Kiba was delighted to have fooled the Rocket Gang and obtained a large sum of resources, which was enough for him to cultivate his Pokémon. "Boss Sakaki is truly a good person," Kiba thought inwardly.
Kiba was not short on money now. With three percent of Devon Corporation's original shares, the dividends alone were a colossal sum.
What's more, Matsukasa had also agreed to give him one-tenth of the profits from the metal coating sales as remuneration. Kiba also wasn't short on people, as he had a rough estimate of how many people he needed to recruit.
Resources, however, were what Kiba needed most right now, as some resources simply couldn't be bought with money. Kiba was now on two express trains, Devon Corporation and the Rocket Gang, so resources were temporarily not an issue.
"It's also time to create an organization. How about 'Sky Squad' for the organization's name?" Kiba mused. In the Viridian area, there were two major organizations: the Aqua Team and the Magma Team.
Adding a Sky Team would be fitting. Sky, Earth, and Ocean are the three essential elements of life. Then the Sky Team's goal could be set as Rayquaza, which suited it well. Kiba thought playfully, but Kiba didn't plan to form an organization for now.
After all, forming an organization required meticulous planning for resources, personnel, assets, and operations. It was better to poach from the Magma Team and Aqua Team first.
Kiba greeted Matsukasa, then, with the help of a disguise, set off from the forest near Kanas City. From there, he could reach Viridian City via the Kanas Tunnel. At the entrance of the Kanas Tunnel, the head of the engineering team, Jin Sheng, was terribly anxious.
Originally, this Kanas Tunnel was about to be completed, but it turned out that the Exploud clan lived in the Kanas Tunnel. The sound of mining directly disturbed the Exploud clan, causing the Exploud clan to directly jump out and destroy the mining equipment.
The deadline for the Kanas Tunnel was getting closer and closer. If they breached the contract, there would be a huge penalty. This penalty was something Jin Sheng could not bear. Even if Jin Sheng sold the company, he still couldn't afford it.
Now, Jin Sheng had already issued a bounty. If anyone could peacefully resolve the problem of the Exploud clan, Jin Sheng would offer his family's treasure, the Poison Barb, as a reward.
When Kiba arrived at the Kanas Tunnel, he discovered that the entire Kanas Tunnel was still sealed, the lights were on, but the equipment was all in a state of shutdown. There were quite a few scattered flyers on the ground.
Kiba picked up a flyer and read it. This flyer paper was a bit yellow and seemed to have been there for some time. The flyer read "Bounty Order" in three large characters. Below it were the specific requirements of the flyer.
{Help: Peacefully resolve the Exploud clan}
{The Exploud clan living in the Kanas Cave has caused problems for our construction team. They will destroy mining equipment.}
{They injured the workers and Pokémon who were digging the cave.}
{Peacefully resolve the Kanas Tunnel Exploud clan. I will offer a Poison Barb as a family treasure.}
Kiba's pupils constricted when he saw the words "Poison Barb." This was a Poison Barb! The Poison Barb was also known as Poison Crystal. It was a type of Poison-type crystal produced only when some Poison-type Pokémon had specific organ diseases.
Similar to Bull Horn and Dog Tooth. Formed naturally in the wild, it could sell for hundreds of millions of Alliance Coins on the black market. It was a priceless Pokémon resource. Of course, there were also many unscrupulous individuals who would extract poison from Poison-type Pokémon to artificially create Poison Barbs.
This was a rather cruel thing to do. Artificially creating Poison Barbs meant making Poison-type Pokémon devour each other, like raising venomous insects. The surviving Poison-type Pokémon would have extremely potent toxins. This was only the first step in artificially creating Poison Barbs.
Humans would also inject various poisons into Poison-type Pokémon, artificially inducing crystals to form within the Poison-type Pokémon's body. This method of artificially creating Poison Barbs in Poison-type Pokémon, which would then be covered in various poisons, was extremely cruel. Under the Alliance's crackdown, this practice gradually disappeared.
However, Kiba thought of the recent frenzy of the Hunter's Guild and the Thief Hunter's Guild to capture Poison-type Pokémon. This might not be for making Poison Barbs. Kiba released Ditto. Ditto writhed on Kiba's face, transforming into another fierce, burly man.
Kiba walked towards Jin Sheng, who was sitting on a rock smoking a dry pipe. This society was a society that judged by appearance. If Kiba's face looked too tender, it would leave people with the impression that he was immature and unreliable.
An old fox like Jin Sheng needed a fierce and intimidating appearance to be kept in line, and to prevent him from making petty moves behind his back.
"Boss, I'll take this job, but do you really have a Poison Barb here?" Kiba, disguised as a fierce bounty hunter named Ran Ye, asked Jin Sheng menacingly. This was the third bounty hunter Kiba had prepared, Ran Ye.
The first was the owner of the breeding shop, Kiba, a trainer from the Viridian area. The second was the famous scholar, Dr. Bolage. Kiba had published his bio-electrometal regeneration paper. Dr. Odamaki said the Alliance was prepared to promote Kiba to doctor.
The third was Kiba himself, in the form of a bounty hunter. Now he had been "expelled" from the Rocket Gang, and Kiba's name was not in the Rocket Gang's system data.
What Kiba had done in the Kanto region, anyone investigating Kiba's whereabouts would find a series of evidence proving that Kiba had been studying the knowledge of trainers in the Kanto region.
Kiba's top secrets were only known to Boss Sakaki, Musashi, and the two brothers. Everyone else was given a gag order. Boss Sakaki's actions this time were truly aimed at cultivating a high-level spy who had no connection whatsoever with the Rocket Gang.
Jin Sheng looked up and saw a fierce, burly man staring at him. This man was about two meters tall, and his bulging muscles were hidden under a black robe. His face was covered in countless scars,
and he wore a black eye patch over one eye. At this moment, he was staring at Jin Sheng menacingly. Jin Sheng was so scared he almost wet himself. His legs trembled helplessly, like a sieve.
"There... there is." Jin Sheng rummaged through his chest and pulled out a grey pencil case. After opening the pencil case, it contained a purple pearl the size of a baseball.
With the help of the Kanas Tunnel's bright lights, Kiba saw that the pearl was dark purple. Jin Sheng quickly closed the box less than two seconds after opening it.
Poison Barbs could not be left in the air for long. Poison Barbs contained highly toxic poison. Humans who inhaled some of the Poison Barb's gas would immediately feel sick.
In severe cases, they might even bleed from all seven orifices. Poison Barbs could only be stored in pencil cases due to their corrosive nature.
However, at this moment, Jin Sheng had calmed down. After all, the more terrifying the person, the easier the mission. Jin Sheng carefully looked at the black-robed man before him, but then he saw a small green spirit jumping on the man's back,
its deep yellow pupils barely visible under the light. "I'll take this job. My name is Ran Ye, bounty hunter Ran Ye." Kiba snatched the pencil case from Jin Sheng's hand. "This is my reward. I'll take it first. Wait for my good news."
Kiba knew that Jin Sheng wouldn't dare to fool him. If Jin Sheng tried to fool Kiba with a fake Poison Barb, Kiba would show him what a heinous Rocket Gang member was capable of.
Under the night sky, a black shadow descended from the sky, followed by a hoarse growl of anger. "Let the blazing fire burn throughout the entire Viridian area, scattering endless flames!" Only a loud "boom" was heard, and countless dust rose.
Angry roars came from the cave. Countless pink little spirits shivered in fear in the cave. A scorching hot aura filled the cave, as if a fire-type Pokémon had made a move. "Let's go, Lord Kage.
The mission assigned to me by the Fire Village has been completed. Just watch how the Exploud cooperates." The black shadow's voice sounded like a silver bell, then it directly disappeared into the night.
"Damn it, how could the explosives placed in the cave automatically explode? This will surely enrage the Exploud!" Jin Sheng painfully clutched his chest. The Exploud clan was very troublesome.
Jin Sheng knew this very well. His organization had besieged them many times without success. Instead, the enraged Exploud had injured quite a few people.
Countless yellow smoke spewed from the cave, and several huge black shadows also appeared in the smoke. After the smoke dissipated, Kiba saw two huge Exploud and four Loudred standing at the cave entrance. They were followed by countless Gligar.
Gligar was a bipedal beast-like Pokémon with a spherical torso, two long ears, and four oval-shaped small dots for eyes. Loudred's entire body was purple, and it had a pair of speaker-like ears and a huge mouth.
Exploud and Loudred were similar, but Loudred's body had many air holes. Countless air currents were sucked into Exploud's body through the air holes. The roars emitted by Exploud could be heard over 10 kilometers away.
Various sounds would also come from the holes on its body. Exploud and Loudred were extremely violent Pokémon and easily became enraged when disturbed. If you encountered a Ursaring in urban areas or in the wild, then in the Viridian area,
the most terrifying thing to encounter was Exploud. If you saw a small, cute pink Pokémon, absolutely do not bother it. Once this Pokémon cries, Loudred will feel that someone is bullying its child and will immediately attack, treating the opponent like Ursaring treats a Cubchoo.
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