Pinnacle of the Stars

Chapter 28 28. Hagu
"Oh!"

The old man took off the shotgun and threw it casually on the table beside him. The sound made Lu Qiu subconsciously stop at the door.

"Sit." He pointed to the chair and motioned to Lu Qiu, "You're welcome."

Seeing that the latter was still staring at the shotgun on the table in a daze, the old man shrugged his shoulders, picked it up, and while Lu Qiu retreated and Xiang Weimao was alert, he hit the roof twice, "Don't look at it!" , without gunpowder."

"I've seen a lot of you young people, and each one is more timid than the other."

Amidst the old man's muttering, Lu Qiu grinned awkwardly, with a little mental discomfort, and sat on the chair beside him with Xiang Weimao in his arms.

The two of them were separated by a wooden table, leaning against the corner of the window. Apart from some odds and ends, there were obviously lead bullets and the like on it.

After Lu Qiu sat down, the old man lit himself another cigar, and then asked with the shotgun in his hand, "Travel trainer?"

"Well, that's it." Lu Qiu nodded with a stiff neck, and was a little confused about the current situation for a while.

But no matter how powerful it is, things like Pokémon's moves and shotguns always have an unspeakable oppressive force on humans.

Under the dark barrel, threats are always more intuitive than ready-to-go skills.

When asked, Lu Qiu handed his trainer card to the other party, and after looking up and comparing back and forth to confirm his identity, the old man smiled heartily: "Although it doesn't look like it, but you don't want to, Lu Qiu boy!" Blame me, who told you to sneak around in the forest."

"Recently poaching gangs have become more and more rampant, so you have to be careful."

After all, the old man pointed to a wooden sign hanging on the wall and said: "If you don't mind, you can call the old man Hagu. His occupation is the forest ranger of this forest farm. I take care of everything within a radius of dozens of miles. I usually do some looking after It’s just that something has happened here recently, so I have to bring something when I go out.”

During the conversation, Lu Qiu followed Hagu's point of view, and saw a slightly yellowed certificate hanging on the wooden sign, and the photos of people pasted next to it were seven or eight points similar to Hagu's eyebrows and eyes. Be younger.

In the lower right corner of it, there is the official seal of the City Capital Alliance. As far as Baiyin Mountain, the venue of the conference, is concerned, this mark is quite recognizable among the public.

Ming Wu nodded.

"It's forbidden to catch Pokémon in this area. There should be warning signs on the way in. Although the restrictions on travelers will be lifted in two years, it's okay to turn a blind eye, but Mass hunting is another story."

"So." Lu Qiu thought for a while, "Did Mr. Hagu think I was a poacher?"

"Almost, but just now I wanted to scare you." Hagu picked up the cigar between his fingers, and puffed out two puffs of smoke through his nose: "Bringing Pokémon, I thought you would let it hit you directly, now Compared with the previous trainers, our trainers are far worse."

He didn't care about the contempt in the old man's words, nor did he think about getting angry.

After all, it was my fault first.

If you want to blame it, blame the carp king who always bites his own hook.

Thinking of this, Lu Qiu shook his head, and didn't choose to answer the old man's words.

Generally speaking, the official order prohibits trainers from directing Pokémon to attack humans.

"So today's young people are too rigid, sometimes it is more efficient to directly attack people, let me tell you."

Seeing that the old man was obviously about to fall into memory, Lu Qiu had no choice but to interrupt: "Mr. Hagu, before we talk, why don't you uncuff my handcuffs first?"

As he spoke, he raised his handcuffed hands, and the shining silver light was a little dazzling.

"Just grab it and open it." When the memory was interrupted, Hagu smacked his lips involuntarily, and then waved his hand nonchalantly: "They are all old things, maybe they are older than you, so they just look fresh. It doesn’t really work.”

"Then I'll try."

Nodding uncertainly, Lu Qiu mustered up his strength, and under the gaze of Xiangwei after jumping away, he struggled to the sides with both hands.

call!
"Crack!"

When the chain rang, he didn't break free.

After watching it silent for a while, Lu Qiu turned his head and smiled calmly, "Mr. Hagu, otherwise you should give me the key."

"Trouble. Wait, I'll look for it first."

Hagu bit the cigar in his mouth, and kept turning his hands left and right in the overalls, "Key, key hiss, where did I put it?"

Following the old man's movements, Lu Qiu discovered that he had a lot of pockets on his body, and there were many gadgets of unknown meaning in them.

For example, the dried tree fruit that was bitten, and a few herbs that had lost their effectiveness were all thrown on the table by the old man.

"Look at my memory. Forget it, never mind."

After several times of searching to no avail, the old man simply gave up and continued to do useless work. Seeing Lu Qiu looking at him dryly, he stretched out his hand and squeezed hard on the handcuffs that held him.

"Crack!"

The iron rings on both sides deformed and fell off.

The old man bent down, picked up the handcuffs on the ground, and said regretfully, "Another pair broke."

Lu Qiu: "."

He rubbed his sore wrist, but didn't dare to speak.

This old man is surprisingly strong, and he can guarantee that it is not his fault that he cannot earn the handcuffs.

Gripped by those two big hands that look like pliers, even if it is a sound iron pipe, it may have to be directly crushed by it.

Human Pokémon?

As he complained in his heart, Lu Qiu grinned.

He calmed down and put aside the unscrupulous thoughts in his mind. He looked at the old man and said seriously: "Mr. Hagu, what is the poaching you just said?"

"Don't mention it." Seeing Lu Qiu's question, the old man snorted twice irritably, "A group of things that are even more assholes than bastards, ores, medicinal materials, berries, and Pokémon. Once caught, they will be taken away in groups. Run away." It’s so fast, I can only patrol in the woods and try my luck.”

Lu Qiu frowned, "Does the Alliance not care?"

"It's been reported, but no one has accepted it." The old man exhaled smoke, grabbed his half-bald forehead and said irritably, "It's useless for ordinary police officers to come, after all, they can't stay here all the time, but it's even worse. Everyone in the capital should also understand that compared to Guandu, we have more time for the Four Heavenly Kings."

"In addition, the forest is about to loosen the restrictions, I think the alliance should not bother to send people to manage it."

As he said that, the old man looked at Lu Qiu bitterly and said, "Unless the poaching gang is wiped out, it won't be something that can be solved overnight."

"Otherwise they come and go, and change a group of people every few years, and they will never be able to catch up until they die."

Seeing Lu Qiu lost in thought, the old man got up and said, "I'm talking too much, young people are troublesome, wait, I'll get you something to eat."

"I"

Gollum.

Under Xiang Weimao's contempt, Lu Qiu's stomach growled untimely.

"You're hungry." The old man waved his hand and patted Lu Qiu's shoulder with such force that the chair under the latter's buttocks trembled, "So, I've seen a lot of travelers like you. If you don’t even have the capacity to feed your stomach, where do you go? Next time you go fishing, remember to look for warning signs by the lake first.”

Facing the old man's sarcasm and kind reminder, Lu Qiu shook his body and nodded.

In fact, before fishing, he had confirmed it, after all, it was written in the fishing manual.

However, he didn't find it. If the old man didn't remember it wrong, there might be only one possibility.

'Has it been unplugged?'

With the experience of getting lost in Jihua City, Lu Qiu has now developed the habit of leaning over to check the roadside signs when he sees them, and even Xiang Weimao helps him pay attention.

'Poaching. '

His eyes flickered, and under deep thought, suddenly there was the smell of rice.

"Zi-"

The familiar sound of frying and roasting, with a little spicy taste.

"Bang bang bang bang."

The rough trampling sound galloped through the forest, heading straight for the ranger's cabin.

Inside the house, Lu Qiu was still analyzing the ingredients used by the old man, which was one of his few pleasures.

'Scallions, with a little spice mixed with spicy cherry powder. '

'The main material is.'

Panting slightly, the visitor looked at his own shadow reflected on the door of the wooden house.

'Fresh milk? ! '

Follow, habitually kick away!

"Oh!"

A loud bang.

Lu Qiujian was facing the direction of his door, and there was a shadow with his back against the sun, and he kept raising his feet:
"Ha Gu, Ha Gu, come out!"

(End of this chapter)