"New type?!"
"Although Mr. Xia Yan has proven many times that his hypotheses are correct, isn't this one a little too exaggerated?"
"It is a bit exaggerated, but I still want to side with Mr. Xia Yan. What if it's true?"
"This is way too absurd. I don't dare support it."
"Exactly. His previous hypotheses and this one aren't even on the same level, are they?"
"..."
With Xia Yan's publication of the paper <Hypothesis and Partial Analysis of Evidence Regarding the Eighteenth Type>, the Pokémon League's official forum completely exploded.
More and more people joined the discussion.
Even many of Xia Yan's original supporters inevitably began to have doubts.
Not to mention those who had always been jealous and envious of Xia Yan's current achievements.
Xia Yan had indeed made few mistakes in his research before, so even if those people were bitter about it, they could only swallow their words and keep quiet.
But as soon as this paper was published, they could no longer sit still.
"Ridiculous! Is he trying to attract attention with such an exaggerated paper?"
"I'm a fan of Mr. Xia Yan, but this time, his behavior really isn't much different from that of some clowns."
<The Genius Researcher Eventually Falls Back into the Ordinary and Embraces the Cliché.>
"How could there possibly be an eighteenth type that remained undiscovered until now? Are you saying all the other professors failed to discover it for so many years, but he did?"
"Anyway, I think it's fake. I'll just wait for him to get embarrassed."
"..."
Xia Yan might have had countless fans and supporters wherever he went before, with people constantly claiming to be his fans.
But when it truly came down to it, quite a few haters jumped out.
As the saying went, for