Chapter 443: Taming the Multiple Dragons

The content deciphered from the ancient Braille is below.

Filled with the poster's speculation—based on the sources of the ancient Braille, combined with the current archaeological community's understanding and tracing of 【Eternal Pokémon】, 【Legendary Giants】, and the like—about where they are sealed.

It also mentions the ancient era.

The poster stated with great certainty that the three Legendary Titans of the ancient era were all obtained by deciphering Braille and venturing into various ruins, and in the end left a conjecture that a 【Legendary Giant】 likely exists on Route 120.

He also attached fairly detailed coordinates.

Baimu couldn't help raising an eyebrow slightly when he saw this, thinking that there were quite a lot of capable and unusual people in this world; in any case, at least the coordinate points were guessed by him to be pretty much on the mark.

So detailed… it's practically just like a game walkthrough, this is a bit troublesome.

Uneasily, he scrolled down to the comments, but was surprised to find that not many people actually agreed with this poster.

Most commenters didn't believe the clues the poster had marked; a few blunt ones simply mocked him outright, and quite a few even started cursing.

Here to scam people again?

Self-taught ancient Braille? Hilarious, you might as well say you hand-craft Poké Balls, you don't have a shred of common sense

No one will fall for your tricks again!

Hmm…

These comments…

Baimu secretly breathed a sigh of relief for the peace of Absol and the others, and also felt that the original poster, who had guessed the sealing location correctly yet was mocked for it, was truly pitiful; as he continued scrolling down, he suddenly caught sight of a comment that interested him greatly.

What about that guy you tricked into going to the deep sea to find Lugia last time? Hmm? Guilty conscience?

Going to the deep sea to find Lugia?

Baimu's interest was piqued, and he immediately discovered that this comment had actually been replied to by the poster.

The content was—

Lugia has the habit of migrating along ocean currents; he waited three months before going to look again, isn't it perfectly normal that he couldn't find it?

Ho!

He even thoroughly researched Lugia's habits!

He grew increasingly curious about the poster, so he simply clicked on his avatar to look through his historical posting traces, and sure enough found posts about Lugia among them.

Yet some of what was written in there was even harder to understand than the ancient Braille about the Legendary Titans.

"Speculating based on global climate? No wonder people say he's talking nonsense."

Baimu skimmed through it roughly, and discovered that this poster actually speculated Lugia's location based on climate change and collected ocean current information; ordinary people would find it hard to verify what he said either.

And in that poster's words, Lugia had once stayed at the bottom of a certain uninhabited island; according to his prediction, that island was very likely the brief resting point Lugia used each time based on the ocean current cycle.

Below was still a flood of mockery.

Scrolling further back, one could see a related post, which was conspicuously a "live broadcast" of a trainer following the poster's clues to the bottom of that island, only to come back empty-handed in the process of catching a legendary beast.

Quite a few people tagged the poster inside the related post, but the poster only replied to one person, with the exact same wording as his reply in the Legendary Titans post.

So is Lugia's location real or fake?

Baimu couldn't say.

But he was quite interested in this poster; after all, he was someone capable of self-studying ancient Braille, and the things he translated were pretty much on the mark with what Baimu remembered, so presumably he could also decipher the ancient Braille on the door of the ancient tomb.

"Can you follow the trail and find out his real identity?"

Baimu looked at Porygon-Z beside him.

Porygon-Z first nodded instinctively, then paused and dove into the phone, saying hesitantly:

Peeking into someone else's personal privacy at will… isn't that not very appropriate?

The advanced intelligence not only brought stronger learning ability, but also gave Porygon-Z a human-like outlook on life and values; and since Porygon-Z had long been by his side, its thoughts could be said to be an extension of his own.

In other words.

It was Baimu himself who believed that snooping into someone's identity for one's own private purposes was wrong.

"…Indeed not very appropriate."

After careful consideration, he realized that Porygon-Z's thoughts had no problem at all; he had relied too much on the latter's convenience of doing whatever it pleased in cyberspace, and his methods were a bit out of line.

Just as he was unwilling to have his privacy pried into by this mysterious website, and thus avoided its complicated review system. The other party certainly wouldn't want their veil of anonymity lifted either.

More crucially, based on what Baimu had currently investigated, this website was not some site with illegal transactions or rigorous content; on the contrary, it simply shared the history, literature, and traces of various legendary Pokémon.

The various professional contents inside even made it worthy of being called a knowledge-sharing website.

Similar intelligence was often shared in Pokémon Center lobbies too; it was just that it had been exploited by those three Pokémon Hunters.

Therefore, if he rashly opened that person's box, he wouldn't be acting with any natural righteousness.

"You're right."

He approvingly poked Porygon-Z; the latter, seeing that the trainer had adopted its opinion, couldn't contain its joy and moved along with the direction of the trainer's finger, looking just like a chibi little toy.

And speaking of which.

Baimu thought for a moment, decided to first leave a comment to try communicating with him elsewhere, then find a way to meet offline to confirm the other's situation, and then ask him for help.

Although Liza was helping him look on her end, it was also rather embarrassing to keep troubling her with this and that; she wasn't his employee after all.

Hmm.

He had to find a way to buy a gift to thank her.

So, with Porygon-Z's help, he opened a fake account, and after thinking, left a comment under that person's latest post—

Do you know the Sealed Chamber?

If this person truly had research on the Legendary Giants, then he must know the Sealed Chamber, and at that point things could naturally be extended further.

"Hope it goes smoothly."

Baimu nodded secretly.

Any Pokémon fan harbors special feelings toward legendary Pokémon, mythical Pokémon, and the like; perhaps they aren't one's personal preference, but upon encountering them, one always tries to catch one.

He was no exception.

Not seeing the ancient tomb would be one thing, but since he'd run into it, he had to go in and take a look; whether he could actually catch Regice was another matter entirely.

Only mentioning Lugia…

Has Ash's journey reached Desert City yet?

All Baimu and Porygon2 had been keeping an eye on the news from Kalos. Though he very much wanted to take part in the movie's storyline, he figured that unless he stayed by Ash's side at all times, it would be very hard to get involved.

Blame the movie for not having a clear enough timeline.

In any case, with that tower in Desert City gone, it would definitely make the news, and for quite a while after the tower disappeared, Hu Pa would remain in Desert City to repair it.

When the time came, he'd fly straight over and ask it for help finding Lugia.

With Hu Pa in that state, appealing to reason and emotion would most likely make it agree to lend him a hand.

Baimu settled his mind, leaned back slightly, and prepared to browse other posts. He hadn't expected that the moment he leaned back, the back of his head seemed to rest on something soft and squishy.

【Given the current environment, this site may shut down at any time. Please move to the permanently operating source-switching App, huanyuanapp, as soon as possible.】

He instinctively turned his head and met Dragonite's small triangular eyes; the latter seemed a little flustered.

"Ha."

He chuckled, turned back around, leaned back once more, and said nothing.

Not needing to explain the situation let Dragonite breathe a slight sigh of relief. It gazed at the back of Baimu's head, recalling that plain yet warm smile from moments ago, and felt all the more at ease.

So it stopped moving about, didn't even bother to go invisible, and let Baimu's head rest on its body. Then it quietly scooted over and used its triangular eyes to peek at the completely incomprehensible phone screen.

All those bright colors and sounds — it found it quite interesting; it had already been secretly peeping for quite a while.

Meanwhile, Baimu, scrolling through his phone, was completely distracted.

He would never have imagined that in the span of a single day, his relationship with Dragonite would progress so rapidly — from close proximity to being able to use its tail as a backrest.

Yesterday, this would have been unimaginable.

Thinking about it now, those three Pokémon hunters truly were saviors — seeing that he had been slow to build a friendly relationship with Dragonite, they had stepped up of their own accord.

Baimu was deeply moved, and sincerely hoped these fellows would rot in prison for the rest of their lives.

The next day.

The rain stopped.

The blue sky was washed clean.

Baimu had still not received a reply from that person.

So he and Absol, whose leg injury had healed, returned to Route 120 and came once more to the spot where the ancient tomb had been buried.

"Suu?"

Absol couldn't understand why he always liked to go to dangerous places.

"Because there are things I care about there."

He had Steelix dig away the dirt in front of the doorway, confirmed that the Braille above was intact and there were no signs of any explosion around it, and breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Fortunately, no mantis had followed behind to snatch the spoils.

Running into those three jokers yesterday had left him no time to think of another way in. Reality isn't a game — there's no rule saying he couldn't just knock a hole in the ancient tomb's wall.

"Use Dig! Start digging from the side!"

As Baimu spoke, he couldn't help feeling like a grave robber.

The ancient tomb should count as a historical site, right? Would it be a bit inappropriate to dig a big hole next to it…?

While he was thinking this, Steelix had already raised its drill-like tail and thrust it at the wall, looking for all the world as if it meant to bore straight through.

The sound was incredibly loud.

Boom!

The ground trembled slightly; the not-yet-dry mud and sand showed signs of flowing downward, giving Absol a fright.

Then—

It didn't dig through.

It was clearly an ordinary stone wall, yet Steelix's tail simply couldn't bore through it. One had to remember this fellow could use its tail to dig straight down for thousands of meters — no rock layer was too hard for it.

Who would have thought it couldn't dig through a wall made of a few stacked stones? Baimu refused to believe there was nothing wrong with this wall.

"Looks like I can't be a grave robber after all."

He muttered to himself.

He also wondered whether he needed to find that Relic Chamber and follow the in-game procedure to open places like the ancient tomb that sealed the legendary titans.

That would be quite a hassle.

Forget it.

We'll talk about it later.

Baimu glanced at the wall that simply couldn't be drilled through, and decided to push the priority of exploring the ancient tomb back a little — he'd think it over after the Coumarine Conference was over—

The Relic Chamber itself is also a post-game, post-League thing.

He had Steelix bury the ancient tomb back up, then patted the head of the big white-furred cat beside him. "Do me a favor?"

"Suu!"

Absol nodded without hesitation.

"Come check on this mountainside from time to time in the future. If a heavy rainstorm ever washes this little hill out, help bury it back up. If anyone comes, you don't need to stop them — just observe their situation, and when I come by someday, tell me about it."

Baimu pulled a handful of Pokéblocks from his pocket.

Absol glanced at the Pokéblocks, then looked up at the human in front of it, opened its big mouth, scooped them all up and held them in its mouth, then nodded at him.

That counted as agreeing.

"Thank you!"

He smiled and rubbed Absol's head.

—

Parting ways with Absol.

All Baimu continued his journey toward Petalburg City and soon arrived on Route 121.

Compared to Route 120, Route 121, which led directly to Petalburg City, wasn't as long, but the key point was that important special locations existed in both the north and south directions.

To the north, the legendary Safari Zone—

Also known as "a Trainer's paradise."

As long as one paid a certain amount of money, one could obtain thirty Safari Balls and capture various Pokémon in the Safari Zone without any scruples, though of course only by direct throwing.

Pokémon battles were definitely not allowed.

Ash once caught thirty Tauros in the Kanto Safari Zone, and his Tauros appeared later on, even managing to tie with a Frontier Brain's ace Metagross.

Thinking again about that string of three Kinglers, one could only quip that Professor Oak really knew how to train Pokémon.

All Baimu initially had a bit of interest in the Hoenn Safari Zone, but later when he saw online that it only had Oddish, Gloom, and similar Pokémon found everywhere, with the only slightly precious ones possibly being Natu and Xatu, Psychic-type Pokémon, his interest instantly faded.

The Kanto Safari Zone at least had Dratini hidden in it.

To the south of Route 121 was the famous Shenshan, where many Trainers whose own Pokémon had passed away chose to bury their Pokémon.

Flannery had once invited All Baimu to visit Shenshan, saying she wanted to show him the spirit world of Shenshan…

Despite being a little curious, he still decided to wait until the Sootopolis Conference was over before discussing it.

He headed straight for Petalburg City.

When he reached the outskirts of the city, the pedestrians and vehicles on the road suddenly increased considerably.

All Baimu, radiating a Trainer's aura from head to toe, was naturally stopped by a passing wild Trainer who requested a Pokémon battle.

He gladly agreed.

However, when the opponent released a Ghost-type mummy-like single-eyed Pokémon, Dusclops, he just stood in place unmoved and shouted:

"I'll leave it to you!"

The wild Trainer clenched his fist and stared intently, then scratched his head after a few seconds.

"... Where's your Pokémon?"

"It's already here, keeping itself hidden." All Baimu said very sincerely.

"Hidden!"

Upon hearing this, the wild Trainer immediately became alert and, together with Dusclops, scanned the surrounding environment, but unfortunately the two of them looked for a long time and saw nothing.

He got a little angry.

"You're not trying to fool me—"

Before the words were finished, a black and dark-green triangular-headed salamander suddenly appeared behind Dusclops, opening its mouth to spew a terrifying pale-blue breath.

"Dragapult! Use Memento!"

All Baimu's voice poured into Dragapult's ears, making it freeze abruptly, but the breath had already spurted from its mouth!

Boom!

A huge pale-blue fireball slammed into Dusclops's back, sending it flying high into the air.

And when it hit the ground, its scarlet single eye was already covered by dizzy spirals.

The wild Trainer wore a face full of astonishment.

Dragapult hung its head in utter conflict, not quite daring to look at All Baimu's expression, worried he would be angry.

Actually, being angry wasn't important; what was important was that once angry, it didn't know what to do. Should it comfort All Baimu? Should it apologize? It didn't know how to speak up!