Elf: I'm Just a Commentator

After the match ended, Lin Xuan quickly ended the broadcast and then received a somewhat unexpected phone call.

"Hey?"

"Hey, what did you want from me just now?"

The person on the other end was Luo Guan. Lin Xuan had sent Luo Guan a message and made a phone call when she left the arena this morning, but no one answered or replied, so Lin Xuan just left it at that.

After all, according to Bai Yao, Luo Guan has been missing for some time and probably won't be able to contact her for a while.

However, to everyone's surprise, just one noon later, Luo Guan sent a message and told him about how Marde had approached him and Bai Yao.

"The Dawn Group? From what I've heard before... it seems they were attacked there?"

"Yes."

Lin Xuan nodded. It seemed that although Luo Guan had been quite busy lately, he still knew a lot about some things. After a silence of three or four seconds, Luo Guan seemed to have thought of something and said directly to Lin Xuan:

"Just pretend you never received this call. I didn't say a single word to you!"

After saying that, Luo Guan seemed to want to hang up the phone, but Lin Xuan stopped him.

"Hey, hey, hey! Tell me what happened, teacher!"

Luo Guan, who was stopped by Lin Xuan, was also somewhat helpless, but in the end he still spoke up to explain.

"I won't get involved in the affairs of the Dawn Group. If I don't show up for a long time, they might come looking for you. Just make an excuse to avoid it."

Luo Guan spoke directly to Lin Xuan.

"What exactly happened? The Dawn Group was attacked and something happened, what use is it to them to contact us? Even if they were to contact someone, shouldn't they be contacting the Reimu Research Institute?"

Lin Xuan asked with some confusion.

"The situation is a little complicated, but you should be familiar with their dream-device system, right?"

"Yes, I've tried it before."

"how do you feel?"

"A very realistic virtual world, but I can still clearly feel that the world is ultimately fake."

Although she didn't know what Luo Guan wanted to say, Lin Xuan still recounted her previous experience.

"That's right. The experiments on the Dream Device have actually been registered with the League for a long time. In fact, this research on the Dream Device was not so much a joint effort between the Reimu Research Institute and the Dawn Group, but rather a joint effort between the Pokémon Leagues of the two countries."

Luo Guan revealed this secret, which wasn't exactly top secret among the alliance's upper echelons. Lin Xuan's rank was roughly high enough, but he simply hadn't paid attention to this kind of information before.

Luo was speechless at Lin Xuan's seemingly clueless attitude.

"Can't you pay a little more attention to these things normally?"

Lin Xuan simply laughed off Luo Guan's remark.

"There's nothing I can do. I'm too lazy to pay attention to this kind of news, and I also have to prepare for the competition. Where would I find the time?"

"Forget it, shouldn't you researchers be the most familiar with this kind of thing? Why do I have to tell you?"

Luo Guan was speechless for a moment, but then continued speaking.

"Activating the Dream Device requires Dream Energy, and previously, only the Dream Eater family of Pokémon could generate Dream Energy normally, so they were indispensable for activating the Dream Device. However, during the research process, they discovered something else: when the Dream Device is activated, a small amount of Dream Energy is also generated on the user's body."

"The amount of dream energy varies depending on the user, but in most cases, the amount of dream energy generated far exceeds the amount consumed."

"So they stored dream energy?"

Lin Xuan tried to say this, and then Luo Guan's voice also sounded like he had a headache.

“That’s right. Although we haven’t found any other use for dream energy outside of the dream device yet, it’s never wrong to keep it… That’s what those guys from the Dawn Group were thinking, and then, on the day of the attack, they were kind of passively discovering the use of dream energy.”

"what happened?"

Judging from Luo Guan's tone, Lin Xuan also felt that it was at least not a good thing, and there was a high probability that trouble was brewing.

Luo Guan on the other side nodded in agreement.

"Dream energy leaked out during the attack, and after a large amount of dream energy came into contact with living beings, the Dawn Group finally discovered its function... It would cause Pokémon to fall into a special state, and even humans would be affected. Affected Pokémon and humans would fall into a long period of dormancy and could not be woken up no matter what, but there were exceptions."

"What exception?"

"That means some Pokémon can go into an even more extreme berserk state. A large part of the losses suffered by the Dawn Group came from this, and we still don't know how to stop it."

"So... what does this have to do with us?"

Although the situation Luo Guan described was indeed quite dire, based on what we've heard so far, it seems to have absolutely nothing to do with Lin Xuan and the others, right? Even if the dream energy was leaking, could they possibly be of any help?

"You also described your experience in the dream device."

Luo Guan reminded her of this, and Lin Xuan immediately realized what was going on.

"My waveguide allows me to sense the unreality of that world... Is that what you mean?"

"That's right. Aura exists in every living organism, but only we Aura users can truly control the power of aura. Even many Aura Pokémon can't do this; only we can."

Luo Guan said that the Aura users' use of Aura is something even Pokémon like Lucario cannot do, which is what makes them special.

"It is because of this that we can distinguish the differences between two worlds after falling asleep and use them as coordinates to wake up."

"So they came to you?"

"Hmm, that dream energy seems to put people into the deepest state of sleep. The Dawn Group hasn't found a solution yet, so they contacted me... probably wanting me to go and give it a try. I'm not going. They can clean up the mess they made themselves."

Luo Guan stated directly that the dream energy of the Dawn Group had already leaked. Although it had been temporarily contained, it was only locked within a certain area, essentially a time bomb. While the Dawn Group could try to gradually dissipate this dream energy, doing so...

It will consume a lot of time, money, and resources, and there's nothing that can be done about those sleeping Pokémon.

"Don't agree to anything they promise you; it's too dangerous. If you want something, go to your advisor. He has far more than the Dawn Group. Don't be fooled."

Luo Guan then reminded him that if they couldn't find him, the next target of the Dawn Group would most likely be Lin Xuan.

"Why not use superpowered individuals? There are far more superpowered individuals than Aura users."

Special ability users aren't limited to Aura users, so the other party wouldn't be targeting just one of them, would they?

"Logically speaking, psychic beings should also have some resistance, but the effect is not that good. You should know that there were quite a few Psychic-type Pokémon among those affected back then."

"I understand. Teacher, you've been very busy lately, and I've also been busy with the competition. After the competition, I'll continue my research on super evolution."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xuan did not hesitate. If even Psychic-type Pokémon could be affected, what was the point of going there?

Luo Guan nodded in satisfaction; at least in terms of shamelessness, Lin Xuan would not disappoint him.

After recounting this, Lin Xuan remembered something she had almost forgotten and said to Luo Guan in a low voice:

"Teacher, not long ago, Senior Sister Bai Yao said that you asked him to go to my place to ask for it."

"beep……"

Before Lin Xuan could even finish speaking, Luo Guan hung up. Lin Xuan rolled her eyes. She wondered where her teacher had learned this trick... It shouldn't be from her side, right?

However, having understood the situation regarding the Dawn Group, Lin Xuan had no intention of replying and decided to treat it as if nothing had happened.

After finishing the call, Lin Xuan called Bai Yao, whose battle was also over. The two went to meet at the Pokémon Center not far from the arena for pre-match training.

There is a break time between each battle, after all, to ensure that each player's Pokémon are in normal condition. Although the League's medical services are very comprehensive, some accidents can still happen.

But they are still a minority, after all... there is a five-star Blissey there, and a normal Pokémon would be almost cured after eating one egg.

Lin Xuan's reason for seeking out Bai Yao for training and sparring was quite simple. Over the past few days, Ibu and Xiaodian had hardly sparred, and Lin Xuan felt it was necessary to familiarize themselves with each other.

Why are you looking for me?

Bai Yao yawned and said that the battle just now was not interesting at all, and he won it easily.

"Anyway, we won't be meeting anytime soon, so have some practice with me... consider it payment for borrowing your super evolution set."

Lin Xuan said casually, and Bai Yao nodded. If it were before, she would have been very excited, seeing it as a good opportunity to teach Lin Xuan a lesson. But obviously, it wouldn't work now, since Lin Xuan's strength was probably no weaker than hers.

Even considering super evolution and the power of aura, Bai Yao himself doesn't have a 100% chance of winning.

However, Bai Yao didn't care about this. Anyway, she couldn't possibly win the championship this time, since the winner had basically been decided long ago.

"Tsk, my luck is bad, I have to run into this guy in the semifinals."

Upon hearing Bai Yao mention this matter, Lin Xuan couldn't help but gasp in astonishment.

"Let's not even talk about the semifinals. Let's see if you can keep winning until the semifinals first."

Bai Yao rolled her eyes at Lin Xuan, and the person they were talking about who was basically the pre-selected champion was naturally Chu Jingyun, the runner-up of the previous championship.

He lost to Zhong Mingyi in the last championship and only won the runner-up title. Logically, he shouldn't have had the opportunity to participate in the next competition, as he has reached the age limit.

However, the competition format changed this year, giving him another chance.

In fact, Zhong Mingyi was still within the age limit for the competition at this time—which is why he was called a monster.

However, if Zhong Mingyi were to come back to compete again, it would be a bit like bullying him, especially since he won the championship and was on a mission, so he didn't participate in this year's competition.

Chapter 414 A righteous gang fight

In the round of 64 to 32 two days later, Lin Xuan won without any suspense, and there were no surprises for Song Chen as well.

The only unexpected thing was that his second opponent also had two four-star Pokémon, but they were slightly weaker than him. It was a close call, but after that, Song Chen kept complaining about why his luck was so bad.

A few days later, it was naturally time for Lin Xuan and Song Chen to face off.

【I'm coming! 】