Pokémon: Master System.

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Chapter 407: Dark Night Raid

The transparent glass box, like a cage, trapped freedom and hope.

The two men stared blankly at the masked audience, their eyes devoid of light, their expressions numb like those of zombies.

Many people showed great interest in the two people in front of them, but because they were only exchanging and not selling, everyone hesitated. After a while, people started to make bids.

"Grade B Water Stone".

"Grade A requires a headband."

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Xia Yu frowned as he looked at the bids from the crowd. To be honest, he was quite interested in the two people in front of him, and if the price wasn't too high, he would be willing to buy them.

After hesitating for a long time, Xia Yu picked up a pen and paper, wrote down a price on the paper, and asked Sylvia to quote a price for him.

"Are you sure?" Sylvia looked at Xia Yu in surprise as she saw the note he handed her and asked.

Xia Yu nodded slightly.

“Fine, you’re rich, so you get to decide.” Sylvia took a deep breath and then held up a sign, shouting, “A Pidgeot Mega Evolution Stone.”

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Sylvia's offer seemed to cast a silence spell on the entire room, plunging everyone into complete silence.

Upon hearing Sylvia's offer, everyone in the room looked at Box 16 with a strange expression.

Trading one Mega Evolution Stone for two slaves? Is this guy stupid?

Mega Evolution Stones have only been around for less than six months, and most people have never even seen one, let alone have one in their possession.

This is a Mega Evolution Stone! You could pass it down as a family heirloom.

Xia Yu didn't care about everyone's surprise. Anyway, he had two Pidgeot Mega Evolution Stones, so selling one wouldn't be a big deal. However, Xia Yu was a little worried that one Mega Evolution Stone might not be enough to buy the two of them.

If there are still bidders, Xia Yu is only willing to offer one more Dream Mirror Fruit; any more than that, he feels it's not worth it.

“Mega… evolution stone?” The host’s voice trembled slightly: “I’m sorry, we need to have a professional appraiser verify the authenticity of the Mega Evolution Stone.”

Xia Yu nodded to Sylvia.

"can."

Soon, a professional team from the underground black market entered the private room and conducted a detailed appraisal of the Mega Evolution Stone of Pidgeot provided by Xia Yu.

"It should be... true."

Why do we say "should be"? Because they've never seen a real Mega Evolution Stone, but the immense energy emanating from this stone doesn't seem fake.

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After the test results were obtained, the auction continued, but no one made any further bids.

"A VIP from Box 16 has bid one Mega Stone! Anyone want to bid higher?"

"One Mega Evolution Stone per time!"

"One Mega Evolution Stone, twice!"

"One Mega Evolution Stone, three times!"

"Let's congratulate our mysterious VIP from Box 16!"

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After the auction ended, the staff of the underground black market immediately brought up the items that Xia Yu had won, and Xia Yu paid for the items to complete the transaction.

The Dark Stone, information about giant Pokémon, and the young couple were Xia Yu's gains from this trip.

The most important item was naturally the Dark Stone. Xia Yu put the Dark Stone away, then plugged the USB drive containing information about the giant Pokémon into his laptop. After quickly watching the video and reading about the locations of the giant Pokémon, he immediately destroyed it.

Finally, Xia Yu turned his gaze to the young man and woman. Their faces were dirty and their clothes were tattered, showing that they had not had a good experience.

"What are your names?" Xia Yu asked, looking at the two of them.

Upon hearing Xia Yu's command, the two remained expressionless and responded mechanically.

"Karl."

"Eve."

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Seeing the two of them like this, Xia Yu frowned slightly, shook his head, and said to Sylvia and Xie Tianming, "Let's go back. We don't need to go to the underground casino."

"Ah."

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Xia Yu knew that his high-profile performance today must have attracted the attention of some people, so he walked out of the underground world unhurriedly.

The city of Heilong at night was like a lurking black dragon, with a somber atmosphere and the stars shining brightly in the sky, as brilliant as the Milky Way.

Xia Yu and his group of five continued their journey by car towards the remote outskirts of the city, eventually arriving at a wide-open, uninhabited area.

Stop the car and get out.

Xia Yu lit a cigarette, took a slow, deep drag, and exhaled white smoke.

The cigarette butt flickered faintly in the darkness; he had started smoking at some point.

Looking up at the starry sky, Xia Yu quietly waited for the pursuers to arrive.

Soon, a sharp wind blew, and several large Flying-type Pokémon appeared in the sky. They were the old man and the young man in Box 3, along with his bodyguard and the internet celebrity Anna whose hands were tied.

The group landed in front of Xia Yu and his companions. Looking at the calm Xia Yu, a strange sense of unease welled up in their hearts.

"You've finally arrived." As Xia Yu's voice rang out, the old man's unease intensified: "I've been waiting for you for a while."

"You've got some nerve, daring to wait for us here. Hand over what's at the auction, and I might consider leaving you a whole corpse." The young man was equally impressed by Xia Yu's audacity in daring to stop his car here and wait for him.

Xia Yu's lips curled up slightly upon hearing the young man's words.

"A complete corpse?" He was very curious about who gave this young man the courage to say such arrogant words. Xia Yu smiled contemptuously and looked at the young man: "I am a rather rebellious person. Please do not leave me a complete corpse. I want to die an ugly death."

Hearing Xia Yu's mocking words, the young man sneered: "Looking for death! Up, Tropical Dragon, Leaf Blade."

A tropical dragon with the strength of a Celestial King appeared, its entire body bursting with emerald green grass-type energy, and countless slender leaves, shining with green light like sharp knives, flew towards Xia Yu.

Seeing the Tropical Dragon's attack, Xia Yu didn't move an inch. A dark figure appeared in front of Xia Yu, and Dark-type energy surged out, perfectly blocking the Tropical Dragon's attack.

"Darkrai!" Everyone was shocked, but before they could react, they saw Xia Yu across from them throw his cigarette butt on the ground and stomp it out, then reach out and loosen his tie.

The suit he was wearing made Xia Yu a little uncomfortable. After doing all this, Xia Yu reached out and took out the Gigantamax Lapras Poké Ball from his waist. He tossed it gently, and the Poké Ball grew larger in the air before bouncing away.

Super Giant Laplace makes his appearance.

The appearance of the colossal Laplace, whose size resembles a giant cruise ship, immediately brought an overwhelming sense of oppression to everyone.

Chapter 408 Shock

"No! Run!"

Upon seeing the Gigantamax Lapras appear, the old man and the young man turned pale. If it was just a Darkrai that couldn't confirm Xia Yu's identity with 100%, the appearance of Gigantamax Lapras made everyone know that the person in front of them was "Gakki"!

"He's Sakaki, let's go."

"Can you escape? Darkrai, go after them!"

Xia Yu naturally wouldn't let them escape. Perhaps just in case, Xia Yu turned to Sylvia and said, "Don't let them go. Sylvia, make your move."

Upon hearing Xia Yu's order, Sylvia released Rotom without hesitation and joined the battle.

"Laplace, Gigantamax Aurora Melody!"

Xia Yu's voice rang out, and it was clear that this was the first time anyone present had ever seen such a move.

Ice energy surged into the sky, solidifying into a giant ice ball that crashed to the ground. At the same time, an aurora curtain formed in front of Laplace, protecting all of his allies.

"Rotom, 100,000 volts."

Faced with the attacks of Rotom and the Super Giant Laplace, the old man and the young man in Box 3 were completely powerless to fight back and could only flee in a sorry state!

However, Darkrai was extremely fast, and his dark, ghostly figure appeared in front of them, activating the Dark Hole skill with a wave of his hand.

"Hold on, tropical dragon!"

Seeing Darkrai, who looked like a ghost, everyone panicked. Only the old man remained calm and ordered the tropical dragon to fight back.

A shield of light appeared in front of Tropius, successfully blocking Darkrai's Dark Hole, but it couldn't stop Gigantamax Lapras's Gigantamax Aurora Melody.

The ice ball falling from the sky shattered the light shield, severely injuring the tropical dragon, which was four times weak to ice.

"Go, Natu! Pixie! Haxorus!"

An old man and a young man released three Elite Four-level and near-Champion-level Pokémon to try to survive, but Xia Yu was not about to give them a chance: "What use are some Elite Four-level Pokémon? Lapras, Absolute Zero."

Sensing the terrifying ice-type energy emanating from Gigantamax Lapras, the young man was truly terrified and hurriedly cried out, "Stop! We surrender, please don't..."

Before the young man could finish speaking, extremely cold ice energy surged forth, instantly severely injuring several Pokémon and freezing most of their bodies.