Inoue and Baixiu took Lin Li in the opposite direction to the city, so the group became increasingly distant from the city.
"Is this a Pokémon? It's so strange. I feel like I've never seen it before. Is it from other areas?" Inoue and Baixiu looked at the ordinary horses condensed under their crotches, and were very curious.
"That's right." Lin Li nodded without further explanation.
Although the two of them were very curious about Lin Li, out of courtesy to their savior, they didn't ask any questions except that Lin Li took the initiative to chat with them on the road.
After several hours of trekking, the two finally stopped their horses.
Bai Xiu dismounted and walked to a tree. After tapping a few times, Lin Li saw a short monkey jumping out of the dense leaves above his head.
The monkey monster first looked at Bai Xiu, then tilted his head and looked at Lin Li behind him.
"Who is this?" Lin Li could understand the monkey monster's language.
"It's no problem. It was me and the people brought back by Inoue who saved us. You can believe it." Bai Xiu responded.
When the monkey monster heard this, he began to beat his chest and howl, meaninglessly, just a pure howl.
The next moment, deafening howls echoed through the forest, making Lin Li feel like he was in a jungle of monkey monsters.
"Mr. Yu Nian, can you wait for us here for a moment? We will bring Mr. Xiaozhi to see you." Inoue said.
"Okay, I have no objection." Lin Li had no objection. He threw Tom on the ground as a cushion and sat on it.
Tom: I have an opinion.
After the two of them gradually disappeared into the jungle, not long after, Lin Li heard the sound of powerful wings flapping from above. Looking up, he saw a fire-breathing dragon with an extremely large size and strong muscles.
It was the one Lin Li had seen in the virtual world, but now, compared with then, it had many more tiny scars on its body.
Its wings, which can cover the sky, still have several unhealed bullet holes.
In the past few years, I am afraid that there have been many battle injuries, but the battle-damaged version of Charizard has gained a more domineering aura. Lin Li believes that if the one in front of him competes with the Dan Emperor's one, he can be sure of victory.
Xiaozhi was not sitting on Charizard's back, but Hu Di was sitting on the back holding a spoon.
The moment Lin Li and Hu Di looked at each other, Hu Di's eyes began to turn purple, and the spoon in his hand was pointed at Lin Li.
"Ha--" At this time, Lin Li immediately heard Tom yawn under his buttocks. Then Tom looked around, picked a flower as a pillow, used Lin Li as a quilt, and began to sleep comfortably.
"Are you hypnotizing me?" Lin Li scratched his head as his body was forcibly held by Tom, but his mind was completely numb.
"How come it doesn't work? I can't seem to hypnotize him." Hu Di said.
"May I ask, can you let me see the specific location of your base camp or something? If this is the need, I can blindfold you, or I can fall asleep now. Young people like us can just fall asleep. "Lin Li took the initiative to negotiate.
"Can you speak Pokémon language?" Hu Di and Charizard both looked at Lin Li in surprise.
"It is necessary to master a foreign language." Pokémon, like humans, have to ask again for things that already have answers.
"You can't hypnotize me. My mental strength is relatively high and I don't mean any harm." Lin Li said again, and then slapped Tom awake: "Tom, give me a blindfold."
Charizard and Hu Di pulled up and seemed to be discussing something. Then Lin Li, who was wearing a blindfold, felt himself levitated by Hu Di's telekinesis. The experience was similar to the effect of the Chicken Talisman, until he sat down On the back of the fire-breathing dragon.
After that, the only sound left in my ears was the whistling wind and the flapping of wings.
When the sound subsided, Lin Li returned to the ground. Hu Di took his hand, led him to a room, and sat down.
"Mr. Yu Nian, you can take off the blindfold." After waiting for a while, Lin Li heard the familiar voice in front of him say.
Lin Li took off his blindfold and noticed that the surrounding environment looked like a cave, but there were modern tables and chairs, and there were electric lights above his head.
Of course, he also saw the familiar and unfamiliar person in front of him.
"...Xiaozhi, can I call you that? I'm more used to it." Lin Li asked proactively.
"Of course." Xiaozhi nodded.
Different from the energetic boy in his memory who dreamed of becoming the world's best Pokémon trainer, the boy in front of him, who was supposed to be in his early twenties, now had eyes full of depth and warmth that were inconsistent with his age. exhausted.
Xiaozhi seems to have experienced a lot over the years.
"It's been such a long time no see." Lin Li sighed with emotion.
"Long time no see? Mr. Yu Nian, have we met before?" Xiaozhi was a little confused.
“We met one-on-one when I was a kid – when you were young and famous, and I actually know by heart what you went through before you won the championship.
I didn’t expect that when we meet again, we will have grown up. Lin Li sighed with a smile, his words half true and half false.
"Is that so? That was really a past worth remembering." Xiaozhi seemed to be a little sentimental, showing a slight smile, and then said slightly apologetically: "Thank you for saving Inoue and Bai Xiu, but please forgive us. The way I brought you here, I have to be careful with others.”
"Of course, I can understand." Lin Li waved his hand, indicating that it didn't matter.
"So I would like to ask, Mr. Yu Nian, why do you want to join our organization, and why do you have to meet me?" Xiaozhi then said.
"I love Pokémon," Lin Li said gently, "Xiao Zhi, have your Charizard and Hu Di told you that I can also communicate with Pokémon without any barriers?"
"...Maybe you said it, but I didn't understand it. No wonder they were quite excited just now." Xiaozhi touched the back of his head. At this moment, he showed a little embarrassment, recalling the young man's vitality, but it quickly disappeared. .
Xiaozhi left the room and came back soon to confirm the fact. Looking at Lin Li's eyes, he immediately became much gentler.
After all, the vast majority of people who can master the language of Pokémon are people who have deep feelings for Pokémon, and there is no reason to stand against them.
"I am an ascetic." When he was away from home, his identity was given by himself, so Lin Li began to make up his own story:
"After you won the championship ten years ago, my interest in the world ended here. I returned to live alone in Forest No. 17. I never communicated with anyone from the outside world and had no idea what was happening outside."
"I would have continued to live like this until the Rocket Organization raided the forest where I was two weeks ago."
——The figure of two weeks is very accurate and real. It was found by Lin Li from the public activity records of the rocket base. Even if Xiaozhi goes to verify it, there will be no mistake.
"Because I can communicate with Pokémon, you should understand how disgusted I am with transformation technology that turns Pokémon into robots."
"When Rocket Base did this, I tried to stop it, but it was hard for me to fight with two fists. In the end, I had no choice but to escape alone, return to the city, and connect with the world.
But I found that the world has become different. I once witnessed you becoming the champion of the world championship and being admired by thousands of people. But I didn’t expect that in a few years, your reputation among the people would become a target that everyone wanted to beat. mouse. "
"Xiaozhi, can you answer my question? Although I have collected some information about you in the past few days, it was all collected from the Rocket Organization's public channels. I don't think it can be true.
I'm curious, what made you change like this and choose to establish the "Cage Breaking" organization? Is the purpose really as extreme as they said, to kill all humans? "
Lin Li asked curiously.
Xiaozhi was a little silent. He crossed his hands and covered his mouth. After a long time, he said, "Mr. Yu Nian, do you know the dark side of this world?"
"I don't know much about it. In fact, strictly speaking, because of my seclusion and my previous admiration for you, my knowledge is only what you saw before I was eleven years old. My impression of this world is still It's very beautiful." Lin Li continued to compile.
"Then your family background should be pretty good." Xiaozhi said warmly, "Only in this way can we be deceived and deceived by this world so easily."
"Please help me clear up my doubts." Lin Li asked.
"Well... there are many examples. For example, Lin Li, do you know Miss Joy and Miss Junsha?" Xiaozhi asked.
"Of course I know." Lin Li nodded.
Joey is the nurse at every Pokémon center, and Junsha is the police officer in every city. The reason why there are so many identical Joeys and Junshas in the world is because they are outrageous super twin sisters. .
In the original "Pokémon", they were still Xiaogang's catchers - Xiaogang would fall in love with Joey and Junsha in a city when he arrived in that city.
"I used to think this situation was very interesting, but when I gradually became an adult, I realized the symbol behind it - it is actually a kind of monopoly." Xiaozhi nodded and continued to explain to Lin Li:
“The police and medical industries are monopolized by the Junsha and Joy families respectively, and such families control the professional recruitment opportunities of the entire society, making it difficult for ordinary residents who do not belong to them to join the ranks of their organizations.
This is not just a case of Joey and the Junsha family.
In our world, almost all industries are passed down from family to family, and class solidification is very serious.
I didn't feel it when I was a child because I was a beneficiary of this system. Because of Dr. Oki, he is a very powerful Pokémon researcher, so I benefited from him.
In Dr. Ohki’s family, many of his relatives and friends are engaged in the research industry.
When his grandson failed to become a Pokémon training master, he settled for the next best thing and easily became a Pokémon researcher through his channels.
When I was a child, I had no such concept and could not observe this.
In addition to occupations, the same is true for industries, but by region. Mr. Yu Nian, you should remember that basically every region also has its own business giants. They monopolize all aspects of the entire region, and small shops are located in them. Survive under shade.
Ordinary people can only be ordinary people, and future generations can only be ordinary people. Rich people are rich people, and poor people are poor. "
"Would it be different if you got the title of Pokémon Trainer Master and won the competition? Wouldn't you have successfully become famous from a young man in a small town?" Faced with a world that was suddenly so real, Lin Li felt It was a bit difficult, so I asked.
"But what if..." Xiaozhi said with some pain: "What if there is a shady secret in the game?"
"Shady story?" Lin Li raised an eyebrow.
When talking about shady stories, the first thing Lin Li thought of was the mythical beast man Darnik that Xiaozhi met in the Sinnoh region. The setting of this character was purely because the production team did not want Xiaozhi to win the championship. Before meeting Xiaozhi, A Darkrai swept across the opponent, and Xiaozhi tried his best, but in the end only defeated one of the opponent's elf.
But such an existence has disappeared since then. It was scolded badly at the time, and the barrage was all about "shady".
"Success requires hard work, but only half of it is needed. The rest requires power and background." Xiaozhi sighed faintly, "I didn't expect that I could win the championship. In addition to my own efforts, Dr. Omu also helped me." Behind the scenes, it also helped me a lot - in places I couldn't see."
"Is your dad really Dr. Omu?" Lin Li couldn't hold it back.
Xiaozhi: "?"
After smiling apologetically, Lin Li was speechless. This magically modified copy incorporates many realistic elements. Although these existences may be reasonable, this does not prevent Lin Li from disdain for the system.
"Actually, I don't care about these dark sides. This is humankind's own business. Everyone has been through this for so many years. It is not difficult for everyone to live. In fact, the point that I find difficult to accept is Pokémon."
"Wait for me a moment." After saying this, Xiaozhi left the room, and when he came back, he held a tablet in his hand and placed it in front of Lin Li. "When we conquered Pokémon, we really cared about Pokémon. Any ideas?”
Lin Li took the tablet, which showed a video interface. When Lin Li pressed the play button, the head of a listless Vulpix appeared on the screen.
Vulpix glanced at the camera timidly, and then began to tell his story.
The video actually comes with subtitles, so even if you don’t understand Pokémon, it doesn’t matter.
"My mother and I live in the Green Pan Forest, in the deepest part of the forest. My mother has warned me since I was a child - "Don't fight, stay away from the city, run as far away as possible when you see humans, and be sure to go home before dark. "."
"I didn't really understand what this was until the day I was arrested."
"The weather was very nice that day. My mother was collecting food for the evening, but I didn't want to help. After praying for a long time, I got permission to go out and play."
"I played for a long time that day. When I was hungry and finally ready to go home for dinner, I found that everything was ruined."
"My mother was lying on the ground with bruises all over her body, and next to her, a human was hitting her on the head with a Poké Ball."
"Every time my mother was sucked into the Poké Ball, she would struggle to escape, unwilling to be subdued. This behavior gradually annoyed the human being, so the human would beat her again every time she escaped."
"My mother finally saw me. She only said one sentence to me before she completely passed out and was sucked into the elf ball. That sentence was——"
""Run quickly. ""
"I'm afraid my mother insisted on this just to warn me about this, but I wasn't calm at all at that time. The scene was too scary for me at the time, and I couldn't help but shout out. "
"So the human noticed me, and I saw the smile on his face, and what he said - 'You're lucky, buy one, get one free.'"
(End of chapter)
