Pokémon: Hoenen Rage

Chapter 5 The prerequisite for knowing the world is knowing yourself

Lai is a somewhat awkward and contradictory person.

Generally speaking, Lai doesn't like to argue about anything, and has almost no idea of ​​changing anything. The peaceful and prosperous life now makes him feel happy.His spiritual life is fulfilling, and his material life is sufficient, which makes him never have any motivation to break the status quo, although he clearly remembers what is happening now on this continent and even the entire world, and what will happen in the future.This is the case with Rai who finds joy in his peaceful daily life.

However, on another level, Lai is a person who wants to do everything well as soon as he starts.Whether it's learning, cultivating or fighting, if you don't do it, you should do it beautifully, and do it decently and beautifully, so that you have room to be lazy on weekdays.This is the case with Lai, who pursues perfection and margin in training.

There has always been no conflict between the two, but the actual situation does not seem to be the case.

At the end of the day, Lai stood up, terminated the afternoon training early, took the water jumping fish and the long-winged gull back home, and had a comprehensive physical examination along with a snack, and a separate heart-to-heart talk.

In the diary that night, Lai Nan, who usually only wrote one or two sentences, wrote a complete paragraph: "There is a lot of pressure accumulated on the water leaping fish and the long-winged gull, both from physical fatigue and from deep-seated... Levels of mental wear and tear. Discussing appropriateness and optimality is an important topic, but it is difficult to draw a conclusion. What is certain is that the current stage should be more relaxed and relaxed, not only for me, but also for the water leaping fish and the long-winged gull. . Or rather, not me, but them."

Putting down the pen and closing the book, Lai had some new ideas when he looked at the two Pokémon who were unwilling to live in a Poké Ball but decided to sleep in a nest at home. Now they were sleeping soundly.

In the evening breeze, the diary was gently opened and the pages were turned.

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Ordinary daily life always passes quickly, and two months go by in a blink of an eye.

Before winter, during the most comfortable time of the year, Lai and the two Pokémon enjoyed a rare period of leisure by reducing the frequency of morning training to three times a week and reducing the afternoon training subjects by half.

Using this time, Lai carefully sorted out and integrated his own knowledge pedigree, checked and filled in the existing training programs, and also developed new methods of energy cubes. Following the water attribute energy cubes, he successfully made regular energy cubes. The level has been improved from good to excellent, which has greatly improved the daily food level of the whole family's Pokémon.

"Am I better suited to be a cook and a masseur than a trainer?" That evening, Lai Gang murmured to himself as he picked a batch of fruits from the backyard and prepared to make energy cubes to be used next week. A knock on the door outside.When he opened the door, he saw that the person coming was Merck, a member of the Island Guard.

Lai asked him to sit down in the living room, and the magic wall doll had already made tea.Lai asked: "Brother Merck, what's the matter with coming over tonight? Mother just went out. If you have anything, just tell me."

Merk nodded and said: "Lay, that's it. Next week, Wudou Town will organize a winter pirate clearing operation. I heard that the leader of the team this time is His Excellency Yuanji, the Dragon King. These bastards at sea will hide in the winter. Their lair is here, and we can catch them all in one fell swoop. Captain Yongren asked me to ask you, are you interested in joining us?"

Lai pondered for a moment, but did not reply on the spot: "Thank you, Brother Merck, but this is also a big matter. I still need to discuss it with my mother. I will contact Uncle Yongren directly tomorrow." "Okay, then we will wait for you News. Please think about it carefully. Thank you for your hospitality. I won’t disturb you!" After that, Merck said goodbye and left.

Encircling and suppressing pirate lairs is a familiar yet unfamiliar thing to Lai.

What is familiar is that almost every one or two years, the Hoenn Alliance will mobilize its forces to carry out a concentrated stranglehold on the southern pirates that have proliferated like weeds, and the time chosen is always in winter.

The reason is that there is relatively little shipping in winter, and the number of operable waterways is reduced, basically only in the three main waterways in the south. Therefore, the escort force has increased significantly, and there is basically no operability for pirates to plunder. Therefore, after winter, most Pirate groups would choose to return to their more secretive strongholds to rest and recuperate, spend the winter using the proceeds from plundering over the past year, and wait until spring to make a living again.

At the same time, compared to the southeastern sea area where there are water gyms and alliance headquarters, the area around Wudou Town not only has the convenience of waterways, but is also a weak point of the alliance's strength, making it the most suitable place for pirate groups to survive.Based on semi-public information, two of the three largest pirate groups in Hoenn have set their headquarters on one of the numerous small and medium-sized islands surrounding Martial Town.

To say it was unfamiliar, the reason was simple. Lai, who only got his first Pokémon at the age of ten, had experienced large-scale bandit suppression for the first time. Before, he had only heard about it from the seniors who trained together.

Even Genji, the leader of the Four Heavenly Kings, would be dispatched. Presumably the gym leaders along the coast would also provide support, Rai thought.The purpose of the alliance's actions is immediately obvious, which is to completely deter these loose and cruel maritime scum, so that the shipping lifeline in southern Hoenn can live a good life for a few years.At the same time, this is a pure conspiracy. Even a young trainer like him knows about it and has the opportunity to participate. There must be no need to keep it secret at this time.The pirate group in winter has no ability to be active on the sea, and the alliance has set up multiple blockades in the southwest sea. The pirates trapped here have almost no other options except trying to hide and fight to the death.As for evacuation from small waterways, the reason why the alliance mobilized the escort teams from various islands is to make full use of their familiarity with the terrain to intercept and kill.

After understanding this logic, Lai began to calculate the pros and cons of his participation in this operation.

According to public information, the leaders of the so-called three major pirate groups in Hoenn are just shady gangsters who once engaged in armed smuggling and other businesses. After escaping from the sun into the darkness, given the public security in the Hoenn area, it is believed that it will be difficult to obtain too much High-quality resources and strength, not to mention progress, would be good if they don't regress.Later, Lai thought that Shui Wutong, who had integrated pirate power and formed a water fleet in the memory of his previous life, had little ability to confront the Four Heavenly Kings.

From this perspective, the pirates who are now scattered should not have too strong characters, otherwise they would not be able to survive in a remote place like Wudou Town.Moreover, the truly powerful pirates will naturally be dealt with by the Alliance's Four Heavenly Kings, museum owners, armed forces, and law enforcement personnel. If you can follow behind and experience it, on the one hand, you may be able to find opportunities for the evolution of Water Jumping Fish and Long-winged Gulls. On the other hand, you may still be able to gain something. Although Parl Island has better fruit planting conditions and the surrounding sea areas also have good product conditions, you can also make energy cubes. Life and training can be described as worry-free, but higher quality elves Props are beyond your reach.

Growing up, apart from the energy cubes he could make, Lai had rarely seen any valuable treasures. After purchasing the elf egg of Shuiyuyu and becoming a member of the alliance, his family never had much savings.Even if you can make energy cubes yourself, considering the difficulties of transportation and storage conditions, it will be difficult to realize them smoothly. From this perspective, if you miss the opportunity to suppress bandits, I am afraid there will not be such a good way to make extra money. ——Although we can only do something on the margins, the personal experience of our seniors proves that for their islanders, this is not a small sum.

Although he was reluctant to take risks, considering that the risks of this operation were indeed low and the benefits were considerable, Lai still decided to communicate with his mother and persuade her to agree to participate in the operation.

(End of this chapter)