Chapter 39: Dead Leaf Gym
Ma Zhishi, the electric gym leader of Vermilion City, has been very sad recently.
The reason is that this year's Quartz Tournament has already opened some time ago.
After that major historical event that affected the entire world and was eventually hidden by everyone, the Pokémon League and the League Tournament have become a place for many Pokémon trainers to pursue their dreams.
It is also the Olympics that symbolizes the close connection between people and Pokémon.
Once upon a time, Ma Zhishi was as hesitant as these boys and girls who walked out of their homes.
However, now he just feels endless pain for this.
Because the Rocket Team is rampant in Kanto, he, a retired Air Force major, was recruited by the Quartz League and became a glorious gym leader.
Simply put, the gym leader is equivalent to a civil servant of the Pokémon League.
They must bear the responsibility of protecting their cities from wild Pokémon invasions, and at the same time have the obligation to accept challenges from other trainers, assess them, and issue badges as appropriate.
At the same time, Vermilion City is also a very important port, and the gym owner here must also work with Junsha to maintain order in imports and exports.
Now that talents are dwindling, only Ma Zhishi, a veteran who has traveled all over the country and is a black and white veteran, can sit in this city and deter the villains from all directions.
Unlike Xiaogang and Xiaoxia, who were forced to do things and therefore tolerated by the alliance, Ma Zhishi is a serious gym owner.jpg
The heavy workload puts a lot of pressure on this lightning-fast tough guy, and he can only relax when he occasionally goes to the Pokémon Enthusiasts Club to suck Pikachu during his vacation... and he has to listen to the nagging of the rich president who loves Flame Horse for several hours.
My Pikachu is not more fragrant than your Flame Horse! ?
Don’t look at the trainers’ excitement when they challenge the gym. In most cases, this obligation that must be undertaken is really a torture for the gym owners.
Next, let's recreate the scenes when Ma Zhishi accepted the challenges of trainers throughout the day today:
"Goldfish, use Peck!"
"Spearl, use Fierce Wind on Magneto!"
"Rayquaza, use Silk!"
"Rattata, use the ultimate Fang on Magneto!"
"Hold on! Squirtle, use Rocket Headbutt!"
"Stand up! Pidgeot, use Flash!"
"Get out of the way! Pikachu, use 100,000 Volts!"
"Meowth, use Gathering Power."
(PS: This trainer who used Gathering Power was the only one who successfully challenged the gym today, got the badge and took nearly 100,000 yuan from Ma Zhishi.)
It's hard to imagine what kind of mood Ma Zhishi was in when accepting the challenge of the trainers...
It's outrageous to bring a restrained Pokémon to challenge the gym!
He was electrocuted to the point of foaming at the mouth at 10 volts, and you are trying to scam me!
Please!
Bring a ground-type, so I can be more lenient!
I'm busy with work and really don't have time to waste with you guys!
Don't challenge the gym with these roadside pets or baby teams that you haven't even trained!
However, Ma Zhishi is the owner of the Vermilion Gym. During the Quartz League, he must accept the gym challenge of the trainer.
After all, only the respected and experienced gym owners like Xia Bo or Sakaki are qualified to set a certain number of badges as conditions.
Vermilion City is located in the Vermilion Port. The unique geographical conditions make it accessible, but the dense flow of people not only brings sin and disease, but also brings more trainers than other cities.
Since he became the gym owner, Ma Zhishi has been almost numb during the 6 months of the Quartz Conference every year.
He plans to protest to the League after this year's conference, asking the League to allocate funds to their gym owners and recognize the bill of hiring gym trainers to accept challenges instead of assessments!
Then the gym owners can recruit gym trainers to work for them for a fee.
As for taking an apprentice, it is normal to kill two birds with one stone.
"Huh?"
After sending off a boy from Pallet Town, Ma Zhishi noticed that there were two 10-year-old newcomers from Pallet Town who had made appointments for challenges on the terminal.
It seems that the boy who beat his No. 3 substitute team last week was also from Pallet Town?
Do you like to challenge gyms in groups in Pallet Town?
By the way, Pallet Town is a poor and remote place that no one has ever heard of, but it actually produced 4 trainers this year...
Because he was deeply impressed by Qinglv's amazing command last week, Ma Zhishi was also a little curious about the other two people from Pallet Town and looked through their information.
Little-known knowledge, the first generation of the illustrated book has the function of judging the approximate energy level of the opponent's body by scanning, and with this function, the approximate level of the Pokémon can be inferred.
However, it was later reported that judging the Pokémon level based solely on the energy level was not accurate and true enough, so this function was removed from the subsequent illustrated books.
——Trainer: Zhou You
Growlithe: about level 30
Charmander: about level 19
Smiling Milk: level 1
Eevee: level 1
Egg: Unhatched
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"What do you mean by hatching eggs?" Ma Zhishi complained with a black face, "jo...yo, this name is too difficult to pronounce, but the training level is not bad, so I can give it a badge at my discretion."
He then looked at the registration information of the next challenger.
——Trainer: Leaf
Bulbasaur: about level 32
Slowpoke: about level 5
Fairy: level 2
PiPop: about level 10
Egg: Unhatched
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"What do you mean by unique skills brother."
After reading Leaf's registration information, Ma Zhishi was a little confused: "With all these babies and eggs, you two must have just come from the breeding house on Route 5, right!?"
Zhouyou & Leaf: To be honest, it is true.
But then again, these two new trainers with the three starter pets have been trained well. Although the team combination is suspected to be unreasonable, it has initially met the basic requirements of the alliance.
Seeing that it was just approaching dusk outside, Ma Zhishi simply confirmed the appointment and arranged the challenge for both of them before night, so as to avoid seeing someone coming to challenge the gym early tomorrow morning and affecting his mood.
Not long after, a 10-year-old boy with a handsome face came to the Withered Leaf Gym according to the prompt.
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To be honest, even if all the clues told Zhou You that this was probably the world line of the TV version, he was still a little worried that this world line had been stitched into some special episodes.
The fan comic whose combat power collapsed to the level of Dragon Ball...
Although his memory of more than ten years ago was a little fuzzy, he vaguely remembered that in the fan comic, 5 of the 8 gym leaders in Kanto were members of Team Rocket!
It seemed to be Ma Zhishi, Nancy, Aju, Xia Bo, and Sakaki?
Therefore, Zhou You planned to be as elegant and easy-going as possible when challenging the gym this time, and to be more cautious and self-protective, and to come back to explore after brushing more side quests and raising the level.
A good man never suffers a loss in front of him.
"Hey! You are an ignorant boy. You have only been traveling for less than a month. You have received badges from two of the weakest gyms in history and you are here to challenge me?"
Seeing the challenger coming, Ma Zhishi guided him to complete the registration and brought him to the battle site.
"The Charmander I just got from the professor, the wild dog on the roadside, and the two newborn babies, you should at least let them evolve before coming!"
After that, Ma Zhishi waved to Zhou You: "Come on, boy, let me show you the best electric Pokémon in the world!"
"Heh."
Faced with Ma Zhishi's provocation before the battle, Zhou You didn't care at all. He responded elegantly and casually:
"It doesn't matter. My own level is far higher than yours. I can completely make up for the gap between the elves. A few young elves that have just been born are enough to blow up all the gym leaders."