chsdbacks Chapter 243 The Three Dead Ends of the Sticky Clan
Chapter 243 The Three Dead Ends of the Sticky Clan
Chapter 243 The Three Deadly Paths of the Sticky Clan
Hearing Ze Shu's words, Higanbana grunted, then turned her head to the side, puffed out her cheeks, and pouted, "You mean that Dragon-type Elite Four member from Kanto? I've heard of him. He only has Dragonite as his Dragon-type Pokémon, so how can he compare to me!"
Ze Shu nodded as if in agreement, ignoring Xi Jiana's dilemma, and turned to look at their leader, Nian Mei'er, who was peeking out of the snail shell and looking at them.
"Since you've submitted to me, I'm now the leader of your tribe, right?"
Ze Shu asked first.
After hesitating for a moment, Mei'er nodded.
It glanced at the circle bear clan in the distance, which seemed to be having a party and had plenty of food, and then at the sticky bears around it that could only shrink back into their shells as if playing dead. A strange light appeared in its eyes as it looked at Ze Shu.
But after a while, for some unknown reason, it stubbornly shrank back into its shell.
They're not envious at all!
Seeing the self-deceiving look on the leader Nianmei'er's face, Ze Shu shook his head and laughed:
"You look quite different now compared to your initial aggressive and gloomy demeanor—so, have you noticed anything unusual in your head lately?"
The leader, Nianmei'er, lowered her tentacles:
"Artemisia...: "
It clearly noticed it.
After being "thrown awake" by Ze Shu, it noticed something was wrong with itself—its mind was filled with thoughts of "fighting," as if it wanted to destroy everything in front of it.
Not just that.
Many sticky children are in this situation.
Fortunately, their "poisoning" wasn't too severe. So, as the leader, Nianmei'er set her sights on the Moon Bear clan, with whom they had constant conflicts—after all, it didn't matter who she attacked.
But who knows?
It was this choice of target that led it to encounter Ze Shu, causing it to be pulled and thrown around by Ze Shu like a meteor hammer, and making it a punching bag to be ganged up on by six dragon Pokémon.
Finally, under threat, it submitted to the human in front of it, making this human the "leader" of its Nymphal race.
Although this "poisoned" state was awakened by Ze Shu.
But this is absolutely a terrible thing!
Absolutely!
This is what the leader, Nianmei'er, was thinking at this moment, and she smacked the whole dragon.
Ze Shu said, "Aren't you curious about how this abnormal situation came about? If I'm not mistaken, most of you sticky girls have been woken up by me, but your clan..."
"And what about Sticky Baby?"
"This 'poisoning' will only get worse. You're all already on the verge of losing your minds, so what about... the Gooey One, whose resistance is even weaker than yours?"
After hearing this...
"sticky?!"
The leader, Nianmei'er, was suddenly awakened from her childlike state.
"I thought you were a cold-blooded leader who didn't care about his cubs, but now it seems you're just a careless fellow." Ze Shu sighed when he saw its appearance, then shook his head and smiled as he met its stunned and helpless eerie green eyes. "I came to find you for this."
"Take me to see your territory first."
The habitat of the Nymphs is the most remote corner of the Red Lotus Wetlands: the Trial Sandbar.
This place connects to the river, and the soil is so soft that it feels like water is about to seep out when you step on it.
On the soil, rows of golden rice stalks grow, and hidden among the golden yellow, you can occasionally see three leaves swaying in the breeze—those are the active figures of the lily root babies.
Further in, there is a gray-black, pool-like mud pit.
When Ze Shu arrived here with the leader Niumi'er, Xiao Lan, Xi Jiana and others, they saw the sticky creatures, which looked like pinkish-purple slimes, jumping around on the muddy ground, making a chaotic melody that tickled Ze Shu's ears.
"? Isn't this exactly the same as a regular sticky girl?"
Higana's eyes widened, and she looked at Ze Shu again.
"Ze Shu, you're lying again!"
Ze Shu shook his head speechlessly: "."
On the way here, he explained to this guy what the "Washed Jade" form is. For example, Washed Jade Goome is not a pure dragon type like ordinary Goome. It has a steel snail shell and the noble attribute of steel.
Higana understood and congratulated herself on being such a clever person.
But now she sees these normal sticky creatures without shells.
It seems I don't understand again.
"So, Zeki, if you don't understand, don't talk nonsense... Ouch! That hurts!"
With a "smack," Higana covered her forehead and squatted down, then said in a pitiful voice,
Why did you flick me again! Didn't you promise not to flick my forehead?! It'll make me stupid!
Ze Shu: "...I just feel more comfortable communicating with you this way."
So what if I'm stupid? It's not like I'll be any worse off.
He looked at the sticky creatures in the mud pit. There were more than twenty of them, quite a lot, hopping around energetically in the mud pit, splashing up streaks of brownish-black water.
Several groups of sticky creatures even gathered together, seemingly performing a collision contest, bumping into each other with a "poof poof" sound.
They appear to be normal, energetic Pokémon, and their "collisions" look like energetic play and simulated hunting among Pokémon babies.
but..
"Goomy is a Pokémon that doesn't like to move around."
Xiao Lan keenly sensed something was amiss.
"Goomy is the most fragile of all Dragon-type Pokémon, without exception."
"In order to keep their bodies moist, the sticky creatures will hide in damp, shady places and live very quietly. Even if there are a few individuals with ADHD, they will not be this restless."
She paused for a moment, then uttered the word "restlessness".
If you look closely, you can see that the sticky creatures that collided were covered with wounds of varying sizes. Some even had their mucous membranes broken, oozing water. But they continued to collide tirelessly, without using the mud and water around them to repair their membranes.
Fortunately, this was a damp mud pit; otherwise, it might have dried out and died elsewhere.
But this is like drinking to quench thirst.
These sticky creatures don't even bother to repair their own mucous membranes now that they're broken. What if one day these "restless" sticky creatures run away from here and get lost in a dry place? That's quite a possibility.
Ze Shu casually scooped up a sticky creature that hopped up to him like a little slime from beside his feet. Holding its fairly resilient mucous membrane, he stared at its somewhat restless beady eyes and couldn't help but sigh.
"To be honest, ignoring the slippery texture, Sticky Baby is quite cute."
Ze Shu held the sticky toy in his hand like a bouncy ball, sometimes flattening it, sometimes making it into a teardrop shape. Well, it was still a toy, like he was kneading a very elastic and smooth clay.
Higana, standing to the side, stared wide-eyed: "Ze Shu really knows how to play! When you were little, I never imagined there was such a way to play."
Higanbana, who was curiously watching the Goodra in the mud, shuddered and quickly moved away from her silly trainer.
Meanwhile, the Goo-Goblin in Ze-shu's hand struggled to resist, its body thrashing about.
But he could never escape Ze Shu's restlessness, which was very distressing.
"Don't leave! If you leave again, you might not be able to come back here in your condition. In the end, you'll probably face a withered and barren fate." Ze Shu poked the green cheeks on Sticky Baby's face and said with a smile.
"Sticky...: Sticky!" Sticky Baby clearly didn't understand and was still struggling.
But Ze Shu wasn't saying this to Noodle Baby.
It was being spoken to the larger, sticky cat next to it.
The leader, Nianmei'er, lowered her head: "Nian..."
It also sensed something was wrong...
But it can't solve the problem!
For so long, it still hasn't figured out the reason for this... Now that Ze Shu, the new "boss," has come here, the leader, Nian Mei'er, is also thinking of "treating a dead Nian Nian Bao as if it were a living Nian Nian Bao."
But it has lived here for so long without noticing.
Can a guy who just arrived here really solve this?
Nianmeier thought it was unlikely...
"It's a water problem."
After making this judgment, Ze Shu stared intently at the mud puddle where the sticky creatures were moving.
The leader, Nianmei'er, seemed to freeze for a moment:
"sticky?!"
After a moment of stunned silence, its eerie green eyes gleamed with disbelief as it stared intently at Ze Shu, as if it were looking at some kind of "Great Lord of the Divine Realm".
Ze Shu sighed, "I was right after all."
He pointed to the dark brown, muddy puddles, "If you look closely, you can see a faint, powdery golden shimmer in the mud. There's no direct sunlight here, and the water isn't shimmering, but this golden shimmer remains unaffected and shines through."
The leader, Nianmeier, strained to see in the direction Zeshu pointed, but even with its neck stretched out of its snail shell as far as it could, and the mucous membranes in its eerie green eyes almost bursting, it still couldn't see the golden light Zeshu had described.
"Sticky?!"
Huo Xia rubbed her eyes, just like everyone else: "I didn't see it."
Ze Shu: "Maybe it's because my eyesight is better. But I'm pretty sure that the remnants of the Mountain Queen's scale powder seeped into this place and were perfectly preserved in this stagnant pool."
"Therefore, the Goody family became the sole victim in the southern part of the Cinnabar Wetlands. All of this was an undeserved disaster caused by the habits of the Goody Pokémon."
Leader Nianmei'er: "Nian?!"
To understand this string of words, it really made its not-so-large brain completely fuzzy.
But Ze Shu hadn't finished speaking when he sighed, "Now, this habitat is probably uninhabitable. At the very least, it will require a major overhaul—draining the mud and water, cleaning up the hazards, and restoring the ecosystem—and there's even a high chance that the hazards won't be completely removed."
Nianmei immediately understood this sentence.
So it suddenly jumped up in fright.
"Sticky!!!"
This is unacceptable to them!
Ze Shu then looked at it: "So, what do you think is the biggest reason for all this?"
The leader, Nianmei'er, tensed up, her antennae taut: "Nian!"
Ze Shu shook his head: "No, living in such a stagnant, muddy pool is a habit of Pokémon like you, it's definitely not because of that. Nor is it because of the 'Mountain Queen' herself, but rather..."
"The culprit who drove the Mountain Queen into a rage."
"As long as the Mountain Queen remains in her rage, her scales will continue to scatter, and as long as you don't leave the Crimson Lotus Wetlands, you will continue to be affected by her. This is a natural enemy of your Nymphal race!"
The leader, Nianmei'er, understood. Just as Zeshu had jolted them awake, she would also jolt the Mountain Queen awake: "Nian!!"
Ze Shu shook his head again, looked the leader Nian Mei'er up and down, and laughed:
"With your strength, you don't even have a Goodra. I'm afraid you won't be able to get the Mountain Queen into a berserk state. The Mountain Queen is a Fighting-type, so she might just kick a snail shell away."
Ze Shu's disdainful words caused the leader, Nianmei'er, whose head was dripping with slime, to turn red visibly. She pouted and angrily shouted, "Sticky, sticky, sticky!!!"
Why not? Don't underestimate them! Sticky and delicious!
Despite being stubborn.
But the leader, Nianmei'er, gradually began to despair.
As Ze Shu said, they seemed unlikely to be able to take down the Mountain Queen on their own.
The other option, which is to stay far away from the Honglian Wetland, is even more difficult to achieve.
They have lived in this Honglian Wetland since birth. They are even "homebodies" by nature and have never been to most areas of Honglian Wetland, let alone other areas outside Honglian Wetland.
Despite the fact that the habitat of these sticky creatures is extremely dirty, there are even rumors that their mucous membranes are covered in bacteria and that touching them is like getting poisoned.
But the dirt is carefully selected!
Their habitat requirements are quite high. In this harsh environment of the Red Lotus Wetland, which is full of swamps, there are only a few areas that meet their habitat requirements, and other places are even harder to find. It's impossible to drag the fragile Sticky Babies around searching, watching them wither away as they search. The more the leader Sticky Beauty thought about it, the more desperate she became. In a moment of despair, she broke down and started crying in front of Ze Shu.
Inaction is a form of slow death;
The entire clan going to attack the Mountain Queen was tantamount to courting death.
Running away from home to find another place to live is a more bewildered death.
Is there any way for them to survive?!
"Yes, Nianmei'er, yes."
Ze Shu patted its head, his hand getting covered in slippery slime.
The leader, Nianmei'er, turned pitifully to Zeshu with her eerie green eyes dripping with slime: "Nian..."
Ze Shu smiled and said, "Your clan alone would naturally find it difficult to deal with the raging Mountain Queen, but what if we added them? Then it might be worth a try, wouldn't it?"
He pointed in the direction of the "Bear Fighting Arena".
The leader, Nianmeier, was stunned; this was a path they had never imagined.
"After you have defeated the berserk Mountain Queen, you can live and reproduce in this Red Lotus Wetland again."
"And as your 'leader,' whether you want to find another place or still want to live in this Trial Sands,
They can all offer assistance.
"Sticky!"
"Oh? You still want to live in the Trial Sands...::"
"In that case, I can guarantee that I will find you a temporary place to live during the clearing of this trial sandbar."
"Sticky!"
Hope flickered in the eyes of the leader, Nianmei'er.
"But there's a condition—" Ze Shu held up one finger.
"You must work together with the Moonbear Clan to defeat the Mountain Queen before I can make my promise to you. After all, compared to you guys who attacked me and were subdued by my force, I, as the leader of the Moonbear Clan, am much closer to those 'bear kids'."
He said it in such a "strict" way.
Even if these sticky creatures failed to appease the Mountain Queen and meet the "prerequisites" he demanded, Ze Shu would still save them.
after all.
Zeshu played with the sticky treasure he had been holding for a while, and rubbed its little antennae.
These sticky little ones are still children...
He shouldn't have died for this reason.
"Sticky... sticky!"
The leader, Nianmei'er, had a resolute look in her eyes.
Faced with the life-or-death crisis of their tribe, they were naturally willing to put aside their friction with those annoying creatures, the Circle Bears.
"Sticky!"
The leader, Nianmei'er, hesitated for a moment, then rubbed her smooth head against Zeshu's hand.
Although Zeshu said he felt closer to the bears, he felt more grateful to him than anything else.
This is a debt of gratitude for saving our clan. If we can truly be saved...:
That Ze Tree will be the eternal leader of their clan!