Time passed slowly, and before he knew it, Chen Shi had spent over half a month in the Distortion World.
Over those two weeks, things had been relatively peaceful inside the Mt. Silver Shelter.
Although the Shadow Pokémon on Mt. Silver had tried attacking the Shelter several times, their levels were fortunately low. With Cynthia and the other three guarding it, they had made it through the past two weeks with a few scares but no real danger.
That day, Chen Shi was leaning against Togekiss, who had just finished training, dozing out of boredom when Lance and Lorelei walked up to him.
"Chen Shi, how about getting us another roast chicken?" Lance plopped down beside him and asked without the slightest hesitation.
Chen Shi rolled his eyes at him in irritation.
Over the past two weeks, the idle Lorelei and Lance had always shown up in front of Chen Shi right on time for every meal.
The moment they opened their mouths, they asked for hot pot, roast chicken, or some other meat.
They certainly weren't shy about imposing on him.
"Is it mealtime again already?" Chen Shi stood up and stretched, then lazily took various foods out of his backpack and laid them out.
"Of course. Why else would I come looking for you?" Lance replied cheerfully.
Chen Shi pursed his lips and asked, "Have Leon's three Pokémon caused any trouble today?"
"Of course they have. They keep demanding to go outside." Lance sounded rather helpless.
"Then haven't you tried talking them out of it?"
"How am I supposed to do that? They're dead set on going back to Leon, and nothing we say gets through to them. The problem is, all three are ridiculously strong, too. We can only let them make a fuss."
Chen Shi had