Windswept City, Back Mountain.
In the end, Li Wei decided to take Ranguo farther up the mountain first.
After all, Ranguo had already climbed halfway up.
At this point, neither going up nor heading back down seemed ideal.
Meanwhile, he had also sent Dragapult back with Pokédex Rotom to get help.
Before long, they reached the destination of Ranguo's trip.
It was an abandoned house covered in moss and overgrown with vines.
This was what Ranguo had come up the mountain for.
Li Wei estimated that the house had been abandoned for at least a hundred years.
Its domed roof and walls were crumbling, with steel reinforcing bars exposed in places.
"This is my secret base!"
Back at her secret base, Ranguo looked thrilled and hurried ahead of Li Wei with Teddiursa and Ditto.
Li Wei was a little surprised. "So there's a house like this here."
This was where Ranguo had first met Zeraora.
It was also where she had met Teddiursa and Ditto.
Afterward, Teddiursa and Ditto had become her friends and stayed by her side.
Li Wei figured that Teddiursa and Ditto would become Ranguo's Pokémon in the future, too.
"You should stay here for now."
Naturally, Li Wei wasn't going to take Ranguo any farther up the mountain. The trail only grew rougher from here.
Of course, he wouldn't leave her here alone.
"Sirfetch'd, Dragapult, you two stay here and look after her."
"Quack!"
Sirfetch'd, who aspired to become a knight, had plenty of experience looking after children.
Besides, Ranguo wasn't a difficult child to look after.
As for the mother Dragapult, that went without saying. If she could handle mischievous Dreepy, why would anyone worry about her handling Ranguo?
"Drrr~"
Besides assigning Sirfetch'd and the mother Dragapult to stay,
Li Wei had also sent Pokédex