Chapter 26 Team Rocket in Treasure Hunt
Outside the academy, Team Rocket is lost while searching for Xiaozhi.
"It's weird, why did Little Ghost Head and the others just leave and we asked Principal Clavell to help us ask for leave from the Magic Wall Doll and then go out, but they actually disappeared, meow."
"They're all Musashi. They have to put on their makeup every time they go out. That's why we're like Diu Xiaogui and the others."
Musashi said angrily.
"It's so noisy, it's so noisy, I'm an actress, how can I do it if I don't show up to people with exquisite makeup?"
Miao Miao said helplessly.
"Let's not talk about it for now. Let's talk about the little ghost head later. Let's go to Tianxing Team to invite him to join the team first. This can be regarded as fulfilling Principal Clavell's agreement, right?"
"This is the only thing we can do. By the way, the two young men from the Tianxing team left a message saying that they had already told their boss, let us just follow the location on this map. If you are not familiar with the place, you don't know. Where is this?"
"I won't say so much. The boat will naturally straighten out when it reaches the bridge."
"You are too optimistic, Kojiro."
"It's rare to come to such a picturesque place, so let's just enjoy the scenery along the way."
Just as Team Rocket and the others were passing by an outdoor Pokémon center, in the green area on the other side of Interlijun, news about the recently promoted photography contest was scrolling on the electronic screen. The name of one of them caught Kojiro's attention deeply.
"...The judges of this conference will be jointly served by me, Kosha, Bashuo, and the famous photographer Lanlian from Padya...
"What! He means the photographer Lan Lian?"
As Kojiro said this, he threw his face on the screen and almost overturned the stall. Intelijun on the side also said excitedly.
"Beep beep beep... this guest, beep beep beep... please don't push the screen."
Musashi and Meowth said curiously.
"Hey, what happened to him, Kojiro?"
"I don't know, meow."
After watching the promotional video, Kojiro burst into tears. Musashi and the others stepped forward and asked in deep confusion.
"Kojiro, what happened to the photographer named Lan Lian?"
Kojiro, who was crying, said with a shocked look on his face.
"What! Don't you know this famous and great man?"
"do not know."
"I don't know him, meow."
Kojiro changed his crying tone and said slightly angrily.
"It's so rude of you to say that you don't know this big shot."
While condemning them, he took out an old photography magazine, opened a page, patted it hard with his hand, and showed it in front of them.
"Look, look! Lan Lian is the person in the magazine..."
Musashi and Meowth looked at the yellowed and wrinkled page in the magazine carefully and read in their mouths.
"Ms. Lan Lian, a permanent champion in the Pokémon & Landscape Photography Contest; an excellent provider of Pokémon illustrated photos; the editor-in-chief of the World Pokémon Graphic Magazine; a judge of the Natural Pokémon Photography Contest, and other titles..."
Musashi looked disdainful.
"What? With such a long title, the person is not as beautiful as an actress like me. She's just strong on the outside but cool on the inside... No, it's 'gold on the outside but cool on the outside'."
Kojiro muttered in disagreement.
"You are like this and you are an actor, so don't laugh to death."
Musashi heard Kojiro's mumbling voice and shouted loudly.
"What did you say!"
"I didn't say anything..."
Kojiro, who was frightened by the scolding, immediately changed his mind and said no, and changed the subject again.
"By the way, look here."
"What, meow?"
As Kojiro pointed at a small corner of the previous page of the magazine, there was a photo of a dog in a luxurious garden. On it was written the special prize of the children's photography competition "Cat Dog in a Luxurious Garden". The author of the photo was Kojiro (6 years old), and a photo of the young Kojiro holding works and certificates is also attached.
Only then did Musashi and others discover that there was an award-winning work submitted by Kojiro when he was young. Kojiro put down the magazine and looked at them expectantly.
"What, it's just a small award for the children's category, meow."
"It's just that I didn't get any substantial bonus, so what's there to be excited about?"
"I think you only won the award because of the luxurious courtyard of your big mansion."
Kojiro disagreed with their statement and said angrily.
"Nonsense, please stop worrying..."
Then he caught a glimpse of the shortlisted works on the screen, Nishida's "Lonely Beach"...and it suddenly appeared on the list, and Kojiro's desire to win was suddenly aroused.
"What! Can a mediocre beach like this be shortlisted?"
As he said that, he wanted to go to the screen to sign up for the competition, but Musashi and Meowth held their arms and stopped him.
"Don't be impulsive, Kojiro!"
"That's right. If you sign up, our identity as Team Rocket will be exposed."
Kojiro broke free from the restraints of the two, showing that he was confident.
"It doesn't matter."
As he spoke, he took out a pair of toad sunglasses and put on a casual beach outfit, paired with a straw hat and slippers.
"Wouldn't it be enough to make up a character who is traveling from abroad to participate in the competition?"
"That's right. Changing costumes has always been our Rockets' specialty."
Ever since, Kojiro got the consent of his two companions and went to register to participate in the competition...
Most of the day passed, and night gradually fell. In an instant, only Musashi and Meowth were left among the three members of Team Rocket.
"Kojiro is really energetic."
"It's because you are too energetic, meow. Just now you were complaining that the journey was too far and too hard, meow... Now he happily ran ahead of us and said he wanted to take some photos for the competition."
"Hey, just because I wanted to take pictures, I took away the Rotom mobile phone that Principal Clavel left for us. We didn't even think about how our wages were transferred to that mobile phone. Not only that, but the map was also on it. , we are walking blindly now, and we don’t know if we will get lost..."
After a while, Musashi and the others followed the direction of Kojiro and arrived at a historic site under a waterfall.
"Where is this place?"
"I don't know, nya, where is Kojiro? He should be around here."
Suddenly, Musashi and the others saw a strange flashing light passing by a leaning tower in the middle of the historic site, and they were so frightened that they hugged each other.
"Meow..., meow..., that...that's...what?"
"You..., you asked me..., I..., I... don't know either, meow."
At this moment, Guo Ranweng ran out inappropriately again and shouted.
"Sonans..."
Guo Ranweng was frightened by the sudden appearance and shouted.
"Mom...!"
"There's a ghost...!"
Sure enough, Weng was also shocked by the two of them.
"So... Sonans!"
"Damn it, it's you again, meow!"
"That's right, he ran out without permission again!"
The noisy sound attracted the flashing lights not far away, and he turned to look at Musashi and the others.
"What, the other party found us, meow."
"Didn't you expect that we would die here? I don't want it..."
"Where's Kojiro? Kojiro, come and save us, nya."
The frightened Musashi, Miaomiao and Guo Ranweng hugged each other. The strange lights made a "ticking" sound and got closer and closer to them. As they got closer, a familiar voice came from them.
"Musashi, Meowth, why are you calling my name?"
Musashi and the others, who gradually calmed down, heard the sound and took a closer look. It turned out that the source of the light was Kojiro who had left first, and the luminous object came from the strange device worn on Kojiro's head.
"What are you calling me for?"
Musashi and Meowth immediately jumped up, and one of them punched Kojiro on the head.
"oops!"
Kojiro fell to the ground in response and was hit on the head. Even the strange device on his head fell to the ground and he cried out in pain.
"It hurts...what are you doing, Musashi, Meowth!"
Musashi and the others said angrily.
"How dare you come to accuse us?"
"That's right, meow. He ran away without saying a word, and even took away the Rotom mobile phone that can help guide the way. It also has all our belongings on it. If we get lost, Musashi, Guo Ranweng and I will be penniless, meow." "
Faced with their well-founded accusations, Kojiro couldn't say anything and had no choice but to beg for mercy.
"I was wrong, I'm sorry for you, Musashi, Miaomiao, Guoranweng."
"Sonans..."
Seeing Kojiro sincerely apologizing, they calmed down their fear and forgave him. Miaomiao discovered a strange light-emitting device that fell from Kojiro's head, with a pendulum-like pointer making a "ticking" sound on it.
"What kind of strange thing is this? It's bright and noisy. I remember there was no such thing when I first separated from you..."
Kojiro immediately changed the subject nervously.
"By the way, I'm here to take pictures. Where can I find a good view?"
After getting the Rotom on the phone, Musashi immediately checked the deposit on it and shouted.
"What! Where's the money? Where's the part-time money we earned from working so hard in the academy?"
Kojiro picked up the strange device that Meowth despised in his hand, and changed the subject again.
"This thing is actually quite good. It can use the amplitude of the pendulum and adjust the intensity of the light..."
Musashi and Meowth looked at each other and shouted in unison.
"Kojiro! Where's our money!"
Unable to escape, Kojiro once again knelt down and begged for mercy.
"I'm sorry, I spent all the money."
"What! Aren't you going to take pictures? Where did you spend such a big sum of money?"
Faced with the aggressiveness of Musashi and the others, Kojiro had no choice but to tell the truth, recalled.
Just today during the day, after Kojiro signed up for the photography competition, he happily ran to this place called the Leaning Tower of Xiasa. He found that the scenery here was very pleasant, so he planned to take a few photos here.
Just as Kojiro picked up their mobile phone Rotom and prepared to focus and take pictures, an unexpected old man carrying a travel bag accidentally entered the lens of the mobile phone.
"Uncle, please step aside. I want to take some pictures of the scenery."
"Really? Sorry, I'll get out of the way..."
Suddenly, the uncle took a few steps back and accidentally kicked a bump on the ground. He fell to the ground and the strange device in his backpack fell to the ground.
"Are you okay, uncle?"
Kojiro kindly stepped forward to ask, helped him up, and learned that the other party was okay, so he helped pick up the devices on the floor.
"Uncle, this is really incredible. This backpack is full of strange devices."
At this moment, Kojiro didn't know that he had fallen into the uncle's trap. The uncle immediately nervously snatched the prop device from Kojiro's hand and said.
"Thank you young man, but don't touch these devices at will, because I'm afraid you might damage them. I don't know whether I should ask you to compensate or not."
Kojiro asked curiously with a puzzled look on his face.
"What's this? It's just some junk."
The uncle changed his expression and said seriously.
"I didn't expect that in the eyes of young people, I, who is called a treasure hunter, would be just a weird old man with junk. Times have really changed."
"Uncle, don't mind. I'm just curious and asking questions. I don't mean any harm."
Seeing that Kojiro was not fooled, the uncle immediately muttered and implemented his plan B.
"In that case, let me open your eyes."
As he said that, he took on the strange device with a pendulum and light, and two treasure-hunting crutches in his hand. He introduced it while searching.
"This is the most scientific and advanced treasure hunting device. It will be available in a short while..."
Before he finished speaking, the device above his head made a beeping sound.
"Oh, I found it, I found it."
The uncle started digging on the ground where the noise was coming from. After a while, a shiny gold coin was dug out of the ground out of thin air. Seeing Kojiro's eyes light up, he immediately changed from his normal state and said flatteringly.
"Uncle, treasure hunter, you are really amazing. I want to ask you one thing, can you sell me this treasure hunting device for free?"
The uncle was pretending.
"I'm afraid, you can't afford it."
"Please, uncle treasure hunter, I will give you all the money I have..."
"Forget it, since you are so sincere and we are destined, I will sell you this device."
After the memory was over, Kojiro said with a smile.
"That's the whole thing."
Hearing Musashi, Meowth became angry and shouted loudly.
"You big idiot!"
"That's right, meow, you were cheated of our hard-earned money."
Kojiro endured the anger of the two and continued.
"Don't say that yet, just take a look at the collection I got using the treasure hunting device."
With that said, he took out a sack of excavated materials. Meow Meow said while flipping through the pages.
"What is this? Broken steel bars, rusty nuts, broken mechanical parts...and, what is this? A worn-out treasure box..."
He opened it and said disappointedly.
"What, it's an empty box, meow."
Musashi snatched the old box from Meowth's hand and threw it into Kojiro's face, knocking off the treasure hunting device on his head. Kojiro hid his face in pain.
"It hurts so much, it's too much, Musashi, nya."
Unexpectedly, the treasure hunting device that fell to the ground suddenly had a huge reaction.
"This is?"
Kojiro immediately stood up happily.
"Great, this is a signal that a treasure has been detected nearby."
With that said, he put the box back into his pocket, put on the treasure hunting device and started looking around.
Musashi and Miaomiao looked at each other and shook their heads.
"Kojiro, let me tell you, if we can't find any decent treasure this time, we won't be able to spare you."
"Don't worry, this time I have a strong feeling that something great will appear... right there."
Kojiro suddenly pointed at the leaning tower in front of him and said excitedly.
"On the top of this leaning tower, there is a treasure to guide us."
Kojiro enthusiastically climbed up the dilapidated leaning tower ladder, and Musashi and the others followed closely behind. After a while, we arrived at the top of the leaning tower. A wooden treasure box shone brightly against the moonlight, making it particularly eye-catching.
"found it!"
"I didn't expect it to be really useful, nya!"
In an instant, the Rockets pounced on it, fighting for it.
"This is the treasure chest I got thanks to my hard work. I want to see it first!"
"Stop arguing, haven't you heard that ladies come first!"
"You all stop, Meowth should be the priority!"
"Follow my command, together... three, two, one."
Under the gaze of the three people, the treasure chest was slowly opened, and the excited people were splashed with cold water.
"What, isn't this empty?"
"It's a waste of time for us to be happy."
Just when everyone was disappointed, Musashi suddenly discovered that there was something strange about Meowth next to him.
"Meow meow, is there something dirty on your face?"
"Where, meow?"
Kojiro also noticed something strange and reminded him.
"On the gold coin on your forehead, Meow Meow."
"Forehead gold coin?"
Meow Meow said, looking up, there was a tiny unknown Pokémon lying on Meow Meow's gold coin, trying to grab it.
Meowth, who felt pain from the button, immediately threw it off his body. The thrown Pokémon hit the treasure hunting device on Kojiro's head. The device was also knocked off and broke. Kojiro staggered a few steps. As she retreated, she bumped into Musashi who was standing beside her, causing her to accidentally sit on top of the empty treasure box.
Kojiro said distressedly.
"Ah, the treasure hunting device I bought at a high price was ruined."
The lost Kojiro suddenly discovered that the little guy beside him was also sad and lost because the treasure box he lived in was broken, and he made a "jirrigulu" cry.
"Little guy, what's wrong with you?"
I saw it looking at Kojiro with tearful eyes. Musashi on the side took out his cell phone Rotom to check, and said with a look of disgust.
"This Pokémon is a treasure chest Pokémon... and its characteristic is timid... It's such a weak Pokémon."
Miao Miao translated Suo Cailing's words.
"It keeps repeating, my home..., my home..."
Kojiro was enlightened.
"So this treasure box is your home! Sorry, we destroyed it."
Suddenly, the old treasure box found in Kojiro's arms made him feel pain, so he took it out and found it.
"It turns out that this thing has not been thrown away?"
Suddenly, the crying Suo Cailing saw the box in Kojiro's hand, and his eyes lit up. Miao Miao continued to translate its words.
"It says, new home..., new home..."
"So, can this broken box replace your original home? ...How about, do you want to become our Team Rocket's Pokémon?"
Suo Cai Ling happily got into the new treasure box, and Kojiro also took out the empty poke ball and tamed it. It was successfully tamed without any danger, Kojiro said happily.
"I received the Suo Cai Ling."
Musashi and Meowth said from the side.
"Great, I finally didn't waste this trip, nya."
"It's not a powerful Pokémon, but forget it."
Before leaving, Kojiro did not forget to look back and take a picture of the scenery here, the leaning tower. Under the moonlight, next to the waterfall, the splashing river water echoed the bright moonlight, forming a gorgeous and sparkling picture.
Then continue on their journey to find Pikachu and join Team Skystar.