Chapter 724 Xia Bo's Trouble

While Xiao Zhen was soaking in the hot spring, he was watching his silly son's daily antics.

There was a flash of electric light on a certain street. Because of a conflict between Xiaozhi and Pikachu, he enjoyed a free electric shock package.

Even Huanhuan, who was secretly protecting him behind him, got used to it. After all, this kid was practicing lightning-attributed martial arts, and being shocked more often might improve his cultivation.

Just like in the original story, Xiaozhi and his two friends accidentally entered Xia Bo's inn.

After knowing the identity of the other gym leader, Xiaozhi rashly challenged him directly, but the guy couldn't even command his own Charizard and ended up in a miserable defeat.

Everything seemed to be over, but thanks to the appearance of the Troublemaker Trio, Xia Bo admired Xiao Zhi's kindness and decided to give the young man another chance.

Just as Xiaozhi was about to send out Pikachu, Charizard, who was usually disobedient, stepped forward and took the initiative to take the task.

At the end of the fight, Xia Bo admitted in his heart that Xiaozhi did have the ability to get the badge, and decided to let him go according to the regular process.

After secretly giving a wink, the duck-billed fire dragon understood what its master meant. It comprehended it and lay straight down, looking exhausted.

Xiaozhi's Charizard kept beating its chest, and streams of hot flames spewed into the sky. He had a lot of fun fighting today.

As an expert who specializes in fire-type Pokémon, Xia Bo could tell at a glance that this Charizard was very talented, but it had not received good training and did not listen to its master's orders. In the future, it would at most be at the King level.

After Xiaozhi and his group left, Xiao Zhen found Xia Bo who was preparing to have dinner.

"Oh, guest, the hotel is not accepting guests today. Please go somewhere else to have a look!"

Xiao Zhen patted the dust under the eaves. At this moment, he used some transformation techniques. In the eyes of ordinary people, he was still the handsome and modest gentleman.

"Hey, Xia Bo, as a gym leader, it's fine if you don't run the gym well, but now you don't even do the hotel business. Aren't you afraid of starving to death?"

Xia Bo put down the chopsticks in his hand, touched his smooth head, and his tone became cautious.

"It seems that this visitor has bad intentions. I don't remember how I have offended you. Wait, you look a little familiar!"

Xiao Zhen teased, "You are such a forgetful person. You forgot that a young couple came here ten years ago, and you had a fierce Pokémon battle with that handsome guy!"

Xia Bo had a very good memory. Although a long time had passed, he still found the relevant information in his mind.

Comparing himself with the young man in front of him, he is indeed the brat from back then.

Xia Bo had three major hobbies in his life, one of which was telling riddles.

As a result, when I first met this guy, he mocked his riddles for being boring, and he even gave him a few puzzles that he couldn't solve.

Every time Xia Bo looked in the mirror and saw his bald head, he would think of those puzzles, two of which he had not yet solved.

"Finally I meet you, you bastard. Tell me the answer to the puzzle. I've been thinking about it for years, and all my hair has fallen out. Look at my bald head. You have to take responsibility!"

Xiao Zhen smiled and said, "You are still entangled in those things, can't you say something later?"

Xia Bo was so angry that he chopped the ground and picked up the bench next to him. If he couldn't get the answer he wanted today, don't blame him, a 50-year-old man, for using violence!

Xiao Zhen also felt that this old man was stubborn enough, so he raised his hand and said, "Okay, tell me what you can't solve, and I'll help you solve it!"

"What looks like a chicken? Is the answer a flying chicken?"

“No, it’s trees and horses, because of digital cameras!”

"Damn it, the answer is this. And what is the most common thing on a ship? Is the answer the ship's planks?"

"Wrong again, it's water!"

Xiao Zhen hadn't expected that a few brain teasers he had randomly used from the Internet would stump the old man for so long.

Xia Bo was so angry that he was fuming. After knowing the answer, he felt that it was not that difficult.

Xiao Zhen suddenly asked, "Xia Bo, how is your research going on Team Rocket?"

Xia Bo was suddenly shocked, but soon regained his composure, and said with a smile as always: "What are you talking about? Team Rocket is an evil organization. As a gym leader, how can I get involved with them? If you had come earlier, you would have found that there were two Team Rocket members plus a Meowth, who almost caused me serious damage!"

Xiao Zhen also saw that the old guy was intentionally hiding something, and he had only intended to test him.

Xia Bo is not a simple gym trainer. When he was young, he was the Fire King of the Kanto region for a period of time, but he seemed to like research as much as Professor Oak, so he later resigned and returned to his hometown to open a gym.

Xiao Zhen discovered at the beginning that this old guy was secretly researching some projects that were listed as taboo, but it was better to have less trouble than more, so he had no intention of reporting him.

If the plot develops according to some circumstances, Xia Bo would have had close cooperation with Team Rocket, and even used Mewtwo's cells to create an artificial beast like Mewtwo.

"Xia Bo, I don't care what secrets you have, just take care of yourself!"

After talking a lot of nonsense, Xiao Zhen disappeared here.

There was a gleam of light in Xia Bo's eyes, and he almost wanted to keep the other party here forever.

Team Rocket's recent seizure of other trainers' Pokémon has long caused hostility from the public, and even the league officials have begun to make some arrangements to suppress them.

If his affairs were exposed at this time, I believe some old guys would not give up the opportunity to step on him hard.

Although the alliance represents justice on the surface, it is full of intrigue within it. The reason why he resigned from his position as the king was that he just wanted to find a place to do research in peace.

"I hope this kid won't really report me, otherwise I really will have no choice but to join Team Rocket!"

After sighing, Xia Bo felt that he should prepare a few more escape routes so that when the alliance's arresting personnel blocked the door, he would have no place to escape.

After a series of adventures, Ash and his three friends finally arrived at the location of the last badge, which was Viridian City on the edge of the Great Forest. He had been here before, but he didn't know there was a gym there at that time.

As soon as he arrived at the door of the gym, Xiaozhi found Xiaomao lying on the ground.

According to the original plot, Xiaozhi was really lucky this time. Itsuki, the boss of Team Rocket, who was ostensibly trained at a gym, left the gym because of something important, leaving only the useless trio, allowing Xiaozhi to successfully get the last badge.