There must be some secret hidden on this new island, so you must follow my instructions from now on. If you act recklessly, you might cause trouble.
Remember to stay close to me and Lucario, and don't make a sound."
Once ashore, Xia Mu released Sonia and spoke to her.
"I…I understand. So we're going to gather intelligence from the shadows?" With the light on, Sonia was noticeably less timid.
Xia Mu nodded, thanked the red Gyarados for its hard work, and then put it into its Poké Ball.
He and Lucario exchanged a knowing glance, nodded, and then led Sonia up the stone steps.
As they walked, Xia Mu used his Aura to scan a small area.
During this process, he had Lucario conceal its Aura to avoid detection.
After all, Lucario's strength was undeniable; if Mewtwo detected its Aura, hiding would be pointless.
Fortunately, there were no surveillance cameras, so their every move went unnoticed.
Reaching the middle level, Xia Mu suddenly stopped, his gaze fixed on a drainpipe.
He remembered that Team Rocket had entered the island's laboratory through a drainpipe in the original story.
"Xia Mu, you're not planning to go this way, are you?" Sonia looked up at the top of the stone steps, not far from the exit, and then at the dark sewers, showing some reluctance.
"I told you before, Lucario and I both possess Aura abilities. Just now, I discovered that the island's interior is completely hollow, so going through here might yield unexpected discoveries." Xia Mu said, stepping into the drainpipe.
The damp environment and the nauseating stench...
Sonia, helpless, could only cover her mouth and nose and follow closely behind Xia Mu, hoping he was right.
After walking about four or five hundred meters, the narrow drain suddenly branched into two paths. Without the power of aura to navigate, it would be quite troublesome.
After scanning the area with the aura, Xia Mu finally found the correct path and chose the left branch.
At this moment, Xia Mu felt Alittle excited.
He was about to witness an incredibly powerful technology in the Pokémon world:
gene cloning!
And a perfect replication of a completely new and identical life form.
"Xia Mu, should we go back to the original path? If we encounter danger, we won't even have a chance to run away," Sonia suddenly said after walking for an unknown amount of time.
She was genuinely scared; her voice had changed.
"We'll be there soon, at most three hundred meters. We can enter that inner space. I scanned it just now; it should be some kind of laboratory," Xia Mu said, trying to provoke Sonia with this information.
She was a researcher and a scientific scientist, so she was very sensitive to places like laboratories.
"Let's hurry up."
With Sonia's shoving, the two of them and Lucario quickly exited the sewers and entered the inner space.
Xia Mu wasn't lying; it wasn't because he knew the original plot that he said this, but because he genuinely scanned with his Aura.
"Just as you said, Xia Mu, this really is a laboratory, and there's no one here...
"Fully automated equipment? These machines are all so strange, giving me a feeling that's both familiar and unfamiliar." Sonia eagerly walked to a machine and examined it closely.
After looking at it for a long time, she went around to another machine.
When she saw the cylindrical culture dishes behind it, she couldn't help but exclaim, startling Xia Mu and Lucario.
Fortunately, she didn't make a loud noise, otherwise it would have attracted attention.
Standing in the three culture dishes in front of them were the three cloned Pokémon from the original story:
Charizard, Venusaur, and Blastoise.
The final evolutions of the starter Pokémon, and all of them were level 55.
This level was extremely high, definitely league champion level. No wonder they were able to suppress Corey and Xiao Tian's Venusaur and Blastoise.
Ash's Charizard, on the other hand, lost unjustly.
According to the progress of the story, Ash's Charizard's level was at most Alittle over level 40.
"Xia Mu, I know what these machines are!" Sonia snapped out of her daze, her words bringing Xia Mu back to his senses. He looked at her, not interrupting her, but waiting for her to continue.
"This is a cloning machine! Although I've never seen one in person, I've seen similar materials.
I never imagined it would be manufactured and used here, and these three Pokémon are products of genetic engineering," Sonia said.
Her extensive knowledge astonished Xia Mu.
Indeed, this world was far more complex than he had imagined. As a researcher, Sonia had access to many scientific research products, so it wasn't surprising that she had seen blueprints for such equipment.
Besides, her grandmother, Professor Magnolia, was a super expert.
"I'm increasingly curious about who the owner of the new island is.
Cloning machines are strictly prohibited by the League because they are disrespectful to life."
"While it's unavoidable for culturing cells and tissues in medicine, it would never be used to cultivate Pokémon like this..."
As Sonia continued, Xia Mu was introduced to more areas.
According to her, cloning machines had already been used in the medical field.
It's just that Team Rocket used the cloning machine to clone Mewtwo, and then Mewtwo, for revenge, cloned a copy...
Just as he was about to speak, a sound came from the other end of the laboratory.
The two tensed up, while Lucario shielded Xia Mu and Sonia.
Until the sewer cover was opened, three figures crawled out, occasionally grumbling.
It was Team Rocket's Jessie, James, and Meowth.
Their eyes met, and the Team Rocket trio immediately tensed up.
They had trespassed on someone else's territory and were now being discovered; naturally, they were afraid.
Especially since there was a Pokémon they had never seen before, which looked quite powerful.
"Um... would you believe me if I said we got lost?" "James laughed awkwardly,
looking exactly like someone caught red-handed thief.
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