Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 22: Meeting Glass Again (Please Read)

"Senior Xia, we will take you here first."

"If you go straight through the cave ahead, you'll be able to pass through Yuejian Mountain very quickly."

The two researchers thought Natsume was just passing by, so they sent them to the largest cave entrance, waved goodbye, and left.

"Natsume-san, can we stay here for a few days?"

Xiaozhi looked at Natsume with hope. He wanted to stay for a while and challenge the top trainer.

"Don't worry, I was planning to stay here for a while."

Natsume waved the ID in his hand towards Xiaozhi:

"I'll go find the person in charge here and apply for a few rooms to stay in temporarily. It should be no problem."

"Hey everyone, there seems to be a cry for help from that cave."

Xiaogang seemed to have heard something and pointed to a slightly smaller cave nearby.

"Huh? It seems like huh?"

Xiaoxia listened carefully for a moment and nodded.

"Then let's go take a look."

Natsume was a little curious and took the lead to walk into a small cave nearby.

Inside the cave, there were only faint torches hanging on both sides, and the ground could be vaguely seen.

"Natsume-san, why isn't this place electrified like the main passage? It just looks dark with the torches hanging on it."

The careless Xiaozhi almost fell down.

"These caves are different from the main passage. They are not artificially dug. They are naturally formed caves. Many Pokémon live in them, and most of them are afraid of light."

"So that's how it is, but the road is too rough."

Xiaozhi scratched his head, looking a little distressed.

"You can hold Xiaoxia's hand. She's more considerate."

"Oh."

"What are you doing!"

A big bump appeared on Xiaozhi's head.

Soon, the group arrived at the depths of the cave. It was extremely dark here, so Xiaogang took out a flashlight.

"Help!"

Natsume heard a familiar voice.

"over there!"

Xiaogang was the first to find the person asking for help. When he shone his flashlight over there, he saw a researcher in a white coat squatting on the ground with his head in his hands, with documents scattered all over the floor.

Above him, many Pokémon that looked like bats were besieging him.

[Zubat: A bat Pokémon that uses the ultrasonic waves it emits to fly. It hides in dark caves and rarely comes out.]

"It looks dangerous. Natsume-san, let's go save him. Hmm? Where's Natsume-san?"

Xiaozhi was stunned to find that Natsume was long gone.

"Where is he."

Xiaogang pointed to the side of the researcher, where Natsume was concentrating on searching through a bag.

"Natsume-san, what are you doing?"

Xiaozhi moved closer curiously.

"I'm looking to see if there's a Pokéball with Charmander, Squirtle, or Bulbasaur in it."

"Why does this have to have a Poké Ball with these three Pokémon in it?"

Xiaoxia poked her head over, followed closely by Xiaogang.

Natsume's mysterious look caught the attention of the two.

"Stop chatting and save me first!"

On the side, a familiar voice sounded again. At this moment, Natsume also knew why the researcher's voice sounded familiar to him.

Instead of turning over the Pokéball containing the three great Pokémons, Natsume found Nozomi's researcher certificate.

Alas, why not Oda Roll?

"Go Pikachu, use 100,000 volts!"

"Pikachu!!"

With a flash of lightning, Zubat was scared away.

"Ah, thank you so much. My name is Naoko, and I'm Senior Natsume here. It's you!"

When Glass picked up his scattered glasses and saw everyone's faces clearly, he was overjoyed!

"Senior Xia, my paper has been sent to the Alliance Academy of Sciences and is undergoing preliminary review!"

"Well done."

Natsume was not surprised by this. Glass's research direction was originally more theoretical, and it just lacked the verification of a Rotom.

"That's right!" Glass seemed to have thought of something and continued, "My second work wrote the name of Natsume-senpai!"

In an instant, Natsume's steps froze. For some reason, Xiaozhi beside him always felt that Natsume's expression at this moment was very similar to Professor Oak's that night.

The stiffness flashed by and Natsume shook his head slightly.

Glass's preparations were quite thorough, and since it was the other party's researcher's graduation thesis, it was very attentive and different from the academic garbage he had produced that day. At least it would definitely not be embarrassing.

On the contrary, although the second work is not as good as the first, when other journals publish Glass's article, Natsume can also get a share of the copyright fees.

If published in a first-class core journal, the copyright fee is about 100 million to 1000 million yuan per month.

If published in a second-rate journal, the copyright fee is about 50 to 200 million yuan per month.

If published in a third-rate journal, the copyright fee is about 10 to 100 million yuan per month.

The specific copyright fee paid to authors is determined by the position of the article in the journal layout, with less paid for articles in the margins and more paid for articles in the core, brightly colored areas. Natsume collects nearly 100 million yuan in copyright fees each year.

But this is useless. The purchasing power of the currency in this world is about the same as that of the Japanese yen.

Moreover, his future "god-making" level laboratory, those expensive facilities, the cheapest of which starts at tens of millions.

Moreover, some expensive parts in some machines are disposable, and hundreds of thousands of dollars will be wasted after each use - and this is even for the cheaper ones.

With his current income, he will have a hard time covering the daily annual maintenance of the laboratory in the future.

Now, glass gave him another inspiration.

Well, that's the second author.

"You're quite good, are you interested in following me in the future?"

Natsume patted Nozomi's shoulder and the more he looked at her, the more he liked her.

The journal also has to pay copyright fees to the second author, although generally only one-tenth of that of the first author.

But it doesn’t matter, Natsume can win by quantity!
He had too many ideas in his mind, but due to his personal strength, it was too difficult to implement them.

"Of course, it's my honor to work on a project with Senior Xia!"

Glass looked very excited.

"Okay, I'll try to open a research institute in two years, and you must come then!"

Upon hearing this, Glass's expression froze. He thought that Professor Oak had given him some project and Natsume was short of manpower.

However, it is also a great thing to be able to enter a research institute that is home to future PhD students.

"Let's go out first. It's so dark and scary in here."

On the side, Xiaoxia weakly raised her hand and suggested.

"Ah, good. I'll take you to the top of the mountain. They're already setting up a temporary rest area there."

Glass reacted quickly, took the flashlight handed to him by Xiaogang, and led the way for everyone.

The caves of Yuejian Mountain are interconnected in all directions.

Glass led everyone around, turning left and right, and soon they arrived at the top of Mount Tsukimi.

"Wow! This mountain top is so big, it's like a crater on the moon!"

Coming out of the cave, Xiaoxia exclaimed.

"There's a big rock right in the center!"

Xiaozhi's focus is obviously completely different from Xiaoxia's.

"That stone seems to be a huge moonstone. I've been here several times."

Xiaogang on the side began to explain.

"That's the temporary rest area we built. I've already spoken to the person in charge."

Glass pointed to a large area of ​​container-like houses not far away.

Everyone nodded and walked over there, but Natsume stood there motionless.

"Senior Xia, do you have any instructions?"

Glass looked at Natsume.

"Is there a temporary laboratory? I'd like to borrow it."

Natsume played with the red and white ball in his hand and said without turning his head.

"Yes, please come with me."

Glass led Natsume to another area, where all the people coming and going were researchers.

"Okay, I'll borrow it for one night. Please take care of those people."

With that, Natsume closed the door of the temporary laboratory.
At the temporary resting place, Glass found Satoshi and his group. They had already put down their things and were ready to spend the night.

"Kacha——"

Suddenly, a slight sound was heard, and the surroundings became visibly dimmed.

"How is this going?"

Everyone looked back and found that all the lights below were out, and even the machines that were still running a second ago had stopped at this moment.

"Well, there's a precious population of Pipi living in Yuejian Mountain. They're active at night, so we won't be working there."

Glass smiled and explained to everyone, "But don't worry, the electricity here will not be cut off, so the impact will not be significant."

"Where are you looking?"

As he spoke, Glass pointed to another cave.

"Today is the night of the full moon. The Pipis will emerge from that cave and perform a mysterious ceremony!"

As expected, as soon as Glass finished speaking, countless cute pink Pokémon with a pair of Q-version wings on their backs walked out of the cave.

[Pipi, a fairy Pokémon, is rare and difficult to find. 】

"It's a precious Pokémon, so cute!"

Misty put away the Pokémon encyclopedia, her eyes shining with wonder. She had no resistance to this kind of cute Pokémon.

"It looks like they are gathering towards that huge moonstone." Xiaogang looked at the route the Pipis were taking and said with some reminiscence:

"There's a legend in Nibi City that these Pipi came here on a spaceship, and that huge moonstone is part of the spaceship."

On the side, Xiaozhi's mind was completely elsewhere. He looked at Glass and couldn't help asking:
"Mr. Glass, who is that top trainer who came to Moon View Mountain?"

"That king trainer is—Bang!"

The sound of Glass was drowned out by the huge explosion. Everyone turned around and looked towards the smoke and dust.

I saw a huge hot air balloon with a cat head floating on the huge moon stone.

At this moment, a large net was shot out from the hot air balloon, catching all the Moon Stones and the Pipis.

"Oh no, it's Team Rocket!"

(End of this chapter)