Elves: Goal, help Pokémon fulfill their wishes

A few days passed by like a flash.

"Shirona, handsome guy... and Liang Yin, I called you here this time because I have good news and bad news to announce." Dr. Yamanashi took two sips of hot coffee with a lot of sugar in it, and pressed his temples tiredly after working intensively for a long time. He stood up from his chair and faced the three people. "It's about the suspicious patch and the human body transmission system."

Dr. Akihabara didn't seem to want to keep the secret, so he pressed the button on the console at the right time, and a sample projection that was magnified several times was immediately presented to everyone: "We have completed the deciphering of the key data inside the suspicious patch, and we also found some interesting things inside."

But before the three of them could ask what the interesting thing was, the short and fat doctor with blue hair who could make the lens reflect light at will began to demonstrate to them by tapping the keyboard a few times: "Just like this, this, and this... After filtering out all the redundant information step by step, the key to the permission will be extracted."

The series of professional terms automatically turned into unclear "blablabla" sounds in the ears of Liang Yin, who didn't even fully understand Excel. It was not known whether Shirona and the handsome guy next to him really understood or were just used to it. Anyway, they just stared at each other in silence until Dr. Akihabara showed him the final results.

"…Here, this is what the authority key looks like after it is materialized."

As Dr. Akihabara's words of relief fell, the proportional example projection of the suspicious patch in front of him was decomposed into countless fluorescent pixels and quickly reassembled together, showing the materialization of the authorization key mentioned by the former.

"Ah, this?!" Liang Yin rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

The orange core torso was wrapped in a blue translucent shell... This wasn't an authority key at all. What he saw was clearly a vivid image of Rotom.

"You read that right," Dr. Yamanashi smacked his lips as he took another sip of his sugar-sweetened coffee. "The authority key contained in the suspicious patch is actually Rotom. To be more precise, it's part of Rotom, because it's essentially a mixture of the latter's plasma shell and virgin plasma."

Plasma Shell vs. Native Plasma?

Liang Yin almost instantly recalled what Rotom had said about the series of cruel experiments conducted on him by Pluto, the scientist and cadre of the Galaxy Team - this might also explain why Rotom had such an inexplicable desire for the suspicious patch before.

"Then Dr. Yamanashi, are there other Rotoms in this world?" Liang Yin asked a somewhat irrelevant question. Although his guess was almost certain, it wouldn't be a big deal to confirm it one more time.

Dr. Yamanashi, an authority on Pokémon research, shook his head. "In fact, we haven't discovered any other Rotom except the one that was first entered into the Pokémon Encyclopedia database. According to the information you told me a few days ago, the Rotom that lives in your phone is most likely the same Rotom that was first discovered and named."

Liang Yin sighed with a complicated expression and realized what it meant to be played by fate.

"And if everything goes as expected," Dr. Yamanashi paused for a few seconds before continuing, "as long as this part is returned to its original owner, although it may not be able to achieve a complete cure, it should be able to alleviate Rotom's emotional instability to a certain extent."

This is a pleasant surprise. Liang Yin nodded slightly.

The little guy Rotom just "restarted" last night, but unfortunately it failed to achieve the purpose of modifying the virtual world data like Porygon.

It is said that it was blocked by a defensive measure like a "firewall". It circled along the edge of the "wall" several times, spending a lot of time, but did not see a "hole" through which it could sneak in.

By the way, Rotom is not here now.

In fact, none of his three Pokémon came with him on this trip to the research institute. And the reason given by Eevee was really justified - saying that they were busy "teaching" the Pokémon in the gathering place who had free time and were motivated how to become stronger.

"Let me apologize in advance. The gathering place will need to use the permission key of the suspicious patch to help break into the prison of the Galaxy Team and activate this human transmission system..." Dr. Yamanashi raised his right hand and pointed his index finger at the wall covered with integrated circuits. A silver-white metal dome had been built there at some point. "So the return of the property to its original owner will probably be delayed. Please understand."

Liang Yin nodded to show his understanding and said he would discuss this matter with Rotom later.

"What's the bad news?" the handsome guy asked in a deep voice.

When we first entered the room, Dr. Yamanashi had said that he would announce two pieces of news, one good and one bad. The good news was that the decryption of the suspicious patch had been successfully completed, and the counterattack of the Galaxy Team to rescue the survivors was just around the corner - so what was the bad news?

"I roughly guessed it," the already seriously injured Sirona silently withdrew her gaze from Liang Yin, "The bad news that the doctor mentioned should be related to our bodies that are still in the real world, right?"

Unlike Liang Yin and his group, the rest of the people in the virtual world are all spiritual beings, and their physical bodies in the real world are undoubtedly still under the control of the Galaxy Team. Even if all the previous actions went smoothly, if the other party finally died...

"What you said is exactly what I'm worried about..." Dr. Yamanashi sighed helplessly. He was about to continue the conversation, but at this moment, his train of thought was interrupted by the sound of Dr. Akihabara slamming the table next to him.

The latter said in a firm tone: "We have been in the gathering place for so long, and the Galaxy team should have ruined our bodies in the real world long ago. If it really doesn't work, we can just change to a more convenient, better and stronger machine body."

After this shocking "mechanical ascension" theory came out, everyone remained silent for a few seconds out of politeness, and then tacitly skipped over the suggestion just put forward by Dr. Akihabara and continued the discussion.

"Whether the real bodies of the most active 'rebels' in the eyes of the Galaxy Team have been disposed of by them is still unknown," Dr. Yamanashi turned the laptop screen on the table over and tapped the keyboard a few times, and a long text record of Miss Junsha's interrogation of the three prisoners of the Galaxy Team appeared on it. "Those three guys are too tight-lipped."

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