January 16th, nothing happened today, just deal with all the big and small matters in Suchuan Town as usual.
January 17th, nothing happened today. I was still dealing with various matters in Suchuan Town. I happened to pass by the Pokémon Center and went to visit Miss Marli. I was kicked out an hour later.
January 18th, nothing happened today. I accidentally passed by the Pokémon Center again and went to visit Miss Marli. Two hours later, I was kicked out by Miss Joy and Miss Marli.
January 19th, nothing happened today. He happened to pass by the Pokémon Center and went to visit Miss Mali. This time he was not kicked out... He was left behind by Miss Joy to entrust him with something.
"I hope you can take this child to a place..." Miss Joy glanced at the duck in the ward who was covered in bandages and holding her head, staring blankly at the white wall, and explained: "It Being pressed under the stone slab for three hours, my brain suffered some damage.”
"Head injured?" Xu Qiansu looked at Kodak holding his head with blank eyes through the glass, and asked, "Aren't all Kodak ducks like this?"
"...I don't know which duck gave you this impression, but generally speaking, ducks don't look like this." Miss Joy sighed helplessly.
Xu Qiansu looked at her, waiting for the next step.
After hesitating for a moment, Miss Joy continued: "It has a trainer. After meeting its trainer, I hope it can help its condition."
Xu Qiansu was slightly startled and asked, "Is its trainer seriously injured?"
"It doesn't count." Miss Joy shook her head and explained to Xu Qiansu for a moment.
After listening silently, Xu Qiansu looked away from Miss Joy's face, looked at Kodakya, and then nodded gently, "I will take it there, but I will not interfere with what happens next..."
"Yeah." Miss Joy nodded lightly. As someone who often hangs out on the iSu forum, she also knows a bit about the man in front of her, "That's good."
Xu Qiansu opened the door and said to Ke Keya: "Let's go see him."
The Kodak duck held its head and slowly turned its head, looking at Xu Qiansu. After waiting for a while, it jumped off the bed and stepped on the floor with its paws, making a soft 'squeak' sound.
Xu Qiansu didn't say anything and walked out silently.
Kodakya looked at his back with dull eyes, silently followed him with his short legs.
The little marsupial also followed Xu Qiansu's legs. She turned her head secretly and looked at the duck curiously.
Seeing that Kodak ignored her at all, the little marsupial raised its tail slightly and waved it in front of Kodak's eyes.
Still ignored her.
As a result, she accidentally bumped into someone's slender calf.
Ma Li picked up the little marsupial, tapped her little head gently, and said, "Look more at the road."
Then Ma Li looked at Xu Qiansu, "What are you going to do?"
"Take Kodak to meet its trainer."
"Koda Duck..." Ma Li stood on her tiptoes slightly, looking past Xu Qiansu at the Kada Duck behind him, with a somewhat understanding look on her face.
After working at the Pokémon Center for these days, Miss Mali naturally remembered the details of each Pokémon accurately due to her excellent memory.
She looked at Xu Qiansu and asked, "What do you want to do?"
"Just tell it truthfully."
"anything else?"
"Gone."
"Aren't you afraid something will happen?"
"What it wants to do is its business."
Ma Li nodded slightly. Xu Qiansu was a very complicated man. Although he always used fancy words to cover up his heart, if you look closely, you can find the persistence and gentleness in his bones. But at certain times, he seemed extremely cold.
Miss Ma Li never interfered with Xu Qiansu's choice. She just asked: "Come back early tonight. The neighbor sent a large jar of honey brewed by Three Bees. I will make more honey-glazed barbecued pork... After eating, you can eat it again." Send some to Caidou and Sonia."
"Honey barbecued pork, don't you want to lose weight tonight?"
"Who told you that I want to lose weight?" Ma Lidai raised her eyebrows slightly, her expression a bit cold.
"Who else in the world knows your eating habits better than me? You have obviously eaten less recently..."
"Secretly observing me behind my back?" Ma Li leaned back slightly, hugged the little marsupial tightly, and blocked it in front of her chest. She said warily: "It's disgusting. Your behavior can be linked to that of a crazy person. Mr. Xu... Well, okay nausea."
"There's no need to say it's disgusting twice..." Xu Qiansu smiled helplessly, "And I wasn't secretly observing."
Ma Li ignored Xu Qiansu. She stretched out her jade finger and pointed at Xu Qiansu, then suddenly waved her hand and pointed to the door of the Pokémon Center.
After Xu Qiansu left, she gently raised her hand to touch her flat, soft belly and sighed secretly.
"Karu?" The little marsupial blinked and looked at Ma Li.
Ma Li was slightly startled and let go of her forearms.
The little marsupial jumped down lightly, and immediately waved its little claws to Ma Li, and then followed Xu Qiansu on its short legs.
Stepping on the soft snow makes a soft crunching sound.
Xu Qiansu led Kodak and walked on the street.
The atmosphere was calm, no one spoke, and the lively atmosphere of Suchuan Town was recreated in their ears, and it did not affect them at all.
Walking through the streets and alleys, the lively sounds gradually faded away, the crowds gradually thinned out, and the atmosphere became more and more dead. Finally, we came to a cemetery.
This place is an open-air cemetery. It is afternoon, but the atmosphere is gloomy, bringing a bone-chilling chill that is different from winter.
There were some subtle, suppressed cries in my ears.
It is said that thousands of people were killed in the suppression, but not many were buried in the soil.
Burial has its own set of procedures, and it cannot be so fast. Moreover, the people who were still talking, laughing, and joking a few days ago suddenly disappeared. The absurd sense of intertwined realities was enough to make everyone unable to react...
The trainer of Kodak is among them.
He is a thirteen-year-old boy with no father or mother. He is an orphan and lives with Kodak Duck.
No family member claimed the body, so the Alliance buried it directly.
Xu Qiansu stepped onto the stone steps, Kodak duck hugged his head and followed silently without saying a word.
It seems that wherever Xu Qiansu goes, he will go, even if there are cliffs ahead, or mountains of swords and seas of fire.
Sensing the familiar gloomy atmosphere, the dream monsters emerged from Xu Qiansu's shadow and wandered around the shadows of the cemetery.
After passing many tombstones, Xu Qiansu slowly stopped in front of a simple tombstone.
I say simple because there is nothing else except the name and date of birth.
No identity, no achievements, or an epitaph.
For the first time, Kodakya looked away from Xu Qiansu's back and looked at the tombstone.
"The house collapsed, and he was trapped inside. He didn't wear shoes. He was in the entrance hall, but his back was to the door..." Xu Qiansu looked at the tombstone and said softly: "Maybe he escaped to the door, or maybe he escaped to the door. He had just returned home, but no matter what, when the house collapsed, he finally chose to run into the house..."
The Kodak Duck still said nothing. It held its head and looked at the tombstone with dull eyes, wondering whether it heard Xu Qiansu's words.
After saying that, Xu Qiansu stopped talking and looked at the tombstone.
The fate of this boy was very similar to his original one... He also had the dream of becoming a trainer, but one died in the forest and the other died at home...
After death, even the tombstone has only a few insignificant strokes.
The Kodak Duck finally moved. It slowly put down the hands holding its head, reached out and touched the writing on the tombstone... and then slowly sat down against the tombstone.
Still didn't say a word.
He just sat silently in front of the tombstone, as if he was still at home waiting for his trainer to come back.
Even if it can't wait any longer.
Xu Qiansu looked at it without saying anything or stopping it.
A few days were enough for the Galar Alliance to count the corresponding number of casualties.
Lillie, who had returned to the Alola region, was sitting in her room, hugging Bai Huanghuang, and nervously looking at her phone, her emerald green eyes reflecting the picture on the phone.
But I saw a beautifully dressed female host with a gentle professional smile, a soft tone, and clear enunciation: "... Next, Gongmen TV will broadcast the latest disaster situation for you..."
"As of 5:00 pm on January 19th, a total of 396 Galar particle riots have occurred in towns in the Galar region. The overall trend is declining. There has been no new riot for twelve hours... …”
"So far, the riots have been caused..." The female host's soft, clear voice choked for a moment, then returned to its original state, and continued: "One hundred and nine thousand sixty... sixty-four people died..."
Speaking of death, her voice took on a suppressed cry for a moment, but she still had a gentle professional smile on her face.
"Two hundred and seventy-five thousand nine hundred and twenty... people injured."
"More than 90,000 people are missing...missing..."
The young female host sniffed and continued: "Among them, more than 5,600 people died in Suchuan Town..."
"Missing……"
"Mugang...More than 19,000...people died in Mugan Town..."
As she spoke, tears rolled down the female host's cheeks. She could no longer suppress her choked cries, but she still tried her best to speak clearly and clearly.
"Nine thousand...more than 200 people died in Cuixue Town..."
"..."
"In addition, the total number of Pokémon deaths is fifteen thousand..." The hostess raised her hand to wipe the corners of her eyes, her makeup was smeared, and she didn't care at all. She choked with sobs but spoke clearly in her words.
"..."
"More than 65,000 people and more than 9,000 Pokémon have been rescued..." At this point, her speech was no longer clear and she was choked with sobs.
She cried, and so did Lillie.
Hundreds of thousands of innocent residents and more than 10,000 innocent Pokémon, they didn't deserve to die, but this is their final outcome...
…
January 20th.
Miss Joy carried the food box, medicine and scarf, and walked slowly up the stone steps to the cemetery.
She immediately saw Kodak sitting alone in front of the tombstone, but... the tombstone seemed to have signs of damage?
Miss Joy hurried over and walked to the tombstone, but she was stunned. Immediately she could no longer suppress the sadness in her heart... She had seen so many life and death in so many days...
But I saw that there was an extra line of small, crooked words on the originally pitifully simple tombstone.
The technique is poor and the handwriting is not good-looking. It is obvious that there is no engraving experience or technology.
Small characters were engraved crookedly under the boy's name as his epitaph.
It reads:
"A great trainer"
(Silver Wind Chapter, end.)
(End of chapter)
