Chapter 73: The Path Has Narrowed
“Old Wei, ahead is Zuo Hang from Class A.” A flat-headed trainer from Class C counted.
“Zuo Hang? Who’s that? Never heard of him.”
“He’s the trainer of Darkrai, from that vicious incident a week ago.”
“I don’t know, just do it!”
“No. Wait a minute, Old Wei, didn’t you want to chase Zuo Rou? Zuo Rou is Zuo Hang’s sister.”
“Oh, so that kid is a little brother!”
There’s a signal moving rapidly on the terminal.
It’s not Zuo Hang’s 001, but 002.
“Snowy Child! Slash him!” A triangular yellow Pokémon suddenly burst out from the grass.
The trainer called Old Wei hurriedly pulled out a Poké Ball, “Metapod! Harden!”
“——Glitch~~~~~~~~~”
A dull thud.
The Ice Blade struck like it hit a piece of iron.
Metapod’s body flickered with dull silver light, clearly not ordinary goods.
“Horsea! Water Gun!”
“Wingull! Supersonic!”
This was a three-person team; the other two trainers besides Old Wei also pulled out Poké Balls.
Snowy Child leaped back to dodge the Water Gun, but couldn’t avoid the Supersonic.
Supersonic is a skill that has a certain chance to confuse the opponent after hitting.
A confused Pokémon might attack itself or its companions, a rather troublesome abnormal status.
Being able to master Ice-attribute Form Change, Snowy Child had no problem tanking a Supersonic.
“Supersonic? That’s it?? Snowy Child! Take down the one in the sky first!”
Hearing this, many small Ice Cones rapidly condensed around Snowy Child, aiming at the Wingull in the sky.
—Ice Shard!
Wingull flapped its Wings and easily dodged the Ice Cones shot from the ground.
Hitting a flying one without flying is somewhat tricky.
While condensing Ice Cones, a Water Gun sprayed toward Snowy Child, about to hit, but a Flame flew in from afar, intercepting the Water Gun just in time.
After the two skills collided, they exploded into a mist of water in the sky.
Snowy Child seized the opportunity and launched Ice Shard again.
The exploded water mist condensed into ice, creating a full-coverage dense ice rain in front of the three-person team.
“Metapod! Harden!”
“Horsea! Water Gun!”
“Wingull! Aerial Ace!”
Since they couldn’t dodge, they could only clash head-on.
Horsea used Water Gun to clear a path through the Ice Shard.
Wingull’s arms glowing with light blue Flowing Light sliced through the Ice Shard rain, carving out a circular safe zone.
Metapod was Hardening.
The Ice Shard rain had not yet stopped.
Two light blue Flowing Lights shot over from afar at the same time—Fletchling and Swablu’s Aerial Ace!
The two Pokémon busy dodging Ice Shard were overwhelmed.
Fletchling’s Aerial Ace slashed toward Wingull’s wings, Swablu’s Wings slapped on Horsea’s head.
“Hit the emblems first!” Zuo Hang shouted from afar.
As long as they shattered the opponent’s emblems, they could rob all the opponent’s points; if possible, battle wasn’t even necessary.
“Xingye, come with me!” Zuo Hang reached the front, rushed left, bypassing the Ice Shard rain.
Xingye’s Reaction was a beat slow, but seeing Zuo Hang’s movement, he instantly understood.
Zuo Hang circled to the back of the battlefield; the Class C trainers noticed Zuo Hang, but Old Wei had already rushed up first, planning a 1v1 with Zuo Hang.
A fierce Leg Whip, the heel striking Old Wei’s shoulder, making him instantly lose balance…
Sometime unbeknownst, Xingye had two short daggers made of Ice in his hand; Zuo Hang rushed left, he rushed right.
In terms of Body Technique, Xingye was not absolutely lacking.
Wingull’s trainer crouched, casually picked up a wooden stick from the ground, retreated a few steps to take a stance, planning to exchange a few moves with Xingye, but who would have thought Zuo Hang, who had already ended the fight on the other side, came at his back with a kick.
His body staggered a few steps, Xingye slapped the flat blade of the dagger on the flat-headed trainer’s Temple, with no further struggle, his eyes went black and he passed out.
Zuo Hang took off Old Wei’s School Emblem, Xingye took off the flat-headed trainer’s School Emblem.
Their opponents were left with just one.
Xingye tossed away the daggers that Snowy Child had temporarily made for him.
“I thought you were that great, with such skills, no wonder you’re in Class C. Hand over your School Emblem, or do we two have to make a move?”
Horsea’s trainer retreated a few steps, gritted his teeth, pulled out the terminal from his pocket, and sent a voice message in the group chat.
“Run if you encounter 001! And 002! They are a five-person team, Pokémon are Fletch”
“—Smack!” The late Lin Ping delivered a Hand Blade to his neck.
Horsea’s trainer also passed out like his two companions.
Lin Ping’s Action was also precise; after all, his parents were both trainers, so his skills were definitely not bad.
“Why waste words? Just knock him out directly?” Zuo Hang’s tone carried some reproach.
This was good.
Class C now knew they were a 5-person team, and would probably take detours when seeing them in the future.
Zuo Hang already had a bad reputation among first-year high schoolers because of the Darkrai incident; this would make robbing others’ points even harder.
Zuo Hang threw the three emblems to the ground and stomped them to pieces; the points on the terminal immediately rose.
1.3w+2400
A bit little; three people together less than half of Xingye’s.
This reassured Zuo Hang quite a bit; other classes’ progress seemed comparatively slow.
Counting the Guzzlord encounter, Zuo Hang had met two teams: four people and three people.
They might originally have been five-person teams like Zuo Hang, but for various reasons didn’t regroup, and Zuo Hang directly sent them away, undoubtedly disrupting each class’s rhythm, with quite a few stragglers per class.
Zuo Hang said, “Class C’s Student IDs should be 081~140, not sure if Class C allied with other classes; if so, Xingye and I are on two classes’ blacklists…”
“Why panic.” Xingye said: “As long as they enter 1 km range, they definitely can’t run.”
“Shut up for a bit! Don’t talk! Listen to me first!” Zuo Hang tried to sound calm.
First going off on his own, then a bunch of dumb operations during battle, putting the team in an awkward spot.
Zuo Hang could take Gardevoir and clear the map directly. But if he did that, this Secret Realm Exploration would become meaningless.
Fletchling and the others wouldn’t get training. Class A would have no other opponents in the Secret Realm.
What Zuo Hang needed to do now was make everyone have team awareness.
This hastily assembled team at least needed to look like a team.
Yelled at by Zuo Hang, Xingye fell silent… He wasn’t brainless; calming down, he could see his earlier operations were indeed dumb.
Zuo Hang said: “Unicorn Jungle is the Blue Area; that Leader Beedrill earlier was D+ grade. I estimate even stronger Pokémon in this range won’t exceed C. Other classes will probably choose Blue Area to farm points too, farming while heading toward the nearest Exit, low chance of going through the Ecological Dense Area.”
“We’ll follow the Blue Area too; high chance of running into other classes.”
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