Chapter 535: The Entire Army Paralyzed?
Because right now the entire Viridian City was basically pitch black.
So Will didn't even bother to act anymore.
Holding Cynthia, he rode on a water current and flew towards Viridian Hospital.
"How could Viridian City have a power outage? There should be people watching over at the power plant."
Cynthia, held in Will's arms, checked the messages coming through the Pokédex with her hands.
"There's a mole on the inside, obviously."
Will grinned without any surprise.
Within the Leagues of various regions, there will always be spies planted by those evil organizations.
Definitely.
Otherwise, they wouldn't even need to take action.
After all, just like there is more than one biggest boss among the evil organizations in a region, the gatherings dealing with these evil organizations are also not just the Pokémon League.
Even some neutral organizations strike darker and more ruthlessly in secret.
They use means even more brutal than the evil organizations to execute the justice in their hearts, taking revenge for the pain they once suffered at the hands of these evil organizations.
If evil organizations don't plant some personnel inside the League to guard against them.
They probably wouldn't be able to survive at all.
Among them.
Team Rocket is definitely the most outstanding at planting spies.
In the Adventures manga, even Elite Four members and Gym Leaders are members of Team Rocket.
"It's very hard for me to perceive everyone's location right now."
Will frowned slightly.
His Aura perception was considered half-useless at this moment.
Because the entire city suddenly had a power outage, many innocent people fell into confusion, panic, and nervousness.
These Auras made it impossible for Will to distinguish whether they were nervous because they were going to do bad things, or just nervous because of the sudden power outage.
Will could currently at most only guess that these people might be Team Rocket members based on the evil Auras and movement routes of a portion of people.
"...These people act as if they know staying in place is useless, more like they know the specific effects of your Aura, Lucario... Tsk, there's a mole among the three Gym Leaders."
Cynthia smacked her lips.
She was careless.
Trusted the three Gym Leaders and two Elite Four members too much, so yesterday she explained Lucario's Aura Power a bit more specifically.
Originally intended to make everyone feel more at ease, but now it became the motive for Team Rocket to change their plan.
"Kanon or Lada, high probability it's that Lada."
Will closed his eyes, 'scanning' the dark Viridian City below.
The pitch-black darkness meant nothing to him.
With one glance.
He could 'see' many figures moving bizarrely, nine times out of ten being Team Rocket members, or else bad guys wanting to steal and rob during the chaos.
Will didn't spend time dealing with this group of people.
Right now the most crucial place is Viridian Hospital.
Wasting time on these small fry would only mean losing the big picture for small gains.
Officer Jenny and the others will handle these people.
As for those two Gym Leaders he had no impression of.
Thinking about it now...
That Lada is truly bizarre.
"Mm, he seemed to ask for a lot of intelligence about me and Agatha."
Cynthia nodded gently, carefully recalling their previous conversation,
"Right, he said the defense forces of Viridian City were arranged by him, big trouble."
"No wonder the power plant fell so easily, it turns out it wasn't defended at all."
Will could already see Viridian Hospital, his position constantly lowering at this moment.
A crucial medical facility like Viridian Hospital naturally has its own generators.
So for a short while, there's no need to worry about some surgeries being interrupted or even failing due to the power outage.
"Lucario, did you notice anything wrong before?"
Cynthia secretly informed Gold, Agatha, Lorelei, and Flint about the matter regarding Lada.
These four.
Are people she can confirm are absolutely good guys.
Gold is a League Champion who passed through layers of screening; even if he might be lacking in strength, his stance absolutely cannot be lacking.
And the other three are all great seniors within the League, having joined the League even earlier than Cynthia.
Over the years, the losses they have caused Team Rocket have reached the point where Team Rocket wishes they could eat their flesh and drink their blood.
As for Kanon...
A Gym Leader who joined the League at the same time as Lada, also somewhat suspicious.
But what Cynthia is confused about is...
If this Lada is a bad guy, then why could he evade Lucario's Aura perception before?
As a member of Team Rocket, sitting surrounded by a group of Gym Leaders, Elite Four members, and even Champions, wouldn't he feel the slightest bit of fear and unease in his heart?
"No, this is also what I find strange. That guy's Aura had no difference from the other few."
Will shook his head.
The next moment.
Thump!
Will landed on the roof terrace of Viridian Hospital holding Cynthia.
The door to the terrace had already been violently broken open.
Presumably a portion of Team Rocket entered from the terrace.
"Arrived a step late. Call everyone out."
Will glanced at the floor.
Chaos.
The Auras were simply a chaotic mess.
Team Rocket was deliberately creating disturbances, causing panic.
But what made Will feel surprised was...
There were almost no sounds of battle!
This was simply extremely bizarre.
Team Rocket invaded Viridian Hospital in a massive way, yet in the entire hospital and even the area surrounding the hospital, not many sounds of battle could actually be heard?
What are the people of the Indigo League doing?
Could it be they were all instigated to defect?
Then Will can be certain he came to the version where Giovanni leads Team Rocket to rule the world.
But according to what he has seen along the way.
The Team Rocket of this world doesn't seem to be that powerful.
What exactly is going on?
"Roserade, Spiritomb, Gastrodon?!"
Cynthia's confused exclamation reached Will's ears.
He turned his head to look.
Only to see three Pokémon huddled together, sweating profusely, their pupils constantly trembling as if they had felt something extremely terrifying.
Especially Spiritomb.
That mass of gaseous mysterious substance didn't even emerge from the Odd Keystone.
This was already a state of fear reaching the extreme.
"What's going on?"
Will frowned tightly.
It seems something happened that neither he nor Cynthia perceived.
"Roar!"
Garchomp beside them made a sound.
She said she felt a quite powerful oppressive feeling, but for her, it was still within a tolerable range, not to the extent of affecting her actions.
"Yoo."
Milotic also felt it.
But her actions weren't greatly affected either.
"..."
Will glanced at Milotic and Roserade.
The level difference between the two Pokémon is only 2 levels.
The difference is nothing more than the former being a Champion, and the latter being an upper-tier Elite Four.
That is to say.
All Pokémon below the Champion level inside and near Viridian Hospital will lose their combat capability?
The entire army is paralyzed.
Shocked by a certain powerful oppressive feeling into not daring to act rashly...
"The Horn of the Dragon God." x2
Will and Cynthia spoke in unison.
"So the reason Team Rocket went through so much trouble to get this thing was for this operation. Heh, they truly invested heavily."
Will grinned.
Wanting to get the Horn of the Dragon God, they definitely had to pass the test of the Legendary Titans.
Even if Giovanni personally led a team there.
Wanting to get the Horn of the Dragon God from the hands of the Legendary Titans, they must have suffered no small losses, right?
This Hades...
Is this important to Team Rocket?
"But if our Pokémon can't make a move, then presumably Team Rocket's are the same. Besides Agatha, everyone else will probably have to engage in hand-to-hand combat."
Cynthia analyzed calmly.
She recalled the three Pokémon that couldn't act, and led her other partners downstairs.
At this kind of moment, their arrival is extremely crucial.
Must take action immediately.
"Where do you think Team Rocket's first target is?"
Will asked with his eyes closed.
His ears twitched slightly, listening to the intelligence brought by the wind.
Just turning into the stairwell door.
Will threw two punches to the side.
Two Team Rocket members holding stun batons instantly collapsed on the ground in pain.
"Directly searching for Hades, obviously."
Cynthia stepped over the two of them.
But Garchomp wasn't that easy to talk to.
She stepped on the two of them.
A two-hundred-pound foot stepping on their backs could also be considered giving the two Team Rocket members a foot massage.
As for Milotic.
She found them dirty.
"No, under the current situation, even if they found Hades, they couldn't get out. It's too bright, and the League people aren't blind. Team Rocket couldn't possibly compete with the League in manpower in this kind of place."
Will shook his head.
The smell of the air in the hospital was too complex—disinfectant, alcohol, herbs, and even the smell of blood and sweat. This almost scrapped his sense of smell.
What he could rely on were only Aura and hearing.
And Aura was like a big stomach that refused no comers, eating whatever messy Auras came its way; in this chaotic environment, it wasn't even as useful as hearing.
Just like at this moment.
Will could hear some footsteps downstairs, very uniformly heading towards a certain direction.
That was the electrical room.
Team Rocket planned to scrap Viridian Hospital's generators, plunging Viridian Hospital into darkness as well.
"Can't let Team Rocket succeed!"
Cynthia sped up her footsteps.
Two men suddenly rushed out from the nurse's station nearby.
But saw a long tail stretch out from behind Cynthia, wrapping around the two men and throwing them directly out the window.
Blonde-kun didn't even take a single look the entire time.
The generators cannot be destroyed.
There are who knows how many surgeries still ongoing inside Viridian Hospital at this moment. Once the generators are destroyed, the interruption of surgeries is secondary; endangering the patients' lives is the major issue.
Why not reschedule the surgeries to other times?
Those that could be delayed were of course delayed.
But some diseases cannot be delayed for even a moment.
There are also some diseases that must be treated every day.
And some diseases cannot be separated from electrical equipment for even a single second.
Just like right at this moment.
Outside, innocent people injured by Team Rocket are still continuously being sent to Viridian Hospital.
Some in severe conditions have even fallen into a state of shock.
The treatment of these people cannot be delayed for even a minute.
"What is Agatha doing?"
Will asked a question.
"Agatha is guarding the main gate. Her Gengar is a Champion-level Pokémon and won't be affected by the Horn of the Dragon God. Team Rocket has no way to get out from there... probably."
Cynthia pursed her lips, feeling a bit unconfident.
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