Pinnacle of the Stars

Chapter 61 61. Hualan City

Hualan City.

After Lu Qiu got off the intercity bus, he greeted the old woman who had been chatting with her through the window, and watched her figure gradually move away from his sight with the encouragement of the other party's smile.

"Let's go." He greeted softly.

Hearing the sound, Xiangwei Miao lazily opened his eyes. Seeing Lu Qiu cheering himself up, he couldn't help but think a little bit more about it.

After setting off from Dr. Oki's research institute, including the time they hiked through the Viridian Forest, it took them a total of five days to arrive here from Zhenxin Town, and this was the result of rushing all the way without stopping at all.

The main reason is that Lu Qiu can't drive.

When Xiaomao, Dr. Oki's grandson, enthusiastically wanted to lend his red sports car to Lu Qiu, when the latter refused with a wry smile, Sirona directly asked for the key.

'Can Lu Qiu not drive? '

'Otherwise, shall I send you off? '

Thinking of the woman's 'satisfied' appearance, Xiang Weimao couldn't help itching his teeth.

Looking at the servant who couldn't find Bei even on the map, he got angry and bit the latter's neck fiercely.

"hiss--"

"Don't make trouble, it's so itchy."

He stretched out his hand and gently pushed Xiangwei Mao away, and after wiping off the saliva it left behind, he scratched its chin perfunctorily.

Lu Qiu walked to the street and politely asked his colleagues for directions.

'The next time you torment your Lady Queen, I will bite you to death. '

Under the skillful comfort, Xiangwei Miao lay down on her stomach and calmed down.

Not so angry anymore.

Since the goal of this trip was the most famous place in the city, Lu Qiu didn't spend too much time searching for it.

"Hualan Gym, is this the place?"

In the sky-blue building that looks like an aquarium, on the glass wall at the main entrance, there is a notice of 'temporarily closed', with an expression of an orange-haired girl bowing and apologizing.

'The painting is very distinctive. '

After looking around for a while, he didn't continue to stick at the door for too long, and tried to push the main door of the Pushing Gym. After finding that it was unlocked, Lu Qiu stepped in with heavier footsteps.

"excuse me--"

The gymnasium was empty, and there was not a single receptionist in the huge venue.

Walking to the service desk by the door, seeing that there was no one there, Lu Qiu looked around, and at the same time shouted with some doubts: "Hello, is there anyone here?"

The sound echoed twice in the venue, and after a long time passed, a girl with sky blue hair ran over after hearing the sound.

"Hi, I'm sorry, the gym master is out now, and I can't accept the trainer's challenge at the moment." Seeing the meowing on Lu Qiu's shoulder, the girl folded her hands in front of her and bowed to him apologetically. bend over.

"I'm not here to challenge the gym." Lu Qiu shook his head in denial, and asked after hearing the owner of the gym go out, "Are you the current person in charge here?"

"Ah, my name is Calamus, and I'm one of the people in charge here." The girl sized Lu Qiu up and said with a little hesitation: "The water show has been temporarily canceled now, if you have bought tickets, I can give it to you." The money will be refunded to you twice."

After hearing the acknowledgment and seeing that the other party was indeed the person in charge here, Lu Qiu took out the proof documents he had brought before leaving, "Hello, I was appointed by Dr. Oki, here is the signed document of your museum owner .”

"ah!"

Following his hands, Calamus panicked, took a step back subconsciously and touched his waist, then suddenly realized, bowed and apologized hastily: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

"Sister Calamus, let me handle it."

When Lu Qiu didn't know why, and wondered if he had stimulated the other party somewhere, another girl appeared. She patted Calamus on the shoulder, stretched out her hand and said to Lu Qiu: "I did receive a research application before, you are the one." A researcher, my name is Mudan."

"Lu Qiu."

After casually introducing himself, Lu Qiu stretched out his hand and gently grasped the other's palm. At the same time, he looked at the girl who had just reached his neck a little strangely.

"Go in and talk, please follow me."

Peony turned sideways to guide Lu Qiu forward, "This way."

The Hualan Gym doesn't seem to only accept challenges from trainers. The layout of the passage is like an aquarium with information posted, but at this time there is no corresponding Pokémon staying in it.

Along the way, Lu Qiu looked around curiously. Since it was the first time he had really stepped into a gym, he wondered if it was common to run other projects at the same time.

"Ha ha."

The sound of rapid breathing came from the front, with stumbling steps, and then a crash that directly drew Lu Qiu's attention back to him.

"Sorry Peony, are you okay?" Holding a Pokémon in one hand, she anxiously extended her arm to Peony who fell to the ground.

"I'm fine, sister Sakura, what happened?"

While the girls were talking, Lu Qiu pointed solemnly to check the Pokémon in Sakura's hand.

"Ah, who are you?!"

"Don't move yet." Lu Qiu called her to stop, and at the same time took off the backpack on his shoulder.

Knowing the situation here in advance, he brought a lot of research items that might be used.

Among them are targeted drugs.

"just"

Starfish's five claws hang down limply, and the red core in the middle of its body flickers, gradually slowing down.

"It's poison."

Lu Qiu squatted down and took out the kit from the backpack, and then tapped out several medicinal ingredients of different colors from it, raised his head and motioned to Sakura, "Put the starfish down first."

While he was preparing, Sakura had already learned about Lu Qiu's background from her younger sister. After she saw him take out the needle, she hurriedly put the Pokémon in her hand in front of him, "Please be sure." Save it!"

"I will."

Lu Qiu nodded slightly, then picked up Hai Xingxing's body and began to examine it.

'It should be a poisonous injury caused by pollution, how could it be so badly mutated? '

The more he checked, the more frightened he became.

'Deadly, contagious, mentally paralyzing, and fast. '

In just a short moment, Hai Xingxing's condition became a little worse.

Different from the general expression in the game, there is a difference between poisonous injury and poisonous injury in reality.

For example, the fire poison under Hei Lujia's skill, the insect poison on the big needle bee, the parasitic toxin carried by Pilast, and so on.

While these can all be dealt with with a universal antidote, when the toxin is overpowering, the antidote is less effective.

When he was still in the Chengdu area, Kongmu specially supplemented him with relevant knowledge. For this reason, the former also disassembled a healing device in the laboratory to give an auxiliary explanation.

The principle of the healing device is to continuously restore the physical strength of Pokémon through special light, and then rely on their powerful self-healing ability that is different from humans to recover from injuries. reason for the fight.

The superposition of injuries will only cause serious consequences that are irreversible.

After generations of updates, with the assistance of the information in the Pokémon Pokédex, the current healing device can handle most of the known abnormal states, but special skills and mutations are not included.

For example, in addition to the illustrated book, the skills of the beasts are still unknown, and Lu Qiu's complex virus, which is a mixture of multiple toxins.

Healing devices are not omnipotent.

In response to this situation, the cultivator needs to specially prepare healing potions, which cannot be solved by machines alone. Even if this starfish is sent to the Pokémon Center, only Joey is probably capable of handling it.

"When did the starfish appear in this state?"

After deciding on a few raw materials, Lu Qiu prepared them and injected them into the corner of the starfish's core with a needle, "Also, has it eaten anything strange recently?"

Hearing this, Sakura didn't think too much, she shook her head quickly and said: "No, I made all the food eaten by the Pokémon in the gym with my own hands, and I tasted it before feeding it to them. Just now, I saw Starfish was a little depressed and planned to accompany it to play in the aquarium, but when I went to fetch the diving suit, it became like this when I came back."

'just'

Not long after the injection of the medicine, the starfish star’s core flickering interval decreased significantly, and after waiting for a while to confirm that there were no more adverse reactions, Lu Qiu nodded and said, “It’s okay, send it back to the original place first, remember Put it in the water."

"and also."

After Yinghua asked her second sister, Calamus, to take care of Haixingxing, Lu Qiu got up and said to her, "Take me to see the aquarium you mentioned."

(End of this chapter)