Chapter 618 It’s Broken, I’m a Substitute

After the initial qualifying round that eliminated all the players to only 256, the selected players faced three 2-on-2 doubles matches.

This is Zhou You's favorite doubles part, but 22 is a little less exciting than 64.

This year is the first time that the Hoenn League has vigorously promoted the doubles system. The lack of overly complicated doubles is probably because the players don't know enough about it.

"My first round opponent is... Youli from Duskwater Town?"

"What happened to Duskwater City?" Eden was puzzled.

"Duskwater Town is a very special town. The entire town is built on driftwood. It is adjacent to the Sky Pillar and the Notice Stone Chamber. We will probably go there in the future."

Using driftwood to build on the water?

Wouldn't the house be overturned by a wave?

Hearing what the trainer said, the Pokémon really wanted to see how this strange structure exists.

But what is more important now is the battle with the opponent.

The doubles match, called the "preliminary tournament", does not have too many fancy systems, and even the venue is held in a standard venue.

Unlike the Quartz Conference, which has to rest for a day after each game, the Hoenn side will reduce the number of people from 256 to 32 on the first day to leave more time for more important matches.

Playing three games in the morning, afternoon, and evening is a big test for the overall training and rationality of the participating trainers' lineups - if the game is too intense, the Pokémon Center will not have time to treat it.

Just like when Ye Yue did not send Flame Chicken to the field because it was seriously injured and he was defeated in the next round after eliminating Xiaozhi...

But for Zhou You, those who understand will understand.

After the information of the players of both teams was displayed on the big screen, Zhou You came to the battle site and prepared for the battle seriously - he was not strong enough to guarantee that he would win under any circumstances.

"Go, Toukou, Thorn Dragon!" "Nuomici, Articuno, it's decided that it's you."

The rainy day group from Hoenn Duskwater Town just collided with the snowy day group from Kanto Twin Islands.

The Toukou, who entered the field, was about to pull the rain in the atmosphere to set up the battle field as usual, but the energy fluctuations were disturbed by the rare first flight of Articuno to the center of the battle field, and the snow that Duskwater Town had never seen all year round fell.

Articuno and Nuomici, who carried the grand prize of light powder that the Pokémons won when they passed the battle food court, were like a phantom looming in this silver-clad land.

Youli from Duskwater Town found that he could no longer see the positions of Articuno and Vulpix!

The light powder plus "Snow Hidden" made it extremely difficult for even the Pokémons nearby to see where the other party was, let alone the trainers who were quite a distance away from the battle field.

Realizing this, Youli immediately left the victory to the elves: "Saury, Thorn Dragon, release blizzard!"

Using the opponent's field to attack the opponent, isn't it a way out?

Zhou You: "?"

He found that the opponents he met always had special skills. Was he playing on the difficult difficulty?

Nevertheless...

"Freeze Dry." Zhou You chose the attack method the moment he saw the two elves of the opponent.

It causes damage by rapidly freezing the water in the opponent's body.

Unlike the normal water resistance to ice, in this specific case, the ice attribute can also restrain the water attribute in turn.

Therefore, Water + Flying and Water + Dragon, the two elves that were originally not weak and not resistant to ice, exposed their most vulnerable side on the spot when facing the "freeze dry" of two equally matched opponents, Vulpix and Articuno.

The two elves who failed to guess the opponent's position in the first time did not have time to spread the "blizzard" to the whole field, and were directly eliminated by the freeze dry of the two ice attribute elves with four times the restraint.

The match hadn’t even started for half a minute.

“We won. It was a pleasant match.”

Zhou You wanted to say this during the handshake after the match, but when he saw the red and swollen eyes of the girl on the other side, he decided to leave the match without saying a word.

——

At this time, Professor Oak, Qinglu and Nanami, who were watching the match of their acquaintances at Oak Research Institute in Pallet Town, couldn’t help but sigh:

“The battle between Qiao Qiao is still the same.”

“This battle is too Qiao Qiao.”

“Humph.”

——

Zhou You, who easily won his first victory, had just left the venue and was thinking about what to eat for lunch when he saw a familiar figure waiting at the place where he had to pass by to return to the Pokémon Center.

Sitian… Wang Furong?

She is obviously one of the top trainers in the Hoenn region, but now no one noticed her in Caiyou City where the league is located?

Zhou You subconsciously thought that he met the female ghost who had met once on the Sending God Mountain and was very similar to Furong.

But after noticing the spirit hidden in the other party's shadow, he immediately realized that this was probably an application of illusion.

"Ahaha, you actually saw through the illusion of the dream demon in an instant."

Realizing that the other party noticed her, Furong, who was obviously not much older than Zhou You, happily invited him to a secluded place.

In an empty corner outside the venue, the four heavenly kings who came with curiosity about someone came very close, observing closely with curious eyes as if they could see through the other party.

Finally, she asked solemnly: "Contestant Zhou You, after you visited Songshen Mountain a few months ago, rumors spread that the two gems enshrined in the temple on the top of the mountain were just fakes. Do you have any clues about this matter?"

Although it was unknown whether it was Mikoli or someone else, the owners were not stupid, and they really went to Songshen Mountain to confirm.

But Zhou You still said confidently: "Because the real vermilion gem and indigo gem are in my hands, the two on Songshen Mountain can only be fakes."

After saying that, he took out the two gems again, just like Tang Monk showing off his brocade cassock.

As the two gems appeared in the other party's hands, Furong, who was originally in the mood to joke, suddenly became serious.

"This..."

As the granddaughter of the two caretakers of Songshen Mountain, she has seen the gems grow up, and sometimes even touched them with her hands, just short of kicking the two beads as balls.

No one in this world can deceive Furong about the gems.

Originally, she thought the museum owners were deceived by some bad boy after hearing the rumor.

However, after seeing the scarlet and indigo orbs in Zhou You's hands, she found that the energy in these two sealed orbs was exactly the same as the orbs on the God-Song Mountain.

Not only that, the natural energy of the two orbs in the other party's hands was more pure, condensed, and huge, and contained more powerful power than the orbs that her family had guarded for generations!

Could it be that... the two orbs on the God-Song Mountain were really fakes?

Furong actually had such a ridiculous idea.