I, the Pokémon Master, now resign

Not long after, Absolu finally opened his eyes, and walked towards the leftmost passage without any confusion, and Bai Chen followed closely after seeing this.

The last passage is more gloomy than the front one, and there is no light inside. The torches hanging on the wall have already used up the passage at the back, and the entire passage is only illuminated by the top of Bai Chen's head. .

da~

da~

After walking for a while, the movement in front of him was so loud that even Bai Chen could hear it clearly.The sound of the collision between the manuscript and the rock came and went, which seemed a little intrusive in such an empty environment.

But already knowing that the person in front is the Queen Mother, of course Bai Chen won't feel anything, what he wants to do most now is to meet him as soon as possible, and then ask him about the Stone of Light, and then leave the mine .

It's just that although the idea is good, the truth will always be unexpected.

"boom--!"

The originally crisp sound of the iron pick hitting the stone suddenly stopped, and the next moment, a deafening loud noise erupted from the mine, and then a thick cloud of smoke was raised from the inside to the outside, covering Baichen and Abo. Solu forced back a distance.

.......

517 Meeting Hyota Again, That Mysterious Person?

"Cough...cough..." Bai Chen, who was choked by the sudden thick smoke, couldn't help coughing violently, he used his right hand to block the smoke that was still spreading in front of him, and complained like this "What's going on? What happened?!"

Bai Chen subconsciously said such words.

If Xiaozhi was by his side now and heard him express such doubts, he would definitely be startled and subconsciously cover his mouth, right?

After all, under normal circumstances, once he asks such a question, there will most likely be that tedious and boring long conversation that will follow.

Bai Chen's question was not answered by anyone, there was only one explosion, and then the passage returned to calm, leaving only the smoke and dust still floating in the air telling what happened here just now.

"Abo..."

After the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, Absolu and Bai Chen finally returned to their usual appearance. They looked at each other, and then nodded in tacit understanding.

Although I don't know what happened inside, at least I can be sure that the scoop should be mining with the help of Pokémon, which made such a big commotion, maybe even if I met a huge boulder like just now .

Thinking of this, Bai Chen's pace also quickened a lot.

Inside the passage—

"Ah...is it still not working? You must drive in a large machine to destroy this..."

A man in overalls and a red safety helmet is looking helplessly at the boulder ahead.

This boulder has been blocking here for several days, but no matter what Pokémon he sends out, he can't penetrate it. After so many days, he has not made any significant progress in the mining work around here.

"However, if large machines are to be driven in, the entrance of the cave also needs to be expanded... But this area is all for development, if the fossils that may be buried in the ground are injured under such large-scale destruction... Ah!! Damn... If it was Dad, what would he do if he encountered this situation!"

"ZU~Ga~"

Hearing his trainer's complaints, the skull dragon standing beside him cast a slightly speechless look at him.

When it saw this boulder, it already knew that its own strength could not break through, but it did not expect that he would say to itself, "You can do it! I believe in you!", something like this.

Although the character of the skull dragon itself is more passionate, but that passion is only limited to when competing with other Pokémon, not for the current situation.

"Oh, there is no other way, we can only divide this area into it, I hope some of the contestants can come here..."

The man said so to himself, and then took out a notebook and pen from his pocket, and then the light of the headlamp recorded something.

At the same time, one after another heavy footsteps echoed in the passage, first it was the skull dragon, and then the man also reacted, he raised his head, and the headlight was aimed at the entrance, and soon after another head Lights intersect.

"You are......"

The people who came here were not wearing work clothes, but wearing helmets and masks. It seemed that they were not the staff here. If nothing happened, the other party should be looking for him like the previous contestants.

"Bai Chen." The other party was not wearing a mask, so Bai Chen easily recognized the other party's identity. He was the current owner of the Heijin Gym, Piao Tai.

When I first came to Heijin City, Piaotai was just the new owner of the gymnasium. The previous owner of the Heijin Gym was originally Piaotai's father Donggua.It’s just that for some unknown reason, Donggua seemed to leave without saying goodbye one day, went to Shuimai City, and became the new owner there.

There must be something sad about it.

At that time, Bai Chen had such conjectures, and had some sympathy for Piao Tai who was left behind like this. It was also because he didn't want to know about their family affairs, so when Bai Chen arrived in Shuimai City, he didn't challenge the way there. The museum, just used the city of water as a place to rest during his travels.

"Bai Chen?!"

Piao Tai was a little surprised after hearing Bai Chen's introduction.

Isn't that the name of the former Pokémon master?Why did he come here?

Just when he was surprised by this, Bai Chen also took off his dust mask, which is almost the same as the information in the alliance. What he wants to say may be that Bai Chen's temperament is more easy-going than the one in the alliance photos Some.

"Sigh... I finally found you. I didn't expect you to appear in the mining area when there is a competition tomorrow, and it's still in such a deep place."

After Bai Chen finished speaking, he looked at the surrounding environment carefully under the light of the headlamp, as if pointing it to Piao Tai.

"I can't help it." Piaotai also knew that his actions were a little unreasonable, but if possible, he would like to take a day off today. "The mining progress of the mining area has come to an impasse because of this huge boulder, and large machines cannot enter, so I can only take the skull dragon to see if I can smash this huge boulder, but the ending is not happy. "

He scratched his cheek in embarrassment, and smiled a little embarrassedly.

boulder?

Bai Chen looked in the direction of Piaotai's line of sight. Sure enough, there was a very huge stone blocking there behind him. The thickness is not known yet, but the length... seems to have crossed the passage here, and it is still there. Extended to the passage on the right?

"It's really hard to solve..."

Just looking at the length, even Bai Chen, who is a layman, knows that the area occupied by this boulder is definitely not simple. If the Monarch Snake comes, it should be possible to get through this boulder, but considering the consequences... .

If it is not done well, it will cause the collapse of this mining area.

"Ah~"

It seemed that Bai Chen was thinking about something when he was staring at the boulder, so Piao Tai could only sigh.

The shallow area of ​​the black gold mining area has almost been explored. If you want to continue to explore deeper, this huge rock is an unavoidable problem no matter what.

After a while of sighing, Mrs. Piao didn't think about it at all. Anyway, the problem of the boulder will be solved sooner or later, it's just the speed of progress. Compared with this, he cares more about Bai Chen's coming.

"actually......"

Seeing that Mrs. Piao had already asked this question, Bai Chen no longer concealed his reason for coming, so he told all about his meeting with Poison Qiangwei and his plans afterwards.

......

After listening to Bai Chen's words, Piaotai crossed her arms in some embarrassment, closed her eyes and meditated.

"Hmm... As for the Stone of Light, I do have one in my collection..."

"Really?!"

Bai Chen didn't expect things to go so smoothly, so he was a little surprised and wanted to continue, but before Bai Chen could speak, Piao Tai changed his words: "It's just...you came a little late, Stone of Light If so, I have already handed it in as a prize for tomorrow's competition~ and we have already made a bulletin board for the prizes of tomorrow's competition, and it is impossible to get it back now."

Although Piaotai is the organizer, he is indeed powerless in this matter.If Bai Chen had come earlier, it would have been just a Stone of Light. If he wanted it, Piaotai could give it to him for free, but now that the Stone of Light has become a prize, he has more than he can think of.

"That's it...then there's no other way."

Bai Chen said this with a little regret.

But it's not a problem, as long as you get the prize in tomorrow's game, right?

"If you want to win tomorrow's competition and obtain the Stone of Light, how far do you generally need to go?"

After all, Bai Chen didn't know the rules of the game, so he could only ask such a rough question.

Although Bai Chen's way of asking questions was a bit strange, but Mrs. Piao also understood what he meant, so she quickly replied: "Tomorrow's competition prizes are hierarchical, and the top ten contestants can get prizes, and those who want to take To get to the Stone of Light, you need to get the No.7 grade."

"Hierarchy? No.7..." Bai Chen muttered. "Wait? So if you want to get the prize you want, don't you have to control the ranking???"

"Ah... that's right..."

Sensing Bai Chen's doubts from the bottom of his heart, Mrs. Piao added in embarrassment:

"But the prizes at the top are still better than those at the bottom. If what you really want is the Stone of Light, you can just exchange your prizes with others. Most of the people who sign up are climbers. From the Pokémon trainers who passed by, they should still be able to tell the difference between good and bad prizes, unless their goals are the same as yours."

"It seems that this is the only way..."

Originally, Bai Chen only participated in the competition with the intention of having fun, but he didn't expect things to turn out to be like this. Not only must he get as high a score as possible, but he must also get the approval of the contestant who won the Stone of Light. He can achieve his purpose.

"It's just that I didn't expect that there would be players who unexpectedly participated in this conference. It seems that this time it is bound to be a win-win situation."

"Ah...uh...huh? Win-win? What do you mean?"

Bai Chen, who was still thinking about the Stone of Light, couldn't help raising his head strangely after hearing what Piaotai said.

He, or the contestants' winning, he understands, after all, they won prizes for participating in the event; but for Piaotai, what did he win?Did it win the publicity and popularity of the black gold mining area?

But it's not right...

The black gold mining area itself does not need any publicity at all. After all, the black gold city cannot be regarded as a tourist city. The main source of the city's economy is the ore produced in the mining area. Such a big publicity is useless.

Bai Chen couldn't figure out the logic, and Piao Tai just smiled mysteriously, as if they were the main beneficiaries of this event.

"......"

Seeing Mrs. Piao's smile, Bai Chen suddenly remembered the miners he met when he came in, and remembered that what they were talking about was about the contestants and the next day's activities. Before that, Bai Chen didn't take it seriously, but Thinking about it now, why do you feel so strange?

Bai Chen's silence made Piao Tai smile embarrassingly, he pushed Bai Chen's shoulder and said:

"Don't be too nervous. If you don't get the Stone of Light in the end, I can help you find it again. Although Black Gold City is not rich in Stone of Light, there are Stones of Light in Shuimai City. Lode."

"Hmm... Is that so... That's troublesome..."

Under Piaotai's tugging, Bai Chen didn't ask his doubts in the end, but since the other party has already promised to help him get the Stone of Light, it seems that there is no need to care about the extra things, and it will be settled tomorrow. Is it okay to participate in the event with peace of mind?

The two sides reached an unexpected tacit understanding in silence, and then the two sides walked towards the outside of the mining area while chatting like this. During the period, the skull dragon seemed to be very interested in Absol. It has been provoked several times, but Absolu ignored it from the beginning to the end.

"Then let's go here first, and then I have to pick up a special person."

After walking to the entrance of the mining area and returning the tools given to her by the guard, Piaotai suddenly turned around and said goodbye to Bai Chen.

"special person?"

"Well, it's almost time, Mr. Bai Chen, you should also know each other...but..."

It can be seen that Mrs. Piao originally wanted to reveal the identity of the other party to Bai Chen, but he seemed to be worried about something, and the words that were about to blurt out were only covered by a helpless laughter in the end.

"Anyway, in short, you should know when you participate in the competition tomorrow. If he hears that you are here, he should come to you on his own initiative. Then I won't stand here any longer, let's take a step first~"

Who the hell made him so mysterious...

Looking at Piao Tai's hastily leaving figure, Bai Chen couldn't help talking to himself in his heart.

A character who can make the owner of the museum so nervous?Could it be Sirona?

Bai Chen began to guess the identity of the other party. Although Sirona was indeed in line with Piaotai's behavior, the problem was that Sirona probably wouldn't come to a place like the mining area.

Her interests are archaeology and mythology, and this kind of general mining area should have nothing to attract her.

What's more, among so many current champions, Sirona is definitely the busiest one.According to Bai Chen's understanding of her, even if it was really time for her to rest, she would either go to the ancient ruins to investigate, or go to the dessert shop to enjoy the rare rest time.

As for mining in the black gold mining area...

"Impossible, right? It's not Dawu, even Dawu is more likely to come here than Sirona."

Although he said so, in the end Bai Chen still felt that no matter who it was, it was unlikely, after all, there was no possibility of the two of them appearing in this place.

......

518 The competition begins, what are the rules in the mining area?

The next day.

As if preparations that had been brewing for a long time suddenly exploded, the streets of Heijin City, which were originally calm, were full of people standing early this morning.

Looking around, there should be people 7 and 80 walking towards the location of the black gold mining area at the same time. They are all participants in this mining competition.The residents of Heijin City also seemed to like to see such a lively scene. Except for the people who poked their heads out of the houses, the rest of the residents even followed the main force, preparing to follow all the way to the scene to watch the game.

Like the general competition, the mining competition organized by Piaotai also prepared auditoriums on the spot. For today's arrival, the organizer headed by Piaotai even prepared a big screen on the spot. Today's black gold mining area is full of It is a camera for detection, used to reflect the real-time situation of the contestants.

"Yo~ good morning~ did you sleep well last night?"

Bai Chen was the first person to come to the mining area to wait for the game to start, and just as he arrived at the scene, Piao Tai noticed him and came up to talk to him.

"Of course you can sleep well in the Pokémon Center." Bai Chen shrugged and replied. "By the way, where is the man you told me about yesterday? Is he there?"

Although Bai Chen looked like he didn't care much yesterday, he actually spent the whole night thinking about who it would be for Piao Tai to greet him.

"Ah...this..."

The corners of Pyota's mouth twitched a few times visible to the naked eye, and he looked away, like a child who has done something wrong in front of an adult, and said slowly:

"Actually... I made a mistake!"

"what?"

Bai Chen didn't understand what he meant at all, and in the end he could only make such a questioning question in confusion.

"Eh..." Piaotai continued to think hard. "That is to say, he doesn't actually know you. I made a mistake before... Yes, I remembered it wrong! That's why I caused such a misunderstanding."