Chapter 370: Delivered to your door? It’s a good time to try the youth version of the Salt Prince!
Unlike the time when he attacked him without hesitation in the iceberg ruins, the hostility in Reggieice now is very weak.

Even though Reggieice rarely has emotional fluctuations, they never show on the surface, and it is difficult for people to tell his emotions and thoughts. He looks like a robot with stiff and rigid movements.

But Luo Mu's intuition told him that Reggie Ace had no hostility at this moment, only curiosity about what he would do next.

Because Regice had just tried to transform the environment, a thin layer of ice had formed covering the ground.

The ice surface was extremely fragile, and every step Luo Mu took made a crisp crackling sound, which made the blizzard horse under the Bud Crown King eager to try.

Every step Luo Mu took and the crackling sound of the breaking ice seemed to be stepping on Shinji's heart. At this moment, even Shinji realized that at least for now, Regice was not a Pokémon that would obey Luo Mu's orders.

I'm afraid that Regice has only been put into the Poké Ball by Luo Mu not long ago, and they haven't even had important "communication" yet.

Coming in front of Reggieice who was standing there quietly, Luo Mu found that it still showed no signs of attacking. He breathed a sigh of relief and first tried to say hello to Reggieice.

"Hello, Reggie Ace."

"Hey, eh?"

Reggie Ace tilted his head slightly, as if pondering a difficult question: Is "Regice" his own name?

But from Luo Mu's perspective, Reggieice just shook its body slightly. Thinking that it was responding to him, Luo Mu smiled even more and tried to reach out to have a close contact with Reggieice.

Luo Mu's target was locked on Reggie's finger.

Even for Pokémon, shaking hands, touching bodies, or even crossing tails are all signals of friendship. In this way, Reggieace should be able to understand Luo Mu's intention of showing goodwill.

However, when Luo Mu stretched out his finger towards one of Reggieice's three crystal fingers, Reggieice was stunned for a moment, and then quickly put his hand behind his back as if to refuse, and even showed a tendency to move his body.

The Lei Guan King, who had been paying attention to the situation here, focused his eyes and was ready to save Luo Mu if Regiace suddenly launched an attack.

Seeing that Reggieice seemed a little flustered, Luo Mu, who was originally a little puzzled, noticed that after a crisp click, the three crystalline fingers that Reggieice had tried hard to hide in order to avoid Luo Mu's outstretched right hand fingers touched the exposed land after the ice layer shattered.

There were some tiny cracks on the land, and some low weeds grew in those cracks, just intersecting Reggie's fingers for a moment.

In just a moment, the weeds were covered with a layer of frost and then turned into a lifelike ice sculpture.

Luo Mu's eyesight was pretty good, so he captured this scene.

"Could it be that you took your hand back because you didn't want to hurt me?"

After observing this scene, Luo Mu thought that Reggieice's actions now turned into complete panic.

Reggieice paused in his panic, and the yellow dot flashed again, as if indicating that his heart was not at peace.

Then, as if he had finally mustered up the courage, Reggieice crossed his hands in front of him, put his fingers together, and nodded slightly.

"Hey, hey, hey."

Seeing Reggieace admit his guess, Luo Mu couldn't help laughing, and suddenly felt that the big guy in front of him seemed a little honest to the point of being cute.

Therefore, Luo Mu no longer suppressed the corners of his mouth that wanted to curl up, and said to Regiace: "Don't you hate me?"

Reggieace nodded again, and this time the movement was a little bigger, so even Shinji and Crown Princess who were not far away could see it.

The aura that the Bud Crown King had gathered slowly dissipated. He said to his beloved horse with a somewhat amused look on his face, "You are so clumsy, you giant of the glacier."

It seems that I don’t need to appear next time.

This is a good thing. Rather than tampering with the object that Regiace wants to protect, the best outcome is to make it stay here willingly.

Shinji's expression was a little shattered. It was hard for him to imagine that this Pokémon named Reggieice, who moved cautiously, was actually related to the powerful Regirock from the Pyramid Pharaoh God Era.

After a while.

Once we were sure that Reggieice had no hostility at the moment and seemed to be of a thoughtful nature, subsequent communication became much easier.

Luo Mu first introduced to Regiace its current location and the fact that there was nothing inside the iceberg ruins except Regiace, and there was nothing that needed to be protected.

Then, looking at Reggie's yellow dot "eyes" that suddenly became quiet and no longer flashed frequently, Luo Mu extended his hand and invited him, "Would you like to stay and live with us and become our companion?"

"toot toot"

Reggieice continued to make the same sound, seemingly lost in thought.

In its mind, there emerged the figures of Blue Blade Demon who obeyed Luo Mu's command and fought with it desperately, Mimikyu who protected Luo Mu, and Dragonite and Swampert who protected Mudan and Shakoa.

Reggieice saw in their eyes that they had 100% trust in Luo Mu, which made him curious, but at the same time, a certain feeling arose in his heart that he could not understand.

Luo Mu didn't have to wait long. After a while, Reggieice also stretched out his hand and held Luo Mu's hand in mid-air.

"Hey, hey, hey."

Shinji witnessed with his own eyes how Luo Mu successfully and perfectly subdued Reggie Ace.

Luo Mu must have defeated it and put it into the advanced ball when his fighting power was stronger than Reggieace's. The injuries on Reggieace's body when he just came out of the advanced ball could not be faked.

With such strength, Luo Mu was even able to have a heart-to-heart talk with Reggie Ace and establish a connection in less than ten minutes.

Compared with the tacit understanding between him and Shulingui now, it is actually comparable, which makes Shinji feel a little frustrated.

But this also confirmed that his decision to go to school in the Padia region first instead of traveling directly in the Kanto region was correct.

He will definitely be able to learn a lot of valuable knowledge and experience from Luo Mu. As long as he continues to accumulate this knowledge and experience, Shinji believes that sooner or later he will be able to defeat the Pyramid Pharaoh God Era!
"Well, as for accommodation, what do you think of an ice cellar?"

"The space there is quite large, and the temperature is about the same as that in the Crown Snowfield. But you have to pay attention to the Sandsandruff couple living in the igloo in the corner. It seems that a new life is about to be born between them. They are very vigilant, so don't scare them."

Luo Mu squatted in front of Reggieice, counting on his fingers to tell it what to pay attention to.

After all, Sandslash and others are essentially wild Pokémon that live in wild areas simulated by humans, so it is not surprising that they remain vigilant when giving birth to offspring.

When he heard that he was about to witness the birth of a new life, the brightness of Regiace's yellow dots-like eyes increased significantly, and it could be seen that he was looking forward to the moment. Knowing that Regiace would move into the ice cellar next, the Snowstorm Horse under the Crown King was a little dissatisfied and snorted heavily.

Can we still live like this?!

It's only the first day, and it's fine to let the powerful Snowbringer avoid those two weak Pokémon, but why is it that even a part of the precious territory has to be given to Regice! ?

King Crown of Roses helplessly stroked his beloved horse's mane that was frozen by ice crystals, trying to calm its emotions.

"The ice cellar is big enough, and the pasture area is also large enough for running around. If all else fails, there's always the wild."

"We'll have to prepare the ice radish field in the next two days, so don't lose your temper."

"Hiss——"

Hearing Ice Radish, Snow Horse's ears trembled, but it pretended to be indifferent and said generously that if that was the case, it would be okay for it to put up with some hardship.

After settling Reggieace, Luo Mu asked Lei Guan and Blizzard Horse to take Reggieace to the ice cellar to familiarize him with the environment. Then he looked at Shinji who had been waiting for him quietly behind him and gave an apologetic smile.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

Shinji shook his head seriously: "You have your own things to do. My visit is not in your plan today. You should wait."

Luo Mu blinked. It seemed that Shinji really respected his seniors.

I remember that in the anime, Shinji always had a gloomy face towards everyone, but when facing seniors like Takeran and Kamishiro, he was extremely polite.

Under his influence, Reiji did not suffer a crushing defeat at the hands of Kamishiro, and Shinji was also inspired to fight.

Instead of becoming extreme like his original life trajectory, forcing harsh training requirements on Pokémon, conducting cruel military-style training, releasing "weak" Pokémon at will, and his catchphrase is "useless things", with an indifferent face that is even colder than a blank expression all day long.

Luo Mu didn't know if there would be any changes since Shinji didn't grow along the established trajectory.

But if he were asked to teach, he would definitely be willing to teach Shinji, who is polite, has a strong desire to become stronger, and also has a passion for Pokémon.

But before that.
Luo Mu looked at Shinji and asked, "You want to become stronger and accept my guidance, right?"

Shinji stared at his fierce-looking triangular eyes and nodded heavily: "Yes! That's why I came to Grape Academy!"

"Before you can bear my teaching pace, there is another important question." Seeing Shinji's confused expression, Luo Mu raised his eyebrows, "Now I have a total of four students who are given special attention."

"A student with outstanding talent. She has been a trainer for only a little over half a year, and now she has the ability to pass the eight major gyms. It's a pity that Padia doesn't have a league conference, otherwise she would definitely get a very good ranking in the conference."

"In my opinion, the talents of the other three students are at least stronger than you who have shown nothing to me. I think you should understand what I mean, right?"

Hearing Luo Mu's words, Shinji was at a loss for a moment, but his brain, which was naturally more meticulous than his brother's, quickly became active and he distilled several key points from Luo Mu's words.

Shinji asked hesitantly, "You mean a fight?"

As if he had thought of some bad idea, Luo Mu's mouth curled up into a wicked smile, his eyes wandering over Shinji: "After being in the academy for seven days, you should also know that the usual fighting courses are taught by Mr. Huangbo, right?"

Shinji recalled that energetic figure, and the corners of his mouth twitched. "That teacher was very energetic, but his teaching method was a bit too biased towards those students who knew nothing. I felt that I couldn't learn anything useful."

"I see. So this is why you couldn't wait to come to me?"

Luo Mu touched his chin. The information brought by Shinji was a pleasant surprise. After all, Huangbo was half his subordinate. When he went to work at Grape Academy, he could call her to his office and talk to her about the quality and content of teaching.

"Yes." Shinji took out a red and white ball that was wiped clean and sparkled in the sunlight, and solemnly requested again, "Please fight Pokémon with me, and I will prove to you that I have the qualities to be chosen."

"This is what you asked for. It's none of my business if you regret it later." Luo Mu's eyes fell on the red and white ball in Shinji's hand, "Release your Pokémon first."

"Yes."

Shinji replied and directly pressed the button for the red and white balls.

Red light shot out from the red and white ball. The red light kept twisting and deforming, and finally turned into a tortoise Pokémon about one meter tall.

Luo Mu's eyes widened slightly. Has the grass turtle evolved into a forest turtle?

The evolved forest turtle has a yellow shell on its back, with small trees like bushes growing on its back. The small trees have brown nuts like acorns, and there are three long brown ridges next to them.

The limbs of the forest turtle are short and thick, with yellow bottoms. It can be seen that compared with the grass turtle period, it is no longer good at playing tricks on its opponents with its petite body and agile movements.

After seeing the forest turtle, Luo Mu suddenly became interested.

Signaling Shinji and Shulingui to wait here, he turned directly from the open space into the farmland, then came to the salt house built nearby, took away the "brother" who was the strongest of the three siblings of Yanshilei and the one who mastered the most moves, and returned to Shinji and Shulingui.

Shinji looked at the salt and stone pile intently. He did not waste this week waiting for Luo Mu to come back.

He has already read a lot about some common Pokémon in Padiya, and he has learned a lot of basic knowledge.

This is a rock-type salt rock fortress, mostly found in farms and pastures, responsible for producing precious rock salt. Few trainers will let them participate in battles.
Moreover, in terms of attribute compatibility, Forest Squirtle also has an overwhelming advantage. If Forest Squirtle completes another evolution and becomes Totoro, most Rock-type Pokémon will not be its match.

Then use the Tutai Turtle to defeat Regirock!
By observing Shinji's expression, Luo Mu roughly guessed what he was thinking, and said meaningfully: "Thinking that the enemy in front of you is not a threat and thinking about the future is the most unacceptable mistake in a battle."

Shinji was startled. When he came back to his senses, Luo Mu was already standing opposite him and the combat-minded Shulingui with the Salt and Stone Barrel. He waved at him and said, "You attack first~!"

Shinji took a deep breath, and with the attitude of testing the salt and stone fort first, he said, "Green grass slide!"

This was one of the rare new moves he had taught Forest Turtle during the combat course at Grape Academy.

The turtle in the forest crouched low, its heavy legs surrounded by green light. Then, it burst out with a relatively fast speed compared to its size, dragging the green light towards the salt stone pile.

Luo Mu can see that Shinji obviously hasn't yet gotten rid of the fighting style of Stowe. Just like Satoshi in the Sinnoh period, Shinji is still trying to figure out the fighting style of the evolved Stowe, trying not to turn it into a "cannon fodder turtle."

However, for the current battle, instead of opening the green grass field to enjoy the advance acceleration of the green grass slide, they chose to approach the salt stone fort. This move was wrong from the beginning.

His eyes were fixed on the forest turtle running towards the salt stone fort. When the forest turtle was really within range, Luo Mu decisively said, "Salt it!"

(End of this chapter)