Locke: Daily intelligence, I'm going crazy finding bargains!

Forty minutes later, the car stopped at the entrance to the Fairy Forest, the largest habitat for beginner elves in Los Angeles.

Since the senior high school students are still taking practical classes at school, the entrance is very deserted, with only a few vendors dozing off.

Luo Xing walked straight to the largest prop shop by the roadside, took out all the Locke Coins in his pocket, and bought eleven ordinary Gulu Balls.

Luo Xing walked to the entrance and showed the certificate given by the school.

The guard glanced at the credentials, pressed the switch, and the gate slowly opened.

Upon entering the forest, the light dimmed instantly, and two flashes of white light appeared as Luo Xing summoned Meow Meow and Little Stone.

"From now on, you'll be called Little Stone." Luo Xing patted Amitya's bald head.

The little stone made a dull gurgling sound, seemingly quite pleased with the name.

One person and two pets stepped into the forest. The light dimmed instantly, and the air was filled with the smell of decaying leaves and damp mud. In the outer area, there were mostly low-level Bug and Fairy-type Pokémon.

"Meow meow, one punch, little stone, impact."

Luo Xing followed behind like a ruthless overseer. Meow Meow kept darting through the grass, punching a jelly and sending it flying. Little Stone bulldozed a Stardust Bug to its death.

Half an hour later.

Luo Xing leaned against the tree trunk, looked at the barely perceptible experience bar on the All-Knowing Eye panel, and sighed.

too slow.

After grinding all the way, Meow Meow and Little Stone barely reached level 2.

I didn't even see a glimpse of a rare spirit; all I found in my inventory were some materials. Leveling up your beasts in the real world is much more grindy than in the game.

Luo Xing stood up, preparing to continue deeper into the area.

Suddenly, the color of the sky above the treetops changed. The originally azure sky was replaced by a strange blackish-purple, and a black curtain of vapor rose around them.

Luo Xing narrowed his eyes slightly.

He was all too familiar with this phenomenon; in the game, it meant that a spirit corrupted by nightmares had appeared nearby.

"Let's go take a look."

Luo Xing lowered his footsteps and led the two elves toward the center of the pollution. After parting a thicket of bushes, a clearing appeared before them.

In the center of the open space, an elf, larger than an ordinary dog, was frantically digging at the soil. Its eyes were bloodshot, and its body was shrouded in a blackish-purple mist.

【Elf: Guardian Hound (Nightmare Corruption)】

[Level: 3]

[Attribute: Fire]

Luo Xing lowered his gaze and saw a star-shaped collar hanging around its neck.

Found it, the old lady's dog, DouDou.

Despite being fighting a monster far above his level and still in a corrupted, berserk state, Luo Xing didn't rush to attack. Instead, he took out the bluestone slab he had picked up from under the pickled vegetable jar from his backpack.

The all-knowing eye swept over.

Luo Xing pressed the stone slab onto Miao Miao's forehead.

"Close your eyes and feel it."

The stone slab began to dissipate, and the bluish-gray light transformed into countless streams of light that instantly entered Meow Meow's forehead, causing the stone slab to turn into powder.

Meow suddenly opened its eyes, a sharp glint appearing in its dark golden pupils. "Meow!" It waved its paw, creating a very faint whooshing sound.

The guard dog ahead sensed the commotion, turned its head sharply, and let out a low growl. Dark purple flames ignited at the tips of its paws.

"Go! Defeat them quickly!"

Luo Xing waved his hand. He always preferred a group fight to a one-on-one duel; that was his consistent style.

The guard dog exerted force with all four limbs, rushing straight towards Luo Xing like a black lightning bolt, instinctively sensing that this human was the core.

"Little stone, block the way!"

Little Stone crossed his arms, his whole body glowing with an earthy yellow light, and stood firmly in front of Luo Xing.

boom!

The guard dog crashed into the small stone, and blackish-purple flames instantly engulfed it. However, the small stone's "Solid Body" ability triggered, causing its attack power to surge upon taking damage.

It swung its hand back, its thick arm slamming hard into the side of the guard dog.

The dog, in pain, lost its balance in mid-air.

"Meow, listen to the bridge!" Luo Xing calmly gave the order.

The cat had already moved to the side. Instead of watching over its owner, it closed its eyes.

The changes in airflow and the exertion of muscles were clearly imprinted in its mind at that moment. The moment the protective dog landed, it instinctively lashed out with a fiery tail sweep.

As if it had some kind of premonition, Meow Meow leaned back at an extremely strange angle, the flames grazing its nose.

Using the momentum of leaning back, Meow Meow pushed off the ground with its hind legs, exerted force with its waist, and clenched its right paw into a fist.

Anticipation perfectly blocked the attack!

boom!

A heavy, dull punch landed precisely on the guard dog's chin.

The guard dog didn't even have time to yelp before its massive body tumbled twice in the air and crashed heavily to the ground, completely unconscious.

The dark purple mist on its body quickly dissipated, and its scarlet eyes returned to normal.

The battle was over, cleanly and decisively.

Luo Xing took out a newly bought Poké Ball. With a flash of white light, the Poké Ball landed on the ground, shook twice, and made a "ding" sound.

Successfully subdued.

At the same time, in the core area of ​​the Fairy Forest.

Three mysterious figures clad in black robes stood in a triangular formation, surrounding a magic circle in the center.

Behind them stood two young men, their expressions a mixture of tension and fervor.

A magic circle suppressed a small, canine-shaped juvenile elf, who lay weakly at the bottom of the cage, breathing barely.

If Luo Xing were here, he would recognize at a glance that this is Little Pal, a being capable of evolving into the legendary spirit "Dragon Breath Pal".

Suddenly, the leader of the black-robed men twitched his sleeve and took out a diamond-shaped image crystal, the surface of which was flashing with a dazzling red light.

"Someone has disturbed the guard dogs on the perimeter," the man in black said in a hoarse voice.

He tapped the crystal, and light and shadow were projected into the air, showing Luo Xing commanding Miao Miao and Xiao Shitou to defeat the guardian dog.

That is, in the half-second that everyone's attention is drawn to the scene.

Little Pal within the magic circle emitted a bright light, transformed into a wisp of black smoke, and disappeared into the magic circle.

"Um?"

The black-robed figure on the left suddenly turned his head, looked at the empty iron cage, and instantly unleashed a terrifying surge of magical power.

It got away again!

The leader, a man in black robes, stared intently at Luo Xing's face in the recording crystal with a sinister look in his eyes. He then turned to look at the two young men in school uniforms behind him.

"Didn't you want to join the Dark Mage Guild?"

The two young men trembled and immediately knelt on one knee: "Please give your orders, sir!"

"Find this person in the picture." The man in black pointed at Luo Xing. "Bring me his Meow Meow and that strange stone sprite."

Before the words were finished, the three men in black robes transformed into three wisps of black mist and vanished on the spot, going after the fleeing Little Pal.

The two young men stood up, looking at Luo Xing's image in the crystal, a cruel greed flashing in their eyes.

"Long live the Black Witch Order! We should also thank this kid properly."

The outer edge of the Fairy Forest.

Luo Xing was unaware that he had been targeted by the Black Witch Clan. Since it was still early, he planned to venture a little further to see if he could find any more valuable items.

The further you go, the denser the trees become, and the dimmer the light becomes.

Luo Xing pushed aside a patch of ferns as tall as a person, then abruptly stopped. Ahead lay a steep cliff face.

In the center of the cliff, there is a blue light curtain. The space around the light curtain is distorted and emits magical fluctuations.

Luo Xing's pupils contracted slightly, and she became excited.

Mystery!

In the game, the Secret Realm was a hidden map that spawned regularly, filled with top-tier Pokémon eggs. But in this real world, the Secret Realm is a product of spatial rifts, appearing randomly, and the rewards within are also completely random.

It could be a mountain of rare resources, a sleeping high-level elf, or a deadly spatial trap.

"Old Wang said that only the winner of the four-school competition can go to the Qingfeng Mountain Secret Realm. I didn't expect to run into a wild one here."

Luo Xing licked his lips, a smile curving his lips. With such an opportunity presented to him, there was no reason not to seize it.

"Meow, little stone, get ready to work."

Luo Xing strode forward and stepped into the blue energy barrier without hesitation. A flash of light, and the figures of the man and his two pets vanished instantly before the cliff face.