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As soon as Lin Xuan walked over, Xiao Dian immediately approached curiously. Although she knew it was unlikely that what she imagined would happen, she was still very curious.

"What's it to you? I'm leaving!"

Lin Xuan gave Xiao Dian a hard tap on the head, then put on his hat and walked out of the Pokémon Center.

"Dandan~" Little Dot pouted, but could only follow along.

"Mr. Mimikyu, aren't you coming back to the hotel with us?"

When Zhao Ming and the others saw Lin Xuan heading in another direction, they asked him curiously.

"I need to go to another Pokémon Center to pick something up~"

Lin Xuan said helplessly that Zhong Mingyi sent him a package. Because the item was quite valuable, Zhong Mingyi used his own channels to entrust the League to transport it. Lin Xuan just needed to go to the Pokémon Center to pick it up himself.

But the key point is that this guy chose the wrong address when filling in the address, and filled in a Pokémon Center that was very far away from Lin Xuan!

Shanghai is such a big city, it's impossible for there to be only one Pokémon Center, as that wouldn't be enough to take care of everything. That's why Lin Xuan has to make another long trip now.

"I strongly suspect that guy did it on purpose!"

It was half an hour later when we arrived at our destination.

"Are you Mr. Lin Xuan? Your package has arrived. Please follow me."

The staff led Lin Xuan into the Pokémon Center, and they soon arrived at a room.

"Dandan?"

【what? 】

Little Dot asked with a curious look.

"Who told you to do nothing but watch TV and play games in the hotel and not pay attention to anything else?"

Lin Xuan complained helplessly as she sat down and took the package from the staff.

"Please open it and check if any items are missing," the staff member reminded her. Lin Xuan nodded and quickly opened it.

It was wrapped in a lot of foam on the outside, and in the middle was a wooden box with a latch on top. It could be opened with a little force. Lin Xuan opened the box without any hesitation.

Inside was a bluish-green stone, about half the size of Lin Xuan's fist, radiating a strange color.

Awakening Stone!

Moreover, it is the highest quality awakening stone!

Although Ralts has only just evolved into Kirlia and doesn't yet need to evolve, it has a lot of potential to be developed. However, it's always a good idea to prepare the evolution stones first.

Lin Xuan specifically asked Zhong Mingyi to help her buy this awakening stone, otherwise, evolution stones of this quality are rarely found on the market.

Even with Zhong Mingyi's connections, the price of this Awakening Stone was still astronomical, so high that Lin Xuan found it somewhat unbelievable.

Lin Xuan had previously bought a Thunder Stone for Xiao Dian. Although it was only of the most common quality, it still cost Lin Xuan 10,000 Alliance Coins. As for this Awakening Stone... its value is a thousand times that of the Thunder Stone!

For this stone, Lin Xuan not only invested all her current assets, but also owed Zhong Ming a small sum of money... not much, just a few million. Fortunately, she had taken on an advertisement beforehand, so she wouldn't really go bankrupt.

Lin Xuan originally didn't plan to buy the Awakening Stone so early. It was Zhong Mingyi's suggestion that she do so. According to him, such a high-quality Awakening Stone was rare even in his opinion, and she might not be able to find one when she wanted to use it later.

If Lin Xuan didn't know Zhong Mingyi's character, she would have seriously suspected that this guy was a shill sent by the Alliance.

Although Lin Xuan didn't know much about these evolution stones, he could tell at a glance that the quality of this awakening stone was vastly different from the ones he had bought before, both in terms of color and luster. At least Lin Xuan could tell at a glance that this thing was definitely very expensive!

Lin Xuan was very cautious. She took a picture of Zhong Mingyi's side first, and only put it away after confirming that everything was correct.

"no problem."

After confirming that everything was alright, Lin Xuan picked up the box and walked straight out of the Pokémon Center.

Normally, Lin Xuan could have simply entrusted such valuable items to Zhong Mingyi for safekeeping; there was no need for him to carry them with him. However, the problem is that... after the competition, he will most likely not be able to return to Jianghai City for a short period of time.

Since it was winter break, Lin Xuan still had to go back to his hometown. In fact, if it weren't for this competition, he would be staying at home playing with his caterpillar right now.

Although there is a provincial competition, it will not be held in Jianghai City. After the competition, we will go directly to the city where the competition is held and then continue our journey home.

"Dandan~"

Is there nothing that can help me evolve?

As Little Dot flew through the air, looking at the bag Lin Xuan was carrying, it couldn't help but say with frustration, "I really want to evolve too!"

"You want to evolve again? What do you want to evolve into, Zapdos?"

Lin Xuan gave him a disgruntled look.

"Buyi~"

Eevee perched on Lin Xuan's shoulder didn't have this problem. Since she didn't want to evolve anyway, wouldn't it be better to just sit back and do nothing?

Lin Xuan walked across the street and hailed a taxi to go back to the hotel. However, he did not notice that as he was leaving, two other people quietly got into another car and followed him.

Chapter 189 Why do you seem more like a villain than us?

"I came all this way just to drink Coke, oh well... *burp*"

Lin Xuan tightened the cap on her Coke bottle while complaining to Ibu, who was carrying another bottle of soda on his shoulder.

"Boy!"

Didn't you seem to be having a lot of fun drinking too?

Ibu protested, "Xiaodian and Linxuan drank it too, so why is she the only one being blamed? It's not fair!"

"I don't necessarily need to drink Coke~"

Lin Xuan threw the empty Coke bottle into a dusty Shanpai trash can, then walked towards the hotel, which was just one alleyway away.

"Boy!"

But just as Lin Xuan was walking steadily, the Eevee on her shoulder suddenly barked, and then all the fur on its body stood on end, and it jumped off Lin Xuan's body.

Danger prediction feature!

This premonition was stronger than ever before.

"how?"

Lin Xuan was also startled by Ibu's reaction. Although she had had similar "stress" reactions before, she had never been this serious. Ibu even threw away the soda she was holding.

Those who were originally hiding in the shadows, though unaware of how they were exposed, were forced to reveal themselves.

A flash of white light appeared, and countless high-speed stars rushed towards Lin Xuan. Eevee, as if it had a premonition, immediately released its psychic power to block Lin Xuan and completely blocked the high-speed stars.

"A sneak attack!?"

Although he didn't know exactly what was going on, he roughly guessed that he seemed to have encountered some trouble, so he grabbed the little dot in mid-air and Eevee and turned around to run away.

There aren't many people around here, but once you step out of this alley and onto the main street, the situation will be completely different. Lin Xuan didn't believe that the other party would dare to make a move once they got to that place.

But just as Lin Xuan was about to leave, another white figure flashed past and approached Lin Xuan, its sharp claws attacking Lin Xuan and the small dot in the air.

"Mongoose Cleave?"

Lin Xuan immediately recognized the appearance of the Pokémon, and her heart sank, because the Pokémon Zangoose did not know the move Swift, which meant that there was more than one Zangoose here.

When a spirit tried to attack Lin Xuan, the little dot flying in mid-air was naturally the first to object, releasing a large amount of electricity from its body to form a protective shield in front of Lin Xuan.

The mongoose initially disregarded the small electric current, intending to pass right through it. However, the moment its claws approached the protective shield, it realized something was wrong. Its powerful fighting instincts caused it to retreat rapidly, but it was too late. The small electric current followed immediately, landing entirely on the mongoose, forcing it to barely defend itself with its claws.

But before Lin Xuan could lower his guard, another voice came from behind him.

"Twin-Tailed Hand, Double Strike!"

The voice sounded like a woman's, and Lin Xuan's guess was correct; there was indeed no other Pokémon here called Zangoose.

Lin Xuan had no choice but to turn around and look back again. Sure enough, two figures appeared not far behind him. They seemed to be a man and a woman, but they were both wearing masks and their faces were not visible. As for the long-tailed monster, it was rapidly approaching Lin Xuan, and its two tails were also stretching forward.

"Hmph! I've been following you for days, and all you do is run around everywhere except die in the hotel! Can't you stay in one place a little longer?"

The male trainer who commanded the Zangoose Slash sounded extremely resentful. He had been following Lin Xuan since she arrived in Shanghai several days ago. At first, Gu Yuan was with her and they didn't dare to get close, but then Lin Xuan arrived in Shanghai... Would they dare to go into that place?

In the following days, Lin Xuan, this shut-in, was practically rooted to the hotel. When Kirlia finally came out for a bit, they originally planned to kidnap him as a bargaining chip, but the guy teleported around right under their noses and they couldn't catch him even if they died.

We finally got to see Lin Xuan today. First, we waited for half a day in front of the Pokémon Center, and then we spent half a day inhaling exhaust fumes from a taxi. Is it easy for them to be villains?

"Who are you?"

Because she was surrounded by the Mongoose Slash and the Twin-Tailed Beast Hand, Lin Xuan had no choice but to lean against the corner of the wall and ask very cautiously.

Although he had extensive combat knowledge, every battle he had fought since arriving in this world had been on a battlefield. This was his first time fighting in the open. Moreover, the two Zangoose Slashers and the Twin Tail Hand were not weak; they were clearly three-star level.

That Mongoose Slash was just too careless, which is why it was directly knocked back by a small amount of electric current.

"You don't need to know that, Aipom, make your move!"

The man seemed to want to say something more, but was immediately stopped by another person beside him, who seemed to know the adage that villains die from talking too much and was impatient.

Without the slightest hesitation, seeing that the negotiations were ineffective, Lin Xuan looked up at the sky and began to shout.

"Help!!!!"

Regardless of whether there are other people around, call out first; the kind of protagonist-style solo battle is still too risky.

Seeing Lin Xuan so unceremoniously start asking for help, the two people on the other end stopped hesitating.

Similar to Zangoose Slash, Aipom slammed its tail into the ground and arrived in front of Eevee. Eevee had just blocked its Swift Strike, and this psychic ability was indeed quite annoying, so it decided to deal with this little guy first.