"The Rotom Phone's Network World?"
Mingyou murmured the name again. It was his first time hearing it, but he understood what it meant: a world inside the network.
All the missing people had been dragged into the Network World. Uva had also mentioned that Arven, the son of Professor Sada, who invented the Tera Orb, and Nemona, the younger daughter of the Rotom Phone Company's owner, seemed to have been taken there too...
Uva continued, "Nemona's father came up with the idea for this Network World when he first developed the Rotom Phone. The network everyone uses today grew out of that idea."
"But it's still virtual, isn't it? Just something that makes it easier for people to get online."
Penny still found it hard to believe the place truly existed. As someone in the field who believed in science, he thought technology this far beyond imagination was impossible. This wasn't cyberpunk.
But Uva smiled. "We saw a real Time Machine with our own eyes in the Great Crater of Paldea!"
"That... is true."
Penny had no answer to that...
Uva looked at Mingyou and went on, "I found something yesterday too... Thanks to you, I finally got confirmation that it exists!"
"Do you have any leads? Like a way for us to get inside?"
That was all Mingyou wanted to know. If Pokémon could go in with them, he wouldn't have to worry as much.
Uva nodded. She trusted him, so there was no need to hide anything now. "I found that this incident is rather similar to a case involving Team Rocket and Porygon in Macha City, Kanto Region, several years ago!"
"Hm?"
"The network wasn't nearly as developed back then. People certainly couldn't connect peripherals to their Rotom Phones and transfer Poké Balls directly. To transfer the