Pokémon: Start with an Admiral Crab!

It was now around eight or nine in the morning. The sunlight shone obliquely through the crater onto Wang Yao, allowing him to see the surroundings clearly.

"Maybe you'll find some rare gemstones!"

Wang Yao took out a mattock from his backpack and began looking for his target.

His eyes wandered around the surrounding minerals, and finally stopped on a black porous rock half a person's height.

Keng!

With a hoe, a corner of the black rock broke off, revealing the equally black porous structure with bubbles inside.

This is just an ordinary piece of porous basalt, just a little darker in color.

Keng! Keng!

Two more hoes were swung down, and the basalt immediately shattered into six or seven pieces the size of a human head.

“Really not…”

Wang Yao kicked away the rubble under his feet and began to search for the next victim.

However, his research on stones was far inferior to Xiaogang's. He chiseled seven or eight stones of different shapes in a row, but they were all just ordinary stuff.

The best-looking piece is just a somewhat translucent obsidian.

"Tsk tsk..."

Wang Yao sat on a stone that had been split into two parts after being chiseled and fell down, scratching his head in boredom.

The giant crab and the cowardly worm are still looking for caves inside the mountain and have not returned yet.

Looking at the broken stones on the ground around him, Wang Yao was too lazy to draw prizes again.

"Hey! That's right!"

With a ding, a bright light bulb popped up on Wang Yao's head.

He suddenly had a good idea! "It's a waste of time to look around here - why not just give Xiaogang a video call!"

Wang Yao opened the communicator on his watch and dialed the new number Xiaogang left for him.

Because the gym's business is getting better, Xiaogang's family recently installed a new video phone, so they no longer have to go to the Pokémon Center in Pewter City to make calls.

Didi! Didi!

...Ding beep!

"Hello, is this Yao?"

The phone rang several times before the call was picked up.

However, the signal inside the crater seemed to be a bit bad. Not only was the picture a bit stuck, but Xiaogang's voice was also a bit intermittent.

"Wait a minute, I'll adjust it!"

Wang Yao walked around a few steps holding the communicator, and finally climbed onto a large rock with potholes, and the signal became better.

"That should be fine now! Xiao Gang, can you hear me clearly?"

Wang Yao looked at the picture that was no longer shaking and waved his hand and asked.

"Alright! Where are you?"

"…Why are there rock walls all around?"

Xiaogang held the microphone between his head and shoulders, tilted his head to look at the screen, and freed his hands to take off his rubber gloves.

His younger brothers and sisters had just finished breakfast, and he was still washing the dishes.

"This is the interior of a dormant volcano..."

Wang Yao raised his hand and let the camera on his watch take a picture of the surrounding environment.

"Didn't you say before that volcanoes bring underground minerals to the surface?"

"It's not easy to come here, I have to dig up some good stuff to bring back!"

Wang Yao put the mattock on his shoulder and began to seek Xiaogang's opinion.

"Please help me find out if there are any rare minerals around here. I'll give you a few when I get back!"

Wang Yao knew that Xiaogang liked to collect stones. When his father was not home, he often went to Yuejian Mountain to dig stones.

"Even if you say so... just based on the video call, I would..."

Xiaogang narrowed his eyes in embarrassment.

Even for him, an expert in stone collection, he would still be unsure about how to judge the quality of a raw stone without seeing it with his own eyes or touching it.

"How about this - the signal is bad anyway, so go take some more photos and send them over."

"I'll call my dad over to help you make the decision."

Xiaogang's ability to identify stones is still a little worse than Wu Neng, who has rich travel experience.

When the father and son work together to identify, the accuracy rate is higher.

"That's a good idea!"

Wang Yao hammered the mattock into the ground and nodded.

While maintaining the communication status, switch the watch to the photo taking mode.

Start taking photos around the entire crater.

In a short while, hundreds of photos in the list showed the words "transferring".

"Okay... the photos have been sent over. I'll put the watch here. You guys can take a look at it first."

Wang Yao took off his watch and placed it on the boulder with the best signal.

Photos of the boulder were also included in the transfer list.

"The giant crabs seem to have found a hidden cave. I'll go take a look."

Wang Yao picked up the watch and left a message to Xiaogang and Wu Neng on the other end of the phone.

Then walk towards the direction where the giant crab and the cowardly bug disappeared.

It was a suspended cave about ten meters from the bottom of the pit. Although the slope was a bit steep, the cooled and hardened magma around it could be used as a support point for climbing upward.

Wang Yao used his hands and feet together and reached the entrance of the cave in a few moves.

He grabbed the rock wall with both hands and rolled into the cave.

“Huh! Pfft!”

Wang Yao brushed off the volcanic ash on his body.

"The entrance to this cave isn't big...but it's quite spacious inside!"

Wang Yao stood up and looked around the interior of the cave.

Although it was a little dark inside the cave because there was no sunlight, I could still see the surroundings clearly.

"Giant Claw Crab!"

"Coward!"

Wang Yao shouted the Pokémon's name and took a few steps deeper into the cave.

Rustling!

Walking to a corner, Wang Yao heard a series of footsteps.

"Ok?"

Wang Yao stopped and looked around, but didn't see any Pokémon.

But when he took a few more steps, the same tiny sound appeared again!

"strangeness……"

Wang Yao frowned and began to look around carefully.

But there are indeed only some stones of different sizes in the cave.

After thinking for a while, Wang Yao took out the illustrated book.

After turning on the Pokémon Detection Mode of the Pokédex, a special scanning ray will be emitted from the camera on the back of the Pokédex.

Wang Yao held up the illustrated book and shone it towards the piles of stones.

"drop--!"

The atlas made a sound indicating successful recognition.

"Sure enough, there are Pokémon!"

Wang Yao stared at a gray, basketball-sized stone in front of him, and heard the prompt sound of the illustrated guide.

"Ding--Rockdweller, the Rockdweller Pokémon! As long as it finds a rock of the right size, it will secrete a liquid from its mouth that can dissolve the rock...

"…Then he used the claws on his hands to cut and hollow out the rock to make a shell to protect his body."

"It's a Rock Crab... I thought it was some rare Pokémon!"

Wang Yao put away the illustrated book with boredom.

He had seen this kind of Pokémon before, and it didn't seem like there was anything worth mentioning.

"Hey - stop pretending, I saw you!"

Wang Yao kicked the stone house of the stone crab twice. He was a little curious why there were stone crabs in the volcano.

"Eee~" (From the Japanese version of the 11th episode of Pokémon Super Wish, "Krabbi! Take back your house!!")

Two lamp-shaped black eyes poked out from under the stone shell and looked at Wang Yao cautiously. Although it is called a "crab"...but the stone crab does not have a crab claw that can open and close like the giant crab.

Instead, there is a pair of sharp crab feet and two short, thin legs.