manynovel Chapter 158, is it Team Rocket again?
Chapter 158, is it Team Rocket again?
Lu An, who was checking on the Gyarados that had been stunned by Swampert's "Earthquake," heard someone calling his name and looked up:
"Long Ze, you've arrived."
Lu An had already noticed Long Ze's arrival when he was battling Gyarados.
It was only after discovering that Long Ze had rescued the remaining people near Yuanshan Lake that Lu An dared to let the giant swamp monster act freely.
However, the Swampert's power had been suppressed for a long time, which seemed to have made it a little too complacent in today's outburst, and it accidentally created such a huge crack.
However, Lu An didn't pay much attention to the cracks in the ground.
In the Pokémon world, ground-type environmental destruction is almost nothing.
By sending out a few Onix and Diglett to loosen the soil underground, the ground can be quickly leveled back to its original state.
He was focused on other, more important things.
"Top Grade".
Long Ze came to Lu An's side.
"Long Ze, come here."
While seriously flipping Gyarados's eyelids, Lu An waved to Long Ze.
Long Ze quickly walked over to Lu An's side and looked in the direction Lu An was pointing. He saw Lu An holding open Gyarados's eyelids, which were larger than his palm, with one hand and pointing at Gyarados's eyeball with the other.
Long Zedao thought Lu An must have noticed something unusual, so he looked at Gyarados's eyes from left to right, and finally tentatively asked:
"Top Grade, is there something wrong with Gyarados's pupils?"
Lu An shook his head.
Longze asked again:
"Is it abnormal that Gyarados has too many blood vessels in its eyes?"
Lu An shook his head again.
Longze hesitated for a moment, then asked again:
"Is there something wrong with Gyarados's cornea, lens, or iris?"
Lu An shook his head again.
Longze hung his head helplessly:
"Special Grade, I'm sorry, it's because I haven't accumulated enough experience. I really can't see anything wrong with Gyarados's eyes. Please give me some pointers."
Lu An shook his head:
"Ah, I wasn't asking you what's wrong with Gyarados's eyes. I was just marveling at how big Gyarados's eyes are. They feel bigger than my head."
"..."
Long Ze looked at Lu An, who was still engrossed in examining the Gyarados's eyes, and was speechless.
So you called me over just to hear you exclaim that Gyarados has big eyes?
Its eyes are so big I can see them even from ten meters away.
Are you kidding me?
"Haha, I thought you were too nervous, I was just teasing you."
Just as Long Ze was inwardly complaining, Lu An released his hand that was pulling at Gyarados's eyelids, letting it hit Gyarados's eyeballs with a soft "smack".
"Without conducting detailed tests such as blood tests, what can you possibly discover just by looking at Gyarados's eyes?"
Lu An patted Long Ze on the shoulder and said:
"When you were in the air just now, did you pay attention to your surroundings? Did you see any suspicious people or things?"
Lu An's expression was no longer as relaxed as before.
Actually, he would examine Gyarados's eyes, not only to marvel at their size, but also to try and find something unusual.
The Pokémon in Lake Farmountain are behaving very strangely today.
They are short-tempered and aggressive.
More importantly, they evolve at an incredibly high frequency.
While Lu An was talking with the others, he noticed that quite a few evolved Pokémon had been caught in this fishing competition.
There are quite a few Pokémon that undergo a second evolution, such as Goldeen and Octopus.
Although Yuanshan Lake is far from the city center, it is still a well-known large lake in Golden City.
Every so often, someone comes to clean up Far Mountain Lake to ensure that no Pokémon that could pose a life-threatening threat to ordinary people appear in the lake.
The large number of Goldeen and other Pokémon caught today is clearly abnormal.
If that were all, it wouldn't be so bad. What truly alarmed Lu An was the spectacle of more than ten Gyarados evolving simultaneously.
From the perspective of other bystanders, these Gyarados are companions summoned by Gon-suke after his Magikarp evolved.
But can anger alone really cause more than ten Magikarp to evolve into Gyarados at the same time?
If this possibility does not exist, then the most likely scenario is that the evolution of these Magikarp is due to human intervention!
If the evolution of these Magikarp was indeed influenced by human intervention, then this matter becomes quite intriguing.
The Magikarp evolution event reminded Lu An of a famous event in the original work.
The red Gyarados of the Lake of Rage!
Lake of Rage, located at the northernmost point of the Johto region, north of Kagi Town and connected by Route 43, is the largest lake area in the Johto region.
Legend has it that the area was once a volcanic crater, which was later transformed into the Lake of Wrath by torrential rains brought by migrating Gyarados.
In the original games, Team Rocket once conducted Pokémon experiments recklessly at Lake of Rage, forcing many Magikarp to evolve and become extremely aggressive as a result.
These evolved Pokémon wreak havoc on boats and attack swimmers, making nearby residents afraid to approach the largest lake area in Johto.
In the Lake of Rage, there is also a red Gyarados.
It wasn't until the protagonist arrived at the Lake of Wrath that he joined forces with the Dragon Crossing to resolve the incident there.
In the original manga, Lake of Rage is the territory of Masked Man. He takes advantage of Giovanni's defeat by Red and his departure from Team Rocket to use Masked Man to control Team Rocket.
This caused them to emit radio waves that influenced evolution towards the Lake of Rage, making the Pokémon in the Lake of Rage abnormally frenzied and resulting in a large number of strange phenomena of simultaneous evolution.
In the end, it was only through the combined efforts of the two wild fighting experts, Xiao Jin and Xiao Yin, that the red Gyarados was finally subdued and the matter was barely resolved.
Depending on the different worldviews, there have been various Gyarados disturbances at the Lake of Rage for different reasons, but these events are often closely related to Team Rocket.
Therefore, after discovering that the Magikarp in Lake Farmountain had evolved simultaneously, Lu An immediately began to suspect Team Rocket.
Is the Rockets up to something again?
It was precisely because Lu An suspected that the riot might have been caused by Team Rocket that he had Swampert use Earthquake, a powerful attack, even though he was capable of taking down Gyarados one by one.
One reason is that he hopes the "earthquake" will force Team Rocket, who may be lurking in the shadows, to come out.
Unfortunately, even the "earthquake" with a radiation diameter of hundreds of meters failed to allow him to spot Team Rocket.
That's why he asked Long Ze this question, to see if he had observed anything while flying in the sky.
Long Ze shook his head, indicating that he hadn't seen anything unusual.
Lu An couldn't help but touch his chin.
Does this mean that the Rockets really have nothing to do with this?
Was it because I always thought too badly of the Rockets that I wronged them?