After several long-distance clashes with the mysterious "Hunter," Ye Li keenly sensed that something was amiss.
The other party's objective did not seem to be his life.
Several times, the man had had perfect opportunities to launch a fatal surprise attack on him.
But he had passed them all up.
His spying seemed more like assessment and observation.
Moreover, whenever Ye Li touched his specially made safe containing the Space-Time Plate, the probing presence would fluctuate ever so slightly.
Ye Li immediately realized that the man's origins were very likely connected to the Sinnoh Region's Legendary Pokémon, Dialga and Palkia.
And their target was precisely the Space-Time Plate in his possession.
To shake off this opponent, who clung to him like a maggot burrowing into bone, and to uncover his true purpose.
Ye Li decided to set a trap and force him to show himself.
Through a semipublic intelligence channel under his control, he deliberately leaked a piece of false intelligence.
The intelligence claimed that, three days later, he would conduct a small experiment involving space-time energy at an abandoned power plant deep in Viridian Forest.
The intelligence was flawlessly fabricated.
There was a detailed experimental plan, a forged inventory of supplies, and even several seemingly serious "risk assessment reports."
Sure enough, the "Hunter" lurking in the shadows took the bait.
Three days later, deep in Viridian Forest, at the abandoned factory long since covered in vines and moss.
The instant Ye Li walked through the factory gates alone, carrying a safe containing the "Space-Time Plate."
An agile figure leaped silently down from a steel beam overhead like a hunting cheetah, blocking his path.
It was a man wearing a black, form-fitting combat suit and red goggles, his entire body radiating a lean, formidable air of danger.
He was none