Pokémon: The Climb

"I see, then do you know how you evolved into what you are now?"

Seeing with his own eyes that the Flying Mantis has another evolved form besides the Giant Pincer Mantis, he would be lying if he said he didn't care, so Yang Yan was very curious about how the Flying Mantis evolved into what it is now.

But regarding this point, Kudo Osamu did not record this in his notebook, so it is certain that the Flying Mantis did not evolve before Kudo Osamu died. In other words, the Flying Mantis only survived here for a period of time. Evolution.

Yang Yan had learned about some things about the Alola region before traveling. For example, Pokémon would be different depending on the environment they were in.

This difference is not only in appearance, but also in properties.

Could it be that this flying mantis did not evolve into a giant pincer mantis due to the special environmental impact here? Or is this what the Giant Pincer Mantis in this place looks like?

Yang Yan couldn't figure it out, and Axe-Splitting Mantis himself needed to explain all this.

The Ax-Splitting Mantis seemed to know that Yang Yan would ask it this question, so when Yang Yan just asked, it took out a piece of stone and handed it to Yang Yan, and made some gestures to Yang Yan.

Yang Yan took the broken stone and asked tentatively: "Did you evolve into what you are now after coming into contact with this stone?"

Axe-splitting Mantis nodded.

"So that's it." Yang Yan lowered his head and carefully shone his flashlight around, trying to discover the significance of this stone. Unfortunately, after looking at it for a long time, he couldn't see anything: "This shouldn't be an evolutionary stone or anything like that. Something, but it has a similar effect to the evolution stone..."

Yang Yan said to the axe-splitting mantis: "How did you get this piece of gravel?"

The Ax-Splitting Mantis pointed at Yang Yan.

"Me?" Yang Yan looked surprised, "What does it have to do with me?"

The Ax-Splitting Mantis approached Yang Yan and pointed at Yang Yan's backpack.

"Is it related to the things in my bag?" Yang Yan raised his eyebrows. After encountering the axe-splitting mantis, he didn't take out anything except a flashlight, food and water, and this piece of gravel was obvious. It's a product unique to this place. Yang Yan hasn't taken anything from here and put it in his bag?

Wait, there is something!

Yang Yan opened his eyes wide: "Is it Longlong Stone? This thing doesn't come from Longlong Stone, right?"

Axe-splitting Mantis nodded again.

Yang Yan quickly took out the Poke Ball of Longlong Stone and released it.

Because he had been punished before, Longlongshi did not make any move to fight back after coming out, and he cooperated very well and let Yang Yan search his whole body.

Unfortunately, Yang Yan did not find similar gravel fragments on this rumble stone.

"Is it true that only a small part of the rumble stones have this thing?" Yang Yan looked at the Ax Splitting Mantis again: "This piece of gravel shouldn't be the complete thing that allows you to evolve, right?"

The Ax-Splitting Mantis gestured at Yang Yan again.

After some difficult communication, Yang Yan finally got a little understanding of this strange stone.

First of all, the stone that allowed Flying Mantis to evolve was much larger than the one in his hand. Secondly, Ax Splitting Mantis also spent some time looking for this stone, but unfortunately, it only found this piece of gravel. No complete stone was ever found.

When Yang Yan asked the Axe-Splitting Mantis if he could give him this stone, the Axe-Splitting Mantis readily agreed. To it, the stone was of no use anymore, so it didn't matter if it was given to Yang Yan. , it is more important for Haruhiko to complete the trial and bring back Kudoji's ashes.

Yang Yan carefully put away this piece of gravel. This is a very important thing. If anything can be studied, it means that he has discovered a new evolutionary form. What will this bring to him? No need to You know it even if you think about it!

"It's still unclear whether this stone is only effective against Flying Mantis or other Pokémon, and it's also unclear whether similar stones can be found outside..."

Yang Yan thought about many things in his mind at the same time, because this discovery was really exciting!

"By the way, you should have a companion, right? Where's the fire elf? Aren't you together?"

After a long while, Yang Yan's mood calmed down. Only then did he remember that in addition to the flying mantis, Kudoji also had a fire elf.

Logically speaking, after such a long time, the Flying Mantis has survived, and the Fire Elf should also be able to survive, but Yang Yan did not see the Fire Elf.

Hearing Yang Yan's words, the axe-splitting mantis walked to the rock wall on the other side. In Yang Yan's puzzled eyes, its two big axes struck hard with a "bang" sound.

Yang Yan saw that the area hit by the axe-splitting mantis instantly shattered, revealing a small space.

"This……"

Yang Yan was a little surprised, he didn't expect this to be possible.

The Ax-Splitting Mantis signaled Yang Yan to follow it in. Only after entering did Yang Yan understand the situation inside.

There are two carcasses of Dunya here. It is obvious that this place was opened up by the axe-splitting mantis as a food storage place.

In front of Dunjia's body, Yang Yan saw two elf balls.

Before, Yang Yan was wondering why Kudoji didn't see a Poké Ball in his bag, because if there was a Poké Ball, he might be able to see the data of this Ax Splitting Mantis.

He thought it was Kudo Osamu who destroyed all the Poké Balls before his death, but he didn't expect it to be here! But it seems that the only ones left behind are the Axe-Splitting Mantis and the Fire Elf's Poké Balls, and the others should have been destroyed.

After Axe-Splitting Mantis approached, he opened one of the elf balls. After a flash of white light, the figure of the fire elf appeared.

After the fire elf came out, he yawned before slowly opening his eyes. After his eyes glanced at the axe-splitting mantis, he immediately became energetic when he saw Yang Yan behind the axe-splitting mantis.

It ran in front of Yang Yan and barked at Yang Yan several times.

Although he couldn't understand what the fire elf said, Yang Yan could feel some of what it wanted to express.

Yang Yan knelt down, stroked the fire elf's head, smiled and said softly: "Don't worry, fire elf, I will take you out!"

The fire elf called to Yang Yan a few more times, then passed over Yang Yan's body and walked forward.

Yang Yan saw that it ran to Kudoji's urn, and the fire elf gently rubbed the urn, as if he could feel that Kudoji was touching it.

Finally, the fire elf lay quietly beside the urn and stopped moving.

"Kudoji, it seems that your relationship with Pokémon is really deep, very deep..."

Whether it was the behavior of the Ax-Splitting Mantis that brought him here or the behavior of the Fire Elf, Yang Yan was greatly touched in his heart.

"Is this the bond between humans and Pokémon?"

Yang Yan's eyes became moist at some point...