"Expedition Team~Expedition Team~" Yurika strode forward humming an unknown tune, while Marli silently followed her, observing the Pokémon in the research institute.
After all, most of the Pokémon in the laboratory are used to assist Pokémon research, so they are not specially trained for combat. Only a few are stored here by other trainers, but they are all in good condition and look very healthy. .
"Mali Mali, are you also good friends with Xiaozhi?" Youlijia asked while humming.
"No, not even a friend." Ma Li replied calmly.
"What about Serena?" Yurika asked curiously.
"..."
"Not a friend either?" Youlijia looked back at Ma Li in surprise.
"We are acquaintances." Ma Li replied calmly, and then added: "But we need to analyze what can be considered friends first..."
"Yurika is not good at this kind of analysis, so I should let my brother do it..." Before Ma Li finished speaking, Yurika nodded her head in distress, "But my brother can only study robots..."
Ma Li didn't reply.
After a while, Youlijia asked again, "Eh? Malima Li, do you have any friends?"
"..." Ma Li sighed softly. She didn't like to talk too much, but as a child under ten years old, Yulijia didn't care too much, so she replied: "There is one. "
"Who is that? Is it the lovely Yurika?" Yurika's eyes lit up, and she immediately grinned and asked happily.
"...Xu Qiansu." Ma Li seemed to not want to admit it, but she still pursed her lips for a while and whispered.
"Ah? Perverted big brother?" Yurika nodded her chin and tilted her head.
"Although he is always shameless, sweet-talking and narcissistic, he has never given in on some principled issues, so for the time being... he is not a pervert?" Ma Li raised her eyebrows slightly. Xu Qiansu retorted.
"Why do you use questions? Aren't you friends? And Yulijia feels that Ma Li has such a big opinion on him..." Yulijia opened her eyes wide, with confusion on her face.
"Although we have different opinions, we are still friends." Ma Li replied calmly.
"This sentence is so handsome~" Yulijia's eyes shone and she added: "Malimali, can Yulijia be your friend?"
Ma Li sighed again, then nodded slightly and rubbed her eyebrows. She was not good at dealing with an overly energetic type like Yulijia.
"Hehehe, Yulijia is also Mali's friend. Even if Yulijia has many shortcomings, Mali will treat Yulijia as a friend~ Even if Mari has many opinions about Yulijia, Mali will treat Yulijia as her friend. Good friends~"
Yurika grinned, walked briskly, shook the wooden stick in her hand, and hummed an unknown ditty, "Even if there are many shortcomings, they are still friends~ This is what friends are~ Just like Yurika and Dongdong Mouse, just like Like Yurika and Xiaoruan~"
The laboratory occupies a large area. There is a dense forest in the north for flying, insect and other Pokémon to live.
The two women walked briskly and arrived inside the forest in just a moment.
"Quagua Bubble Frog~ Gua Gua Bu Frog~ Where is it~" Yurika waved her wooden stick and shouted loudly.
Apparently the croaking frog usually exercises in this forest.
Ma Li took a few glances at the slightly silent environment around her, frowned slightly, and subconsciously reached into her bag to hold the Poké Ball, but then she remembered that she had already let Morubeke and the others play.
But inside the institute...what could happen?
After Yurika finished speaking, within a moment, there was a sudden soft sound of something passing by quickly.
Ma Li subconsciously grabbed Yulijia's wrist, looking a little wary.
Yurika tilted her head slightly, looked up at Ma Li in confusion, and said, "Yurika always comes to the institute to play. The children here are very gentle. Ma Li doesn't have to be like this..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard the harsh sound of water flowing through the air.
Ma Li heard the sound and went away, only to see a ball of highly compressed water suddenly shooting towards the two of them from the position of a tree crown.
Waves of water!
Ma Lidai raised her eyebrows slightly, but she was already prepared. She grabbed Yulijia and took a few steps back.
Before she met Xu Qiansu, she had been traveling alone for half a year. No matter what, she would never let go of her most basic vigilance.
boom!
The wave of water suddenly hit the ground just a few steps away from Ma Li. In an instant, the land disintegrated, gravel flew, water splashed, and a water-stained hole appeared on the spot.
Mali took a look at the pothole and judged from the size that the strength of this Pokémon was acceptable.
"Eh...Eh? Guaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabody!, I am frightened by this abnormality, her lips are a little bit white."
Ma Li put Yulijia down and turned her head to look, only to see a panting croaking frog standing on a branch, its eyes filled with ferocious pain, and its whole body flashed with a blue-white halo from time to time.
"Is this...evolution?" Ma Li murmured to herself.
"Evolution? The croaking frog is going to evolve!? But why does it want to hurt us!?" Yulijia broke away from Mali's hand, took a few steps forward, opened her hands, blocked in front of Mali, and stood in anger. A croaking frog on a tree trunk, "a croaking frog!"
However, the croaking frog jumped up and stood behind Yulijia. However, he did not even look at Yulijia. Instead, he stared straight at Ma Li with his turbid eyes, showing no sign of huge hostility. Pour out covertly.
Ma Li frowned slightly, and she understood the reason in a flash of thought... This croaking frog was on the edge of evolution, but for some reason it was unwilling to evolve, and used all its energy to suppress it, resulting in confusion... And then That's why there is such great hostility... is it to protect Yurika?
Its previous attack was aimed at Ma Li.
With its current state of mind, it couldn't tell whether Mali was hostile to Youlijia... It was just the instinctive warning of being a creature that made it make such a choice.
In other words, the croaking frog at this moment is like a lioness protecting her cubs, attacking all creatures that come close to Yurika.
But why does it suppress evolutionary instincts?
Regardless of the reason, it seems that Yurika is indeed very popular with Pokémon...
Her mind was spinning, but Ma Li did not relax at all, staring closely at the croaking frog.
Mali's physical fitness cannot be said to be very good. She is just barely better than the average person because she travels frequently... There is no way she can be a one-hit enemy of Pokémon.
At this moment, facing the confused Guagua Paopao Frog, if he were not careful... even if he could not die, he would be seriously injured.
And if she just ran away like this... with Mali's physical fitness, how could she possibly outrun Guagua Pao Frog.
Morubeko, Pickpocket Cat, and Ibrahimovic are not around... I can only save myself.
She glanced around a few times, then slowly reached out towards the wooden stick Yurika threw on the ground.
The moment Ma Li held the wooden stick in her white and tender hands, the croaking frog suddenly opened her hands, and a light like a long knife appeared on her hands, and a deep chill spread over them.
Iai kills!
"No!" Yulijia's childish face turned pale, and she quickly threw herself on Guaguapao Frog, but was pushed by Guagua Pao frog and fell to the ground.
But it also delayed Guagua Paopao Frog for a short while. Ma Li's eyesight as a trainer allowed her to judge the speed, strength and even the attack direction of Guagua Paopao Frog's Iai Slash in an instant.
Ma Li suddenly leaned down, and the next second the Iai Slash passed through her hair.
Ma Li's pretty face remained unchanged, without hesitation. She turned slightly and reached forward with the wooden stick in her hand, poking straight into the soft belly of the frog.
"Pfft!" The stinging pain made Guagua Bubble Frog wake up a little, and with this sliver of consciousness, it canceled the Iai Slash. However, this pain also aroused its ferocious nature as a Pokémon, and its mind was confused again.
It was seen that it was in mid-air, its hands were raised, and countless water lights emerged from it, just to give Ma Li a wave of water at almost zero distance.
Ma Li did not hesitate to poke the wooden stick into the unformed water wave. The wooden stick was immediately smashed into pieces, but there was a loud bang and countless water splashes exploded.
Ma Li hurriedly raised her forearm to block it in front of her, but was still shaken by the impact and took a few steps back, hitting a tree behind her.
"Cough cough cough——" Ma Li coughed a few times in pain, her hands hurting from the aftermath of the water fluctuations.
But she doesn't feel well, and Guagua Pao Frog naturally doesn't feel well either.
But it was a Pokémon after all. After taking a breath, it looked at Mali again.
"Quagua Bubble Frog!!!" Yulijia got up from the ground, her childish face filled with guilt and anger. She didn't care about her own safety at all. She hugged the Gua Gua Bubble Frog with both arms and dragged it tightly.
The blue-white halo of light kept dancing on the body of the croaking frog, but it still stared directly at Ma Li.
This time it didn't regain its consciousness at all.
Ma Li held her hand that was shaking slightly due to the force of the shock, and also stared at the croaking frog closely.
She let her guard down just because she was in the research institute, and not having a Pokémon with her... was her problem.
...She won't make this kind of mistake again.
But the top priority is not introspection, but self-rescue.
She looked around the forest with the corner of her eye, but saw no trace of other Pokémon...
Ma Li pursed her soft lips... she could only... find a way to contact Xu Qiansu.
But as long as she acts slightly rashly at this moment, the croaking frog will definitely attack without hesitation.
Ma Li moved lightly, leaning against the trees with her back, and slowly opened the distance between her and the croaking frog. At the same time, she slowly reached into her bag to take out her mobile phone.
But she just made a little move, and the croaking frog suddenly shook Yurika away, causing Yurika to roll on the ground several times, with some scratches on her body.
Ma Lidai raised her eyebrows slightly, and when she saw this, she didn't hesitate. She took out her cell phone and dialed Xu Qiansu's number... However, she would probably be injured.
Ma Li secretly reflected in her heart that what happened this time was all because she lacked the necessary precautions.
The sharp light like a blade appeared again in the hands of the croaking frog.
Just when Ma Li was about to get injured and contact Xu Qiansu, she heard a thunderous dragon roar suddenly coming from a distance.
The croaking frog was slightly startled, and its remaining instinct made it turn its head to look, only to see a glazed dragon-shaped light beam tearing apart many trees, plowing across the ground, and sweeping toward it.
In a stunned moment, the extremely thick glaze-colored light pillar suddenly submerged it like a tide, and then it exploded to the edge of the forest without losing force. Immediately, there was a earth-shattering explosion, attracting all the treasures in the backyard. The sight of Kamu and people.
"Morube?" Morubeke was startled for a moment, then suddenly leaned down and ran towards Ma Li.
The pickpocket cat who was taking care of Ibrahimovic straightened up and looked up, only to find that Xu Qiansu and Ma Li were missing.
Her little devil-like tail tightened suddenly, and even Eevee couldn't care about it. She bent her limbs slightly and rushed towards the explosion.
Ibrahimovic tilted his head in confusion, and immediately left his new friend behind and hurried over.
Kirulian, who was learning 'protection', also sensed something was wrong and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
…
Looking at the deep ravine in front of her, Ma Li's hand holding the phone paused slightly, and she was stunned on the spot.
"Are you injured?" Xu Qiansu's voice came from her ears, bringing her back to reality.
Ma Li turned her head to look, and saw some beads of sweat floating on Xu Qiansu's forehead. She couldn't help but gasp for breath, obviously she came in a hurry.
The little marsupial stood in his footsteps and touched its small skull cap with some fear.
"Mali Mali..." Youlijia was also stunned, and then she quickly got up and hugged Mali. She couldn't help but cry, "I, I didn't know that the croaking frog would suddenly go crazy..."
"It's not crazy... it just wants to protect you." Ma Li murmured for a while, then looked at Xu Qiansu and shook her head slightly to express that she was fine.
Xu Qiansu took a look at Ma Li's trembling red hands. Without saying anything, she turned her head and looked in the direction of the ravine.
The blue-white light spots in the croaking frog's body became brighter and brighter, almost covering up the injuries it suffered from the dragon's fluctuations.
Its expression showed obvious pain, and it was obvious that it could no longer suppress its evolution.
But it still insists on not evolving.
"Quack!" It slammed its head on the ground, and its painful expression improved a little.
"It's a little out of control because it tried so hard to suppress its impulse to evolve..." Ma Li looked at the croaking frog a few more times and explained softly: "It's better to make sure it loses its fighting ability first, and then send it to the doctor for treatment... "
The croaking frog once again cast its sights on Ma Li, who was closest to Yulijia, with an extremely obvious hostility on her face... It seemed that Miss Mali was right, this croaking frog had lost its mind.
Xu Qiansu nodded slightly, took a step forward, and stood in front of Ma Li.
"Do you like fighting?" Xu Qiansu glanced at the croaking frog, with a hint of a smile on his calm face.
Before Guagua Pao Frog could answer, Xu Qiansu sneered and said, "I'll accompany you."
"Little guy..." Xu Qiansu squatted down and scratched the little marsupial's chin. Just when the little marsupial thought that Xu Qiansu was going to let him come in to deal with this stupid frog who had lost his mind, Xu Qiansu took her bone club.
"Karuka!?" The little marsupial raised his face and looked at Xu Qiansu in disbelief.
The bone club, which was just right for the small marsupial, looked like a pure white bone dagger in Xu Qiansu's hand, which seemed extremely handy for some reason.
But Xu Qiansu had no intention of explaining. He straightened up and made a sword dance with his bone stick. He took a few steps forward and glanced coldly at the croaking frog.
"bring it on."
Xu Qiansu loves Pokémon so much that he even refuses to make the lake water containing the power of life public in order to protect the Pokémon in the underground lake. But for him, these things are of primary and secondary importance.
Since the ultimate goal was to make this croaking frog lose its fighting ability, he would never mind taking action himself.
(End of chapter)
