Elf: Re-employment of retired champion of Padiya

Chapter 693 Waves in the Water

Even though the photos are a little blurry, as if they were taken in a hurry, the overall appearance of the Pokémon in the photos is very similar to Suicune.

But it's just similar.

At least based on Luo Mu's knowledge, plus the fact that he had seen and come into contact with Suicune with his own eyes.

The photo shows some unknown Pokémon that looks like Suicune, but is not Suicune.

It's not some Ditto transformed with some differences in details, but a completely different Pokémon.

This made Luo Mu think of the fierce thunder drum on the farm, where he often practiced his electric moves on the hillside.

It is another Pokémon that has a certain similarity to Raikou in appearance, color and pattern, but is completely different.

So, could the "Suicune" in the photo be a paradoxical Pokémon like Raido?
Raikou is of Electricity attribute, and Thunderbolt is of Electricity + Dragon attribute. According to GF's nature, could this Pokémon in front of him, which is suspected to be a paradoxical species, be of Water + Dragon attribute?
Luo Mu's thoughts gradually became distracted, until the spiritual power of the Lei Guan King used as a reminder surged into his mind, he noticed that Hai Dai had stood in front of him without him knowing.

The pair of calloused hands waved in front of his eyes, as if to confirm whether he was distracted.

"Hey! It's ok that you came by unexpectedly, but why are you distracted?"

They were all old acquaintances, so Haidai didn't hold back when speaking, not to mention that he himself had a generous personality.

Luo Mu's eyes hardened, and he shook his head apologetically, "I'm sorry, I just felt like I had seen the Pokémon in the photo, so I was lost in my memories."

Hearing this, Haidai's expression suddenly became serious.

Miss Junsha from Boping City in the back also stood up and walked a few steps in high heels to Luo Mu.

She saluted to show her courtesy and respect, and then said, "Mr. Champion, please share the details with us."

"Everyone present is working hard to resolve this "water vapor incident."

"Of course, that's what I'm here for."

Luo Mu nodded slightly, exchanged a glance with Hai Dai, and sat in the empty seat next to him at his invitation.

Originally, Luo Mu also wanted to find a place for the Lotus Crown King, but the other party shook his head and indicated through telepathy that he would just float behind Luo Mu.

It is not the kind of person who likes to attract attention, holds a high status and makes many demands.

After Luo Mu sat down, the meeting in the city hall continued.

Probably to take care of him, Ms. Junsha, who was the chief executive of the incident, recounted the general situation.

"The diffusion of water vapor began at six o'clock last night."

"At the same time, the entire water system of Glass Bottle City has also been affected. The water temperature, which was originally maintained at room temperature, is like being boiled over a fierce fire, and it is still continuing to heat up."

"During this period, the scale of water vapor continued to increase due to the rise in water temperature. Many fish and shrimp farmers contracted ponds where fish and shrimp died due to high temperature and lack of oxygen."

"Aquatic Pokémon are fine. Because of their physical constitution, as long as the water temperature does not rise to the level of extremely high boiling water, they can still barely adapt. Otherwise, they can choose to go ashore and hide."

"——However, I don't think the culprit has the ability to boil the waterways of the entire Glass Bottle City, or even bring the temperature to nearly 100 degrees Celsius."

"After all, the energy release required is equivalent to continuously boiling all the water resources in this city. Only those legendary Pokémon can do such a thing."

Junsha paused, her eyes vaguely falling on Luo Mu.

Of course, this didn't mean that she doubted Luo Mu. She simply remembered a complaint once made by her cousin who worked in Pingdie Town.

The champion's farm has a legendary elf named Flame Bird, and on New Year's Eve not long ago, it seemed that a ridiculous incident occurred where the power of the legendary elf was used to set off fireworks.
And now, the person being criticized is sitting right in front of him. It’s really hard to keep calm just thinking about it.

Restraining the urge to laugh, Junsha said with a serious face: "After the water vapor mutation occurred and became uncontrollable, we began to organize corresponding actions to investigate the cause of the water vapor incident."

"—but there was no progress."

"No matter what detection method we use, we can't track down the culprit that caused the waterways in Glass Bottle City to heat up and continuously emit huge amounts of water vapor."

Junsha's voice fell, and just as she was about to continue speaking, she immediately closed her mouth.

She saw Luo Mu raising his hand and simply nodded to indicate that he could ask any questions he wanted.

Luo Mu was not polite and asked, "Maybe my focus is a little off, but I still want to know the answer to a question."

"Please ask." Junsha said.

"Yeah." Luo Mu nodded slightly, his eyes fell on a bird's-eye view of Glass Bottle City posted on the whiteboard, and asked in confusion: "What is the structure of the waterways in the entire Glass Bottle City? Why are they being boiled indiscriminately?"

In Luo Mu's opinion, it is impossible to make independent water resources boil at the same time unless they go to each place one by one.

It's not the "end point" of Primal Groudon.

If that's the case, then there can probably only be one.

".You asked a very good question. In fact, that is exactly what we are going to explain next."

Junsha picked up the thermos and took a sip of water. Her eyes moved to the corner of the long table and fell on a middle-aged man dressed as an engineer.

The other party understood what he meant and immediately stood up, bowing slightly to Luo Mu stiffly.

"Hello, Champion. I am the descendant of a waterway design engineer in Boping City."

".Hello?"

Luo Mu responded kindly and waited for the other party's explanation.

"In fact, the reason why we can create a water city like the water city of Odomare in the Johto region in the Glass Bottle City in the desert is because the waterways of the entire city have a complete set of automatic control systems."

"Even the oasis near Boping City was created decades ago when generations of Boping people worked hard to bring in water from nearby water-rich areas and to green the city."

"And this automatic water resource circulation system that gives life to Boping City is buried deep underground in Boping City. It regularly exchanges water resources with the connected water bodies for purification, making this place a vibrant water town and an oasis of life on the edge of the desert."

The middle-aged man spoke a long paragraph in one breath.

Luo Mu extracted a key point from it.

——The water resources of the entire Boping City are completely supplied and circulated on a regular basis by an automatic water resource circulation system built underground.

That is, boiling the water supplied to the entire city at the source - it is feasible.

Luo Mu looked at Jun Sha and found that she was also looking at him.

“As you might guess, the source of the problem is underground.”

"—but the person who helped us discover this was not the worker who was attacked, but a teacher from Orange College."

Miss Junsha said softly.

"A teacher from Orange College?" Luo Mu was stunned for a second. He didn't expect to hear such an answer from Miss Junsha.

"Yes." Miss Junsha nodded seriously to ensure the reliability of her words, "And she also claimed that the Pokémon in the photo appeared in Glass Bottle City because of her."

Luo Mu: “.”

Unable to hold back any longer, Luo Mu stood up slightly and asked, "So, who is that person——?"

"Her name is Lei He, and she's a history teacher at Orange College."

Haidai shrugged and gave Luo Mu an answer on behalf of Miss Junsha.

This also made Luo Mu even more confused.

He never thought that he would hear Leihe's name here.

Didn't Principal Clavell say that she was busy with something recently? Wait, is this what she was busy with? !
As if she noticed the change in Luo Mu's expression, Miss Junsha had no intention of keeping him in suspense. Instead, from the perspective of an eyewitness, after Luo Mu understood the whole story, she re-examined the timeline for him.

First, the water vapor mentioned earlier filled the city and the water temperature rose. The City Hall of Glass Bottle City, their police station, and even Mr. Haidai, the gym leader, all participated in the investigation of the source.

At the same time, other forces in the city were trying to disperse the water vapor through the Flying Pokémon's "Clear Fog" move, but unfortunately the effect was not good.

Time passed like this overnight and it came to this morning.

A woman, Leihe, appeared outside the city hall on her own initiative.

She directly revealed that she might be one of the culprits who caused the "water vapor incident".

After Miss Junsha received the news, she immediately summoned Leihe.

Leihe also took this opportunity to reveal how she had caused such a big trouble.

In short, she wanted to purify some treasure of four disasters that she didn't know whether it existed or not, so she had been looking for the trace of a legendary spirit called "Suijun".

Although the footprints of legendary spirits like "Suicune" mostly appear in the Kanto and Johto regions on the other side of the planet, she also believes that there may be traces of the other party in the Padia region.

Her hard work paid off, and she successfully tracked down the whereabouts of the Pokémon that looked like Suicune, but the place was a little special, in the strictly guarded "Padia Pit".

I don't know what method she used, at least Leihe didn't explain it in front of Miss Junsha. Anyway, she successfully found the trace of the Pokémon that looked like Suicune, and took it away from the Padiya Pit.

——Then, her primary goal would naturally be to use the other party's power to purify the "Seal Pillars" that she had already found traces of.

Leihe's first target is a "sealed stake" hidden in the top mountain of Glass Bottle City.

However, that "Suicune" was just like the legendary Suicune, whose appearance was different from his. The other party did not have the power to purify the seal at all.

Moreover, perhaps because of its interest in the waterways of Glass Bottle City, the "Suicune" broke away from Reihe's control and quietly broke into the automatic water circulation system located underground in Glass Bottle City, occupying the huge reservoir that serves as the source.

The other party began to use the reservoir as a basis to transform the waterways of the entire Glass Bottle City into its favorite environment.

Lei He, who followed the man, was completely unable to stop him and had no choice but to go to the city hall to "surrender".

Luo Mu: “.”

My mother tongue is speechless.

Haidai also took over the conversation at this time.

"Then based on the clues provided by the little girl, we successfully found the hiding place of the Pokémon."

"The next step is how to subdue or expel them."

"Unfortunately, even if I tried my best, with the help of Miss Junsha and the others, I was completely unable to defeat that "Suicune"."

"What happened next is what you saw. After we blocked the entrance, we returned to the city hall and discussed countermeasures."

There was an obvious look of bitterness on Haidai's face.

That’s right, after all, he is also the gym leader in charge of the entire Glass Bottle City and the strongest person under normal circumstances.

But he was unable to solve the culprit who was gradually plunging Glass Bottle City into chaos.

At this time, the mayor of Glass Bottle City, who had been silent all this time, spoke.

"We were planning to seek combat assistance from the Alliance Headquarters, but at this time, Champion Luo Mu - you came here."

"Can you please lend us a hand?"

"Of course, that's why I came here."

Luo Mu, who finally figured out the reason, rubbed his brows, but did not refuse.

"Hahaha, with Brother Luo Mu here, the next operation will definitely be a sure win!"

Haidai quickly recovered from his depressed mood and smiled heroically. He patted Luo Mu's shoulders twice with his big hand that was as big as a palm-leaf fan that could directly knock a fish unconscious.

Enduring the force that almost broke his body apart, Luo Mu asked helplessly: "But before we leave, I have another question to ask."

"Please tell me."

"Although the whole story has been explained clearly, why is Leihe, one of the culprits you mentioned, not here this whole time?"

Luo Mu was wondering, could that woman have been locked up in the police station?
I also wanted to ask the other party why he suddenly did such a thing.

"So that's what you want to ask." Miss Junsha looked enlightened. She stroked her chin and thought for a while before answering, "As for Lei He, it is a routine operation to lock her up and interrogate her later."

"But because the strategy for that Pokémon wasn't going very well, and she said she might be able to find some useful information, I sent a police officer to take her to the Orange Academy to look up relevant books."

"According to the time, they should be back soon."

Coincidentally.

Just shortly after Miss Junsha's voice fell.

There was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the meeting room door.

With a loud bang, the door of the conference room was pushed open with force.

From outside the open door, a female voice that was barely familiar to Luo Mu sounded.

"I found it, I found it!"

"That Pokémon is not Suicune at all, but an ancient Pokémon called Suicune recorded in ancient books!"

(End of this chapter)