"Hey! Isn't this Mr. 'Sinking Fishes and Falling Wild Geese'? Can I interview you?"
At the Pokémon Center, Haruko, who hadn't seen Guan Liyuan for a long time, deliberately acted in admiration after seeing Guan Liyuan... "One
Hundred Demons Night Parade, that's good." Xiaoyue said concisely on the side.
"Hey, hey, hey, are you imagining some horrible scenes!" Guan Liyuan said helplessly.
"No, beautiful, scenes."
As if thinking of Guan Liyuan summoning groups of ghost-type Pokémon in the cemetery, a sickly blush flashed across Xiaoyue's pale face...
"Ms. Joy, there are perverts here, and they are obviously not trainers, so why do they want to live in the Pokémon Center..." Guan Liyuan shouted deliberately in a funny way.
However, this time Xiaoyue was not ridiculed by Guan Liyuan, but silently took out a Poké Ball and released the Pokémon inside.
A dark green body and a ghost Pokémon with a red bead around its neck emerged...
"Huh? Is this... a dream demon?" Guan Liyuan confirmed it with the illustrations.
The Dream is a ghost-type Pokémon, which is more common in the Johto region. However, Kanto and Johto are so close that it is not uncommon to encounter a Dream. What
surprised Guan Liyuan was that Xiaoyue could actually capture a ghost-type Pokémon?
"Although I don't have a badge, I have already started." Xiaoyue said.
According to Guan Liyuan's understanding of her, she should be saying "Although I don't have the opportunity to collect badges to participate in the Quartz Conference this year, I have taken the first step on the road to becoming a ghost-type trainer"...
"Is it really okay?" Xiaoxia said with some concern.
The Dream is a very typical ghost-type Pokémon. If the ability is insufficient or the intimacy is not enough, forcibly training the Dream will lead to the accelerated loss of vitality...
The Dream happily circled around Xiaoyue, and finally they were face to face, as if they had a good relationship.
"Xiaoyue found it in a haunted house on the outskirts of Cerulean City. Although it was teased badly at the beginning, it unexpectedly got along well with Xiaoyue in the end!" Qingzi said.
Well, in the Pokémon world, exploring haunted houses is a required course for ghost trainers who cultivate their own inspiration.
And Xiaoyue is a pioneer fighter among them. Whenever she finds rumors of haunted houses, she will rush over immediately, and nine out of ten times she will choose to do it in the middle of the night!
As for Haruko... of course she is always drafted.
Usually, Haruko is full of energy and looks like she has the "yang energy" that ghosts fear, but in fact, she is not good at exploring haunted houses, and she is scared every time!
However, as Xiaoyue's best friend, Haruko rarely refuses her, especially because she is worried about Xiaoyue going in alone...
And this time, Xiaoyue's luck turned, and she actually found a ghost Pokémon in the haunted house, and she got along well with Xiaoyue. At the end of a series of pranks, she followed Xiaoyue all the way and was captured on her own!
Although Xiaoyue's ability in training and nurturing ghost-type Pokémon cannot make her immune to the side effects of ghost-type Pokémon on health, the dream monster and Xiaoyue are very close and intimate. Therefore, at least for this dream monster, Xiaoyue will not cause the loss of vitality even if she contacts and trains it for many years...
"Guan Liyuan! It's just a mere 'sinking fish and falling geese'... I'm not afraid of you, I will definitely avenge my previous shame this time!" Another familiar voice came over.
Guan Liyuan turned around and saw that it was Acorus who was being held by his second sister Mudan and was being scolded in a low voice.
"Huh? Airport is here too? You are already the owner of a gym, you won't still participate in the Quartz Conference, right?" Xiaoxia said sarcastically.
Because of what Acorus did to Guan Liyuan last time, Xiaoxia had a very bad impression of him!
"Huh? Airport? You dare to say that... I'm just now... At least I can tell from my two sisters that my future will definitely not be small! Unlike someone whose future is uncertain!"
Indeed, among the three sisters, only Acorus and Xiaoxia are of the same type. Sakura and Mudan are both the type of people who see mountains from different angles and peaks from different sides. Xiaoxia's criticism of Acorus seems to be a bit of a mutual injury...
Acorus said this and even pushed her second sister Mudan forward, supporting Mudan from bottom to top to give her the pride of confidence...
"Ah! Acorus... What are you doing? Do you think I can't control you without my elder sister? Believe it or not, I'll call my elder sister right now and forbid you to sign up!" Mudan exclaimed, and it's understandable that she got angry at Acorus.
But it seems that she thought that she was still in front of outsiders, so she endured it and didn't explode completely...
"The gym leader is my elder sister Sakura. I'm only 19 years old this year. Why can't I participate?" Acorus snorted.
Indeed, although they are called "the third gym leader", there is no such thing as the second or third gym leader in the official registration. The gym leader of the official Hualan gym is only "Sakura".
"But Ayame, you participated in the Kanto Quartz Competition last year, and you made it to the semi-finals, right?" Haruko said on the side. "So
what? Many of the contestants this year have won places!" Ayame was not afraid of the stage.
"Oh, it's really unlucky to participate in the competition this year..." Haruko said while staring at Guan Liyuan, the culprit.
"Ahem, this is how the ranking is valuable!" Guan Liyuan forced a sentence.
"Speaking of which, the number of people this year seems to be much larger than in previous years." Lijia said as she looked at the people coming and going in the Pokémon Center.
"Huh? Lijia has also participated in the Quartz Conference before?" Xiaoxia asked in confusion.
"I haven't participated, but I have come to help... There are not so many people on the first day of registration in the past. It feels like there are twice as many people!" Lijia said.
Lijia's visual estimation was still very accurate. There was a report in the afternoon news that the first day of the Kanto Quartz Conference was open for registration. At 11 a.m., 82 people had signed up, reaching the number of people on the first day last year. When the registration closed at 10 p.m., more than 150 people had signed up, twice as many as last year!
Although the following days are often not as popular as the first day, there are still four or five hundred people who have signed up for the private registration. In
previous years, the number was only half of this. In addition, there will be 150 outstanding students who graduated from Pokémon Academy in various cities. It would be good to have three or four hundred trainers participating!
After all, only a small number of trainers can get eight badges. Most people will realize that they are not suitable to be professional trainers before this, and turn to other industries...
If you are over 25 years old and have not got eight badges, it is like pouring cold water on your head. You have to wake up!
However, most of the professions in the Pokémon world are related to Pokémon. At least one or two Pokémons can help you with your work, which can help you get twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, it is not a waste of time.
As for the academic school... In the animation, Xiaozhi and others also visited a Pokémon school, and they also had the right to participate in the competition without badges.
But in the Pokémon world, there is no such good thing! The only common point is that the professional Pokémon trainer academy in the Pokémon world is also very expensive, and they are all in the category of noble academies...
And the academic school in the Pokémon world does not allow you to participate in the league conference after graduation.
There is a Pokémon academy in every city. Although there are not many students who specialize in this kind of academy, each academy only has three or five places. Only the top-ranked graduates can get the qualification to be directly recommended to participate.
According to the rules of previous years, civilian Pokémon trainers and academic trainers are separated in the preliminaries, but they all select eight people to enter the open competition. In the first round of the open competition, eight civilian Pokémon trainers will compete against eight academic trainers, and the winner will enter the quarterfinals.
It is also the most direct way to test the teaching quality of the Pokémon Academy. If the graduates perform well, it is also the best advertisement for the academy!
Therefore, it is estimated that many academy leaders are secretly complaining about a certain mythical beast trainer who has led to a significant increase in the quality and quantity of civilian players this year...
It is conceivable that this year's Quartz Conference is extremely unfriendly to the "academic school".
Although everyone knows that there are special reasons, if he is really shaved in the first round, it may be a big blow to the reputation of the major academies!
However, no matter what others say, Guan Liyuan still lives in the Pokémon Center "heartlessly". Occasionally, when tabloid reporters come to interview Guan Liyuan, who is the favorite to win the championship, he will advertise for "The World's No. 1 House" again and publish the prediction of winning the championship again...
Six days passed in a blink of an eye. Xiaozhi finally rushed over on the last day and took out eight badges that blinded Guan Liyuan!
"Xiaogang, tell the truth...how many of them did you beg for?" Guan Liyuan curiously pulled Xiaogang aside and asked in a low voice.
"Beg? There's no such thing as begging! This is all about strength, strength!" Xiaozhi said dissatisfiedly after hearing this.
"..." Guan Liyuan looked at him in confusion.
Indeed, in the Pokémon world, gym challenges are very procedural. It's not like in the animation, where you directly challenge the gym owner. The personal judgment of the gym owner has a great influence.
Trainers like Xiaozhi who challenged the first eight badges should not even see the gym owner. If he "begged" other gym trainers, the other party would not have the authority to issue badges to Xiaozhi...
But Guan Liyuan could never understand that Xiaozhi collected eight badges by his own cute combination!
After the registration ended that day, the statistical results were released. A total of 477 people registered, and they will be divided into eight groups for the preliminaries. The first place in each group will advance to the open competition!
The groups are not completely random. Some seeded players and players who have won places will be considered and evenly divided into eight groups. Judging from the strength of this year's players, if you can't produce a king-level Pokémon, you may not even have the opportunity to enter the open competition.
After the grouping information appeared, Guan Liyuan found that there were two opponents in the first group he was in who needed to be paid attention to. One was "Shenghuo", who won the runner-up of the Quartz Competition two years ago, traveled in the Hoenn and Sinnoh regions in the past two years, and rushed back three months ago for a certain mythical beast trainer; the other was "Azi", a gym trainer who was responsible for the tenth badge duel in the Golden Super Gym before that, and swept eight gyms within a month to qualify for the competition.
Although the latter has never participated in the Quartz Conference, it is easy to imagine that he has the strength of at least ten badges, and they are ten badges from the Golden Gym...
"It's a bit difficult... How can I win beautifully and ensure that my opponent won't cry?"
Guan Liyuan kept muttering this question during dinner, making Xiaoxia and others want to put their bowls on his face!