Chapter 768 You Don’t Know How Strong He Is

Just as Xia You was being interviewed, in the open-air training ground on the other side of the players' dormitory, Zheya, as the opponent for the next game, was doing the final training with his hat-wearing Meowth and other Pokémon.

But no matter how he trained, he found one thing that could not be solved.

That's the problem with the status of Pokémon.

I had clearly made sufficient preparations privately and trained every day, but when I actually got on the field, it was as if I was wearing an invisible shackle and was unable to exert my full strength.

It is visibly felt by the naked eye that the Pokémon's jumping, running, and moves have been affected and become very unstable. Of course, these are not the most important things. The most important thing is their mentality. Even their own mentality is a little nervous, and it is this nervousness that causes their movements to be slightly deformed.

This is inevitable. After all, we are attending a conference like this. Under the gaze of tens of thousands of spectators, all eyes are focused here. It is difficult to remain indifferent.

Maybe it will take a few more games to get used to it...

Somehow, he thought of his next opponent, the man named Xia You.

Although I have only watched one of his games, I don't know if it's my illusion, but I always feel that his Pokémon don't seem to be affected by this.

Especially the man's mentality, he seemed very calm, as if it was not the first time he encountered such a scene.

This was also something that puzzled him and made him a little wary, but overall, although Xia You's Pokémon had some brilliant performances, in his opinion, Xia You's command was still a little indecisive. There was obviously a chance to win, but it took a long time to decide the outcome.

This also made him feel that maybe tomorrow's battle would be a little tricky, but he would definitely be the winner in the end!

Retracting his thoughts, Zheye turned his attention back to the training ground. Just as he was about to say something to his Meowth, he saw Meowth suddenly take a alert posture, showing his paws and looking towards the entrance of the training ground!

Startled, Zhe quickly turned his head and saw another meow standing under a tree looking at him!

He recognized it immediately, this Meowth was the one from Team Rocket's trio!

Speaking of which, since he met Xiaozhi, he has dealt with the Rocket trio several times. Logically, he would not have any friendship with these guys who often do bad things, but because they all have a Meowth, he and the Rocket trio have more common language.

But this is just the common language between the two cats.

That's all.

So what is it doing here now?

Before Zhe could wonder, he saw his Meowth had already walked towards that Meowth and said something to it.

Meowth glanced at Meowth and Tetsuya who were wearing hats, then turned around, leaving them with only their backs.

"I came here this time just to remind you, meow, never underestimate that man, meow!"

"What does this mean?" Hearing this, Zheye's heart moved and he quickly asked, "Is that man very strong?"

Meowth didn't turn around, but just looked up at the night sky and said in a solemn tone: "You can't understand how powerful he is. Even our Team Rocket, the most powerful organization in the world, is no match for him. Especially those Pokémon that haven't appeared yet. Even just one look at them will make you tremble all over. No matter which one, you can't contend with them!"

Zheye was confused and uncertain.

Is that man that strong?

He was trembling all over after just one look. Isn't that too exaggerated? He was just an ordinary person, not a ghost or god.

Even though he knew that the cat had good intentions in coming to remind him, Zhe didn't take it to heart and just thought it was making a fuss out of nothing.

Just when I was about to say something like I was very strong, I found that the meow disappeared in the blink of an eye!

Ok?

This made Zheya keep his words to himself, but he also began to take the matter more seriously.

It's so mysterious. Could it be that person named Xia You is really as powerful as it says?

But I can't see it at all...

Although he was very skeptical, for the sake of safety, Zhe decided to raise the level of importance he attached to that man a little bit.

After all, it’s better to be careful.

……

Without mentioning these two players, let’s talk about the rooftop of the office building where the Caiyou Conference was held. At this time, the president of the Pokémon League, Damarachi, was standing with his hands behind his back, also looking up at the night sky.

There were footsteps behind him, and without turning around, he seemed to have guessed who it was.

"It's a beautiful night tonight, isn't it?"

"It is beautiful." John, the live broadcast director, walked up to him with a half-burned cigarette in his mouth, "But I like the scene in front of me more."

Hearing his words, Damalan lowered his gaze and saw the main arena in the distance, which was brightly lit under the lights, and the snack street further away, which was bustling with noise.

After a long silence, Dama Lanqi asked, "Do you also disagree with my decision?"

What the two said was a bit confusing, but only the top leaders of the alliance knew that in this decisive tournament, they used some unconventional means to deal with one person, and that person was - Xia You!

For this trainer who won the championship twice in Kanto and Johto and now traveled across the ocean to the Hoenn region to make another sprint for the championship, in order to increase the difficulty for him and prevent him from winning the championship, with the intervention of Damaranch, the league carried out a secret operation, deliberately preventing other people from wasting time, and instead arranged the strongest players in the group with Xia You.

In this way, all the opponents Xia You face will be strong, and if you can defeat him, you will eliminate him as soon as possible and prevent the embarrassing situation where all the championships of the conference are won by one person.

Blowing out a puff of smoke, John shook his head.

"I don't know. I only know that both the investors and the people on the board of directors only care about the ratings. As long as the ratings are guaranteed, they don't mind who wins the championship. The audience will also like such a star player more. And I think if Xia You's strength is really enough to continue to win the championship, no matter how many strong opponents you arrange, he will eventually defeat them, enter the finals, and win the championship."

There was another silence, and after a long time, Damalanqi let out a long sigh.

"I understand what you said, too." He said with emotion, "But how can we not try? Letting one person win all the championships is undoubtedly unhealthy for the development of the league. I can't watch this happen, at least not while I'm still in office..."

What a stubborn old man.

He sighed in his heart, but John decided to persuade her again.

"I have a different opinion on this." He threw the cigarette butt to the ground and stomped it out with his foot. Then he said, "I think that one person winning all the championships is not detrimental to the development of the league. On the contrary, if this is achieved, it will serve as a benchmark. With such a player who has won the Grand Slam and has such unique strength, trainers will only take him as their goal, train hard and find ways to surpass him, instead of letting the entire league fall into a slump as you said."

It can be said that Damalanqi is just old and likes to dwell on trivial matters, but it does not mean that he is short-sighted, otherwise he would not have sat in the position of chairman for so many years.

It is only because the alliance has never encountered a challenger as strong as Xia You before, and it will be beneficial to let him stand at a crossroads, not knowing what to do next.

Hearing John say this now, it really touched him deeply.

Although I still somewhat disagree with his point of view, I have to admit that what John said makes sense.

If it really turns out like that in the end, it will be a completely different picture.

There was silence for the third time, and finally Damalanqi shook his head.

"Maybe, but since we have intervened this time, let's see the results first. If Xia You can still defeat everyone and win the final victory under this arrangement, it will prove that he is indeed a person worthy of being recommended. Then we should consider him as a benchmark figure in the tree as you said, but now, let's focus on the present."

……

At nine o'clock in the morning, the main venue of the Caiyou Conference.

Compared to the previous qualifiers and qualifying tournaments, this final tournament finally came to the largest main venue of the Caiyou Conference.

As a main competition, even though it was only the first round of battle, this venue that could accommodate 80,000 people was already full.

The atmosphere in the small venue is completely incomparable to that in the large venue at this moment.

With a scale of 80,000 people, even a single applause or a single wave of cheers can be earth-shaking, and it is undoubtedly an adjustment for the contestants' mentality.

Amid the cheers of the crowd, Xia You walked out of the contestant channel with a calm face and stood opposite Zhe Ye on the other side.

Before him, a fight had already taken place here, which heated up the scene. The fight between Xia You and Zhe Ye was the second one of the day.

There was a high platform under the feet of the two men, which was covered with a lid. This would be the battlefield where the battle would take place soon.

After entering the main competition, as mentioned before, the competition adopts a system of all-out battle between six Pokémon. The Pokémon used can be freely replaced in the middle, and there are four different venues: grass, rock, water and ice, which are randomly selected by the wheel.

After the initial venue selection, if either side has three Pokémon defeated, there will be a break and a new venue will be selected to continue the battle.

In general, it was no different from the Quartz Conference and Silver Conference that Xia You had attended before.

After briefly introducing the two players, the host's voice continued to echo over the field: "Now that both players are ready, let's see what the first half of the field is like!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a huge roulette wheel appeared on the big screen in the arena. On the roulette wheel were icons representing four venues with different attributes. The roulette wheel spun at a high speed, and after more than ten seconds, it slowly stopped.

The pointer finally pointed to a water drop pattern.

"It's the water venue! The first half of contestants Xia You and Tetsuya have been confirmed, and they will fight in the water venue!"

The water venue...

Xia You also pondered for a moment about this venue.

There aren't many Pokémon that I can have in the water venue, so compared to the other three venues, it is indeed subject to certain restrictions.

But it doesn't matter, he believes that his Pokémon will definitely win.

Just after the venue was confirmed, the lid in front of them was opened. With a turn of gears, a pool filled with water with a dozen rocks exposed on top appeared in front of everyone.

Under the gaze of the audience, Xia You and Zhe also took out their first Poké Balls at the same time.

Just before they released the Pokémon, Xiaozhi and his friends in the stands started guessing with great interest.

Masamune looked at the others and asked, "Who do you think will win this game?"

"It must be Brother Xia You." Xiaoxia said without hesitation, "No matter how powerful that man named Zheye is, he will never be a match for Brother Xia You!"

Masamune completely ignored her answer.

Because he didn't know her, he didn't know that the girl in front of him was also a trainer and came from a gym family. He thought she was just a pretty girl. In his opinion, the answer given by such a person was not worth it at all.

He turned his head to Xiaozhi, and unexpectedly, Xiaozhi's answer was the same as Xiaoxia's.

"I also think it's Brother Xia You. He is the most powerful person I have ever met. No one has ever been able to defeat him in a 6-on-6 battle!"

"I also guessed it was Xia You." Xiao Gang laughed, "Not only Zhe Ye, in fact, I think everyone present should not be his opponent."

"What?" Masamune shook his head at the answers. "Why are you guessing him? In my opinion, Tetsuya's previous performance was obviously better. I think Tetsuya should win in the end, but it won't be an easy win. I guess he should be able to defeat the last few Pokémon."

Just as they were guessing, Xia You and Zheye's Pokémon also appeared.

Zheya’s first Pokémon was a Lizardlord, which surprised Xia You a little. He didn’t expect that he would give up the advantage of the field and send out a Grass-type Starter Pokémon.

However, there is nothing wrong with this choice. It can also be considered that Zhe predicted that he would use water-type Pokémon on the field, so he used grass-type Pokémon that restrained water-type Pokémon to counter it.

I can only say that he is indeed very smart and his prediction was correct.

He opened his Poké Ball, and with a flash of blue light, a Pokémon appeared in the water.

When they saw this Pokémon, Satoshi and Misty in the stands all nodded in understanding.

"It turned out to be Brother Xia You's Blastoise. This way, we have basically won it."

Masamune was even more puzzled when he heard that they could easily conclude that Xia You would win.

"Hey, even though this is a water field and we sent a Pokémon like Blastoise, Lizardlord can counter Blastoise. So, Lizardlord should be the winner, right?"

Unexpectedly, Xiaozhi grinned and said to Masamune: "The reason you say that is because you don't know how strong this Blastoise is! When you see its strength later, you will know why we say that!"

"what?"

Now Masamune was completely confused.

He really didn't understand what kind of strength would allow these people to ignore the attribute restraint and believe so firmly that the man named Xia You would win!