Elf: I'm Just a Commentator

Ibu also denounced Gu Yuan's evil deeds, saying that he had just taken a picture of her tail.

Lin Xuan and Gu Yuan were on the same plane. They departed that morning and arrived in Shanghai that afternoon. The competition would be held the day after tomorrow, giving everyone a break.

In the hotel, Lin Xuan stood at the door of her room and looked at Gu Yuan in the opposite room.

"What a coincidence?"

"It's not exactly a coincidence. After all, whenever the league has a competition in Shanghai, the players basically stay here. It's almost become the league's exclusive hotel. I guessed it was this place, so I just booked it."

Gu Yuan shrugged and said.

"Ha~ Never mind, I'll order some takeout first, then I'll take a nap."

Lin Xuan yawned, then put the hat on Ralts' head and walked straight into the room.

I have to get up very early to catch a flight, so I need to catch up on some sleep.

The competition a few days later was actually only open to the participating athletes, and it had nothing to do with him as the coach. At most, he would do some pre-competition guidance. When Lin Xuan heard this news, he immediately questioned Zhong Mingyi.

"Then why would I go to Shanghai?"

"A publicly funded trip!"

Lin Xuan was puzzled by Zhong Mingyi's serious expression, but it also seemed to make a lot of sense.

Zhong Mingyi even gave Lin Xuan a letter of introduction, allowing him to visit Shanghai University and use some of its facilities.

The facilities and venues related to trainers at Shanghai University are many times more abundant than those at Huada University. In particular, there is one place that Zhong Mingyi highly recommends Lin Xuan visit—Shanghai University's unique fortune-telling room.

It's called the Fortune Telling House, but it's not actually used for fortune telling. Instead, every time it's opened, a powerful Psychic-type Pokémon creates a psychic field inside, filling the space with strong psychic energy fluctuations, which is very beneficial to Psychic-type Pokémon.

His Slowpoke benefited greatly from this.

Moreover, it's the only one of its kind in the entire country; even the Imperial University of Beijing doesn't have one.

Zhong Mingyi knew that Lin Xuan's Eevee was exceptionally talented in psychic abilities, so he naturally made this suggestion.

"And that place might be of some help to your Ralts. If it's a small matter, there's a special charging device there that you can try."

After hearing all this, Lin Xuan accepted Zhong Mingyi's letter of introduction without hesitation. A free trip on official business, why not go?

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Shanghai Elf League, President's Office

"The first competition was held in Shanghai... What bad luck!"

Cheng Yuanshan, the branch president of the Shanghai Pokémon League, shook his head helplessly. Logically speaking, the Gym Tournament is a very important event for the League, but this is only the first one. There is no experience at all, especially since the various gyms have just opened. Where are the talents coming from?

The latter is the main reason. There were few participants, so the league did not promote it much. It can be said that this year's gym tournament was not taken seriously, to the point that some gym leaders were indifferent to it.

Although the fact that this year's dojo tournament was held in Shanghai was the result of a draw, it also means that Shanghai will not be included until the other cities have finished their turn. It can be said that whoever draws the first draw will suffer a huge loss.

The interval between the second Dojo Tournament should not be too long, which is likely the focus of the league's attention.

"There's nothing we can do about it."

A middle-aged man on the side sighed and said the same thing, then handed over a document.

"This is the list of participants from all sides for this year's dojo competition."

"Yes, it really is him,"

Although it was not taken seriously, it still had to be looked at. As Cheng Yuanshan spoke, he flipped through the documents and immediately noticed a special name.

"Lin Xuan? Is this the Lin Xuan I'm thinking of?"

Cheng Yuanshan pointed to the name on the document, looking puzzled.

"Well, that's him."

Gao Yi stuck his head out to take a look, then nodded.

"Isn't he a researcher, or one of Lao Sun's people?"

Cheng Yuanshan knew Lin Xuan best about his identity as a researcher; after all, the evolved forms of two Eevee were hard to ignore.

Cheng Yuanshan knew relatively little about Lin Xuan's live streams. After all, someone his age wouldn't use Bilibili, let alone have so many things going on in the league, he wouldn't have time to watch live streams!

"He is also very talented in matches, and seems to have a good relationship with Zhong Mingyi, the champion of this tournament, so he was recruited to be a coach. Moreover, he is also a very famous commentator... probably more famous than he is as a researcher."

"Commentator?"

Cheng Yuanshan paused for a moment, picked up his phone and started searching. He then saw that Lin Xuan had already surpassed one million followers and fell into deep thought.

"Do you think... it would be appropriate for him to come and promote our competition?"

"Uh... it seems the alliance doesn't have that plan."

"That's why it's 'us'."

Cheng Yuanshan emphasized the word "we," clearly indicating that this was not a requirement from the Alliance headquarters.

"Only the players are allowed to enter the arena during the competition. Let's ask for his opinion, but I'm worried about something else right now..."

Cheng Yuanshan frowned.

"what?"

"After all, Lin Xuan is also a coach at the Jianghai City Dojo. If he were to provide the commentary, wouldn't it seem a bit biased?"

Upon hearing Cheng Yuanshan's words, Gao Yi suddenly realized what he meant.

"Then you can rest assured, I've also watched a couple of his live streams."

"Oh, then..."

"His commentary is entirely based on personal feelings and has nothing to do with objectivity."

Cheng Yuanshan: ? ? ?

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"Commentary for the match? It's not impossible, since I can't go anyway, but... what's the difference between that and me staying in Jianghai City!?"

After receiving Zhong Mingyi's call, Lin Xuan pondered for a moment and then spoke.

"Anyway, even if you don't stream it live, you'll still have to see what happens on-site. You can just treat it as watching with your viewers in the live stream!"

Zhong Mingyi said that he and Cheng Yuanshan, the president of the alliance branch in Shanghai, were acquaintances, so he would definitely have to give him face.

"Is my identity appropriate?"

Although Lin Xuan originally wanted to commentate on these matches, he thought he would wait until the matches were over and the results were confirmed before doing so.

"Don't worry, the old president knows too. Your commentary is all about emotion, so just say whatever you want. Back when you were commentating and competing at the same time, you didn't seem to be avoiding any appearance of impropriety, did you?"

"Ahem, that's different!" Lin Xuan forced an explanation.

After talking with Zhong Ming, Lin Xuan started looking at the Pokémon configurations of the other gym teams. Their next opponent was the Kawafu City Gym, and he immediately spotted a very representative Pokémon.

"Naughty Panda? So, do all the trainers there really have one?"

Lin Xuan scratched his head. Although he felt he liked his bear apprentice a little more than the mischievous panda...

If that's the case, does that mean every trainer in a certain province should have a Pheromosa?

After analyzing the opposing team, Lin Xuan taught the others the general tactical arrangements and then simply lay down.

Ultimately, the player's performance on the field depends on themselves, and their influence is ultimately limited.

"Russ~"

Just as Lin Xuan lay down, Ralts teleported to the bedside with a large bag of takeout food in its hand. Since getting Ralts, Lin Xuan no longer needs to pick up takeout or packages by himself!

Compared to a month ago, Ralts has grown quite a bit taller. Although it hasn't reached the two-star level yet, that's because Lin Xuan hasn't focused on training in that area.

Over the course of the past month, Ralts' main training consisted of teleportation, shadow attacks, and Farmer's Three Punches, with the rest being physical training.

Ralts' future evolution path is Gallade, which requires laying a solid foundation in childhood.

During Kirlia's evolution into Gallade, there will be a dramatic change in its physical attributes, strength, and speed. It's no exaggeration to say that it's a complete transformation. The better the foundation before evolution, the greater the benefits after evolution.

Therefore, Lin Xuan was not in a hurry to evolve Ralts.

"Boy!"

"Dandan!"

Ibrahimovic used his superpowers to snatch his share, and Little Dot pounced on him as well.

"Luckily, I brought my laptop and some other equipment with me!"

Lin Xuan picked up a fries with ketchup and put it in her mouth. Originally, Lin Xuan was thinking that she would stay here for a few more days after the competition and could live stream to pass the time. Who knew that it would come in handy now.

Chapter 179 Don't push the team away!

January 18th, Wednesday

Lin Xuan checked on Xu Jia and the others' situation. Everything sounded good. They had already entered the players' rest room to prepare. As for the tactics that Lin Xuan had arranged for them, they had already memorized them.

After confirming that everything was in order, Lin Xuan immediately started the live stream.

"Hey, hey, hey, open the door! Come on in!"

Because Lin Xuan had given a heads-up when she received the news a couple of days ago, a large group of people rushed in as soon as the time came.