He knows Pokémon better than me.

"Hmm, something seems to be wrong?"

Following Mary's steps, Xiaozhi's expression gradually cooled down from the initial excitement.

When you first come out of Jiqing City, the scenery is open and beautiful, but as you go northwest, the road becomes gradually desolate.

The terrain was undulating and overgrown with weeds. From time to time, a few curious-looking insects popped out of the grass and looked at the two uninvited guests curiously.

"Beep! A scout bug, a bug-type, a home bug in the Galar region, always collecting intelligence tirelessly, very smart, but weak! Loto~!"

Xiaozhi nodded. This big-headed bug is the house bug here and is somewhat similar to Carlos's butterfly bug.

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Marie glanced at the Triple-Fold Rotom in Xiaozhi's hand without leaving a trace. It was really high-tech.

She became more and more curious about the identity of this outsider.

Since the destination is located in a corner of the wilderness, there is no time to take Xiaozhi to explore the vast wilderness.

During this time, Xiaozhi kept finding topics to talk about, trying to get closer to this cool black-haired girl, after all, she was his first friend in the Galar region.

The latter was obviously not an extrovert, but facing the outgoing Xiaozhi, he started chatting with him casually.

"You're from Spike Town. Your goal is to challenge the Galar League. Are you challenging gyms everywhere now?"

Xiaozhi nodded secretly, and learned a lot about Mary.

About twenty minutes later, the two finally arrived at their destination——

This place is almost at the edge of the wilderness area, and to the west you can see the elevated railway that passes through the mountains.

Just in front
"Is this the Lookout Castle? Why does it feel like some kind of ruins?!"

Xiaozhi stood in front of an abandoned tower with his mouth wide open, a look of disbelief on his face.

What comes into view is a cylindrical stone tower about 20 meters high, built of rough gray rocks, with many parts of the outer wall covered with moss and ferns.

There are many windows around the walls, a railing corridor is built outside, and the top is a completely open-air structure.

“Is this what they call a watchtower?”

Xiaozhi frowned deeply. Can he really go up and look out?

The second floor of the watchtower is connected to a two-meter-high city wall in a square shape, surrounding the entire "castle".

However, the city walls had collapsed in many places, with only broken buildings and ruins left, and the surface was covered with weeds and vines.

(Lookout Castle·Schematic Diagram)

There was an arched doorway right in front of me. The rotten wooden door was tightly closed with a large rusty lock on top. It looked like no one had visited it for many years.

"Well, it may look a bit shabby from the outside, but maybe there will be some surprises for me inside?!"

Xiaozhi still held out hope and moved closer to a hole in the wall so that he could see what was inside.

However, the scene inside the "castle" made him change his expression again -

Inside is a dilapidated house, which is considered a dangerous building and it feels like it will collapse at any time.

In the middle was a fairly spacious inner courtyard, some parts of which were bare and some were overgrown with weeds.

Fortunately, the area is estimated to be about 500 square meters, which is spacious enough for one person to live in.

As for the other parts.
It was really a bare house with only four broken and ruined walls, and not even a castle roof!
Xiaozhi: "."

It was so different from the castle he had imagined!

No wonder Teacher Ma is so generous. He spent a lot of money on a castle manor. What a rip-off!

The corners of Mary's mouth were also a little uncomfortable.

She had passed by here before and knew that there was a stone tower that could not be climbed, but she did not notice that this was actually a small castle.

"Did we get cheated by a black-hearted businessman?" A name popped up in Mary's mind.

That evil Galar slaughtering innocent outsiders doesn't seem to be a surprise?
Seeing Xiaozhi standing there in a daze, Mary's tone softened unusually today, and she even patted him on the shoulder.

"It's not a bad deal, at least it has a sense of history."

"If you want to see the stars at night, just look up and you can see them."

Xiaozhi: "."

It didn't provide any comfort!

After comforting Ash, Mary had already planned to run away. If she stayed now, she might have to help Ash clean up this "castle".

"Well, I have something else to do. Since I've already sent you here, I'll leave first."

Mary gave Xiaozhi an encouraging look and turned to leave.

"Wait a minute, let's leave a phone number."

Before leaving, Xiaozhi even exchanged phone numbers with Mary, then watched the leather-clad girl leave in a hurry, leaving him and Pikachu standing outside the castle.

"Forget it, let's go in and take a look at the situation first."

Xiaozhi let out a long sigh. This was also the first time he had encountered such a situation.

Teacher Ma didn’t give us the key either, but it’s not a big problem.

Click bang!

Xiaozhi pulled at the rusty lock, and with a little force he was able to pull down the iron lock along with a part of the wooden door, and the door immediately opened inward.

Xiaozhi: "."

He has gradually come to accept this outrageous setting.

When he cautiously stepped in, the first thing he saw was the wild Pokémon living in the castle, which were startled.

A few speaker crickets scurried into the grass, shivering.

A pickpocket cat quickly jumped onto the edge of the city wall, arched its back and bared its teeth at Xiaozhi.

Ignoring Hakimi's panting for the moment, Xiaozhi put his hands on his hips and looked around.

"Actually, it's pretty good."

This is not brainwashing yourself.

At least the area is large enough, with an inner courtyard of nearly 500 square meters, which is enough for him to release more than ten Pokémon at the same time and let them move freely.

And there are wastelands around that no one cares about. If there is really a lack of space,
Just tear down the city wall and continue expanding outwards, and you can build a 1000-square-meter castle in minutes!
As for the dilapidated old house and the ruined watchtower.

Xiaozhi didn't care too much about these.

"In that case, everyone come out!!"

Then Xiaozhi put down his luggage and threw out several Poké Balls. The most urgent task now was to find a place to sleep and spend his first day in the Galar region.

boom! boom! boom!
There was a series of crisp sounds, and suddenly a large number of Pokémon appeared.

Just after arriving in the Galar region, his Galar team was almost complete.

“Please, everyone!!”

Xiaozhi is a master of wilderness survival, and he quickly divided the work among his "Galar Team" -

Anyway, the original things in the castle could no longer be relied upon, and he didn't even dare to live in the stone house, for fear that he would be buried while sleeping at night.

"Flaty Ducky, go to the nearby woods to collect some firewood first. Don't go too far. I see there's a jungle on the right."

Onion Duck nodded, kicked the wooden door open, and walked out with the onion on his shoulder. (End of this chapter)