He knows Pokémon better than me.

Along the way, Yinren ate some flatbread while telling short stories about the origins of the big brother phone—

"I was just delivering goods to Team Galactic headquarters, right? It just so happens that their investigation team's leader, Star Moon, asked me to help identify some things."

"Team Leader Xingyue?"

Xiao Zhi silently recited it once, and it seemed to be Xiao Guang's direct superior?
In the past month, the Galaxy team has actually been salvaging a lot of strange things from the adjacent Xinqi Lake.

This includes mobile phones, thin and smooth discs, books with incomprehensible text, or other things whose purpose is completely unknown.

I haven't been able to figure out its origin and use.

No one knows who threw it into the lake, but every two days we can retrieve some things from the lake shore.

Even a month ago, they rescued someone!
"A month ago?"

Ash was stunned. Wasn't that earlier than Dawn's time travel?

A thin, smooth disc—isn't that a CD?

"As the leader of the Ginkgo Chamber of Commerce, I was asked to identify what the goods were when I delivered them."

Yinren said, "The Ginkgo Chamber of Commerce travels all over the country; they may have seen these things before."

After some investigation, Yinren still couldn't understand what any of the things were, so he brought back a smaller "black square box" to study.

Providing an answer would greatly enhance the reputation of the Ginkgo Chamber of Commerce!
"I see."

Xiao Zhi understood what was going on, and quickly stuffed the pancake into his mouth. It didn't taste like much, and the aroma was nowhere near as good as the taro pancake shop he had just passed.

Since Hikari is a member of Team Galactic, she should recognize these things, right?

The two quickened their pace and arrived once again at the luxurious and imposing Galaxy Team building.

This time, the guards at the gate did not stop Yinren after seeing him and opened the gate to let him pass.

Upon entering the building, one finds a multi-story villa-style layout with a large red carpet bearing the Galaxy logo on the floor.

Aside from the absence of any electrical appliances, it looks no different from a modern villa estate.

"That's luxurious enough."

Ash looked around and was secretly amazed.

In comparison, Pearl Village was a desolate wasteland, seemingly from a completely different era!

"Come with me."

Yinren led the way, going up the escalator to the second floor. Inside the main entrance was a spacious office.

The door was open, and Xiao Zhi saw a short-haired woman with gray-blue hair working at her desk, which was piled high with all sorts of documents.

Noticing that an outsider had entered, she looked up.

"Mr. Yinren? Why are you back? Have you made some progress in your research?"

Xingyue stood up and asked in confusion.

Yinren waved and greeted them, then led Xiaozhi in, introducing themselves:

"This is the leader of Team Galaxy's investigation team, Starlight! Captain Starlight, this is my good friend, Gogo!"

"Guo Gang?"

Xingyue raised an eyebrow. She didn't have eyebrows; only the skin above her eyes twitched as she curiously examined Xiaozhi.

Ignoring the dark skin for now, he's wearing the Ginkgo Merchant Guild uniform. Logically, he should be Yinren's subordinate, so why is he called a "friend"?

"Hello, Captain Starmoon!"

Ash looked at Star Moon with great curiosity; this was the strict boss Dawn had mentioned.

His short, gray-blue hair was combed to one side. He was rather small in stature, wearing the blue uniform commonly used by the investigation team. He stared intently, always wearing a stern expression.

"His eyes really do look fierce!"

Xiao Zhi remembered that Xiao Guang had described her new boss to him before.

Moreover, his temperament is quite similar to that of Akari, the leader of the modern Galaxy Team!

"Guo Gang seems to know something about those things, I plan to take him to study them."

Yinren spoke up, and Xingyue nodded, not really thinking about it in detail.

The wreckage salvaged from Xinqi Lake wasn't anything important; it was piled up in the warehouse like trash, and she didn't even bother Xiaoguang to investigate.

After all, the most important thing right now is for Dawn to pacify the raging King and establish diplomatic relations with Team Kong and Team Pearl on behalf of Team Galactic!

Xingyue casually called over a red-clad guard to take the two of them to the back warehouse. Xingyue sat back down and resumed her work on the mountain of documents piled up in front of her.

"Uh, were they this powerful in ancient times?"

Xiao Zhi chuckled dryly. He was rather curious about what was written in the documents of this era.
Then, following a guard in red, Xiaozhi went downstairs again. At the top of the stairs, Xiaozhi subconsciously looked up.

Yinren whispered a reminder:
"The third floor is the office of Mr. Ma Jiamu, the leader of Team Galaxy. Even members of Team Galaxy are not allowed to go up there without permission."

The young man in red who was leading the way, and also a member of the security team, then reminded them:
"Actually, you can go up there. But Boss Ma Jiamu especially loves wrestling, so anyone who goes up there has to take a throw from him first."

"But no one in the Xicui area has been able to catch it; they've all basically been thrown directly from the third floor."

Ash nodded. Dawn had mentioned the leader of Team Galactic before. He looked a lot like Professor Yamanashi, so he should be a good person, right?

Before long, the two arrived at the back room of the warehouse on the first floor. The entrance was a craftsman's room, filled with all sorts of strange ancient tools.

Several people in green uniforms—

That is, the members of the manufacturing team are making items such as Green Poké Balls, healing potions, and Mineral Lure by hand, and are responsible for providing equipment and items to the members of the research team who go out.

Of course, most of them are supplied to the grocery stores at the village entrance for sale.

Xiao Zhi also spotted a young man with purple hair who was half-covering his eyes, wearing round-framed glasses, and with two sharp strands of bangs hanging down his forehead, resembling a pair of sharp teeth.
"Does he look a bit like that fat inventor from Team Galactica?"

Along the way, Xiao Zhi saw many "ancestors" with similar faces and temperaments to modern people, and he was already used to it.

The abandoned items salvaged from Xinqi Lake are piled up in the warehouse next door.

The place was a mess, with all sorts of scattered parts. Xiao Zhi felt like he had wandered into a modern-day garbage disposal plant.

There were even many snack wrappers, broken CDs, and charred batteries.
But the most striking thing was a large, tattered yellow canvas, wrapped with many hemp ropes, connected to a huge wooden frame that was only half left and bent under the weight.

"Wait a minute, this thing looks familiar?"

Xiao Zhi frowned and took a few steps closer.

Pikachu twitched its ears; it was all too familiar with this thing!

When Ash walked to the front, although the canvas was torn and dirty, it could still be inflated to form a Meowth's head, with the gold coin pattern in the center being particularly eye-catching.
"Wait a minute, isn't that the Rockets' hot air balloon?!"

Ash exclaimed in surprise, "I haven't seen Team Rocket for so long! Could they have crashed in the Green Region?!" (End of Chapter)