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Chapter 120 Bai Ling's Mission

After a brief introduction of their identities, Lu An led Bai Ling to a secluded, tree-lined path:

"Tell me, what brings you to Golden University all of a sudden?"

Lu An gave Bai Ling a threatening look, clearly indicating that if Bai Ling tried anything else, Lu An wouldn't let her get away with it.

Seeing this, Bai Ling, who was also a Pokémon Investigator in Kanto like Lu An, raised her hands in surrender:

"The old men sent me to find you."

"The old men?"

Lu An was slightly taken aback.

Among the investigators, there is a group of people who are highly capable, have a high mission success rate, are all from the Kanto region, and, more importantly, are very young. They are the backbone of the younger generation in the investigator organization.

These pillars of the organization often refer to the top leaders of the investigators as "old men."

Of course, sometimes when they're in a bad mood, they might also call him "old man".

The "old men" that Bai Ling mentioned undoubtedly refer to the top figures in the organization.

"Why did those old men send you to find me?"

Bai Ling rolled her eyes at Lu An:

"Are you really unaware or pretending not to know? It's just that news of your situation in Hoenn has already reached Kanto, and the old men discussed it and decided to recall you to headquarters."

Lu An suddenly understood upon hearing this.

Judging by the time, he has been back in Kanto for several days now. With the investigators' intelligence sources spanning several continents, they should have recalled Lu An long ago.

but......

"Given their style, shouldn't they have just called me back directly? Why would they send you to find me?"

"What? Do they want you to snatch the red orb from me? Or are they going to take me back to headquarters under detention and interrogation?"

Upon hearing Lu An's words, Bai Ling rolled her eyes again:

"Come on, they know your strength better than I do. If they really want to capture you, at least Wataru should be leading the team. I'll just be helping out at most."

"But don't worry, if that day ever comes, I will faithfully carry out the investigator's mission and bring you to justice."

"Then, I'll put your head under the guillotine..."

"Crack!"

As she spoke, Bai Ling even gestured dramatically, demonstrating the scene of Lu An's heads rolling under the guillotine, causing Lu An to roll his eyes repeatedly.

After a few jokes, Bai Ling's eyes were full of curiosity:

"So, it's true that the report says you have a second red gem?"

Although Bai Ling is a bit crazy and eccentric, her relationship with Lu An is still quite reliable.

Back when Lu An was still a greenhorn investigator, he and Bai Ling had carried out many missions together, and the two even had a life-or-death bond.

Although they have hardly gone on missions together in the past two years due to their improved abilities, their friendship remains.

Lu An did not hide Bai Ling's thoughts. He simply stretched out his right hand, flipped it over, and an ordinary red bead appeared in his palm.

Upon seeing the red gem, Bai Ling's pupils immediately contracted:

"You really have a red orb? Where did you get it? And how did you conjure it up just now? You didn't have anywhere to put it on you."

Bai Ling's rapid-fire questions gave Lu An a headache:

"It's always been with me, but I've used a trick to make it invisible to you. As for where I got it from, I can't say."

"cut."

Bai Ling pouted dismissively, clearly displeased with Lu An's act of concealing the truth.

"Speaking of which, is this the red orb that's said to grant Groudon the power to possess it? It doesn't look particularly special."

Bai Ling curiously stretched out her finger, wanting to touch the red pearl.

But Lu An flipped his hand, and the red pearl vanished instantly, leaving Bai Ling's slender white finger empty-handed.

"Hey! Lu An! What do you mean! You won't tell me where the red pearl came from, and now you won't even let me touch it! Are you trying to kill me?!"

Seeing Bai Ling on the verge of going crazy, Lu An quickly held her down:

“Listen to me, the red orb is connected to the sleeping Groudon. If you touch it, Groudon will leave a mark on you. If he wakes up one day, you may be controlled by him because of it.”

This is not Lu An exaggerating. In the original manga, everyone who touched the orb was more or less affected by Groudon and Kyogre.

In the underwater cave, Himura, one of the three Flames of Team Magma who had come into contact with the Orb, was still affected despite being unconscious, and displayed a berserk side.

Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, Lu An did not want Bai Ling to be tainted by the karma of the Sea and Land Gods.

Bai Ling knew Lu An wouldn't deliberately lie to her about something like this, so she subconsciously shivered.

"Being targeted by Groudon, the god of the earth? I have no right to suffer such consequences. Forget it, I have no interest in this red orb anyway. Whether you hand it over or not is none of my business. You can keep this for yourself."

"As for why they sent me to specifically call you back to headquarters, it's probably because they know their own limitations and that you might not obey them, so they need a beautiful woman to captivate you."

As she spoke, Bai Ling, wearing a pleated skirt, struck a seductive pose and blew a breath at Lu An with affectionate eyes.

However, Lu An simply smiled faintly at Bai Ling's feigned attitude:

"If you wore black stockings that covered the absolute territory under your pleated skirt, I might actually be lured back to headquarters. Otherwise, the way you are now, it's no different for me than watching my brother do a pole dance."

To be honest, his brother's pole dancing was more attractive to him than Bai Ling, but Lu An didn't say it out loud.

Bai Ling's expression changed, she immediately stopped what she was doing, and snorted coldly:

"Besides using our connections to ask you, the Dark Pillar of the Investigator, to grace us with your presence at headquarters, I suspect it might also be related to the mission I'm currently carrying out."

Upon hearing this, Lu An's eyes narrowed slightly, and he blurted out:

"You mean, Blaine?"

Bai Ling nodded slightly:

"Since you destroyed Team Rocket's important laboratory last year, our investigators have been shocked to discover that Blaine, the former Gym Leader of Cinnabar City in the Kanto League, was actually a core member of Team Rocket's genetic experiments."

"I have been tracking and searching for Blaine, the former Gym Leader of Crimson Gym and a core member of Team Rocket, who has been on the run for more than a year."

"And now, the old men asked me to call you back to headquarters, not only to use our connections to make sure you don't disregard their orders, but also for one other reason,"

"The Moltres ruins you discovered in Lavender Town some time ago, and the subsequent discovery that Team Rocket may have an experimental plan involving the three legendary birds."

"Behind all of this, there is the shadow of Chaper."