Ye Chuan was brought to the battleground by Gu Qi. He saw a crowd of onlookers in the distance, seemingly watching something.
Pushing through the crowd, Ye Chuan and Gu Qi saw two people dressed as clowns in the middle of the battleground. They were laughing and joking, as if performing some kind of show.
"This... is the place men like the most?" Ye Chuan looked back and forth, and after confirming that he wasn't seeing things, he looked at the excited Gu Qi beside him with a confused expression.
"Those two are Battle Clowns, they're staff from the Bai Corporation. Their company organized an event today, releasing a certain number of trainers in our city, playing different roles, like Battle Clowns, ordinary working uncles, passing knights, otaku from the YuzuSoft company, etc. As long as you defeat one in a Pokémon battle, you can go and exchange for generous prizes," Gu Qi said with shining eyes.
"I accidentally found the Battle Clowns here, so I rushed to find you. You can battle and get big prizes, don't you like it?!"
So that's how it was.
Ye Chuan looked at the two people dressed as clowns in the distance and asked Gu Qi with a knowing look, "Double battle?"
"Yeah." This was also the reason Gu Qi looked for Ye Chuan. The Battle Clowns required two trainers to challenge them together; she couldn't challenge them alone.
Ye Chuan was a little tempted at this moment. It wasn't so much about the big prize, but he wanted to see the recent training results of Charmander. After all, whether it was training or supplies, almost nothing had been lacking.
Of course, if he could also get a big prize for free, that would be the best for Ye Chuan.
After the two considered it, they walked over.
"Guests, how about a magic trick?" The two clowns were colored blue and red respectively. Seeing Ye Chuan and Gu Qi approach, they asked with a smile.
"That's just a boring trick," Gu Qi said as if reciting lines, seemingly a necessary dialogue.
Seeing this scene, Ye Chuan suddenly felt it was quite fun, like playing a role-playing game in real life.
"Oh, you actually say our magic trick is a boring trick." The blue clown said with a regretful tone.
"Then we must show the guests a good performance." The other red clown drawled out his words. The two of them retreated to the command positions and simultaneously threw out their Poké Balls.
A flash of white light.
A Poliwhirl and a Torkoal appeared, their types coincidentally matching the colors worn by the two clowns.
"Ye Chuan, you deal with Torkoal, I'll take Poliwhirl," Gu Qi said after seeing the opposing Pokémon.
"Okay."
Poliwhirl is the evolved form of Poliwag. It looks like a large, standing frog with a spiral pattern like a mosquito coil on its abdomen. As a Water-type Pokémon, Gu Qi's Snivy had a type advantage.
On Ye Chuan's side, Torkoal was a Fire-type and Charmander was a Fire-type, so neither had a type advantage. However, because they had learned different skills, no one knew what would happen in a real battle.
But no matter what, Gu Qi's Snivy was completely unable to deal with Torkoal.
Some of the audience watching the show, seeing this scene, thought it was a new performance and watched with cheers. So many eager gazes put considerable pressure on Ye Chuan and Gu Qi.
At this moment, the battle had already begun. Torkoal directly spat out Ember towards Snivy. Their plan was naturally to use Torkoal to deal with Snivy, and the Water-type Poliwhirl to battle Charmander.
"Block the Ember."
Charmander stood in front of Snivy, its claw attack directly tearing apart the flying embers. At the same time, Snivy also attacked Poliwhirl, several vines lashing out, making cracking sounds in the air.
"Torkoal, high defense, low speed, its shell is extremely hard. If we go head-to-head..." After Ye Chuan commanded Charmander to intercept Torkoal's attack, he wasn't satisfied with just confronting it. He was also thinking about how to defeat the opponent.
However, Ye Chuan's Charmander was a close-combat type. Torkoal's high defense was exactly what countered close-combat Pokémon. After a few rounds of exchanges, Ye Chuan found that Charmander's attacks didn't do any effective damage to Torkoal.
"So hard," Ye Chuan couldn't help but mutter.
On the other side, Snivy had the upper hand in its battle against Poliwhirl. Given some time, Snivy could defeat Poliwhirl and join Ye Chuan in dealing with Torkoal.
However, things naturally wouldn't go so smoothly.
The red clown grinned: "Torkoal, use Smokescreen to cover Poliwhirl."
A large amount of thick smoke billowed out from the furnace opening on Torkoal's back, enveloping both it and Poliwhirl.
"Hmm?" Gu Qi's Snivy's Vine Whip swept into the thick smoke, but she found that Poliwhirl had disappeared:
"Too much smoke!"
Just at this moment, a flash of fire suddenly flickered in the black smoke. Gu Qi reacted quickly and told Snivy:
"Dodge quickly!"
But it was too late. A blaze shot out from the smoke, directly sweeping across Snivy's body—
Flamethrower!
"Snivy!" This scene happened too suddenly. Gu Qi never expected Torkoal to use Smokescreen to hide itself and its teammate, and then release Flamethrower in the smoke for a sneak attack.
Snivy was a fast-attack type Pokémon, fast but with fragile defense. It had exchanged several rounds with Poliwhirl and hadn't been unharmed. This one Flamethrower directly caused Snivy to fall to the ground, unable to battle.
"I was careless," Gu Qi said with a bit of unwillingness.
"Oh ho, the wonderful magic show is about to end." The red clown made a gesture as if bidding farewell to his opponent.
After all, a Torkoal and a Poliwhirl were not something a single Charmander could deal with.
"Ah Ye..." An Shiyu was also among the onlookers outside the arena. Seeing only Ye Chuan left on the field, she clasped her hands together as if secretly cheering him on:
"Do your best."
Gu Qi recalled Snivy with its Poké Ball, then looked at Ye Chuan apologetically: "Sorry, Ye Chuan, I let you down. It seems it's over."
"Over?" Ye Chuan smiled slightly:
"It doesn't seem to be that early yet."
As soon as the words left his mouth, Gu Qi realized that Charmander was actually gone!
The bright orange color couldn't be found within the visible range of the arena. In that case... Gu Qi quickly looked towards the smoke.
In the thick black smoke, a flash of lightning exploded, instantly shaking the smoke. The remaining smoke slowly dissipated, revealing Charmander's figure. It stood beside Poliwhirl, with electric arcs constantly flickering around its claws, while Poliwhirl had fallen to the ground, unable to battle.
"When did that Charmander rush into the smoke?!"
"It could actually determine Poliwhirl's location?"
Everyone looked at this scene in surprise. Even Gu Qi looked at Ye Chuan incredulously:
"How did you do that?"
"Who knows?" Ye Chuan spread his hands, his eyes slightly covered by a blue light that ordinary people couldn't detect.
"What a wonderful performance. Well then, I'll take my leave first." The blue clown's expression returned to normal. He took out his Poké Ball, recalled Poliwhirl, and then left the arena directly.
"Let's have a defensive trick." The red clown then had Torkoal use Iron Defense, a skill that greatly increases defense. However, because Torkoal needed to harden its body, its movement would become difficult.
Torkoal's already high defense rose another level under the hardening of Iron Defense.
"How do you feel, guest?" The red clown looked at Ye Chuan, speaking with a playful tone.
Ye Chuan smiled and suddenly asked, "Have you heard of a brute?"
"Hmm?" The red clown was taken aback.
"It generally refers to a group of people who don't like to use their brains, they just rush in and deal with things." Ye Chuan said slowly:
"I thought for a long time just now and realized that rather than racking my brains to find a way to break through your defense, why not...
Try going hard?"
As soon as Ye Chuan finished speaking, Charmander's body erupted with red and purple intertwined Dragon-type energy, and its momentum began to rise layer by layer!
Dragon Dance!
In the next second, Charmander moved. It arrived in front of Torkoal with extreme speed, and its lightning-flashing fist directly slammed out!