Elf: A bad trainer starts from farming

Chapter 111 Investigating Riolu (please subscribe, please vote)
  That night, in a hotel near the port area in Binhai City, Mingyou was sitting in the room, using the hotel's own computer to look up relevant information.

They were all asleep, and only Smoocha was circling around him, investigating together what happened in Binhai City these days...especially starting with stray Pokémon!
  "If Riolu knew about that Pokémon, then the person who did this kind of thing was most likely a stray Pokémon... Why didn't you say it? Was he bullied by the other party, so he didn't dare? Or was it them? We have a good relationship, are we friends?”

Mingyu thought about many possibilities, but he didn't expect that the thief was Riolu, and he didn't realize that he even treated the other party to fried chicken, but failed to get the card that gained favor.

Although the other party behaved a little suspiciously, compared with the thief who would use his identity document to cause trouble, the contrast was really huge.

"Let me be healthy..."

Just look at the official website for fun, mainly reading the replies from local people in the forum. This is good in the Internet age. Then he looked at the replies to some posts on the forum...

"As for the issue of seawater, I go fishing near the port area every day. Recently, the seawater here stinks for some reason. It has started to grow stinky mud. When fishing, I can only catch carp."

"Is this happening? It's okay here in the port area. So many people don't smell it every day."

"There is indeed one thing. I smelled it when I took my swimming ring ferret for a walk there two days ago, and then it was unwilling to go there in the past two days."

"Remember there is a large sewer outlet near the port area. It should be coming from there, right? It will be fine after a while."

"..."

Looking at the first post, Mingyou didn't pay too much attention. He quickly scrolled down for a while and finally saw one about stray Pokémon...

"Have any of you seen that charming cat with protruding tail hair? Next to the convenience store on the 4th block, I used to feed him every day. But half a month ago, I went to the Carlos area for a few days and came back. Never saw it again.”

"A stray Pokémon?"

"Yes, I originally wanted to take it home, but my parents wouldn't let it..."

"Then they must have been driven away, right? Didn't they make an announcement at the beginning of the month that in order to prepare for the Lily of the Valley Conference, all stray Pokémon on the street should be driven away to other places so as not to affect the appearance of the city."

"Ah? Where did you rush to?"

"I don't know about this. It may be in a relatively remote place in the city. Anyway, I will definitely come back after relaxing for a while, but I have to say that the streets are really clean these days, and there are no skunks. He and Meow Meow snatched the food from the trash can, and ended up fighting and causing a stink."

"..."

After reading this post from a few days ago, Mingyou touched his chin, tilted his head, and fell into thinking.

"In order to prepare for the Suzuran Tournament, are you doing a thorough cleaning of Binhai City? After all, this is the closest place to Suzuran Island, and there will be many tourists and players coming here. There is no problem with this approach..."

As he thought about it, he continued to browse and saw some more articles about stray Pokémon, and also found a post about Riolu!
  The post was posted two days ago, and there are pictures...

"This Riolu with a backpack is so cute. Every day at noon and evening, he comes to the convenience store where I work on time to buy a lot of food and leaves. He is also very polite and greets us~"

"Did you buy it for the trainer?"

"No, this child is a wild Pokémon. It may have companions to take care of. Sometimes I would secretly stuff it with some bread. I originally wanted to fix the relationship and try to tame it, but I gave up in the end. Because I don’t have time to take care of it, I still have a cat to raise.”

“Hitting workers’ tears.”

"..."

Looking at the convenience store in the picture, Mingyou took out his cell phone Rotom and looked for it, and found that it was near the port area, quite close to him.

"I go to the convenience store every day at noon and evening to buy a lot of food...but where does the money come from?"

Mingyu was a little curious. If it was once in a while, it would be normal, but if you have a stray Pokémon there every day, it would be abnormal.

"Mouh~"

Let me just say, there is something wrong with this guy!
  Si Mocha turned the tea ladle in his hand and pointed at the picture on the screen, seeming to have locked onto the target.

At this time, Mingyou closed the computer and stood up: "Let's go over and take a look. This convenience store is open 24 hours a day. I hope we can catch the cashier working the night shift."

"Mouh~"

Mingyou and Smoocha left together, maybe they could get more information from the person who posted the message.

In this season, the street temperature in Binhai City is less than 10 degrees Celsius at night, but under the neon lights, there is a lot of traffic, people and Pokémon coming and going, living their own nightlife.

I walked to the "Narumi Convenience Store" on the map. Although it was open 24 hours a day, it was already ten o'clock in the evening and there were very few customers.

Mingyou stood at the door and looked at it for a while, and then walked in with Smoocha. The convenience store door automatically slid to both sides. The girl with a single ponytail who was alone at the checkout counter, hugging Meow Meow to warm her hands, saw a customer coming. She immediately stood up and said hello with a smile.

"Welcome~"

"Ah."

Mingyou nodded politely in response, then took two bags of bread that Riolu had purchased in the picture from the shelf, and walked to the checkout counter.

"The total is 16 yuan, scan the QR code to pay here."

The cashier girl pointed to the QR code. Mingyu scanned it with Rotom on her mobile phone, and then said deliberately: "This bread is quite delicious. I read a post on the Internet and said that there is a wild Riolu. Which convenience store can I buy this bread at?”

"Haha, it's actually this convenience store, and I posted that post."

The girl who was the cashier had no doubt whether this was a deliberate cliché or too simple.

When he heard this, Mingyou immediately looked very surprised: "Is this here? What a coincidence. Does it really come here every day?"

"Yeah, but I've been working the night shift for the past two days and haven't seen it. But today I heard from my colleagues who work the day shift that it seemed to be chased by some people in black clothes and black ruga in the afternoon..."

"Ok?"

Mingyou was stunned for a moment, but the cashier girl said with some self-reproach: "Maybe my post was on the homepage and some bad people focused on it. Although no one responded to ask me about it, But I have this suspicion for no reason.”

"..."

Mingyou was speechless for a moment, feeling that he was being connoted inexplicably. After all, he did read the post and then came here...

"Ahem... By the way, do you know which direction it escaped?"

He subconsciously asked, but as soon as these words came out, the cashier girl became alert instantly, picked up the phone and looked at him nervously: "You are not a bad person, are you! It seems that you have been asking about it!"

"..."

Why did you react now?

Mingyou looked embarrassed and responded with a smile: "Don't get me wrong, I just heard you say that it was being chased by bad guys, so I was a little worried."

"Really? (Doubtful)"

"of course it's true……"

"Well, I believe you, they should have run towards the port area, but it has been so long, and I don't know its situation."

"Maybe he has escaped..."

Mingyu recalled the new injuries on Riolu's body, which seemed to have been caused by these people, but he managed to escape in the end.

And if they were running in the direction of the port area, plus Riolu's injury, it must mean that there was a fight between them.

However, there were many people in the port area, but this incident was not reported by the media, which means that the fighting took place in a place with few people.

So here’s the question. Riolu could obviously run to a place with a lot of people and seek help from a passerby to escape successfully, but why did he have to run to a place with fewer people? Is there something shameful?

Thinking about these questions, Mingyou's thoughts gradually became clearer. Is there any place in the port area where Riolu could escape? There is only one answer...

"It's the sewer!"

"Moh?"

Si Mocha was a little confused. Did he go off topic?
  Mingyu shook his head, because when he wiped Riolu's body before, he smelled a faint sewer smell on him.

The online post just now also mentioned that there was a smell in the waters near the port area recently, so Riolu must have used the sewer outlet there to escape pursuit, and Heiluga could not use the smell to pursue him.

"Hehe... let's go to the sewer drill over there. Maybe there will be a surprise!"

With that said, Mingyou left the convenience store with Smoocha. The cashier girl, who was holding Meowth in her arms, watched the other person leave and muttered in a low voice: "He is obviously a good-looking person... Why did he get so excited when he mentioned getting into the sewer?" What's up? He's not the old man in the red hat."

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(End of this chapter)