Chapter 185: Final Victory

Three levels underground.

Baimu saw many neatly stacked Capture Balls, and person after person in white lab coats carrying more Capture Balls as they moved back and forth.

Flobo was among them.

"You finally arrived—come over here quickly."

The person grabbed his arm and pulled him inside, soon arriving at a room resembling a laboratory, where numerous researchers in white lab coats stared tensely at a thick, massive floor-to-ceiling window.

"Look inside."

At Flobo's prompting, Baimu looked inside and immediately saw a Pokémon with blood-red eyes rampaging inside a fully enclosed room; whenever it slammed into the walls, purple honeycomb-like energy barriers would glow to block its charges and attacks.

The next moment.

Vast clouds of smoke erupted from all sides, swiftly enveloping the Pokémon.

Within mere seconds, the smoke began to clear—the once-raging Pokémon now lay sprawled on the floor, then stirred awake, its expression dazed, scanning its surroundings with fear and unease.

"Success! Another case succeeded!"

"Dr. Mu Yin, you truly are a genius! With this, we'll never have to fear again!"

The white-coated staff around them cried out in delight.

A young man with brown hair in a white lab coat shyly said: "Oh, it's nothing—thank you all for your assistance."

"This is…"

Baimu turned to Flobo.

"Do you remember that drug you destroyed?" Flobo smiled. "That substance was a weakened tablet used by Shadow Team to transform ordinary Pokémon into Dark Pokémon. Combined with that sample and Dr. Mu Yin's former Purification Chamber, we've created a second-generation Purification Spray."

Ah!

Baimu suddenly understood—so that tablet was connected to Dark Pokémon too? It truly surprised him.

"Wait, spray means—"

"No surgery, no other methods—just spray this mist over every corner of Ironclad Town, and Shadow Team's Dark Pokémon will shed their darkness, and from now on, no more Dark Pokémon will ever appear!"

Flobo laughed heartily, then pulled Baimu over to a screen.

On the screen.

Beneath a pitch-black night sky.

Countless drones were spraying pesticide-like white mist over Ironclad Town and Silicium City; ordinary Pokémon and humans inhaling the mist suffered no ill effects, but Dark Pokémon that inhaled or touched it immediately collapsed, reverting to their original forms within moments.

Clearly, once the experiment succeeded, they immediately deployed the spray.

Baimu turned and asked: "Even the side effect of impaired intelligence is eliminated?"

"Of course!"

Dr. Mu Yin interjected: "It will not affect the Pokémon's physical or mental health at all—after spraying, each Pokémon returns to exactly the state it was in before Shadow Team performed their surgery!"

"Remarkable!"

Baimu couldn't help but praise.

He remembered that in the game, Dark Pokémon originally required battle or companionship to be purified; later, Dr. Mu Yin's Purification Chamber could purify them too, but efficiency was low to preserve gameplay interest.

Now, with the Purification Spray developed, no matter how many Dark Pokémon there are, we have nothing to fear.

"This is all thanks to everyone's efforts!"

Dr. Mu Yin laughed heartily, but then his expression turned sorrowful: "But if we'd developed this sooner, far fewer people would have been injured."

Hearing this, Baimu realized the Purification Spray had only been fully developed half an hour ago.

It was just like those critical last-minute plot twists in movies.

Originally, the development cycle was nearly six months away, but because many areas of Ironclad Town had become uncontrollable, the research team worked nonstop, sacrificing sleep and rest, and barely managed to complete it in time.

Everyone here hadn't slept properly for over a month.

They were all… great people.

Baimu looked at the weary faces hidden beneath their joy, his heart filled with profound calm and peace, and deep respect for them.

—

The battle in Ironclad Town lasted thirteen hours.

In fact,

Ever since Champion Dawu and others joined the fight and the Shadow Team commander was eliminated, scattered Shadow Team members had been reduced to passive defense.

The overwhelming strength of outside Trainers forced both surface and underground Shadow Team members to flee, abandoning Dark Pokémon as rear guards—but while they could evade capture by Dawu, N, and others, they couldn't escape the eyes of civilians.

Eventually, cornered and desperate, some Shadow Team members even tried taking civilians hostage.

Unfortunately, amid fierce civilian resistance, they not only failed, but were overwhelmed by enraged townspeople.

Prolonged chaos made emotions highly volatile.

At such moments, all it took was one cry of "Drive them out of our home!" followed by someone charging forward—civilians, pushed to their limit, would surge forward en masse.

But what truly broke the Shadow Team members' will to resist was the appearance of the Purification Spray.

Their only source of power was their masses of Dark Pokémon.

Once the Purification Spray was deployed, they were utterly bewildered.

On the other hand,

Members of Ironclad Town's original factions also suffered heavy blows from the Rescue Organization; most leaders were arrested, and the remaining members had their Pokémon taken by N.

When the final explosion faded, Ironclad Town fell into silence.

Signaling the end of the fifteen-day chaos.

The resilient people who had endured on this desolate land finally welcomed a brand-new day.

For the Rescue Organization, however, the real challenge had only just begun.

Master Liu Ge and others were still waiting for news from Silicium City.

If they fail to take Silicon Beryllium City, this battle will still have to be fought, and Champion Dawu and the others must head to Silicon Beryllium City again to provide support.

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Fortunately.

More than ten years of accumulation were not wasted.

The moment the dawn's light rose from the horizon, news came from Silicon Beryllium City that the matter was settled.

Elder Ejin's Dark Pokémon Research Institute, manufacturing factory, and a series of other key locations were destroyed, and the interest group led by him—from Shadow Team members to non-Shadow Team members—was completely wiped out.

The most critical location—

Nickel Dark Island.

A solitary island that Shadow Team had once converted into their base was also thoroughly destroyed by the International Police and the people they brought.

Elder Ejin's ambition to establish the Orei Alliance was thoroughly strangled on the eve of success.

What's interesting is that when he confronted his adopted son Dinis, Sannin's father, he suddenly suffered a spike in blood pressure and was sent straight to the ICU. According to the doctors, given his advanced age, even if he wakes up, it will be difficult for him to speak, walk, or eat normally.

A generation of conspirators has met this end.

It's hard to say whether this is, in the end, good or bad for him.

But for the people of the entire Orei region, the passing of such a villain is absolutely the best news imaginable.

The rescue organization, painstakingly built over more than ten years, has finally welcomed the day when the clouds part and the sun appears.

"We've won!"

The振奋 news spread throughout all of Orei, throughout the entire world.

Their battle also drew more and more outside attention to this remote corner, letting countless people realize that there was such a strange region in the world.