Chapter 8: Who Exactly Is The Villain?
Li Wei tugged on the arm of the Gallade next to him and kicked his father, signaling that he had something to say.
Seeing this Psychic-type Pokémon looking eager with sharp eyes, Li Wei felt that if he didn’t do something soon, what awaited that ‘escaped person’ might be a mindless Earthquake.
After all······
They’d blocked the road, so how could he run anymore?
As a Psychic-type Pokémon, Li Wei felt there was a pretty good chance he’d unleash an Earthquake.
After all, it made sense logically and in principle.
There wasn’t much time for wild guesses, so Li Wei pointed at that corner and said to the man and the Pokémon,
“I think I’ve found him.”
???
One sentence stirred up waves.
“Aura?”
Li Yuan Sheng was stunned for a moment and asked.
“Yeah.”
“Yeah???”
After getting the affirmative answer, Li Yuan Sheng was even more surprised.
As a top Gym Leader, he was a battle-hardened veteran.
When working, he would chat casually with the other big shots from the Zhonghua Family, and he would occasionally encounter various experts from society at sparring sessions.
As a special ability Trainer with Psychic Power, his abilities and his Pokémon’s abilities had been developed to a very high level, giving him unique insights into the training and strength of such special abilities.
Even though Gallade wasn’t specialized in searching, for a Champion-level Psychic-type Pokémon to say something was ‘unfindable,’ and yet his son found it so easily?
A kid who had just awakened his ability and was merely riding the wave of this energy surge?
For a moment, Li Yuan Sheng felt like his twenty years of Pokémon life had been wasted.
But, thinking carefully, this was his son.
Shared honor and disgrace.
Yeah··· shared in the glory.
So he accepted reality.
Then he got down to business.
“Where.”
When he asked this, Li Yuan Sheng didn’t open his mouth; the sound went straight into Li Wei’s brain.
Magical, but Li Wei didn’t show excessive surprise or panic.
As a 21st-century two-dimensional fan, if Li Wei had any standout trait, it was his strong ability to accept things.
After all, he daily vented on Weibo about various unexpected cuckolds and green hats in games and shows, and before sleeping while reading novels and anime, he fantasized about roaming the world and riding forth in fine clothes and fury.
He felt that as long as it wasn’t some gory terrifying scene, his acceptance level was top-tier.
Very novel.
Experimentally, Li Wei also replied in his mind.
“Left side of the FamilyMart at the crossroads ahead, currently heading toward the boss lady’s roasted meat shop, moving very slowly.”
“OK.”
Knowing the location, Li Yuan Sheng didn’t directly order Gallade to capture the pedestrian now defined as a ‘criminal.’
Instead, after contemplating for a bit, a bolder idea rose in his mind.
“How far can your Aura Ability perceive at most?”
Then, he continued asking Li Wei.
“Don’t know··· probably around five to ten meters, not very far.”
“Got it.”
After understanding the situation, Li Yuan Sheng explained to Tian Lan nearby and called down the Dragonair in the sky.
It had to be said that riding a dragon was a very wondrous experience.
Especially such a very slim, snake-like Dragonair.
Excellent length, over four meters, but this width combined with high altitude gave somewhat acrophobic Li Wei no sense of security.
And in fact, it was indeed so.
Li Wei felt he hadn’t fallen not because Dragonair was easy to ride or some wondrous physics law protected him, but solely because the caring Psychic Power protection from Gallade behind him.
Psychic-type Pokémon had to be said to be the type humans favored most.
Having the qualification to nurture Psychic-type Pokémon was truly very important; nearly everyone would scramble to raise one.
Versatile, able to communicate, extremely convenient and useful.
Once a Trainer lacked special abilities, the excellence of Psychic-type Pokémon traits stood out even more.
Whether it was convenient communication like telepathy or Mental Power amplification through mental sharing, all were very practical and important abilities.
Just like now, even high above the clouds, he could still sense that person’s Aura thanks to this big shot Gallade, which was way more reliable than any membership renewal.
The weather conditions hadn’t spread to their side, and Li Wei’s father hadn’t had Dragonair call for rain again.
Continuing to ride the dragon in a thunderstorm—if protection wasn’t sufficient, it would be straight-up tribulation crossing.
The steaming water vapor, under Dragonair’s intentional control, turned into thick white mist, conveniently obscuring their figures, and with Li Wei’s radar-like Aura, there was no worry of losing track from not seeing.
The opponent’s hiding method, even without asking, Li Wei had a rough guess.
Nothing more than a real-world application of some Ghost-type Pokémon Skill, and this clever use gave Li Wei even more imagination about Skills in this world.
Whether it was the demolition office’s Swampert or the Violent Aesthetics long-legged slim-waisted Mawile, they all made Li Wei feel that Pokémon in this world, stripped of the cartoonish innocence and game datafication, had much more realism.
And the most real among them was in that earlier melee, no Pokémon or Trainer would stop attacking just because of ‘unable to battle.’
Either kill or capture.
When the perfectly fine Aura gradually turned from pure black or blue to grayish-white, Li Wei realized the cruelty in the once cringey phrase ‘Aura is everywhere.’
Not just living beings, stones, plants, etc., had Aura; since all things have Aura, dead people and dead Pokémon are the same.
That Man in Black accomplice was extremely vigilant even while escaping.
He circled several times in the city, dawdling for about fifteen minutes, before finally entering a Pokémon Day Care very close to the earlier incident site.
This was a private Pokémon Day Care; looking down from above, Li Wei could vaguely see an Eevee poster on the window.
From the outside, it looked like the most ordinary Pokémon Day Care imaginable.
But right then, something strange happened.
Shortly after that person entered the Pokémon Day Care, his Aura vanished.
No matter how Li Wei probed, he couldn’t find it anymore.
For a moment, Li Wei almost thought the person had evaporated from the world and quickly told his father about this weirdness.
“Ability insulation?”
Li Yuan Sheng frowned.
If that was really the case, then this Pokémon Day Care they’d tracked to likely wasn’t just a simple hideout.
Insulation Material was a material research began last century.
Officially for tech development, but actually targeted at wild Psychic-type, Ghost-type Pokémon and special ability Trainers.
Like Spark, an insulation method that made ordinary people fearful.
The development of this Insulation Material started with simple fireproof, electric-proof, explosion-proof, etc., and eventually extended to Psychic Power-proof and Aura-proof.
Though items made from these materials could be brute-forced, the restraining effect against their specialized types was very strong.
Just like now, with intentional probing using Psychic Power on the Pokémon Day Care below, the feedback was pure blackness.
This was very abnormal.
Would an ordinary Pokémon Day Care need such special materials for renovation?
After hovering slightly in the air, Li Yuan Sheng decided to take Li Wei down for a closer look.
After landing, Dragonair coiled snake-like on Li Yuan Sheng.
The Gallade nearby seemed to take over Mime Jr.’s job, walking shoulder-to-shoulder with Li Wei while alertly watching the surroundings.
Before entering the Pokémon Day Care, Li Yuan Sheng first sent out a Delibird.
The all-red penguin-shaped Pokémon seemed to rank high on his dad’s Pokémon looks list.
After giving the order to wait in place, Li Yuan Sheng didn’t summon more Pokémon and charged into the Pokémon Day Care alone.
With the intense explosion and continental lockdown not far away, followed by pouring rain and then thick white mist, this Pokémon Day Care had no customers; at the front desk was just one ‘ordinary’ young person.
Li Yuan Sheng seemed to do things without any basic rules.
Li Wei originally thought he’d understood this seeing Swampert’s violence-filled battle, but he hadn’t expected himself to still be too naive.
Only now did he realize what it truly meant to have a brain full of muscle.
He saw his dad storm into the Pokémon Day Care, the wind chimes on the door tinkling and drawing the front desk young person’s attention.
Before any polite greeting, his dad lunged forward in one step, grabbed the man’s collar and yanked him up, then punched heavily into his abdomen with the other hand, and flung him casually behind.
Bang.
The man’s body slammed straight into the wall.
All this caught unprepared Li Wei off guard, making him tremble in fright.
And almost simultaneously, just as Li Yuan Sheng entered the Pokémon Day Care, Gallade also acted.
Directly using the most basic external application of Psychic Power, all surveillance equipment in the corner was gloriously destroyed; seeing the wall painting flung onto the wall, Gallade conveniently hypnotized this knocked-out young person to prevent future trouble.
The whole set of moves flowed smoothly, like they’d coordinated countless times, just like Raven’s silky lightspeed QA, leaving no room for criticism.
Giving up on complaining, ready to be a sometimes unreliable GPS, Li Wei silently stepped back a bit to stand obediently beside Gallade.
Just ready to stand safely in the back, watching his dear old dad’s flashy moves bring that fugitive to justice.
After all, he’d realized his dad was a humanoid monster too.
Probably even ordinary Pokémon could be torn apart by hand in his grasp, and stronger ones wouldn’t get any advantage.
Since so, better not rush up to be a hostage.
As an experienced person, Li Yuan Sheng quickly surveyed the Pokémon Day Care’s interior.
Aside from basic shelves, the small dwelling was empty; after repeatedly feeling along the walls and floor, Li Yuan Sheng discovered the clue in this Pokémon Day Care.
Without directly triggering the mechanism, he quickly summoned his Pokémon, preparing for a brute force breakthrough.
With several flashes of red light, the all-villain Pokémon lineup appeared.
Massive build, nearly one meter in height and length, deep gray skin, whole body gleaming with metallic shine—Aggron.
Broad limbs with metal giant claws, back covered in plate-like steel armor, like a walking tank.
This was a heavyweight powerhouse.
Petite build but with a fierce appearance—Weavile, now sharpening its claws, eagerly awaiting Li Yuan Sheng’s command.
Sharp shell covering the whole body, two extra terrifying claws out of six, Aegislash was not only handsome but also bursting with combat power.
Li Wei still remembered a line from the Pokédex.
‘When its sharp, massive claws swing down, even air and seawater can be split in two.’
Dou Zong powerhouse terror like this.
The last Pokémon truly cemented this person as a devil.
Pale purple firelight flashed in the Pokémon Day Care; clearly burning flames, yet giving a chill from the soul’s depths.
From this Pokémon’s appearance, Li Wei felt numbness from the crown of his head downward.
Hollow eyes emitting yellow glow, four chandelier-like arms burning with purple flames that seemed to show silent wailing ghost faces—eerie and terrifying.
Such a Pokémon floated behind his dad, a few flame clusters orbiting Li Yuan Sheng’s body, while ahead were the eager Aggron, Weavile, and Aegislash.
Who exactly was the villain here—Li Wei was getting confused.
All villains.
Describing it that way felt flawless.
With Li Yuan Sheng’s command, the brute force breakthrough began.
Boom.
From Aggron’s simple stomp, the ground began to collapse.
No passwords, no mechanisms, no verification—physics breakthrough was the way.
Li Wei felt his Pokémon usage seemed off somehow, but seeing this thorough embodiment of Violent Aesthetics in combat, he had to admit he was a bit enamored.
Enamored, not confused.
How satisfying must that punch feel···
Sticking to the principle of don’t get singled out in terror, Li Wei followed behind Li Yuan Sheng and jumped down the collapsed pit.
Yeah···
Actually, he was carried down by Gallade.
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