Bottom-tier trainers in the Pokémon world

However, he quickly realized that Wataru also seemed to be a user of the power of Tokiwa, but he hadn't seen him show it yet.

Watching Wataru walk ahead, his cloak billowing, Natsuhiko realized the gap in strength between them.

Dratini is probably just one of Lance's weaker Pokémon right now, while Weedle is all of Xia Yan's life.

As he was thinking, Xia Yan suddenly laughed.

"What's the point of comparing him to Watari? They're not even from the same world."

If he was a trainer who slowly climbed up from the bottom, then Lance was someone who stood at the very top of the trainer ranks from the very beginning, so the two are not comparable.

"What are you laughing at?" Du suddenly turned his head and saw Xia Yan's slightly self-deprecating smile, and couldn't help but ask.

"It's nothing, I just felt that the collaboration just now was quite good," Xia Yan replied casually.

But Watari wholeheartedly agreed with his statement.

“I think so too. I think we are simply natural partners. Even though we have never fought each other, we can have such a good understanding.”

“Perhaps this is the self-awareness required for battle,” Xia Yan shrugged.

Du, however, fell into deep thought.

Although the battle just now was insignificant, it gave him considerable inspiration.

As the two ventured deeper into the forest and experienced several minor skirmishes with wild Pokémon, they finally spotted the power plant hidden deep within the woods that supplied electricity to the entire Goldenrod City.

The thick, gray walls concealed everything inside.

As you get closer, you can clearly feel that the number of wild Pokémon around you has decreased significantly.

"Something's not right," Xia Yan said, frowning.

"what happened?"

Xia Yan raised his hand, and on his arm, the fine hairs seemed to be standing on end.

"Although there is a magnetic field around the power plant and there are bound to be a lot of free electrons, the power plant must have protective measures. The fact that just getting close to it is enough to directly affect objects means that there must be some problems inside the power plant."

Du pursed his lips.

After being pointed out by Xia Yan, he finally realized what was happening.

"It seems the problem might really be at the power plant. Let's go check it out."

Now that we're already here, it would be a waste of our time not to go and take a look.

The two approached cautiously.

"Kuoyi~~"

As they approached the power plant's perimeter wall, a slightly mechanical yet cheerful voice reached their ears.

There was a gray, mechanical-like, round object with an eye in the middle, a horseshoe-shaped magnet with opposite poles on each side of its body, a large screw on its head, and two small screws on the front of its body.

Magnemite!

Electric and Steel type spirits.

However, Magnemite didn't seem to notice the two of them. It just drifted past them with a somewhat dazed look in its eyes, floating from one side of the wall to the other, wandering around erratically.

Xia Yan and Du exchanged a glance.

The little Magnemite was acting strangely, but since it didn't affect them, they left it alone for the time being.

The two climbed over an inconspicuous side door and entered without any hindrance.

The power station was well-lit, with virtually no difference from being in sunlight.

The only problem is...

It's so quiet.

It's too quiet.

This place, which should be bustling with machinery at high speeds, a place that should be filled with constant noise, is too quiet, almost too quiet...

Quiet.

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Chapter 43 He got all worked up

"Be careful," Watari couldn't help but remind him.

"Ah."

Without needing any prompting, he became extremely alert upon entering the power plant, even more so than he had been in the forest.

Fortunately, there was a map on the wall of the power station, which prevented the two from wandering aimlessly through the complex building structure.

After walking around in circles for a while, Du suddenly stopped, his brows furrowed.

"Xia Yan, not to mention the silence, why is there so little reaction from the city of Jinhuang when such an important place as a power plant had an accident?"

Xia Yan couldn't help but roll her eyes at him.

Brother, your reaction is way too slow!

They should have considered this issue from the moment they decided to come to the power plant.

Seeing Xia Yan's expression, Du knew he had misunderstood and quickly explained, "I didn't mean that the Alliance's reaction in Golden City was wrong. I meant, what method did they use to completely cut off all news from the entire power plant?"

Xia Yan understood what he meant.

After a moment's thought, he asked, "As far as you know, there should be trainers stationed at the power plant, right?"

"Correct."

A power plant is such an important place, there must be trainers stationed there, no doubt about it.

At the same time, Wataru added, "Even without trainers, there are still so many Electric-type Pokémon in the power plant..."

Xia Yan nodded, slowly analyzing as he thought, "Normally, when we get close, a Pokémon should come out to stop us, and the Magnemite that appeared earlier should be one of the Pokémon responsible for this task, but its condition..."

The two recalled the strange behavior of the little Magnemite.

Since it didn't have any impact on them, the two didn't think about it in detail, but now that they've thought about it again...

Suddenly, the two looked at each other and almost simultaneously expressed their thoughts.

"Hypnosis!"

Moreover, it must be a large-scale, silent hypnosis to isolate the entire power plant from the outside world without the help of the spirits and staff.

At the same time, they created some line problems within the city to make the alliance members believe that the problem lay in the city's lines, rather than at the power plant as the source.

It delayed things for a considerable amount of time.

"So... what do they want to get from the power plant?" Xia Yan thought to himself.

Du thought for a moment but couldn't figure it out. He shook his head and said, "There are too few factors. It's impossible to guess. I think the most important thing now is to restore the operation of the entire power plant."

Power outages have a significant impact on a city like Golden City, which relies heavily on technology.

If medical equipment malfunctions, transportation will be disrupted, and technology companies will suffer losses as a result.

It could cause huge economic losses and casualties among people and Pokémon in just one hour.

Xia Yan also felt that restoring the power plant as soon as possible was the most important thing, so he didn't think about it any further.

After taking a few steps, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind, and he quickly asked, "By the way, Wataru, that prospective Heavenly King you mentioned who betrayed the Alliance...?"

It is possible for a Psychic-type Pokémon of Champion rank to apply widespread hypnosis.

However, it would be somewhat presumptuous to assume that it's just a matter of hypnotizing a few Psychic-type Pokémon.

Xia Yan had considered the hypnotic tapir with special abilities in the slums. Its abilities were special enough, but it was still far from being able to do this.

Du continued walking, waved his hand, and said definitively, "It's not him. His name is Tom Ruoqi. You may have seen him in the news before... Well, maybe not. He's not very famous, but I can assure you that he's not a trainer who specializes in Psychic-type Pokémon. In fact, none of his Pokémon are Psychic-type."

As he spoke, he took out a somewhat blurry photo.

The person in the photo is clearly visible, wearing a sharp, neat, and tailored suit. He is somewhat thin, and his hair is neatly combed and seems a bit long, but his features are very blurry. Only his serious, unsmiling mouth can be vaguely seen.

do not know.

Since it wasn't him...

The only person Xia Yan could think of was Sabrina, the Gym Leader of Saffron City, a Psychic who specializes in Psychic-type Pokémon and is also a high-ranking member of Team Rocket.

If it were Sabrina, it wouldn't be difficult for her to do this either.

Is it the Rockets?

"Waaah!"

"Mmm!"

Just as the two were approaching the central control area of ​​the power plant, the Weasel and the Dratini shouted at the same time.

It turns out that the two Pokémon were indeed more focused than their trainer.

But when Xia Yan and Du walked around the corner, they saw what the two elves were paying attention to.

He instantly bristled.

That's right, it's a physical outburst, and of course, it's also accompanied by a slight psychological outburst.

A group of small Magnetons were floating in mid-air, densely packed and piled up, completely blocking the passage they were about to take.

Not a single gap was left.

As for the fumes getting all pricked up, it's because Magnemite is a Pokémon that levitates using magnetism. When a group of Magnemites gather here, the magnetism is undeniable.

The hair on Xia Yan and Du's bodies stood on end uncontrollably.

The Magnemites didn't launch an attack, and they probably couldn't even see Xia Yan and Du.

But now things have become a bit tricky.

How to do?

I knew from looking at the map that this was the only way to the control room, but with such a group of Magnemite blocking the way, even Wataru was a little scared, let alone Natsuhiko.

No matter how you count them, there must be at least close to a hundred, right?