Pokémon Researcher Road

Chapter 36

Chapter 27 Conquering the Starfish
Seeing that Joey was rescued, Xuanjian heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly floated up.

"Miss Joey, are you alright?" Xuanma asked, looking at Joey who was sitting on the back of a giant carp king.

"I'm fine, I was just entangled in seaweed." Joey nodded to Xuanjian first, indicating that he was fine, and then gently stroked the huge carp king that carried her on his back: "Thank you, carp king, you saved me again."

"Miss Joey, this carp king is—" Xuanjian remembered that Joey had said that there was a water elf friend who was fishing for bait. Could it be this carp king?
"That's right, that's the friend I was talking about." Joey confirmed Xuanjian's guess.

"This friend of yours is so big!" The carp king in front of him was as long as two feet, and he was definitely the giant carp king.

"Well, we've known each other since childhood, and it grew up with me."

Xuan Jian looked at Joey who was interacting with King Carp, and asked: "Miss Joey, I'm writing a research paper on the size of King Carp. Your friend is very special and helpful to my research. I don't know if I can ask him to help me? I just need him to let me test the height of the water splash under full force. I won't do anything excessive." Many researchers will use elves to do some cruel experiments. This is an open secret, but in order to obtain research results, everyone just turns a blind eye. .

"That's fine," Joey nodded. "Let's hand over the scallops to the multitrack first. We'll talk about that later."

The two had just returned to the island and handed over the scallops to the multitrack. Before they had time to catch their breath, Joey received a new emergency case and hurried away in a small boat. The task of catching starfish could only be completed by the two of them independently.As soon as Joey left, King Carp also dived into the sea and disappeared, which made Xuanma's idea of ​​taking the opportunity to test it come to nothing.

"Forget it, as long as Ms. Joy is still here, there will be plenty of opportunities." Xuanjian comforted himself, and then he stopped thinking about it and devoted himself to the preparations for catching starfish.

There are fresh scallops, and the multi-track bait is ready in no time.It was a mass of milky white stuff, which looked like fresh lychees that had been pitted in previous lives.

"Can this thing attract starfish?" Xuanjian asked, not questioning the ability of multi-track, but according to Joey's description, the starfish was too cunning.

"I don't know, but it's better than waiting for nothing." Duo Gui didn't have much confidence in this either.

Worried that the starfish would see the clues, the two did not use the hook, but scattered the bait on the shallows, and then sent water-type Pokémon to patrol around.

"According to Joey, the ocean currents in this sea area will pass here, and the ocean currents will soon bring the scent of the bait to the entire sea area, and the sea stars will definitely be attracted to them."

"Then will other water elves be attracted?"

"No," Duogui shook his head, "I specially configured this according to the taste of sea stars. Only sea stars are fatally attractive, and other water elves will not be too interested."

After spreading the bait, the two began to wait quietly.

As time passed, the sun gradually slipped from the mid-heaven and slowly set to the west. The golden sunlight slanted on the sea surface, and there were pieces of golden light, but neither of them had the heart to appreciate it.The patrolling Pokémon waited for a long time but did not see the starfish. Both humans and elves were a little anxious.

"Probably Hai Xingxing is not at home today." Xuan Jian joked, trying to comfort Duo Gui.The idea was multi-track, and she must be very sad after doing so much but failing to draw out the starfish.

Duogui bit his nails and didn't speak.As a breeder, Duogui does not have long nails like girls of the same age because he has to cook frequently, and he paints them with nail polish and puts some beautiful decorations on them.

"No," Multitrack suddenly said loudly.

"what happened?"

"The amount of bait is wrong, and there is less bait. But the opponent cunningly ate a little bit, which created a visual effect, so we didn't notice it immediately." Duogui said.

Xuan Jian took a closer look at the baits. If you don't check carefully, it is indeed difficult to find that there are fewer baits. "Could it have been washed away by the seawater?" Those baits that looked slippery and soft should be easily washed away by the seawater after soaking in the water.

"Impossible. The main ingredient in it is scallop meat, which won't be soaked in water. It must be dried by starfish. Maybe starfish is still in this shoal." Said multitrack and turned to Xuanjian: "Take the carp king back."

"En. The carp king, come back." Xuan Jian guessed the idea of ​​the multi-track, and took the carp king back.

"You guys come back too, Mohaima and Squirtle." Duogui took back Mohaima and Squirtle, and then ordered to the lantern fish: "Lantern fish, use [-] volts on the beach."

The lantern fish nodded, climbed onto a reef, and then put the tentacles on the top of its head into the water, and an electric current immediately spread in the water.

"Could it be already gone?" Duogui said unwillingly, watching the lantern fish emit electric current for a long time, but there was still no response. "Lantern fish——" He said that he was about to make the lantern fish stop its skills.

"Don't stop yet." Xuanjian stopped the multi-track, "This beach is too big, the electricity is scattered, if it is there, it should be able to hold back."

"Okay, lantern fish, increase the current output!"

The lantern fish responded with a sound, and discharged it even harder. The starfish hiding in the water couldn't bear it anymore, and jumped up suddenly, leaving the charged seawater.

"Sure enough, it's still here!" Xuanjian looked at the sea star whose body had turned sandy yellow, this guy was really cunning, he actually used the protective color to change into the color of Hesha Yiyang, fooling everyone.

The starfish that jumped out of the sea reacted quickly, sprayed a jet of water gun from its mouth, flew up with the recoil, and fell into the depths of the sea and disappeared.

"No, let it run away." Xuanjian never thought that Hai Xingxing was so cunning that he would escape in this way.

"It doesn't matter," Duogui was not in a hurry, "It's not that easy to escape. In order not to affect the taste, I didn't add paralytics to the bait, but I added a lot of firefly scale powder. This kind of thing is made from the shell of a shellfish that starfish and gem starfish like very much. Once they eat this powder in their stomachs, their whole body will shine brightly at night. Just follow the light and find starfish easily."

"Look, it's there." Duogui pointed to a blue light group in the distance that was tightly attached to the bottom of the water.

"Duogui, you are amazing!" Xuanjian praised sincerely.

"Of course, I'm a genius!" Duogui said proudly.

Although they were guaranteed, the two of them did not dare to be careless. After all, in the vast ocean, if Starfish ran too far and it was difficult to find, then today's efforts would be in vain.The two immediately ordered the elves to chase in the direction where Hai Xing was fleeing.

Once the sun started to set, the light would dim very quickly, and the fluorescent starfish in the darkened sea water was quickly locked on, but this cunning starfish tried again and escaped.But this time the elves didn't panic, and chased after the light source again.

After coming down several times, Hai Xingxing also noticed something was wrong, and immediately led the elves around in a circle, and disappeared after crossing a shallow beach.When Xuanjian and Duogui chased after them, what they saw was a group of little guys who were running around in a hurry.

"So when you chased here, Haixing jumped out of the sea again, and then disappeared." Xuanjian asked.

Squirtle and Carp King, the main trackers, nodded.

"Could it be that the firefly scale powder has failed?" Xuanjian asked Duogui.

"No, not that fast. The reason why starfish and gem starfish like shellfish made of firefly scale powder is that this kind of shellfish can make their gemstones shine brilliantly all night. And firefly scale powder made of shells has a longer-lasting effect, and it takes about two or three days to fade away." Duogui shook his head, "But it's strange, where is it hidden? Is there a dark ditch in the nearby sea?" If you hide in a dark ditch, it makes sense.

"Probably not, the elves saw the starfish fleeing in the air, and did not fall back into the water." Xuanjian denied the multi-track guess. "Perhaps we should think about it in a different way."

"What idea."

"We've all been thinking of Starfish as a Water-type Pokémon, but what if it doesn't indicate a Water-type Pokémon?"

"Ah?" How could Starfish not be a water-type Pokémon?Even if there are more superpowers, let's evolve!I didn't want to understand the multi-track for a while.

"I felt it just now. The sea water at night is more affected by the cold sea water, and the temperature is much lower than during the day. This temperature is unbearable for sea stars, but it has lived here for so long and is fine."

"Maybe there's something special about it?" Multitrack couldn't see how this was connected.

"No, it has other warm places to hide." Xuanjian said affirmatively, without waiting for Multitrack to ask questions, and continued: "During the day, the four Pokmon patrolled together, and they didn't find when the starfish approached the bait. Although the starfish used a protective color, it was too difficult! So, I guess the starfish didn't come from the water, but from the land."

"what?"

"That's right, that must be the case." After a little reasoning, Xuanjian became more and more sure of his guess. "The skill of protective color can not only change the color of the sea star, but also change its attributes according to the environment. If it can change itself into other attributes, then it is not a problem to move on land. That's why I said it is not just a water-type Pokémon. At this time, the sea star may be hiding on land!"

"Come out, big-mouthed bat, use ultrasonic waves to find sea stars!" Xuanjian released a big-mouthed bat that is suitable for night activities. "Although you can change its attributes and move on land, sea stars, as molluscs, must not be far away on land, so look for them."

The big-mouthed bat took the lead and continuously emitted ultrasonic waves to the ground in a carpet-like manner, so that it could not only find things, but also attack starfish.

When the ultrasonic wave of the big-mouthed bat swept over a pile of bushes, the sound signal reflected in the bushes was abnormal.Immediately afterwards, there was a movement in the bushes.

"That's right there, Bigmouth Bat, use air cutting."

The wings of the big-mouthed bat flapped immediately, and wind blades shot towards the bushes, cutting the messy branches and leaves of the bushes, revealing the starfish that had been confused by the ultrasonic waves.

"Big-mouthed bat, use high-speed stars first, and then use blood-sucking." Since it is the elf that he is about to subdue, Xuanjian did not let the super-sonic bat use poison-type attacks, but replaced it with the current strongest single-attack skill of the big-mouthed bat.

The big-mouthed bat first launched a high-speed star to attack. Seeing that the sea star hadn't completely lost its fighting power, it swooped down and bit the sea star fiercely. However, looking at its expression, Xuanjian knew that the blood of the sea star was not to its taste.

Finally, Hai Xingxing passed out, Xuanjian threw the poke ball and sucked Hai Xing into it, and the fainted Hai Xingxing was regained without any resistance!

(End of this chapter)