At the foot of the mountains on Celestic Town's western outskirts.
"Should I go ask Xiao Wei..."
Xiao Meng muttered to herself as she walked.
Farfetch'd was too exasperated to comment.
"Quack, quack!"
Hearing Farfetch'd, Xiao Meng raised her head.
Li Wei and Xiao Meng ran into each other unexpectedly.
"Huh, Xiao Wei?! Lucario!"
Xiao Meng was clearly stunned to encounter Li Wei here.
Li Wei was puzzled too. "Xiao Meng, what are you doing here?"
After learning where Cogita might live from Celestic Town's Officer Jenny, he had politely declined her offer to guide him there.
Following Officer Jenny's rough directions, Li Wei had begun searching for Cogita's home.
Only afterward had Officer Jenny realized that someone like Cogita, who lived in a little wooden house at the foot of the mountains outside town, really could easily escape notice.
Especially if Cogita never used public transportation.
Had she not been pursuing a criminal, Officer Jenny would never have noticed the place herself.
Thinking back to that pursuit, Officer Jenny spotted a few more suspicious details.
The poacher, who had been an excellent driver, had suddenly skidded right there...
Officer Jenny had thought nothing of it at the time, and might never have given it another thought in her entire life.
But when Li Wei said he wanted to find Cogita, everything began coming to light...
What do I mean, coming to light?!
Officer Jenny shook those strange thoughts out of her head.
After saying goodbye to Officer Jenny, Li Wei had set out to find Cogita.
Searching the foothills on the western outskirts wasn't particularly difficult for him.
Especially since Li Wei had sent Arcanine home to bring Corvisquire, Dragapult, and Metagross along.
Searching from the sky made things much easier.
But before Li Wei found Cogita's home,