svetikya Chapter 169 Are poachers even human?
Chapter 169 Are poachers even human?
Chapter 169 Are Poachers Human Too? (Part 2)
Before returning to Pallet Town, Ash wanted to also make a trip to Vermilion City to fulfill his promise to help Gengar find a trainer.
So now they need to ride dragons to the outlying islands, and then take a boat to the port of Konoha City.
"Isn't Orange Island the capital of the Orange Alliance? Why do we have to take a boat all the way there?"
Looking at the map, Xiaoxia couldn't help but complain; she had been really looking forward to going home.
But I didn't expect that it would take an extra day to get from Citrus Island to the outlying islands.
"Just because Citrus Island is the capital, all the ports have been temporarily converted into cargo ports for better development."
"This means that larger passenger ships can only transit through ports on outlying islands."
Ash didn't care, since the ferry route from the island to Vermilion City even passed by the site where Team Rocket's San Ann sank.
It's also a good opportunity to go back and reminisce about the old days.
His biggest problem right now is that he's short of money.
Once you're about to leave the Orange Islands, the system shop will refresh again.
He wanted to take advantage of this time to buy all the good stuff in the store, but he really lacked working capital.
"Where else can I make money quickly in a short period of time?"
Just as Ash closed his eyes and pondered deeply, Lapras suddenly became excited and kept calling out in a distant direction.
"Oh, oh~!"
"What's wrong with Chenglong?"
"Ash, look! A whole bunch of Lapras!" Misty quickly handed Ash the binoculars.
Sure enough, on the distant horizon, a large army of dragons of varying sizes slowly appeared, swimming along.
Seeing how happy Lapras was, Ash immediately understood.
"These dragons must be its family."
When Ash took Lapras from the center, he promised to find it a family.
Unexpectedly, they met now. Although Xiaozhi was very reluctant, he decided to keep his promise.
Seeing that Lapras was still a little hesitant, Ash gently stroked its head. "Come on, Lapras, let's go!"
When it's time to say goodbye, I always feel a little sad.
However, when Ash approached with Lapras, the group of wandering creatures opposite did not show any joy at the return of their companion.
Instead, he looked indifferent and even slightly hostile.
Only one of the lighter-colored Lapras showed obvious excitement when it saw Ash's Lapras.
It wanted to rush out to Ash's side, and Lapras was also very excited when it saw it.
"It seems this must be the mother of the baby lacrosse."
[Ding! Congratulations on completing the side quest "Little Lapras Finds Its Mother": Please help Little Lapras find its family]
[Rewards: Alliance Coins +2000; Free Attribute Points +4; Skill: Surf]
"As expected." Ash controlled Lapras, trying to get a little closer.
But soon, an unexpected scene unfolded: the mother dragon was stopped by the leader of the tribe.
The Lapras all stared warily at Ash and his friends.
"Are things a little off, Ash?" Misty noticed as well; the Lapras seemed ready to attack at any moment.
"The dragons are clearly a very gentle race."
"Fear, terror, and disgust"
Ash felt something was off because he could clearly sense their emotions through the waveguide.
"What happened to these dragons? Why do they all look at us like this—"
The Lapras chieftain swam out to the outer edge of the group, just about to launch an attack to stop Ash and his friends from getting closer.
But as Ash and his friends got closer, the Lapras chieftain's expression turned to one of utter shock.
"Oh, oh?!" (My God, how did this child grow so big?!)
Ash's Lapras is much larger than a regular Lapras because it ate Nurse Joy's calcium supplements.
To an ordinary Lapras, this is just a muscular Titan with a baby face!
The closer they got, the more exaggerated it seemed. The Dragon Clan Chief was dumbfounded and dared not launch an attack.
After a moment of silence, it finally chose to turn around and return to its herd with a cold expression.
Then he led his army of Lapras away quickly, and as he got further away, he turned back and shouted to warn the little Lapras not to come any closer.
This hurt the little Lapras very much, and Ash and Pikachu could only comfort it first.
Just then, a pleasant female voice suddenly came from afar.
"Hey, this is a Pokémon Nature Reserve! How did you manage to trespass here?!"
It turned out to be Officer Jenny, who was piloting a small boat. She was also looking at Ash and his friends with a wary expression.
"You guys aren't poachers, are you? — Oh, I'm so sorry, isn't this Honorary Trainer Ash?"
After seeing Ash's face clearly, Officer Jenny immediately apologized, feeling embarrassed.
Ash is now quite a celebrity in the Orange League, after all, he is the only League Honorary Trainer in recent years to defeat the champion. "I'm really sorry for yelling at you, I've been a bit stressed lately because of those poachers."
Officer Jenny apologized again, but Ash certainly didn't take it to heart.
"It's alright, Officer Jenny. You were just doing your job. But could you tell us more about the poachers?"
It seems that someone has appeared who can answer Xiaozhi's questions.
Seeing the serious expressions on Ash and Lapras's faces, Officer Jenny took them to the police station in a nearby island town.
I told them about what had recently happened in the nature reserve.
"Those poachers only arrived here about a month ago. They are ruthless, well-equipped, and even their boats are equipped with cannons."
"They've already succeeded several times in the protected area." Officer Jenny said through gritted teeth.
"The most important Pokémon in our nature reserve is Lapras, and we've lost several of them to their wrath."
"No wonder those dragons are so wary of unfamiliar humans."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Zhi understood that it was the fault of those bastards.
"And recently they've been coming every day, as if they won't stop until they've caught all the Pokémon in the protected area!"
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"The poachers are so arrogant, doesn't the alliance do anything about it?" This was the first time Xiaoxia had ever seen such brazen poachers.
"I also reported it, but the reply from above was that recently, in order to carry out post-disaster reconstruction and prevent the Rocket Force, a large number of police officers have been dispatched to other islands to help."
"It will take at least a month before we can send someone to help. The reserve is really powerless to do anything about it."
If you wait a month, those poachers will probably be long gone.
"We usually have to rely on Miss Joey from the center and the helpful citizens of the town to barely keep patrolling."
Officer Jenny looked very disappointed as the Pokémon she was protecting was taken away like this, and she was powerless to do anything about it.
"Those poachers never treat the Pokémon they capture kindly!"
Xiaoxia felt indignant when she heard this; she thought these kinds of people were the most annoying.
"Ash, how about we help catch the poachers?"
"Yes, I would do it even for Lapras." Ash would never refuse to deal with poachers.
"But those poachers are numerous and have 20 stinging jellyfish, making them very difficult to deal with."
Although Officer Jenny was touched by Ash and his friends' willingness to help, she still wanted to persuade them out of her police ethics.
After all, they are vicious criminals; it would be bad if innocent people got hurt.
"Leave it to us, Pikachu. I and the Pokémon are more than enough to handle them, right?"
"Pikachu, Pikachu!"
Ash's strength as an honorary trainer is undeniable.
Officer Jenny is currently at a loss with the poachers and has no choice but to leave the task to Ash and his friends.
"Please be careful."
"Don't worry, the ones who should be careful now that he's in Ash's hands are those poachers!"
[Ding! Congratulations on triggering a new side quest "Sin Buster": Bring all evil to justice, save the protected area, and catch the poachers!]
【奖励：联盟币+5000；攻击+1；自由属性点+2；地区好感度+10；地区威望+10】
Ash also had his own selfish motives; those poachers must be quite rich after stealing so many Pokémon.
The money these poachers make is my money.
"This money tainted with evil should be purified by the righteous Xiaozhi!"
Before officially setting off, Ash contacted James and the others.
Having learned that these poachers had no connection with Team Rocket, and since Ash couldn't obtain their location information from within beforehand, he had no choice but to resort to a clumsy method.
According to Officer Jenny, the poachers are now coming to the reserve every day.
So Ash and his friends watched as Lapras arrived at a secluded spot in the protected area's waters and hid, preparing to ambush it.
"Chenglong, your family members ended up like that because they were attacked by these poachers."
"If we catch all these poachers together, you can be reunited with your mother!"
"Oh~, oh~"
These poachers were quite accommodating; they appeared immediately before Ash had even finished lying in wait.
They were piloting a large pirate ship that was rampaging across the sea.
It's quite remarkable that such an ancient and classic ship design still exists in this day and age.
Even the poachers on board were dressed like pirates and sailors.
"Looks like this is a bunch of slightly delusional bastards."
Their target was indeed Lapras, the most precious Pokémon in the protected area.
"Captain has spotted the target."
On the lookout tower of the pirate ship, a chubby sailor relayed information to the captain in charge of the cabin below, completely unaware of Ash and his friends not far away.
"Full speed ahead! The Alliance members here are a bunch of idiots. Attack as soon as you see a Lapras!"
The captain let out a strange, grating laugh.
"The buyer has already paid half the deposit. All we need to do is secure these dragons, and our entire month's bidding process will be complete!"
"We'll make a fortune then, and everyone can go out and have a good time!"
The thought of the money they were about to receive excited everyone on the ship, and they rushed towards the dragon-riding group.
Although they may look comical, poachers are still poachers after all.
Several of their companions on the ship immediately released more than twenty Tentacruels from their Poké Balls, surrounding the Lapras.
Some brave dragons in the tribe tried to resist, but they were immediately suppressed by the cannon fire from the bandit gang's bed.
The stinger jellyfish mercilessly pierced the dragons, causing several to collapse helplessly from poisoning.
The dragons could only flee in panic, but unfortunately, they were already surrounded.
Despair filled the face of the Dragon Clan Chief.
"Laser, Freeze Ray!"
The cannons on the pirate ship were instantly frozen by the freezing rays that came from afar, causing several to explode.
"Damn it, who is it?" The captain looked around furiously.
Meanwhile, Ash and his friends rode on Lapras's back, sailing through the waves.
"You bastards, how dare you make a Water Pokémon do this? I won't let you get away with this!"
Misty, who loves Water-type Pokémon the most, is furious to see Tentacruel being used for evil purposes.
Immediately release Staryu, Milotic, and Ash's Lapras to defeat the Tentacruel that have to obey their trainers' orders.
Meanwhile, the mother dragon and the chieftain of the tribe watched in surprise as the little dragon appeared like a divine being to save them. After hesitating for a moment, they still followed the little dragon and launched an attack on the bandit gang.
Xiao Zhi certainly wouldn't be polite to these scumbags.
Xia was in charge of dealing with the twenty stinging jellyfish, while he, of course, was responsible for taking care of the guys on the ship.
With Pikachu on its back, it leaps powerfully from the back of Lapras, descends from the sky, and smashes the deck of the pirate ship like a cannonball.
"What is that?!"
"It looks like a person, Captain!"
"Idiot, how could that be? Would a person falling make that kind of noise?"
The poaching gang's captain pointed excitedly at the dust and holes on the deck, shouting as if he were astonished by the stupidity of his men.
At that moment, a pair of strong, powerful hands suddenly sprang out from the smoke and grabbed the captain's index finger, slapping it upwards.
"ah--!"
The screams were heart-wrenching; the index finger was cruelly severed, bent at a ninety-degree angle.
Ash's face, with its playful smile, slowly appeared in the captain's eyes.
"Hey, are you ready for your punishment, baby~"
"Aaaaaah!"
The intense pain nearly made the captain faint.
"Idiot, hurry up and attack him!"
The surrounding sailors, as if waking from a dream, immediately drew their pistols and fired at Ash.
"What a bunch of desperados, able to shoot people so easily—"
Ash burst into a burst of energy, his hair standing on end. His left hand was still gripping the captain's index finger, while his right hand covered the crystallized area and grabbed at the ping-pong ball in front of him a few times.
Then, he opened his palm, and the bullets fell out one by one.
Thump, thump, thump—the sound of bullets falling was also the sound of the poaching crew's heartbeats.
"This is a monster!"
Everyone was terrified and didn't dare to breathe.
"Pikachu, Thunderbolt!"
A bright yellow lightning bolt struck, instantly plunging the band of thieves into darkness.
Several of the stronger ones immediately let out strange cries and tried to struggle backward and run away.
Ash kicked the captain away, using his body to knock down all the fleeing ships.
Ash's figure slowly approached, his shadow completely enveloping the bodies of the gang members in front of him.
"Oh~ come out, my little darlings, don't make me do it myself."
The two Poké Balls immediately opened, and two familiar Pokémon emerged from them.
One of them is tall and strong with four arms, while the other is thick, sturdy, and powerful!
To punish these poachers, Ash specially teleported his two old friends from Oak's lab.
"Super strength, super strength!" (Wow, great physique!)
"Oh, oh!" (Oh~, delicious!)
It's our interrogation duo, the Mighty Giant and the Super Iron Tyrannosaurus Rex team.
Ash put his arm around Machamp and the others' shoulders and gave them a charming smile.
XZ Superman is coming to punish criminals!
"Now, drive it yourself!"
[Ding! Congratulations on completing the side quest "Sin Buster": Bring all evil to justice, save the protected area, and catch the poachers!]
【获得奖励：联盟币+5000；攻击+1；自由属性点+2；地区好感度+10；地区威望+10
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Ash grabbed the captain, who had already been thoroughly pampered, and extracted the whereabouts of the poaching gang's vault from him.
This time the harvest was surprisingly large, a full 100 million!
"Aren't these bastards a little too rich?"
At that moment, Xiaoxia's voice came from below, saying that they had finished dealing with the stinging jellyfish.
Ash hung all the poachers on the bow of the boat as targets, letting the Lapras use Ice Shards on them and giving them a small reward.
This has become a must-do activity for the children in the dragon race to show off their skills and power.
Ash's Lapras's Ice Shards are large, thick, and accurate, and every time they are used, they elicit cheers from his friends.
Meanwhile, Lapras's mother swam contentedly beside it, for thanks to Ash and Misty's help, the old chieftain had put aside his prejudice against humans and accepted the baby Lapras back into his fold.