i became lucario

Chapter 222 Chapter 194

"What did Juaner say?!"

Of course the Flame Chicken knew who Lucario was calling.

"Clap!"

Lucario suddenly closed the phone in his hand.

He spread his hands helplessly, and then he opened his mouth to respond to the flame chicken:
"I didn't say anything, I said that there is nothing wrong with them, so we don't have to go back in a hurry..."

"That feeling...then where are we going?"

The problem is back to square one.

The Flame Chicken has always followed Lucario's lead.

Lucario rolled his eyes:
"Then let's go for a walk..."

"In short, don't go too far away—it's fine within the Carlos area..."

With that said, Lucario took out the map he had prepared a long time ago.It seems to be choosing the next travel destination:

"Okay! This is it!"

Lucario's fingers waving around on the map suddenly stopped. Flame Chicken and Lucario looked down and lifted their fingers. That was Gumu Town!
……

A town that transformed dilapidated aristocratic manor villas into tourist attractions - this is Gumu Town!
When I came to Gumu Town, I had to go to a place where I had to check in. It was a huge castle in the north of Gumu Town, although it was luxurious, but it was in disrepair - Lazy City!
The residents of Gumu Town around Lazy City are very hospitable, and the famous Gumu Town Hotel is also located near the castle.

It seemed that the entire Gumu Town was built around this dilapidated castle.

As a well-known tourist city, after Lucario and Flame Chicken came to Gumu Town, they found that it was completely different from the tourist-filled situation they imagined.

Even the hotels in Gumu Town, which used to be full in the past, are now closed and guarded by General Tie... It seems that all activities in the city have stopped.

Even pedestrians on the street can't see a few.

Lucario and Flame Chicken looked at each other, their heads full of questions.

What exactly is going on?

The two of them came to the Pokémon Center. It seemed that no matter what the situation, the Pokémon Center was always the strongest infrastructure in the city.

The two Pokémon found Miss Joy, and Miss Joy here is also working alone.

The normally bustling Pokémon Center staff and the trainers who came to the Pokémon Center to deal with the Pokémon's grief were now completely deserted.

Like this city, the entire Pokémon Center is filled with a lonely, lonely, and bleak atmosphere.

Although Miss Joy is still holding on to her position, it doesn't seem like she can hold on for too long.

That face, which was exactly the same as Miss Joy's in other cities, seemed to be filled with exhaustion... It seemed that her life during this time was also very bad.

Lucario and Flame Chicken told Ms. Joey their questions, hoping to get an answer from the other party.

Ms. Joy blinked hard before she could tell who the two Pokémon in front of her were:
"You want to know what happened in Gumu Town..."

Miss Joy replied feebly.

Lucario nodded slightly, and at the same time leaned towards the flame chicken.

It seems that staying next to the flame chicken surrounded by flames can make him feel more comfortable in this lonely and desolate environment...

"Then I'll tell you..."

Miss Joy still had that half-dead tone:

"This happened not long ago... It's been more than a month..."

"I still remember that Gumu Town was like before, with tourists coming and going in an endless stream...until..."

"Until something like that happened in Lazy City..."

Lucario and Flame Chicken were getting closer and closer, and they were listening intently to Miss Joy's story about the past of Gumu Town.

But they didn't expect that there would be no more words. The two Pokémon looked up, only to find that Miss Joy was lying on the table in front of them, fainting!
"hiss--!"

Lucario couldn't help taking a deep breath.

Miss Joy was the first living human being they met when they entered the city. Apart from that, they had never seen even a single Pokémon in this city.

This is definitely not a normal situation.

Such a huge tourist attraction, a city developed by tourism, is now like a gloomy ghost town...

"Boom!"

Including the door of the Dream Center slamming shut...

Lucario and Flame Chicken couldn't help shaking.

"Crunch——!"

The door to the Pokémon Center, which had been slammed shut just now, was slowly opened.

A dark figure walked into the Pokémon Center against the light.

Lucario and Flame Chicken almost couldn't hold back the impulse to attack, but they heard a slight cough from the figure opposite:

"Cough-cough-!"

The man walked up to Miss Joy, reached out and tapped on the counter.

Only then did Miss Joy raise her head as if waking up from a dream.

"What's wrong……"

The tiredness and sleepiness on her face were palpable.

An old man with an old face and a slightly bent back came in. After waking up Miss Joy, he stretched out his fingers including the seats in the dream center, motioning for Lucario and Flame Chicken to sit over.

"Do you think this place is very weird?"

Before Lucario and Flame Chicken could do anything, the old man sat down and spoke.

Lucario and Flame Chicken nodded involuntarily.

"Come on, let me tell you something!"

……

"That's it……"

"For unknown reasons, the tourists who came to Gumu Town, and even gradually, the aborigines in Gumu Town began to fall into the predicament that once they fell asleep, they would continue to reincarnate in nightmares..."

The old man introduced the situation with a long and short sigh.

"The young people in the town have left here one after another, and the tourism scene is no longer what it used to be..."

"Only us old guys are still standing firm..."

"It's really not convenient for my legs and feet, so I can't leave here and go to other places..."

"Secondly, we old guys sleep lightly at night, but we can last for a while..."

"It's hard work for Joey and the others..."

Lucario and Flame Chicken couldn't help being surprised when they heard this, they didn't expect such a thing to be encountered by them.

"Although I don't know why..."

The old man continued:

"But we've been guessing whether all of this is some good-attribute Pokémon playing tricks in the dark and doing pranks..."

Lucario looked up at the sleepy Miss Joy, and stood up with his chest up:
"Please tell me in detail. If you can't do it, we can help!"

(End of this chapter)