Not a trainer this time

At the bottom of the ice cave on Twin Islands, bursts of milky cold air are constantly exuding on the ice-blue lake.

The two bird Pokémon were floating at opposite ends of the lake, their eyes meeting in mid-air.

"Chirp!"

The Lightning Bird stared at the Frozen Bird in front of him with sharp eyes, and let out a sharp cry.

Seeing Lightning Bird's malicious gaze, Frozen Bird's inner alarm suddenly started ringing.

It calmly asked: "咘咏咿?" (What are you doing here?)

Lightning Bird: "Chirp!" (Leave here with me! I will take you to a good place, where you will be reborn!)

Hearing this, Frozen Bird was slightly startled. It didn't quite understand what Lightning Bird's words meant.

leave here? Get a new lease of life?

Frozen Bird narrowed his eyes, feeling that the Lightning Bird felt weird.

It looked up and down at the bird Pokémon it had not seen for a long time, and then asked in confusion: "What's wrong with you?"

Lightning Bird explained in detail: "Chirp." (It's okay, I just want to share some treasures with you and Flame Bird. Leave with me, where you will gain more power.)

Frozen Bird increasingly felt that the Lightning Bird in front of him was very strange, although it was somewhat interested in what the Lightning Bird said.

But the frozen bird, which has existed in this world for hundreds of years, is very smart.

It was not immediately seduced by Lightning Bird's words, but pretended not to be interested:

"Boom!" (I'm not interested in what you're talking about, so please get out of here!)

Lightning Bird thought that Frozen Bird would agree to it, but when Frozen Bird refused, it frowned slightly.

But soon, Lightning Bird figured out something.

To make steamed buns, you don’t need the Pokémon themselves to be present, as long as they have their feathers!

Realizing this, Lightning Bird immediately decided to take the simplest and crudest method.

It raised its head to the sky and let out a sharp cry, crackling electricity rushed out of its body, and the yellow electric light instantly illuminated the cold cave.

The huge electrical energy gathered at one point and turned into a beam of light that suddenly hit the freezing bird on the opposite side.

One hundred thousand volts!

"Boom!"

The frozen bird's expression was extremely serious, and it quickly put its wings in front of itself to resist.

The dense lightning flashes overwhelmed the Frozen Bird in the blink of an eye.

Frozen Bird, who was in a defensive state, noticed the powerful current with the corner of his eye, and was shocked in his heart.

That power...

No, that's not right! When did that Lightning Bird become so powerful? !

Could it be that Lightning Bird didn't lie to it just now? Is everything true?

While the Frozen Bird was stunned, the Lightning Bird on the opposite side suddenly stopped its hand, flapped its wings and flew towards the Frozen Bird.

A white light emerged from the Lightning Bird's beak. In the flash of lightning, the Lightning Bird pecked at the Frozen Bird's body.

"Boom!"

This sudden attack caught the frozen bird off guard, causing it to scream in surprise.

Immediately afterwards, it saw its beautiful blue feathers being pecked off by the Lightning Bird, and slowly falling to the ground.

"Boom!"

Frozen Bird was angry.

Along with its anger, the entire surrounding ice cave began to tremble violently.

Cracks spread rapidly along the ice covering the cave wall, and a bone-chilling chill surged out of the frozen bird, like an avalanche, overwhelmingly hitting the lightning bird.

Realizing the danger, Lightning Bird immediately flew back without hesitation, with Frozen Bird chasing closely behind.

The two bird Pokémon started an extremely fierce chase in this narrow cave.

But in the end, Lightning Bird is the winner, because it is much faster than Freeze Bird!

In addition, the passages of this ice cave extend in all directions, and some places are connected end to end. Lightning Bird quickly thought of taking advantage of the terrain, and accelerated its detour to behind Frozen Bird.

A move of one hundred thousand volts was fired with all his strength, and the dazzling electric light instantly engulfed the frozen bird in front.

The sudden attack caused the Frozen Bird to lose its balance in an instant, and it stopped awkwardly after breaking several icicles one after another.

Lightning Bird slowly landed in front of Frozen Bird, and then picked up a few ice blue feathers on the ground in its mouth in front of it.

Those...are the feathers it just shed?

Looking at this scene, Frozen Bird was slightly stunned. It stared at what the lightning bird did in disbelief.

However, after Lightning Bird collected all of Frozen Bird's feathers, he used his mouth to take out a bottle of Life Goat Milk that Naoki had packed for him from his satchel, and placed it next to Frozen Bird.

"Chirp!"

Frozen Bird was slightly startled.

Its eyes glanced at the satchel on Lightning Bird again.

Frozen Bird recognized it as a human creation at a glance.

"咘咏咿!" (You have been conquered by humans!)

Could it be that what the Lightning Bird said just now meant using human power to help them become stronger? !

This thought came to Frozen Bird's mind.

Lightning Bird glanced at it, Naoki's smiling face appeared in his mind, shook his head and said:

"Chew." (He didn't conquer me, he was a very good person, and I was willing to stay by his side.)

It's a pity that Naoki has many powerful Pokémon there, so it can't be of much help.

However, since we don't need to fight, we all live together on the ranch, so it doesn't matter.

Hearing this, Articuno was stunned again.

Is Zapdos paying for it?

At this moment, Articuno suddenly wanted to know what kind of human being could make the proud Zapdos willing to become his Pokémon from the bottom of his heart.

However, Zapdos didn't say much, because the purpose of its trip had been achieved.

Since Articuno didn't want to go, there was no need for it to stay here.

Thinking of this, Zapdos turned around and prepared to leave here to find Moltres.

However, just when it was about to flap its wings, the Articuno behind it suddenly called it.

Zapdos heard it ask: "So, what is the price?"

It's impossible for humans to help them for no reason, right?

Articuno looked at the Zapdos in front of him, waiting for its answer.

Zapdos shook his head, opened his mouth and uttered a few words: "Chirp." (Your feathers.)

Articuno: "?"

*

Naoki Ranch, it's a new day again.

This afternoon, the ranch rarely encountered wild trainers coming to challenge.

Naoki had nothing to do, so he simply sorted out the miscellaneous items that had accumulated before at home.

Not only Naoki, but also Gulden and the others were idle.

Small Pokémon like Eevee and Lucky stayed at home and played around, playing hide-and-seek games.

They ran around on the stairwell and the floor, holding feather dusters in their hands. The elder brother Ai Guanshi, who was doing housework, looked at the noisy Pokémon helplessly.

And Pokémon like Motor Lizard and Uruk-O, who like warm environment and sunshine, all ran to the grass in the ranch to bask in the sun leisurely.

Only Gulden was an exception, and would run to harass Naoki from time to time.

The sunlight outside the window was just right, shining into the room through the window and filling the entire desk.

Naoki sat on the desk and picked up a large box.

Then he took out postcards and photos with bear and cat paw prints, as well as a small box containing various stones and glass marbles.

These were sent back by Dream and Bear Baby who were traveling abroad.

After the Chinese New Year, the two Pokémon went to the Sinnoh region.

In just a few months, they went to many places and met many Pokémon.

As before, Bear Baby and Dream would ask wild Pokémon friends to help send the photos and treasures they picked up back to the ranch.

Naoki was either looking for Gu Ding Lu and Gu Yu Yu or busy receiving visiting challengers, so he didn't have much time to check.

Now Gu Ding Lu and the others have been captured, and the challengers have been taken away by Ye Ci.

Naoki had nothing to do, so he was just going to take this opportunity to check out the things that Baby Bear and Meow had sent back from wild flying Pokémon.

There were many photos, all taken with Pokémon, and most of those Pokémon were from the Sinnoh region.

With the company and encouragement of the Great Hero Expedition Team, the water-fearing Pogaman successfully overcame his fear and went into the water again,

helped the lost swimming ring weasel find its family, and

helped the two loving sea hares solve the troubles of long-distance relationships, allowing them to reunite across the entire Sinnoh continent.

In addition, Naoki also saw an old Tutai that was so tired that it couldn't straighten its back because there were too many wild Pokémon living on its back.

It was a Tutai that was much larger than the ordinary Tutai.

It had a huge body shaped like a beautiful garden, and its huge back shell was covered with lush green grass and trees.

Tutai is a very interesting Pokémon, which evolved from the grass-attributed Grass Turtle of the Sinnoh region.

After evolving to the final stage, the Turtles will become lazy and often stay in one place without moving.

At this time, it will attract some small Pokémon to gather in the "forest" on its back and build nests.

Some Pokémon are even born on the back of Turtles and spend their entire lives on their backs.

Naoki had read a history book compiled by humans in the Pokémon world before.

The book records that in the distant past, some ancient scholars had imagined that there were huge Turtles under the earth, and all humans lived on the backs of Turtles.

The huge Turtles were overwhelmed by the number of Pokémon living on their backs, and had to seek help from the passing hero expedition team.

Mew and Baby Bear used Naoki's experience of building a home for the Pokémon in the ranch as a prototype, and finally used wood, branches and soil to surround the Turtles to help those small Pokémon build a home.

The Turtles finally straightened up and were able to walk normally.

Later, Tortoise became the guardian of the "Pokémon Village" and lived there with those Pokémon.

"Tsk, I wonder what those Pokémon scholars would look like if they found this village with only Pokémon." Naoki couldn't help laughing.

They would be shocked and think that Pokémon could develop civilization and become a mystery in the world.

Gulton, who quietly walked in to scare Naoki, saw Naoki laughing there and ran up curiously.

"Ah, gah?"

"Look at this turtle..." Naoki took the photo and told him the story inside.

As for how he knew, it was all thanks to the Rotom mobile phones held by Meng and Baby Bear that helped translate Rotom.

However, Gullerton was not very interested in all this.

"Ah squeak..." Its eyes turned to the small box next to it again: "Ah squeak?"

"This?" Naoki picked up the box and said, "These are the treasures brought back by the baby bears during this period. Its characteristic is picking up. The favorite thing of Pokémon with this characteristic is to pick up treasures on the road. Brought it home and collected it.”

With that said, Naoki opened the box.

There are pearls, star sand in a clear glass bottle, scales shed by wild Menas, teeth dropped by Dragon Pokémon in battle, and more.

Naoki took out these props one by one, so Luton watched curiously.

"This seems to be called Dragon's Fang?" Zhi Shu took out the Dragon's Fang and made two gestures on Gu Ledun's body.

If he remembered correctly, this item could increase the power of dragon-type moves used by Pokémon.

Guluton didn't have any personal items on him yet, and Naoki suddenly became interested: "Guluton, do you want to try wearing it?"

However, Guluton's face was full of disgust.

It doesn’t want the teeth that other dragon-type Pokémon have lost!

Naoki: "..."

Okay! Dare to be honest, Luton is still a mysophobic dragon.

"Okay, if you don't want to wear it, don't wear it." Naoki put the dragon's tooth away. Anyway, there is no need to fight in the ranch, so Luton won't use it at all now.

At this moment, Naoki suddenly discovered a round stone like a bead at the bottom of the box.

"Huh?"

Looking at the egg-like stone, Naoki thought it was a Pokémon egg at first, but when he looked carefully, he realized that it was just a stone.

Unable to recognize it with the naked eye, Naoki asked Rotom's mobile phone to scan it for him and search it on the Internet.

Soon, Rotom's mobile phone gave the answer.

[Round Stone: A magical stone that allows specific Pokémon to evolve. It is as round as a bead. It is the favorite gift of Pokémon like Little Lucky Egg. After being carried by Little Lucky Egg, it has the opportunity to evolve into a lucky egg. 】

Um? What is this?

Naoki was immediately attracted to it.

Baby Bear is so awesome. He knew what he was missing and gave him back what he needed!

Is this also part of [super luck]?

Long live Baby Bear!

Naoki happily kissed Gu Ledun's forehead next to him, then stood up and walked towards the door.

He found the little lucky egg playing hide and seek with the Eevees on the second floor.

Seeing Naoki, Xiao Fudan made a silent gesture in a low voice, indicating that he was playing hide-and-seek with Eevee and the others and could not go out yet.

Until Naoki took out the round stone.

Little Lucky Egg: "!!!"

Sure enough, just as Naoki expected, the moment he saw the round stone, Xiao Fudan's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Baku!"

It didn't even play hide-and-seek anymore, it just got out from under the bed, ran to Zhi Shu, and looked at the round stone like an "egg" with great excitement.

"咘KU..."

What a beautiful stone! Big, round and white, this is simply the treasure it dreams of!

"Do you like it?" Naoki asked with a smile.

"Baku!" Little Fudan nodded repeatedly, then jumped up and happily hugged Naoki with his short hands.