the next day.
Near dusk, several people had arrived in front of a lush jungle... Compared with the bare mountain rocks on their side, they looked full of life.
"Xixixi...!"
Faintly, you can still hear the sound of scurrying in the grass ahead. It seems that there are many Pokémon living in front.
"It's finally here...!"
Xiaozhi couldn't help sighing and let out a long sigh of relief.
After walking for two days, the scenery was all bare mountainous scenery, and he didn't even see a single wild Pokémon, which made him quite irritated.
There is also the power of wave guidance that needs to be practiced along the way.
Now Xiaozhi has entered the boring proficiency stage of stage two. Precision control is what he is least good at, and it will take a certain amount of time to slowly improve.
After the second phase is completed, the application operations of the third phase, such as wave-rubbing missiles and so on... will only come naturally.
"Well, this is the outermost part of the original tree of the world... Last time I only went in for a few hundred meters."
Qi Duo put her hands on her hips and unpacked her luggage, looking forward to it.
It was getting late, and a few people planned to camp and rest at this junction today, waiting to explore again tomorrow.
When you look closer, the lingering fog gradually disperses.
Only then did Xiaozhi realize that the "towering giant tree" in front of him, the legendary original tree of the world, was actually not a tree... but a mountain in the shape of a giant tree.
The root is slightly narrower and gradually spreads out as it goes toward the top, forming a mushroom-like shape.
The gray-brown mountain rock surface is covered with dense green vegetation.
But because the mountain is so huge and towering, from a distance, it looks more like a mushroom-shaped boulder covered with dots of moss.
Just by standing outside and looking around, Xiaozhi felt a desolate and ethereal aura.
It seems to contain the mystery of the origin of everything, ancient and mysterious...
"What a strange feeling... no wonder it's called the Beginning Tree of the World."
In his impression, he had never heard of such an existence.
The legend of the original tree of the world is only passed down orally among the locals of Orudolan, and is rarely brought outside.
...
clatter...!
Next to him, Qi Duo had finished setting up camp and opened the large tool bag he carried with him.
Whoosh! !
Whoosh! !
In the operation room, several small drones suddenly flew up, preparing to fly into the Initial Tree in advance to explore.
"Ouch...!!"
However, Lucario, who had been meditating nearby, thought it was some dangerous operation, suddenly showed a cruel look on his face, and blocked the path of the drone.
He looked wary and clenched his claws, trying to break these machines.
He just wants to go deep and find the answer to Yalang... and is not willing to destroy the peace here.
After spending the past few days together, Xiaozhi can be trusted, but Lucario has not completely let down his guard against this human woman.
"Lucario, I don't mean any harm... These drones are not aggressive in any way and will not have any impact on the local ecological environment. They will not even disturb the life of Pokémon here."
Qi Duo explained very sincerely.
She is not that kind of ambitious...she is really an adventurer who simply desires to explore the world.
"At most, drones will mine some lifeless vegetation and rocks and bring them back as research materials..."
When Xiaozhi heard it, it seemed that there was indeed nothing wrong with it, right?
And in such a large environment here, there are no evil villains like Team Rocket trying to do something bad.
It's impossible for a catastrophe to happen just because a few of them broke in, right?
"It's okay, Director. Don't be so wary... Eat a piece of chocolate to calm down the fire."
Xiaozhi comforted him with a smile and handed over a chocolate.
"..."
Lucario's wary and serious eyes swept over the two of them, and then he gradually put down his hostility and allowed these drones to enter the original tree of the world.
He took Xiaozhi's chocolate and walked aside to eat it.
The dense and pure taste was obviously top-notch delicacy, but it gave him a feeling of guilt as if he was swallowing poison...but the temptation was hard to resist.
...
While operating the drone through the jungle and looking at the traces of chocolate on the corner of Lucario's mouth, Qido frowned deeply.
"Xiao Zhi, dogs shouldn't be able to eat chocolate, right?"
There are some ingredients in chocolate that dogs cannot digest, which can have unpredictable consequences for their bodies.
Given Lucario's weight, if he ate five pieces of chocolate in his hand, he would die on the spot.
"Is there such a thing...and isn't Lucario a wolf?"
Xiaozhi replied blankly.
"There's not much difference between wolves and dogs..."
Qi Duo frowned slightly and said.
She is a professional outdoor adventurer and is very sensitive to these hazards and taboos.
"That shouldn't be a big problem... Lucario is a steel-type Pokémon and is immune to poison."
Ash backhand gave a reasonable explanation from the perspective of Pokémon battle.
Well, if there was any problem, Lucario's body should be hard and cold by now.
Because Lucario ate a lot of chocolate yesterday.
Perhaps it is precisely because his race is born unable to enjoy chocolate, and as the only steel-type dog, Lucario is so obsessed with this forbidden taste?
Qido: "..."
It seems that this is indeed the case?
Putting down his backpack, Xiaozhi remembered that he still had an elf egg that was about to hatch.
There is a high probability of hatching Lucario's degenerate form - Riolu, or... Mashana.
Riolu does not have steel attributes, so if he eats chocolate something will happen, but the evolved Lucario will be fine if he eats it.
In this way, his suspicion should be confirmed.
Xiaozhi suddenly became excited. He seemed to have accidentally come up with a rigorous academic paper!
"Research on how steel-type Pokémon will not suffer from food poisoning!" 》
"But there's only one Riolu, so we can't experiment at all..."
His expression quickly fell again, and he shook his head, dismissing the thought for the time being.
...
After dinner, Lucario sat quietly on a high place and meditated.
Qi Duo was operating and watching the shooting angle from the drone while communicating with his companions.
"It's incredible, Qi Duo, this seems to be an incredible place...!"
A logistics researcher named Banks continuously exclaimed remotely through the data images transmitted back by the drone.
However, drones are still at the outermost periphery and need to continue to penetrate deeper.
"..."
Xiaozhi, on the other hand, followed Lucario's example, sitting aside meditating and honing his waveguide power.
Next he is going to the Sinnoh region, and he doesn’t know if Brother Chi will accompany him.
If he couldn't go with him, the latter also reminded him to find a powerful partner Pokémon who could rescue him in times of crisis.
"Then why can't this partner be myself...?"
Xiaozhi secretly made up his mind to raise his waveguide power to a new level before heading to the Sinnoh region...
At least to the extent that it can create waves of missiles!
