Chapter 24: The Exchange Centre
After entering the base through the long entrance, the horizon gradually widened.
Compared to when he left, there was almost no change in the whole base. The only change was that the crowd was a little scarce, and the plaza was quite empty.
It was possible that some people haven't returned yet. After all, tomorrow is the time for the real test.
If it wasn't for the precious Pokemon egg on his back, Aoki would not be back so early.
Although compared to life in the wild, the base seemed more comfortable and safer. However, living in the base will affect people's hearts through the time they spend in 'safety'. If they stay for a long time, people will become wastes which only sit still and wait to die.
When Aoki entered the base, he did not deliberately hide. Their was a person who was training Pokemon in a corner, when he saw Aoki entering, a happy look appeared on his face. He quickly stopped training, and disappeared on the square with his own Pokemon.
Aoki saw this person, but he wasn't bothered much, it was a weak person who depended on others to survive.
Aoki walked straight to the exchange office, and occasionally passed by three or two people. When they saw Aoki, they always carried a hint of doubt, a little difference and a gloat.
In the special accommodation area of the base trainer, in a house that is significantly larger than other houses, a young man with an Ekans sits in the middle of the room, with a smile, he is stroking the snake besides him. There are about 8 people gathered below. They were all with their own Pokemon, but they didn't dare to breathe, or even look directly into the eyes of the teenager sitting in the middle.
"Boss, the boy is back." A figure rushed in from the door. When he ran to the boy, the words that he wanted to say suddenly got stuck in his throat, and finally turned into this sentence.
That's right, the teenager sitting in the middle of the hall is Guga, the first place in the first test. According to the original trajectory, he should also become the first place in the whole trial with no competition.
"Oh? Is that the second-ranked kid?" When he heard the words, Guga narrowed his eyes, and he gradually sat up. His eyes became sharp, and he stared tightly at the person who came to report.
The Ekans felt its masters bloodlust. The snake also straightened his body, the serpent tongue was flicking more frequently, and a cold cold intention appeared in Ekans eyes.
"Gulp" The young man who came to the letter felt Guga's eyes and Ekans' eyes, as if a sharp dagger was sticking to his skin, his hair was standing upright, and he swallowed hard. Nodded stiffly, "Yes, yes, yes."
After hearing the affirmative answer, Guga's body relaxed and leaned on the chair again. The Ekans next to him also returned to its original state. However, the boy who came to report felt even colder.
"No wonder I noticed him, he actually stayed outside for such a long time, and returned unharmed. Ha ha" Guga laughed, but there was no atmosphere of joy at all.
Among the eight people sitting below, a boy with a strong body, about 17 or 8 years old, suddenly stood up and said sighingly, "Boss, the second place boy is just a boy who uses tricks to become the second place. Let me bring him to you. "
With that, he turned to leave, but was stopped by Guga with his hand. "Stone, there is no need. I want to see how he will perform tomorrow." Guga said with a smile.
"Yes." The strong boy named Stone replied with a sigh again, and then sat down. In fact, he was just pretending. He really didn't want to do it for Gujia. Don't look at his clumsy appearance, he was smart.
In the days after Aoki left, Guga organized his forces in the base. One of the most important reason is the strength of Guga. To survive in such a place, strength must be very important, but it is not the most important.
The most important thing is ruthless!
Defeat those who are against you, then kill the Pokemon of the opponent, and finally let everyone see that they have been eaten by Ekans.
His fierce act and powerful strength suddenly attracted a group of people. In such a ruthless place, only fifty people can survive in the end.
Sooner or later, the weak will be eliminated. So the only thing you can do to survive is to depend on the strong and become their followers, as long as the other party is strong, they can ensure the lives of some of their subordinates. This is the goodwill of Team Rocket to the strong.
The entire trial is to transfer talent to the Rockets. As long as those who can survive can be reused, they will hold important positions in various positions in the future.
Therefore, this trial is a purgatory field, but it may well be a ladder to the road to the strong. So long as you can survive, you will sooner or later become a strong trainer. Slowly climbing up the ladder to a high rank is possible.
Maybe for those members of the Alliance, as long as they continue to grow in the normal direction, even if they can not become strong, but become a respected Pokemon trainer, life will be worry-free.
But for those who were born civilians, or born poor, this may be their only chance.
Most of the people brought to the island were civilians or people who could not afford to eat, such as Aoki. Who has lived in slums since he was a child, eating food from trash cans, this was why he was so thin when arriving on the island.
But there are also people like Guga, who originally had good living conditions. They chose to come to the island to hone themselves, and more of a kind of gold plating.
In fact, Guga's brother is a captain in Team Rocket. He is also a person who stands out from the trial island. Now he has climbed to the existence of Team Rocket captain. So Guga, as his younger brother, doesn't want to feel that he is less talented than his older brother. After learning about this trial from his brother, he was mixed with the testers through his brother's relationship, sent to the island, and even in the dark box operation, waited until this good-qualified Ekans.
As the undeveloped body of Guba's signature elf, Ekans, Guga has long been familiar with how to cultivate Ekans. He also believes that his current Ekans has reached the best cultivation of this level status.
So it is smooth sailing and has reached where it is today. Perhaps because of the elder brother's personality, Guga was also a kind of moody person. After showing his cruel methods, he won over a group of people for his own use. This helps himself get more resources and better cultivate his own Pokemon. As for who will be left and taken away after the final trial, it all depends on his mood.
Sitting in the first seat, Guga relaxed his body into the chair, and looked at the audience with his cold eyes, paying more attention to the more powerful people.
For those who can live on their own, Guga doesn't mind taking them as his own team in Team Rocket.
It is certainly impossible for Guga, who is full of ambitions, to be a dispensable presence in Team Rocket. Since it is to be done, it is best to do so well. The smallest goal he set for himself was to surpass his brother, so the first thing to do was to become a Rocket cadre.
When he became a cadre of the Rockets, he will have really walked into the high-levels of Team Rocket. At that time, with his talents, there was no further possibility.
Every time he thought of his future path, Guga became excited, licked his lips unconsciously, and showed a cold smile.
Aoki walked into the exchange centre and knew nothing about the thoughts of Guga. Even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
He once again, he has only one goal, which is to become stronger. As long as you stop getting stronger, you will be destroyed by others.
As for the identity of Guga, in his previous life Aoki was his subordinate and could not investigate and had no qualifications to investigate. In this life, even if Aoki knew it, he would not be moved. He turned on the system in advance and believed that he would not lose to anyone.
He untied the cloth strips that bound the Pokemon egg, and under the surprised eyes of the person at the counter, he placed the Weedle egg gently on the counter.
For this Pokemon egg, Aoki decided to use it to redeem points.
Although this Pokemon was not weak after hatching, and because bug type Pokemon grew quickly and could quickly become an effective combat force, Aoki chose to it give up.
Because this is just a Pokemon egg, he don't know how long it will take to hatch. If it hatches at the end of the trial, what's the use of it? Even if it hatched in the last few days, and Aoki trained it smoothly, only one Pokemon can be used in the final battle of the trial.
For Aoki, it was not only not helpful, but it even required extra allocated resources to train, which was expensive. And most importantly, the life of its final evolution Beedrill is too short. If Aoki cultivated it after a lot of struggle and it became an important combat force in the team, because of the limitation of lifespan, the body will begin to go downhill and it will eventually become unable to keep up.
As for the fact that Beedrill has a mega evolution form, even the alliance does not know that mega evolution exists, and precious mega evolution stones are not available at random. Even if you get lucky and find one, how can you be so lucky and get the one suitable for Beedrill.
For these reasons, Aoki chose to directly exchange the Pokemon egg for points in order to use those points to exchange for resources to focus on training Murkrow.
Ignoring the surprised look of the exchange staff, he said lightly, "I want to use it to redeem points."