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Chapter 167 Wei Xin devises a series of schemes, and Spinner mistakenly enters the guillotine.

Chapter 167 Wei Xin devises a series of schemes, and Spinner mistakenly enters the guillotine.

"Huh?" After Wei Xin released Umbreon, Umbreon looked at the handout in the bowl and hesitated. Logically speaking, she should not eat food given by outsiders without her trainer's permission, but—Umbreon sniffed and swallowed hard.

His family's food smells really good.

"Aren't you going to eat it?" Wei Xin placed the polyhedron on the table next to Umbreon. "Your trainer sent you here probably want this."

After you finish dinner, you can take the things back to him.

"Of course, I wouldn't mind if you wanted to stay overnight with me; my house is quite big."

"Huh?" Yueyi tilted her head, puzzled. She couldn't understand why this person was being so nice to her when she was clearly there to do bad things.

She glanced at the polyhedron next to her. Although she didn't know if it was what the trainer wanted, there was no dangerous aura inside, and her mission had failed from the start. Umbreon lowered its head and took a bite of its food. He had said that it could only leave after finishing its meal, not that it couldn't resist the temptation.

After licking the plate clean, Umbreon picked up the nearby Polyhedron and was about to turn and leave when it heard Wei Xin's voice again:

Don't rush off.

Is he going to back out? Umbreon trembled and timidly turned its head, only to see Wei Xin holding a small cloth bag hanging around its neck. Umbreon used its paw to pry it open and saw that it contained Energy Cubes, and high-quality Energy Cubes at that.

"We have too many snacks at home, take some with you on the road." After saying that, Wei Xin patted Yueyibu's head. "Be careful on the road, don't get kidnapped by bad guys. Also, remember to come and play when you have time."

I am a kind-hearted person and I like to help Pokémon that run away from home.

Yueyibu was stunned. She didn't understand why Wei Xin was being so nice to her, even though she and Dayu Monster had come to attack him. She looked up and stared at Wei Xin's face. In a daze, she saw a dazzling colored halo behind his head. The blinding and healing sunlight made her feel like she was dying.

Umbreon left in tears. Mari was puzzled; she had heard about Zygarde and Spinner from Wei Xin: "Why were you so nice to Umbreon? She's not—"

Wei Xin rubbed his hands together excitedly: "Once the seed of doubt is planted, it will take root and sprout in your heart until the trust between you completely collapses."

The brilliance of a counter-espionage plot lies in the fact that even though the enemy knows it's a trap, they can only watch helplessly as they fall into it and are unable to extricate themselves.

"By the way, Mary, do you have Dr. Mulan's contact information?"

Beyond the company office.

"A message just came from headquarters."

"Good news or bad news?"

"Not good, not bad. I heard our company's boss passed away."

"Isn't this too sudden? Our business is booming, isn't it? Team Rocket in Kanto just placed a new order."

"That's normal. I heard our boss is over two hundred years old, which means we're going to have a new boss? Do you think the head of our research department will be promoted? Is there any chance that we, the chickens and dogs, will get promoted?"

"It's also possible that a new broom sweeps clean, and if others don't follow suit, then you or me will be the target."

Spiner sat wearily in the dimly lit office. He heard the employees talking outside the door. He stared blankly at the Umbreon Poké Ball on the table. Spiner covered his ears. The office was unusually quiet, except for the sound of Umbreon's voice playing incessantly in his mind.

He sighed. He hadn't gotten the Zygarde Polyhedron, and he'd even lost Umbreon.

"Crunch"

The office door was slowly pushed open, and light shone on Spinner's face. Spinner roared in fury, "I told you not to bother me today—..."

Spinner paused mid-sentence, then saw several yellow halos float into the office, swaying slightly. He turned on the light.

Umbreon sat on the office floor, craning its neck and gazing longingly at him, who looked utterly dejected.

"Umbreon? You escaped back?" Spinner exclaimed in surprise, then saw Umbreon lower its head and spit the polyhedron in its mouth onto the ground.

"That's a polyhedron? You brought back the Zygold polyhedron?"

Spinel was overjoyed, but a question flashed through his mind for a moment: he hadn't told Umbreon about the Polyhedron, so why would Umbreon bring it back? Then, he concluded that Wei Xin had revealed a flaw, and that Umbreon had chosen to steal the Polyhedron and Zygarde after discovering them, which pleased him greatly.

As expected of my Umbreon.

Spiner slid down to her knees in front of Umbreon, excitedly picking up the polyhedron from the ground and turning it over and over in her hands. After examining it, she discovered a line of words engraved on it. Her pupils trembled, her mouth twisted into a grin, and she looked at the office with a maniacal expression: "By the mandate of Heaven, may you live forever! Wei Xin, Wei Xin, you would never have imagined that I would be the ultimate winner."

"Umbreon, you've really had a tough time." Spinel sniffed and patted Umbreon's head. His Umbreon must have endured humiliation and hardship under Wei Xin's command before finally bringing back Polyhedron.

"Whoosh!" Just as Eevee was about to speak, it realized something was wrong and quickly covered its mouth. It couldn't let the trainer know that it had eaten dinner at Wei Xin's house and even had extra rice to eat until it was stuffed.

Spiner gripped the polyhedron tightly: "Zygard is the foundation of the natural system. With this Imperial Seal, I can wield its power, and even control all of nature."

Spinel activated the mechanism, and the polyhedron opened. However, instead of the mismatched-eyed Zygarde, he was greeted by a small Zygarde clay figure, which, propelled by a spring in its lower body, bumped into his nose. Spinel shuddered in fright, and before he could react, he heard the polyhedron box emit a strange sound effect: "Hey you, Spinel, it's me, your dad."

It was Wei Xin's voice. Not content with insulting him over the phone, he actually stormed into his office.

"Wei Xin!" Spiner slammed the polyhedron to the ground, stomping and crushing it. Turning to Umbreon, she saw red grease still on Umbreon's lips and flew into a rage. "Umbreon, you and Wei Xin actually..."

Seeing that its trainer was angry, Umbreon shrank its neck in fear. Spiner realized what was happening and quickly stopped talking. Umbreon stole the Polyhedron from Wei Xin's house. How could his Umbreon be in cahoots with Wei Xin?

Spinner suddenly realized that this was Wei Xin's counter-espionage scheme. As clever as he was, how could he possibly fall into Wei Xin's traps again and again? He quickly hugged Yueyibu: "It's okay. No matter what happens, I believe in you."

Completely unaware, a dark shadow bypassed the tightly embracing couple and quietly slipped into the passing shadows through a gap in the wall.

In the Padia region at night, the Lak element research project team at the former site of the Zero Zone Research Institute finished a day's experiments. Kukui and Dr. Mulan were reviewing the day's results, their faces showing obvious disappointment and exhaustion.

Dr. Kukui sighed, "So, we still can't find a way to deal with the Lak element?"

The hardest part of any task is never how to do it, but rather discovering the crux of the problem. This single step stumped the entire research team. With no prior data at hand, they had to resort to exhaustive methods, exploring all possibilities and continuously experimenting.

Even if you end up with a mountain of crap code, at least you'll have a general direction.

It's astonishing that two top regional Pokémon professors and their teams had to rely on brute force to conduct their research, and even struggled to make progress.

Dr. Mulan asked, "Are you saying what's written in Pipa's notebook is true? Will the world really be destroyed because of the Lak element?"

"Who knows? When the Futu couple proposed building a time machine, nobody believed them, but they actually succeeded."

Kukui flipped open the file on the table, which described mechanical Pokémon called Paradoxes, which were encased in metal: "However, the reality is that these metal Pokémon really did appear in Sector Zero. They can live in an environment with abundant Lac elements, and in fact, Lac elements are their life source."

"It's obvious that someone modified Pokémon to enable them to live in extreme environments of the future. It's genius; heaven knows how they came up with this method."

"But it's too cruel. Do you still remember the information in the diary?" Dr. Wei Lan sighed.

"I remember, to help us explore, someone proposed modifying Pokémon's bodies to give them the ability to live in the wild. But this meant erasing the Pokémon's minds. The professor disagreed and firmly condemned this behavior. Unfortunately, the situation gradually worsened. Wild Pokémon were all corrupted by Lacium. Without the power of Pokémon, we could not move an inch. Resources in Sector Zero gradually decreased, and we could not even meet the daily needs of the survivors." Kukui recited it fluently.

"The professor finally agreed to the plan and stayed up all night to complete the theory of modification. It was so perfect that there was not a single hidden danger. But no Pokémon would want to become like that, and no trainer would want to let their Pokémon undergo an unproven operation. Damn it, it was their own plan."

"There was only one exception, the professor's Gardevoir. She volunteered to be the first Pokémon to lie on the operating table. The professor didn't say anything that day, he just locked himself in his room. For the whole day, almost everyone who passed by the professor's room could hear the cries coming from inside."

Gardevoir waited silently in the room next to his, its back against the cold iron wall, for an entire day, until the afternoon of the next day.

When the doctor opened the door, everyone was stunned. Overnight, his hair had turned completely white, and his eyes were bloodshot.

"The surgery began, and the doctor decided to perform it himself. We all know that performing surgery on a loved one is taboo, let alone such a morally sensitive procedure. That being said, there was actually no other doctor in the entire shelter. After a full forty hours of surgery..."

The doctor removed his mask, angrily pulled out the IV drips from his body, and looked as if he had aged more than ten years, as if his spine had been removed, utterly exhausted and nearly collapsed.

"Fortunately, the surgery was a success, even exceeding everyone's expectations. Gardevoir, or we should call her Iron Warrior now, used her telekinesis to help the Doctor up. She is still the same person, just in a different body. Perhaps it is a miracle. As the Doctor often tells us, if we cannot explain it with science, then let love explain it."

It was a story of helplessness, but the ending didn't seem to be a tragedy. As Dr. Kukui was saying this, Dr. Mulan's phone suddenly rang. It was her personal phone that she had left outside. When they were in the lab, they would temporarily turn off their communications to avoid being distracted during their research.

"Excuse me, I need to take this call."

Dr. Kukui stood up: "I also need to rest for a bit, and while I'm at it, I'll check my email to see if my wife has sent me any messages."

Or perhaps it's a love letter.

"I still need to talk to that champion named Wataru. I heard he's already set off to destroy the Powerball production line, but that's pointless. Destroying a few factories is just a drop in the ocean. Where there's demand, there's supply. If we really need to deal with the Rak element, we researchers will have to figure it out. I have to warn him to be careful not to mess things up. If a champion really falls, terrorist organizations from all over the world will probably swarm out like Alola Megalodons smelling blood."