Only after a long while did everyone in the command room recover.
"Are you a ninja?"
Professor Xinyuan scratched his head, looking at Riolu in bewilderment.
"Rio..."
"Wasn't that just to give you a demonstration?"
To make escaping and exploring dungeons easier, he usually kept plenty of other items in his backpack besides Luminous Orbs.
There were things like Slumber Orbs, Binding Orbs, and Invisibility Orbs, all single-use consumables.
"But this really is extraordinary. You've made this old man more and more curious. Just what time and space did you travel here from?"
"Rio, rio!" Riolu gestured excitedly with his hands, but unfortunately, Professor Xinyuan still couldn't understand him.
Even when he used pen and paper, what he wrote was an utterly incomprehensible language from another world.
With no other options, after several hours of fruitless communication in the command room, Riolu began drawing on the paper.
If he couldn't understand words, surely pictures would work!
"What's this?" Professor Xinyuan narrowed his eyes and carefully studied Riolu's drawing.
Although it was rather abstract, like the scribbles of a small child, he could vaguely make out what seemed to be a Pokémon's face.
"Celebi?" That distinctive onion-shaped head immediately reminded Professor Xinyuan of Celebi.
"Rio, rio!" Riolu hurriedly nodded and handed over another drawing.
"Celebi and... Grovyle? What does this mean?
"Are you saying that Celebi's power brought you through time and space?
"And you weren't the only Pokémon who traveled through time and space?"
"Rio!" Riolu nodded repeatedly. Talking to someone clever really was easy.
"Let me take a look."
Professor Xinyuan immediately began operating the command room's computer system, retrieving monitoring data on anomalous readings from various regions.
The command room's monitoring equipment could only provide warnings about readings within a few kilometers of the Headquarters building.
As for