"Trial challengers, this way."
A staff member outside directed him.
The challenger and captain entered the trial area by different routes, meaning the guard member had no idea where the vicious poacher was.
An encounter could break out at any moment!
"This is way too sudden!"
Shen Qi hurried into the forest along another route.
He activated [Global Eye], released Blissey, and sent Pelipper into the sky.
An aerial perspective always had its limitations in dense woodland.
Still, the dense forest would not completely block the view below. Having Pelipper meant another way of looking at things, as well as protection against the opponent's aerial forces.
He activated the [Evasion Sticker] awarded by Oricorio's scenario. It increased his evasion rate while he was being tracked, and the more pursuers there were, the higher the evasion rate.
Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp...
Not long after he slipped into the forest, a strange series of cries rang out.
He could tell they were the cries of a bird Pokémon, but they sounded far too fake... they were clearly being played from a recording.
Shen Qi found it odd. However vicious poachers might be, their goal was still to capture wild Pokémon as efficiently as possible through brutal means. If they could avoid Rangers and the Island Guard, they certainly would.
In that case, the violent criminal Ilima was playing was unlikely to lure Shen Qi with something as crude as recorded Pokémon cries. Even having his own Pokémon come out and call a couple of times would have been more convincing than a recording.
With Blissey guarding him, Shen Qi summoned Lilligant to investigate that direction.
By communicating with plants as a Grass-type Pokémon, Lilligant determined that a little artificial object had been placed in a tree over there, with no other living