Pokémon Legends Ash

Chapter 129: Dark City's Underground Cave

Xiaozhi walked into the factory. All the incandescent lights were turned on to the highest setting, making it as bright as a sunny day.

Even the feeling was very similar. The lights made him feel a little hot and his back had already begun to sweat.

Why is it so hot? Does this lamp emit heat?

Xiaozhi didn't know, he just looked up and ahead. The incandescent light over there was not as bright as the one here.

He instinctively thought it would be cooler over there, so he just walked towards it.

"Pika...Pikachu..."

Pikachu also felt very hot, sticking out his tongue and sweating profusely.

After seeing Xiaozhi leave, it hurriedly followed him. It knew that Xiaozhi had found a place where it was not so hot.

"The lights here are not as bright as before, and the temperature seems to have dropped as well."

"Clang clang clang!"

Xiaozhi wiped the sweat from his head and was about to move forward when he heard several metal knocking sounds from the front.

He frowned, lightened his steps, and moved forward slowly along the wall.

Walking to the door of a room at the end of the corridor, Xiaozhi held the door handle and took a deep breath.

He turned the doorknob and pushed it open.

In the small room, there appeared a large hole in the ground, with a dirt slope running along the hole and leading to the bottom of the hole.

Xiaozhi leaned his head and looked down, and saw steel bars lying all over the place under the hole.

"Clang clang clang!"

Stones fell from the ceiling above his head and hit the steel bars, making a sound. It was the same metal collision sound that Xiaozhi had just heard in the corridor.

He looked back at Pikachu and smiled, showing his eight bright white teeth.

But in Pikachu's eyes, this smile was completely malicious, and it always felt like something bad was going to happen.

It was so scared that it couldn't help but take several steps back.

"Pikachu... Hehehe... Let's go~~"

Xiaozhi smiled, hugged Pikachu, and then fell backwards from the cave entrance.

"Pica! Pica! Pica!!"

Pikachu was frightened by this sudden stimulation and screamed continuously.

The whole mouse is in bad shape.

As he got closer and closer to the ground, Xiaozhi calmly adjusted his body shape, turning 360 degrees in the air with his feet facing the ground.

boom!

With a loud bang, Xiaozhi landed steadily on the ground, his feet sinking into the collapsed hillside with rubble.

He exerted a little force with his legs and lifted them out of the rubble.

Xiaozhi exhaled and looked around. Moss covered the passage of this underground cave.

By the way...the air in here is much better than outside!

Xiaozhi sniffed his nose, the air was mixed with the smell of moss. To Xiaozhi, this smell was much better than outside.

Just as I was about to go deeper, footsteps were heard simultaneously from above and in front of me.

"Ash!!!"

"who are you?!"

In front of Xiaozhi, a middle-aged man with a big belly appeared, with a hint of anger in his eyes.

And above Xiaozhi, the voice that appeared was Miss Joy's voice.

Her voice was anxious, and the two short words seemed to have drained all her strength.

Joey was lying on the ground. She had endured the pain in her ankle to get here with great difficulty. She was relieved to see that Xiaozhi was fine.

Originally, when she woke up and found Xiaozhi missing, she was very worried, but luckily there were his shoe prints on the ground.

She followed the shoe prints on the ground and came here.

That is………

"mayor?!"

Looking at the man gradually approaching Xiaozhi, Joey couldn't help but shout.

He is the mayor here? This city is like this...

"Are you the mayor here? Do you have any say in what this city has become like?"

Xiaozhi felt angry and glared at the mayor in front of him.

"So what? I'm doing this for everyone's good!

And who asked you to come in here? Get out now!!!"

The mayor retorted even louder and more rudely, staring at Xiaozhi with his eyes wide open.

When Xiaozhi was about to continue speaking, Joey stopped him and said:

"Xiaozhi, come back first!"

Xiaozhi looked up at Miss Joy, although he didn't know what her purpose was. But when he thought of the injury on her ankle, he couldn't help but turn away.

Grabbing the rubble slope with both hands, Xiaozhi gradually moved upwards.

Gradually, he left the mysterious cave and came to Miss Joy.

"Ms. Joy, let's go."

Xiaozhi helped Joey up, glanced at Pikachu that was still following him, and walked away without looking back.

He didn't know the man in the cave, nor did he want to know him.

Xiaozhi always felt that what the other party had just said made him very angry.

"That kid won't get in our way, will he?"

Inside the cave, the mayor stayed where he was without moving, looking at the cave and muttering to himself.

He frowned as if he was thinking about something.

On the other side, Xiaozhi walked out of the factory, and the choking air rushed into his nasal cavity again.

But now he has gotten used to it, and he helped Miss Joy back to the Pokémon Center.

If the factory is not running, there will naturally be no noise.

Under these circumstances, Miss Joy soon fell asleep again.

It seemed that the quiet environment made it easier for her to fall asleep. After all, she had been working in the noisy factory day and night for so long.

Seeing that Miss Joy fell asleep, Xiaozhi didn't want to disturb her.

Gulu gulu~~

A strange cry came from the side, and he turned around to see Pikachu rubbing his belly and smiling awkwardly at Xiaozhi.

"Ah... I really can't do anything about you. There should be something edible in that room. Let's go look for it.

Miss Joy hasn't eaten anything either. She's injured and needs some nutrition."

Xiaozhi walked into the dim corridor and once again came to the collapsed room.

Xiaozhi used his hands to dig away the rubble and cement that crushed and pressed the food.

"Pika! Pika-Pika!"

For the sake of its own belly, Pikachu also came to help, digging in the ruins with its two little paws.

After searching for a while, the rubble covering the surface was basically cleared away, revealing the squeezed and rotten fruits under the rubble.

It's all rotten...what a pity!!

Xiaozhi looked at the scene in front of him with heartache and used his hands to pull away the rotten fruits.

He didn't believe that every fruit on the tree was rotten, according to his standards.

It doesn’t matter even if it’s a little rotten. After all, in such an environment, it’s good enough to be able to find food.

Xiaozhi searched over and over again and actually found some intact and slightly rotten fruits and other food.

Xiaozhi collected those that were intact on the bed sheets of a ward, and those that were a little rotten were ready to go into his stomach.

The tap water was still flowing, and Xiaozhi also found the gas stove and gas tank.

Remove the rotten parts of the fruits on the trees, throw them all into the water one by one, and start a fire!

Next it was time for Xiaozhi to cook, and he spent a little time using all he had learned from his mother Hanako in Pallet Town.

at last! ! !

This pot of fruit stew was made.

But maybe because the only ingredients are tree fruits, it looks a lot more monotonous, or even... not particularly beautiful.

But it doesn’t matter much. Xiaozhi just thinks that it’s enough that the food tastes good.

"Miss Joy, wake up and get up to eat."

Xiaozhi called out to Joey softly, but when he saw no response, he suddenly had an idea.

He picked up the bowl of fruit soup and brought it to her nose, fanning it with his hand, and a wisp of fragrance entered Joey's nostrils.

suck! ! !

Joey took a deep breath, opened his eyes, and saw the fragrant fruit soup right in front of him.

"Gulu~"

She couldn't help swallowing. After all, she hadn't eaten anything all day and should have been hungry.

"Eat it, Miss Joy, this is for you."

Hearing what Xiaozhi said, Joey reached out and took the tree fruit soup without hesitation.

Start tasting it.

Seeing that Joey was eating with gusto, Xiaozhi also started to eat.

Although the meal was simple, the warm atmosphere as everyone sat together made the meal even more delicious.

In the dead of night, Xiaozhi lay on the bed on the ground, closing his eyes and thinking about what had happened before.

There must be something in that hole, and the mayor was obviously resisting his approach.

But what is it? This is the answer that Xiaozhi could never figure out.

Perhaps... we can only find out after we find out.