Chapter 182: Dasha Valley

"What?!" Misty stared blankly at this scene, apparently not expecting Psyduck, who was performing poorly, to have such terrifying power.

"Stop it! Psyduck!" Misty found out that Staryu had lost the ability to fight, and Psyduck's attack hadn't stopped. In shock, she quickly stopped Psyduck to prevent Staryu from being injured.

Psyduck, who was in a state of confusion, heard Misty's voice and regained consciousness. The confusion dissipated immediately, and Staryu fell to the ground.

Misty quickly checked Staryu's situation. Although its physical strength was exhausted, and it also withstood Confusion's attack, there was no major problem.

Looking at Psyduck, Misty still couldn't believe it; this Psyduck actually had such a powerful Confusion attack—it was truly unexpected.

In the end, Misty brought Psyduck back to the camp, and while treating Staryu, she was also thinking about whether to keep Psyduck.

Psyduck also seemed to know that it had made a mistake and timidly stood aside, watching Misty treat Staryu, with grievance and guilt in its eyes. It looked at Staryu, then at the pensive Misty, and finally made a decision, quietly turning around, wanting to leave.

Starmie noticed Psyduck's departure, touched Misty, and made Misty look in the direction of Psyduck's departure after Misty recovered.

Seeing Psyduck's lonely and desolate back, Misty struggled for a while, then sighed slightly, and called out to Psyduck, "Wait, Psyduck!~"

"Huh?!" Psyduck paused and suddenly turned to look at Misty, its eyes full of anticipation.

"Forget it, I'm afraid of you. Come on!" Misty smiled helplessly, then knelt down and waved to Psyduck.

"Okay!" Psyduck ran up to Misty happily, showing a silly smile. Although it was a little confused, it still understood what Misty meant.

"Although... you can't use Water-type moves, I decided to bring you along. I hope you can use Water-type moves smoothly under my training in the future. After all, you are a Water-type Pokémon; you can't not know Water-type moves!" Misty patted Psyduck's head.

"Psy?" Psyduck still looked at Misty with a dumbfounded look, not knowing whether it understood or not.

In the evening, Ash came back from training and saw that Misty had caught Psyduck. He couldn't help but smile. This Psyduck had extraordinary potential. With proper training methods, it would become Misty's main force in the future!

After several days of journeying, Ash and his team moved forward while training. During the past few days, while the strength of the Pokémon steadily increased, Ash was also allowing them to master more moves.

These moves might not be used in battle, but they must be learned so that they could have more choices when facing various situations.

As the journey progressed, Ash and his team found that there seemed to be more pedestrians nearby, and most of them were not trainers, which surprised everyone.

"Is there any special place around here?" Ash looked at a passing pedestrian, who was dressed in a normal way, and he didn't seem to be coming from the direction of Celadon City, so he was a little curious and asked Brock.

"Let me take a look..." Brock took out the map from his waist, unfolded it, and found their possible location, then he was slightly startled.

"What's wrong?" Misty asked curiously.

"This..." Brock looked at Ash and Misty with some embarrassment and shame. Pikachu couldn't help but tilt its head, also curious.

"What's the matter, tell me..." Ash looked at Brock in bewilderment, and suddenly thought of a possibility, twitching the corners of his mouth, and asked, "Could it be that... we're... lost?"

"What? Lost?!" After hearing what Ash said, Misty stared at Brock in amazement, a little unbelievable. They followed the road, but they still went the wrong way?!

"Yes..." Brock smiled awkwardly, then showed the map to the two of them, pointing to the route on it.

"Originally we were supposed to go this way, this way..." Brock pointed to their original route to Fuchsia City.

"But now... we may be at this location..." Brock pointed to a route not far away, which was a branch at a fork two days ago.

"So we went wrong at that time. We should have gone straight, but we took another road..." Brock said shyly, looking at the map. He could get lost, and even if he did, it turned out they only found out two days later....

"Then where are we now?" Ash wasn't familiar with maps; even if he looked at them, he couldn't understand them, so he could only ask Brock.

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"We turned north, deviated from the original route, and here... is the direction to Dasha Valley..." Brock pointed to a wilderness area on the map, very close to their current position.

"Dasha Valley...is that the Dasha Valley where the ancient Pokémon fossils were discovered?" Misty asked quickly. She still remembered what she had learned from Bill, and that Bill had come to this Dasha Valley.

"Yes, it is!" Brock nodded.

"Since we've gone the wrong way, why don't we go to Dasha Valley? Looking at the situation here, it seems that the fossil excavation isn't over yet," Misty said excitedly.

Brock also looked at Ash, as the team was led by Ash, after all.

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"Then... let's go." Ash nodded. He didn't expect that they would stumble upon Dasha Valley, which wasn't in their original plan. Dasha Valley not only had fossils but also surviving fossil Pokémon!

Fossil Pokémon were very rare. So far, Ash had only seen Omanyte, Kabuto, and Aerodactyl in pictures and materials, but never in person.

Aerodactyl was a very powerful Pokémon. If he could obtain one, it would be a great asset!

With Ash's consent, Misty excitedly walked forward first, and the group followed the route, heading towards Dasha Valley.

Gradually, the terrain became desolate, with more rocky mountains, and green spaces became increasingly scarce.

Although the green vegetation was diminishing, Ash and the others saw a river ditch, which was the stream in Dasha Valley.

Ash and the others saw some Pokémon on the edge of the stream. Some lived in the stream, and some came here to drink water. It could be said that this stream sustained the surrounding Pokémon.

"I wonder if we'll meet Professor Bill? But it's been so long, and Professor Bill may have already left," Brock said, looking forward to it. He had learned a lot from his interactions with Bill.

After a while, following the stream, everyone found an excavation site. There were quite a few people there, hundreds just by glancing at it. These people seemed to have come to Dasha Valley to try their luck and see if they could dig up fossils.

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