Bottom-tier trainers in the Pokémon world

"Roar--"

As soon as the Charizard appeared, it immediately spread its wings and roared excitedly, seemingly not caring much about the rainy weather.

The flames on its tail were not affected by the rain.

"Are you alright? You have a fever..." Du asked hesitantly.

"It's nothing." Xia Yan's gaze was serious.

Kadabra's Pokémon egg is still in the club's incubator!

Because of the rain, carrying the Pokémon egg with him is not a good choice. Besides, he goes out to catch Pokémon with Weedle during the day, and carrying the Pokémon egg could easily lead to some unavoidable accidents. In addition, the club has a special Pokémon incubator, which is safer.

After all, he couldn't possibly carry a Pokémon egg around everywhere. Otherwise, if he encountered an incident similar to Kadabra again, it would undoubtedly affect his actions, making it impossible for him to dodge flexibly or... roll around like a donkey.

That dodge saved his life.

Most importantly, it was because the club provided the incubator for free!

But he never expected that the root of all these problems would lie in the Silver Elf Battle Club.

Could it really be him?

But why hasn't he taken action against himself yet?

Was the Yundira incident really a coincidence?

Xia Yan still had too many questions in his mind.

"What's wrong with you? I'm still completely confused."

Du was somewhat bewildered, but out of trust in Xia Yan, he still summoned the Charizard.

Let's ride together on the back of the Charizard.

"Go back first, I'll tell you on the way."

Du hesitated for a moment, then nodded and patted the Charizard's wings, which immediately flapped and took flight.

"Is this incident... related to Tom Rukki and Zapdos?" Lance couldn't help but ask.

He also vaguely sensed some key to the truth of the matter from Xia Yan's reaction.

The key to connecting all these things.

"Yes!"

Chapter Sixty-Four: The Background

Charizard flies extremely fast; with a gentle flap of its wings, it leaps away.

The two people sitting on the back of the fire-breathing dragon were a bit cramped, and the biting cold wind and howling rain lashed against their faces.

Taking a high-speed flight on a flying sprite in the rain is really not a good experience.

"Waaah..."

The unicorn worm crawled to Xia Yan's injured right arm and kept spitting out silk threads to wrap around Xia Yan's wound, gradually covering it up.

The wound is large, and the scabs that had formed have all broken off. If it gets wet from the rain again, it will probably get infected.

Even in this world, tetanus is not a minor illness.

The unicorn looked heartbroken; it wished it had been the one who was injured instead of Xia Yan.

Every time Xia Yan's arm is wounded, it is a baptism for his heart and a testament to his determination to achieve his goals.

“Xia Yan…” Du also saw the Unicorn Bug’s behavior and looked guilty.

"It's nothing." Xia Yan's expression remained unchanged, the rain lashing his face, chilling him to the bone.

"So, what about this matter..."

Getting back to the main point, Xia Yan lowered his head to avoid getting wind in his mouth, took a deep breath, and slowly said, "I work at the Silver Elf Battle Club, did you know that?"

"I just found out."

Du didn't investigate Xia Yan's background; after all, there's no need for so many complicated things between friends.

“Our club has a manager named Loto,” Xia Yan added.

"Loto?" Watari still looked puzzled.

“Tom Ruoqi, take the first and third characters and swap their order,” Xia Yan explained.

"Ruo Tuo? Luo Tuo? This is a coincidence, isn't it? Just taking two characters from the name and reversing them as a cover?"

Du wiped the rain off his face.

Flying in the rain was a first for him.

Xia Yan didn't continue to explain the name because it was indeed a coincidence, but changed the subject, "The photo you showed me shows him dressed in a suit and tie, neatly dressed, with his hair combed back, and not a single detail was overlooked. My supervisor, Loto, was dressed in the same way."

Upon hearing this, Du's brows slowly furrowed.

If a similar name could be considered a coincidence, then considering the second outfit, it's no longer a coincidence.

In particular, a person's behavior and habits are very difficult to change.

But just wearing clothes... isn't that a bit too much to ask?

Xia Yan continued, "That's two points. There's a third point. This morning when I went to see Loto in his office, I noticed that his usually impeccably dressed leather shoes were stained with some black, hard-to-see mud, which looked very similar to the mud we were in earlier."

Furthermore, he wasn't at the club yesterday, which, based on the timeline, is very likely the time the accident occurred.

"this......"

One point might be a coincidence, two points could be explained, but when Xia Yan brought up the third connection, it was enough to explain a lot.

"Fourthly, regarding the 'pure gold feather' you mentioned, I have seen Loto use a pure gold feather as a pen to sign his name on several occasions."

Another point.

Du slowly widened his eyes.

Even he couldn't think of any rebuttal.

Four points can prove so much more.

Xia Yan didn't really care about these things, since it was hard to connect Loto and Tom Ruoqi, and they seemed to be completely unrelated people.

However, because of the Yongjira incident, Xia Yan paid special attention to this Loto supervisor.

The mission involving the Yundira incident was arranged by Director Loto, and whether it was intentional or unintentional, he still doesn't know.

Therefore, the suspicious Xia Yan inevitably paid more attention to and observed this Director Loto.

This is also why he was able to spot the mud on Loto's shoes.

This was such a subtle detail that even Loto, who is a germaphobe, hadn't really noticed, but he did, which shows how much he cared.

But it is precisely because of this detail.

Seeing the muddy ground at the accident site and the pure gold feather that Du mentioned connected the cause and effect.

If Loto's goal was to use this pure gold feather to summon Zapdos...

Based on this established result, the previous series of questions can all be explained.

For example, in the power plant incident, what was the purpose of the person who stole the missing converter?

It was to use that conversion device to activate the pure gold feather and summon Zapdos.

For example, a power plant is such a large and important place, so who could control it so quietly?

Xia Yan and Du both speculated that it was the Rockets.

Loto had once shown the Rockets' "R" logo right in front of him.

For example, what controls a power plant?

Hypnotic Baku and Kadabra, both products of the laboratory, must play an important role in this, and if Roto joins Team Rocket, with his potential to become one of the Elite Four, he will definitely have the authority and ability to access these resources.

Don't forget, the task of hypnotizing the tapir was also assigned to Xia Yan by Loto.

The final warning from Hypnos and Kadabra to be careful of "Zzzzzzz" wasn't about any other Electric-type Pokémon; it was most likely about Zapdos...

However, Xia Yan didn't tell Du about any of these things.

The first four points alone are enough to explain a lot of issues; whether or not the rest are discussed is irrelevant.

Moreover, the excessive proliferation of Electric-type Pokémon in the Goldenrod City black market is probably also due to this pure gold feather.

Perhaps Loto had already tried to summon Zapdos with the pure gold feather, but failed for some reason, so he turned his attention to the power plant, or rather, the power plant's conversion device.

However, this has attracted many Electric-type Pokémon to approach Saffron City.

They came because they longed for Zapdos, one of the legendary three legendary birds, and for the Zapdos that controls the thunder in the Kanto region or even more regions.

They sensed the presence of Zapdos in some unseen way.

When you connect the dots like this, the truth about many things seems to come to light.

Xia Yan's face was grim.

My mind raced, connecting all the things I'd encountered, the big and small details I'd noticed, and the experiences I'd had throughout.

Supervisor Loto!

That's the prospective Heavenly King who betrayed the alliance!

His goal is to summon Zapdos!

When Xia Yan returned yesterday, Loto wasn't there. Now that I think about it, he probably went out to deliver the wool from the Mare sheep that the first heir of the Ito family, Kenta Ito, had brought back.

Mare sheep wool can store electricity!

The sudden appearance of lightning could very well be a sign that Loto has already begun his operation.

"Du, can you go a little faster?"

Now, all he's worried about is that elf egg.

Even with his meticulous thinking, without the conditions of mud and pure gold feathers, he truly couldn't connect Loto and Tom Ruoqi.

The connection between the names was something he had just thought of, so the only information he had before was a photo.