Pokémon: Having just completed the Pokédex, I'm now traversing the world of Beast Taming.

"........."

Chi Hong sat in a coffee shop, staring at Asagiri.

Zhaoxia went back to Jinling with her father, but Zhaowu insisted that she had something to talk to him about.

The two had been sitting for more than twenty minutes. Chaowu didn't say anything, but stared at Chi Hong with a strange look, making Chi Hong's scalp tingle.

"you....."

Asagiri spoke, her brows furrowed as if she were organizing her thoughts.

"What's wrong with me?" Chi Hong asked with a curious look on his face, though he already had some guesses.

Asagiri, the city's guardian and captain of the law enforcement team, will probably start doubting herself again because of the assassin Crimson.

"I'll send you a photo, take a look first." Asagiri took out her phone, found Chi Hong's WeChat, and sent him a photo.

Chi Hong opened it and thought to himself, "Just as I expected."

The photo is quite dark overall, and it shows a man wearing a baseball cap.

The photo was taken from the side; the person had one hand in their coat pocket and the other hand pressing down on the brim of their hat.

However, the side profile captured in the photo was completely blurry, as if shrouded in a fog.

"Who is this...?"

"He's kind of handsome. This photo...could it have been taken secretly by you, Asagiri-nee?"

Chi Hong feigned ignorance and asked, then quickly set the photo as his screensaver. That's just how men are; they often manage to take amazing photos by sneaking a peek!

He himself thinks this photo is really handsome!

"Assassin Crimson, although he's not very famous within the assassin organization and seems to be a newcomer, is someone I know well."

"This kid is really famous!"

As Chaowu spoke, she slammed her hand on the table in anger, her eyes turning fierce as she glared at Chi Hong.

Chi Hong was startled by her, then put his baseball cap back on and said, turning his head to the side, "Alright, I admit it, I am none other than the assassin Crimson!"

"Oh?" A steady voice came from inside. Meng Yi pushed open the door of the coffee shop and strode over.

"This is your younger brother?"

Meng Yi sat down next to Chao Wu and took a small sip of his coffee.

Chi Hong now understood why the two of them had ordered three coffees; it turned out there was also a law enforcement captain involved.

"......"

"I guess so."

"Based on the current trend, he will probably keep calling me 'sister'."

Asagiri said in a calm tone, then pointed to Meng Yi and introduced him, "He's still my colleague. Although we're both team leaders, he's the battalion leader, so he's my superior."

"Hello, Meng Yi." Meng Yi extended his hand to Chi Hong.

"Oh... Hello, Brother Meng, my name is Chi Hong."

Chi Hong shook hands with him lightly, thinking to himself that they were all acquaintances!

"I heard you possess items that allow pets to evolve during battle. Could I see them?"

Meng Yi didn't waste any words and got straight to the point about what he wanted to do.

We need to speed things up!

The pressure from Yanjing was immense, and out of anger, they even considered ceasing recruitment in Jinling altogether!

Crimson really put a lot of pressure on him!

"oh."

Without hesitation, Chi Hong rolled up his sleeves, took off the bracelet that Chaoxia had given him, and placed it on the table.

"If you don't mind, I'd like to take it back and study it. After all, if we can discover something from this, it would be a good thing for all beast tamers."

After Meng Yi finished speaking, he raised his hand to take it.

Asagiri slapped his hand away.

"What does the business of the vast majority of beast tamers have to do with my brother?"

"Don't you think this is a bit too rash on our first meeting, Captain Meng?"

Asagiri's face was cold, and her tone left no room for doubt. If Meng Yi dared to take it by force, she would dare to turn her back on him!

"I'm not..."

"You're not who? So I can secretly teach Chi Hong the enforcement team's pet breeding methods, right?"

Chaowu gave Mengyi no chance to continue arguing, forcefully interrupting him.

"hehe..."

"Asagiri, you're being too sensitive. You understand the saying 'A common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime.' I'm doing this for your brother's sake..."

"Koike, let's go. I'm sorry, I made a mistake today. I shouldn't have brought such a righteous guy to see you." Asagiri still didn't let Meng Yi finish speaking, and directly picked up her bag and stood up.

"Oh...oh oh!"

Chi Hong picked up the bracelet, put it back on his wrist, and followed Asagiri out of the cafe.

After the two left, Meng Yi smiled wryly, took out a small notebook from his pocket, and began to take notes.

"His emotions are too calm; he seems willing to listen to Asagiri."

"The fact that the two names, Chi Hong and Chi Hong, sound similar is now generally considered to be a coincidence."

After writing these two paragraphs, Meng Yi briefly recalled Chi Hong's appearance in his mind and wrote, "He didn't seem to care much about that enhancement item. The fact that he was willing to show it to someone he was meeting for the first time might be because of Asagiri."

"Upon first contact, I judged that the probability of Chi Hong being Crimson was extremely low, but until I see a third person who has achieved Mega Evolution or possesses that stone, I will remain skeptical."

"That's all for now." Meng Yi picked up his coffee, took another sip, and stood up to leave.

"Hello sir, you haven't paid the bill yet. You have three coffees, the total is 250 yuan. Cash or QR code?"

When the coffee shop waiter saw him about to leave, he immediately ran over and asked what was wrong, still holding the receipt in his hand.

Meng Yi's face darkened, and he took the receipt, saying, "Is 249 okay? 250 sounds awful."

"Then 251 it is," the waiter said with a smile.

"......."

With a helpless expression, Meng Yi took out his phone to pay...

On the way, Asagiri's face was ashen, and she didn't say a word until they reached the parking lot and she opened the car door. Then she said, "Don't show that thing to others so easily in the future. You'll attract the attention of people with ill intentions."

"You mean this stone?" Chi Hong raised his wrist, and the special stone on his bracelet gleamed in the sunlight.

He had just discovered that part of his Pokémon bag had been unlocked, including the stones and healing items.

As before, Chi Hong didn't understand the specific conditions for unlocking it. It might be like in the game, where it's unlocked little by little based on the progress of the game content.

After battling Asahi, Blaziken reached level 66, and Mightyena was the first to fall. However, unlike in the game, fallen Pokémon do not gain experience.

The Great Wolfhound has also reached level 38.

"You know perfectly well why I'm asking." Asagiri's expression had turned cold as she opened the car door and got in.

Chi Hong chuckled, walked around to the front of the car, opened the passenger door, got in, and after putting on his seatbelt, he said with a mysterious smile, "Sister Chaowu, why don't we just find a club and you show me all your pets?"

"What do you mean?" Asagiri glanced at the rearview mirror, started the car, and stepped on the gas.

"This stone is nothing special, and its type and use are not necessarily the same."

"I have a few left, maybe one of them will be useful for your pet."

"Sizzle~~~"

Asagi slammed on the brakes, bringing the car to a sudden stop. She turned and stared at Chi Hong without saying a word.

"Um... never mind if you don't need it..." Chi Hong said awkwardly.

"need!"

"Why wouldn't I need it?"

"To be on the safe side, let's go to my family's Chaoyang Club!"

Asagiri floored the accelerator again, turned the steering wheel all the way, and sped off in another direction.