chsdbacks Chapter 295 The Legend of the Founding of the United States
Chapter 295 The Legend of the Founding of the United States
Chapter 295 The Legend of the Founding of the United States
"Kyorem?"
Kiku was puzzled by a term that Alice had used.
He was a pragmatic dojo owner and didn't know much about these legendary things.
Compared to Resilam and Zekrom, who appeared in the Unova "Founding Legend", the name Kyurem was even more unfamiliar to Kiku-sama.
"Yes! Kyurem!" Iris nodded seriously. "This is also a clue I found while searching through the ancient books in my grandfather's collection! In the legends of the Unova region, besides Lyssilam and Zekrom, there is also Kyurem!"
That's what the ancient books say.
"Legend has it that in ancient times, a divine dragon with limitless power existed in the Unova region," possessing power related to the origin of the world and controlling the abilities of fire and lightning.
Later, this dragon came into the control of a man who, with its power, unified the war-torn Unova region and established a kingdom. This man was the Ancient King of Unova.
When Alice talked about this, she was eager to share the knowledge that interested her, and she talked on and on with shining eyes.
"But unfortunately, after establishing the kingdom, the ancient king of Unova had reached the end of his life, so he left the dragon and the kingdom to his two sons."
"But his two sons had different opinions on how to govern the country."
The elder son believed in governing the country with reason and facts, while the younger son believed in creating the kingdom's future through faith and the possibilities of the future. This difference in their philosophies led to constant arguments.
"And ultimately, it escalated into war."
"In this war sparked by differing ideologies, the dragon's consciousness split, evolving into Zekrom, representing 'ideals,' and Reshiram, representing 'truth.' And in their final, fierce battle, both exhausted their power and turned to stone."
"And Kyurem is the shell left behind after the consciousness of that 'dragon' split."
After finishing her sentence in one breath, Alice took a breath and then said dejectedly, "I saw this legend in my grandfather's ancient book, and I began to follow its trail—searching for the stone that Naresilam and Zekrom turned into, and searching for the hiding place of the Kyurem."
"However, we only found a few clues before we were captured and trapped here."
"Thank you for saving me!"
Alice looked relieved and thanked the two of them.
Kiku shook his head and said frankly, "It was this Mr. Ze Shu who saved you. I didn't do much, so there's no need to thank me."
Recalling the power of Articuno in this small cold storage room, he couldn't help but admire it. It seemed he needed to change his stereotype of investigators; they were actually quite formidable.
Well, from now on, he can feel more at ease working with other investigators and delegate a little more of the "burden" of the battle to those investigators.
Immediately, Kiku saw Ze Shu groping around on Jero, who was frozen like a snowman. Soon, he found a smooth stone on Jero's chest that even faintly glowed.
This is the spark that ignited the feud between Kiku-sama and Team Plasma—the Bright Stone.
Upon seeing the stone, Alice's eyes widened abruptly: "This, this shape, this is!"
Ze Shu: "Yes, what you just said, the Light Stone that Reshiram turned into after losing its power."
Alice exclaimed in shock, "It's...it's here!"
She found the thing she had been searching for so long after leaving Shuanglong City, but she found it after she was kidnapped!
"So, Team Plasma has been targeting me so frequently because of Reshiram..." At this point, Kiku paused, seemingly remembering something, then his eyes widened. "No! So, the Dark Stone that was stolen from me... Team Plasma already has Zekrom in their hands!"
He realized the seriousness of the situation.
Ze Shu added, "That's not all. Perhaps, Kyurem is also in the hands of Team Plasma, judging from their research on the founding legend."
Kiku-sama stared wide-eyed at the Bright Stone in Zeki's hand: "If Team Plasma gets this Bright Stone, wouldn't they have collected all the parts of Zekrom, Reshiram, and Kyurem that were created from the divine dragons...?"
At this point, Boss Ju paused for a moment, then said angrily, "Damn it!"
"Team Plasma has assembled Shenron to recreate the founding legend of the ancient Unova King!"
"I'm going to notify the league! Damn it! The Unova champion is still missing! That guy Aldak was just loafing around before he became champion! He's been neglecting his duties! I should have punched him awake back then!"
"Sawaki, I'm afraid Team Plasma will launch another sneak attack, but I trust your abilities."
"I'll entrust the Bright Stone to you for safekeeping for now."
After giving his final instructions, Boss Ju, with his fat and burly figure, hurriedly left the cold storage warehouse.
At the scene, only Ze Shu and Alice remained, staring at each other blankly.
There was also a guy named Hupa who was slumped on the ground, crying.
After taking Elise away from the cold storage, they encountered Ziyu, Xiaolan, Xigana, and others who had come because of the commotion in the cold storage and the discovery of the disappearance of Boss Zeju. Together, they returned to the Fanba Gym.
As for the two members of the Plasma Team's Seven Sages, Hoopa had already "fished" them out and put them in the Ze Shu spaceship's prison. And Ice was brought along too, to torture the old man.
"Sawaki, Sawaki..."
"Save Mayari..."
After experiencing the pain of "saving the wrong person", Hoopa gradually cheered up and kept talking to Zeshu.
However, because they "rescued the wrong person," many clues were lost.
From the cowardly Gerald, we learned that there was another girl who had been captured by Team Plasma, but not by Gerald and Asura. She was captured by one of their "colleagues" from Team Plasma, but had already left Fanba City.
As for where they were taken and who captured Mayali, even as their pupils shrank, they cried and said they really didn't know.
"Ze Shu, the girl that old man mentioned being captured... is she Mayali...?" Hupa asked worriedly.
"The girl Jero was talking about, dressed in a unique outfit that didn't fit modern times, her style like that ram with a halo... Arceus, must be the Mayari you mentioned..."
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Ze Shu pondered for a moment before responding to Hu Pa's concerns.
Upon hearing this, Huba immediately grabbed Ze Shu's sleeve and cried, "Ze Shu, you have to think of something! Save Mayali! If you can save Mayali, Huba will do anything..."
"Alright, alright." Ze Shu had heard Hoopa say this countless times. "Hoopa can do anything, right? I know. I agreed without you saying it."
Hupa said with tears in her eyes, "Ze Shu, you're so kind."
Ze Shu: "————"
"But we don't know who captured Mayali or where she is currently located." He added, as if sorting out his thoughts, "We only know that Mayali did indeed disappear in Fanba City, but the Multiverse Beast has searched through all the CCTV cameras in Fanba City and hasn't found a single trace of her."
Hoopa bit her lip in panic, "What do we do, Ze Shu?!"
Ze Shu pondered for a moment, then said, "None of the cameras in Fanba City, including those at the docks, have detected Mayali. That should be impossible. Polygon also discovered that the camera data had been modified, but it cannot be restored."
"This also means that the person who kidnapped Mayali had quite a few methods. At least in terms of technology, he did it without leaving a trace."
"so....
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"We need to use methods that don't rely on technology to find him."
Hupa asked in a daze, "What do you mean by means that do not rely on technology?"
Ze Shu laughed and said, "Take Hoopa for example, can't you find people? When we first met, didn't you help me find and capture that escaped Da Yu monster?"
But Hoopa's "search" is truly simple and unpretentious, using rings to search in various places as if looking at a camera.
Finding the monsters in the Unova region with their routes is relatively easy, but searching for a Maya without any clues in such a vast area is extremely inefficient, akin to looking for a needle in a haystack.
Every night, Hupa didn't sleep. She kept searching aimlessly, and the dark circles under her eyes became even deeper, but it didn't have any effect at all.
Hupa knew this too, and lowered his head in disappointment.
During its time with Ze Shu, it also learned that Ze Shu probably didn't have any other magical ability to "find people" besides technological means—otherwise, it wouldn't have been Hoopa's turn to find that Da Yu monster.
"Who said I don't have one?" Ze Shu suddenly said. "Its efficiency in finding people is far superior to Hoopa's."
"Ze Shu, you have it?!" Hoopa's eyes widened.
Ze Shu smiled and said, "However, ever since we got it, it's been in a half-dead state, and I've never used it. So, we need to wake it up."
Hoopa blinked: "Who...is it?"
Ze Shu didn't answer, but simply said, "Hoopa, take us to the spaceship."
Hoopa obediently said "Oh," and then called out to the ring: "Lao Lao!"
The ring descended, and in the blink of an eye, Zeki arrived at the spaceship, which was automatically flying from Hoenn to Unova. The spaceship was halfway there, but Zeki had called the helmsman, Porygon, away to check the monitoring, which caused a slight delay.
"Ze... Zeshu..." From the other side of the circle came the sound of Hoopa crashing and cries for help, "Get me... get me over there..."
It failed to pass through the circle again.
Zeshu repeated his previous action, pulling Hupa over from the other side.
"Huff huff huff—" Hoopa, who had reappeared on the spaceship, was confused. It gradually came to its senses and puffed out its cheeks, saying, "Just now in the cryogenic storage, Hoopa could use its own rings! Why can't it do that now!"
Zeshu tossed Articuno's Poké Ball back into its frozen nest on the spaceship: "Hoopa, didn't you need to understand the meaning of 'Punishment' to pass through your own ring?"
"Perhaps, at that time, Hoopa, you embodied the meaning of 'punishment.'"
He only said that much, then rubbed the heads of Orion and the foam squirrel who had come closer after returning to the spaceship, and said, "Hoopa, come with me."
"Hmm...."
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Hupa still didn't understand the meaning of "punishment," so he pouted and had no choice but to follow Ze Shu's steps and float into the spaceship's inner cabin.
Hoopa wasn't very familiar with the spaceship's interior. The only familiar spot was the food storage room where it had first arrived and could swim. After following Ze Shu for a while, they stopped in a secluded room at the bottom of the spaceship.
Hupa sensed that the atmosphere in this location was very ominous.
"Sawaki, what kind of wicked experiments are you conducting in your room?!"
"Hoopa also heard wailing sounds..."
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"But, but it's okay! Hoopa won't report you..."
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Ze Shu interrupted speechlessly, "Next door is the spaceship's prison. Those are the wails of the two old men you just sent in."
Hoopa obediently said "Oh," then added, "Then...then this sound isn't an evil experiment, it's...a righteous experiment!"
Ze Shu: "————"
He pushed open the door in front of him and went inside.
The room was sparsely furnished and poorly decorated, with only a few meteorites piled in a corner and a half-pillar resembling an exhibition stand in the center. Ze Shu had purchased the same model of equipment as those used in museum exhibition stands.
On it was a living, wriggling meteorite.
"What is this...?" Hoopa asked.
"The sleeping Deoxys," Zeki replied.
Since obtaining the meteorite that caused Deoxys to sleep, and the meteorite containing cosmic radiation that was "borrowed" from Dr. Solans to help Deoxys recuperate.
Ze Shu then stored them all in this room to rest and recuperate, and only checked on them occasionally before leaving them alone.
It seems to be recovering well so far.
As Ze Shu entered, Deochis was greeting him—a short, dark tentacle extended from the cratered surface of the meteorite and slowly waved towards Ze Shu.
"Can it...can it find Mayali...?" Hoopa asked again.
"If things return to normal, it should be fine," Ze Shu replied.
He remembered that Deoxys should have a function called "Nen", which allowed him to capture certain life signals like a superhuman through a medium of contact, with an extremely exaggerated range of capture.
Giovanni relied on Deoxys to find his son, Gin—well, although Sawaki hasn't met this rebellious young master Gin yet, as he's not at the Masked Base.
"Then how do we restore it?" Hoopa asked again.
"Meteorites, lots of meteorites," Ze Shu said.
If Deoxys is allowed to rest, it will eventually awaken because of the meteorite rich in cosmic radiation that Zeki specifically found, although it will take a little longer.
Anyway, Ze Shu wasn't in a hurry to use this generation of Oqisis.
Now, Hoopana can't wait any longer.
Therefore, Ze Shu had no choice but to speed up the process.
"That's why I brought you here, Hoopa."
"Let me retrieve some meteorites?" Hoopa realized.
"Yes." Ze Shu smiled, then gave Hoopa a location, "In Hoenn, in the Meteor Village of Meteor Falls. I heard from Akamaru that the Meteor People have stored a lot of these meteorites. Let's borrow some for now."
Hupa immediately summoned a ring: "Lao Lao!"
In the blink of an eye.
The sound of "tap tap tap" continued incessantly.
Meteorites almost completely filled the small room where Ochisis lived.
Upon seeing so many meteorites, the tentacles of Deoxys that had emerged from the meteorites froze.
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