NOVEL NEXT Chapter 310: Killing Two Birds with One Stone
After dealing with the Aerodactyl flock, Arthur and his group stayed in the valley for another night.
Firstly, to make sure the Aerodactyl would behave. Secondly, to give Old Flame time to say goodbye to his clan.
During this time, Arthur went deep into the mountain cave to visit Old Flame's mate—a pitiful Charizard with half a wing missing, no longer able to fly.
"Come with me. I'll take you back to the human world. I will find a way to heal you!" Arthur promised Old Flame's mate.
The Charizard in the cave hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement.
By noon the next day, Arthur, along with Old Flame and his mate and daughter—a family of three—began their journey back.
Since Old Flame's mate couldn't fly, she was kept in her Poké Ball. Old Flame and his daughter served as their aerial mounts, carrying Arthur and Caleb's family towards the mountain exit.
That's right, Caleb's family was also returning with him.
Although their heads were still spinning, and they hadn't fully processed everything that had happened in the past two days, they came along.
In their minds, this was supposed to be a simple family visit, just like in previous years, to see Julian's Charizard. That was it.
They never expected that a chance encounter with Arthur would make the trip a hundred times more exciting!
Caleb even felt as if the door to a new world had been opened…
Not only had he witnessed Mega Evolution, which had previously only existed in textbooks, but he had also gained a new understanding of the infinite possibilities of the human race!
It got his blood boiling. That night, he saw a tree branch and thought it was a peerless divine sword, a dragon-slaying saber!
Fortunately, his parents managed to calm him down in time.
Son, you can't learn this! Listen to your parents, you can't handle this!
But amidst his excitement, Caleb was also a bit confused.
"Brother Arthur, if we just leave like this, won't that flock of Aerodactyl forget their lesson?"
On the way there, he had just called him Arthur, eager to show off his brother's Charizard every five minutes.
On the way back, it was "Brother Arthur" this and "Brother Arthur" that, sitting on Old Flame's back and praising how cool he was.
Quite the realist…
Arthur didn't mind. He replied faintly, "Don't worry. It will be taken care of when we get back."
When they flew back to the camp at the foot of the mountain and completed their exit registration, Arthur immediately began his operation.
First, he made a call to his former agent, Eleanor Vance, and through her, got in touch with the Articuno Media Company.
Then, he contacted his own team's public relations department, talking on the phone for a full hour.
While Caleb was wondering what was going on, driven by curiosity, he stayed an extra night at the camp. The day after they left the mountains, he saw a large group of media reporters swarm into the remote little town!
These people were, of course, attracted by the news Arthur had spread. This time, Arthur showed Caleb what a true league superstar could do!! (Tactical lean back)
The method Arthur used to resolve this incident was, when you get down to it, very simple—he used his own influence to blow the story up, to get it trending! To make it big news!
At the end of the day, playing favorites is something you can get away with in private, but if it gets blown up, it's bound to attract public condemnation.
Your border defense force has retired Pokémon living in the mountains, but don't other military units have retired Pokémon living there too?
It's human nature to have biases, but it's not good to be so blatant about it.
Originally, the leader of that Aerodactyl flock was very clever, very slippery. He had bullied the Charizard clan for years but had never pushed them to the brink, always leaving a way out. Thus, he had never caused a major incident.
Many of the people in the nearby border defense force even thought he was quite well-behaved.
But not this time!
If he didn't want to be graceful, Arthur would help him be graceful!
Even though he was no longer a Champion, with his status as a top influencer and a star player, it wasn't hard for Arthur to make a big deal out of something if he really wanted to.
And crucially, he had "hard evidence"!
The videos he had asked Caleb's family to film.
Although the truth was that Arthur had led the Charizard clan to get brutal revenge on the Aerodactyl for their past transgressions, before handing the videos over, he used the skills he had learned during his few months as an internet celebrity to edit them. The official story became—
Due to long-term human favoritism, the conflict between the Aerodactyl and Charizard clans in the mountains became irreconcilable, ultimately leading to a tragic outcome! The two sides came to blows, causing irreparable damage to the ecosystem!
The wording was masterful, full of sorrow and compassion!
Not only did he completely absolve himself of any blame, but he also filled it with humanitarian concern.
Caleb, who knew the truth of that day, was left dumbfounded, calling him a true professional.
Holy cow!
He almost had me convinced!
Of course, he had to thank Eleanor Vance for the little bit of "polishing" she had done after hearing his story yesterday.
As a professional in online media, Eleanor's skills in this area were far superior to Arthur's.
After the reporters arrived, Arthur also solemnly introduced them to Old Flame!
Unlike Specter, Old Flame had never defected from the Kubfu Alliance. He was a genuine veteran of a bygone era, a meritorious hero of the league!
He had served the Kubfu Alliance! He had bled for the league! And now, just because his old comrades were gone, he was being treated like this in the mountains. Wasn't that just heartbreaking?!
This flowery praise and adulation made even Old Flame himself feel a bit embarrassed.
But the media personnel who had been drawn here were all excited, their eyes shining!
This was a great angle!
It seized the moral high ground and was easy to empathize with. It was a perfect hot topic!
Specter, listening from the side, clicked his tongue in amazement.
No one else would ever guess that the Pokémon Arthur was now praising so earnestly, without a blush or a stutter, was actually his own.
This move also conveniently explained how a teenager could win the approval of a two-hundred-year-old meritorious Pokémon, preventing people from having any wild speculations about Arthur's own identity.
A sincere young man, through his righteous actions, moved an elderly, meritorious Pokémon. What a touching story! Was there anything to doubt?
Of course not!
And so, Arthur's capture of Old Flame became a matter of course, no longer seeming abrupt.
Killing two birds with one stone!
Seeing this, Caleb threw up his hands, a series of question marks appearing from his palms to the top of his head.
As a fellow traveler, he clearly remembered that Arthur had been looking for Old Flame the moment he arrived in the valley. He had only been gone for a few minutes and had come back with Old Flame in his Poké Ball. It was obvious that the two of them knew each other before, right?!
How did it turn into the first encounter between an elderly, meritorious Pokémon and a passing, righteous young man?
There's something fishy about this script!
But under Specter's kind and benevolent gaze, the boy quickly realized his own shallowness.
Besides, what Arthur was doing was also good for the Charizard in the valley.
His brother's Charizard was still in the mountains.
And in that moment, Caleb had an epiphany.
"That's right! Brother Arthur and I, after witnessing firsthand the deep harm caused by human favoritism on the Pokémon clans in the valley, resolutely decided to step forward!"
Facing the cameras, the boy narrated calmly and coolly.
He particularly emphasized the words "and I," his eyes frantically signaling the reporters—
I was part of it! I was part of it too! Brother Arthur and I took care of this together, got it?!
It had the same vibe as Liu Shan and Zhao Yun fighting their way through Changban together.
And so, with both witness testimony and video evidence, pushed by a celebrity and pulling on the heartstrings, the story of the valley became a viral sensation overnight.
With this, Arthur no longer had to worry about Old Flame's kin being bullied in the mountains. If he wanted to return in the future, he wouldn't have any worries.
So the only remaining problem was—how to treat the crippled wing of Old Flame's mate.
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