Pokémon: Trainers Start as Bounty Hunters.

Chapter 115 The Adventure Continues

The day after the Gyarados incident.

Tetsuya was having breakfast at the Pokémon Center's restaurant, looking at the latest report from the League.

The fact that the Rockets were the ones who did the whole thing wasn't too surprising.

Because a long time ago, there were many dark organizations active in the Kanto region, but in recent years, Team Rocket has become dominant, and other organizations have gradually disappeared.

As for where they went, it goes without saying.

Basically, the Rockets are responsible for most of the incidents, but most of the time they don't harm civilians.

Even this time, there were basically no casualties.

This is good news for some people, at least the Rockets won't indiscriminately kill innocent people.

There are many rumors that this is because the Rockets' current leader is a champion, incredibly strong, and has extremely high internal discipline.

Of course, most people dismiss this as a joke.

Are you kidding me? Champion? Do you think Magikarp is everywhere? Being a Champion is already pretty good, and what kind of morality does the Dark Organization have for you?

Only Tetsuya silently pondered in his heart: it makes perfect sense that Boss Sakaki is the champion, after all, he's also a cheat code.

Putting everything else aside, the gift of the Viridian Forest—the power of Viridian—is already an extraordinary existence.

Let's continue reading the league's report.

The reason why Team Rocket induced a large number of Magikarp evolutions lies in a peculiar technological method, which was not detailed in the report.

This simply means that Gyarados that is forcibly evolved in this way not only loses the possibility of further potential and strength, but also becomes abnormally irritable and easily angered, and extremely aggressive.

Moreover, their life energy, or lifespan, has been tested and found to be much shorter than that of their counterparts.

Below is the league's strong condemnation of the Rockets' actions and their demand that they immediately hand over the person in charge of this operation, and so on.

Tetsuya glanced at it and then stopped looking. Everyone was just saying it; it would be embarrassing for him to just hand it in if you told him to.

The knife and fork instinctively stabbed at the meat; was it some kind of technological means, or perhaps the electromagnetic waves from that red Gyarados?

Although he hadn't watched many Pokémon in his previous life, he still had some understanding of the basic plot.

Thinking back to the appearance of those Gyarados yesterday, they were indeed unusually angry, and their eyes were quite abnormal.

But then again, why would Team Rocket conduct their experiments here?

Tetsuya pondered.

Generally speaking, causing something like this in a big city like Kurenai City, even without casualties, is tantamount to pulling teeth from the Alliance's mouth and rubbing salt into its wounds.

He was just short of going to Quartz Plateau and slapping the Alliance's top brass in person.

Anyone with a modicum of common sense wouldn't choose to do that, let alone villains like the Rockets who are intelligent enough to do so.

You can do the Magikarp evolution experiment anywhere; you can find a bunch of Magikarp in any wild river.

So the target is Maslow?

That was all Tetsuya could think of.

According to the previous definition of the Pokémon world, Lt. Surge was one of the four executives of Team Rocket in some versions.

However, he remembered that according to this version, Maslow should have been the captain of the HMS St. Anne, not an air force major.

Moreover, everything he knew about Ma Surge was that he had a strong sense of justice, hated the dark organizations, and therefore it was impossible for him to join.

So it's strange, and how could the Alliance not find out about trying to win over Mt. Surge? What's the point of this little disturbance?

"This is a mess," Tetsuya thought, frowning.

This is quite normal, after all, the world he lives in is a real world, and it's impossible for it to be exactly the same as the one in his previous life.

At least based on his understanding, the Four Heavenly Kings of Kanto in this world wouldn't be thinking about destroying the world.

There's no need to worry that the Kanto Alliance is actually full of Team Rocket members, turning it into a Snake-Shield Bureau.

He shook his head. Forget it, he wouldn't think about it anymore. With his current strength, even if he figured it out and squeezed in, it would be a dead end.

This is something that Tetsuya can't get involved in right now; if the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up.

When he becomes as strong as a champion, many problems will no longer be problems.

After quickly finishing his breakfast, Tetsuya strode out of the Pokémon Center.

After he left Vermilion City, commercials started playing on the television at the Pokémon Center, with the presenter speaking clearly.

According to the latest news, Rocket Group, a large, multi-regional company, is about to go public.

Their chairman, Sakaki, stated that the name "Rocket Group" signifies that their company will develop exceptionally rapidly and bring better benefits to their employees.

It is said that Chairman Giovanni himself is also a very powerful trainer. He is the gym leader of the Viridian Gym in our Kanto League and is extremely skilled at training Ground-type Pokémon. He is also known as "Giovanni of the Earth".

Chairman Sakaki stated that over the next ten years, the Rocket Group will build more orphanages in various cities to provide better social welfare for children who have lost loved ones.

Regarding rumors about the group's name and the Rockets, a dark organization that has been active in recent years, Chairman Giovanni stated that the Rocket Group has nothing to do with the Rockets and that he abhors the Rockets for disrupting the league's peaceful life.

The Rocket Group was founded even before the Rocket Team appeared. He was personally very dissatisfied with the existence of such a dark organization and hoped that the League would crack down on it immediately. If necessary, the Rocket Group would be very happy to provide logistical support.

The Rocket Group also reserves the right to file lawsuits against the J.J. Allen family and the League courts against those who spread rumors.

Next, we have the Rocket Group's recruitment information. Chairman Sakaki welcomes all talented individuals to join us.

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"Mantle rock, rockfall."

At this moment, Tetsuya was commanding the mantle rock to deal with the enemy in front of him.

"Dangoro!"

The mantle rock let out a steady cry, and one after another, rocks condensed and flew rapidly toward the opposite side.

"Mwah~"

The opposing Pokémon was extremely slow and could not dodge at all. As it was being hit, it could only extend two vines from the leaves on both sides of its body and strike the mantle rock hard.

The mantle rock didn't react at all after being hit. It was such a weak Grass-type attack. Even with type advantage, it didn't feel much of a difference.

"Power Gem!"

As Tetsuya directed, the energy crystals on the mantle rock's body began to emit white light, followed by beams of light that shone like jewels shooting out from the crystals.

"Boom boom boom!"

After a loud bang, the elf on the other side collapsed to the ground.

"Well done, mantle rock," Tetsuya praised it.

Then he came to the trumpet-shaped flower-like sprite and collected the tail hook on its head.

This is a mouth-shaped flower; its tail hook is where it stores its venomous powder, making it quite valuable.

Chapter 116 Green? Turquoise?

After placing the collected materials into a specially categorized box, Tetsuya left the spot with the mantle rock.

A Blaziken was following behind, walking with its eyes closed.

The speechless flower behind them woke up shortly after the group and the elf left and fled as fast as it could.

The disappearance of the tail hook is not a big deal for it.

The dwarf flower loves to sleep at night by hanging from tree branches using the hooks on its rear end, but its sleeping posture is unusually bad, and it often falls down.

Occasionally, the tail hook may come off.

For Grass-type Pokémon, recovering through natural photosynthesis is a relatively simple matter.

However, the toxic powder needs to be accumulated over time.

Even more fortunately, the mouth-shaped flower does not hunt with poisonous powder; it prefers to use paralyzing powder and dissolving liquid to capture its prey.

This means that it will at least not have to go hungry to get through these few days and will not fall into a state of weakness.

The person and their two pets continued their journey through the forest.

Every now and then, elves would suddenly appear and attack them.

Tetsuya always chose to let the mantle rock deal with these spirits, collect the useful materials from them, and then ignore them.

The main thing is to gradually improve the combat experience of the mantle rock. First, practice by defeating some weaker monsters. After evolving into a giant rock monster, strength alone is not enough.

Otherwise, Blaziken could easily wipe out these Grass and Bug-type Pokémon with just one breath of fire.

As for whether there will be any forest fires or wildfires, you can rest assured that there will be absolutely no.

The plants in this world have high resistance to all kinds of things and are extremely resilient. It can be said that they have maxed out their skills in these aspects, which may be due to the energy emitted by the elves themselves.

It is also possible that plants that could not withstand the damage were eliminated during the long process of evolution.

Unless your flames are truly continuous, they will at most cause a small, isolated area of ​​plants to burn, and will quickly go out.

This is why, apart from a few areas inhabited by humans, most of the wild is covered with dense vegetation.

Even near the city, there are many people specifically responsible for cleaning up these wildly growing plants.

If it weren't for the fact that some wild elves have such huge appetites that they consume a lot of plants, the living space for humans would probably be further compressed.

Reaching a stream, Tetsuya looked around at his surroundings.

"Dangoro!"

"Is there no danger? Then rest here for a while and have lunch."

As he spoke, he found a flat spot and began taking out cooking utensils and tableware from his backpack to prepare a meal.

"Beep!"

Loud bird calls rang out in the air, their powerful aura causing many elves to flee in panic, creating a very noticeable commotion.

Tetsuya whistled, calling back the Pidgeot in the air.

This guy is too reckless. Although the League's map shows that there aren't any powerful Pokémon living nearby, it's still not a good thing for him to call them that.

"Boo-ho!"

Pidgeot, which was flying in the air, heard its trainer's call and quickly flew down, seemingly holding something in its claws.

Hey boss, look, I've found a really weird guy.

The eagle showed excitement towards Tetsuya, and before landing, it naturally released its claws, dropping its prey onto the ground, completing the hunting action in one smooth motion.

In my past life, when eagles caught rabbits, it seemed they also killed their prey by throwing it to its death before bringing it back to their nests.

The only difference here is that Pidgeot catches Pokémon instead of rabbits, so it's not so easy for it to be killed by falling.

"How strange is it?"

Tetsuya casually prepared lunch, not even glancing over there, and asked casually.

He was initially quite excited when Pidgeot first did something like this.

If Pidgeot brings back something valuable, it'll be a way to make money, and our own kid will know how to earn money.

However, as the number of times increased, the strange things the eagle brought back became increasingly bizarre, such as tree branches that looked like snakes or stones that looked like bobo.

In short, it's something that's completely useless.

If it weren't for Pidgeot's feelings, Tetsuya said he really wouldn't want to see those things anymore.

There's nothing I can do; it's my own pet, so I can only spoil it. It's okay if it's a little silly.

"La da~"

A weak, frightened voice rang out.

"Huh?" Tetsuya looked up in confusion. He was all too familiar with that voice, but weren't the Mantle Rocks on guard? How could a Pokémon have gotten so close?

Then I saw my three Pokémon forming a circle, with a mouse-shaped Pokémon trembling in the middle of the circle.

It has two large front teeth and ears, a long cream-colored beard on its cheek, and a slightly curled tail.

This is one of the most common Pokémon, Rattata, but the Rattata in front of us is quite interesting.

Tetsuya put down his cooking utensils and went to the three Pokémon to observe the little Rattata.