"Gooji!"
With Florges and Dodo along, this bargain-hunting team looked quite the part.
Chapter 373: Stone Forest District
Night fell, and lamplight flickered throughout the Stone Forest District.
How should he describe this place...
It looked like an old neighborhood where demolition had stopped halfway through.
It covered an area the size of seven or eight athletics fields, all paved with very rough stone slabs. The old-fashioned, antiquated buildings were mostly low, two or three stories at most, and clustered in just one small area to the south.
That was why Shen Qi described it as an old neighborhood that had been half demolished.
Despite being Fallarbor Town's premier trading hub, the Stone Forest District still had unimpressive infrastructure. It used old, dim yellow streetlights, with one nearly every ten meters, leaving the entire area dreary and poorly lit.
Experienced bargain hunters brought their own flashlights or miner-style headlamps. Some stallholders also set out camping lamps and lanterns, so from outside the Stone Forest District, one could always see a mass of swaying lights, like the inhabitants of an ancient tribe performing some ritual around torches.
Shen Qi entered the Stone Forest District with Dodo and Florges. There was no real front or back entrance here; the grounds were accessible from every direction.
The goods at the outer stalls were all fairly ordinary: little Solrock and Lunatone sculptures, handicrafts.
There were Pokémon items too: Hard Stones, Icy Rocks...
The former boosted the power of Rock-type moves; the latter extended the duration of effects from moves such as Snow Warning and Hail.
Unlike Pokémon items bought directly from stores, the goods sold in the Stone Forest District were closer to raw ore.
An Icy Rock in a store, for instance, came as a cut portion with an energy circuit already inscribed,