The Gym matter was temporarily settled.
It would still be around next month before they could truly move in. Moreover, so as not to disturb the workers laboring around the clock and to improve their living experience, Umbreon and Heiduo both felt it would be better to move in only after the main building was completely finished.
Otherwise, nobody could stand having constant clanging right next to their heads all day.
He set off for Anomalous Magnet Mountain.
After more than half a month apart, the preserve's boundaries seemed to have been marked out. Heiduo could clearly see snow-white limewash, similar to the insect repellent used in his previous life, on the lower halves of some large trees, as well as strange metal boxes embedded in their trunks.
Heiduo knew these were the Ranger Union's specialized metal detectors.
When Trainers carrying Poké Balls entered, the special metal in the Poké Balls would react with the detectors, which would then report to the intelligence command center at the preserve's branch base.
They would also react if forcibly dismantled.
It was fairly cutting-edge technology.
Inevitably, the detector reacted when Heiduo entered and swiftly reported to the command center building, which was still only a rough shell. Before long, a Magneton carrying a loudspeaker and a camera appeared before Heiduo.
After a burst of static, a woman's voice came through the loudspeaker.
"This is the Pokémon Nature Preserve. Unauthorized entry is prohibited... Hm? You're Gym Leader Heiduo."
"That's right, it's me."
Heiduo looked at the camera with an indifferent expression.
After several hushed voices came through the loudspeaker, the woman's voice rang out again.
"You're here to—"
"To see my Pokémon, and another Pokémon on Anomalous Magnet Mountain." Heiduo briefly explained his purpose. Individual Three had long since been talked into a Poké