Chapter 25 Jungling in the Jungle (Not Really)
Chapter 25 Jungling in the Jungle (Not Really)
In the northern forest, Qi Hao and Xiao Tie wandered aimlessly.
"Jin? (Big brother, are you sure you're coming to the north?)" Xiao Tie followed behind Qi Hao, looking at the surrounding forest. The desolate wilderness didn't seem like a place for training.
"What's the rush? I've been here for a while now. There are definitely Pokémon here. You're training at home all day without any real battles." Qi Hao walked confidently to a tree and poked around in the grass next to it.
The grass was parted, revealing the number seven carved on the tree.
Qi Hao then tapped the tree trunk, which made a thumping sound.
"Hey! I'm back again!"
Then a blue and white pangolin emerged from the ground.
"(*?▽?*) Chu! (Wow, it really is you! You've finally come back after five years!)"
This pangolin was encountered by Qihao when he was letting Xiaobu run wild. Since Qihao's principle is that any dog that comes along gets a beating, he also became one of the victims.
It's important to know that in the wild, a level 34 Pokémon like Pokémon, while not invincible, can be quite formidable as long as it doesn't provoke overly powerful Pokémon.
"(. ? ? ?.) Do you remember what you said last time? Now I'm here. Are you ready to avenge your defeat?"
"Chirp! (Me, the little mouse! I can't wait!)"
"What the heck is that?!"
After saying that, the Pangolin jumped out of the burrow, spun in the air, and landed a few meters away, assuming a ready-to-fight stance.
"??Д?)Gold! (Can you explain first!)" Before Xiao Tie could react, the Sand King started spinning in place, sending out countless ice spikes.
"Alright, Xiao Tie! Consider this a surprise training session! Now dodge to the left! Charge forward with a bullet punch!"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Tie exerted force with both arms and quickly dodged to the left, where there were fewer ice spikes. One arm glowed white, and the other hand kicked out, heading straight for the face of the Mountain King.
Not to be outdone, the Pangolin coated its claws with a layer of silver and slammed one claw into Little Iron's fist.
"Thump!" The sound of metal colliding rang out, and for a moment the two were locked in a stalemate. But in the end, Xiao Tie was still in the air and was knocked back by a slap. However, the Mountain King was not unscathed either, and was knocked back several meters, leaving two marks on the ground. After all, Xiao Tie had a high level of skill proficiency and great strength.
[System, hurry up!]
"?????receive
Sandslash (Alolan Form)
Attributes: Ice, Steel
Rating: 39
Features: Snow removal
Friendly reminder: This feature can be triggered.
[What the heck?! Special ability? Snow removal?? Wild Pangolins can hail?]
However, the next second, the Pangolin in the distance clasped its claws together, and the air gradually turned cold.
"(д) ??woc! Little Iron, quickly interrupt him with Bullet Fist!"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Tie shot out again, and just as his punch was about to land, hail began to fall.
In an instant, the Pangolin in front of Little Iron Body disappeared under the cover of hail.
“(`へ′) Chu! (Mouse, I’m here!)” Sandslash King’s voice came from behind Little Iron.
Xiao Tie quickly turned around, and what came into view was a claw that gleamed with silver light.
"Chirp! (Catch the mouse's claw!)" A metal claw slapped directly onto the little iron face.
"Duang!" Xiao Tie took the blow to the face, but he seemed to be unharmed. For a moment, their eyes met.
"Chirp? (No, shouldn't you say something?)"
"o_O Gold? (What does that mean? Does it mean you haven't eaten?)"
"Chirp! (What the hell?! I haven't eaten! How come you're so hard?!)"
The Pangolin disappeared again in the hail, then accelerated around Little Iron, attacking him again and again. As its speed increased, its power grew stronger. Little Iron had no choice but to raise one hand to defend itself, occasionally throwing wild punches in an attempt to hit the Pangolin.
"Xiao Tie! Don't attack randomly! Try to catch him!" Qi Hao's voice came, and Xiao Tie withdrew his hand and focused on defense.
Qi Hao narrowed his eyes, constantly calculating the landing point of the Pangolin King's attack.
"Now! Grab him from behind!"
“(╬??皿??) Jin! (Stop right there!)” Little Iron suddenly turned around and grabbed the claws that the Sand King was attacking.
The mountain king suddenly retreated, but he didn't expect Xiao Tie to be so strong. He struggled with his feet but couldn't take a single step back!
"Use the arm hammer!"
Xiao Tie raised his hand and then slammed it down.
“?(?д??; )?Chirp! (Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop it! Don't come any closer!)”
"coax!"
The arm hammer, which was four times more effective than the other hammer, almost sank the Pangolin into the ground.
Qi Hao rushed over to check the results of the battle. He looked at the Pangolin, whose body was half-buried in the ground, poked it, and after confirming that it was alright, he sat down on the spot.
A long time passed before the pangolin lying on the ground slowly recovered, clutching its head and shakily getting up.
"_? Chirp. (Am I in heaven?)" Then, looking around, she saw Qi Hao checking Xiao Tie's injuries by the fire. It was already dark. "(_?) Chirp! (Looks like I'm not, I'm still alive! I can see my great-grandmother waving at me!)"
"Alright, alright! Here, have some tree fruit to cure you. You're so brittle, you're so fragile!" As he spoke, he stuffed a roasted tree fruit into the pangolin's mouth.
"Chirp chirp chirp (No, I'm just practicing speed, aren't I? You're fast, aren't you!)" Sandslash replied while eating.
"?_? Jin? (So how did you two meet? Can you tell me now?)"
"It's just that people were too stupid back then. They brought your little sister out to let loose and beat someone up. The other person wasn't satisfied and said they'd come back another time. At that time, Mouse was still a sand rat. I didn't expect him to have evolved. He even wanted you to bully him a bit."
"By the way, how did you evolve, mouse? Where did you get the ice stone?"
"Chirp. (Five years ago, a mountain collapsed. There was a lot of ice stones in that mountain. When the mountain collapsed, the ice stones were scattered all over the ground. I just grabbed a big one. As for how the mountain collapsed, I don't know.)"
"Five years ago? Could it be that one?" Qi Hao recalled the day Kyurem got angry and pointed uncertainly to the mountain in the distance whose top had been cut off.
"Chirp, smack smack (Oh yeah, do you know what happened? After that mountain collapsed, a lot of elves migrated from there.)" The mouse answered while still eating, seemingly quite badly injured.
Qi Hao shook his head awkwardly; it's better not to say some things out loud.
"By the way, how come you can hail? How did you learn that skill?"
"('-'*) Gold! (Big brother, can't someone else know how? Ice-type Pokémon should be able to use Hail, right?)"
"Uh, that's not what I meant. What I meant was that Sandslash is a Pokémon that can't learn Hail by nature; it needs a TM. It's like how even if you could learn Levitate, you can't learn it without a TM."
“ˉ\\_(ツ)_/ˉChirp! (That's easy! Of course it's…)”
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