Pokémon: Start with an Admiral Crab!

Although he only has one badge in hand, Wang Yao's team is now much stronger than when he first arrived in Vermilion Leaf City.

Instead of quickly clearing the gym, he felt that he should take some time to calm down.

Also, from a metaphysical point of view - Professor Oak's backyard is a magical place...

Let the giant crabs receive special training here, maybe there will be some mysterious bonuses!

Although he had to stay for a while, Wang Yao still declined the opportunity to stay in the storage room of the research institute that Dr. Oak had specially vacated.

Instead, he chose to camp alone in the back mountain.

But before that...

……

……

"Ayao! You are so brave!"

"——I actually let the gull get hurt like this!"

When the seagull was teleported over just now, Shizuka was startled and immediately busy setting up a bed for it and asked Chansey to treat it again.

When I had some free time, I called him and gave him a scolding.

Wang Yao didn't know why the cute little cherry mouth in the communication screen could make a roar that would make Gyarados tremble.

I had to subconsciously try to hold the watch further away.

Unfortunately, the arm has been stretched to its longest.

"I was wrong!"

"I promise I'll never do it again!"

It was useless to make excuses at this time, so Wang Yao decisively admitted his mistake.

He knew this would happen when he teleported the gull over.

The main reason was that he didn't expect that an angry Joey could be so scary.

"Lucky!"

And this time, even the usually friendly Jigglypuff didn't stand on his side.

"Why are you doing special training in the forest again?!"

Joey asked menacingly, one hand on his hip.

"Um... it's time to capture Pokémon..."

"careless……"

Wang Yao's voice became smaller and smaller.

"How can a grown man be as short-sighted as an eight-year-old? Don't let the Pokémon do dangerous things!"

It seemed that because of Wang Yao's good attitude of admitting his mistakes, Shizuka's attitude softened a little.

"I've corrected it!"

"——Look, I'm in the backyard of Professor Oak's laboratory now!"

Wang Yao immediately changed the subject.

"It's very safe here, even a coward can take a leisurely walk outside!"

"Guji?"

The timid bug, who had just finished dinner and was paddling in the pond, was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a few seconds, and then climbed onto the shore.

Then start pretending you're taking a leisurely stroll at sunset.

"Guji~"

[It's really relaxing~]

"You see!"

Wang Yao gave Coward's acting a score of six, and can only say that there is still room for improvement.

"Why are you in Professor Oak's backyard?"

Joey Shizuka asked with some disbelief.

"——Of course, I was worried about the safety of the gull! So I rushed to the nearby Pallet Town as fast as I could to ask for help!"

Wang Yao looked worried.

“Huh…really.”

Shizuka snorted, letting Wang Yao off the hook this time.

"Then I'll leave the big-billed gull to you!"

Wang Yao said with his hands clasped together.

"Really... don't let it happen again!"

Shizuka sighed in annoyance.

……

“Phew! I finally escaped.”

Wang Yao finally hung up the phone.

"It's really hard to owe a debt of favor."

Wang Yao pulled the coward over to use as a stool to lean on, and reached out to use a branch to poke the fire.

Burning embers cling to branches, igniting new flames at the tips.

rustling...

After rubbing the flames on the sand for a few times to put them out, Wang Yao looked at the sunset in the sky with some boredom.

Tread!

Tired of playing, the little fire horse walked back to the camp and lay down next to Wang Yao.

"Guji~"

Although the flames on the other party's body no longer brought any burning sensation, the cowardly bug still shook his whiskers in response.

Time always flies by.

After the sunset is the night sky.

After the night sky comes the morning sun.

……

In a blink of an eye, Wang Yao had already lived in the back mountain of Dr. Oak for half a month.

……

"I'm done here!"

"Humph! I'm still faster!"

By the small river in the back mountain, Xiaozhi and Xiaomao each stood in front of a hand-tied raft.

This small river starts from the mountain behind Professor Oak, circles half a circle around Pallet Town, and flows all the way to the depths of the forest outside the town.

It is about two kilometers from here to the outskirts of the forest.

The reason for making the raft was because of another round of competition between the two!

Ride a handmade raft pulled by a Magikarp down the stream, and the first one to reach the forest is the winner!

Of course...the reason why he could take Magikarp around the town so blatantly.

This was because the adults discovered that they were raising a Magikarp the next day.

The reason for being discovered was that Xiaozhi brought the Magikarp home and kept it in the bathtub.

Then at dinner time, he left all the curry rice prepared by Hanako to Magikarp. In the middle of the night, Xiaozhi, who was extremely hungry, got up and went to the refrigerator to steal some bread, but was arrested on the spot by Hanako as a thief who broke into the house!

This matter soon reached the ears of Professor Oak, and then Shunzhi found out Xiao Mao who also hid the Magikarp in the washbasin under the bed.

And A Yao who was giving random advice behind the scenes.

Wang Yao had clearly told them to release the Magikarp into the river. After all, as long as they visited it frequently after taming it, it wouldn't run away...

I don’t know what these two little brats are thinking. They have to keep me so close.

Fortunately, Professor Oak didn't take this matter too seriously in the end. After scolding them a few words, he let them keep all the Magikarp in the pond in the backyard.

After all, Magikarp is a notorious small fish Pokémon, so the initial Pokémon will still be given, just let them cultivate their relationship with Magikarp more, and don't abandon it after having an affair...

Just think of it as an opportunity to adapt to the daily life of a Pokémon trainer in advance.

Ahem... let’s get back to the match between them!

Since it is a competition, the final winner must of course receive a prize!

What is the prize?

clang clang clang!

The naming rights of "Professor Oak's secret underground base in the backyard" created by Steelix and Giant Crab!

By the way: Since it is a secret base, it means...even Professor Oak himself doesn’t know that an underground base has been dug out in his backyard!

The entrance to the base is inside a hollow tree.

You have to climb up the big tree using a rope ladder, and then pass through the hole in the heart of the tree to reach the underground base more than ten meters deep!

The area of ​​the base is not large, with a total of three floors, each floor is only fifty or sixty square meters, and the space height of each floor is controlled at more than three meters.

The walls and the ground were compacted by crab claws and iron tails, and there were several solid stone pillars standing in the middle and corners of the space to ensure sufficient strength.

Originally, Wang Yao accidentally dug a cave while taming the giant steel snake, and happened to find this hollow tree right above it.

After some transformation, it became this underground space.