Pokémon: I picked up a reborn Eevee at the start of the game

As she was thinking this, Amam's mood soured again. She muttered, "I'm still so angry. Just thinking about how we risked our lives searching for a way to save the city outside, while these insect-like creatures enjoy the peace that the defense force bought with their lives, and they're still cursing us..."

The more mature Mi Ling also fell silent. Clearly, although she didn't say it aloud, she was thinking the same thing, only that Amamo spoke for her.

Xia Chen wasn't good at giving inspirational speeches, and felt that anything he said at this moment would sound like he was talking without understanding the situation.

He has never liked grand principles like "seeking only to have a clear conscience," and he adheres to the principle of "repaying injustice with justice and kindness with kindness."

Mi Ling and Amamo were his good friends, and what those people said really annoyed him.

Do we still need to think about what to do?

The boy with superpowers immediately focused his mind and used his invisible telekinetic power to press the heads of those people onto the plates on the table.

One unlucky fellow ate soupy food today, so he washed his hair in the soup bowl.

The commotion drew surprised or amused glances from other diners in the restaurant, instantly turning the previously quiet hall into a lively place.

The four men were filled with shock and anger. They jumped up and searched for the murderer, but naturally found nothing.

If you want to cause trouble at a restaurant, most of them use AI services, so there aren't any waiters in the store.

After berating the service robot for a while, which hadn't done anything wrong, the group finally left dejectedly.

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"Hey, you did it, didn't you?"

After those people left, Ammamo looked at Xia Chen with a beaming smile and asked with a confident tone.

Xia Chen protested, feeling wronged: "What? I've been sitting across from you the whole time. You can't just make things up like that."

Amam suddenly said in a serious tone, "I am very strong, stronger than all of you combined!"

Xia Chen: "......"

Shouldn't you have asked before you copied someone's cringeworthy quotes?

He rolled his eyes and said, "They said things that really annoyed me, and what's even more annoying is that they won't be punished. So I'll have to use my own methods to teach them a lesson."

Xia Chen knew that his behavior was a bit out of line. To put it mildly, it was using violence to fight violence; to put it more seriously, it was abusing his abilities to maintain his own sense of morality.

If you continue to make unreasonable arguments about the landslide, you might dare to shove someone's head into a plate today, and tomorrow you might dare to indiscriminately kill innocent people for the reason of "not eating beef." The day after tomorrow you might just become a citizen of the motherland—doing whatever you want!

However, Xia Chen didn't care about any of this; he had his own set of principles to follow.

Putting everything else aside, Xia Chen felt ashamed of his years of meditation and cultivation for letting these guys walk out of the restaurant so arrogantly!

Seeing that Xia Chen admitted that he was indeed responsible for what had just happened, Amam's eyes lit up even more. She clasped her hands together and pleaded, "That's amazing! I want to learn that!"

Xia Chen was speechless. "If you want to learn, I have to be the one to teach you."

I actually got my own psychic powers and aura by relying on my Pokémon...

He couldn't say it directly, so the more mature Mi Ling smoothed things over by saying, "Alright, don't make things difficult for them. If you were to learn from them, who knows what kind of mess you would make of the Metropolis."

Amam pouted and started teasing Mi Ling again.

Xia Chen chuckled and shook his head, smiling as he looked at them.

He had a good impression of both girls. Mi Ling was mature and steady, and although Amamo seemed a bit unapproachable at first, her straightforward and outspoken personality was quite endearing.

Most importantly, both of them are kind-hearted. Except when they go looking for trouble with Ultimate Necrozma, Xia Chen is always happy to help them.

After a noisy dinner, the two girls took Xia Chen to experience a futuristic holographic movie. It was actually quite interesting; the audience could completely immerse themselves in a character and experience the story.

Unfortunately, this movie is purely an action film, with absolutely no romance elements, which made Xia Chen secretly complain for quite a while...

After dinner, shopping, and watching a movie, it was completely dark... No, the sky in this world has never been light.

In short, after a busy day, it was time for the Metropolitans to rest, so Mi Ling took Xia Chen to an apartment in a high-rise building next to the Metropolitan Tower.

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"Please stay here for the next few days. It's not very big, please excuse the lack of space."

Although she apologized, Mi Ling's expression showed no sign of embarrassment.

Xia Chen understood that she was just being polite. From the slightly envious look in her eyes, her true thoughts were probably, "Damn, what a huge house! I want to live there too! Oh well, what can I do? He's a distinguished guest from another world."

However, in reality, this apartment, including the bathroom and balcony, is less than 50 square meters...

Can I say this isn't even as big as my fairy's bedroom?

Xia Chen secretly grumbled to himself, but still happily thanked him, "Thank you, I'm very satisfied."

It's not that Theonila is stingy; there are too many remaining people, and the metropolis is too small. They need enough land to grow fruits and vegetables and raise livestock, so the living space per person is definitely too small. Anyway, they don't need to keep elves.

This fifty-square-meter house is probably one of the biggest mansions in the world.

However, for Xia Chen, who was traveling with ten Pokémon, this place was indeed a bit small.

There's nothing we can do but let Milotic and Goodra rest in their Poké Balls for the next few days.

Despite its small size, the high-tech smart home system inside the house is truly useful. Xia Chen even considered getting a set to take back and use to build his own Yuanling Island before leaving.

After releasing Sylveon and Gardevoir, who hadn't been out for air for almost a day, Xia Chen took out some Energy Cubes and instant food from his storage ball as their dinner.

It wasn't that he was too lazy to cook, or that he didn't bring any ingredients; it was simply that the apartment didn't even have a basic open kitchen.

"I'm sorry to have to make you suffer, but I promise I'll cook you delicious food every day when we get back!"

Xia Chen used the technique "Quenching Thirst by Looking at Plums," and it was extremely effective!

The first night in the Ultimate World passed uneventfully.

The next day, Xia Chen woke up naturally.

Perhaps the time travel the previous day had some effect on his mental state, because he slept for a full eight hours, something that hadn't happened for a long time since he gained his superpowers.

Theonella and Miling didn't come over to disturb Xia Chen's rest. They only left a message on his communicator yesterday saying "Contact Miling if needed," which was very thoughtful.

Xia Chen thought for a moment, then decided not to disturb Mi Ling and went downstairs to wander around by himself.

Although the language barrier was a hurdle, it also allowed Xia Chen to observe this atypical post-apocalyptic city more calmly.

With its advanced technology, good order, and peaceful people, it's hard to imagine that this is a city plagued by Ultra Beasts.

However, during his conversation with Mi Ling and the others yesterday, Xia Chen also learned that the frequency of Ultra Beasts coming to disturb them is not very high. If there is a large-scale and highly threatening [Beast Tide] every three months, then the people of Metropolis are considered unlucky.

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The Metropolitan Defense Council classifies the Beast Tide into five levels, from lowest to highest: white, blue, purple, orange, and red. In practice, only the first four are truly useful. While the fifth level, red, does exist, it serves more as a warning.

At least in the more than one hundred years since the Dark Ages began, there have been seven orange disasters, but never a single red one.

Those few orange disasters each resulted in damage or even destruction of more than 20% of the buildings in the metropolitan area, with each death and injury numbering no less than a hundred.

As for the Red Disaster... there's only one criterion for determining it—whether the legendary Dark Necrozma has descended.

If it really happens, we might as well just declare all of humanity doomed.

Whether it was Xia Chen's bad luck or the bad luck of the residents of the ultimate metropolis, he had only been strolling around the metropolis for half an hour when suddenly, the alarm sounded throughout the entire city.

The light shining from the top of the Metropolitan Tower was a dazzling and vibrant orange!

"A large-scale Ultra Beast has been detected approaching the metropolis. Residents are requested to evacuate to their nearest indoor location in an orderly manner. Please do not panic. The Ultimate Defense Force is ready..."

Xia Chen: "......"

Am I really a human Absol?

No, I had barely stepped into this city when the beast tide followed right after. Anyone who didn't know better would think this was a gift I brought as a welcome!

Xia Chen did not follow the alarm's instructions to find a safe indoor environment nearby, while the people around him hurriedly went about their business.

To say that their order was very stable wouldn't be entirely true. After all, it was an orange-level, fourth-tier beast tide, and quite a few of them still exposed the ugliness deep within their humanity, arguing and shoving with those around them.

Xia Chen ignored all of that; his temporary communicator received a message of concern from Cionila.

"The tide of orange monsters is approaching! Please come to the Metropolitan Tower for refuge if possible. It is the safest place in the entire city!"

The otherworldly beings had not yet experienced the power of Xia Chen, this "humanoid monster," and had not connected him with the sudden tide of alien beasts.

Instead, she felt a little bad for him, thinking, "I just invited him over, and this kind of terrible thing happened." In short, Theonila, who didn't know how strong Xia Chen was, sincerely invited him to take refuge in the safest place.

"However, I appreciate your kindness."

Xia Chen looked up at the pitch-black sky outside the City That Never Sleeps, chuckled softly, and muttered to himself, "Here's a little... otherworldly trainer shock for you."

Chapter 518 That Miracle and the Hopeful Green Aurora!

Although Xia Chen hadn't inquired about the specifics of the Metropolitan Defense System from Mi Ling and Theonila, he guessed it was similar to the cities where monsters frequently appeared before Ultraman appeared.

The kind of team that dares to fight monsters tens of meters tall and weighing thousands of tons with just a few firearms and a few fighter jets, like the Victory Team or the Tucker Team.

Of course, the enemy may not be as strong as the monsters from outer space, and the Metropolitan Defense Force's combat equipment will be more high-tech, and it will not crash as easily as the Victory Swallow.

But there is no difference in essence between the two; both involve using something that is more than one generation behind to directly confront the powerful body of another.

Monsters can be dealt with by Ultraman, who is of equal strength, but what about these ultimate monsters?

For more than a hundred years prior, Metropolitan residents had placed their hopes on technology.

Today, however, a new answer may emerge to this question.

At this moment, Mi Ling and Amam had no time to think about these issues. After receiving the alarm, they hurriedly rushed from their dormitory to the defense operations department of the Metropolitan Tower to prepare for the arrival of this orange-level monster tide.

This was the first time they had faced a monster disaster of this magnitude; they hadn't even been born when the last orange-level disaster occurred.

However, since they have joined the Ultimate Defense Force, they have a responsibility to protect the lights of the metropolis when such a disaster occurs.

The Metropolitan Tower was built very tall, not only to allow light to shine on more places, but also to enable a swift response in the event of such a situation.

Moreover, the Metropolitan Tower itself is a powerful defensive tower with strong offensive capabilities. The Metropolitans have been studying the art of survival for over a hundred years.

Mi Ling and Amam are in the elevator that goes directly to the top floor of the operations department, and they are extremely anxious.

In fact, this elevator, built with highly advanced nanocellulose, is already very fast; it takes less than five seconds to go from the bottom to the top floor.

But outside the window, the vanguard of the beast tide had already arrived. Just before they entered the Metropolitan Tower, they saw hundreds of Pheromosa and Paper Swords attacking the outer defensive barrier.

The barrier's strength was naturally considerable; even hordes of alien beasts below the blue level couldn't overcome it.

But this is an orange disaster. Both the number and quality of Ultra Beasts exceed those minor disasters by more than one order of magnitude!

When the beast tide hadn't started on a large scale, things were fine. But once the Gluttonous King, Tetsuka, arrived—slightly slower but more powerful—the barrier collapsed in an instant.