Chapter 180: The Evil Organization Takes The Stage
After arranging training missions for the four Pokémon, Lu Li also began his own mission.
First was refining pills, which were essentials that could not be stopped.
Besides that, nothing else could be done.
Either a good environment wasn’t found, like for refining Steel Essence, or clues weren’t found, like for Unown.
Now Lu Li was considering a very important matter, which was whether to bury the Land Cloud Divine Item in the orchard.
Out of caution, Lu Li held a “family” meeting.
Yao Yifei sat gracefully on the single-person sofa, while Ekaterina lay casually on the sofa, her two slender legs lightly resting on the coffee table.
Wei He sat boldly next to Bao Bao, while Bao Bao reluctantly looked at the TV not far away, as her game wasn’t finished yet.
“I want to bury this divine item in the orchard. What do you think?” Lu Li asked.
Ekaterina, with her arms crossed, directly rejected: “The risk is very high. I don’t suggest you do that.”
To make her words more convincing, Ekaterina added: “Pokémon with Pickup Ability might sense the divine item.”
Hearing this, Lu Li instantly dismissed his previous idea.
Pokémon with Pickup Ability weren’t scary, but what was scary was that most Pokémon with Pickup Ability could dig, and they truly had the ability to steal the divine item from under the Combee’s guard.
Yao Yifei, who had wanted to agree, didn’t speak again. Originally, she had been thinking of letting her own Pokémon benefit from the divine item’s cultivation field, but the problem Ekaterina raised was indeed fatal enough.
“By the way, there’s something else.” Yao Yifei hesitated and glanced at Ekaterina.
Ekaterina casually retorted: “Don’t look at me with that kind of gaze. Trust me, I am absolutely more trustworthy to Lu Li than you.”
Yao Yifei: “…”
“It’s not a big deal. The Wu Family’s handling result is out.” Yao Yifei warned glumly.
Ekaterina asked calmly: “What result? According to the unspoken rules, the Wu Family should only have one sole survivor left, right?”
In this world, exterminating a human family was common, and more extremely, even the Pokémon tribes contracted with that family would be wiped out together.
“If it were really like that, I wouldn’t mention it.” Yao Yifei sighed.
Yao Yifei explained: “The Wu Family escaped. Ling Kong Heavenly King just told me that the Wu Family might have joined the Progressive Association.”
“Progressive Association?”
Hearing this name, Ekaterina raised an eyebrow, a glint flashing in the depths of her eyes.
“Progressive Association?” Lu Li looked at Yao Yifei curiously.
Due to his origin, Lu Li was not familiar with the Dark World, let alone the organizations in the Dark World.
“It’s normal that you don’t know. The Progressive Association’s news has always been blocked by the alliance.” Yao Yifei comforted.
“The so-called Progressive Association is one of the three major evil organizations of the current era. The other two evil organizations are called Divine Cult and Dark Web.” Ekaterina explained.
Unlike Yao Yifei, Ekaterina dared to tell Lu Li everything.
Lu Li asked unclearly: “Are they very strong?”
“Very strong!” Ekaterina nodded extremely seriously, then emphasized: “If the Five Great Alliances disintegrate, the strength of these three dark organizations will surpass 90% of the regional alliances!”
“That impressive?” Lu Li was also somewhat surprised.
Regarding the dark organizations in the Pokémon World, Lu Li only remembered one, which was Team Rocket.
“Tell me in detail.” Lu Li suddenly became interested.
Even Wei He and Bao Bao nearby looked full of expectation.
“I’ve heard of the Dark Web. When my dad was still around, our family was actually an affiliated family of the Dark Web.” Wei He said proactively.
Ekaterina looked at Wei He somewhat surprised. Being able to become an affiliated family of the Dark Web was not a simple matter.
“Wei He, are you two sisters from the South American Alliance?” Ekaterina asked.
Wei He hesitated and glanced at Lu Li. Seeing that Lu Li didn’t stop her, Wei He nodded, “That’s right. I come from a mafia family in the South American Alliance.”
“No wonder.”
Both Ekaterina and Yao Yifei suddenly understood.
Ekaterina explained to Lu Li: “The Dark Web is mainly active in the West. Rather than saying it’s an organization, it’s better to say it’s a massive trading platform. The Dark Web controls nearly 90% of the world’s illegal transactions.”
Controls 90% of the world’s illegal transactions.
Just thinking about it shows how wealthy this organization is.
Although interested in the Dark Web, Lu Li was now more curious about the Progressive Association. After all, he had no benefit conflicts with the Dark Web now, but the Progressive Association had his enemies.
“What about the Progressive Association?” Lu Li asked.
“The Progressive Association is active in almost every corner of the world. This organization likes to create chaos around the world, exacerbating conflicts between various regions and alliances.”
“The disintegration of the Five Great Alliances has the Progressive Association fanning the flames behind it, and even the current opposition among the Five Great Alliances has this organization’s shadow.” Yao Yifei recounted with a serious expression.
Lu Li always felt that this Progressive Association wasn’t quite serious.
Creating chaos around the world, manufacturing various oppositions.
What benefit does world chaos bring to the Progressive Association? Wouldn’t that just cheaply benefit the Dark Web?
What benefits could the Progressive Association gain from it?
Lu Li didn’t know this point; at least he couldn’t think of it now.
Yao Yifei added: “The current tripartite division in the Golden Triangle Region is the Progressive Association’s doing, and the alliance suspects that the Progressive Association’s headquarters is also in that place.”
Lu Li asked curiously: “What is this organization’s purpose? It can’t be just purely wanting to create chaos, right?”
For such a colossal entity, and a hidden opponent at that, Lu Li didn’t dare to be the least bit careless.
Ekaterina: “Because the Progressive Association believes that humans have achieved today’s glory all because humans evolve in chaos and grow in battle.”
Lu Li: “???”
“Chaos is the Ladder?” Lu Li couldn’t help asking.
Ekaterina looked at Lu Li somewhat surprised, then nodded: “You summarized it very well. That’s exactly what the Progressive Association thinks.”
The somewhat confused Lu Li countered: “So the Progressive Association gains no benefits from all this chaos? Purely to promote the evolution of human civilization?”
Ekaterina nodded.
Lu Li: “…”
Isn’t this purely lunatic?
A group of people who fear the world isn’t chaotic enough, and think themselves great lunatics.
Lu Li formed a stereotypical impression of this so-called Progressive Association.
Lu Li asked puzzledly: “What about the Divine Cult? What do they want to do?”
Ekaterina said in a low tone: “The Divine Cult wants to create gods, gods exclusive to humans!”
“They want to create gods?” Lu Li narrowed his eyes.
This operation felt somewhat familiar.
Is it you, Boss Sakaki?
Ekaterina nodded, “Yes, they want to propel a certain human to become a god, or create a race of gods for humans.”
Lu Li: “…”
It seems like a misunderstanding. This Divine Cult has even bigger dreams than Sakaki.
Playing with “great power returns to the self” in the Pokémon World, Lu Li had always thought only he dared to think that way.
Unexpectedly, there was such a heavyweight existence.
After listening to the two women’s accounts, Lu Li roughly understood what these three organizations were about.
The troublemaking Progressive Association is just a group of terrorists. The Divine Cult can be said to be an alternative religion; these people don’t believe in gods but hope to create gods.
No need to say more about the Dark Web; it’s a large trading platform that should be quite reputable in the Dark World, otherwise it couldn’t control 90% of the world’s illegal transactions.
Leaving aside the Divine Cult and Dark Web for now, as those two organizations are too far from him.
What is delaying him now is the Progressive Association.
Lunatics aren’t scary; what’s scary is a group of such lunatics, and even scarier is that this group of lunatics also commands force.
“How did such an outrageous organization get permission from the alliance to grow?” Lu Li asked puzzledly.
“When the South American Alliance and North American Alliance were opposing each other, the North American Alliance wanted to eliminate the Progressive Association, but the South American Alliance didn’t allow it because the Progressive Association was an ally of the South American Alliance at the time.
Later, after the victor was decided, the Asian Alliance and North American Alliance opposed each other. The North American Alliance still wanted to eliminate the Progressive Association, but the Asian Alliance disagreed because the then weaker Asian Alliance needed the Progressive Association as an ally.
Now both the North American Alliance and Asian Alliance want to eliminate the Progressive Association, but the European Alliance isn’t happy because now the European Alliance and Progressive Association are mixed together.”
Lu Li: “…”
Isn’t this just a weather vane? Helping whoever is weaker?
Lu Li roughly knew why this organization hadn’t been eliminated.
“How is the Progressive Association’s power in the Jiuzhou Region?” Lu Li asked cautiously.
“You don’t need to worry about this. The Progressive Association has almost no power in the Jiuzhou Region. The Wu Family also secretly escaped to the Golden Triangle to rendezvous with the Progressive Association, after which the alliance gave up the pursuit.” Yao Yifei comforted.
Hearing this, Lu Li nodded. At least now he didn’t need to worry about the Progressive Association problem.
The destructive power of Heavenly King Level Pokémon was too terrifying. Just thinking of that meteor storm like a natural disaster made Lu Li shudder.
Fortunately, the opponent chose to ambush him midway. If the opponent had brought the battle to Golden Chicken Village, all the foundation he had painstakingly accumulated would have gone up in smoke.
Thinking of this, Lu Li wanted even more to localize the formation as soon as possible.
After chatting with everyone for a while longer, Lu Li returned to the basement.
After much deliberation, Lu Li decided to refine the Land Cloud Divine Item into a wristband.
After all, this divine item was quite large and not very convenient to carry around.
Since there was no need to consider other things, just purely shaping a divine item, refining the Land Cloud wristband wasn’t difficult.
Start the fire, then begin shaping.
Two hours later.
After Lu Li stopped his actions, he looked at the wooden wristband in the flames and nodded in satisfaction.
The shaping succeeded without damaging the divine item itself.
Lu Li took out the wristband and put it on his left hand; the size was just right.
Originally he had wanted to refine it into a bracelet, but considering that a big boy like him wearing a bracelet would look a bit mismatched, he settled for the next best thing and refined the divine item into the shape of a wristband.
After doing all this, Lu Li continued to press the advantage and began refining pills.
He refined for a whole night.
The next morning, Lu Li coming out of the basement happened to see Yao Yifei, who was practicing yoga at the moment.
“Um… Sister Yao, the basement has a dedicated training room.” Lu Li kindly reminded.
The reason Lu Li reminded was purely because he felt Yao Yifei was disturbing his state of mind.
Downward dog, sun salutation…
Yao Yifei must trust him so much to practice like this in front of him.
“It’s fine. Going to the underground training ground is too much trouble. I’ll be done soon.” Yao Yifei casually replied while maintaining the pose.
Hearing this, Lu Li’s mouth twitched slightly, and he didn’t persuade further.
“By the way, where is Sister Na?” Lu Li asked curiously.
“That woman went to the secret realm deep within the Qingyun Mountain Range again. I think there might be a secret in that secret realm.” Yao Yifei replied.
Hearing this, Lu Li pondered.
The secret realm deep within the Qingyun Mountain Range was just a medium-sized secret realm. What could attract Ekaterina there?
That Ice Stone Vein?
Lu Li thought it unlikely. That Ice Stone Vein was too hard to mine, and it was in a secret realm.
However, Lu Li only thought about it for a moment before letting it go. Everyone had their own secrets. Although he was a bit curious, he didn’t intend to pry.
Just like Ekaterina didn’t proactively pry into his secrets.
Lu Li quite liked this tacit understanding. Whether Yao Yifei or Ekaterina, they both seemed to know their bounds.
Even Yu Lili was the same. On this point, Yu Lili was indeed much better than her parents.
It was fine at the beginning, but once it involved major benefits, this couple immediately showed their true colors.
Shaking his head, Lu Li returned to the bedroom.
With no intention of cultivating, Lu Li lay on the bed and deduced various pill formulas.
The Spirit Beauty Pill formula was already version 2.0. The pills for Charmander and Tropius also needed updating.
Just as Lu Li was fully immersed in deducing the pill formulas, the sudden phone vibration forced President Lu to exit his meditation state.
Looking at this familiar phone number, Lu Li helplessly pursed his lips.
“Aunt Fengjiao, is there something you need from me?” Lu Li asked in a polite yet distant tone.
Jin Fengjiao chided: “I heard that you, child, were attacked yesterday. How could you not tell your uncle and me about such an important matter?”
Lu Li: “…”
“It’s fine. With Princess Ekaterina and Gym Leader Yao Yifei there, the attackers didn’t succeed.” Lu Li casually brushed off.
Jin Fengjiao sighed in relief: “As long as the divine item wasn’t robbed, it’s good.”
“Caring about me is fake; caring about the divine item is real, right?” Lu Li complained silently in his heart.
“By the way, didn’t you still lack steel? I talked to the Jin Family, and they’re willing to spare a batch of steel for you.” Jin Fengjiao added.
“Ah! I don’t lack it anymore now.” Lu Li quickly refused.
This Aunt Fengjiao was actually quite realistic. For her husband’s steel legion, she cut off the promised steel without hesitation.
Now that he had the divine item, this woman came to curry favor again. If he weren’t a transmigrator, he might really be grateful.
After chatting tacitly for a while, Lu Li silently hung up the phone.
He had already entrusted the steel matter to Ekaterina, so there shouldn’t be any problems there.
He used to think it was no big deal, but now Lu Li didn’t want to owe favors to the Jin Family or Yu Family anymore.
