The Fighting-type Elite Four-Lü Shouchun!

The next day.

After getting up early, Mu Yun rode his Garlic Toad shared bike to school.

Since the spectacle of the Leaping Dragon Gate would last a full day, or even an entire day and night, Mu Yun carried the black tactical backpack Wang He had given him, packed with enough food for the day.

Before long, Mu Yun arrived at the school gates.

With the three-day break following the End-of-Month Assessment, the entrance was deserted. Aside from an elderly security guard on duty, Mu Yun was the only person there.

After briefly greeting the old guard, Mu Yun entered the school to meet Wang He, then headed with him to the Songjiang River outside the city.

The Songjiang River was not only the largest river in Evergreen Province, but also part of an enormous river system that spanned the entire Northeast Region.

It was renowned as one of the Yanhuang League's seven great river systems!

The stretch outside Songjiang City was merely one small section of the vast Songjiang Water System.

Yet even that small stretch sustained countless lives.

By then, access to both banks had already been restricted. Uniformed staff had set up cordons early to keep anglers from sneaking in to fish.

Some anglers were quite capable, but even an elephant could fall to a swarm of ants. With the sheer number of Gyarados about to appear in the river, even Totem Level Pokémon risked being killed.

Ordinary humans of flesh and blood stood even less of a chance.

For safety reasons, the Trainer Association prohibited Trainers who had not accepted a mission from approaching on their own.

Of course, with the Trainer Association's limited manpower, sealing off the entire river was impossible.

They had therefore cordoned off only the largest annual gathering site for the