I, Zhulan's childhood sweetheart, was trapped in Xicui.

Xu Li agreed with this statement.

"If you are a challenger, please sign up quickly and don't waste time!"

At the front desk of the gym, a capable woman with short hair and hoop earrings saw Xu Li and Xi Jiana standing at the front desk but didn't say anything, and said impatiently.

She was accompanied by the stern-looking King Slow.

Xu Li smiled and said, "I heard that Gym Master Liu is the most proficient ice-attribute trainer. Unfortunately, I got frostbite a few days ago, so I came here specially to visit him and ask Liu for advice on how to treat frostbite..."

"What kind of excuse is that! Shouldn't you ask Miss Joy for frostbite treatment? Why... uh..." She suddenly paused, staring blankly at Xu Li. She thought of something and quickly said, "Wait, wait a minute, I'll go ask... the owner."

After a while, the woman came back.

"The owner invites you in."

"Let's go..."

Following her all the way, it was obvious that the road was not to the gym challenge, but to the road passing by display cabinets with ice sculptures on both sides.

"Is this... what you meant by watching ice sculptures, Xu Li? It's amazing!"

As she was almost at the end of the road, Xijiana couldn't help but lie down in front of an ice sculpture of a baby dragon that was looking up at the sky, as if it was longing to fly. Her feet seemed to be stuck.

"This Mr. Liu must be a great ice sculpture artist, as he can carve such vivid works." She couldn't help but praise.

I really want to ask Dragonite to come out and see the ice sculpture of myself as a child.

Unfortunately, the aisles here are a bit narrow and not enough to accommodate slightly larger Pokémon, and the temperature is too low, which Dragonite will definitely not like.

However, Shijiana did not call out her own Pokémon, but Xu Li called out Alola Vulpix and let it stand on his shoulders to admire these ice sculptures together.

"Can you learn anything?"

"Woo!" Vulpix looked at the ice sculpture with concentration and seriousness, then... shook his head.

At this moment, the sound of rollers sliding on the ground was heard...

"Well, thank you for the compliment, little girl."

A little old man in a wheelchair came slowly forward, tapping the ground with his cane. A sleepy little wild boar was lying on his lap.

"Gam, you should go back first."

"Yes!...Master." Gam, the capable woman who had just brought Xu Li here, responded and then left directly.

After she left, Liu Bo looked directly at Xu Li, and his eyes gradually became sharper.

"Your frostbite...hasn't it been cured? Why did you come to me? I don't have any remedy for frostbite."

"But the person who caused my frostbite has not been dealt with yet..." Xu Li smiled, looking at Liu Bo's increasingly dangerous eyes and the little boar's hazy eyes, "So I came."

In front of me was Uncle Liu, a thin man curled up in a wheelchair.

I'm afraid that other people's first reaction when seeing him would be "Wow, how can this guy be so small? He's even smaller than a ten-year-old child!" Moreover, Uncle Liu has difficulty walking and often needs to rely on a wheelchair or crutches to move around.

Even though they were both masters of ice attributes, the alliance found it difficult to associate him with the masked man who was notorious in the Kanto and Johto regions.

"I'm not here to fight." Xu Li shook his head, walked to Liu Bo unscrupulously, and rubbed the little wild boar on his knees.

Commented: "It feels good."

At this time, the little boar was looking at Xu Li in confusion, and a question mark slowly appeared in his head.

Chapter 118: Liu Bo's Visit

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Xu Li. I won't say much else. You should have researched me." Xu Li lifted Alola Vulpix from his shoulder and held it in his arms. He glanced at the little boar that was ready to attack. "Don't be nervous."

Uncle Liu frowned and looked at Xu Li.

He did investigate Xu Li.

But he had no idea why Xu Li came here alone, and it was obvious that he knew his identity.

Thinking of Xu Li's bad behavior in the oak forest, Liu Bo wished that the little boar could use a blast of ice to take Xu Li away cleanly.

However, the bursts of laughter coming from Gengar in the wheelchair below made Liu Bo dare not move rashly. After all, his body was no different from that of an ordinary old man.

So Liu Bo watched Xu Li's behavior without taking any action, but Liu Bo had no idea what his purpose was.

Liu Bo asked, "What exactly do you want to do?"

Xu Li looked around the corridor and did not answer Liu Bo's question. Instead, he said, "Won't you invite us in to sit down?"

Uncle Liu snorted, stared at Xu Li for a moment, then slowly made way: "Then come in."

Then two little sea lions appeared to help Liu Bo push the wheelchair, leading Xu Li and Xi Jiana to continue moving forward in the gym.

Xi Jiana whispered in Xu Li's ear, her hot breath touching his cheek: "Why do I feel like there's some conflict between you and this Master Liu?"

"Conflict? No, I have great respect for Master Liu, who carries the demeanor of an elder." Xu Li smiled and then said to the figure in the wheelchair in front of him, "Master Liu, we shouldn't have any conflicts, right?"

Liu Bo: “…”

He doesn't want to talk.

"You still say there is no contradiction, I'm afraid it's not..." Xijiana complained silently, then her face froze instantly, her body suddenly shook, and she jumped up with a wow.

Xu Li silently withdrew his frozen hand from Xijiana's neck.

Soon, Xu Li and Xijiana followed Liu Bo to a yard, which was full of unfinished ice sculptures. There was also a large lake on the side, where Pokémon from the gym, such as Dragonite, lived.

"I'm usually the only one here, so I don't have much to offer you." Uncle Liu sat down on a cushion at the edge of the yard and looked at Xu Li. "Tell me, what's the matter with you coming to see me?"

Xu Li smiled slightly: "Of course, I am here to deal with the masked man who caused my frostbite and disband the masked army."

"You..." Upon hearing Xu Li's words, Liu Bo's eyes immediately became dangerous and he made an attacking gesture.

"Don't worry." Xu Li looked at the dragon swimming in the lake calmly. "Can you tell me about it and its parents?"

"..."

Uncle Liu stared at Xu Li for a long time before slowly saying, "...Okay."

"Binghe!" He called out to the dragon, and the dragon named Binghe immediately responded.

"Woo..."

Binghe slowly came ashore, stopped beside Liu Bo, raised his neck and slowly licked Liu Bo's face.

After a moment's silence, Uncle Liu slowly began to tell a story.

It was exactly the same as what Xu Li knew.

The young Liu Bo was good friends with Ohgi, Kikuko, and Gangtie, but in an accident he lost his two beloved dragons, Laplis and Laplius, who were also the parents of the dragon Hyoga in front of him. This incident dealt a huge blow to Liu Bo, and he gradually alienated himself from Ohgi and the others.

"I still can't forget Laplis and Laplius..." Speaking of this incident, Liu Bo's eyes showed nostalgia, and he stroked the Superior Dragon with his hand.

But Xu Li couldn't understand, so he suddenly interrupted: "So that's why you transformed into a masked man, kidnapped children from all over the place, and injured your old friend, just to capture Celebi and reverse time to save your two dragons?"

"...Yes, I admit it." Uncle Liu pursed his lips, without refuting. After a pause, he sighed, "You know so much about me..."

Of course Xu Li knew Liu Bo's story, he had read the comics.

To be honest, Liu Bo's actions, capturing Ho-Oh, capturing Lugia, capturing Celebi, and going back in time to save his Pokémon, these are not evil plans at all, they are just things that a normal trainer can do.

But Liu Bo's mistake was that he used violence, injuring his old friend Gangtie, and broke up four families for his own selfish desires, embarking on an extreme path.

Xu Li tilted his head: "Come out."

"Woobi~!"

Celebi immediately flew out of Xu Li's Poké Ball, flapping its elf-like wings, flew to Xu Li's shoulder, and looked at Liu Bo with hostility.

"Celebi..." Liu Bo's eyes widened in disbelief, "The GS Ball has clearly been destroyed."

He first took great pains to subdue Lugia and Ho-Oh, then collected children with the potential to be excellent trainers from all over the place and trained them to form the Masked Army. He did all this just to subdue Celebi, a mythical Pokémon.

He also went to the oak forest alone many times, but because he didn't have a GS ball, he was often hit hard while trying to catch it.

And now... Celebi came out of someone else's Poké Ball in front of him, looking very intimate.

Moreover, Liu Bo noticed that the Poké Ball that Celebi appeared in was the most ordinary red and white ball! ?

Liu Bo couldn't accept it.

Xu Li caressed Celebi and said, "You've used so many violent methods, but have you ever thought that if you could use your own feelings to empathize with Celebi, you might be able to move him and fulfill your wish?"

"After all, Celebi isn't some bad Pokémon."

"Woobi!" Celebi nodded in agreement. If Liu Bo didn't start fighting as soon as they met, but instead gave it delicious food like the energy cubes Xu Li gave it, Celebi might have directly agreed to Liu Bo's request.

"..." Liu Bo listened to Xu Li's words in a daze for a long time. Then, tears slowly flowed from his eyes and he murmured, "Did I do something wrong..."

"If it's not you who else is at fault?!" Xu Li interrupted Liu Bo's sadness.

"..."

"So I came here to pull you back on the right path. It's really a tough job." Xu Li complained, then looked at Liu Bo, "So do you want Binghe to reunite with his parents?"

"If it's okay with you," Liu Bo said, silent for a moment. "I will personally surrender to the Alliance, and the Masked Legion will be disbanded."

"Surrendering yourself is not enough." Xu Li shook his head, then looked at Celebi and stuffed an energy cube into it, "Please."

"Woo~!" Celebi, who had the energy block in his mouth, responded vaguely, then rolled his body into the sky, and a space-time tunnel appeared above the yard.

The scene that emerged in the time tunnel was a glacier blown by the cold wind, and the two dragons inside attracted Liu Bo's attention.

"This is... where I lost them." Liu Bo murmured with tears streaming down his face.

Binghe couldn't help but let out a cry, but his body was attracted by the time and space tunnel. His whole body floated towards the direction of the time and space tunnel, entered the scene in the time and space tunnel, and hugged and cried with his parents.

Seeing Binghe reunited with his parents, Liu Bo seemed to have let go of something in his heart. He looked at Binghe's parents with nostalgia in his eyes and hummed the song of riding a dragon softly.

This was written by Liu Bo's friend to encourage Liu Bo when he lost his dragon, but unfortunately it had no effect on Liu Bo at that time.

Afterwards, the space-time tunnel slowly closed under Celebi's control.

"Thank you, Xu Li." Liu Bo also slowly closed his eyes: "Maybe I hated you very much before, but now, I am very grateful."

"Now, you can take me to the Alliance and claim the credit." Then, Uncle Liu slowly closed his eyes and gently stroked the little wild boar on his knees. "Help me take good care of the little wild boar and the messenger bird. They are quite powerful and will obey you."

Xu Li: “…”

Liu Bo placed a level 900 boar and a level 500 messenger bird in front of Xu Li. To be honest, Xu Li was really tempted.

But after thinking about it, Xu Li shook his head: "I still prefer the Pokémon I captured myself, and... the Masked Army has caused so much chaos, you think going to jail will solve everything? It's not that simple!"

"Let me ask you, Uncle Liu, do you still want to see Binghe and his parents?"

"...What?" Liu Bo opened his eyes.

"Do you still want to meet Binghe and his parents?"

"...I want to." Liu Bo answered honestly, "What do you need me to do?"

Xu Li smiled faintly. "I want you to do the opposite of what the Masked Army did. Maintain order in the Pokémon world, fight against evil organizations, and help others to the best of your ability. Furthermore, you must compensate the four families you tore apart, and bring the six apprentices you led astray back on track, so that you can contribute to my Pokémon world."

"If you can do this, perhaps I can let you visit Hyoga and his parents every once in a while, and... they will live well. In the near future, when my Pokémon home is built, I will also take them there to eat and drink and take good care of them."

“…” Uncle Liu looked at Xu Li in a daze.

Is this a punishment? It's clearly my salvation.

Xu Li looked at Liu Bo and said, "How about this? Do you accept this condition? I need to check your results regularly."

"I couldn't ask for more..." Liu Bo murmured, his cloudy eyes brightening up again, as if he had found a new goal in life.

"That's it for now." Xu Li nodded. Turning around, he saw Xi Jiana's stunned look. Xu Li was puzzled. "Why do you look like that?"

"...Xu Li, you're glowing right now!" Xi Jiana exclaimed. "So Uncle Liu is the masked man in the forest. I just found out now."

Xu Li: "...Thank you for the compliment."

"Wow~"

Liuwei also jumped onto Xu Li's shoulder, and its six tails like snow mist gently swept Xu Li's cheek.

"By the way, Uncle Liu, I have always had a question. Your little wild boar...why doesn't it evolve? It's so strong." Xu Li looked at Uncle Liu curiously and asked the question that had been in his mind for a long time.

"Hmm..." Liu Bo was stunned for a moment, then thought about it carefully.

Finally, he came up with an answer.

"Because after evolving into a hairy pig, its size has increased and it can no longer be hidden in the ice clone."