Pokémon: From Magikarp

"It's okay, don't be polite to aunt."

Aunt Yunfang said with a smile, then she looked at the clock hanging on the wall, seemed to remember something and stood up.

"Xiao Lin, Xiao Qiu, you two sit down first. I have to go feed my Kentaro, or he will start barking soon."

"Just treat this place like your home, don't be restrained."

After saying that, Aunt Yunfang walked out in a hurry.

In some remote areas, many people do not focus on the combat capabilities of the elves they capture, but rather on their economic benefits. The workload of a Kentaro is equivalent to that of ten oxen, so the villagers naturally like to raise them.

Of course, Kentaro is a Pokémon after all, and cannot be fed in the same way as cattle. It requires the use of special Pokémon feed. Although this increases the cost to a certain extent, a Kentaro can not only plow the land, but also guard the house and serve as a bodyguard at critical moments. It is extremely cost-effective.

After Aunt Yunfang left, Lin Shi quietly came to the old lady's side and slowly sat down.

"Grandma, don't worry. We are not bad people. Can you tell us about the gods in the village that you just mentioned?"

Lin Shirang tried to keep his tone as gentle as possible so as not to irritate the old man.

"God God……"

There was some pain on the old man's wrinkled face, as if he was recalling something bad.

"Drought...fire...then, God came...bells rang, then fog...wind...rain came..."

The old woman was talking incoherently, and it was unclear whether she was talking to herself or to Lin Shi.

Lin Shi reached out and pinched his forehead, and could roughly understand what the old woman meant from her words.

Probably a long time ago, the village suffered a severe drought, and the crops failed. People were hungry and miserable, and the extreme dryness caused a fire.

At this moment, the "God" that the old man had mentioned appeared. Along with the sound of bells, the wind blew and heavy rain fell, which not only extinguished the fire, but also moistened the dry land, allowing the village to survive the crisis.

It is not a difficult rumor to understand, or rather, in many villages there are stories about gods who save the village.

Lin Shi scratched his head. Just by listening to the old woman's description, if this "God" was a Pokémon, then to be able to do what she said, it must be extremely powerful.

Lin Shi compared the Pokémon in his mind one by one. When it came to the bell, the first Pokémon that came to mind were those few. However, at the moment, this seemed to have little to do with the purpose of their coming here.

After all, they are here to look for "ghosts", not "gods"...

The old man's story only mentioned the sound of the bell, but there seemed to be no description of the "waving ghost" at all. It seems that the connection between the two is not that close.

Why did the bell sound now appear with the ghost? He felt that there must be various reasons...

Lin Shi took a sip of tea and pondered.

"How's it going? Do you have any clues?"

Looking at Lin Shi's expression, Qiu Ning asked.

"No."

Lin Shi spread his hands.

"You have to see this kind of thing with your own eyes."

Lin Shi was confident that as long as he could take a look at the so-called ghost, under the system, all the monsters and demons would reveal their true colors.

"Anyway, we still have to stay here for a few days, let's see if we can encounter any situation."

Qiu Ning nodded in agreement with Lin Shi’s words.

Time passed quickly. In the afternoon, the two of them strolled around the village and asked some villagers, but the answers they got were almost the same as Aunt Yunfang's and had little reference value.

"Let's try our luck at night."

After making the decision, the two returned to the village chief's house, and Yunfang enthusiastically cleaned the house for them.

"Boom."

The door was opened and a short, thin man walked in. He was visibly stunned when he saw Lin Shi and Qiu Ning.

"You are……"

"Shouli, you are finally back. This is Xiaolin and Xiaoqiu. They came to the village to investigate the ghost incident. They are staying at our house today."

Hearing the door open, Aunt Yunfang hurried out of the house and explained the situation to Bai Shouli.

"Why are there two more?"

Bai Shouli said, but soon he warmly expressed his welcome to the two. No matter what, since they came to the village to help solve the problem, he should naturally welcome them as the village chief.

"Uncle Bai, you just said 'two more came', does that mean there are other people coming to the village besides us?"

After a brief greeting, Lin Shi went straight to the point and asked Bai Shouli.

It was very strange. Although he and Qiu Ning learned from the old man that someone had entered the village first as soon as they entered the village, they did not encounter any suspicious people in the village for an entire afternoon.

"you do not say."

Bai Shouli sat down and drank a large glass of water and then said.

"Early this morning, three outsiders like you came. They seemed to be looking for some elves. They didn't know the way and insisted that I be their guide. So, I took them around the area for a whole day before I came back."

"But... hehe."

"They were quite generous and gave quite a bit of money,"

Bai Shouli touched his pocket and smiled with satisfaction.

"Uncle Bai, do you know what specific elves they are looking for?"

Qiu Ning asked.

Bai Shouli shook his head and immediately responded:

"I don't know. I don't even know which elves there are. But they go to those gloomy places, such as dense forests and caves. If it weren't for this little money, I wouldn't go."

As a rural man who has lived in the mountains all his life, Bai Shouli obviously doesn't know much about elves.

"By the way, Yunfang, let's eat early today. I have to go out and show them the way later."

"what?"

Hearing Bai Shouli's words, Aunt Yunfang immediately walked in from the kitchen with a spatula in her hand.

"Won't it be dark after dinner? Are you going out when it's dark?"

Aunt Yunfang was very surprised. Who in Misty Village dared to go out at night now? Not to mention at night, even on rainy daytime people were unwilling to go out.

"Ugh."

Bai Shouli took out a cigarette and was about to light it, but suddenly remembered that there were guests present, so he quickly put it down and held the cigarette in his hand. When he heard what his wife said, he sighed.

"It was the request of those guests. They insisted on looking at it at night. Even though I told them about the situation in the village, they didn't change their minds."

"Then we won't go."

Aunt Yunfang immediately said that after what happened to Bai Shouli last time when he encountered a ghost, she was absolutely unwilling to let him go out at night.

"No, let's go. Those guests are very generous. Mom is in this situation now, so she can save some money to go to a big hospital. Besides, they look very anxious and don't seem like bad people. We should help them if we can."

Bai Shouli shook his head. He still planned to go. Seeing his wife's worried look, he immediately added:

"Don't worry, those guests seem to be pretty good trainers, nothing will happen."

"But……"

Yunfang still didn't quite agree.

"Aunt Yunfang, we also want to go out tonight, why don't we go with Uncle Bai? He will be there to take care of us."

At this time Lin Shu suddenly spoke.

"Besides, my senior is a student at Northern University and a very good trainer. She can keep us safe."

After hearing Lin Shi's words, Yun Fang looked at Qiu Ning in surprise. Even a country woman like her had heard of the great name of Northern University. Perhaps it was because the name of Northern University was useful, Yun Fang finally nodded and agreed.

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