After handling things in the Imperial Capital, Mu Li didn't linger and rushed back to the Demon Capital that very night. Although Zeng Anlian wanted him to stay longer, Mu Li had genuinely been quite busy recently.
His new album was finally complete and set for official release on September 15th. The recording task was done, but the next task, promotion, was perhaps even more important.
Mu Li's main task now was to promote his new album on various variety shows.
Additionally, there was one final recording left for "I Live Alone." Mu Li had originally planned to go abroad to find his parents and perform a scene of family harmony, but the production team already had arrangements, so Mu Li had to cancel his previous plan.
He didn't know what the production team was thinking. They planned to gather all the guests for a party, allowing them to get to know each other. Of course, the guests' observers and hosts would also join in the end.
The location for this trip was set in Star City.
Mu Li expressed his helplessness.
He barely knew the other guests, so he wondered how awkward it would be.
Moreover, he had heard from Chichi that some people's parents seemed to have been displeased with him during the recording, which made him have no expectations for this gathering.
But making money isn't shameful.
For this gathering, Mu Li traveled from the Demon Capital to Star City the next day.
Before the party, the five guests needed to record the gathering process together, and then they would explore Star City together, which also served as a promotion for Star City to the outside world.
The last day of recording would be a grand reunion for everyone.
For this shoot, all the guests stayed in a hotel. From the Demon Capital, production team staff had been following and filming Mu Li.
Considering he might perform during the show's recording, Mu Li specifically brought his band with him.
This completely liberated Jigglypuff.
Although the band had been practicing new songs recently, none of them involved Jigglypuff!
This made Jigglypuff extremely Flail, calling Mu Li every day to complain and ask him to pick her up, even nagging him to write a song for her.
Mu Li also felt helpless: "Jigglypuff, what do you know about Sing? Isn't one 'Boli Boli' enough for you to Sing? Anyway, everyone would fall asleep before you finish one song, so what's the point of having two songs in such a situation? It's a complete waste.
If you really want to Sing, just hum along to a melody."
But Jigglypuff simply refused, insisting on having her own exclusive song.
"Jigglypuff, do you want to consider changing your style?" Mu Li pondered for a moment, then said seriously.
"Boli? What style?" Jigglypuff looked at Mu Li with a puzzled expression.
"Didn't you used to do the hypnotic healing style? How about switching to rock music this time?" Mu Li said excitedly, "Like a rock-and-roll raspy voice or something?"
"Raspy voice?? Boli!" Jigglypuff's eyes lit up. Rock-and-roll sounded very interesting!
"Exactly! Or perhaps wear a transformer and add some electronic music? Or something like punk?" Mu Li grew more excited as he spoke.
PS: If you're interested, you can check out the POKÉTOON Pokémon official animated series "Jigglypuff's Song"; there's an electronic music Jigglypuff in it, and it's absolutely adorable!
Jigglypuff was very satisfied with Mu Li's idea.
However, after practicing for a while, Jigglypuff didn't develop a raspy voice; instead, her voice became hoarse, unable to speak loudly, but it gained a self-contained electronic music effect.
Adding new grudges to old ones, and considering this was the first time Jigglypuff and Sylveon had been away from Mu Li for so long since joining the farm, the resentment of the two little ones was imaginable.
With Jigglypuff and the jealous Eevee, Mu Li's hair on his head was almost plucked bald.
Even more absurdly, these two little ones suspected that Mu Li had new Pokémon outside.
Did he let other Pokémon sit in his lap or occupy the spot on his head?
No matter how Mu Li explained, the two little ones refused to enter their Poké Balls.
However, Mu Li was already used to the tempers of these two little ones; at most, he just carried them with him as extra weight.
But Mewtwo's actions completely left Mu Li speechless.
Because Mewtwo was invisible every day, Mu Li didn't know what it was doing.
But one day, he suddenly found a Mewtwo doll in his house.
He was startled at the time.
Mewtwo should have never appeared in front of people, so how could a merchant know its image and make a doll?
At that moment, he even thought it was the remnants of the Apocalypse Thunder Corporation who had discovered his identity.
For this, he even called his parents, worried about any accidents they might have abroad.
But what he didn't expect was that the Mewtwo doll was actually Mewtwo itself.
As soon as his call connected, he watched Mewtwo transform from its doll state back into its true form.
Mu Li was stunned at the time. The next moment, he saw a blue light flash, and he himself turned into a doll.
"No, where did you learn this kind of Psychic application?" After returning to his original state, Mu Li looked at Mewtwo with a speechless expression.
This was definitely not because Mu Li had been tormented by Mewtwo after turning into a doll just now.
"It was just a TV show!" Mewtwo explained, "In the TV show, an evil Gardevoir, for revenge, used Psychic to turn all her enemies into dolls and hung them on herself."
"I was bored and thought about it, and it actually worked!"
What else could Mu Li say? He could only praise, "Amazing!"
Mewtwo also didn't like being invisible, as that state made it feel as if it didn't exist in this world.
So when Mewtwo discovered a way to exist openly and honestly, it didn't hesitate, directly turning itself into a Mewtwo doll and hanging it on Mu Li's clothes.
This made the other Pokémon extremely envious, especially those who wanted to stick close to Mu Li every day.
To satisfy the Pokémon's wishes, Mu Li specially made a shoulder bag, on which he hung doll versions of Mewtwo, three Rowlet, Ninetales, Gardevoir, Hatterene, Arcanine, Alcremie, Bewear, Togekiss, Blissey, Gyarados, and Snorlax.
Don't ask where Ditto went, because the shoulder bag itself was Ditto.
Mu Li also satisfied his hobby of collecting figures; the entire Ditto bag was almost completely covered by these Pokémon.
Adding Jigglypuff on Mu Li's head and Sylveon in his arms, as well as a certain little fatty always hiding in the shadows, Mu Li felt like he was a walking display cabinet.
Mu Li felt that if he encountered any bad guys, he could just pull out a Gatling gun and load these Pokémon as bullets to fire.
Mu Li looked at Ditto, stroked his chin, and mused, "It doesn't seem impossible..."
After several weeks, when the staff of "I Live Alone" saw Mu Li again, they were surprised by his attire.
After all, the last time they saw such an outfit was at the airport, where some suitcases were covered with Pokémon cartoon stickers, and those suitcases looked somewhat similar to Mu Li's current appearance.
Of course, if they looked closely, they would notice that the expressions on these dolls' faces were still subtly changing.
If they got even closer, well, even if they got closer, they wouldn't notice that these dolls had even formed a group chat using Psychic.
Chitter-chatter! Chitter-chatter!
Others couldn't hear it, but Mu Li heard every single word.
No, not every word; whenever Mu Li heard a part where they were about to complain about him, the chat group would automatically mute. This was Mu Li's last shred of dignity as a Pokémon trainer.
Mu Li didn't speak, he just focused on catching his flight.
Mu Li also knew how much these many Pokémon could chatter once they started a group chat, especially Alcremie, who was accompanying Mu Li for the first time; her creamy little voice never stopped.
"Wow, is this a human airplane?"
"So many people! Are they all trainers?"
"Why aren't there any Pokémon in the airport?"
"Speak up! Why aren't you speaking? Are you annoyed that I talk too much?"
...
Mu Li couldn't help but sigh: "Why didn't I notice how talkative this little guy was before?"
But despite this, Alcremie was still the most beloved in the team, mainly because everyone was soft-spoken after eating her treats.
Moreover, Alcremie was also the weakest among this group of Pokémon, only possessing Heavenly King Level high-tier strength, and that was only because a certain Dragonite kept feeding her rare treasures every day.
Alcremie, however, had no concept of her own strength; she was usually just a happy little dog, happily producing cream for everyone every day. When she wasn't talking, she was very well-liked.
But these Pokémon, hanging on the bag, were bored. Besides those who were close enough to secretly kick their neighbors when no one was looking, for the rest of the time, they could only hang there and pretend to be dolls.
Because of Alcremie's presence, for a mere two-hour flight, Mu Li felt that if the group chat messages were counted like on WeChat, the red dot would already be showing 999+.
Upon arriving in Star City, Xu Ming was already waiting for him at the airport.
"Whoa? Your style is quite unique." Xu Ming was stunned when he saw Mu Li. "I haven't heard of anyone carrying so many dolls for no reason."
With that, he reached out and touched the Alcremie on Mu Li's bag.
It must be said that because it had transformed into a doll, its body had shrunk considerably.
From the doll's perspective, a super-large bipedal creature reached out with two giant hands to touch it upon meeting.
Alcremie was instantly startled. Seeing those two giant hands about to grab her, tears welled up in Alcremie's eyes, her little mouth pouted, and she burst into tears.