"No wonder this stuff can't be cleared out at all. Unless it's purified with Psychic Power, the only option is to die all over again."
Inside the laboratory, Chen Shi sat before a microscope in a white lab coat, deep in thought.
After Xerneas left, he had first handed Beedrill over to Dragapult.
Then he had eagerly brought the Dark Cacturne Xerneas had given him back to the laboratory.
He discovered that this stuff could be described as a gene virus.
Once it invaded a living organism, it would rapidly merge with its genetic chain, changing its genetic structure from the inside out and turning it into one of their kind.
How should he put it?
It was a little like the zombie virus from his previous life.
But it was even more contagious than a zombie virus.
And that was only his assessment of dark matter from a scientific perspective.
There had to be aspects of this stuff that science couldn't explain.
"Hmm..." Chen Shi studied the Dark Cacturne confined beneath the glass dome and sank into thought.
He was only a half-baked researcher. Studying something this advanced was certainly beyond him.
The Doctors across the various regions didn't primarily study genetics, either.
But there was one Pokémon in this world that knew a great deal about genes.
That was right-it was their very own Comeback Bro, Mewtwo!
Chen Shi remembered what Eternatus had said.
In their world, Mewtwo and Mew had been the ones researching this stuff.
It seemed he would have to bring Mewtwo over...
Chen Shi sighed softly.
"Team Rocket, I hope you won't disappoint me!"
Viridian City, a city situated in western Kanto, was like a green jewel set into the land.
It nestled quietly beside Kanto's vast and renowned Viridian Forest, the two