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Chapter 58 Zhenghui: You turned into a fossil?! (5k)

After taming the long-winged gull and checking its information, Shirona took immediate action.

She took her other Pokémon and began to challenge the NPCs around them. Coincidentally, there were also a large number of NPCs waiting for her to fight near the grass.

20 minutes later, when Sirona cleared the last NPC, the other Pokémon in her team had reached the current level cap - level 30.

The level of the long-winged gull has also successfully reached level 25.

The moment it upgraded, a rainbow of evolutionary light suddenly burst forth from its body. Within the light of evolution, its body began to rapidly grow in size, ultimately transforming into a completely different form!
——Broad wings and a huge beak "hanging" in front of its head, even bigger than its head
Although this appearance seems a bit funny, it also gives the Long-Winged Gull an ability that is difficult to match with other water elves - it can spray huge amounts of water from its mouth for a long time!
In addition, such a huge beak is also an important "storage bag" for it to store food and other things in the wild.

As Long-winged Gull successfully evolved into Nopal, Sirona first used the interactive function to congratulate the new Pokémon in the team. After receiving Nopal's happy response, she began to check out Nopal's new characteristics.

A line of information suddenly caught her eye——

[Rainfall: When this Pokémon appears, the weather at the venue will automatically switch to rain.]

Sirona was suddenly stunned. After choosing Owl as the first Pokémon, she switched to the information interface and controlled the character to move quickly back and forth in the grass. Soon she encountered a wild Pokémon.

The moment the Gull appeared, the sky above the two Pokémon suddenly became gloomy, and raindrops as big as beans suddenly fell, and a line of information was prompted.

【Due to the rainfall characteristics of the gull, it started to rain! 】

[The power of water-attribute skills has increased! The power of fire-attribute skills has decreased!]

Seeing this scene, the barrage of comments exploded.

[Holy crap? Rain? No side effects?]

[Don't you need weather skills to change and influence the weather? What does this automatic weather change mean? It's invincible!]

[6666 This bird is cheating! ! ]

While the barrage of comments were full of surprise, the emotions in Sirona's heart were actually fluctuating violently!

No wonder!
In reality, the gulls are very good at learning the weather skill of praying for rain, as if they have a unique talent...
It turns out that this is its characteristic!
Having said that, if this is its characteristic, then in reality, have the large-billed gulls that evolved from the long-winged gulls with the "moist body" characteristic already fully developed their own characteristics, but the effect is far inferior to that in the game?

Shirona thought about it, and based on her understanding of skills as a champion, she finally got a negative answer!
No, absolutely not!
On the contrary, "Pray for Rain" as a weather skill and "Rainfall" as a characteristic are two completely different concepts.

In reality, trainers do not know that the gull has the characteristic of "rainfall", but they use the training skill "Pray for Rain" to let them change the weather.
This is like there was originally a smoother and easier way to go, but everyone chose to take the longer route.
Because no one knew that the Toucan Seagull had such an ability! !
On the other hand, if we focus our training efforts on developing the characteristics of the gull and guiding it to master its inherent power,
Such training efficiency will probably increase by more than 10 times.

And
If this characteristic ability is cultivated in depth, it may be possible to achieve the same effect as in the game - when the gull enters the field, it will automatically trigger rain weather.
This may sound like it's no different from using the "Pray for Rain" skill right when you first appear on the scene, but in fact it's a world of difference!

Due to the recent boom in weather skill development, many superstars and champions have participated in it, and have more or less understood and commented on it.

After discussion, everyone agreed that although weather skills can bring huge benefits to the team and change the way of fighting, they have an inevitable flaw.

——That is to use weather skills, which requires consuming a large amount of Pokémon's energy and has a very obvious pre-swing.

Even if a Pokémon with top-notch strength has undergone repeated training, mastered weather skills, and used this type of skill, the preparation time is much longer than that of strengthening skills!
In normal battles, it is difficult to find opportunities for Pokémon to use enhanced skills.

Therefore, as long as the trainer is not a fool, he will not watch the opponent activate the weather skills and summon a weather field that is beneficial to the opponent!

But what if we could skip this stage and make it rain the moment we send out the Toucan, like in the game?

This is a completely different concept!
This means that before a battle even begins, your team has already seized the initiative - and at no cost!
The more Shirona thought about it, the more she felt uneasy. Although all this was based on one premise, that is, the characteristic of the toucan was indeed "rainfall".

But with her previous experience, she knew that this must be true!
At the same time, she suddenly realized one thing. Now that her gull has the rain-making property, she can now serve as the core of the Rainy Day Team!
And next, I can officially start to improve the rainy day team!

The shock that the characteristics of the toucan gave to Shirona was actually quite great, so much so that it took her a while to recover.

However, this time she did not rush into Meteor Falls, but continued to take the gull to the wild grass and encountered many wild Pokémon.

On the one hand, it is to explore the distribution of Pokémon in the vicinity, and on the other hand, it is to increase the level of Nopal. After all, in the next battle, Nopal has a high probability of being the starting Pokémon to help Rakuten Kappa activate the "Free and Easy" feature.

Therefore, its level should better keep up with the main force.

The good news is that this game seems to have an additional experience compensation mechanism, which is that when all other Pokémon in the team have reached the level cap, the experience points obtained by the Pokémon currently sent out will be multiplied. Therefore, soon Sirona also upgraded the level of Nopal to level 30 and opened its current skill panel.

Shirona also began to think about the configuration of skills.

Argonaut is a Pokémon that excels at special attacks. Its physical attack attribute is less than half of its special attack attribute. "Water Wave" as its main skill is naturally a very important means of output, so this is its first skill.

Unfortunately, the Toucan does not have a flying-type special attack skill, so for the second skill position, it can only use the physical skill "Wing Attack" as another means of attack.

I don't know if the Owl can learn other special attack flying skills in this game.
In reality, according to her memory, Toussaint can use the high-powered flying special attack skill "Storm".

Having said that, for the third position in the skill slot of Gullup, Sirona chose "Supersonic Wave", which can confuse the opponent's Pokémon. As proved by the previous battles, it goes without saying how important the control effect is in this game.

Although the hit rate of this skill is only half in the game, which is far inferior to Lotte Kappa's shaking dance, sometimes you can try your luck and increase the possibility of winning.

As for the last move, Shirona finally made a choice after thinking about it.

"Tailwind"!
The effect of this move in the game is to double the speed attribute of your Pokémon in the next 5 rounds.

For Lotte Kappa, whose speed has already doubled in rainy weather, this improvement naturally does not mean much. It is mainly to allow Forest Lizard and Child's Bear to gain the right to attack first, thereby further increasing the auxiliary role of the Toucan to the team.

But when she chose this skill, Shirona suddenly realized something.

In the game, if your Pokémon is faster than the enemy's, you will have the right to attack first. On this basis, even if you are twice as fast as your opponent, it will not make much sense.

But in the real world, the situation is completely different.

Pokémon battles in the real world are not simply a competition of numbers.

"Speed" is a very important attribute!
For example, "Tailwind" plus Lotte Kappa's "Easy Swimming" effect can make Lotte Kappa's speed reach an extremely terrifying level!

Such speed means that no one can dodge its attack, and the opponent's Pokémon is completely unable to lock onto its position and launch an attack!
In order to make Lotte Kappa achieve such a speed, all you need is the Big-billed Gull with the Raining attribute to play and create a tailwind.
Needless to say, since Rakuten Kappa can do it, the same goes for other Pokémon with the Free-Swimming trait!

If you could have five Pokémon with the Free-Roaming ability in a team...
Then, the efficiency of the "rainfall" characteristic of the large-billed gull and the duration and effect of the "tailwind" were trained to the extreme.
Even if she asked herself honestly, she felt that facing such a team would be an almost impossible challenge!
At this moment, Sirona couldn't help but start thinking.

——After all these things are over...
Should I also consider breeding a large-billed gull with the "rain-making" characteristic in the real world?
After all, the price-performance ratio is a bit too high, isn't it?
Of course, Sirona was just saying this. As a top trainer, she would prepare and plan carefully for every Pokémon she trained in advance, and would not just capture and train them casually.

After all, adding a Pokémon to the team requires a lot of resources, time and energy, and you also need to be responsible for it to the end.

Behind every partner in Shirona's current team, there are actually countless efforts and hard work that she has silently put in.

But then again, in this game, Sirona doesn't have to worry about such problems at all. She can boldly and freely choose new Pokémon to form a suitable team!

Even though this game has a strict restriction that players can only capture 15 Pokémon, it is actually completely enough.

After successfully raising the level of the toucan to level 30, Shirona took a deep breath and prepared to enter the meteor waterfall above.

She guessed that there would be a fierce battle waiting for her in this place. After all, this was a key point in the plot no matter how you looked at it.

But before she took a few steps, she saw a figure at the entrance of the cave.

He was a young man with ragged clothes and messy hair. He was staring at a stone on the wall, observing it carefully, and muttering to himself.

"The patterns on this stone were likely formed after a shift in the rock formations around 800 years ago. Based on this estimate, it's unlikely there are any living Pokémon fossils within 500 meters... but there should be some in the rock formations."

When she heard the words "Pokémon fossil", a somewhat absurd idea instantly emerged in Sirona's mind.

Could this person be the "Zhenghui" I'm looking for?!
To be honest, this image is not quite what she imagined.
But just as she was thinking, the young man clapped his hands and threw out a Poké Ball.

"In that case, we don't have to be so careful. Infernape, use close combat on that rock!"

A red light flashed, and a Pokémon that looked like a monkey and was covered with white fur appeared in front of the young man.

A burst of yellow light suddenly shone from its fists, and it slammed one fist hard into the rock. The next moment, the entire mountain trembled violently from the impact, and countless pieces of rock tumbled down from where the Infernape had attacked.

The young man immediately stepped forward excitedly and began to examine the stones carefully.

At the same time, a stone rolled down to the feet of Sirona's character.

She looked carefully and found that there were regular lines and traces on the stone, which looked like... the skeleton of some Pokémon.

A line of prompts also popped up.

You found an "Ancient Pokémon Fossil (Rock Formation)"!

[Please note that this item is a rare item and can be sold in the store for "10 gold". Do you want to hide it? ]

Looking at the prompt in front of her, Shirona chose no without any hesitation.

Even in the game, she would never steal other people's things.

Following Sirona's choice, her character immediately stepped forward and handed the stone to Zhenghui.

A golden exclamation mark suddenly popped up above the latter's head!

"I was wondering why I couldn't find it for so long. Turns out it fell over to your side! Thank you!!"

After expressing his gratitude, he looked up and saw the appearance of Sirona's character clearly. His face turned red as if he remembered something, and his speech became uneasy and intermittent.

"Ah, that, that."

"Hello, hello, my name is Zhenghui... You are not from Qiuye Town, right? I don't think your clothes are from around here."

After saying this, he hurriedly said.

"Don't get me wrong! I didn't mean to say that the clothes you wear are ugly. On the contrary, you are very beautiful!"

"Uh, sorry, I haven't interacted with other people much..."

As he spoke, his voice gradually became softer and his head drooped, as if he seemed a little depressed.

Sirona looked at him, pressed the interact button and spoke.

"It's okay, I don't mind."

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Strawberry Ice Cream. What's yours?"

After hearing this, the young man suddenly became excited.

"Really?! Okay, my name is Zhenghui, and I'm a researcher!"

"I study these fossils—they are at least a thousand years old and are the only traces of ancient Pokémon left in this world. My goal is to use these fossils to reconstruct their original appearance thousands of years ago."

As soon as the matter of fossils was mentioned, the young man named Zhenghui suddenly became fluent in his speech. He directly picked up the stone and showed it to Shirona.

"Look at these lines. This should be the fossilized bone of the ancient Pokémon Fossil Helmet. It belongs to the upper left shoulder of its body. It must have such a strong structure to support it in swinging its huge sickle-like claws."

"Fossilized helmet? Claws as big as sickles?"

Sirona repeated it subconsciously.

——Is this also an ancient Pokémon that has not yet been discovered by the scientific research community?
Seeing that Shirona seemed interested, Zhenghui's eyes turned into twinkling stars, emitting an extremely excited light.

"You're actually interested in ancient Pokémon? In that case, let me tell you a secret!"

Zhenghui looked left and right, then came close to Sirona's character and spoke in a mysterious voice.

"Actually, I don't just want to restore the original appearance of these ancient Pokémon..."

"What I want to do is to bring them back to life through these fossils!"

"And I'm already halfway there, now I just have to take the last step!"

Fossils Resurrected!!
Zhenghui's three words exploded in Shirona's mind like a thunderbolt. She held her breath and immediately asked:

"What step is left?"

Zhenghui glanced at her.

"I've already built a machine to revive fossils, but there's no way to successfully revive rock fossils like these because the cells and genes within them have long since died out."

"The only way to revive a fossil Pokémon is to find a special kind of fossil, known as a 'living fossil'!"

"The genes and cells within this kind of fossil are dormant. As long as my machine is installed, it can be revived into a Pokémon!"

Having said that, Zhenghui sighed deeply, looking a little regretful and confused.

"But the conditions for the natural formation of active fossils like this are extremely high, and they are really hard to find. I have traveled all over the Hoenn region and have not found any active fossils..."

As he spoke, he took out a machine and shook it at the stone in his hand.

The machine suddenly emitted a red light and then went out.

"Look, this is my homemade machine for detecting living fossils. The one you gave me is a rock fossil. Thank you so much for helping me find it!"

When Sirona heard this, she was suddenly shocked.

In this game, you can actually revive fossil Pokémon! !

Moreover, she recalled the description of the fossil she had obtained in the Rock Cave!

——[A fossil of some unknown ancient Pokémon, it seems to still contain the breath of life? ]

Could it be that this is the fossil that Zhenghui is looking for?

At the same time, Zhenghui was talking, and inadvertently raised his hand holding the machine and shook it.

The moment the machine was aimed at the character of Sirona, a green light suddenly lit up on the machine!

What followed was a rapid and intensive dripping sound!
Zhenghui froze for a moment, then picked up the machine and checked it over and over again.

"It's not broken! There's no way my machine is broken! But it only reacts to living fossils."

"Wait...could it be?"

He suddenly realized something, stretched out a hand, pointed at Shirona, and opened his mouth in surprise.

Shirona's breathing also stagnated.

Sure enough, what he had in his hand was exactly that kind of "active" fossil!
But the next moment, Zhenghui's voice, full of emotion and extreme surprise, followed -

"Oh my god! So, you turned out to be a living fossil?!"

“This is incredible!!”

Sirona:?

(End of this chapter)