Chapter 721: Channeling the past
"Fuck!"
Kashiwagi sat up suddenly and bumped into the thick belly of the three evil dragons, forcing him to fall back.
"Ouch!?"
The three dragons woke up quickly after being hit hard on the abdomen, and then lowered their heads and looked at the trainer a little aggrievedly, but their expressions calmed down when they found that the trainer's attention was not on them at all.
The other Pokémon heard the sound and came forward.
Kashiwagi rubbed his temples, still recalling everything he had just dreamed about, unwilling to let go of any details.
Fortunately, my memory is very clear and I haven't forgotten anything from beginning to end.
Unfortunately, this dream stopped at a crucial moment. It stands to reason that there should be more later, right? It shouldn't be possible for a ghost Pokémon to be stoned to death.
After all.
The group of people in the dream were really reckless. How to use explosives well is a college question. It doesn't mean that you can stuff one kilogram here and two kilograms there and just explode with a bang.
Even if you use explosives underground, you won't be afraid of burying yourself!
He stretched out his hand to comfort the big faces in front of him. While saying that he was fine, he closed his eyes and continued to sleep, trying to continue the disconnected dream.
However, after all this trouble, I couldn't sleep no matter how hard I went.
He just got up and walked outside.
Shanmin, who happened to be wearing a protective suit and helmet, came from a distance and said when he saw him:
"You woke up just in time. The bottom is almost done. The rest is ready to be reinforced while pushing in. The terrain of the bottom mine is complicated, so you have to pay attention to safety."
"Wait a moment." Kashiwagi took a deep breath and asked, "Do you know the reason why the ground floor arena is closed?"
Shanmin was confused and replied: "Why are you asking this? Do you think the entrance to the spirit world is in the arena on the bottom floor? Not to mention it is really possible. Have you read the "History of the Establishment of the Organization" I gave you earlier?"
"...I only read the beginning."
He suddenly realized something.
Shanmin in front of him said bluntly: "You will know if you look at it all. The first batch of veterans of the rescue organization came from the bottom mine and the bottom arena. They designed to destroy the bottom arena at that time and took advantage of the chaos to escape from Huangtie Town. , established a stronghold in the desert——"
Kashiwagi murmured in a low voice: "Liddy..."
"Yes, Mr. Liddy, the first generation leader of the rescue organization, was also my father and my teacher. He taught me a lot during the time away from Erjin's persecution." Shanmin nodded respectfully.
I see!
No wonder it felt familiar to him.
The name of the first generation leader of the rescue organization is enough to be called a thunderous name. This old man, who is now retired, fired the first shot to resist tyranny and save the future of the region.
After experiencing oppression, resistance, and multiple resurgences of the Shadow Team, Riddy and his partners gradually realized that in order to save this area, they must undergo a major change from top to bottom, paying equal attention to consciousness and living environment. Decades of careful preparation for this.
From nothing, from a few miners to having their people up and down the Ouray area.
Liddy's life is legendary.
certainly.
These are not the point.
The point is that he actually dreamed about the process of Liddy escaping from the bottom mine when he was young, and Liddy and the others also had an older brother!
Kashiwagi glanced at Fu Rong, who was waving to them from a distance, and said, "The situation is a bit complicated. Please accompany me down to the mine first, and we'll talk as we walk along the way."
"OK."
Shanmin was ready to follow, and nodded when he heard this.
After taking all the Pokémon back into the Poké Balls, leaving only Doron Baruto and Gengar behind, one invisible and one latent shadow followed, Kashiwagi reunited with Furong in front of the mine.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he came closer, Fleur wrinkled her cute little nose and said:
"Have you had a psychic dream?"
"I did dream about something." Kashiwagi nodded seriously, also put on the helmet of the protective suit, and relayed what he dreamed to the two of them.
at the same time.
They also boarded the elevator to the bottom mine. The machine started rumbling, which did not affect Furong and Shanmin's listening attentively.
When the elevator reached the bottom and the wide and stable mine appeared in front of the three of them, all was said.
Fleur said decisively: "That cursed doll must be the gatekeeper Pokémon. Since it can complete psychic dreams with you, there must be a deep connection between you two."
After hearing her words, Shanmin thought about it for a while, as if he understood some key elements. He looked at Kashiwagi with a sudden realization, with a slightly complicated look on his eyebrows, and said: "The history of the establishment of the organization is limited to the opening chapter, but Teacher Liddy once told me a lot about him."
"I remember that the teacher never told his name to the teacher, and the teacher simply called him brother, and knew that he came from the outside world and knew nothing else. But it can be said that the teacher who was just a miner at the time inspired them to let them A yearning for freedom leads to a series of plans.”
He said with Kashiwagi's unsurprised expression: "If I guess correctly, there is a high probability that that person is yours -"
"Grandfather, Longhe."
Kashiwagi revealed this name, which he learned through the elder of Meteor Village.
A trainer who uses Tyrannosaurus has a special connection with him, and the story happened at least a few decades ago when Mr. Riddy was young.
No matter how you think about it, there is only Dragon Tamer, the ancestor of the dragon tamer who has gone and never returned from the elders' mouth.
"Grandfather...didn't he get out of here in the end?" Kashiwagi looked at Shanmin and asked in a low voice.
The latter patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "The teacher told me that Mr. Long and Mr. Long died underground in Huangtie Town for them."
But actually.
Kashiwagi didn't have much interest in sadness. For a grandfather he had never met, it would be false to insist that he had any feelings.
but.
Regret and regret are indispensable.
The gentleness of the man in the dream when facing the cursed doll, the back view of fighting side by side with the injured Tyrannosaurus... Everything he did should give him a good ending.
Furong didn't say anything, she just patted Kashiwagi's back. At the same time, she thought that if she let her grandma come, she would definitely be able to say some warm words of relief.
I am still a little short of maturity.
The three of them moved deeper into the mine.
Kashiwagi did not indulge in that feeling of sadness, and looked at Furong and said: "According to the analysis of the dream, the cursed doll was not the gatekeeper Pokémon at that time. How did it do it? Stealing the original gatekeeper position?"
"How is it possible? It's just that too many lives were lost when the arena was destroyed, causing the entrance to the spiritual world to come and absorb the souls. It happened that there was no gatekeeper at the entrance to the spiritual world, and it happened that the cursed doll satisfied the gatekeeper's desire. condition."
Fleur raised two fingers, shook them and said, "So we might as well make a bold guess as to why the cursed doll blocked the entrance to the spirit world."
Shan Min said: "To prevent the soul of Grandpa Kashiwagi from going to the spirit world?"
Furong nodded and said, "It's possible."
"Then why did it say that I'm finally here after seeing me? Could it be that what's waiting for me is not a cursed doll, but my grandfather?" Kashiwagi raised another possibility.
Fleur nodded again, "It is also possible, but when an ordinary person's soul loses its body, its consciousness will gradually disappear, and it will become an existence like a lost soul that can only retell the remaining memory fragments."
The mystery is not yet fully revealed.
It seems that only by meeting the cursed doll can everything be revealed.
The three of them came to the "end" of the mine. Several engineering machines were digging in the direction pointed by Furong with all their strength. The tablet in Brito's hand showed their current location.
There is also the approximate location guided by Furong.
"Sure enough, it's in the arena on the bottom floor." Shan Min drew a circle on the tablet with his finger, which happened to overlap the general area of the entrance to the spirit world. "This area is the former site of the arena on the bottom floor. The Shadow Team led by Earla used to be there a long time ago. It was excavated and reused once, but the safety hazard was too great and it was eventually abandoned.”
Urya, isn't that the final boss of the "Amphitheater" chapter in the Orle region?
Compared with Erjin who does not conceal his ambitions and means, Erya at least maintains his face as the mayor on the surface and only does things secretly.
Furong looked at the tablet and said: "In this case, the bottom arena should be the medium for the entrance to the spiritual world. Hmm... let me think about how to connect the entrance to the spiritual world to reality."
Kashiwagi pondered silently. He always felt that the cursed doll had a hidden agenda when it came to the psychic dream. What message did the other party want to convey?
Shanmin glanced at Kashiwagi secretly, feeling extremely emotional in his heart.
I never thought that the two sides had such a connection, but it was a pity that when I searched Kashiwagi’s files, I couldn’t connect the two——
Who would have thought that the eldest brother of Mr. Riddy, the first leader of the rescue organization, was actually a member of the Meteor from Hoenn.
Why didn't he tell Mr. Liddy?
Perhaps at that time, there were too many inconvenient reasons for exposing oneself.
Shanmin, who is familiar with world history, understands that even in other regions, it has only been in the past hundred or so years that people have widely accepted the existence of Pokémon.
Before the advent of Poké Balls, Pokémon were more often called Warcraft, and they were commonly used in wars to demonstrate the public's fear of Pokémon.
Dr. Oak is the first person in the Pokémon academic community, which is largely related to his classification and attribution of Pokémon by attributes, and popularizing Pokémon science for countless people.
——
A few hours later.
The construction team excavated a hard gray rock wall, and the obviously artificially poured wall made everyone present feel refreshed.
"The former site of the ground floor arena!"
Shanmin compared the locations on the tablet and gave the exact answer.
And when the wall was dug open, revealing the dark and dim passage inside, everyone felt a big stone fall to the ground.
Finally found!
Several workers in the construction team breathed a sigh of relief and looked at each other very happily.
After working all afternoon and almost half of the night, it was great to find him. The more he worked underground, the more depressing he became.
"Everyone, please check if there are any problems with the oxygen circulation system. It has not seen the light of day for decades, and it is likely that a lot of toxic gases have precipitated."
He turned to the others and said that after confirming that everyone's protective clothing was OK, he entered the passage one by one.
It seems that because it has been activated before, the channel is not cluttered.
Kashiwagi followed Brito and a worker who did not dare to move alone to find the power distribution room of the arena and checked the generators and other equipment inside.
"There is also stored energy! The ventilation channels and so on can also be used, which is great!"
Britto said to him happily, and went to work.
Isn't this guy a construction major?
Kashiwagi was about to take out his mobile phone and ask Porygon II for help. It was very novel to see Brito skillfully operating the dusty machines.
Not long after.
As a violent roar sounded, sporadic lights illuminated the power distribution room.
After all, it was a place rebuilt by a generation of Shadow Team, and everything looked quite modern. If it remained the same as it was decades ago, it would make people want to cry.
Kashiwagi turned around and went out, finding that the passage was also illuminated by lights, and the dazzling white light at the far end was particularly dazzling.
He felt something in his heart and went straight over.
In an instant.
The familiar metal platform and huge fan came into view, and countless white shadows flickered in the auditorium around them, like an extremely enthusiastic audience in a dream.
He even felt like he heard these guys shouting.
"Kashiwagi!"
Shanmin's voice interrupted Kashiwagi's thoughts.
He stood on the edge holding his mobile phone, hesitated and said: "I think there are some things that I have to give you an explanation for. For example, the dragon and the remains of my grandfather..."
"Let's talk about it after meeting the cursed doll first."
Kashiwagi patted his shoulder and looked at Fleur, who was standing in the center of the metal platform.
The other party raised his head and looked at the huge slowly rotating fan in trance.
Suddenly.
The Dark Night Demon took out many elf balls from the big mouth in front of its abdomen and opened them. A large number of wandering eidolons flew out, spinning around Fleur.
Fleur pinched the rosary beads and clasped her hands together devoutly.
Ding bell~
Ding ding ding ding~
The sound of ringing bells echoed in the empty arena.
Kashiwagi saw many white figures suddenly appearing and walking towards the auditoriums everywhere. After filling every seat, a strange feeling suddenly arose.
With her eyes closed, Furong turned to Shanmin and shouted: "Let everyone exit! Stay away from this place until you can't see it! That way you won't enter the spirit world!"
"good!"
Shanmin responded, turned to greet the workers scattered around to check the safety of the arena, and drove them back into the passage.
He hesitated for a moment, wanting to return to the center of the arena, but he never thought that when he walked out of the passage again, there was a sudden flash of flowers in front of his eyes, and the existence of Furong and Kashiwagi was lost.
Only a large number of wandering night spirits kept spinning in circles in strange postures.
"Going in?"
Shanmin didn't expect that he would be left behind. He sighed regretfully and took out his mobile phone.
Regarding Long He, he actually wanted to ask Mr. Liddy who was far away in Silica City. Although it was not good to disturb an old man's dream late at night, some things were best asked now.
He had a hunch that this matter was not that simple.
And in another world.
Violent shaking invaded everything.
Kashiwagi and Furong saw with their own eyes that the huge fan above the arena shattered and fell, and the entire dome collapsed and smashed everywhere. The white shadows screamed and ran away, but they couldn't escape at all.
"Fleur!"
He hurriedly ran towards Fleur, who was protected by the night demon.
But halfway through, everything around him froze as if frozen in time.
The gray-purple vortex that Kashiwagi had entered appeared on the dark dome, and a pair of blood-red eyes emerged from it, followed by a faint voice.
"You... finally... no! No! You are not him!"
Before it finished speaking, it suddenly became miserable as if it realized that Kashiwagi was not the person it was waiting for, "You are not him! Get out! Get out of here!"
Everything that had been stagnant began to tremble again.
The cursed doll is looking for Long He? Didn't Long He die underground in Huangtie Town?
Kashiwagi looked at Furong who was also surprised, and felt that the situation was extremely surprising to them.