Pokémon: The Journey of Bonds

The journey in the lush forest soon ended because of a group of people who were capturing Pokémons indiscriminately. After an official investigation, it was confirmed that it was Team Rocket who did it. Since Team Rocket had just caused a big fuss some time ago, the official blocked the forest and all trainers withdrew. Wu Yao had no choice but to leave and choose a safer way to go to Rock Town.

"What a pity, Frog, that our first adventure ended so abruptly. But the next one will be even more exciting."

"Guatou."

Soon Wu Yao and others arrived at a long-distance bus, put the Frog back into the Poké Ball, and headed for Stone Town. Along the way, the trees were gradually replaced by strange rocks. After passing through a tunnel, all kinds of strange rocks appeared around.

"Stone Town! Here I come!"

After walking out of the station, Wu Yao released Frog and took him to see the scenery of Rock Town. They walked through the streets and alleys with their Pokémon. Everything here was new to them. Wu Yao first registered at the Pokémon Center in Rock Town. Trainers who had just started their journey for a year could live there for free, but those who had not reached or exceeded the limit had to pay to live there. The center was like a supermarket plus a hotel. They walked around and bought a lot of food. They started eating while walking. At this moment, they heard a shout.

"Fossil Pokémon resurrection show! There's a three-in-one machine for cleaning, extraction and resurrection, come and have a look!"

Hearing the shout, the area was quickly surrounded by people watching the fun. Wu Yao pulled Quaotowa to the front row, where he saw a young professor wearing thick-bottomed glasses promoting the roaring bomb, with a huge machine covered by a red cloth behind him.

"There are so many people here! Now is a good time to promote my fossil revival machine! I'll have hope of graduating!" The doctor delighted secretly.

After saying that, he pulled open the red cloth covering the machine, and saw a leak in the front, under which was connected a machine filled with water, with brushes for cleaning and dust removal inside, and finally connected to an extraction instrument that looked very advanced but was inconsistent with the style of the previous painting. The bottom of the machine only had bases in the middle and at the end. The machine in the middle had several wheels, and the machine at the end had its own wheels.

The doctor pulled the lever and the machine started to work.

“Who’s willing to give me the fossils you found?”

"What? There are no fossils and we have to dig them out ourselves? What if something goes wrong? Are you going to pay for it?"

"That's right. I remember seeing it last time in England because the fossil restoration doctor there was lazy and changed the original species into a new species of Pokémon! Although there is a powerful Branchiosaurus, I would rather it be weak but still look good!"

"Could he be a fossil scammer? He looks young and doesn't look like a doctor!"

Soon most of the people had left, and when Wu Yao was about to leave, the doctor called him.

"Wait a minute, that handsome guy with the frog!"

Wu Yao looked around and saw no other trainers with Frog. He turned around and asked, "Are you calling me?"

"Yes! You look like a brave man, a hero is born young! Do you have any fossils for me to try..."

"I don't have any fossils! Goodbye!"

Just as Wu Yao was about to leave, he heard footsteps coming from behind and slowed down his pace. Three men ran over. They were wearing the same clothes as Wu Weicai, which looked like school uniforms. "Wu Weicai, how is your sales promotion going?"

"No one is buying it! It looks like our graduation project is a complete failure, so graduation can only be postponed for a year..."

After hearing this, Wu Yao left immediately. Although they had the same surname, he had no relationship with them and didn't even know them. What's more, he couldn't really help them in any way. Thinking that he had to go to the gym and had no time to take care of their affairs, Wu Yao quickened his pace and left, leaving only the four of them to discuss countermeasures.

Wu Yao followed the map on his phone and quickly found the location of the Rock Gym. The Rock Gym was embedded in a cave on a high mountain. Inside, you could see stalactites of different colors, such as red, orange, and yellow. Under each stalactite there were beautiful water droplets forming jagged shapes.

Wu Yao successfully registered for the challenge after placing the mobile phone illustration on it.

"Sorry, there are too many people today. Please go to the gym and wait for a while." said the waiter in the gym uniform.

"It's okay, just think of it as learning from other people's fighting experience."

Wu Yao and Frog sat in the audience seats waiting for the end of other people's battles. Wu Yao took out his mobile phone to scan the levels of Pokémon, but found that the phone could not obtain information through the electronic screen. The gym leader and the apprentice were fighting with others. Wu Yao watched for a while and found that there were mostly level suppression and attribute restraint, and there was no gold content. This was the case for three people in a row. The gym leader would generally let go of those who only had one Pokémon and had just started their journey.

When Wu Yao was drowsy, he accidentally glanced at one of the battles and found a woman with a very high level of combat skills, who was estimated to be around 17 years old with grass green hair. She had good command skills, commanding Wood Gecko to flexibly avoid the siege of Onix. Although the damage was not high, she lured Onix into hitting the pillar through flexible movement. Not only did the pillar not fall down, but it stunned Onix, allowing Wood Gecko to slowly consume Onix's health until Onix lost its combat ability with the seed machine gun. She won beautifully. Then, after she got the badge, Wu Yao was called. Wu Yao glanced at the woman who came out of the battlefield and walked into the battlefield.

"Wu Yao, right? According to your badge level, I will arrange a 1v1 battle. Use Pokémon that is no higher than level 20. This battle will be held on a rocky field and will be observed by the drone Rotom throughout. The use of cheating items such as medicine is prohibited. Are you ready?" Gym apprentice Yan Lei asked seriously.

"Ready!" Wu Yao replied seriously.

"Very spirited! Come on, Onix! Dig a hole!"

A white light flashed, and an 8-meter-long rock snake appeared on the field, then quickly dived into the ground.

A mechanical voice sounded in the gym, "The challenge begins. Challengers, please release your Pokémon within 5 seconds."

Wu Yao just started the formal battle and released the croaking frog in a panic.

I secretly complained in my heart: "Can't you give me a little time to look at the illustrations and analyze your weaknesses?"

Then the ground began to shake, and Onix was about to break out of the ground.

"Bounce up to the sky!"

"Escape underground again!"

As soon as Onix popped its head out, it quickly went back into the ground. The Frog couldn't stay in the sky forever, and after a while it quickly fell down. Just when the Frog was about to land, Onix popped its head out from the ground and tried to bite the Frog.

"Water waves hit the ground!"

A water wave from the Frog hit Onix that was trying to bite it. Onix shook its head in pain and fell down heavily, but it stood up again soon after the smoke dissipated. It opened its mouth, bit the Frog and threw it to the side. The Frog fell heavily onto the rock pillar.

“It’s actually solid?”

Frog stood up quickly. At this moment, Onix had dived underground again. Wu Yao stared at the ground and notified Frog to evacuate as soon as he heard any movement. However, Frog had consumed too much energy. Onix was also following the tactic of hiding underground. Wu Yao looked at Onix's movement trajectory and found that it was actually walking around the surrounding stone pillars. In addition, the other Onix couldn't hit it either, which meant that the stone pillars were buried very deep and Onix couldn't move them.

"Jump onto the pillar! Use foam to stick to your hands and feet so you don't fall! Then wait for the right moment!"

After the Frog jumped onto the pillar, it tore off the foam on its neck to use as adhesive and successfully stuck firmly to the pillar. Onix tried to knock the Frog down several times but failed, so it finally couldn't bear it anymore and stuck its head out.

"Bubble kill him!"

Foam came out of the frog's mouth and it successfully killed the Onix. At the same time, the frog felt relieved, which meant that its level had been raised to level 19.

"He has clear battle ideas and excellent tactics. He is a pillar of society!" Yan Lei took a look at the Rotom drone, which indicated that there were no abnormalities, so he handed the Rock Badge to Wu Yao.

"I got the Rock Badge!"

After carefully looking at the badge, I put the rock badge into the storage box. At the same time, the atlas automatically recorded the rock badge. The automatic recording of the mobile phone atlas can prevent the badge from being lost or forged.

After getting the Rock Badge, Wu Yao walked out of the gym and saw a huge sun slowly sinking into the horizon. Facing the afterglow of the sunset, Wu Yao brought Frog back to the Pokémon Center. After Frog arranged a massage and rest for the Pokémon, Wu Yao went back to his room, took a shower, then lay on the bed and began to think about the next plan.

"Frog is very powerful now. There is no rush to improve my qualifications, but I am quite short of skills. Unfortunately, I don't have money to buy those CDs. The prerequisite for joining the league is to capture at least 6 Pokémon, and there are 5 more to raise. The money is really not enough! How can I make money... Be an energy block maker? No, not only do I have no source of tree fruits to support me, but energy blocks have been mass-produced by machines. Except for the highest-level energy blocks that have to be made by masters themselves, the others can be made by machines. Moreover, spending time to become a master will seriously delay my progress in getting the badge..." Wu Yao took out his mobile phone out of boredom and started watching videos, hoping to find a way to make money that would save effort and not delay the journey. Unfortunately, he couldn't find any after searching for a long time.

"Most industries now have Pokémon to replace them. Even those without Pokémon have machines. The problem of unemployment is extremely serious. Even moving bricks involves a large number of fighting-type Pokémon. As long as they are fed, they can do 10 times the work of humans. They are really loved by those capitalists. It seems that only Pokémon-related content is suitable for me, but I can't find it now. I'd better take it one step at a time."