War Breaks Out Everywhere

Just as Liu Ge had said.

Almost no one was willing to accept Shadow Team's demands. Setting aside the outrageous quantity, they wanted the higher-ups to hand over their own Pokémon?

Wasn't that asking for their lives?

Powerful Pokémon were the foundation of their rule and their only means of protecting themselves. Without those powerful Pokémon, they were nothing.

Running was definitely no longer an option.

Shadow Team's main force was camped outside the town, eyeing every faction within Pyrite Town like a tiger watching its prey.

Someone suggested using other Pokémon as substitutes. With so many Pokémon, Shadow Team couldn't possibly identify them one by one, right?

However, Shadow Team possessed far more information than they had imagined.

The Shadow Team members who had come to deliver the notice handed them a list directly. It detailed which Pokémon they owned with near-complete accuracy.

This left the leaders of those factions utterly astonished. Such matters were not exactly secret, but how could people from Silicon Beryllium City know them in such detail?

Naturally, they had no idea that a local traitor had sold them out, and that traitor happened to be specifically responsible for underground intelligence and external communications. He knew Pyrite Town's internal affairs inside and out.

Yet what truly drove them to unite was not the blade Shadow Team was about to bring down. For people like them, refusing to shed tears until they saw the coffin was practically basic professional conduct.

—The Shadow Team members who should have returned to report had somehow been hung in the most conspicuous places within their territories.

Everyone who saw those Shadow Team members swaying in the wind like flags knew things had gone badly.

Would the people from Silicon Beryllium City give them a chance to explain?

Most likely not.