey

Seeing this, the manager had no choice but to take out his Poké Ball and take back the Rhyno. Then he scratched his head and walked towards Xiaozhi.

At this time, Xiaozhi also excitedly rushed to the Ironclad Rhino on the field, hugged him fiercely, and said: "You are awesome! Ironclad Rhino!"

The Ironclad Rhinoceros was also very happy. He had not tasted this feeling of victory for a long time.

At this moment, the manager also came over and said to Xiaozhi: "Well done, little brother. Now I can rest assured to hand over the Iron Rhino to you."

"Yes, thank you, Mr. Manager."

"By the way, you are going to participate in the Quartz Conference next, right? I will definitely watch it on TV then. Don't let you fail even the preliminaries by then. After all, you have defeated me, a master who is one of the top 16 in the league, head-on," the director said, pointing at himself proudly.

Xiaozhi didn't think anything of it. Instead, he said to him excitedly: "Don't worry, Mr. Manager, I will not only surpass you, I also want to win the championship of the Quartz Conference. This will be my first step to becoming a Pokémon Master."

"Hahaha, the first step? You're really bold. You know, the champion of the Quartz Conference is quite rare. Not to mention the championship, as long as you can make it into the top 16, you must come to me, and I will treat you well," said the director, patting his slightly round belly.

"Xiaozhi, you are so amazing!"

At this time, Serena and the others also came over. Xiaozhi turned his head and nodded to Serena, then looked at Yulongyuan and asked curiously: "Xiaoyuan, aren't you still in the Pokémon Center? Why are you here?"

Yu Longyuan scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "I just happened to pass by here. I heard there was a competition here, so I thought it was you, so I came to take a look."

Then he thought secretly in his heart: I can't possibly tell you that I am following you specifically.

Xiaozhi had no doubt about this, but the other three were a little surprised. After all, this battle was a spur of the moment plan and no one knew about it. But seeing that the other party was Xiaozhi's friend, they didn't say anything.

In order to change the subject as quickly as possible, Yulongyuan cast his eyes on the Ironclad Rhino, walked up to take a look, and then said to Xiaozhi: "If you exclude Charizard who is still training and Pikachu who is being taken care of by Aunt Hanako, Xiaozhi, it seems that you now have eight Pokémon to take care of. Is your money okay?"

After all, raising Pokémon costs a lot of money, and Xiaozhi has almost used up all the rewards he received in the fishing competition and Pokémon School.

Now hearing the other party mention it, Xiaozhi couldn't help but touch his pocket. Although Sundae had silently helped himself and Xiaoyang during the trip, and with the preferential price from Mr. Lei Si, Xiaozhi reduced a lot of expenses, but the consumption was still huge. After all, except for Frog, the others had reached the quasi-king level, which was really a waste of money.

Thinking of this, Xiaozhi couldn't help but sigh and said, "I wonder how Xiaoyang and the others are handling it?" (Xiaozhi owns 40% of the shares, after all, he provided the notes)

Just then, Serena asked, "Does it cost so much to breed Pokémon?"

Xiaozhi and the others nodded silently. The manager beside them said with deep understanding: "Cultivating Pokémon is more than just spending money, it can be said to be burning money. Apart from anything else, do you know how much a large Rhino rental center like mine can actually earn every day?"

Serena shook her head gently. Xiaozhi looked at her curiously. She slowly stretched out a finger and said, "The daily profit is about 10,000 Alliance coins."

"what!"

Ten thousand Alliance Coins a day is actually not too little. On the contrary, it can be considered relatively wealthy. But if you consider that he has other Pokémon that need to be fed, then it’s a different story.

“Is it so expensive?”

"Haha, of course. Fortunately, my rental business is pretty good, and I only have three quasi-king-level Pokémon."

"Hey! Mr. Manager, are there only three quasi-king level Pokémon? Even so, can they make it into the top 16 of the league?" Xiaozhi asked in surprise.

"Ahem, well, in our time, my ability was indeed acceptable," the manager scratched his cheek embarrassedly.

Although he is no longer a formal trainer, he has some understanding of the level of today's trainers. He naturally knows that with his current strength, if he challenges the league again, he may not even be able to collect all eight badges.

At this time, Yu Longyuan also spoke up: "Judging from the captain's age, their time was indeed not as difficult as ours now. The Pokémon battle system was not very complete at that time, and research in all aspects was relatively backward compared to now."

"Nowadays, with the development of technology, many trainers can learn various 'previous strategies' directly from the Internet, and there are also various books introducing Pokémon breeding methods. Therefore, the strength of trainers will be relatively stronger than before. Therefore, the difficulty of challenging gyms will also increase accordingly."

The director also agreed, nodded and said, "That's true. If it were our time, my level would actually be considered one of the more powerful ones."

Yu Longyuan waved his hand again and said, "That's the case, but the relatively worse period was only during the director's period. If we push the factory director's period further back, that was an era when evildoers emerged in large numbers, like our Kanto, the now famous champion Mr. Ohki Yukishiro, the ghost king Granny Kikuko, and Mr. Xia Bo, whom you met before. They were all the leaders of that era. In addition, there were many top masters of the older generation in other regions. There is no doubt that being born in such an era was definitely full of challenges and hardships."

Hearing what Yu Longyuan said, Serena couldn't help but ask curiously, "Why is that? According to the previous statement, it's because everything is not complete, so the strength of the field commander is not as high as imagined, but why is the predecessor before the field commander so powerful?"

"Because it's dangerous," the manager said, "Mr. Champion, even the alliance hadn't been established at that time. It can be called an era of evil spirits and monsters. Various forces and organizations are intricate. If you go out to travel during that period, it will definitely be a life-and-death situation. But once you make a name for yourself, you will definitely be the strongest among the strong."