Pokémon: Join Team Rocket at the Beginning

Yang Ming picked up the Poké Ball on the ground, looked at the few Poké Balls left in his hand, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Luckily I suddenly remembered that electromagnetic waves can increase the chance of capturing Poké Balls, otherwise I would have almost failed."

Since the purpose of his participation in this competition had been achieved, Yang Ming had no need to continue searching. He simply returned to the gathering place before the competition started and waited for the insect catching competition to end.

There are already some contestants gathered here. Many of them have captured their favorite bug-attribute Pokémon, while others have used up all the Poké Balls reserved for the competition and were eliminated early.

"What kind of bug Pokémon did you capture? I caught a furball."

"I only caught one Metapod. It looks like there's no hope of making it into the top three."

"I just saw a beautiful figure in a patch of grass. It seems to be a hunting swallowtail butterfly from the Hoenn region."

"Wow, I didn't expect that Pokémon from outside the Johto region would appear at the Bug Catching Tournament. Did you catch it?"

"Uh, I ran out of balls..."

"Hehe, I conquered the invincible speaker cricket. I am the champion this time!"

Yang Ming couldn't help but laugh as he listened to these people sharing their experiences at the insect catching conference and talking about the Pokémon they had captured.

If this happened in the underground black market, as long as someone dared to reveal that they had good stuff, they would inevitably be targeted by people who wanted to kill people and steal the treasure. But here, no one cared about these things. People just shared their interests with others selflessly without any impure thoughts.

"Maybe this is what the Pokémon world should really look like. It seems that I have stayed underground for too long. I should have come to the surface to feel the sunshine a long time ago."

Jones also came back, and judging by his expression, he also captured the Bug-type Pokémon he wanted.

"Bullfighter, the information provided by the man named Inoki was correct. I have captured a Doi ninja."

Yang Ming nodded. Although Doi Ninja's combat power was very weak, it could split into Iron Ninja and Shell Ninja after evolution, which was considered a good Pokémon.

A Bi also came back. He caught a Scyther. Compared with the Kairos captured by Yang Ming, this Scyther was hardly damaged.

"It seems that the champion this time must be Abi." From Inoki, we learned that in addition to comparing the rarity and strength of the Pokémon obtained in the Bug Catching Competition, the health of the captured Bug Pokémon is also an important criterion. During the capture process, the less damage the Pokémon suffers, the easier it is to get a high ranking.

Inoki was looking at the Pokémon that were sent up for evaluation, feeling hesitant. According to the normal evaluation criteria, Abi should have won first place, but out of his desire to please the young man, he couldn't help but want to "show favoritism".

Finally, under Yang Ming's stern look, Inoki shuddered, but still awarded A Bi the first place reward according to normal standards.

"If this idiot dares to do anything unnecessary, I will beat him up." Yang Ming's target was originally Jianou, a powerful insect-attribute Pokémon. Now that he has captured Kairos, the first prize, the Sun Stone, is of no use to him, so naturally he doesn't want to create any more trouble.

"Big brother who came in second, can you give me your Stone of Immutability? I'll exchange it with your beautiful empty shell." A young man asked Yang Ming to exchange items.

Yang Ming nodded. Although the Stone of Immutability was the reward for the second place in the Insect Catching Competition, it was of no use to him. On the contrary, the Beautiful Shell could be used to counter some powerful features like Stepping on Shadows, which was also a good thing.

After exchanging the items, Yang Ming went up to A Bi and exchanged a few words. They had known each other since they were in the interconnected cave, but they had never met again after Yang Ming left Huipi Town.

"I never thought that Mr. Yang Ming would become a senior executive of a large enterprise in Manjin City. I never thought of that."

"What are you talking about? I'm just an ordinary office worker now." Yang Ming said with a smile.

"By the way, I heard that a fossil expert from Kanto is visiting Kikyo City recently. Mr. Yang Ming, didn't you get a fossil at the Alufu ruins? Why not go to Kikyo City and take a look? Maybe you can revive the fossil in your hand."

This information was extremely useful to Yang Ming. Ever since he obtained the fossil in the Alufu ruins, Yang Ming had been looking everywhere for ways to revive the fossil. He even tricked Feng Lu into taking him to several cities for this purpose.

However, since there are no experts in this field in the entire Chengdu area, Yang Ming has not resurrected the fossil until today.

Now A Bi's reminder has pointed him in the right direction. After thanking A Bi solemnly, Yang Ming drove to Platycodon City.

After arriving in Kikyo City, Yang Ming went to Kikyo Gym first. Upon hearing that Yang Ming had come in person, the Kikyo Gym Master Asu came to greet him in person.

Ever since Yang Ming helped solve the missing children case and jewelry robbery case in Kikyo City at the Alufu ruins, he has had a very good relationship with Kikyo Gym Master Asu. In addition, Manjin City and Kikyo City are not far apart, so the two sides have become familiar with each other after a few visits.

"To be honest, the fossil expert you mentioned is an old friend of my father. He is now at the Alufu ruins." After hearing Yang Ming's purpose, Asu took the initiative to take him to meet the fossil expert.

"Alufu ruins?" Yang Ming's heart skipped a beat. That was not a safe place.

"Don't worry, it's not the Alufu ruins leading to the interconnected cave, but the Alufu ruins on our side of Kikyo City," Asu said with a smile, "There's nothing dangerous there."

As Asu said, there were no signs of wild Pokémon activities at the Alufu ruins on the Kikyo City side. Instead, some researchers could be seen active here.

The fossil expert was an unkempt middle-aged man with a messy beard.

"Please move aside, everyone. Do not disturb me from studying the ancient Pokémon in the Johto region." Facing Yang Ming and the other two, the dishevelled middle-aged man waved his hand impatiently. "My dear nephew, the discovery of fossils at the Alufu ruins is big news in the academic world. I don't have time to play house with your friends."

Facing this old acquaintance of his father, Asu had no other choice but to smile bitterly and say, "But uncle, the fossils of my friend were found at the Alufu ruins."

"What?!" As soon as these words came out, the fossil expert jumped up excitedly, grabbed Yang Ming's collar and asked, "Young man, is what my nephew said true?"

"That's right, it was indeed found in the Alufu ruins." Yang Ming was stunned and thought that this reaction was too big.

"Okay, no problem. I'll help you revive this fossil right away," the fossil expert said cheerfully. "It just requires you to spend a few days cooperating with our research. Is that ok?"