Chapter 155: Girati... na!

Bai Du rode his beloved Salamence and flew toward the top of Ice Feather Mountain.

To be honest, he was a bit cowardly.

Articuno's Ice-type moves not only had a four-fold advantage over Salamence, but its level was also higher than his; there was no way to fight it.

However, fortunately, the Alliance had invited this senior.

His gaze turned downward, and a Pokémon that looked like a lion and was exceptionally handsome was silently following behind them.

It could easily and comfortably catch up with the high-speed flying Salamence just by running and jumping on the snow.

It had orange-red fur, and black iron rings were worn on its strong and powerful limbs.

It had a red six-pointed star-shaped structure on its cheeks, and a clover-like golden-yellow shell embedded on its forehead.

White smoke was constantly emitting from behind it.

Fire-type Legendary Pokémon, Entei.

It, along with Suicune and Raikou, was worshipped by the Shenzhou Alliance.

Having accepted the worship, they naturally had the obligation to provide protection for the Shenzhou Alliance.

Whenever a large-scale natural disaster occurred or Legendary Pokémon of the same status as them caused chaos, they would often step in to suppress it.

This time, because the divine Articuno on Ice Feather Mountain suddenly brought down a blizzard, for the sake of insurance, the Alliance invited Entei, who countered Articuno's type, to come out of the mountains, and then had Bai Du, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, lead the way to Ice Feather Mountain to investigate.

"This is... how is this possible!?"

When Bai Du brought Entei to the cave where Articuno's nest was located.

Everywhere he looked, there were human ice sculptures wearing Nova Organization uniforms that had been frozen and shattered into pieces.

Most importantly, on the nest where Articuno should have been staying, only a few blood-stained, beautiful ice-blue feathers remained...

"Could it be... Articuno was captured by the Nova Organization!?"

Bai Du had to consider the worst possibility.

He shifted his incredulous gaze to Entei, only to find that Entei was no longer as calm as before, and its expression was even uglier than his own.

"Girati... na...!" Entei's shocked tone appeared in Bai Du's mind through telepathy.

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The infrastructure of the Shenzhou Alliance was very well done.

Now, there was often a fixed, safe train line between major cities that could go directly to the destination.

Except for trainers whose purpose was to dive into various deep mountains and old forests to practice, many trainers who chose efficiency would travel by train.

Because the wild in this world was not like the Blue Star in the parallel world, which at most had tigers that could be slid-tackled or black bear spirits stealing cassocks.

Excluding individual Pokémon with strong territorial awareness and nostalgia, many wild Pokémon in the wild were mobile and not fixed.

This meant that the Shenzhou Alliance could only roughly organize the strength range and distribution of wild Pokémon in each area.

In this situation where one might be attacked if not careful, the railway lines that the Shenzhou Alliance had spent countless financial resources to lay and connect major cities came into being.

Each train was equipped with at least one Professional-level trainer, with a generous salary and all social insurance and housing funds paid, and it also solved a large number of employment problems.

After all, many trainers wandered outside when they were young, and after getting married and having children, they had to start experiencing the hardships of being parents. This kind of stable-salary job was still very popular.

Even if the train was unlucky enough to encounter an attack by Gym-level or even Heavenly King-level wild Pokémon, a whole team or even multiple Professional-level Pokémon could delay time until the nearby Gym Leaders or other Alliance officials arrived.

For ordinary families who were not trainers, the first choice for travel was the railway line.

The price was affordable and not expensive; Su Hao heard that the Alliance had been subsidizing the operation.

Of course, there were still profitable projects.

Compared to the affordable trains, airplanes were considered high-consumption travel tools in this world.

There were quite a few Flying-type Pokémon in the sky in this world that could threaten airplanes flying in the sky.

Each departing plane was often equipped with multiple trainers of Professional-level and above Flying-type Pokémon to escort and promptly drive away those Pokémon that strayed into the plane's flight range or had aggressive intentions.

Pokémon.

Battles in the air could often only rely on those Pokémon with flight capabilities or Psychic-type and Ghost-type Pokémon that could float.

Some high-end airlines would even be equipped with Dragon-type trainers for escort.

Su Hao would take the express train to the location of the Poison-type Gym—Wuling Village.

Yes, you read that right; the Poison-type Gym was built in a small mountain village located in the deep mountains and old forests.

Su Hao had also heard that many Gym Leaders had their own personalities, but building a gym in a small mountain village instead of the nearby city was still too strange.

Looking at Su Hao's father, his daily work not only required dealing with challengers who might come at any time, but also paying attention to the safety of not only Yangcheng but also many surrounding cities, which was also within his scope of responsibility.

He remembered asking his father at the time if he could handle so many things, and his father's answer was that although the Shenzhou Alliance seemed to have only eighteen attribute Gym Leaders, Four Heavenly Kings, and the Champion as combat personnel in the light, there were also many forces hidden in the dark. ===== CHAPTER 156 =====