Chapter 768

Devon Corporation Headquarters.

All Baimu and Shiny Gengar stood before the main gate, the latter somewhat nervous.

"Gengar~"

"Don't panic, don't panic." He pinched Gengar's pointed ears and comforted it softly.

How many times had he been to Devon Corporation?

Although he had never properly toured it, he was already familiar with this skyscraper with its heavy metallic elements.

And since he was here to sponge off them, he had specially prepared a gift—

Rock fragments peeled off from Regirock's body.

Although for it, it was very common for its body to shatter during battle, and it would even absorb debris from the ground to heal its missing parts.

But this stone ultimately came from Regirock.

With this title, even an ordinary stone was endowed with precious significance.

What's more, it was very likely left behind before Regirock was sealed, an old stone from tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years ago, clear at a glance.

Of course.

Picking up a random stone from the ground might also have such a long history.

Furthermore, Arven's Single Strike Style Urshifu was so fierce, who knew if it had knocked off rock from Regirock's body?

It wouldn't be strange to smash its face.

Anyway, the collection value of this thing was greater than its research value; ordinary people might not care, but Steven was different.

Just like Moltres feathers having a high price on the black market, as long as the stone from Regirock could be proven, it would definitely attract their group of stone lovers... right?

All Baimu hoped Steven would be satisfied.

Waited for two minutes.

"All Baimu!"

Steven in a gray suit walked out of the main entrance, his gentle smile in the sunlight perfectly interpreting what it meant to be a gentleman like jade.

He also smiled and stepped forward: "Long time no see, Steven!"

Saying long time no see, it had actually only been about two months.

The many heart-pounding scenes in the Hoenn Champion League were still fresh in his memory, and at the same time, it solidified his idea of making the entire team comprehensively strong.

"I thought you would stay in Orre or continue traveling to other places; I didn't expect you to return to Hoenn."

Steven put an arm around his shoulder and enthusiastically brought him into the company building.

This couldn't help but make All Baimu dream back to his leisurely childhood of finding friends his age to play games during the holidays in his previous life.

As usual, he went to the Mega Evolution Energy Research Lab where Liza was; the first thing that attracted him wasn't those familiar devices, but the boxes of Key Stones and Mega Stones on the side.

Although they were in an unpolished state wrapped in crystals, there looked to be at least a hundred of them.

"This!"

All Baimu's eyes widened, and Gengar unconsciously pressed its face against the glass, its flattened big face looking quite comical.

Steven said: "The first batch of Key Stones and Mega Stones excavated; the Kalos League handed the raw stones mined to us for processing, and they are responsible for receiving the finished products."

It was actually only a part.

Mega Evolution becoming "commonplace" was truly just around the corner.

But in this way, getting a Gengarite shouldn't be that difficult, right?

"How will the Kalos League handle these Key Stones and Mega Stones? Are there any parts oriented toward society?" All Baimu looked at Steven eagerly.

Steven was slightly startled, shook his head and said: "I don't know about that; I only know that Kalos and other regional leagues have reached some kind of agreement—why? Do you need a large quantity of Key Stones and Mega Stones?"

"No, no, I just want one of its Mega Stones." All Baimu hurriedly pulled Gengar to his front and pinched its big face toward Steven.

Gengar raised its fat claw to greet him: "Gengar!"

"Hahaha."

Steven laughed inexplicably and said: "So you came for a Gengarite; it looks like Mayor Shanren intends to give you a surprise."

"Shanren?"

He was stunned for a moment, then realized something.

Steven followed up on his previous words and said bluntly: "As far as I know, he has already prepared it for you."

This guy!

All Baimu held his forehead; this was indeed something Shanren would do.

Just like how he often waited until things were over before telling Shanren, giving him a "surprise," Shanren loved to do the same.

He thanked him softly, his gaze falling back onto the lab instruments, but the more he looked, the more familiar they seemed.

"These devices..."

"Very familiar, right? That's right, they were all moved from the Team Flare base!"

The person arrived before the voice.

The lab door opened with a clatter, and Liza, wearing protective goggles and a mask, walked out, looked up at All Baimu after getting close, and exclaimed: "You've grown taller again!"

"That's your illusion."

He looked down at this researcher girl who was the height of an elementary school student and took a few steps back, the perspective being much more normal.

But soon his attention returned to what Liza had just said.

"Team Flare's equipment!"

"Most of their legacy was gifted to our company by the Kalos League; it just so happens their data can come in handy!" Liza put her hands on her hips, full of spirit.

Steven whispered helplessly from the side: "It wasn't a gift, it was a negotiation..."

In the last few months, Liza had been doing quite well, from guiding the construction team on how to safely mine Mega Stones to receiving Team Flare's legacy, continuing to explore how to develop this new energy through their research.

The most critical thing is—

"Hmph! Give me another half a year, and I will be able to complete the research on Mega Evolution waves; by then, your Orre region will also have features that attract outsiders!"

Liza poked his chest wildly with her index finger.

All Baimu didn't care about this behavior; his attention was entirely focused on Mega Evolution waves, and he said in surprise: "You are helping us research Mega Evolution waves?"

"To be precise, it's joint research. Mega Evolution waves stimulate a Pokémon's body to force Mega Evolution; if you want to attenuate the pain brought by the light waves, you must use external force. Our idea is to use Key Stones and Mega Stones to form an energy hub, like the Dynamax in the Galar region, allowing Pokémon to Mega Evolve freely within a limited range!"

Liza talked eloquently about a lot of things.

He listened for a long time and extracted a few keywords from it—

Plagiarizing the Dynamax and energy plants of the Galar region, completing Mega Evolution in a limited area using other methods without giving others Key Stones and Mega Stones.

Have to say.

This idea is quite good.

No matter how much is stored in the Mega Stone mine, it can only satisfy a few hundred or thousand Trainers, but there are as many Trainers in the world as crucian carp crossing the river.

Compared to everyone having a set of Mega Stones and Key Stones, promoting Mega Evolution using Mega Evolution waves is clearly more realistic.

"Go for it!"

All Baimu could only cheer them on in this regard.

The purpose of coming to Devon Corporation wasn't achieved, but the gift still had to be given.

He took out the wooden box that Aggron and Blissey helped carve from Gengar's stomach, handed it to Liza and Steven respectively, and said: "A small gift, I hope you like it."

Both took it.

Liza said while opening it: "Did you pick up some rare stone again—hmm?"

The orange-red rock came into her view.

This looks plain and unremarkable?

Before Liza could ask, Steven raised his volume with great interest from the side: "Regirock's body fragments?"

"Huh? So that person in black who captured Regirock was you?"

She judged that the person who captured Regirock was him almost without thinking, following Steven's statement.

All Baimu nodded slightly and said: "After returning to Hoenn, I experienced a bizarre adventure and happened to capture these three Legendary Pokémon."

He looked at Steven, whose face was full of happiness, and while secretly feeling relieved, he said: "How did you guess?"

"Don't forget I'm a stone collector; ordinary people might think a stone is just a stone, and there's no difference between one picked up from the ground and one I consider rare. In fact, the two are worlds apart."

Steven took a white glove out of his pocket, put it on flexibly with his mouth, picked up the orange-red stone to examine it carefully, and said: "Regirock is said to have rock with the same body structure as itself in all strata of the world, complex and exquisite.

"Even if it was an ordinary stone at first, it became different after becoming part of its body."

The fanatical stone collector smiled and said: "Thank you, All Baimu, I really like this gift."

Liza seemed to have thought of something, closed the box excitedly, and said: "If I can crack the secret of Regirock's body composition, maybe I can also mold an Eternal Pokémon like in the legends—All Baimu! Lend me your three Eternal Pokémon to study!"

She leaned in front of All Baimu, her eyes shining and blinking.

The latter pressed her head and pushed it back: "They are not in my hands right now, temporarily handed over to others... If there is a chance, I don't mind. But then again, you should finish researching Mega Evolution waves first."

"Tch! Was I beaten to the punch?" Liza smacked her lips very impolitely.

The three chatted for a while longer.

Steven invited All Baimu to have a meal at Devon Corporation's employee cafeteria, and Liza also took off her lab coat and followed.

Inside the cafeteria.

Gengar turned its nervous psychology into appetite, devouring food almost equal to its volume; if All Baimu hadn't intervened in time to stop it, it probably would have kept eating.

And after Steven and Liza learned about Gengar's experience, they couldn't help but feel pity for this poor gray fatty.

But neither of them had raised a Pokémon with psychological trauma, so other than suggesting he take Gengar to see a Pokémon psychologist, they had no other better advice.

——Gengar felt it didn't need a doctor.

It just felt it wasn't ready.

Even if it was mentally prepared, it still felt flustered when it came to the crunch.

Aggron had told it to take its time and not rush.

Mawile had said to be brave, that successful Mega Evolution was just a beginning, not an end; if it thought Mega Evolution was the end, then even if it Mega Evolved, it wouldn't be strong.

Steelix said—why consider so much?

Dig! Dig! Dig some more!

Gengar didn't quite understand, but felt that what the three seniors said was very "philosophical," so it became much happier when playing games.

——

Spent a night under Steven's arrangement.

The next day.

All Baimu boarded the ferry to Dewford Town and came to Granite Cave to find the Sableye he knew.

Wandered around two or three times without meeting it, but first found the wild Aggron that had taught the big monster 【Dragon Rush】 before.

This guy didn't recognize him at first, until the big monster popped its head out.

Vigilance turned into joy.

"It's a pity, the Dragon Rush you taught hasn't been used much by the big monster, instead Hydreigon uses it quite a lot."

He stroked the wild Aggron that was eating Pokéblocks in small bites.

Back then, Hydreigon, who was still a Deino, learned Dragon Rush very quickly, making the big monster, whose learning speed was slower, lose face.

Fortunately, when learning Double-Edge using a Mimic Herb later, Aggron learned it all at once.

However, it didn't use Double-Edge much either.

It mainly focused on long-range attacks now.

After feeding the wild Aggron, he and the big monster said goodbye to this happy guy.

"See you next time!"

"Goo-roar~!"

"Roar!"

The wild Aggron disappeared into the darkness.

All Baimu retracted his gaze; he had just asked the other party on a whim if it wanted to move, and was met with a frantic head-shaking refusal.

Having a good impression of him was one thing, but moving was still a polite decline.

Granite Cave was quite good.

After being rejected by Absol, he was rejected by the wild Aggron again; he couldn't help but doubt his own charm.

How could Ash always lure away Pokémon that had a good impression of him?

Because he wasn't "Yasaxi" enough?

Possibly.

But Ash didn't lure away wild Pokémon every time; scenes of encounters and partings often appeared in the episodic stories.

Used a Pokéblock to ask for directions from a passing wild Geodude.

He finally found Sableye.

"Why did you move? I remember you didn't live here."

"Yammi?"

Sableye looked timidly at All Baimu and the Aggron beside him; under nervous emotions, it didn't pay attention to what he was saying at all.

Until a red Rare Pokéblock appeared in front of it.

"It's okay if you don't remember my face, but you remember this, right?"

"Yammi..."

Sableye looked at the Rare Pokéblock, then at the human's smiling face in front of it, and pounced excitedly: "Yammi! Yammi!"

"Long time no see, Sableye!"

All Baimu smiled and hugged it, letting Sableye touch his face with its claws, "You finally remembered me!"

"Yammi..."

Sableye felt embarrassed when it heard this, scratched its head, broke free from his embrace, dug into its nest, and brought out a pile of thumb-sized gems, offering them to him like a treasure.

Clearly, it still remembered what All Baimu needed.

Pity.

The current All Baimu wasn't short of money, so there was no need to snatch food from Sableye.

He took out several cans of Pokéblocks and the Pokémon food he made himself, handing them all to Sableye: "This is a greeting gift, thank you for back then. Without the gems you gave, I probably would have had to set up a stall selling food to support my Pokémon."

All Baimu stroked its head gently.

However, Sableye looked at the food all over the ground, very greedy but unwilling to accept it, pushing the gems toward All Baimu repeatedly.

"Equivalent" exchange.

This was the principle it insisted on.

"... Okay, forgot you were still a merchant." All Baimu couldn't beat it, so he could only put those gems into Gengar's stomach.

After going out, he would make jewelry for Mawile, Blissey, and the Shiny Milotic sisters; they would definitely be happy.

If Steelix wanted one, he would make one for it too.

Even though it was very likely it wouldn't look down on such a small thing and would treat it as a snack and gnaw on it.

All Baimu sat on the ground, watching the harvest-filled Sableye open for business again, calling over a large number of wild Pokémon just like last time, obtaining the gems it wanted from them, smiling with its eyes curved.

Sableye wouldn't go with him either.

He knew this last time.

It couldn't bear to part with these "customers" it spent every day with; this old-fashioned Sableye shop, it wanted to pass it down forever.