Why would you need a girlfriend when you have Pokémon?

"Are you okay?"

Lowe was holding Liliae, who was obviously still a little dazed. After seeing the current situation clearly, she felt a little embarrassed.

"I'm sorry, I was too nervous just now, um... I'm fine now..."

"Well, that's good~"

As soon as Lowe let go, he put Liliae down, and then...

"… Um, Kamen-nyan, I'm fine now."

Although Lowe said that, the big cat had no intention of letting go. Instead, he seemed to take the opportunity to hold him tighter...

"……Hello!"

Although he didn't know whether to laugh or cry, Lowe gave up arguing after thinking it over. This series of unexpected events was a bit confusing, and he needed to digest the situation first.

At this moment, a golden-red flame emerged from the rubble and melted the rock wall. The girl, Yasha, carried Dr. Solans on one shoulder and successfully escaped with the lava snail, and met up with Lowe.

Lowe looked at Yasha, who was clearly just a young girl, but was able to lift Dr. Solans, a middle-aged man of standard physique, with one hand. He couldn't help but stand in awe.

Girl, you are such a man!

"Okay, we should be safe here for now..."

Yasha put Dr. Solans down. At the same time, she looked at Lowe, sighed, and scratched her hair helplessly.

"Um, that was too confusing just now. Sorry, let me introduce myself again. My name is Yasha, the current gym leader of the Kamuen Town Gym. Thank you for your guidance..."

"Well, my name is Lowe. I was assigned by Mr. Daigo to help. I'm sorry, but I didn't help much in the end..."

Lowe's tone was somewhat apologetic, but Yasha quickly shook her head, "No, no, no, that's not true. If it weren't for Lowe, the meteorite would have been snatched away by the Marine Team a long time ago..."

Although that is what they said, in the end the meteorite was not taken away by the Ocean Team, but by the Lava Team. It seems that there is not much difference in the result, at least for the Alliance.

"I didn't expect that even the hidden Meteor Citizens would show up. And why would the Meteor Citizens assist the guys from the Marine Team? What on earth is going on..."

Over there, Dr. Solans was muttering to himself. It was obvious that the situation just now was too shocking for him and he was still a little overwhelmed for a while.

"There's nothing we can do. Anyway, let's go to the Pokémon Center to take a break, and then discuss what to do next~"

Chapter 143: Even the Capitalists Wept

After returning to the Pokémon Center, the first thing Lowe did was to take a quick shower. Finally, he felt refreshed and energized.

When he returned to the room, he opened the door and saw Yasha seemed to be communicating with someone. She put her hands together and raised them above her head, bowing at a 90-degree angle, her tone full of self-blame...

"…I'm sorry, I didn't protect the meteorite well, and this happened."

"No, this can't all be blamed on you..."

Daigo's voice was heard on the other end of the communication. Lowe calmed himself down and reached out and knocked lightly on the door twice.

"Lowe?"

This room is a rest room specially prepared for Asha. Its size and facilities are much better than those of an ordinary standard room. Of course, this is also a standard benefit. The number of badges obtained is used as the corresponding identity authentication. After obtaining the registered status of an elite trainer, you can get many additional benefits.

As a gym leader, Asha can of course enjoy more benefits, including the ability to hold advanced balls that only gym leaders can use and have a higher capture rate than red and white balls and super balls. It is the Poké Ball with the highest capture rate except for the Master Ball and a bunch of special Tree Balls in special circumstances.

There are many other additional benefits, such as the rest room specially prepared in the Pokémon Center, which has complete facilities and a good environment.

Of course, these benefits are definitely not free. Becoming a Pokémon trainer means that you have, to a certain extent, assumed some responsibility for helping the Alliance maintain order. As for gym masters and the Four Heavenly Kings, they are specifically responsible for most of the security work within their jurisdiction.

Although in many places, such a setting will inevitably breed a group of parasites who are just sitting there doing nothing but eating the salary, this is the world of Pokémon. Basically, every extra benefit the League spends on these elite trainers and gym owners is rewarded with equal or even far greater labor.

The gym owner's daily work is really dedicated and hardworking, and the capitalists are moved to tears when they see it...

So naturally, ordinary trainers will never feel dissatisfied about being treated differently. Since they have the ability to do this job, they should of course enjoy better benefits.

So, when she failed to complete the work entrusted by the alliance, Yasha's attitude was full of self-blame. The room should have been well soundproofed, but Lowe could faintly hear her self-blame and apology through the door...

After Lowe walked into the room, Daigo on the other end of the communication line immediately greeted him, and Lowe also spoke apologetically.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't help you this time..."

"No..." However, Daigo replied calmly, "...Rowe was originally invited to help us. You have no obligation to be responsible for this. Besides, this is also a misjudgment on our part. If we had known this would happen, we should have moved the meteorite to another place to protect it from the beginning."

Taking into account the hard combat power in this situation, the Alliance arranged the gym leader Yasa, and Lowe, whose hard combat power is comparable to that of a gym leader. This is equivalent to arranging two gym leaders at one time, which is considered quite a big deal.

Under normal circumstances, such a situation would not occur more than twice in a year, which could be considered a major annual event.

If we look closely at the opposing lineup, there is the leader and two cadres of the Aqua Team, the leader and cadres of the Magma Team, and a mysterious man of unknown identity carrying a strange Pokémon called "Attribute: Empty".

Although in terms of lineup, if the opponents join forces, our strength will indeed be relatively weak, but the problem is that the opponents themselves are not in the same group.

When the Lava Team and the Ocean Team meet, they will inevitably fight. That mysterious man seems to be a third-party force. In fact, our combat power is not weaker than any opposing team.

Anyway, if a fight really breaks out, it will not be a problem for us to protect the meteorite if we cooperate well.

The problem was that the location was not chosen well. The battle took place in a large cave, which was extremely restrictive in terms of movement. The fighting was restricted and the fighters were completely unable to move freely.

What's worse, the final gas explosion could threaten everyone, all because of the narrow space in the big cave.

If this happened on a large plain with ventilation on all sides, any gas explosion would be blown away by any gust of wind.

This brings up another question: since the environment is so harsh, why not choose to move the meteorite to a safer place for protection?

This involves three issues. The first issue is, as mentioned before, the meteorite itself has special significance. It has been buried in the Meteor Falls for thousands of years. If it is to be moved anywhere else, it will have to take into account many aspects of the impact.

The second problem was that there was actually not enough time. As soon as we found out that the Marine Team was planning to take the meteorite, they had already started to take action.

The third and most critical issue is that the terrain inside the large cave is complex, and hiding the meteorite inside should actually be somewhat of a safety net.

Who knew that there was a descendant of the Meteor People on the opposite side, who knew the internal environmental structure of the Meteor Falls very well, so that this natural maze could not stop the other party at all.

"Wait a minute..." Lowe immediately thought of a question, "The Ocean Team can be said to have someone to help them, so they were able to find the meteorite so quickly, but what about the Lava Team?"

Lowe himself went through the waterfall. This route had fewer forks, and there was also Gardevoir's telekinesis detection. It was also because the fight between Asha and the members of the Ocean Team gave Gardevoir a target to detect, so it was able to find it so quickly.

Under normal circumstances, even if Lowe went around the road behind the waterfall, it would take him some time to find it.

It seems that the Lava Team did not come from the road behind the waterfall, but came directly from other directions. How did they find the way through this maze-like cave?

Good luck? Or did they have someone to lead the way?

"I'm not sure about that for now, but the Lava Team arrived the latest. They might have really relied on telekinesis to find their way here. Didn't they also bring two Dream-Inducing Tapirs?"

"Well, that's a possibility. Then the problem is the descendants of the Meteor People and that mysterious person. The Pokémon that mysterious person brought with him cannot be scanned in the Pokédex anyway..."

Indeed, no one at the scene recognized the Pokémon the other person was carrying. It was definitely a mysterious Pokémon that had never been recorded in any data before.

Speaking of this, it naturally reminds me of the things that have been making a lot of noise recently...

"...In other words, Lowe suspects that the Pokémon the mysterious man is carrying... is an Ultra Beast?"

Chapter 144 Artificial Pokémon

"Lowei suspects that Pokémon is an Ultra Beast?"

"No, it shouldn't be... After all, it didn't have that kind of aura when it appeared, and there's no record of an Ultra Beast being captured so far, right?"

Indeed, although there may be exceptions to all of this, at least as things stand now, Attribute: Sora is not an Ultimate Beast.

...However, it cannot be said that it has nothing to do with Ultra Beasts, because in a sense, Attribute: Empty is an artificial Pokémon that was specially created to deal with Ultra Beasts.

"I think that strange Pokémon is not an Ultra Beast, but more like an artificial Pokémon!"

"?!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Asha and Daigo on the side were immediately moved, for one reason... "Artificial Pokémon" is an absolute taboo in this world.

Just like artificial humans... the technology has actually been cracked, but because artificial humans involve too many ethical issues, this technology is sealed in most cases. This also includes human body modification. In any world view where the three views are still normal, this is an absolute taboo.

Not to mention the worldview of Pokémon. Not only humans, but also the modification of Pokémon is also considered to be an equal sin. So far, the most famous example involving artificial Pokémon is the masterpiece of Team Rocket...

...a classic in the history of Pokémon, the protagonist of "Mewtwo Strikes Back", the highest-grossing Pokémon theatrical film...the absolutely popular Pokémon "Mewtwo"...is a man-made Pokémon.

This work also explores many profound and serious contents for the world view of TV animation, including the power and awakening of artificial life.

All in all, part of the reason why Team Rocket is so notorious is because they conducted experiments to transform Pokémon, which was considered an inhumane act.

Artificial Pokémon, this is an absolutely taboo topic, so much so that even Daigo, the champion, and Asha, the gym leader, remained silent for a while.

"This is not something that can be concluded lightly. If this is really an artificial Pokémon, the nature of the matter is completely different!"

"Yeah, but given the current situation... I think there's a very high chance that the Pokémon is an artificial Pokémon!"

Logically speaking, Lowe certainly knew the involvement and interests behind this, so under normal circumstances, he would not dare to make such a conclusion casually.

But after all, Lowe had read the script and clearly knew the setting of the attribute: empty, so he dared to clearly express that he knew the other party must be an artificial Pokémon.

This made Daigo silent...

"… Artificial Pokémon, apart from Team Rocket, is there really any other organization that has such technological capabilities?"

That's right, apart from the ethical issues of artificial Pokémon, the bigger problem is the technology. So far, there are probably only two organizations that can be confirmed to possess such crazy technology.

One is the former Team Rocket, who created the artificial Pokémon Mewtwo by studying the genes of "Mew", and the Crimson Island Research Institute where Mewtwo was born was completely destroyed. Xia Bo, the project leader, is still atonement for his actions.

The other organization is naturally the Alliance. Of course... the Alliance only confirmed that it has the technical capabilities to do so, but has never actually created artificial Pokémon.

The embodiment of technological strength is the "fossil resurrection technology"... DNA can be extracted from fossils and cultivated into healthy adults. With such technology, it would certainly not be difficult to create artificial Pokémon.

However, this black technology is firmly controlled by the alliance and is currently only used in scientific research fields such as fossil resurrection.

In addition, there seems to have been an ancient kingdom in the super ancient times that once created artificial Pokémon, but they were not biological Pokémon, but Pokémon similar to "Mechanical Golem".

The types of Pokémon are already very broad. Pokémon like the three-in-one Magneto have basically nothing to do with "flesh and blood".

In short, excluding ambiguous forms like mechanical puppets, Attribute: Sora is undoubtedly a living being. So, what other organization has such technical capabilities?

In fact, the answer is already obvious...

"...The Ether Foundation"

Daigo couldn't help but sigh, and even the logical chain was very complete. Didn't Lillie decide to escape from the Aether Foundation because she discovered that her mother seemed to be using Pokémon to make living specimens?

The Ether Foundation already has in-depth technical research in related fields such as biotechnology and medicine. Using Pokémon to create living specimens also seems to be a preliminary research for artificial Pokémon.