chsdbacks Chapter 254 Let me teach you a lesson!
Chapter 254 Let me teach you a lesson!
Chapter 254 Let me teach you a lesson!
But the store manager's "vision" ultimately did not go as planned.
Under Ze Shu's calm gaze, he could only grit his teeth and say, "You must... come back as soon as possible!"
Although the employees were puzzled by the store manager's strange tone, they didn't think much of it. After all, their line of work was despised by the vast majority of people in the Pokémon world, so it wasn't surprising that they had unpredictable personalities.
They simply replied, "Okay!" and hung up.
The only sounds in the accounting room were the shopkeeper's panting and Ze Shu turning the pages of the ledger.
He even found something strange in the "transaction records" of the ledger—Bug-type Pokémon were significantly more numerous on this buyer's purchase list.
"How strange, they bought all fifty or sixty Yuanmage monks at once?"
Ze Shu was quite certain that this "buyer" did not come here because he liked Master Yuan... or Speaker Shuai Xia.
"Um.
'
So what's the point of this weak and useless speaker, Shuai Xia?!
"Employee, you need to wipe the table and clean everything off it."
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"...good."
"Employees, the food at the front desk needs to be neatly arranged, otherwise customers will think you're unhygienic."
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"staff..
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"Are you ever going to stop?!"
Faced with Manager Zeshu's "reasonable request".
Wearing her employee uniform, Zhu Lan's forehead seemed to suddenly sprout a "well" character, and even her black hair ornaments suddenly tightened. She stared at Ze Shu with rare annoyance.
Ze Shu raised his hand, somewhat innocently, and said, "But this is the extent that this tavern needs to do. After all, it's a place where Pokémon hunters sell stolen goods, and clearing out the traces left by customers is necessary to maintain its reputation."
Zhu Lan paused, she had good reason to suspect that Ze Shu did this on purpose.
But she glared at Ze Shu and then went back to doing her employee work.
"How are the Pokémon doing down there..." she couldn't help but ask after working for a while.
After clearing out the Pokémon hunters at the tavern, she went down to the rooms in the corridor and saw the Pokémon being treated as "goods." It was a dark and gloomy room where the Pokémon were trapped in piles of iron cages, their expressions gloomy and their injuries varied.
These are children who should have been living in the Sinnoh environment...
Unfortunately, she had to look after the tavern as an "employee" and couldn't take care of it for long, so she had to hurry upstairs.
Hearing her question, Ze Shu sighed and said, "Little Blue is taking care of things downstairs, and my other Pokémon are also busy... Most of the Pokémon's injuries have basically stabilized."
"But some of them are seriously injured."
"It seems that he was subjected to extreme violence by Pokémon hunters because of his fierce resistance when he was captured."
"But there are too many Pokémon here, and Blue and the other Pokémon can't take care of them all. They can only try their best to maintain their limited energy..."
'
Zhu Lan fell silent for a moment, feeling dejected.
These Pokémon hunters are definitely worth killing countless times.
Ze Shu glanced at the tavern's clock and said, "The only hope right now is that the League personnel you arranged can arrive as soon as possible and take away their batch of seriously injured Pokémon to be cared for by Nurse Joy and the others."
Zhu Lan pursed her lips: "I've already issued an emergency order, and I estimate... they should arrive in half a day."
But Sinnoh's "support" seemed to exceed Cynthia's expectations. What was supposed to take half a day to arrive only took three hours, and they even brought a "gift".
"Ah! Sorry! Traveling at sea is really not my forte! That's why I'm late!"
The Sinnoh Elite Four member, sporting a bright red afro, looked around, then rather unceremoniously wrinkled his nose and put his hands in his pockets before laughing at Sawaki who had come up to him: "Hey! Sawaki! We've fought side-by-side twice, so why are you so unhappy to see me? Are you afraid I'll disturb your time alone with Champion Cynthia?!"
"Speaking of which, the champion isn't young anymore, but her condition... sigh!"
Ze Shu silently punched Da Ye on the left shoulder, who was spouting nonsense.
Only then did he look at the enormous thing behind him.
It was a giant steel snake that was "magnetically levitating" and hovering on the surface of the sea. Several medical personnel were standing on the head of the giant steel snake and were walking down the head that was lowered to the ground.
On the other side, two people were coiled around the steel body of the giant steel snake, one or two people who were simply bound and wailing.
"That is?"
"The people I saw acting suspiciously at sea, and whose direction of travel was also from here—who wouldn't come to this place? So I stopped them, and after a little questioning, I found out they were... what was it again? Oh right! Employees!"
"Big Leaf said, hands in his pockets."
Ze Shu nodded.
It seems they were employees of the tavern that sold stolen goods, the ones who had said on the phone that they would be back soon. Little did they know that before they even returned, they would discover that "their home was a trap," and they were caught by Da Ye, who happened to be passing by.
That would save you trouble.
Ze Shu took out a dozen or so Poké Balls that he had prepared beforehand and stuffed them all into Da Ye's pocket. Da Ye quickly pulled his hands out of his pocket and hugged the Poké Balls before saying, "These are the Poké Balls of Pokémon that are seriously injured. You should go back and give them to the local Pokémon Center as soon as possible."
"Oh right, the medical staff stay."
"And then, this is none of your business."
This was the first time that Da Ye, who had come specifically to provide support, had heard the words "this is none of your business." He couldn't help but purse his lips, but he didn't say anything. Knowing that the situation was serious, he simply nudged Ze Shu with his shoulder and walked towards the top of the giant steel snake's head.
"Goodbye then! Next time, you, Ze Shu, will have to spar with me!"
After leaving behind these words, Da Ye's giant steel snake coiled twice, adjusted its posture, and gradually disappeared into the distance.
Zeshu didn't answer Da Ye, but instead led the medical personnel Da Ye had brought—a Nurse Joy and three nursing staff from the Pokémon Center—back to the bar.
But he had only taken a few steps.
Suddenly, a startled scream came from afar, growing louder as it approached.
"Waaaaaah! Salamence, stop! I told you to go fast, but not so fast you can't stop! Aaaaaah! I'm going to crash into the ground!"
With a loud "thud," a Salamence crashed to the ground, sending up several puffs of mud and dust on the beach beside the swamp tree. Then, frequent coughing echoed from within: "Cough, cough, cough! Seriously! Salamence, you flew too fast!"
"Whoosh..."
"Hey! You green-haired guy, are you alright? Salamence, you even hurt this guy that Zeki asked me to bring!"
"Whoosh...."
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The Salamence's voice sounded very aggrieved.
Meanwhile, Nurse Joy, who was standing next to Zeki, glanced over, blinked, and tentatively asked, "Investigator, do we need to rescue this trainer whose Salamence crashed?"
Ze Shu paused for a moment, then sighed, "...It's alright, the injured Pokémon are the priority. As for that idiot who crashed... well, I'll give her medicine."
"Ouch, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts—"
'
Miss Joy and the caregiver had already taken the Pokémon to the corridor room to take care of them, while several bottles of medicine were placed on a table in the tavern lobby, and a short-haired woman covered the red marks on her face and couldn't help but groan in pain.
"Sigh, the inheritor who will crash," I think it can only be you. Ze Shu pinched the soft, rabbit-like ears of Gu Niu Niu, who was looking at Xi Jiana with concern.
"Ugh..." Higana suddenly puffed out her cheeks, making the scrapes on her face even more swollen and red. "Wasn't it you who abandoned me and risked my life here? Of course, I had to hurry up and come here to teach you a lesson!"
"What color do you want to show me?"
Ze Shu pointed to the redness and swelling on Xi Jiana's face.
"Is it for me to see in red? Then I do see it."
Higanbana: "!!!"
Realizing what Ze Shu was talking about, her face flushed even more with anger. She suddenly stood up, puffed out her cheeks, and retorted like a child, "Of course it's not this color!"
Ze Shu: "Oh."
Higana, her face flushed, shouted, "What the hell are you talking about! Just brushing it off like that makes me look even more like an idiot!"
Ze Shu: "Oh."
Higanbana: "!!!"
She was really angry!
Higana gave a heavy "humph".
Then, feeling that wasn't enough to express her anger, she let out another loud "humph."
Two sounds, three sounds...
Ze Shu looked at her speechlessly as she groaned until she was out of breath.
That idiot...
Others are like seed machine guns, but you're a "humming" machine gun, right? And you're even humming yourself until you're suffocating.
But as long as she was humming happily, Ze Shu didn't bother her. He looked at the person lying on another table, who was the green-haired man that Xi Jiana had brought earlier. He had been grabbed by the abdomen by the Salamence during the flight, so his injuries were more severe when the plane crashed, and he was unconscious.
Perhaps because Xijiana was too noisy, he hummed twice and gradually opened his confused eyes.
"N." Ze Shu looked at him. "Now that you're awake, come with me."
"This, this is..."
"
A claustrophobic, dark space; mountains of cold, iron cages; Pokémon still recovering from injuries; busy medical staff; and countless dolls...
These are the situations.
Intertwined with various emotions of relief and joy, whether pain or salvation, emanating from the hearts of different Pokémon.
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All of this was transmitted into N's mind.
After being brought here by Ze Shu, N's consciousness, which had not yet recovered from the dizziness, suddenly cleared up.
Although he was conscious, he stared blankly at the scene, unsure of what to say.
Ze Shu calmly said, "This is a black market warehouse where Pokémon hunters sell stolen goods."
He uttered the word "warehouse" so calmly, as if the silly, laughing Ludicolo being treated by Nurse Joy, and the Ralts cowering in the corner weeping alone, were not living Pokémon, but rather objects to be manipulated.
N gradually clenched his fist, a scene that seemed to awaken his childhood memories of encountering Pokémon, making his expression gradually become more determined.
"really....
'
"It's all because of humans... In any case, Pokémon are unfortunate in human hands, and they still have to..."
Ever since N was caught by Ze Shu and locked in a "dark room" with only a cell phone, he has been able to surf the internet.
Online, he witnessed the joy of people interacting with Pokémon, saw the two light-colored Pokémon that the streamer Qishu had but were well cared for despite their physical limitations, and saw all sorts of people, whether trainers or not, uploading videos of their genuine smiles as they interacted with their Pokémon... N became completely absorbed in it.
He initially believed that the beautiful relationship between humans and Pokémon was real, but his firm belief that "Pokémon are unfortunate to be around humans" gradually wavered.
But now, the scene before him has shattered his illusions.
"That's true, the online world is still just the internet..."
N murmured, his eyes hardening, "I should go back to Team Plasma..."
'
Ze Shu, with his sharp ears, heard N's whisper, and then he scoffed, "Your binary thinking is no good."
N didn't understand what the word "dipolar" meant, but it just meant that he was extreme. However, with these injured Pokémon about to be sold as items right in front of him, how could he maintain a normal mood?
He immediately retorted, "Then isn't this real scene what you're showing me? No matter what, there will always be unhappiness when Pokémon and humans coexist..."
Ze Shu interrupted, "What do you think caused this situation, and who did it?"
N stated decisively, "Because of the inherent evil in humanity!"
Ze Shu nodded and said, "I think what you said is right, but it's a pointless statement."
N, though confused, said with unwavering determination, "It's not nonsense! I will completely separate humans from Pokémon, so that Pokémon will no longer suffer like this!"
"Just like what our plasma team has always been doing!"
But after N finished speaking, he saw Ze Shu look at him as if he had heard something ridiculous and laughable. He scoffed, "You don't think this scene..."
"You think the plasma team behind you can escape involvement?"
Hearing Ze Shu's sneer, N immediately frowned: "What...do you mean by that?"
Ze Shu did not answer him.
He looked at the Pokémon in front of him, treated like merchandise, and their shelves in cold iron cages.
"In a few days, a major investor who supports the operation of this warehouse and whose purchase list could fill a dozen ledgers" will arrive here to conduct a transaction.
"I have a vague idea of who this benefactor is; you can guess too."
"Hmm, I hope this sugar daddy is what I think? What if I'm wrong?"
N fell silent.
He wasn't stupid; on the contrary, he was very smart, and he would later be known as the "magician of mathematics."
Recalling Ze Shu's words, a vague guess involuntarily surfaced in N's mind, but he didn't believe it. He was so stunned that he broke out in a cold sweat and stood there dumbfounded.
Seeing N's appearance, Ze Shu took out a white cloth package and threw it to him.
"Alright, that's enough for me."
"I understand your concern for Pokémon. This is Nurse Joy's healing kit. There's a shortage of people to care for these Pokémon right now, and your arrival might be able to help out these next few days—"
Dream."
N silently accepted the medicine packet and nodded in response.
"And that big spender will probably be arriving quite late for the transaction, so perhaps... you'll need to come out and entertain him then..."
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