Chapter 386: Two extra woodcuts with special unknown totem forms, Xiaozhi's challenge!

Under the suppression of the Flower Crown King, the cracks in time and space cannot expand, and the world's self-healing ability is constantly taking effect.

Luo Mu only had time to take out his camera and capture a picture of the countless eyes that were open in the dark cracks in time and space. Then the cracks closed at a speed visible to the naked eye until they disappeared.

With a few clicks, under the control of the Lotus Crown King's telekinesis, twenty-six wooden blocks fell neatly in front of Emperor Yan.

Watching the crystallization phenomenon that was beginning to disappear rapidly around him, Emperor Yan's gaze fell on the twenty-six woodcut boards again.

Because he was born from Xiaomi's dream under the influence of the power of an unknown totem.

Therefore, Emperor Yan could clearly perceive the twenty-six unknown totems on the woodcut, as well as the invisible passage between these unknown totems and himself.

Emperor Yan felt something in his heart. Perhaps it was because of these twenty-six tiny channels like silk threads that he did not disappear along with the receding of the crystallization phenomenon.

Turning his gaze to the majestic figure riding a black horse, like a king, before Emperor Yan could ask his question, the other party seemed to know what he was going to ask and spoke first.

"They were awakened by your desire to protect Xiaomi. Before they fell asleep, I made a pact with them."

"As long as these twenty-six woodcut boards are not separated and the distance between you and them is not far apart, then you can always maintain your existence and accompany that girl."

Emperor Yan of the Leiguan Dynasty smiled. Through communication with the unknown totems, he knew that the unknown totems wanted to help the human girl named Xiaomi.

After accepting his proposal of "You don't want Xiaomi to be sad because she lost not only her father, but also her 'replacement' father", the unknown totems used their mysterious power before falling asleep and created twenty-six channels to maintain the existence of Yan Di.

With the channel, Yan Di can maintain his current strength while staying with Xiaomi forever.

The only price he had to pay was not being able to stray too far from the twenty-six woodcut panels.

Yan Di widened his eyes and looked at the Bud Crown King in shock. He didn't expect that it could do such a thing.

After a little thought, Emperor Yan solemnly expressed his gratitude to King Lei Guan and Luo Mu, who helped him make up his mind and called in the strongest external aid from King Lei Guan.

"Thank you very much for your help. I will never forget this kindness!"

Luo Mu was just about to wave his hand to tell Entei not to do this, when Victini flew in front of Entei and shouted a few times in dissatisfaction.

"Bimmy! Tiny!"

Obviously, he and Arcanine also contributed, why did Entei only thank Luo Mu and Bud Crown? ?
Facing Victini's dissatisfaction, Yan Di frowned in confusion. After a moment of silence, he hesitantly asked, "What is it saying?"

Not only Victini froze for a moment, but even Romu and Crown of Buds showed shocked expressions.

Entei couldn't understand what Victini was saying?
early morning.

The sunlight, as if bringing new life, gently shines into the slightly dilapidated Snowdon mansion.

Xiaozhi and his friends saw Yan Di lying beside Xiaomi, resting with his eyes closed, with a look of surprise in his eyes.

Then, they looked at Luo Mu with admiration as he was being treated by Dr. Xiu Li's assistant and drinking the black tea that Hanako's mother had volunteered to brew, their faces full of admiration.

Not only the incident on Asia Island, but also this time the opponent solved the incident in one go with a crushing force like a deus ex machina. Even the Flame Emperor was retained by him in an unknown way.

It really feels safe.

After finishing the tea, Luo Mu called Xiaomi aside. After a brief conversation, he personally handed a box that seemed a bit heavy to Xiaomi to her and solemnly reminded her, "Be sure to keep this well."

Xiaomi held the box with great effort, clenched her hands, and responded seriously to Luo Mu's instructions: "I will, big brother."

"very nice."

Luo Mu smiled and rubbed Xiaomi's head. He watched her riding on Yan Di's back and being happily brought into the room before he stood up and looked through the window at the courtyard outside that was full of green plants.

It is hard to imagine that Entei can speak human language but cannot understand the meaning of Pokémon's calls.

Luo Mu felt that this might be related to the power of the unknown totems and the fact that Yan Emperor was born from Xiaomi's dream.

Compared to a pure Pokémon, Entei is more like an unknown totem molded through Xiaomi's dream——

"He can speak human language. He doesn't have the memories of Professor Xiu Li, but he still has the appearance of Entei, so he can't understand the language of Pokémon."

Existence like this is quite amazing.

After completing the support, the Lotus Crown King rode the Spirit Horse back to the farm. Before leaving, it also helped Luo Mu repair the ground that was burned to ashes by the Wind Speed ​​Dog under the cover of night.

Then it was early morning.

Thanks to the efforts of Miss Junsha and Dr. Xiu Li's assistant, the reporters who came after hearing the news were kept out. Except for the three members of Team Rocket who slipped away at some point, Xiaozhi and his crew, Hanako and Dr. Oak all accepted Xiaomi's invitation and returned to visit the Snowden mansion.

At this moment, in the courtyard of Snowden's mansion, Windrush looked at Professor Oak with some embarrassment as he was observing him from different angles like a pervert.

Professor Oak even made a move in which he raised his butt, half of his face was pressed against the ground, and observed the cloud-like hair on the feet of the wind speed dog from a very low angle.

How should I put it? I almost drooled.

As Professor Oak twisted his hips and got closer, uttering some interjections that sounded a bit unbroadcastable, even the Husky like Arcanine couldn't hold it anymore.

Windy first looked for help at Flintstones who was licking his fur alone, but was ignored by Flintstones who had already been tortured by Professor Oak.

Then, Windspeed keenly noticed the gaze coming from a window inside the house.

It’s Luo Mu!
As if it had grabbed the last straw, Arcanine looked at Luo Mu for help.

It thought, Luo Mu had brought it up since it was a child. Luo Mu would not have the heart to leave it alone to face this scary perverted old man just because it had bitten hundreds of pairs of slippers, right?
Arcanine has selectively forgotten that it was Luo Mu who handed them both to Professor Oak. It swore that as long as Luo Mu rescued it this time, it would definitely not bite hundreds of pairs of slippers when returning to the farm!

From now on, I will only bite one pair of slippers a day at most. I’m well behaved now, please let me go!

However, Luo Mu's eyes only met with Arcanine for a moment, and then he looked away at a speed that shocked the dog.

Even the whole person disappeared from behind the window!

The movement of Windspeed to ask for help suddenly froze in place.

At this moment, Professor Oak felt that he was already too high.

This Pokémon is shaped like Raikou, one of the three legendary Pokémon resurrected by the Ho-Oh in the legend of the Johto region. It has both electric and dragon attributes and is named Thunderdrum.

It seemed to be the regional form of Arcanine, with fire + rock attributes. It was also the first time he saw Arcanine at such a close distance, full of unknowns!

As a Pokémon professor, Professor Oak believes that he is already in heaven.

Looking at Arcanine, Professor Oak was breathing heavily without leaving a trace. His aura made the farm lawless. Arcanine, who was only controlled by Romulus, Moltres, and the main forces Roentgen and Serpentine, was sweating profusely.

Professor Oak muttered to himself in a voice that only he and Arcanine could hear: "As expected, just looking is not enough, you have to touch it first."

Just as Professor Oak's evil hands reached out to Windy's mane, which made him extremely curious, he couldn't help but wonder what material it was made of.

Perhaps it was because Professor Oak's gaze was too salty, or perhaps it was because the knuckles of his hands kept twisting that made Windspeed feel chilly.

Like the last straw that broke the camel's back, Windspeed finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Windy opened its mouth and fired a close-range jet of flame directly at Professor Oak!
In the Snowden mansion, Luo Mu, who had promised to let Professor Oak observe Arcanine and Thunderbolt, could only ignore Arcanine's look for help and temporarily leave. He heard the noise outside and half of his face stuck out of the window. Then, his pupils shrank.

It's definitely not the shock of seeing Professor Oak being roasted by Windrush with jet flames.

It was because after Professor Oak was baptized by a round of jets of flame from Windrush, his body was covered with some pitch-black ash, but not even his clothes were burned.

After spitting out a circle of black ash from his mouth, Professor Oak moved freely without any signs of burns and continued to approach Windy Hound.

At this moment, only one thought came to Luo Mu's mind.

Could this be the legendary super newcomer?
Seeing the frightened look on Windy's face, Luo Mu suddenly felt a little bit of pity in his heart.

After a brief thought, he turned around and chose to ignore it.

When Luo Mu just turned around, it was only the intuition he developed after becoming a trainer that told him that something was watching him from behind.

When he tapped the floor with his toes, making a secret signal that only he and Mimikyu understood, two snapping sounds suddenly sounded behind him.

As Luo Mu slowly turned around, the Mimikyu in the shadow also popped up at an extremely fast speed.

When Luo Mu turned around completely, he found that there was nothing behind him.

There was nothing except three walls without any secret doors.

"Q?"

At this time, Mimikyu seemed to have discovered something and pulled Luo Mu's trouser leg with its shadow claw, while the other shadow claw pointed at the wooden floor of Snowden's mansion.

There, two slightly different woodcuts lay quietly.

Looking closer, one can see two patterns carved on the woodcut that are somewhat different from the patterns on Xiaomi’s 26 woodcuts.

They are: “!” and “?” respectively.

That is, exclamation mark and question mark.

afternoon.

"Then we'll take our leave now." Hanako bowed slightly to Dr. Hideki's assistant, "Thank you for your care today."

The assistant waved his hands in panic and said to the people in front of him: "No, if it weren't for your help, Xiaomi might still be..."

Halfway through his words, the assistant suddenly covered his mouth, abruptly stopping himself from saying the next words.

He glanced at the window of the room upstairs with a guilty conscience. He almost forgot that the Yan Emperor who doted on Xiaomi very much would never do the same thing as he did last night.

However, can Xiaomi really be taken care of just by Yan Di's words? It seems that I have to find a way to contact the lady who unilaterally cut off contact with us.

Although they are divorced, she probably won't leave Xiaomi alone now that Dr. Xiu Li is missing.

Professor Oak, who was already very experienced, also noticed this and changed the subject without leaving a trace.

"Regarding Dr. Xiu Li, I will organize researchers to investigate the place where he disappeared. During this period, I ask you to take care of Xiaomi."

"Sorry for the trouble, I will pay attention!"

The assistant looked at Professor Oak with gratitude and nodded repeatedly.

Listening to their conversation, Luo Mu did not speak.

He remembered that at the end of the movie, shortly after the Crystal Tower incident came to an end, Dr. Xiu Li, who was taken away by the unknown totems, was directly "vomited out" by the unknown totems in the space-time rift.

Now, the unknown totems living in the cracks of time and space have returned to their homes just like in the movie, and the unknown totems in the woodcuts have also returned to the woodcuts. I think there should be no problem.

Woodcut board.
Thinking of these three words, Luo Mu subconsciously touched his pocket.

It was a symbol independent of the unknown totem symbols representing the twenty-six English letters, and had nothing to do with the twenty-six woodcuts brought back by Dr. Xiu Li's assistant.

Then, what about the two wooden boards with question mark and exclamation mark symbols that inexplicably fell behind him?
Everyone left the Snowden mansion and walked on the beautiful green grassland.

After a while, Professor Oak drove his car and took Hanako towards Pallet Town, leaving only Luo Mu and Xiaozhi and his group alone.

Noticing that the three people were staring at him, Luo Mu smiled and, as an adult, took the initiative to start a conversation.

"I'm going to Quartz Plateau. Where are you planning to travel next?"

The three of them looked at each other, and Xiaogang, who was very reliable and steady except when facing his elder sister, answered Luo Mu's question.

"As for the short-term goal, let's go to Yuanzhu City. There is the Yuanzhu Gym there, and Xiaozhi can get the fourth badge."

Speaking of gym battles, Xiaozhi suddenly became excited and almost wanted to go straight to Yuanzhu City in one breath.

But before that, Xiaozhi came to Luo Mu, looked at the messenger bird beside Luo Mu, tilting its head and looking at him, and bowed slightly and asked: "Mr. Luo Mu, please have a Pokémon battle with me!"

"Pikachu skin!"

Pikachu, who was sitting on Ash's shoulder with amazing balance, followed suit and made a very serious request to the messenger bird.

In the Quartz Conference, after defeating Ahong and falling in the quarterfinals, he knew that his strength was far from enough.

Nowadays, opportunities to challenge strong men while traveling in the Johto region are extremely rare, so he naturally wants to further accumulate experience through fighting with Luo Mu.

Misty and Brock, who should have spoken up to stop Xiaozhi from causing trouble for Luo Mu, were stunned.

Is this still the Satoshi they know who seems like a little brat who never grows up and who clamors to have a Pokémon battle with every trainer regardless of their status?

Looking at Xiaozhi and Pikachu who had determined expressions in their eyes, Luo Mu asked the messenger bird beside him: "How about it, do you want to fight?"

The messenger bird landed on the ground, staring at Ash and Pikachu with burning eyes, and called out in a decisive voice.

"Yes!"

Why not fight?

Unexpectedly, after a period of time, the two little guys who were once so obedient to me dared to challenge me.

It’s time to fight!

Seeing that the Messenger Bird also wanted to fight, perhaps he wanted to see how strong Xiaozhi was now. When he traveled in the Sinnoh region in the future, he decided to accept Xiaozhi's challenge to see if he could become a rival of equal strength with Shinji who was learning from him.

After a little thought, Luo Mu decided to test Xiaozhi in the same way that Shinji challenged Zhulan in the anime.

"The rules are a 1vs7 singles match."

"Whether it's the Charizard that hasn't returned to Charizard Valley or the six Pokémon in your team, use all your strength to try to defeat me."

(End of this chapter)