Ash, with his invincible physical body, wants to become a Pokémon Master

After handing the injured over to the doctor, Ash released all his Pokémon that could use Water-type moves to help put out the fire.

Finally, thanks to everyone's efforts, the horrific fire was extinguished.

Afterwards, Uncle Russell, Ms. Officer Jenny, and the hospital director came to Ash and Misty to express their gratitude.

"Thanks to your help, we were able to avoid even greater losses. We are extremely grateful!"

The entire Squirtle Fire Brigade followed the old man and saluted Ash, Misty, and their Pokémon once again.

"Especially Squirtle, if it weren't for it, there wouldn't have been zero casualties this time."

Uncle Russell personally pinned the medal on Squirtle, and a bright red flower was pinned to its little head.

"I take back what I said before. You're not an amateur; you're the best Squirtle firefighter I've ever seen!"

[Ding! Congratulations on completing the side quest "Team Tortoise Makes a Great Contribution!": Please help Squirtle earn the respect of the Wartortle Fire Brigade through its abilities.]

[Rewards: Alliance Coins +3000; Special Defense +1; Free Attribute Points +2; Water Stone (Cleansing) +1]

That evening, the mayor held a grand banquet in the town square to thank the firefighters.

"Speaking of this, how did this fire start, and how did it spread so widely?"

At the banquet, Xiao Zhi asked the uncle, somewhat puzzled.

This area is burning in large swaths.

Unfortunately, even Uncle Russell didn't know.

"This time it wasn't caused by an electrical short circuit or anything like that."

"I heard that a huge ball of fire suddenly fell from the sky, setting the warehouse ablaze, and then the flames spread to the nearby hospital."

"Fell from the sky?"

"Yes, heavens! Miss Officer Jenny has already reported this to the Alliance for investigation."

The uncle found it hard to believe when he first heard about it, but many people witnessed it.

"It's probably the work of some unknown Pokémon."

At this moment, Ash and his friends were hovering over an astonishingly large aerial fortress ten thousand meters above the ground.

The fortress is surrounded by a special barrier, making it invisible.

In the central hall of the fortress, a green-haired youth was strolling leisurely through his collection.

He was happily admiring the precious collection he had painstakingly gathered.

Finally, he stopped at a place where three stone slabs were placed.

Looking up at the stone slab, the young man's eyes were filled with burning desire.

"With the power of these three stone tablets, I can finally begin to implement my plan."

"The God of Fire, the God of Thunder, the God of Ice... and the greatest collection I've ever dreamed of—the God of the Sea!"

"Hahahaha..." The young man laughed loudly as he walked into the darkness.

Meanwhile, the artificial intelligence within the fortress, under his command, began relaying the youth's orders to every subordinate within this aerial behemoth.

Chapter 147 The Phoenix King's Sudden Appearance (Part 2)

It's been a week since we arrived at Little Orange Island, and the sea is still turbulent and extremely dangerous.

This prevented Ash and his friends from leaving the island.

"Xiaoxia, shouldn't we be on our way to Durian Island? Why are we stuck here?"

Looking through his binoculars at the still turbulent sea in the distance, Ash looked utterly dejected.

"Of course, we came here because we got lost."

"We're trapped now, so we can only wait for the sea to calm down before we can get out," Xiaoxia replied irritably.

"Don't let people say such obvious things out loud."

She felt that if she said she was lost one more time, the god of getting lost would notice and she would get even more lost in the future.

"Sigh, I should have gotten used to it a long time ago."

What Xiaozhi is most worried about right now is the food shortage.

He didn't know what he was thinking before, but he added Snorlax to his team.

Then this guy actually sneaked out of the Poké Ball in the middle of the night.

They ate all of Xiaozhi's food reserves outside, leaving not a single grain of rice.

The initial plan was to replenish supplies on the next island, and normally rely on the food exchanged from the system shop to satisfy Snorlax's appetite.

But he didn't expect to be trapped on this island for a whole week, and Ash's food supplies from the previous town were completely depleted.

Ash and his friends are now facing a food crisis.

"Do I have to buy food from the system store again?"

Xiao Zhi was furious when he saw that the bread in the system store had soared to 50 each.

"Damn system! The food in the store is always more expensive than the last time I buy it!"

"No way! Even if I starve to death, die outside, or jump off this building, I will never buy another bite of food from a store!"

So said the unyielding Xiao Zhi.

"Oh no, stop right now! That's a Magikarp that you can't eat!"

On the beach, Lapras was staring intently at Magikarp, drooling.

Not only were the trainers starving, but the Pokémon hadn't eaten all day either.

But Magikarp is a creature made entirely of bones and can't be eaten!

However, compared to the unassuming Ugly Fish, the 2.8-meter-long Magikarp certainly looks more tempting.

Now Ash is starting to fantasize about dishes like braised fish.

Magikarp: (＃°Д°)

"No, no, this is my Pokémon, you can't do this!"

They quickly stopped Lapras and Dragonite from biting Magikarp and calmed them down.

He gritted his teeth and exchanged a few more loaves of bread to feed his Pokémon. He was almost out of money, and there was nowhere to withdraw cash from.

Ash, who has a potential big appetite, had no choice but to endure it and give his Pokémon something to eat first.

Meanwhile, in the forest 3 kilometers away from Ash, Team Rocket was busily working on their latest machine.

"I'm telling you, Musashi, we haven't eaten for two days. Is it really feasible to follow this kid?"

Amazon, covered in dust and grime, looked up unhappily as he worked with a hammer.

Seeing Musashi lying on a chair sunbathing, I felt indignant.

It's infuriating that she and Kosaburo are doing all the work while Musashi and the others are just resting on the sidelines.

"Stop nagging, Yamato! Boss Giovanni's mission for us is to steal powerful Pokémon!"

"Isn't the kid's Pokémon strong enough? As long as we can successfully steal it and hand it over to the boss, not only us, but you guys will definitely get promoted and get a raise."

"When the time comes, you will redeem yourselves with merits and even advance further. What will this little bit of suffering you're enduring now matter then!"

It's no wonder that Musashi honed her marketing skills alongside Ash; her words are becoming increasingly persuasive and resonant.

"Think about it, how will Boss Sakaki reward us if he's in a good mood?"

After Musashi said that, Amado and Kosaburo immediately fell into a wonderful fantasy about the future.

"Now that you've acquired such powerful Pokémon, you're truly my most capable subordinates. Hurry up and take this money to spend!"

In his dream, Boss Sakaki threw handfuls of banknotes at their faces, making Yamato and Kosaburo swing their hammers with even more force.

Little did they know that the carefully planned scheme had already been communicated to Satoshi by Kojiro in advance.

However, Xiaozhi really wasn't in the mood to watch it right now.

He glanced at the still gray sky, picked up Pikachu, who was lying listlessly on his backpack, and went into the island.

Xiao Zhi knew that things couldn't continue like this.

Without a map of the island, and given how lost they are, it's uncertain how long it will take them to reach the next town.

We'll just have to pick some wild vegetables to tide us over for now.

Let Pikachu use its sensitive little nose to lie down on the grass with Ash and start identifying things.

"Wild grass, wild grass, wildflowers... wild vegetables!"

Xiao Zhi quickly reached out to grab it, but the feeling when he pulled it up felt a little off.

With continued pulling, Ash pulled a person out of the bushes.

"So this isn't a wild vegetable that grows on the ground."

"Are you planting wild vegetables on your own head? How bizarre!"

"What wild vegetables? This is a fragrant garden, a garden!"

"Although it's only ten centimeters of grass, it has a soul that's one meter and twenty-eight centimeters long—that's the embodiment of my fighting spirit!"

The boy with grass growing on his head defended his weeds with passionate words.

"I'm going to become the world's strongest Grass-type Pokémon Trainer, Shun!"

"How dare you ruin my carefully crafted garden! I challenge you to a duel!"

"Bring on the Stinky Flower!"

Normally, Ash would have already agreed to a battle, but right now he really wasn't in the mood.

He casually released the culprit, the giant stomach.

Before Snorlax could even wake up, its massive body, descending from the sky, crushed Gloom into a flat pancake.

Ash won this battle.

"Ah! My Gloom, my road to victory..."

Xiao Shun struggled to pull Gloom out from under Snorlax, then hugged it and cried.

"By the way, you're a local, right? There should be towns nearby. Are there any restaurants in those towns?"

Suddenly realizing what was happening, Xiao Zhi didn't care whether Xiao Shun was sad or not and quickly pulled him up, bombarding him with a barrage of questions.

"There are towns nearby, but don't expect any food. I came out here specifically to find something to eat."

"If there's any place where there might still be some food, it's probably the Pokémon Center over that mountain."

Following the direction pointed out by Xiao Shun, Xiao Zhi quickly picked up Xiao Xia and Pikachu and ran towards the Pokémon Center.

Unfortunately, he was disappointed to find that a large crowd of hungry people had gathered at the Pokémon Center.

Only Miss Joey stood atop a pile of wooden crates, barely managing to maintain order.

But the crowd surrounding the Pokémon Center was already starving.

It was thanks to Miss Joey's high reputation that everyone was able to remain a little calm and listen to her, instead of rushing into the center to grab food.

Then Miss Joey took out a megaphone.

"Please rest assured, I have contacted the nearby islands and food will be airdropped over by helicopter soon."

"I will distribute the food then, and everyone will have something to eat, so please calm down and wait patiently."

Hearing Miss Joey say this, the crowd slowly dispersed.

I sat down on the open ground in front of the Pokémon Center and waited for the food to come.

Seeing the situation around him, Ash quickly went up to Nurse Joy and asked her why there was such a shortage of food on the island.

Is there another Snorlax outbreak on the island?

"Because Little Orange Island does not have a deep-water port, heavy ships cannot dock, so supplies are usually replenished by supply ships."

"But for some reason, a week ago, the sea suddenly became extremely dangerous, and ordinary ships could not reach this place at all."