Let's turn the tide!

It was a face that Wei Xin recognized very well—it was Lillie. But now, she lay quietly on the side of the street, withered like a character from a certain author's pen.

Pokémon hunters, you beasts!

She's still a child! She has such a bright future ahead of her...

Wait, stop the mourning.

Something seems off.

Wei Xin walked to the side of the street, bent down, picked up Lillie from the ground, and saw the zipper on the back and the empty interior.

So this is just a costume!

You actually used the costume to deceive my feelings, Lillie! Give me back my tears!

Why did Lillie throw the suit on the ground? Could it be that Lillie wasn't hypnotized, but just saw the other people in the research center suddenly leave, and then followed them blankly, only to realize something was wrong halfway through, but found she couldn't turn back, so she could only leave clues on the road?

"I have everything I need now." Wei Xin smiled as he walked into the dormitory and found that Mary had already returned home and was pacing anxiously in her room. When she saw Wei Xin arrive, she looked relieved. Then she noticed the Mali leather case in Wei Xin's hand and asked...

"What's that in your hand?"

"The next amazing tool we'll be using," Wei Xin said, "is to help Morpeko remember the scent on this, so we can follow the clues and find the Pokémon Hunter's location."

While at the research center, Lillie spent almost all her time inside the suit, and the scent lingering inside could even get some gamers incredibly excited.

"So, are we going to deal with the Pokémon Hunters? Just you and me?" Mary said, having asked her brother, who was far away in Galar, to get information on the Pokémon Hunters from the League.

"Pokémon Hunter J is different from other Pokémon Hunters who fight alone. She has an entire team under her command, at least fifty people, and owns an entire flying ship."

Mary couldn't think of a way for herself and Wei Xin, who were outnumbered and outmatched, to break through the encirclement and deal with the Pokémon hunters.

"She also took away the hostages from the research center, as well as the Pokémon from the research center," Wei Xin added.

He was well aware of the Pokémon Hunter's strength. In the anime, her Salamence could contend with Cynthia's Garchomp, and she could also lead her team to forcibly capture a legendary Pokémon that hadn't yet activated.

To deal with a fully prepared Pokémon hunter, you would need at least an army.

"Wouldn't that make things even more complicated?" Mary said with a hint of despair. She and Wei Xin together only had six Pokémon.

I can't think of a way to win right now.

"It's simple, just use an army against an army," Wei Xin said. "We don't need to deal with the entire Pokémon Hunter team. We just need to take care of her Dream Eater and then notify Wanlong and the Donghuang Alliance who are on standby."

"And we also have Mimikyu and Gengar." Wei Xin found the long whip in the bedroom, tied it around his waist, changed his clothes, and placed the clues left by Lillie in front of Morpeko.

"Gengar has a move called Destiny Bond, which can directly switch out the opponent's Haunter, as long as we can create the right opportunity for it."

Once the hostage issue is resolved, the League can confidently take action against the Pokémon Hunters. At that time, the wrath of the Eastern Alliance will be enough to incinerate the Pokémon Hunters.

You call yourself a Pokémon Hunter?!

Wei Xin lowered his head and said to Gengar in the shadows, "I'll leave this to you."

Wei Xin believed that this was Wan Long's purpose in handing Gengar over to him.

Could it be that all of this was part of Wanlong's plan?

"Gengar!" Gengar blinked its left eye, gave everyone a thumbs-up, and revealed a smile of heroic sacrifice.

Although it's a Ghost-type Pokémon, it can't die.

"As for how to break through the Pokémon hunters' defenses," Wei Xin released Mimikyu, "Mimikyu, can you command the other Pokémon at the research center?"

"Mimi!" A black claw emerged from under the hood, and Mimikyu gave Wei Xin a standard military salute.

As instructed by her boss, she had already beaten up all the other Pokémon at the research center. She beat the disobedient ones until they obeyed, and then beat up the obedient ones again as a form of punishment.

The research center has a number of Pokémon, such as Hydreigon, Garchomp, and Tyranitar, so it's not lacking in firepower.

At that time, they will have the means to compete with Pokémon hunters.

Fate is wondrous and inexplicable, but at this moment, it is even more inexplicable, having developed to an indescribable degree.

Wei Xin never imagined that a shot he fired would one day strike a Pokémon hunter right between the eyebrows.

"Ralts!" Ralts tugged at Wei Xin's trouser leg, stood on tiptoe, and looked longingly at its trainer.

Mimikyu and Gengar both have quests, but what about me? What am I supposed to do?

"You are the most extraordinary of our team's extraordinary forces." Wei Xin patted Ralts's little head, then turned to look out the window.

Dark clouds pressed down over Shanghai, blotting out the sun, as if they were about to crash down and crush everything in sight.

Wei Xin took a deep breath to calm his tense emotions and his body, which was trembling involuntarily with excitement at the impending decisive battle.

It's time to turn the tide.

But before that, we need to contact one more person, just in case.

Wei Xin took out his phone and recalled the contact information for the Ether Foundation that he had seen on the business card. After several transfers, he dialed Lusamine's number.

Before Lusamine could speak, Wei Xin immediately said, "I am Pokémon Hunter J, and your daughter is in my hands."

……

Shanghai Airport

Because of the official rainstorm warning, all flights were canceled last night. The waiting hall is now deserted. In the distance, in the center of the airport, apart from a few flights parked on the edge, there is only a huge spaceship with countless square transport vehicles going in and out.

The technical staff of the Pokémon Hunter team were inspecting the spaceship to prevent any accidents during their escape from Donghuang.

A silver-haired woman wearing a purple leather jacket, headphones, sunglasses, and a laser emitter on her left wrist stood in front of the spaceship, directing the team's actions.

"Everyone, hurry up! We must finish the inspection before dark. This is our only chance to escape Donghuang."

"Yes, boss!" All the team members present said in unison, then lowered their heads and focused on their work. Thinking about their experience in Donghuang, they were even so scared that they almost shed tears.

"I thought we were going to be defeated by Donghuang this time."

They say that if you walk by the roadside often, you're bound to get your shoes wet, but they almost suffered a total annihilation in Donghuang, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that they lost their lives.

"I never expected that our boss would infiltrate Shanghai alone for our sake, and even endure the humiliation from Miss Jun Sha of Donghuang."

"Sigh, being a Pokémon hunter is still too dangerous. Once I leave Donghuang, I'll resign from my job and go back to my hometown to get married."

Not far away, dozens of researchers in white lab coats stood in neat rows to one side, while Pokémon hunters with Poké Balls tied to their waists at the research center looked around warily.

All the researchers stood there stunned, while Lillie, hidden in the crowd, kept glancing around at everything out of the corner of her eye.

On her way there, she sensed something was wrong, and it wasn't until Officer Jenny arrived with the Dream Eater that she realized everyone else at the research center had been hypnotized.

In the emergency, she had no choice but to deliberately trip everyone. Since it was very difficult for them to get up, they could only cosplay as a drowning Magikarp on the ground. When she used Splash, she took off her costume and left it behind as a clue.

However, with the movement of almost everyone in the city restricted, she didn't know if her measures would be effective.

Lillie sighed inwardly, then suddenly felt her phone vibrate slightly in her pocket.

Someone messaged me?

Lillie was startled. She glanced around to make sure no one was watching her, then slightly bent her knees and bent over, hiding herself among the others. Like a naughty student who couldn't resist secretly playing on his phone during military training, she nervously turned on her phone.

It was Professor Li's account, but Professor Li herself was also hypnotized and was present at the scene. Someone at the research center used Professor Li's computer to send her the message.

who is it?

Could it be Wei Xin? Lillie suddenly remembered that Wei Xin hadn't come to the research center today because he was participating in the preliminary rounds.

Looking down, Lillie saw five large characters emblazoned on her phone screen: "Women's Restroom in the Lobby!"