Pokémon: An Encounter with You

Ten o'clock in the morning, inside Kyoto University.

Countless Rotoms were on standby, attached to various drones, multimedia screens, and other electronic devices.

The live broadcast started at eight in the morning and is now packed with people. The number of visitors is still increasing rapidly, and barrages of comments are flashing across the screen one after another at a terrifying speed.

The location of this boss battle is the Shangguan Grand Prix in Kyoto. The stage is very large, like a small snowy mountain. The surrounding audience seats are very far away and isolated by a special protective cover.

Backstage.

"...Are you nervous?" Lu Qing rubbed his hands and blew a breath into his palms.

It is midsummer, but there seems to be a chill because Articuno is about to arrive.

Shi Qiu didn't say anything.

Rong Yue and the others did not answer Lu Qing's words, but looked out the window absent-mindedly. No, all the students were looking at the creature descending outside in a trance.

Elegant, noble, cold and arrogant. With the temperament of an ice phoenix, tremendous pressure spread.

The legendary Pokémon, Articuno, has arrived.

Shi Qiu turned on the simulator.

[Race: Articuno]

[Attributes: ice, flying]

[Characteristics: sense of oppression]

[Carrying props: Icicle slate (fragment 13.5%)]

[Level: 90 (??? The gap is too large to be displayed accurately)]

[Already known moves: Wind, White Mist, Fine Snow, Reflective Wall, Ice Gravel, High-Speed ​​Movement, Primal Power, Tailwind, Freeze Drying, Feather Roost, Ice Beam, Snow Scene, Storm, Black Mist, Blizzard, Absolute Zero...]

Suddenly, Shi Qiu felt calm, without any nervousness or excitement.

The biggest difference between him and other students is not the huge gap in strength, but cognition.

It was a vague understanding of this level. This desperate gap between the enemy and us was like cold water that helped Shi Qiu calm down.

Articuno suppresses its strength, ostensibly to give a chance to tame it, but in fact it may simply be because it is afraid that a single breath might accidentally freeze the future of China to death.

Staff members had already begun to guide them to the battle field. Shi Qiu followed the crowd expressionlessly. When they arrived at the artificial snow mountain, he found a spot on the edge and watched the atmosphere rising as the students became more enthusiastic. He stayed there peacefully.

"Where is Shi Qiu?" Rong Yue came to her senses and struggled to shift her gaze away from the Articuno in the sky.

Lu Qing comforted him: "Don't worry, don't you know the strength of your junior brother? He should have found a good output position in the front."

Countless Rotom drones shrank in size and carefully found their distance. One of them flew out and hovered in the center of the battlefield.

Hundreds of students were ready to send out their elves, quietly waiting for the referee's instructions.

"The battle begins!"

Following the dazzling light symbol emitted by Rotom, colorful skill beams directly blasted towards Articuno in the air.

Shi Qiu held the Ice Vulpix in his arms and watched coldly: "What a tiger."

Articuno just gave a clear cry, and all the attacks automatically dispersed.

At the same time, the first snowflakes fluttered down.

Thick gray clouds obscured the clear sky, and everyone could clearly feel the temperature around them dropping rapidly.

"Bubble Chinchilla, Echo." In case of sudden low temperature, Shi Qiu had the precedent of going to the secret realm of ice field, where he could preserve some body temperature just by relying on the sound waves.

The wind and snow gradually became stronger, accompanied by the appearance of some fine hail.

"It's more of a battle for survival than a battle."

Shi Qiu looked up and saw that almost everyone had begun to try to resist the erosion of the wind, snow and low temperature, and only a few could still attack.

Articuno was still high in the sky, looking indifferently at all the beings wrapped in the wind and snow below. Its icy blue wings glowed slightly and fluttered gently.

The wind became even more fierce.

In the audience, N, wearing a baseball cap, sat in a corner holding the extremely well-behaved Zoroark, his pupils without highlights staring at the cold and arrogant Articuno on the screen.

Students were teleported out one after another. Some of them had all their elves lost their ability to fight, while others were forcibly teleported out because their bodies could not withstand the low temperature.

The remaining students on the field gradually gathered together and spontaneously moved closer to the several students from Shangyan College on the field.

Shi Qiu did not move. Relying on Vulpix's ability to coordinate ice energy, he was still able to walk on the edge with ease.

The wind and snow were about to become a natural disaster, and a real blizzard suddenly arrived.

At Shangyan Academy, the floating bubble that was supported by several Pokémons was the first to fail and was teleported out along with the trainer.

"Not good!" Seeing Fengxue break through the defense line, the expressions of several students from Shangyan College changed suddenly.

Lu Qing gritted his teeth and gave the order, relying on the elite strength of the Sun Eevee and using his mental power to fill the gap.

Rong Yue took back the exhausted Yongjila and shook his head with a smile: "It's reached the limit."

The next second, an ice-blue zigzag light swept across the Solar Eevee, and the balance was instantly broken.

Just as the freezing beam was about to hit a Charmeleon, it was blocked by an indistinct sonic boom.

【High note】.

Everyone left on the field now is considered a familiar face, and no one else can use this unique attacking method.

Shi Qiu, who was in the dark, picked up the foam squirrel and ran away, narrowly avoiding several sharp boulders.

"Okay, I've made my move, now we just need to wait for everyone to leave so we can kill them."

If it weren't for his identity, if he didn't see any attack, it would be like telling everyone that I was slacking off. He could really sneak around until the end and then give up and leave.

With the firepower of a large area of ​​ice skills covering them, Rong Yue and Lu Qing left the stage.

Then the remaining four students from Shangyan College were eliminated, and low temperature officially covered the entire venue.

In the end, Shi Qiu was the only one left in the snowstorm.

"Are they all gone?" Shi Qiu crouched down and asked the Bubble Squirrel in a low voice.

The Bubble Squirrel rang the bell irritably, scratched behind his ears, and shook his head.

"(I told you there's no one left! No one left!)"

Riolu opened his eyes: "(I used the waveguide to sense it again, we should be the only ones left.)"

As for Vulpix, he was still in Shi Qiu's arms, coordinating the violent ice energy around him with a painful look on his face.

Shi Qiu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this and pressed the abstention button.

1...2...

Nothing happens.

Shi Qiu pressed the button several times in a daze.

"What the hell is this?! Isn't this a 'special protection tool' made by Kyoto University?! Why is it not responding?!"

Suddenly, a sound of breaking air came from behind, and Riolu quickly pushed the trainer.

The sharp ice gravel scratched across his shoulder and pierced the protective gear on his wrist.

The next moment, the ring broke.

3, 2, 1.

Shi Qiu, Bubble Squirrel, Vulpix, Riolu: It's over, why are they still in the blizzard???