Pokémon: Shadow of the Dawn

A warm bonfire lit up, spreading light all around.

After Wang Jin and the Pokémon finished their meal, they found a folding chair and placed it by the lake, quietly looking at the Nilin Lake in the night.

The surface of the lake is dark blue, but from time to time it reflects a faint white light, which is the bright, twinkling silver-white stars in the sky, the dazzling and dense starlight.

"Duolong~"

Duolongqi came to the lakeside with a slight shake of his body, and crouched on the grass to drink water like he did before. Katie also happily came over and licked the cool lake water with his tongue.

There are no corporate factories or human buildings in the wilderness. The Reverse Scale Lake is a precious water source that the Pokémon in this area rely on for survival. The lake is connected to several rivers in Galar, and the water from the northern snow-capped mountains flows directly to the sea.

Nilin Lake is the clearest lake Wang Jin has ever seen.

There are many humans on the shore of Yaya Lake, far less than the vast Nilin Lake.

As he was thinking, Wang Jin couldn't help but doze off amid the cheerful barking of Doronchi and Katie.

At this moment, a few dozen meters away, in the woods behind the grassland, a figure was looming.

The blue raven was dozing with its eyes closed on Wang Jin's shoulder. Suddenly, it sensed something approaching, and subconsciously turned its head to look, and flew into the air.

"Chirp!"

A loud neigh broke the silence of the night, and also made Wang Jin come back to his senses with a start. He stood up and looked back.

Haunter was the first to come to him, and his two purple claws seemed to be eager to attack. He was the guy who loved to stir up trouble, and he was excited as long as it was not training.

Wang Jin was also a little alert. He looked at the figure approaching in front of him. While calculating the distance, he ordered the Pokémon to form a semicircle in front.

"Hey~" the figure shouted, suddenly raising his hands. "I mean no harm!"

Wang Jin heard the sound and signaled the Pokémon to slowly retreat.

A figure not far away gradually walked over, holding his hands up to indicate that he had no intention of attacking.

The man was wearing a green robe, which was the standard for wilderness trainers in this area. He was a tired young man with a scruffy beard and a thin face.

The man was not wearing a mask or a hood. He raised his hands and stopped about ten meters in front of Wang Jin, then shouted:

"Brother, please give me something to eat. I can exchange all my Pokémon and belongings for it!"

Wang Jin frowned when he heard this, but did not answer immediately. He thought for a moment, carefully observed the man's condition, and chose to shout first:

"Throw all your Poké Balls over there."

Wang Jin pointed to a gray rock about six meters away from the two of them. The rock was short but very flat.

Without hesitation, the other party walked towards the rock and took out all the Poké Balls. There were three red and white balls in total, and only one of them had a Pokémon.

The man also took off his turquoise robe, revealing a brown vest and black trousers underneath, indicating that he had no backpack or other place to hide Pokémon. He raised his hands again and slowly retreated to his original position.

Seeing this, Wang Jin also took out a large piece of bread from his backpack and threw it to him.

This poor trainer had no idea what he had been through, and his hands were shaking for a moment before he caught the bread. He then simply sat down on the ground, as if he had breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't care about anything anymore, so he picked it up and started eating.

The man continued vaguely:

"Thank you, thank you!"

Wang Jin glanced at the rock not far away, and the ball with the elves on it also lit up with data:

[Name: Throwing Ghost]

[Attribute: Fighting]

[Level: Level 25 (Elite)]

[Characteristic: Perseverance]

[Items to carry: none]

It is a red Pokémon with black eyes, black stripes on its eyebrows and nose, and three fingers and toes. It has a sturdy and round body, and is covered with clothes that look like martial arts clothes.

But this wrestling ghost had obviously experienced many battles, and was in a dying state with many scars.

The down-and-out trainer in front wolfed down the bread, then his face flushed red, he slapped his chest several times, and reluctantly asked:

"Um...can I go to the lake and get some water?"

Wang Jin glanced at the side, and the Haunter behind him immediately understood what he meant. It diligently picked up a plastic box, then quickly filled most of the box with water from the lake, and brought it to the man in front.

"Gulong..."

The man drank the water in one breath, not caring about his chest being soaked by the spilled water. Then he put down the plastic box and let out a long, refreshing breath.

"Ah~"

After he held the plastic box and returned it to the Haunter in front of him, his nerves, which had been exhausted to the limit, suddenly relaxed and he almost fell back on the lawn and fell asleep.

Wang Jin saw that he had regained a lot of energy and asked in a deep voice:

"What's your name? And what happened?"

"Uh..." The man was still in shock for a moment, and then quickly replied: "I am Haierduo, I just came here from the Boulder Field..."

Wang Jin asked again:

"How come you don't have any dry food on you?"

Under normal circumstances, no matter how lonely a wilderness trainer is, at most he will just replace the Pokémon on hand, or the Pokémon on his body will be taken away. How is it possible that he doesn't even have a backpack and the dry food inside?

Haierduo opened his mouth and stammered:

"I came here with a backpack, but I met a guy who claimed to be a traveling merchant on the road..."

A traveling merchant?

Wang Jin immediately thought of Adu in the forest before, so he asked:

"Is that traveling merchant called Adu?"

"That's right..." Haierduo's mouth twitched twice, and he lowered his head and spoke quickly: "That guy asked me if I wanted to use 20,000 Alliance coins to buy the inside information in the Stone Plains. I was curious at the time, so I paid for it... Who knew that the guy only said that there were Hunter Guilds and Wilderness Kings working together to hunt Pokémon... Who would come out of the Stone Plains without knowing this? I just wanted to get the Alliance coins back... But..."

Wang Jin quickly followed up:

"In the end, I didn't win the fight, and even my backpack was stolen?"

Haierduo seemed to have found someone to listen to his complaints, and smiled bitterly and shook his head:

"I didn't want to fight him, I just wanted to get back a few thousand Alliance coins so I could find a place to stay in Quanguan City and buy some food. Who knew that after hearing that, Adu directly snatched my backpack. There were only some dry food in it, and he didn't return it, saying that the backpack could also be sold for money... I hadn't even prepared to put the Pokémon in it, but the Poké Ball was snatched away. He deliberately left this thrower behind, saying that he didn't want it because its talent was too bad..."

Wang Jin couldn't help but remain silent after hearing this. After a moment, he asked:

"Are you a League trainer? The kind with an ID card? Or a registered trainer with the three starters?"

"I..." Haierduo exhaled, "Registered trainer."