Pokémon: The Climb

At dawn the next day, Yang Yan, who had just finished breakfast, set off to go to Yuhong City.

Seven days is enough time for Yang Yan to handle matters in Yuhong City.

At around 3 pm, Yang Yan finally arrived.

It was already around 4 o'clock when he arrived at Yuhong Gym. Because on the way, Yang Yan took the Pokémon to a restaurant for a good meal.

By the way, all the disguises on his body were removed, revealing his original face.

"Miss Xiaohui," Yang Yan greeted warmly, "Long time no see!"

During this period, she was the one who contacted Yang Yan, so the two were fairly familiar with each other.

"Yang Yan, you're here," Xiao Hui greeted: "Here, the owner is waiting for you."

"By the way, apart from the gym selection, is there anything else the gym owner is looking for me to do?" Yang Yan asked curiously on the way.

"It should be about this. I don't know the specifics. I'll ask the owner later."

On the way, Yang Yan had a casual chat with Xiaohui again.

Finally, they came to the place where he had fought Li Jia's three gym apprentices.

But now none of them are here. Only Rika and a few Pokémon are here, including Yang Yan's forest lizard.

"Hello, owner, long time no see!" Yang Yan greeted with a smile.

"It's you," Lijia smiled slightly: "I guess you should arrive in the next few days, but I didn't expect you to arrive so soon."

At this time, the forest lizard who was training on the training ground also noticed Yang Yan.

It trotted two steps, then jumped, and came to Yang Yan with a beautiful backflip.

"Forest lizard," Yang Yan patted it on the shoulder with a smile: "Yes, the body has become much stronger."

"Chamo!"

"Seeing you like this makes me feel a little more relieved."

Li Jia's voice came, and Yang Yan and the forest lizard couldn't help but turn their heads.

"Master, thank you very much for your teachings to the forest lizard during this period. Without you, it would not have grown so much. Thank you very much." Yang Yan solemnly thanked him.

"Yang Yan, don't be so serious. You have forgotten that this was originally our agreement, so I just did what I should do..."

"Don't worry," Yang Yan took over, "I will definitely do what I promised you."

"I was a little unsure about this at first, but if this is said by the top 10 people in the Hoenn Trial, the credibility will be much higher." Lijia teased slightly.

Yang Yan touched his head, a little embarrassed: "You know it all!"

"Of course, after all, strictly speaking, you are still a gym apprentice of my Yuhong Gym. Of course Fengyuan will tell me these things as soon as possible."

"That's it," Yang Yan asked carefully, "then do you know..."

Lijia smiled and said: "Don't worry, this is Kanto, there is nothing to be afraid of."

When Rika said this, Yang Yan knew that she must know her mission. Even if Takadera didn't tell her everything, Rika should know the general situation.

Li Jia will also help when necessary.

……

In the next period of time, Yang Yan and Li Jia talked a lot.

From Li Jia's words, he learned how well the forest lizards were cultivated here.

I also know the hard work the forest lizard has put in during this time.

To be honest, among all Yangyan's Pokémon, he only spent the shortest time with the forest lizard, but the forest lizard helped him a lot.

In his heart, he felt vaguely guilty about it.

Fortunately, they will still have a lot of time together in the future, and Yang Yan can slowly make up for it.

"Yang Yan, before going to the Quartz Plateau, do you want to fight me with a forest lizard?" Suddenly, Li Jia changed the topic.

"Do you want to feel more confident?" Yang Yan couldn't help but smile: "If it can make you feel at ease, that's fine."

Lijia shook her head and smiled: "I believe in your strength, but after all, your time with the forest lizard is still short. I really want to confirm how much strength you two can exert."

"In addition, I have seen that the Forest Lizard is close to the edge of evolution. In the past few days, I have been deliberately reducing its battles with other Pokémon, just in the hope that you can witness its evolution with your own eyes."

Yang Yan looked at the forest lizard happily: "Forest lizard, is that so? Do you already feel that you are about to evolve?"

"Chamo!" The forest lizard nodded.

"This is really great, Forest Lizard!" Yang Yan turned to Li Jia again: "Master, thank you!"

"I think the forest lizard himself also hopes to have a hearty battle and complete the evolution without any regrets!" Lijia thought for a while and said: "Well, today you and the forest lizard will spend more time together and get to know each other well. , our battle will be scheduled until 4 o’clock tomorrow afternoon.”

"Okay, I'll leave it to you then!"

"Then you should have a good rest first," Li Jia turned to look at Xiao Hui behind her: "Xiao Hui, take Yang Yan to the guest room first."

"Yes!"

……

On the way, Yang Yan kept thinking about the forest lizard.

Yang Yan naturally knew that the forest lizard was at level 35 and was only one level away from evolving.

It’s just that he felt that the forest lizard had worn the Stone of Immutability to suppress evolution before, so he felt that the forest lizard might need to suppress it more, and it might be better to develop the ability of the "forest lizard" form to the limit.

But Li Jia said this, proving that in her eyes, the forest lizard can already evolve.

Of course, this does not rule out the possibility that Li Jia wants to improve Yang Yan's strength before the gym trials.

The intermediate strength of the forest lizard is still a bit low after all.

Li Jia knew that if she wanted to improve the strength of those who participated in the battle, other gyms could naturally think of it.

Therefore, the opponents Yang Yan will face are likely to be people with high-level powerful Pokémon.

Whether the forest lizard can defeat them is hard to say.

But if you can evolve into the Lizard King, you'll have a better chance of winning, right?

In the trials, Forest Lizard must compete.

But facing a high-level opponent, Yang Yan couldn't guarantee that he would be able to win.

Of course, the rules of the competition have not yet been announced, so it is still uncertain what the final situation will be.

"Forget it, don't think about it so much, just take it step by step!"

Yang Yan shook his head, throwing away the messy thoughts in his heart, and focused on putting the evolution of the forest lizard first.

After arriving in the guest room, Yang Yan told the other Pokémon about this.

Regarding the fact that the forest lizard is about to evolve, other Pokémon that have not yet evolved are very envious.

Especially the little fire pony. You must know that when they first met, the little fire pony was a little fire pony. The previous wooden gecko was about to evolve into a lizard king, but it itself was still a little fire pony, and it was still early to evolve.

The little fire horse wanted to evolve because it felt the bottleneck of its body during this period. It felt that the fire energy in the body was increasing more and more slowly, both in quantity and quality.

If it hadn't taken a potion not long ago to improve some of its qualifications and loosen the bottleneck, it would have died of discomfort.

And if it wants to improve its strength, evolution is its only option.

Yang Yan saw Xiao Huoma's impatience, so he comforted him: "Little Huoma, don't be anxious. We don't need to rush for time. We must take our time to improve our strength. You don't want to be unable to do it anymore because of your current impatience." Let’s move forward, so it’s good for now.”

"Remember, we still have a lot of time. Don't do something that you will regret in a hurry!"