Chapter 416 It’s okay, his skills are not as good as ours!
The venue of the entire ice sculpture competition is divided into three areas.
The competition venue where the contestants create their works is also the largest area.
The area where the judges responsible for scoring and the many visitors are located.
And the last area with a certain distance from the first two areas to prevent the wild Pokémon on the Frost Mountain from suddenly breaking in and causing trouble, giving security personnel and Pokémon a certain reaction time.
In essence, the three areas are like three overlapping circles, built on a relatively rare large area of flat footing on the steep Frost Mountain.
Saying goodbye to Guluxia, who was still in a happy mood because of the treatment of his legs, Luo Mu came to the competition venue with the Bud Crown King and the Snowstorm Horse in a very casual manner.
At this time, there were already many contestants scattered on the competition venue.
Because he was also a rookie who had just started, he had no relevant connections.
Luo Mu didn't know any of these people, let alone know whether they were professional ice sculpture artists or idle people who came to join in the fun on a whim like himself.
He did not show his desire to communicate with others, and his eyes wandered among these people, looking for the staff of the organizer.
Luo Mu did not pay attention to others, but it did not mean that others did not pay attention to him.
Many eyes were obscurely looking at Luo Mu, or more precisely, the handsome Blizzard beside him, and the Bud Crown riding on the Blizzard.
Why did that person have a bunch of Pokémon that he did not recognize at all?
Some people from the Alola region recognized Vulpix, but were confused about the identities of Bud Crown and Blizzard.
Some people were eager to approach Luo Mu to see if they could ask him indirectly what the Pokémon beside him was called, which region it was from, and whether they wanted to capture a few of them.
But they were often shocked by the inexplicable aura of Bud Crown before they took a step, and they became hesitant and frightened secretly.
How come the Pokémon with a big head is more frightening than his own mom and dad?
Obviously, although he has made the choice to retire from the Galar King, it is difficult for the dignified temperament of the Bud Crown to disappear completely.
After looking around for several times, Luo Mu finally found the staff.
The staff of the ice sculpture competition all wore red vests that were particularly conspicuous in this silver-clad world, and had a badge on their chests representing the staff's identity.
The main reason why Luo Mu found it after searching for a long time was that a muscular male contestant just completely blocked the female staff member who was slightly smaller than him.
Let Bud Crown and Snowstorm take Vulpix to wait for a while.
When he came to the petite female staff member, Luo Mu greeted her: "Hello, is it convenient now?"
At the same time, Luo Mu's eyes stayed on the badge worn on her chest vest for a moment and remembered her name.
Mumu.
After rejecting the contestant who wanted to go see the snow with her and had no sense of boundaries, Mumu had no time to breathe a sigh of relief before Luo Mu shouted at her and almost made her lose two of her three souls.
No way! Again?
Even though her heart was in turmoil, Mumu still kept a perfect smile, turned around and said enthusiastically: "Hello! Do you have any questions about the competition process?"
At the same time, she glanced at Luo Mu carefully, making sure that he was wearing a green vest representing the identity of a contestant, and she was not wrong.
Luo Mu looked at Mumu strangely, always feeling that her smile was a little too professional, but there was no need for him to be so nosy, so he might as well circle the position first.
He said bluntly: "I plan to determine the area after the competition starts. Can you help me mark it out and register?"
"Ah?" Mumu was stunned for a moment, and then nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. "Okay, I understand! Please follow me."
There are more than 50 contestants in total. Perhaps one of them will have a dispute or fight with another because they have set their eyes on the same work area.
The probability of this situation seems very low, but it is definitely not zero.
So the organizers considered this problem very early and issued a rule.
"Contestants can freely choose the area within the competition venue as their own work area, but they cannot snatch the work area determined and registered by others, otherwise they will be treated as withdrawing from the competition with zero points."
The seemingly overbearing regulations directly suppressed the occurrence of this hidden danger.
After all, this is just an ordinary ice sculpture competition to compete in technology, not a lord game to compete for territory with a bigger fist.
In a sense, this is a rule that whoever comes early will occupy a good position.
Mumu turned around and led the way, asking Luo Mu as a matter of routine: "How big an ice sculpture do you plan to make? How much radius of work area do you need?"
"Hmm, let me think about it."
Luo Mu looked distressed. To be honest, he really didn't know how big a work area he should have.
Looking at Luo Mu who seemed a little unreliable.
Mumu thought that the young man in front of him might be younger than himself, and his skills might not be very good. After all, he, who was barely half an insider, had never seen or heard of the name of an ice sculpture master named Luo Mu.
The other party might be here to feel the atmosphere.
Thinking of this, Mumu changed his walking direction without leaving a trace, intending to take Luo Mu to the area where novices gathered, so that he would not stay with those masters who really came to participate in the competition and intend to win prizes, and his self-confidence would be damaged accidentally.
At this time, Luo Mu finally made an estimate and hesitated: "My ice sculpture is about 20 to 30 meters long, plus I need to leave a certain amount of space for activities, I am afraid the area required will be very large."
Mumu's footsteps stopped as he led the way, twisted his neck stiffly, and looked at Luo Mu with a look of "Are you kidding me?"
Even Teacher Shahua, the favorite to win this competition, probably wouldn't dare to open her mouth so high!
But Luo Mu's expression was very real, which made Mumu confused.
No way, could he really have real skills?
After a little thought, Mumu whispered: "Because the competition is very close to the start time, there are probably only a few unpopular places in the work area that meet your needs."
"Unpopular?" Luo Mu looked puzzled.
"Yes." Mumu nodded and told the truth, "The places that meet your requirements are either scattered because of the division of the contestants, or there are large areas of vacant areas due to the existence of some contestants."
"To put it bluntly, if you insist on doing this, you will be the "neighbors" of those professional contestants, which may not be very advantageous in the judging stage of watching one by one."
In the end, Luo Mu still let Mumu take him to the vacant area next to the "professional contestant" and became his neighbor.
When Mumu left, he also learned the identity of his neighbor from him.
It was Ms. Shahua, the trainer of Magna, Lapras and Edelweiss, a professional ice sculpture artist, and the defending champion of the ice sculpture competition, in the video that he showed to Vulpix.
The ice sculptures carved by Shahua are famous for their delicate, exquisite, lifelike and eye-catching special effects.
Just like in the video that Luo Mu showed to Vulpix, Shahua will equip her Pokémon with different "special effects" according to the characteristics of the ice sculptures.
As a Pokémon with insect and ice attributes, Edelweiss is undoubtedly one of the most suitable Pokémon for producing special effects.
The work in the video - "Polar and Tundra Bear Brothers" is such a case.
Looking at the top of the Tundra Bear Brothers in the night sky, the dots of ice scale powder are like stars, and the magnificent and dreamy aurora perfectly presents the artistic conception of this work.
It is said that there is even an alliance that intends to buy this work and use it as a representative work to promote environmental protection. It also invites Shahua to go to all parts of the world with the exhibition of ice sculptures to match the indispensable "special effects".
It can be said that as an ice sculpture artist, Shahua has stood at the top.
Luo Mu and Rape Crown silently sorted out the tools they would need next, and the Snowstorm Horse chewed slowly and tasted the ice radish that Luo Mu gave it.
Recently, Rape Crown has strictly restricted its intake of ice radish, as if saying that eating only radishes is unhealthy.
It was not easy for Luo Mu to cook a special meal, and the king would not say anything, so it naturally had to taste it slowly.
Vulpix, who had nothing to do for the time being, looked to the side.
Luo Mu said that that was the working area of the strongest opponent in this competition. She didn't even need to come early in the morning. The organizers had arranged the most suitable finale area for her.
In a sense, Luo Mu, who was not afraid of comparison, also benefited from her and picked up a good position for free.
Vulpix was a little nervous. He recalled the scene in the video in his mind and thought that it would be great if he could also unfold such a beautiful aurora curtain.
In this way, the works prepared by Luo Mu and others would definitely be more outstanding.
Vulpix didn't notice that under the big tree a little further away, a small white head like a bamboo hat poked out. When he saw them, especially Luo Mu, his eyes lit up.
After a while.
The time finally came to ten o'clock, and the contestants had already stayed in their selected areas in an orderly manner, waiting for the staff to start their ice sculpture work.
Different from those hot and highly ornamental Pokémon battles, gorgeous competitions and even various professional competitions.
The ice sculpture competition itself is not very ornamental. The whole carving process is boring and tedious. Only when the last cut is made, many non-professional audiences are interested.
When all the contestants arrived, Luo Mu finally saw what the mysterious Ms. Shahua looked like.
She was about 30 years old, with a beautiful face that was well maintained and a very mature temperament. She didn't look like she was arrogant because of her position in her field.
When she noticed that Luo Mu beside her actually occupied such a large area, Shahua looked over here in surprise, and her eyes collided with Luo Mu's, and she nodded gently.
This Ms. Shahua looks very friendly.
Luo Mu silently made a judgment in his heart.
Then, the enthusiastic host announced the start of the ice sculpture conference with a smile on his face, and many contestants released their Pokémon.
The first process is - making ice!
The contestants come from all over the world, so their Pokémon also exist in various regions.
Johto's Mystic Lip, Hoenn's Ice Demon and Snow Demon, Unova's Double Dodo Ice, Tundra, etc.
But these Pokémon suddenly became eclipsed the moment Luo Mu released Regice.
The legend of the King of Plenty is almost no longer circulated in the Frozen Village, so no one can recognize the forgotten king, Budcrest or Snowbring.
But Regiace is different.
Among ice attribute trainers, Regiace's reputation is like the dragon attribute trainers' dream of the major dragon legendary Pokémon, and it is tied with Articuno for the first place in the list of Pokémon that ice attribute trainers want to capture.
No one has never imagined capturing a legendary Pokémon, even Shahua is no exception.
She looked in the direction of Luo Mu in surprise, her mind was shocked, and she even forgot about asking Lapras to use the freezing beam to make ice.
Outer periphery.
Guluxia, who has recovered, doesn't know what to say.
Budcrest, Snowbring and even Regiace, can a farmer still have such an opportunity?
Guluxia felt like she had eaten a pound of lemons.
So sour.
After releasing Regiace, Luo Mu called out the Sandslash couple, Mimikyuu and Blue Blade in turn.
Because it is a super-large ice sculpture, if there are only three Pokémon assistants like Ms. Shahua, each with their own duties, it is absolutely impossible to complete the task in two days.
At least in terms of assistants, Luo Mu is ahead by a cliff.
Several Pokémon gathered together and, following the instructions of the Bud Crown, spit out pieces of frozen wind.
The Bud Crown then used telekinesis to arrange these frozen winds mixed with ice and snow into the shape of Rayquaza, and then looked at Regiace.
In fact, Regiace can almost reproduce the same ice cubes that he has made before, just like a living 3D printer.
But the Bud Crown was worried that Regiace would feel uncomfortable when he enlarged the scale for the first time, so he simply led the way for Regiace himself.
The yellow dots on Regiace's face flashed, and under its control, the cold air suddenly began to spread. It only took a few breaths to fill the "mold" made by the Bud Crown, condensing into a huge and extremely solid ice layer.
This speed made many contestants envious.
Look at the speed of making ice at home, and then look at the speed of making ice by Luo Mu's Regiace. There is no comparison at all!
After coming to her senses, Shahua had no time to envy, and quickly asked Lapras, Magna and Edelweiss to make ice cubes.
In this competition, she wanted to try to break through herself and make an ice sculpture several times larger than the original one. Time was very tight, so how could she pay attention to others?
After making ice cubes in one breath, Luo Mu led the Pokémon to start preliminary shaping of the ice layer and remove the excess parts.
As soon as they took action, they exposed the fact that their skills were not so proficient in front of the professionals who were now all over the venue-
Whether it was the use of tools or the processing methods, they were too rough. Even after accidentally making cracks, Luo Mu simply broke that section and made a new piece of ice to put it on.
All this exposed the fact that they were not so professional.
This made many contestants who were aiming for the second place feel relieved.
Fortunately, this guy is just here to play. Even if the quality of the Pokémon is far superior, his skills are not as good as ours!