First Meeting with Colress

Before long, Slow Wisdom's friends list was sent over by phone.

Hu Yang did not open it right away. Instead, he boarded the train leaving the Great Marsh with Piplup.

Amid the train's long whistle, Hu Yang opened the list.

At the very top was none other than Colress of Team Plasma.

Hu Yang continued scrolling and discovered that Slow Wisdom knew a great many people.

Besides names he already knew, like Professor Oak and Professor Birch, there were many others he had never heard of.

Hu Yang: "..."

This was rather awkward.

Still, it was not entirely without a solution.

Hu Yang contacted Porygon and asked it to investigate whether any of those people had connections to keywords such as "Team Plasma," "Team Flare," and "Ghetsis."

Upon receiving the assignment, Porygon immediately copied itself into dozens of duplicates and followed the network to those people's hometowns to investigate.

While waiting, Hu Yang noticed a name: "Professor Magnolia."

The call with the Ecological Park had not ended.

Looking at Professor Magnolia's name, Hu Yang asked, "Is this Professor Magnolia from Galar?"

Slow Wisdom nodded. "Yes. She's the professor responsible for researching Dynamax."

Dynamax was a phenomenon in which Pokémon grew gigantic, one that could only occur in Galar.

Like Mega Evolution and Z-Moves, it could make Pokémon stronger.

"Dynamax, Galar..." Hu Yang nodded thoughtfully.

Slow Wisdom noticed his tone and asked, "What is it? Is there something wrong with Professor Magnolia?"

Hu Yang gathered his thoughts and shook his head. "No, Professor Magnolia is fine. I just thought of something else."

Slow Wisdom asked, "Can you tell me about it?"

"Of course." Hu Yang raised an eyebrow, opened his browser, and searched for Galar's Champion. Sure enough, Leon's name appeared on the screen.

Hu Yang continued, "I heard that after