Master Ball?
Their target really was this!
At this moment, Sabrina wriggled unnaturally a few times. It turned out that she had maintained one posture for too long, and her body was inevitably somewhat stiff.
Yet with this movement of hers, although it was slightly relieved, her contact with Xia You became even closer.
Felt that he touched a few soft spots, Xia You could not help his heartbeat accelerating, and even Sabrina's breathing became much heavier.
Fortunately, those Team Rocket grunts really only rested for a while before leaving this recreation room, and once they could no longer hear their voices at all, the two hurriedly crawled out of the lockers.
Stuffy for too long, Xia You took a deep breath of fresh air. Not knowing if it was his illusion, it seemed that from being too close to Sabrina, his body also carried some of the girl's faint fragrance?
To avoid mutual embarrassment, Xia You did not look at Sabrina's expression either, but walked to the door and slowly poked his head out to observe.
A dark, round face was locking eyes with him...
Xia You jumped in fright, only to recognize that it was actually his Gastly.
"Why are you outside!?"
"It's because your actions were too slow." Gastly floated in from the side, its suspicious gaze shifting back and forth between Xia You and Sabrina. "Strange, what were you two doing just now? How come her face is a bit red?"
"Hey, hey, you must not talk nonsense!" Xia You hurriedly went to cover Gastly's mouth, but his hand passed right through Gastly's body. "We were just hiding from Team Rocket's search just now!"
"Rest assured, Team Rocket has already left." Gastly chuckled evilly, evidently taking Xia You's explanation as a cover-up. "Since nothing's wrong, we'd better get moving quickly."
Leaving the recreation room, the two entered the stairs and headed upward.
Unfortunately, there were simply too many Team Rocket members in this building, and not long after walking, they ran head-on into several Team Rocket grunts.
"What people are you!?"
Seeing Xia You and Sabrina, whose attire was distinctly different from the researchers, one of the grunts shouted loudly. Yet before they could act, the next second, all of several of them were wrapped in Confusion and turned by Sabrina into tiny little dolls!
This move, when Ash challenged the Gym, she had previously used to deal with Brock and Misty, and those hit possessed no ability to resist at all, able only to be manipulated at will.
Yet despite resolving these few people, the shout just then had still alerted others, and many Team Rocket grunts who heard the cry rushed over here one after another.
"As expected, it still can't go as smoothly as anticipated!"
The two set off running upward in the stairwell, while beneath them, more and more Team Rocket grunts chased up.
"There are intruders!"
"What's going on, didn't the surveillance room spot them!?"
"Damn it, how did they sneak in? Quickly report to an executive!"
After continuing to run up a few floors, their path forward was quickly blocked by another group of Team Rocket grunts.
This time, pursued from behind and intercepted from ahead, the route was considered completely sealed off.
Seeing this, Xia You decisively took out a Poké Ball and released Kirlia.
"Gastly, use Hypnosis! Kirlia, use Confusion!"
The two Pokémon launched their moves simultaneously, and those Team Rocket grunts, even before they had time to summon their respective Pokémon, tumbled to the ground one after another like bowling pins.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xia You and Sabrina continued running upward.
The top floor of Silph Co., the President's Office.
As the ultimate boss of Team Rocket, wearing a black suit, his hair combed meticulously, and with a stern expression, Giovanni was standing in this office at this moment, looking down from above at an old man before him.
This old man sat on the sofa. Although he was well past seventy, he was full of vitality, and despite being in a predicament, his expression remained unchanged, showing no panic whatsoever.
"Old man." Giovanni's voice was deep and slow, sounding immensely oppressive. "For the sake of your employees' lives, you'd better hurry and tell me where you've hidden the Master Ball!"
"You might as well give up on that idea. How could such a dangerous Poké Ball possibly be handed over to you!" The old man said with a calm expression. "It's just that I really didn't expect the notorious Team Rocket boss to personally lead a team today to occupy my company. It really is quite astonishing."
To the old man's sarcasm, Giovanni was completely unmoved.
In fact, having thoroughly searched this building yet failing to find the Master Ball, this old man had already become his last hope, and moreover, because of his age, he would certainly not resort to violence against him.
At that moment, a Team Rocket grunt walked up to Giovanni and whispered a few words to him.
"Intruders?" Giovanni glanced coldly at the grunt, his overwhelming presence inspiring awe without anger. "Why are you only finding out now?"
Cold sweat instantly beaded on the grunt's forehead. "Th... that's because they first broke into the control room, knocked out our people, and destroyed the equipment, which is why..."
He had not expected that even a meticulous plan would still encounter variables.
"What kind of people are the intruders?"
The grunt hurried to say, "There are two intruders in total, and the identity of one of them has already been confirmed-it's none other than Saffron Gym Leader Sabrina! As for the other person, it's a male of an age similar to Sabrina's, but his specific identity has yet to be ascertained!"
"Sabrina!?"
A flash of murderous intent crossed Giovanni's eyes.
Others were easy to speak of, but as an official Gym Leader who also belonged to the Pokémon League, Giovanni had naturally met Sabrina several times.
Moreover, his identity as the Viridian Gym Leader served as an excellent cover for him. If Sabrina were to discover his true identity, it would indeed be a major loss.
Thinking of this, he glanced back at a Team Rocket executive who had been leaning against the wall the whole time.
"Lance, leave the matters here to you. Don't let them leave alive."
The executive called Lance was a man wearing a standard Team Rocket black hat with short, cyan hair.
Hearing the command, he bowed gracefully and said respectfully in a flippant tone, "Please rest assured, sir. Everything will be over soon."
When Xia You and Sabrina, out of breath, finally reached the top floor, they suddenly heard the sound of helicopter propellers raging outside. A helicopter vanished into the distant sky, having departed from Silph Co. in the blink of an eye.
They entered the floor and bolted the stairwell door, just about to let out a sigh of relief when they heard a round of applause coming from before them.
Clapping his hands, Lance walked up to the two and praised, "To be able to break in here under heavy encirclement by Team Rocket, I have to admit, you two are truly impressive."
Beside Lance, numerous Team Rocket grunts swarmed around, and behind the two, accompanied by violent crashing sounds, the relentlessly pursuing Team Rocket had also smashed open the stairwell door, flooding into the corridor all at once.
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