Clearly, before coming here, Silver had already scouted out the terrain and the details of the laboratory.
In the distance, under Xia You and Looker's watchful eyes, he cautiously glanced left and right. After making sure no one was around, he quickly approached the laboratory building, pried open a window, and climbed straight inside.
His movements were so fluid, clean, and efficient that even Xia You, watching the show, could not help voicing his praise!
Exchanging a glance with Looker, the two of them crept over to the window and peeked inside with half their heads showing. They saw Silver in a research room filled with precision instruments, taking one of three Poké Balls lined up on a machine and slipping it into his waist pack before cautiously retracing his steps.
Seeing that he was about to leave, Xia You and Looker hurried back behind the large tree.
Once Silver came out, he seemed unwilling to bother hiding his tracks. He simply left the window open and departed from the Elm Laboratory without any intention of lingering.
Xia You turned to Looker and asked quietly, "What do you want to do? Should I stop him?"
Having watched Silver's entire crime unfold, Looker kept frowning, as though something weighed on his mind, and said nothing for a long while.
That was it?!
What a disappointment!
Given Team Rocket's way of doing things, and Silver's position as Giovanni's son-arguably the unquestioned number two in Team Rocket-Looker had assumed that Silver had come here to cooperate with those Team Rocket members in a spectacular robbery!
At the very least, he should have looted all the Pokémon and research materials in the entire laboratory before calling it quits!
Yet after putting in so much effort to tail Silver all the way here, he had