Pokémon: Why do you call me the sixth trainer?

精灵纪元165年9月1日7：00

In front of Changqing Tunnel, Changqing City.

Next to the group of 36 people, there was also a group of four people standing. One of them, wearing a patrol uniform, took the initiative to stand up and introduce them.

"This Mr. Chen Yu is the discoverer of the recent whereabouts of the Thousand Faces Refuge. He will follow us before arriving at the point where the Thousand Faces Refuge appears."

"Once we reach the point of emergence, we will take him to his destination."

"The three of us are responsible for his safety."

After a brief introduction, a group of 40 people set off.

After passing dozens of inspections, the group finally passed through the long tunnel.

There are no artificial roads after coming out of the tunnel, only naturally growing grass connecting the dark green forest.

In front of the forest that blocks out the sun, you can see a small patch of mushroom-like white dots on the edge.

"This is the duty station of the patrol team. It is mainly used to verify people entering the forest." Chen Xing introduced in a low voice.

After the team leader at the front completed the handover with the people at the duty station, they were able to enter the forest.

Although the trees are very tall, traces of man-made modifications can be seen, and obvious or hidden observation equipment can be seen on many trees.

After entering the forest, the team had consciously divided into four levels.

In front were Chen Yu and four others leading the way.

On the second level are 9 researchers and the 4 "interns" they bring with them, talking from time to time along the way.

The third step is Chen An and four intern members of the patrol team, jokingly called "pendants".

In fact, Chen An could have gone to the second echelon, but the 13 people in the second echelon obviously knew each other and did not release their own elves. Chen An was not a familiar person, so he simply went with Chen Xing.

Except for the few people who protected Chen Yu who always stood with him, the other members of the patrol team had dispersed voluntarily and were exploring the surrounding situation about ten meters away from the team.

However, except for Chen Xing, everyone in the third echelon is an intern from the patrol team. The other two tear-eyed lizard trainers should be students led by the previous researchers (hereinafter referred to as graduate students).

The road ahead was quiet, and the group walked with their heads down.

After advancing for about two hours, there were significantly fewer detection equipment visible around, and the trees gradually became more lush.

A patrol member who looked to be in his thirties walked up to Chen An and the others and warned the intern members of the patrol team.

"The previous roads were cleared by patrols. From now on we will enter the real forest area. From now on, we will not take action unless we encounter a strong enemy that you cannot handle."

"Yes." The four intern team members responded immediately.

"Where's your Ladybug? Release it and let Ladybug Ann take them to explore the surroundings."

The four trainee team members immediately released several round elves that looked like large "ladybug" pillows. If it weren't for the fact that there were no white spots on their backs and the body size was 4 to centimeters, they would really look like ordinary little elves. ladybug.

What the official team members released was a "Ladybug An" that was over one meter tall and looked much taller overall, standing like a child.

Several elves quickly flew towards the woods.

......

At noon, everyone just took a brief rest and then moved on.

Looking at the expressionless civil servants and teenage children, Chen An repeatedly lamented that the physiques in the elf world were really amazing.

The sky darkened unknowingly, and the group stopped moving forward and found a relatively spacious open space to spend the night.

The patrol team just started to communicate the itinerary.

First, from tomorrow until they arrive at the location where the Thousand Faces Refuge appears, the patrol team will be divided into three groups. One group will go to explore the front, and the two groups will alternately protect the accompanying personnel. The personnel within each group will take turns to rest to ensure sufficient energy.

The second is to remind everyone not to release large or strong-smelling elves today.

After telling everyone not to move around as usual, this simple meeting ended.

As a junior trainer with only one tear-eyed lizard, Chen An was arranged to live with Chen Xing. After all, the two knew each other well and were happy to live together.

In addition, it was just a temporary rest for one night, so everyone didn't bother too much. They just had a few bites of food and then went back to the tent to rest.

The researchers are in the middle, followed by the entourage, trainees, and patrol members outside.

The tents planned for this expedition are all uniformly equipped and all look camouflage green, making them inconspicuous in the forest.

Just fix a few positioning points and press the start button, and the tent will support itself like an inflatable tent.

The people around him returned to the tent one after another, and Chen An took Chen Xi to eat together.

The unfamiliar environment made Chen Xi a little scared. She wrapped her tail around Chen An's ankles and dared to look at the surrounding environment. Chen An simply sat on the ground to eat with him and watched the intern team members doing stretching and other things. basic training

At this time, Ji'an Ladybug also returned to the resting point with four Ladybugs, eating the food prepared for them by the intern team members.

Looking at the "Ladybug Team" eating on the side, Chen An activated [Elf Identification].

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Target: ladybug

Target level: Level 10 (entry level)

Elf potential: D

Skills to master: Ultrasonic, Light Wall, Hold, Rapid Return

System prompt: The patrol team equips the intern team members with temporary elves, and the intern team members are just partners to them. Mainly responsible for pathfinding work.

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Target: Ann Ladybug

Target information: cannot be viewed

System prompt: The evolved form of Ladybug. The veteran of the patrol in front of you is mainly responsible for teaching the new generation of Ladybug to master skills such as environmental surveying.

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However, for some reason, no one except these ladybugs released the elves.

After hearing Chen An's question, Chen Xing, who had finished training, smiled and explained to him.

"In the wild, not exposing one's elf casually is a basic requirement for survival."

Chen An was stunned for a moment, then understood.

There were too many strangers around, so Chen An and Chen An didn't communicate much. They ate something in silence and then returned to the tent.

The tent is quite spacious, about two meters high. There is a dust cleaning area at the entrance, and there are two sleeping bags placed side by side inside.

"Ah, I can finally relax." Chen Xing briefly freshened up and got into the sleeping bag. Even if he couldn't see Mibulim's expression, he could still feel her speechless state.

"Can't you wait a little longer?"

"No."

Chen An sighed, washed briefly and then lay down in his sleeping bag.

"How do you feel?" Chen An turned his head and found that Chen Xing was looking at him curiously.

"It's okay." Even after walking for more than nine hours a day, Chen An's legs didn't feel much pain, as if he had just walked for nine minutes.

"But I feel like I haven't seen many wild elves along the way." Along the way, except for the occasional ladybug An, I didn't even see any green caterpillars along the way.

"Today we walked to places where patrols conduct daily activities. We will probably be able to see wild elves starting tomorrow."

"Huh?" Chen An asked curiously, "Won't the patrol take care of it?"

"The patrol team mainly checks whether there are poachers, or drives away some more dangerous elves for the team. The normal elf patrol team will not care." Chen Xing said while drawing a few circles.

"Starting from the entrance, the outermost fifty kilometers are the buffer zone, and the fifty to two hundred and thirty kilometers are the semi-open peripheral area. These are basically some common elven groups."

"Two hundred and thirty to three hundred kilometers is the buffer zone between the outer layer and the middle layer. Three hundred kilometers away is the middle layer area and the inner layer of the forest."

"Our goal this time is the buffer zone about 240 kilometers away from the entrance. The terrain in the middle is slightly complicated. At normal speed, it will take about a week."

"Sound familiar to you?"

"The patrol team has to memorize the terrain and rough route of the area it is responsible for." Chen Xing sighed, "We had a meeting yesterday, and half of the route planned by the captain was within the scope of the map I memorized."

"However," Chen Xing changed the topic, "Why don't you get to know those researchers? It's boring to follow our intern team members all the time."

"Let nature take its course." Chen An shrugged, "They obviously know each other. It would be bad for me to be too proactive."

"That's right." Chen Xing picked up the communication card and started to set the alarm clock.

"By the way, what time will you be on duty today?"

"From 11pm to 1am the next morning, I will try to be as gentle as possible."

"That's not true. I'm afraid you'll scare Chen Xi."

"Tears (what?)" Chen Xi, who was playing with Mibulim next to her, tilted her head when she heard her name.

"Xingxing wants to tell you that he will go out at night."

"Tears (ok." Chenxi nodded and continued to share his "experiences" in the past few days with Mibulim.

The tent gradually became quiet.

......

On the morning of the eighth day, the group finally arrived at the place where Mr. Chen Yu photographed Thousand Faces Refuge. After a simple farewell, the inspection team prepared to rest here for two days.

As for the internal companions, after a few days of getting along, Chen An probably got to know all the patrol members, but he was still not familiar with the researchers (students) who were traveling with him. He only nodded politely when he came out of the tent in the morning and evening. .

"Ah, we're finally here." Chen An sighed.

Even with a physique in the elf world, if you travel for more than nine hours a day, your body will react. In the past two days, Chen An could clearly feel the pain in his legs and feet.

What's more important is that after entering the outer area, everyone was nervous about various emergencies along the way, and it was inevitable that they were a little tired.

These "small situations" are not worthy of action by the regular team members, and most of them are used to train the combat awareness and reaction ability of the intern team members.

The tent was set up, and during the rare rest time, the intern team members also had a half-day vacation. Everyone was looking for the nearby "local elves" to compete with each other with great interest.

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"Tears (so tired)."

After the "battle" with a wild grass coir raincoat ended, Chen Xi sat silently aside, watching Chen An give elf food to three knotcao'er not far away.

Jie Cao'er is a kind of insect elf that is widely distributed. Its body is a black insect, but it will instinctively find materials around it and wrap it around itself to form a "coir raincoat".

A common thing in the forest is the knotted grass made of leaves and branches to look like a "coir raincoat", which looks like a green fruit.

"Thank you for your hard work." "Knot."

After finishing their food, the three knotted grasses left together, and Chen An came over to comfort Chen Xi, who failed in her first attempt to fight on her own.

(Autonomous combat: refers to the fact that the trainer does not issue instructions and the elf fights with its own consciousness.)

"Are you okay?" Chen An touched Chen Xi.

In fact, the levels of several knot grass children are basically at level 10-13, but they only have three skills: collision, spinning and guarding. Compared with Chen Xi, who has mastered more than a dozen skills, they are pitiful and even more difficult to fight with Chen Xi. It is the smallest of the three.

Unfortunately, Jie Cao'er, who lives in the border area of ​​the forest, has a flexible body and accurate skill release. Chen Xi, who has been fighting with the cubs all the time, can't keep up with his reaction. It is difficult for his attacks to hit Jie Cao'er, and he finally gave up after consuming a lot of energy.

"It's so hard to cry." Chen Xi lay in Chen An's arms, feeling a little frustrated.

"They have been living in the wild. If one of them is bad, he will lose his life." Chen An explained to Chen Xi calmly.

"Your skills are all taught in school, and the elves who usually live with you are all elves living in the cub area. Everyone's level is about the same, but when you get here, the gap is obvious."

Chen An opened the information card, found the video of the battle just now, and analyzed it bit by bit for Chen Xi.

"Like in the battle just now, if you didn't rush to escape when Jie Cao'er used the impact, but just turned invisible and jumped away, you wouldn't have wasted so much energy."

"besides......"

After the explanation, Chen Xi was in a much better mood. She was eating big mouthfuls of food and seemed to be ready to fight again.

Chen An smiled and stood up to clean up the tent, only to find two people standing behind him.

"Is this how you usually teach Tear-Eyed Lizards?" A researcher who seemed to be older took the initiative.

Chen An recognized this as one of the initiators of this operation, Professor Li Qingnian and his student Li Yue.

"Yes." Chen An nodded.

"No wonder your tear-eyed lizard looks so mature." The graduate student named Li Yue next to him also spoke. Only then did Chen An know that Li Yue, who had always been very low-key along the way, was a girl.

After a brief exchange of greetings, Professor Li went back, while Li Yue sat next to Chen An.

"This is my tear-eyed lizard, Yueyue." Li Yue took out the elf ball and released her tear-eyed lizard.

"Hello, this is Chen Xi."

The tear-eyed lizard named Yueyue is more like a child than Chen Xi. As soon as he came out, he hugged Yueyue's legs and refused to let go. But it was probably the first time he saw his kind. Under Chen Xi's initiative, the two tear-eyed lizards happily Sharing the fruit from the tree that had just been knotted with grass.

Suddenly, Chen Xi ran excitedly to the tree not far away. Under that tree, a strange knot grass was poking its head, because the leaves of the knot grass were sparse and seemed to be about to fall off.

Seeing the morning light, Jie Cao'er was startled. All the leaves on her body fell off, but the insect shape inside turned into a tear-eyed lizard. However, this tear-eyed lizard looked more than thirty centimeters tall, but it had A strange black snake-like tail.

"Tears (what is this?)" Chen Xi was also startled, but her curiosity obviously outweighed everything, so she still approached cautiously.

"Well, it's probably a wild monster with poor qualifications." Li Yue said.

"It's very common to see a variety of monsters with imperfect transformations, but those with incorrect colors and even wrong limbs are basically E-level or even F-level aptitudes, and there's no point in conquering them."

But Chen An looked seriously at the strange elf not far away, because in his eyes, the name on the display next to the elf was "Zoroa".