Elf: Release? Not possible.

Xia Bo looked at the old man in front of him. They were of similar age and the other party was a woman. But Xia Bo felt a little helpless because this woman was not easy to mess with.

"Is there some secret that you don't want others to know?" The old man in front of him was none other than one of the Four Heavenly Kings, Kikuko.

With her personality and decisive way of doing things, she rushed over immediately after learning about Satoshi's situation. However, her attitude was not only rude to Professor Oak, but also to Xia Bo.

Of course, the reason is not exactly the same as Professor Oak’s. The real reason is because of Xia Bo’s identity.

He has the same subordinates as Professor Oak. Although Xia Bo is now a gym trainer, he was also a scientist in the past.

At the same time, because of Xia Bo's special identity, he used to work for the Rockets as a scientist.

Yes, he used to be a scientist of Team Rocket, and he just quit Team Rocket not long ago and returned to his hometown of Crimson Town to become a trainer.

The alliance was also very clear about this matter, and naturally Kikuko, who was one of the Four Heavenly Kings, was also aware of it. Grandma Kikuko had always been a person who hated evil.

Although Xia Bo only conducted research in the Rockets and did not do anything bad, his research helped the Rockets to develop rapidly. It can be said that he is also responsible for the Rockets' current transformation into such a powerful force.

After he quit the Rockets, the league valued his talent and sympathized with his situation, and ultimately did not punish him.

Instead, he was appointed as the gym trainer of the Red Lotus Gym. After leaving Team Rocket, Xia Bo was disheartened.

After becoming a gym trainer, meeting all kinds of young trainers made his heart calm down a little, and he gradually fell in love with the job of a gym trainer.

In fact, they had known each other for a long time, because Xia Bo's public identity was already a very famous scientist, but they just didn't know that he was secretly playing for the Rockets.

And now, the reason why Kikuko said this was because Xia Bo used to play for the Rockets, and she said this just to embarrass Xia Bo on purpose.

"Hahaha! If you can find out anything, I'll surrender! You're always welcome to look for evidence." Xia Bo didn't care when he heard it. He didn't have too many attachments to his life.

Watching trainers like Xiaolan coming and going in pursuit of their dreams, he could feel a little that he was still alive. The enthusiasm he showed at ordinary times was just that, but in fact he was just an old man waiting for the day of death to come.

Whether others misunderstood him or not is no longer important to Xia Bo.

"Hmph! I don't want to come to such a hot place!" Kikuko snorted coldly, but her tone was much better.

In fact, although she hated evil, she also sympathized with Xia Bo's situation.

"Then why did the Four Heavenly Kings come here?" Xia Bo sat down and poured himself a cup of tea.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with this place, perhaps because he grew up here so he didn't feel that way, but the heat could keep the remaining passion in his heart from being extinguished.

"Team Rocket has been very active recently!" Kikuko picked up the cup and took a sip of tea, then spoke calmly.

Xia Bo's hand holding the cup paused slightly, and then he spoke at the same time.

"I have told you everything I know. As for other matters, I can't help you." Xia Bo heard this and thought that Kikuko was still here to ask about the Rockets.

But in fact, although he was a member of Team Rocket before, he had always been a member of the research department. He was mainly responsible for helping Team Rocket conduct research and was focused only on research.

In fact, he is an avid scientist. He joined Team Rocket for no other reason than to have someone support his research and ensure that his research would not be hindered.

After all, under the supervision of the league, many research cannot be carried out openly, but the Rockets don’t care about that and fully support his research.

Therefore, he doesn't care about anything other than research. It is precisely because of this that he has a high status in the Rockets.

However, he was not aware of other things happening within the Rockets because he was focused on his research at the time and had no interest in other things.

"I don't expect you to bring any useful information, but... recently they have been capturing the three sacred birds in a high-profile manner. Do you know what their purpose is?" Kikuko asked again.

After hearing the voice, Xia Bo paused slightly, frowned slightly, and stopped drinking tea. Kikuko also keenly caught something, but did not speak, just waiting for Xia Bo to say it himself.

After a moment, Xia Bo slowly put down the cup in his hand. After a long silence, he leaned back in the chair and raised his head slightly as if he was missing something.

"I remember that was when I had just taken over the position of the Rockets' top researcher."

After a long silence, Xia Bo finally started talking about it. Kikuko also listened to Xia Bo's words with rare patience.

"At that time, I accepted a top-secret research project within the Rockets, and within this project, another project called gene fusion was derived."

"Gene fusion?" Kikuko didn't even frown when she heard that.

"That's right!"

"What kind of research is this?" Kikuko vaguely sensed something was wrong and asked immediately.

PS: This is some of the plot of the special chapter, which has been slightly adapted. In fact, this section was also written in the previous book, so it will be greatly modified here, and the plot of the special chapter will be added as much as possible. It is indeed a bit boring to follow the original work.

Chapter 420: The Last Hope Pidgeot (Subscription Request)

"It is a kind of research that fuses the genes of Pokémon from different individuals." When asked by Kikuko, Xia Bo did not hide it.

"Why do this?"

"In order to apply it to the most important research project!"

Xia Bo hesitated about this matter, as if he was unwilling to mention it, because it was after the completion of this project that his granddaughter was killed.

"Gene fusion? What will happen to the Pokémon being studied?" This kind of research sounded evil to Kikuko, and she asked with a slightly cold look in her eyes.

"If the original genes adapt to the foreign genes and reach a perfect state, the originally different genes will be fused together to become a separate individual, which can be called a fusion!"

“What if the fusion is not perfect, or fails?”

"Then maybe there will be something that can't be called a Pokémon or a monster."

"After developing the 04 device, we realized this situation and put the plan on hold for the time being."

Although he was absorbed in his research at that time, he had not completely lost his mind.

"Then what does this have to do with the three sacred birds?" Kikuko's expression improved a little after hearing this, but she still continued to ask.

"Because the bodies and strength of ordinary Pokémon are difficult to bear, and the fusion of genes also requires a higher degree of fusion between individuals of the same species, so at that time, the target was naturally locked on the three sacred birds with strong bodies and amazing strength."

Simply put, ordinary Pokémon are too weak, and as legendary Pokémon, the three sacred birds are more powerful and their bodies can withstand more torture.

As they are all three sacred birds, their genes may be more similar.

"Why wasn't it executed at that time? Instead, it was executed after you quit?" Kikuko was a little confused about this.

"I thought the project was flawed and other areas of research were making progress, so I cancelled the project. I thought maybe they restarted it!"

"You're a bastard!" After hearing this, Kikuko couldn't help but curse.

"You're right! I'm a bastard. God knows how many wrong things I've done. Shouldn't I be punished? I'm now waiting for the day when God takes my life!"

Xia Bo leaned back in his chair and spread his hands indifferently.

This made Kikuko, who was originally angry, speechless. Any emotion was meaningless to someone who had lost all attachment to life.

"You deserve to die, but before you die, there is something else that needs to be done."

"A young man was captured by them for trying to stop them from capturing the three sacred birds." Kikuko looked at Xia Bo with sharp eyes and said.

"..."

Xia Bo was slightly stunned when he heard the voice. He was not surprised that they could not catch the three sacred birds, but that what Kikuko was saying now was similar to what he had learned from Xiao Lan.

He originally wanted to help Xiaolan check, because although he was no longer in the Rocket Team, there were still people he knew in the Rocket Team. There were different people in any place, and the same was true in the Rocket Team. There were all kinds of people in the Rocket Team.

There are truly ambitious people, there are extremely vicious people, but there are also people who join out of desperation in order to make a living.

Now it seems that the two things are one and the same, but I am a little surprised. It would be fine if it was Xiao Lan, but who was the person who was taken away that even Kikuko was alarmed.

"But even I can't find their whereabouts!"

"He was captured in Neon Town, and we guessed he might come to Honglian Island!" Kikuko also spoke at the same time as she listened.

"Come to Crimson Island? Moltres?"

Articuno likes cold places, Zapdos will look for places where lightning gathers, and only Moltres will go to high-temperature volcanic locations like Crimson Island.

"I understand. I am a gym trainer now and I will do what a gym trainer should do."

"That's great, this is a picture of the kid!"

As Kikuko spoke, she took out a picture and placed it on the table and pushed it forward. It was exactly the picture of Xiaozhi. Xia Bo looked at the boy with Pikachu on his shoulder in the picture and his expression changed slightly.

“Hmm???” Looking at the photo, for some reason, Xia Bo felt as if he had seen it somewhere.

Kikuko looked at this scene without any surprise and spoke calmly.

"Looks familiar, doesn't it?"

"He is...that man's child?" Looking at the photo and hearing Kikuko's words, Xia Bo looked up at Kikuko in surprise and asked.

"That's right!"

"..."

Neon Town

In Honglian Town, after Kikuko met Xia Bo, at the Pokémon Center in Neon Town on the other side, the injuries were no longer serious.

But Pidgeot, who was still being recuperated in the Pokémon Center, suddenly opened his eyes, then looked up and looked around.

It seemed as if he could hear Xiaozhi's voice in his ears, but he could not be seen when he looked around. When Pidgeot woke up from his sleep, he recalled the scenes of the previous battle. At the same time, 333 felt something strange in his mind.

There was a sharp light flashing in his eyes, and then he quickly stood up, flew up from the bed where he was resting, and flew directly out of the window next to him, flying in the direction coming from his head.

Than cool!!!

At this time, outside Neon Town, Xiao Mao and other two followed the police to the scene to investigate, but they did not get much useful information.

In the end, they could only use the more ancient method, which was to give the hat left by Ash to Growlithe, and let Growlithe try to track it by smell.

Although this method may not be very effective, after all, the spaceship is in the air and Xiaozhi's breath should have disappeared long ago, but this is also a solution among all other options. Miss Junsha brought a Growlithe to the scene to try it out.

But in the end, Growlithe sniffed Xiaozhi's hat, and then began to look for the direction, but finally shook his head slightly, because Xiaozhi's breath no longer went in any direction, but was directly taken into the air and left.

"Oh!" Miss Junsha sighed helplessly, while Xiaoxia and others were disappointed.

"What should I do?" Xiaoxia didn't know what to do anymore.

Than cool!!!!

At this moment, there was a sound in the sky. Everyone looked up and saw the Pidgeot flying over their heads.

Chapter 421: Capture Operation (Subscription Request)

"Is that... Satoshi's Pidgeot?"

Pidgeot flew over the scene and circled for a while. When everyone was looking at Pidgeot, Misty recognized it as Satoshi's Pidgeot at a glance.

Because she had been receiving treatment at the Pokémon Center, Xiaoxia was a little worried. However, before she could say anything, she saw Pidgeot flying directly in one direction.

"Could it be that Pidgeot knows where Xiaozhi is?"

Looking at this scene, although I was a little surprised, looking at the Pidgeot, it didn't look like it was searching aimlessly.

"Anyway, just follow him and you'll find out!" Regardless of whether Pidgeot knew Satoshi's location or not, this was the only clue now, so Xiaomao spoke immediately.

"But we can't catch up with the Pidgeot!"

Xiaoxia spoke worriedly. Pidgeot seemed very anxious and had no intention of waiting for them. The police could send a helicopter over, but by the time the helicopter arrived, it would definitely be too late to catch up.

"I have an idea! Toucan, follow it!"

But Xiao Mao thought of a way. He threw a Poké Ball, and a Toucan appeared, then followed Xiao Mao's instructions.

No matter where the Pidgeot goes, as long as the Toucan follows, when it reaches the place where the Pidgeot goes, it can come back to lead the way for them.

. . . .

At this time, on the other side, the Rocket Team's spaceship had arrived at Honglian Town. In the cell on the spaceship, Xiaozhi slowly opened his eyes with a tired look in his eyes. His forehead was soaked with sweat and he was breathing slightly.

“I hope it’s in time!”

After taking a look at the volcano in the distance outside the window that was constantly emitting smoke, Xiaozhi leaned against the wall and fell asleep unknowingly.

At this time, outside the spaceship, the four members of Team Rocket had all left the spaceship and were in the forest not far from the volcano in front of them.

On an open space, another group of Team Rocket members were operating the devices in their hands, heading towards the volcano in front of them.

Didi didi! ! !

"What's going on?" Apollo asked after hearing the voice beside his ear.

"Detection results show that the temperature inside the Honglian Volcano seems to be continuing to drop!" A member quickly turned around to report the situation.