Elf: Make the Rockets Great Again

After a long while, a regular member of the Rockets team, wearing a black uniform, knocked on the door and came in. He bowed deeply to Lu Ming and said:

"Master Xiaozhi! Master Apollo has completed his interrogation. Now please come over."

"Okay, I got it. Just lead the way for me." Lu Ming said in a deliberately deep voice!

"Yes, sir, please follow me!"

Given Lu Ming's current cadre status and his undercover mission, it is naturally impossible for ordinary team members to know his real name.

After hearing Lu Ming's instructions, the man did not dare to be negligent and hurriedly led the way respectfully.

After a few turns, the team member brought Lu Ming to the door of a large room and said:

"Lord Apollo is inside. As a subordinate, I have no right to enter!"

"Hmm~"

Lu Ming nodded, opened the door and walked in. At a glance, he saw Apollo with short green hair sitting on the boss chair and turning towards him.

"Lord Apollo, I wonder if that person has any intelligence value."

"You did a good job. That person holds a high position in the pioneer group sent by Team Plasma. Through him, we have already grasped most of their situation."

"As long as it's valuable, it's worth it for me to have such a fierce battle with him today."

Hearing this, Apollo said with a half-smile:

"Oh~, this person is of such high status, I think he must be very wealthy. Even if it's just spoils of war, it wouldn't be a waste of your time, right?"

Seeing Lu Ming's slight embarrassment, Apollo waved his hand and said, "Those spoils are what you deserve, don't worry about them.

As for the merit of capturing this man, I've estimated 20,000 points for you, which is a considerable reward. Since you rarely come back, you can exchange it for something."

All transactions within Team Rocket are in the form of points. Based on the price of items exchanged within the organization, one point is roughly equivalent to fifty Alliance Coins.

In other words, these 20,000 Rocket points are equivalent to a reward of one million Alliance Coins.

In addition, the points he accumulated from previous tasks have not been used yet.

This time, Lu Ming can exchange for an elf with very good talents, or a mid-level quality item.

But he already has a lot of elves now, and he has no shortage of mid-grade props, so he has no interest in these.

On the contrary, now that the team is expanding, even though there is desert space to produce "ground gems", other resources are very tight.

Without hesitation, Lu Ming immediately expressed his desire to exchange all of his points worth millions of Alliance coins for evil, dragon, poison, steel, super power, and general gem resources that his elves needed.

Apollo nodded, and personally used the intercom to ask someone to fetch the things, and then said to Lu Ming:

"I recently received news that the Nibi City government has completed negotiations with the Yuhong Gym and plans to ask them to assist in investigating our branch, and that Lijia will be leading the team herself.

After that, I will attack the people of Yuhong Gym during the time you are on patrol, and then you will deal with the Rocket Team members who attack Yuhong Gym.

What you need to do is use this opportunity to establish a relationship with the Yuhong Gym. Ideally, you should be able to demonstrate outstanding potential, enter their sights, and become a crucial nail in their sights."

"I understand! But sir, the organization is in need of people right now. Would it be wrong to just give someone away like this?"

"Hehe~, do you think I'm the kind of person who would send my loyal subordinates to be used as consumables?"

"My subordinates dare not!"

"It's okay to tell you, these people I plan to send you to capture and reward you with merit are all spies sent by other key branches. This way, we can make good use of them!"

"Other key branches!"

Lu Ming was shocked, and he probably knew that these so-called other key branches mostly referred to senior cadres at the same level as Apollo!

What he didn't expect was that the struggle among the senior executives within the Rockets had become so fierce and was not concealed at all.

No wonder Team Plasma dared to send someone of this level to Kanto to take charge of the situation.

"There's one thing I'm not sure about. The Nibi Gym is right here, so why did they come all the way to ask the Yuhong Gym for help?"

"Hehe~, you've been in Nibi City for so long, but when have you ever seen the Nibi Gym seriously attack us?

These aristocratic families aren't so selfless. As long as we don't infringe on the core interests of the Nibi Gym and the families behind them, there's no way they'd waste their strength for the sake of an alliance.

In fact, it is precisely the existence of our Rockets that gives them more bargaining power with the league headquarters."

"Goodness, no wonder Sakaki is missing, but Team Rocket branches in various places are still surviving. It seems these local tyrants are just nurturing their own enemies."

Lu Ming couldn't help but complain in his heart. At first, he felt that the Rockets were not united enough, but now it seems that the situation in the league is even worse.

After all this time, no matter which world it is, it’s just a competition of who is worse.

But if you think about it carefully, this state should be normal for human beings.

"But if that's the case, why would the Yuhong Gym, which is far away in Yuhong City, need to get involved?" Lu Ming asked puzzledly.

"People die for money, birds die for food! Our research on an important spore spirit experiment has been discovered.

Yuhong Gym has always been good at this, and it is likely that they want to investigate our research results.

This real conflict of interests is our real threat.

That's why I want you to gain the trust of the people at Yuhong Gym as much as possible, and if possible, get some important information."

"Yes, I will definitely live up to your expectations!"

Lu Ming reviewed the plan with Apollo, accepted the resources in exchange, and returned to Nibi City.

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After returning to Nibi City, Lu Ming went to the Nibi Auction House as usual!

This time, he had only intended to refine the "metal film", so logically he wouldn't bring back much spoils.

But he didn't expect that he would meet an unlucky guy from Team Plasma who generously gave him all his wealth.

Lu Ming had already checked the man's space backpack, except for tens of thousands of Alliance coins that he no longer cared about and some miscellaneous items.

There are actually ten primary gems and energy blocks that can feed a group of elves for a whole month.

Moreover, since that person is also a ground-specialized trainer, these gems and energy blocks are very suitable for Lu Ming's Pokémon.

In addition, Lu Ming also found more than ten skill manuals in his space backpack.

Although most of them were duplicates of the skills he already had, there were still two moves that he had not yet acquired: "Muddy Stream" and "Sharp Stone Attack".

But the biggest benefit is the props taken from his four elves.

Except for the Toad King, who was the weakest in his team and only wore a primary-quality "Mysterious Drop of Water", the remaining three elves were wearing intermediate items worth more than one million.

In this way, Lu Ming sold a few props first, and there was nearly four million in his account instantly, which shocked An Ran, who was already familiar with him. She didn't know who Lu Ming had robbed, but she didn't dare to ask more.

Then, as soon as he got the money, he spent it all without leaving a penny, and exchanged it all for attribute gems.

Fortunately, the Nibi Auction House itself is a big force. If it were a small place, it would be difficult to come up with so many gem resources at once.

When Lu Ming returned with a full load, together with what he exchanged from the Rockets, he already had an astonishing number of gems with a market value of over five million.

Now, with the people from the Yuhong Gym getting involved, the situation around Nibi City is becoming increasingly chaotic, and Lu Ming also wants to strengthen himself in a short period of time.

So, without hesitation, he released all the elves except Steelix on the spot, letting them absorb the gem resources as quickly as possible and strengthen themselves as quickly as possible.

As for himself, he took out the Pokédex and the Poké Ball containing Steelix and began to learn about the information after the evolution!

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Chapter 136 Life Orb and Special Mission

Name: Steelix

Properties: steel, floor

Features: Forced

Gender: female

Skills: Bind, Rockfall, Shoot Down, Harden, Rock Grind, Dragon's Breath, Incantation, Rock Slide, Quicksand Abyss, Invisible Rock, Hot Sand Earth, Crunch, Dig, Pounce, Sandstorm, Collapse, Dragon's Wave, Reverse Scale, Wide Area Destruction, Iron Tail, Iron Wall, Iron Head, Cannon Beam, Heavy Impact

"Great, great~, there are so many more skills, and there are three dragon-type skills among them. As for the steel-attribute skills of this system, there are a total of five!

There's also the "Iron Wall" move. If you use it to strengthen your defense and then combine it with "Pounce," the power is unimaginable."

Moreover, now that you've evolved into Steelix, you've also gained the "Force" trait. I'll have to find a way to get you a "Life Orb" in the future!"

The reason why Lu Ming had such an exclamation was because the "forced" feature combined with the "Life Orb" made the item a perfect match that is hard to find in the world.

As we all know, the "Force" characteristic allows the possessing elf to lose the original effect and increase the attack by 30% when performing skills with special effects.

For example, "Jet Flame" will not trigger "Burn" and "Freezing Ray" will not trigger "Freezing" effect, but the attack power will increase by 30% out of thin air.

Having this effect is already quite practical, but it can also eliminate the negative effects of the "Life Gem".

"Life Orb" is an item that can directly increase the wearer's attack power by 30%.

However, it will continuously increase the wearer's physical exertion during use.

However, if the wearer has the "forced" attribute, they will be completely unaffected by this negative effect while being enhanced by the item.

In other words, if Steelix can obtain the "Life Gem", it can gain a huge boost without damaging itself.

However, items like "Life Orb" are not only much rarer than "Flame Orb" or "Big Root", but also have a wider range of application scenarios.

It can be said that its market price is higher than that of a high-end prop, and the quantity is also more scarce.

At this stage, Lu Ming wants to obtain a "Life Orb", which is probably no less difficult than obtaining a high-quality item.

With this in mind, Lu Ming did not expect to get it immediately, but just kept it in mind.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Ming led the elves to the desert space and sacrificed the "senior-level" elves they had captured before one by one.

Four of them were Pokémons belonging to Plasma Team cadres, such as Diglett, and one was a wild Steelix that had been captured before. A total of five high-level "Ground Gems" were transformed!

The value of these five high-quality "ground gems" alone is not inferior to, and even higher than, the resources purchased previously.

If you add them all up, the value of the resources Lu Ming harvested today easily exceeded tens of millions.

Thinking of this, Lu Ming couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. His strength was not much different from that of the Plasma Team cadre.

But just because of one wrong move, the results of the opponent's half-life hard work were wiped out by you!

Thinking of this, Lu Ming no longer felt the joy of defeating a powerful enemy or the happiness of gaining huge benefits. Instead, he felt the same way and became worried.

For someone like me who has no background, if I want to survive in this cruel world, I have to keep improving myself. If I slack off, I will become a consumable.