I'm popularizing ecology in the Pokémon world.

At 8:53 p.m. that evening, Tokiwa Dojo launched its first wave of online counterattack.

Initially, the public relations team at Tokiwa Dojo was relatively restrained.

They simply contacted Chuimu Academy, to which Chen Mu belongs, and the two parties jointly issued a statement confirming Chen Mu's status as a graduate advisor, proving that he is a legitimate associate professor, not some low-quality internet celebrity who relies on traffic.

They also stated that the entire live-streaming shoot deep in the forest was sponsored and funded by Tokiwa Dojo.

This means that Chen Mu has no need to do anything fake just to gain traffic and make money.

In reality, a joint statement from an official gym of the league and a renowned quartz university would be enough to convince anyone.

Unfortunately, this battlefield is now on the internet.

The woman in the lace dress, who was completely overwhelmed by the massive influx of traffic, just chuckled after seeing the statement, indicating that she still needed to practice.

"Think you can scare people away by showing off your background and connections? Newbie, still too inexperienced. Even if you really are an associate professor, in this pond, Gyarados would have to behave itself!"

He pounded away on the keyboard, a faint smile playing on his lips, as if he were enjoying the thrill of dragging his enemies into the mire and then crushing them with his rich experience.

Since his opponent had revealed himself to be an associate professor, and he knew he couldn't compete with him in terms of academic expertise, he decided to avoid direct confrontation and instead muddy the waters.

He first created numerous alternate accounts to fabricate rumors under the official statement, avoiding all professional questions and specifically attacking Chen Mu's personal character and integrity.

Then he switched back to his main account and posted a message as a "just a passerby," denouncing that some unscrupulous mentors would stop at nothing to cheat for funding.

They even went to the Tokiwa Dojo with a righteous air, pretending to be kind and advising them to quickly change their live streaming partners so they wouldn't be cheated out of their funding by fake data and fake live streams.

Considering his lack of formal education, he even downloaded an AI assistant to help him polish his writing, resulting in a short essay that was sincere and righteous.

Then he opened the various livestreaming groups he had joined, searching for all sorts of acquaintances he had made over the years in the industry.

"It's just showing off connections, you think I don't have any? Newbie, I admit I'm not as good as you as a professor doing academic work, but when it comes to live streaming and networking, you're still a long way off."

This trending topic has topped the charts, and the whole internet is watching the drama unfold. He believes that none of his like-minded friends from the past will be uninterested.

Sure enough, he created a small group with a considerable number of members in just a few minutes.

"Brothers, this is a huge winning streak, just follow me and we'll crush this guy! Our follower count will skyrocket tonight!"

In her very first message after creating the group chat, Lace Dress Monster Power had already started popping champagne.

The current trending search index is 800,000 to 600,000, and I feel like the lace dress guy has the advantage this time!

Everyone in the group echoed the sentiment, praising the group admin's insightful opinion!

Next, they launched a multi-pronged attack, stirring up trouble everywhere, using all sorts of unfounded or completely fabricated accusations to attack certain college professors for academic misconduct, fraudulent fundraising, and academic fraud.

It's as if, in this online frenzy, as long as the volume is loud enough, one can arbitrarily distort the truth.

However, to their utter surprise, as public opinion intensified and showed no signs of abating, Tokiwa Dojo's next move came quickly.

To be precise, this time it's not just the Viridian Gym that's taking action, but the behemoth hidden deep beneath the surface of the Indigo League—Team Rocket!

Around 9 p.m., Lace Dress Monster, still preoccupied with traffic and gaining followers, had no idea what kind of monster she had provoked this time!

The reversal of the wind direction is about to accelerate!

First, at 9:32 PM, Sabrina, the Gym Leader of the Goldenrod City Psychic Gym, one of the sixteen official gyms of the Indigo League, shared a clip of Chen Mu's live stream on her social media account.

Then she specifically captured the scene at the beginning of the live stream where Ralts used her psychic powers to blast open a pit and dig the plastic bottle out of the ground, and added a caption.

"Ralts is well-raised. A trainer who is liked by Ralts so much must not be too bad-hearted."

As the only Psychic-type Gym Leader in both regions of the Indigo League, and also a possessor of psychic power and a natural psychic master, Sabrina's evaluation of Ralts is naturally beyond question.

At the same time, no one dared to stir up trouble or act recklessly in her comment section.

Because this woman can really turn a living person into a doll!

Even if Poké Balls are banned, this woman can easily defeat over 99% of the humans on this planet.

By this time, some netizens who were just watching the drama were starting to sense that what was going on tonight might not be so simple.

But little did they know that this was just the beginning!

Then at 9:37, just five minutes later, another Indigo League official gym leader shared a clip of Chen Mu's Viridian Forest live stream!

The person who forwarded this message is Xia Bo, the owner of the Red Lotus Dojo.

The elderly man didn't take any screenshots; he simply commented after forwarding the video, "I'm getting old, and although I rarely go back, I still hope that the environment in my hometown will improve soon. The young man in the video is quite nice."

Few people know that Blaine, a veteran of Team Rocket's research institute who is older than Giovanni, was also born in Viridian City.

However, he spent most of his life wandering on islands, either on Red Lotus Island or Twin Islands.

Within just five minutes, two official bloggers had already retweeted and voiced their support for Chen Mu.

At this moment, the woman in the lace dress, who had been sitting at her computer closely watching the trending topics, couldn't help but start sweating.

His supposed connections, which he thought could muddy the waters and crush his opponents, were utterly worthless in the face of the bigwigs the other side had successively invited, making him look like a ridiculous joke.

But that's not all!

At 9:49, Lt. Surge, the gym leader of the Electric-type Gym in Konoha City, also shared the video.

Another official league member has joined the team!

After forwarding the video, Ma Xueshi didn't screenshot the images from it. Instead, he posted four bodybuilding photos of himself shirtless, showing off his muscles.

One sheet abducts the biceps brachii, one sheet abducts the latissimus dorsi, one sheet abducts the pectoralis major, and the last sheet abducts the trapezius.

The four photos were captioned: "Men from Kureha City never play games; real men only show their true selves!"

Although not a single word directly mentions the rhythm of Viridian Forest, the comments section here is the most popular of the three gym leaders who have spoken so far.

A group of netizens flocked to the site to watch the spectacle, offering various interpretations of Ma Xueshi's selfie.

The most upvoted comment was—

"See my brother's big arms and pecs? Dare to smear us Kuye people? We'll crush your head in our hands!"

Seeing this, the lace-clad freak was not just sweating, but feeling like she was sitting on pins and needles, sweating profusely.

However, this is still not the end—

At 9:53, Akari, the Gym Leader of Asaka City, shared a clip from Chen Mu's live stream!

In less than half an hour, Team Rocket had mobilized four official gym leaders to share the video and support Chen Mu, even before Giovanni had made a move!

Showing off connections?

The Tokiwa Dojo, which is monitoring this wave of public opinion, said: "It's just a little bit of hardship."