Pokemon: Pick up Eevee at the start

After visiting Principal Yu, Xia Chen went to the Ghost Department teacher's office building to visit Teacher Mo Lan.

Speaking of which, without her reminder, Xia Chen would not have thought of studying the evolution of Sai Fuhao while traveling in Padya, let alone encountering Suo Cailing.

No matter what the reason is, he should thank Teacher Mo Lan.

Before coming this time, he went to Fengyuan to get a set of Gengar's super evolution package, which he planned to give to Mo Lan as a thank you gift.

The office floor of the ghost department teacher is as dark and dark as ever, with many naughty elves such as the Ghost Stone and Dream Demon haunting it, scaring the students who come and go.

Xia Chen cooperated and pretended to be frightened, making the little devils giggle, and then successfully arrived at Teacher Mo Lan's office.

Mo Lan was not as surprised as Principal Yu when she saw Xia Chen, perhaps because she was a little emotionally indifferent.

I wasn't that excited when I received the gift, I just said a light thank you.

Perhaps because she was afraid that Xia Chen would misunderstand, she paused for two seconds and added: "I really like this gift, but I'm just not good at expressing it."

Xia Chen smiled nonchalantly and said: "It doesn't matter, the teacher is very cute like this."

Mo Lan didn't blush after being praised, but Geng Gui stretched out his big tongue and came up to lick Xia Chen's face, as if thanking him for the gift.

After all, it is the only beneficiary of Gengar's Super Stone.

Teacher Mo Lan was obviously more interested in Xia Chen's ghost elves than he was.

The elves Zoroark, Dragon Baruto, Sai Fuhao and Blue Flame Blade Demon were specially named.

There was no deliberate research, just close observation and close contact, and a satisfied smile appeared on her face.

Xia Chen deliberately stayed here for half a day to let this woman, who had an almost perverted obsession with ghost elves, play with some of her elves for a while.

In the evening, he stood up to say goodbye and left this gloomy place.

After leaving Beijing University, Xia Chen's next stop was naturally the Qianlong Gym with a deeper connection.

Unfortunately, Long Ye happened to be away, so it was naturally the two sisters Long Yue and Long Li who received Xia Chen.

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"My father has been practicing on Long Island for most of this year. Please forgive me, Mr. Xia."

Long Yue, dressed in elegant old-style Tsing Yi, made tea for Xia Chen with a decent smile on her face.

Xia Chen was speechless, "No, even if Uncle Long is not here, you don't have to be so polite, right? Are you really unfamiliar?"

Long Li said in a clear voice on the side, "You haven't come over to see us a few times throughout the year, but now you feel uncomfortable. It's my sister after all."

The tea talk was not annoying. Xia Chen laughed and shook his head, "What you said is super evolution, super crystallization, and dynamism. How did I not expect you to call you here?"

"Okay, my sister just realizes her mistake."

Long Li came over and said with a smile, "Isn't this a joke with my brother?"

Xia Chen joked: "You are so old, why are you still so childish?"

The little girl smiled happily, thinking that Xia Chen was complimenting her.

After the laughter, Xia Chen and the sisters chatted aimlessly for a while, and then Long Yue very enthusiastically said that he had helped Xia Chen clean up the room and invited him to stay here during this period.

It was hard to refuse such hospitality, and since he had been here more than three or four times, Xia Chen was not polite.

It was almost time for dinner when he came out of Shangjing University, so he cooked in person for the first time in a long time and cooked a table of delicious dishes in return. The atmosphere at the dinner table was excellent and enjoyable.

During the chat, Xia Chen learned that Long Yue was also going to participate in this Donghuang Conference, and the latter was quite critical of Xia Chen's participation.

"It's all your fault for bringing a bunch of monsters to this kind of competition."

Xia Chen felt innocent, "Ah, if you want to be a champion, shouldn't you have the determination and courage to defeat all powerful enemies?"

Long Yue said confidently: "You have read too many chuunier hot-blooded comics. Don't you know how much I weigh? I don't want to be involved in this kind of competition with a guy like you, okay?"

Xia Chen nodded.

I get it, she's the kind of player who says "if you reach the semi-finals, you'll be successful."

But this was also a joke. Xia Chen knew that Long Yue was not the type to be timid before fighting.

Sure enough, after dinner, she dragged Xia Chen to the private battle field to prepare for a hearty elf battle.

Like Chi Hong, several of Long Yue's main elves also have at least gym-level energy intensity.

But the difference is that Long Yue is three years older than Xia Chen.

Having gym-level strength at the age of twenty-two is great, but it's not exactly explosive.

After all, not to mention Xia Chen, there is also Sirona, who reached the eighth master championship at the age of only 25, standing in front of her.

But then again, this year's Donghuang Conference only has gym-level strength, so the probability of entering the semi-finals is not high.

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In the next period of time, Xia Chen did not travel far, but stayed in the Qianlong Gym waiting for the start of the conference qualifiers.

As the quadrennial Donghuang Conference approaches, the cosmopolitan city of Shangjing has gradually gained the atmosphere of a competition.

Promotional slogans for competitions can be seen everywhere on the streets, and it is also a rare long holiday for various gyms——

Registration for the conference has ended, so the gym can naturally close to thank guests and reopen in the spring of next year.

And as time enters November, winter in Shangjing has also arrived.

Unlike the Yuanling Gym, the Qianlong Gym, an old gym that has been passed down for thousands of years, occupies a large area. After all, it also has the attributes of a temple for spreading karma and preaching.

Only Xia Chen and the Long sisters lived in such a large place, which would have been somewhat deserted in the original world. Fortunately, there are elves in this world.

Xia Chen's daily routine was to lie on the recliner and play with his mobile phone, watching the elves playing and playing in the courtyard, occasionally quarreling with Xiao Longli who was chatting over tea, and then refusing to challenge Long Yue to fight with his own elves.

The days were very carefree.

Until those guys found him.

"No, you really came"

Xia Chen looked at the acquaintances in front of him with emptied eyes - Mikri, Dawu, Qinglu, Dakdo

"Are you coming as a group? Since when have you become so familiar?"

Long Yue on the side said angrily: "I came here as soon as I came, why are you talking to the guests like this?"

As she said that, she warmly invited the people who came to visit unexpectedly to come in, "Since we are Xia Chen's friends, everyone can come in and sit down. You're welcome."

Xia Chen was speechless. Why does this tone sound like you are my mother?

In any case, under Long Yue's warm invitation, Mi Keli and the others came to the Qianlong Gym as guests.

These trainers, who had not seen each other for as little as a month or two, or as long as more than a year, had a great time chatting with each other about interesting stories during this time.

"By the way, Darko, is Darkrai still with you?"

Qinglu suddenly asked.

The legendary battle in the finals of the last World Youth Championship was impressive. Later, people also learned that the relationship between Darkrai and Dakdo was more like a master and a disciple than a partner.

That's why Qinglu asked this question.

Dakdo smiled and shook his head, "No, originally Teacher Darkrai wanted to come over when he heard that he could fight Gullton again, but I wanted to see how far I could go with my own strength. , if you want to fight, it doesn’t have to be in this competition, right, Senior Guluton?”

Dakto looked at Gulton with a smile, and said half as a joke, half as an invitation.

This was the first time Gulerton was called senior. He was slightly startled, and then nodded calmly.

"Well, in that case, it doesn't hurt for me to give you some advice."

Therefore, Luton had the confidence to say this.

Although the last battle between the two legendary elves seemed to be evenly matched, that was when he was injured.

If I really have to say it hard, the strength of Darkrai is at most about the same as that of Lightning Bird, and it belongs to the group of legendary elves that are more friendly to the people.

Xia Chen was a little surprised by Darko's choice. He had already been prepared to deal with Darkrai and Latios in this game.

But this is not bad. Then there is no need to send Gulledon and Deoxys to the Donghuang Conference this time. Everyone will return to the most primitive and pure battle between elves.

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Although Long Yue repeatedly emphasized that there were many rooms here and wanted them to stay here, Mi Keli and the others still declined the invitation. After chatting and having dinner, they returned to the hotel as a group.

Xia Chen originally thought that they would challenge him in the next few days before the game, but he never thought that they seemed to have agreed upon it and no one approached him.

Are you hiding your strength and preparing to give yourself a surprise?

I don't know if it's because of my own sentimentality, Xia Chen thought.

But if you don't come, you won't come. Xia Chen is also happy to have some leisure time.

The weather is getting colder, and the flowers, plants and trees in the courtyard of Qianlong Taoist Temple are all bare. The elves like Senbusha Naido, who are a little afraid of the cold, no longer move around, preferring to lie down in the house and enjoy the warm floor in the north. This thing is in It's a rare thing in the South.

Soon, in mid-November, the trials for the Donghuang Conference that countless people have been waiting for are about to begin.

The registration rules for the trials are very simple. You only need to collect eight gym badges, so this means that there are many trainers participating.

Even though the elite trainers in Donghuang only account for 3% of the total number of trainers, there is a huge base of tens of millions, and there are many trainers who are qualified to participate in the Donghuang Conference.

This year there is more attention, and more trainers are joining in the fun. So far, the number of official applicants has reached more than 6,000, which is the highest number ever.

The purpose of the selection competition is to select 64 people from these more than 6,000 people to enter the main competition. It can be called a true selection of the best, one in a hundred.

The competition system adopts a double-elimination elimination system with random draws. To put it simply, every trainer has "two lives". If he loses two games, he can only bid farewell to the competition.

Generally speaking, truly capable people are unlikely to be screened out by this competition system, because even if the favorite loses the first game, the opponents encountered in "Second Life" will all be people who lost the first game. , a truly capable trainer will not lose the second game.

The selection venue is at Beijing University because there are enough venues to accommodate thousands of matches at the same time.

The venue that Xia Chen was allocated was the Yandi Arena on the East Campus. Here, he would compete with more than 800 trainers for eight spots in the main competition.

Before coming, he specifically asked the guys. Unfortunately, none of them were with him.

It's not a coincidence, but it's not a bad thing. After all, there are eight sub-venues in total.

From killing more than 800 people to eight people, theoretically speaking, you need to win at least seven rounds in a row to advance steadily, which means that the schedule will be quite lengthy.

In order to streamline the selection time as much as possible, the first four rounds will adopt a 1v1 competition format.

Anyway, it is a screening. For both parties, everyone sends their own ace elf, which is completely fair.

And because there are so many competitions, there will be no live broadcast involved in the entire selection process.

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Xia Chen's first four rounds of competition went smoothly. Without seeing any masters, he sent out Dian Xi, Vulcan Moth, and Blue Flame Blade Demon, which were elves with insufficient combat experience.

Victory was achieved without any difficulty.

And Xia Chen didn't encounter anything bad like being ridiculed or slapped in the face. On the contrary, when his opponents saw Xia Chen, they all took him to take photos after the game.

This is the end of the first day of competition.

Xia Chen didn't bother to ask the others how their results were. This kind of breakout match couldn't be easier for them, so asking this question seemed to look down on others.

The game format on the second day was 3v3, and the opponent's strength also increased a bit, but it was also limited.

In the first two games, Cangyan Blade Ghost and Dianxi completed one through three very easily.

In the last game, we met a good rainy day team, which gave the Vulcan Moth some strength during the shift.

Facing three well-trained water elves at the gym level, Vulcan Moth struggled very hard, and several times he saw that he was about to come true in vain.

But perhaps out of its competitive nature, it managed to survive and tenaciously won the final round of the trials with a score of one through three.

At this point, Xia Chen won the ticket to the main game of the Donghuang Conference without losing a single point.

On the third day of the selection, all the games were over, and Xia Chen also saw all the players who had advanced to the main round on the official website.

Not surprisingly, the names of Mikoli, Dawu, Dakdo, Qinglu, and Honghong were prominently listed.

In addition, Xia Chen also saw a few familiar names.

Hu Yang, a senior who has graduated from Beijing University in the past two years, Lin Weiyu, his neighbor from Yuanling Gym, quasi-gym master of Yunze Gym, and even the second person from Rotom Mobile Group who he met while traveling in Padiya Miss Nemo.

Xia Chen was not surprised. The circle of elite trainers was so large, so it was normal for them to have many acquaintances in the main competition.

The competition format of the Donghuang Conference is a cruel two-by-two single-elimination competition system, the same as in the animation.

This is also the tradition of all regional competitions.

Xia Chen glanced at the first round match list. Among the thirty-two pairs, few of his acquaintances met in advance.

The only couple is Qinglu and Lin Weiyu.

And his opponent in the first round was a little-known guy named Meng Yingcheng.