"Ah! My bait!" Xiaozhi shouted and rushed into the water. Pikachu, who was left on the shore, shouted anxiously towards the lake.
"Damn, how can this be possible! Go, Swampert! Go help Satoshi!" Seeing this, Gongsun Yan hurried back to the dock. Just as he was about to jump into the water, Gongsun Yan remembered that he couldn't swim. He could only take off the Swampert Poké Ball from his waist and let him go into the water to help Satoshi.
Swampert also quickly dived into the water, and the water surface calmed down for a while. Everyone looked at the lake anxiously, waiting for Xiaozhi to appear.
"Hey! That giant swampert, look where my bait is. That reckless guy is there." At this time, the old man stood on a small boat on the lake, threw out his bait, and shouted at the lake.
"Swampert! Follow the bait!" Gongsun Yan also believed what the other party said and shouted at Swampert who was nowhere to be found.
"ga!" In less than a minute, Swampert rushed out of the water carrying an unconscious person and landed on an old man's boat.
After seeing Xiaozhi being brought out of the water, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and waited quietly on the shore for Xiaozhi to be brought back.
After the boat docked, Xiaogang hurried over and brought down Xiaozhi, who was still a little unconscious. After some hectic operations, Xiaozhi finally woke up, took off his wet clothes, and sat next to the campfire to drink hot water.
After listening to Xiaozhi's explanation of the reason why he jumped, Mr. Yifang mocked Xiaozhi rudely.
"Humph, you are still too young to chase after him without knowing your own limitations!"
Chapter 142 We Are All Fishermen
"Humph, you are still too young to chase after him without knowing your own limitations!"
After hearing what the old man said, Xiaozhi was obviously not very convinced, but because the other party had just saved him, Xiaozhi did not say much.
"Really? How can you be so reckless?" Xiaoyao was also blaming Xiaozhi for his recklessness.
Xiao Gang asked the old man about the origin of the catfish king, and the old man told him all the grudges and hatreds between him and the catfish king.
In fact, there is not so much of a story. The catfish king is called Azhu, and he has lived in this lake for more than a hundred years. He guessed that the reason why he took away Xiaozhi's bait was because Azhu liked shiny things, and that bait was also well maintained by Xiaozhi, which just met Azhu's collection requirements.
The old man also revealed his name. It turned out that his name was Lingcun. He had lived by the lake for fifty years just to catch this fish.
Uncle Yifang also said that he would help Xiaozhi to retrieve his fishing hook, and he also made a very childish posture and expression.
At this time, Xiaosheng's words directly broke the opponent's defense.
"That means we haven't been able to catch him in the past fifty years!"
Upon hearing this, Mr. Fang also fell off the rock, holding his chest, looking like he had a heart attack.
Everyone watching was worried whether the other person really had some disease. Xiaogang was ready to start first aid, but Gongsun Yan was indifferent. After all, he had been in this state before, a familiar state of social death.
Sure enough, just when Xiaogang was about to take out the first aid kit, Uncle Yifang squatted silently by the side with his fishing rod, speaking with a sob in his mouth.
“This is what I care about most…”
Everyone who heard this broke out in a cold sweat and didn't know what to say to comfort each other.
Xiaoyao also punched Xiaosheng on the head, telling him not to tell such a big truth.
After hearing what Xiaoyao said, Yifang seemed even more depressed. Xiaoyao, knowing that he had said something wrong, quickly shut up and looked at Gongsun Yan for help.
"Sure enough, I'd better leave!" Before Gongsun Yan could think of how to comfort the other party, Yifang stood up directly, but not to refute Xiaoyao, but to choose to give up.
"No, Yifang...Mr. Suzumura, please stay!" Gongsun Yan hurriedly chased after him, intending to make the other party change his mind, but the other party had no intention of stopping at all, so Gongsun Yan had no choice but to use his ultimate move.
"Legendary fishing celebrity, please wait a moment, we want to ask you something!"
As Gongsun Yan finished speaking, the old man who was originally moving forward stopped immediately. Seeing that this trick was useful, Xiaozhi and others kept calling the other party a celebrity.
"Hahaha! I'm so sorry! Then I'll teach you a few tricks!" Uncle Yifang turned around and said to everyone happily. His facial expressions were exactly the same as Kogoro Mouri's, a perfect template of a lecherous uncle.
From then on, Gongsun Yan changed his evaluation of him in his heart from the older version of Accelerator to Accelerator Kogoro. If they didn't really look alike, Gongsun Yan wouldn't even plan to give the other party the surname Accelerator, as it would really be an insult to his reputation as a tsundere.
When Fang Xiaogoro came back, he directly gave Xiaozhi a bunch of fishing rods. Gongsun Yan roughly counted them and there were more than forty of them. He really doubted whether the other party made a living by selling fishing rods.
As a result, the other party did not hide the slightest bit and directly said that these were the fishing rods he had made and sold by the lake over the years, specifically to those trainers who came to chase Ah Zhu or traveled here to fish. However, he also said that he was very optimistic about Xiaozhi and these fishing rods were provided to him for free.
And everyone was obviously pleased with the flattery, and when Xiaoyao and the others suggested fishing, he generously said that they could use whichever rod they wanted, and as many rods as they wanted.
Xiaozhi and the others all went to choose a fishing rod, but Gongsun Yan did not choose the fishing rod provided by the other party because he had a super fishing rod. However, he still chose a fishing rod with great interest and looked at it in his hand.
I found that although these fishing rods cannot be compared with his super fishing rod, and even have some shortcomings compared to the good fishing rods, they can still be regarded as rare fine products. After all, many hand-made fishing rods are also excellent, but the industrial fishing rods that can be mass-produced are not very competitive.
However, Gongsun Yan saw that Uncle Xiaowulang casually threw out four piles of fishing rods, and he estimated that the other party still had a lot of stock that had not been taken out. He sighed that the other party's production speed was really amazing! It could even catch up with the speed of the machine.
After everyone had chosen their fishing rods, the old man took out a small box with four drawers. When he opened it, each layer was filled with various Pokémon-shaped baits. Everyone was shocked and Gongsun Yan was envious.
According to the old man, these are the catfish king's favorite baits, and everyone can choose whatever they want.
Xiaozhi directly chose the Pikachu-shaped bait, while Xiaogang, Xiaoyao and Xiaosheng chose the baits of Lilypad, Psyduck and Metagross respectively.
Gongsun Yan was not in a hurry to choose the bait he wanted to use. Instead, he turned to the old man and asked about the origins of the baits. After learning that they were all made by the other party himself, Gongsun Yan decided to order a whole set on the spot.
Of course, because the other party accepts customization, Gongsun Yan chooses to make special bait based on the Pokémon he has captured. If it is a Pokémon that has not yet evolved, he will make its final form.
After all, none of his current Pokémon are unwilling to evolve, so it is better to do it all at once than to customize it again later. Of course, if there are Pokémon that are unwilling to evolve later, Gongsun Yan will respect their wishes and make bait in an unevolved form.
After negotiating the business with the old man, Gongsun Yan took a Water Leaper bait. The reason why he didn't take a Snakehead bait was mainly because the old man didn't make it and Kingdrake was not around. Swampert had to stay by his side to be ready to deal with any Pokémon that took the bait.
The old man chose the latest Butterfree bait to deal with the Catfish King, and he also specially prepared the latest battle plan for this purpose.
But no matter how everyone asked, he had no intention of saying it. But perhaps because Gongsun Yan had done a business with him, he patiently taught everyone his many years of fishing experience, and Gongsun Yan also listened with gusto. It is not so easy to hear the life experience of an old senior.
Anyway, the group fishing begins!
Chapter 143: Worthy of being a real newcomer
"Ah! Why is there another iron cannon fish?"
Gongsun Yan threw the hooked mullet back into the lake while complaining, and the famous man next to him also kept throwing the hooked Pokémon back into the water.
In sharp contrast to them was Xiaozhi and his friends who didn't move at all, even the fishing float didn't jump.
Xiaozhi and his friends who couldn't stand it anymore went to ask the celebrity about the secret of fishing. The celebrity was proud of his status and didn't want to tell them, but he was defeated by Xiaozhi and his friends' "Celebrity!" attack and put on Kogoro Mouri's signature expression to teach them.
Gongsun Yan listened with great interest at first, but after realizing that what was being taught was really the basics, he concentrated on fishing.
As a result, there was a commotion nearby. Gongsun Yan could not help but turn his head to take a look and found that Xiaosheng's fishing rod was hooked with a normal-sized king catfish, and Azhu appeared on the water nearby, and showed Xiaozhi the Misty bait in his mouth.
Provoked by the Catfish King, Xiaozhi was determined to fish Ahzhu out. Gongsun Yan immediately asked Swampert to go into the water to look for him. However, when Gongsun Yan ran to Xiaozhi and the others, Swampert floated to the surface and shook his head, indicating that he did not find the other party.
Everyone was very frustrated, but Uncle Yifang felt accustomed to it. He thought it would be incomplete if he didn't use the fishing method to catch Azhu, so he didn't feel any regret for not catching Azhu.
Afterwards, everyone changed a lot of fishing spots, including trying this method of fishing by standing on a log that floated out of the water, but they failed to catch Azhu, not to mention Azhu, even the Pokémon didn't take the bait.
Xiaozhi and the others seemed even more depressed, but Mingren and Gongsun Yan didn't feel anything special. This was because Mingren had been chasing Azhu for so many years and would no longer be affected by these negative conditions.
Gongsun Yan felt completely unmoved because he thought it was normal to fish for a whole day without any catch in his previous life.
In addition, Gongsun Yan believed that the fact that no one here could catch any Pokémon just proved that they had found the right place. Where the dominant Pokémon of the area existed, there would definitely not be any Pokémon of a different type from it, which also explained why no one caught anything.
That’s right, the moment Gongsun Yan saw Azhu, he knew that he had seen the overlord Pokémon again. Gongsun Yan would never mistake that special aura.
This also explains why celebrities cannot capture the opponent even with the Master Ball, because the dominant Pokémon cannot be captured, at least not before it loses its dominant status.
In the end, everyone could only sit on the celebrity's boat and float on the lake to fish. Soon a Pokémon was caught by the celebrity, and after a period of struggle, the celebrity successfully caught it.
But unfortunately, the fish that was caught was the most common carp on the roadside, which made the celebrity lose face.
Fortunately, a Pokémon from Xiaozhi's side took the bait immediately, freeing the celebrity from everyone's attention, and the celebrity hurried over to take command.
In the end, Xiaozhi successfully fished the other Pokémon out, and the Pokémon that took the bait was none other than Azhu.
The fish that was caught was obviously a little angry. He simply bit the hook and started swimming forward quickly, taking the entire boat away.
When Xiaozhi saw that the fishing line had stretched to its limit, he quickly asked the people holding him to move aside, and released his lobster soldiers, and let them use crab punches on him.
Spinach obviously didn't expect his trainer to give such a strange command, but after being stunned, he still obeyed the order faithfully. After a short period of charging, he knocked Satoshi away.
Gongsun Yan, who originally wanted to stop the other party, didn't have time to say anything. He could only watch Xiao Zhi flying over Azhu's head with the fishing rod, and finally landed steadily on the exposed rocks on the shore. Then he threw Azhu onto the shore with a flick of his hand.
This scene made Gongsun Yan stunned. He knew that Xiaozhi had a very strong physique, but it was impossible for a Pokémon to withstand a crab punch without any damage, and even have the strength to throw something several times heavier than its own weight onto the shore.
However, this scene was perfectly displayed in front of Gongsun Yan. Even Azhu, who was thrown into the air by Xiaozhi, was a little confused. He could not imagine why the person who was originally behind him suddenly appeared in front of him and pulled him into the air.
"Bang!" Azhu was thrown to the ground heavily, making a loud heavy noise.
However, even such a strong impact could not wake Azhu up, and he still looked dazed.
However, Xiaozhi had no intention of giving Ah Zhu a chance to come to his senses, and directly threw out the Forest Lizard's Poké Ball, asking him to use Slap on Ah Zhu.
"Hey! Xiaozhi, shouldn't we use Blade Leaf now?!" Gongsun Yan suddenly couldn't help it. With such a good opportunity, it should be a great chance to use the quadruple restraint of the opponent's grass-type moves to inflict heavy damage on the opponent. Even using the Seed Machine Gun would be better than slapping.
The result of this decision was that even though the forest lizard successfully knocked Azhu away, and even smashed him into a rock wall and fell to the ground, causing secondary damage, Azhu still did not feel the slightest bit of injury, and his expression even became more annoying.
Xiaozhi tried to reason with the other party, but Azhu didn't take Xiaozhi seriously at all. Not only did he not listen to what Xiaozhi said, he also showed an even more annoying expression.
Seeing this asking-for-a-beating expression, everyone clenched their fists and couldn't help but want to go up and fight the other person in person.
Gongsun Yan even compared the difference in strength between the two sides, and finally concluded that he could take part in the match himself. After all, they had the strongest real rookie Xiaozhi on their side, so it was more than enough for them to defeat the overlord Catfish King.
However, before Gongsun Yan could put his plan into practice, Azhu, who was lying on the ground, was covered by a huge net thrown from the sky. The huge net immediately tightened and caught Azhu in mid-air.
Gongsun Yan looked up and saw that it was indeed Xiaozhi's old friends, the three members of Team Rocket. They had obviously set their sights on Ah Zhu this time and were planning to snatch him from them.
"But, haven't you learned your lesson? Dragonite, go blow up their hot air balloons!"
Gongsun Yan really couldn't understand, knowing that he had a Tyrannosaurus, where did he get the confidence to let them use a hot air balloon that would burst at the slightest touch!
Maybe, it's cheap...
Chapter 144: The First Master Ball Appears
In short, before Team Rocket could finish their opening remarks, a Tyrannosaurus rushed into the blue sky and smashed the hot air balloon with one claw, causing them to fall from the sky in a very embarrassing manner.
The three members of Team Rocket who fell to the ground were unwilling to give up and released their Pokémon to resist.
But how can I put it? Team Rocket is definitely good at making machines, but when it comes to Pokémon battles, they can't even be described as third-rate, they're simply at a substandard level.
Desert Naia's missile needle was directly pushed back by the Forest Lizard's seed machine gun, and Snake's poisonous tail could not resist Pikachu's steel tail. Gongsun Yan didn't even have time to let Dragonite intervene.
Seeing that his team was defeated, Meow Meow took out a rocket launcher and prepared to fire towards everyone.
However, Azhu, who was trapped in the net, broke free from the net and used an earthquake to make the Rockets completely lose their footing.
Although Azhu's move was very beautiful, Gongsun Yan felt very depressed. He had originally planned to let Dragonite to stop Meowth, but as a result, he had become a mere spectator.
Gongsun Yan saw that he could not help at all, so he just stood aside and watched the show. He even touched the neck of the Tyrannosaurus with his right hand to feel the smoothness of its scales.
The subsequent plot development is the same as the original. Ah Zhu sneezed due to the smoke caused by the explosion, and the Xiaoxia bait in his mouth was sprayed out, which was intercepted by the quick-eyed and quick-handed Xiaozhi.
Seeing the Misty brand fishing bait that he had lost and found again, Xiaozhi almost put it on his face. If Gongsun Yan hadn't held Xiaozhi back and reminded him that the bait had been eaten by the Catfish King and had not been cleaned, Xiaozhi would have wanted to give it a kiss.
Seeing Xiaozhi take back the bait, Azhu had no intention of fighting for it. He jumped towards the lake.
The celebrity who saw this scene quickly stopped Azhu and took out a Poké Ball from his arms, trying to subdue Azhu.
After seeing that the Pokémon released by the celebrity was an Electric-type Ramblers, Gongsun Yan knew that the opponent had gone far away. Only a fool like Satoshi would use an Electric-type Ramblers to fight against a Ground-type Magikarp.
However, this furry sheep was not as gentle as its peers. Instead, it was extremely violent and actually suppressed the catfish king head-on, causing the people watching on the side to exclaim in shock.
However, the celebrity apparently did not read the attribute restraint table carefully. He actually asked the Sheep to use electric moves to give the Catfish King the final blow. As expected, the Catfish King, who had his feet (? ) firmly on the ground, took it unscathed.
The celebrity was shocked to find out that electric moves had no effect on the Catfish King, but he immediately remembered that he still had a secret weapon that he hadn't used.
He took out a Poké Ball with the letter M on it from his arms. This was the ultimate Poké Ball that all Pokémon players dream of but have hardly ever used, the Master Ball!
Gongsun Yan almost popped his eyes out when he saw the Master Ball. His hands began to tremble uncontrollably. The Master Ball, which was believed to be worth seeing, appeared in front of him.
If Gongsun Yan hadn't had strong self-control and was able to restrain his instincts, he would have gone up and snatched the Master Ball.
Seeing the celebrity about to throw the Master Ball, Gongsun Yan quickly spoke up to stop him, and even did Erkang's signature pose in excitement.
"Celebrity! Hold on to the ball!"
Gongsun Yan's title of celebrity obviously hit the other party's nerve. The hand that was about to throw the Master Ball stopped abruptly and looked at Gongsun Yan with confusion.
Everyone and Pokémon, including Azhu, turned to look at Gongsun Yan, wondering what he was going to do.
Gongsun Yan also calmed down his emotions and explained all the special features of the Overlord Pokémon.
The celebrity who heard that the dominant Pokémon could not be captured suddenly broke down and looked at Azhu opposite him with disbelief, but found that Azhu showed a very sarcastic expression and nodded to indicate that what Gongsun Yan said was true.
He even took the initiative to jump in front of the celebrity and touched the Master Ball in the celebrity's hand with his body. The capturing light released by the Master Ball enveloped Azhu and then bounced away, indicating that the Pokémon could not be captured.
Seeing this scene, Gongsun Yan was a little nervous that the Master Ball would become ineffective. Although he knew that such a situation would not make the Poké Ball lose its effectiveness, this was an extremely precious Master Ball after all, and Gongsun Yan was still a little unsure.
However, Gongsun Yan also felt that the celebrity standing in the cold wind seemed even more pitiful. After fifty years of pursuit, he finally got such a result. The catfish king's final move was also shrimp and pig heart, which directly stunned the celebrity.
"Ahem, celebrity, think positively. Although you cannot subdue Azhu, you can still continue to enjoy the fun of fishing for him."
