He knows Pokémon better than me.

The mine in the back mountain, 19 floors underground.

Relying on the perception of wave power, he could always accurately lock the location of the stairs. After a while, Xiaozhi went down eleven floors very easily.

However, when it reached the 19th floor, the wave force could no longer sense the location of any stairs, as if this was the deepest point.

He still didn't believe it, so he asked Meltan to smash all the raw ore on this layer.

"Meilu!!"

This time, Meltan's hands condensed into hard nuts, and with repeated heavy strikes, minerals were smashed to the ground, but the location of the stairs was never revealed.

"Beep! Small mines are like this. You have to go to a large mine like the Galar Mine to reach a depth of 50 or even 100 floors underground. The minerals that can be mined will become even more rare and precious. Loto~!"

Triple-Fold Rotom reminded.

Hearing this, Xiaozhi could only give up for the time being. He put aside the rare minerals and other things for the time being. This time he was mainly here to collect basic stone materials.

"Well, here comes the difficult part."

With his hands on his hips, Xiaozhi looked at the results scattered all over the cave, including a dozen rocks, a ruby, and an ellipsoidal crystal ball, and felt a little puzzled.

How to move back became a problem.

Seeing Xiaozhi looking at her, Meltan quickly shook her head to refuse.

"Meilu, Meilu!"

It only has momentary destructive power, enough to break the ore, but it can move things continuously. He is still just a baby who needs to eat the steel armored crow's legs!
But Xiaozhi has a better candidate.

He suddenly turned his back and looked at the shadow under the torch:

"Please Machado!"

The cave was silent for a while, and then the elongated shadow began to sway and shake, and a little black smoke figure poked its head out from it.

Machado appeared, still expressionless, with mist curling and floating around him, and the pupils in his eyes, which were shaped like candles, were also shaking slightly.

Xiaozhi has not forgotten Machado who has been hiding in his shadow.

This guy has been hiding in his shadow since the Alola region, and later he planned to follow him all the way so that his fighting skills could become more proficient.

With Machado's ability, he should be able to easily move all these stone materials into the shadow, right? !

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Machado glanced at the surrounding stones and hesitated for a moment.

As a way of paying the rent for living in Ash's shadow, it was happy to help, so it activated its telepathic ability.

A childish boy's voice appeared in Xiaozhi's mind:
"I can indeed store all these things in the shadow of Master Zhi, but there is a problem. The weight of the shadow will also change accordingly."

Machado is not Gengar. Gengar’s own body is a different dimension, and he can “swallow” all these stones into his stomach in one gulp.

Its ability is to hide in the shadow of another target and imitate the behavior of the shadow itself.

If all these stones are placed in Xiaozhi's shadow, the shadow will become extremely heavy.

"Is it just the weight? No problem, just stuff it in!"

Xiaozhi was immediately relieved. It was just a small stone and nothing to be afraid of!
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Machado showed a skeptical look, but still followed Xiaozhi's command and connected his own gray mist with Xiaozhi's shadow, and the shadow then transformed into a "free entry" state.

Then Xiaozhi and Meltan threw the mineral materials scattered on the ground into the shadow one by one. As if they were thrown into a pool of water, they were completely swallowed by the dark shadow.

After more than 20 pieces of stone material were thrown in, each piece weighed about 2.5kg. The total weight was about 50kg.

Machado looked at Xiaozhi again, curious about the latter's changes - at this moment it was equivalent to Xiaozhi carrying a 50-kilogram brick on his back!

"Hmm? It does seem a bit heavy."

Xiaozhi looked at the shadow, whose appearance remained unchanged, but as soon as he took a step, he felt his shoulders sink, as if his whole body was being pressed down by something.

But, it’s just a little heavy.

After adapting for a while, Xiaozhi hardly felt the pressure.

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Although Machado showed a confused expression, it did not exaggerate. After all, it had been living in Xiaozhi's shadow for some time, and it had seen Xiaozhi's heroic deeds several times.

"This is much more convenient!"

It is like carrying an unlimited sack with you, without having to carry it in your hands.

"Melutan, let's continue mining!"

So Xiaozhi waved his finger and started mining with all his strength.

However, all the ore on this floor had been mined, so he quickly took Meltan back to the 18th floor underground, where there was another large circle of unmined ore.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Meltan used his Tile-Splitting Technique repeatedly, and Nut's powerful punches blasted all the raw ore into mineral materials.

It's rare for Machado to join the mining team. Although it is small in size, it is a mythical Pokémon with fighting attributes after all.

Mastering the fighting skills that can restrain rocks, Machado's mining ability has reached level 2. He can easily crush the ore whether by punching or kicking.

Xiaozhi followed behind the two Pokémon. When they kicked and exploded a raw ore, he threw the exploded material into the shadow behind him.
After you get out, you can count the results of your harvest.

18 underground floors, clear!

Then the 17th floor, and the 16th floor.
With the double help of Meltan and Machado in mining, the efficiency is extremely high. Basically, one layer is completed in five minutes, and it takes half an hour to reach the half depth of the mine.

But the more they mined, the weirder Machado's expression became.

The look he gave Xiaozhi was more and more like he was looking at a monster.
Wait a minute, how many stones have been thrown into the shadow?

Why hasn't this human's movements changed at all? !

Even if you are a muscular man, you can only load three layers of stones before you fall to the ground.

But now it has been installed to the 13th floor!
As for Meltan, it doesn't have this brain, it just immerses itself in continuously hitting the ore, honing its nut fist by the way.
It feels like I can already use new boxing moves!

"It seems to be getting heavier."

Behind him, Xiaozhi also felt the pressure on his body increasing, and it took a lot of strength to raise his hands.

He quickly adjusted his breathing and tightened his core, and the pressure around his body was immediately offset a lot.

Machado: “???”

Until they went all the way back from the 19th floor underground to the first floor of the surface and cleared all the ore on the first floor.
Today, all the mines in the back mountain have been cleaned up!
When he looked at Xiaozhi again, Machado's expression had become horrified, and the clouds above his head were shaking.

"Master Zhi, you.?!"

There are 20 layers in total, and each layer has an average weight of 50kg of materials, which adds up to 1000kg!

Why are you just wiping your sweat!? (End of this chapter)