Chapter 1463

The time arrived at deep night.

N and the others were uniformly arranged to stay at the guest building on the west side of the school.

This place is specially provided for outside guests, such as Zhulan whom Baimu coaxed into giving a lecture, Doctor Da Mu, and so on.

Therefore the lodging conditions are quite luxurious.

N went to sleep early; he had agreed with Baimu to go together to the Pokemon Paradise tomorrow.

In fact he could completely go on his own, but N felt that since he had handed the house there over to Baimu, and Baimu had turned it over to Mewtwo, he had no way to go there on his own initiative.

Whether as a gift or a lease, neither would do.

Baimu couldn't quite stand that unique stubborn streak of his, so he had no choice but to agree.

Additionally, upon learning N was on Academy Island, A Wu also came rushing from Silicon Beryllium City without regard for distance. The person who knew N earliest was him; unexpectedly N's first meeting upon returning to Orre was to see Baimu, and A Wu felt a bit put out.

However, the joy of reuniting with an old friend occupied the majority.

The reason Shan Ren didn't come was being too busy; N understood this very well — the conflict between the two of them had long been resolved due to Queen Leiguanwang's arrival, and it was absolutely not intentional avoidance of each other.

This can be seen from N preparing to go to Silicon Beryllium City to catch a plane and leave, which shows he was preparing to take the initiative to go see Shan Ren.

Night at Orre Academy.

After successive waves of wailing, it appeared exceptionally tranquil.

Baimu also has a corresponding residence here; N's arrival dispelled his plan to return to Platinum Mountain, so he simply stayed one night first.

Then came...

"Come on."

He looked at the light screen before him, already lying properly on the bed.

Preparing to live another person's life!

After Baimu redeemed the orange talent and made a series of choices, he clicked start simulation.

The next instant.

His consciousness drifted beyond the ninth heaven, as if detached from the world and arriving at a higher dimension; multicolored orbs presented themselves one by one — blue, black, gold, pink, and gray.

No time to examine closely; blazing golden light descended before him, a pair of enormous eyes devoid of any human emotion looked over, and released light that devoured everything.

Like waiting for a game animation to load, his vision turned into boundless darkness.

In reality.

The shiny Gengar playing games by the bedside sensed something, flew quickly to the trainer's side, then turned pale with shock.

"Geng ga~! Geng ga!!"

Baimu! Something happened to Baimu!!

It shouted loudly, hurriedly calling its companions.

Soon Aggron and a crowd of Pokemon gathered at the bedside; Blissey approached Baimu to check his condition.

"Happy."

There's no problem.

It shook its head at the other Pokemon.

Before the angry Hydreigon could question the shiny Gengar, the shiny Gengar took the lead in explaining what was wrong —

Baimu's soul had become somewhat illusory.

As if he didn't exist in this world, as if he would disappear soon.

Duraludon and Galarian Corsola, after probing, also reached a consistent conclusion, which quickly caused an uproar.

"Gu hou!"

Aggron let out a low roar, signaling everyone to quiet down, then dispatched the shiny Gengar to use a phone to call Queen Leiguanwang, asking it and Spectrier to come, and had Milotic go find the Three Divine Pillars at the fastest speed.

Last was Porygon-Z.

It was responsible for contacting Hu Pa and Furong at Shenshan.

The soul problem exceeded the scope they could resolve; professional people had to come.

Of course, Aggron also hoped Duraludon and Galarian Corsola could think of something; one is an old hand in the spirit world, the other can become the spirit world's gatekeeper at any time, favored by the will of the spirit world.

But unfortunately, Baimu's soul had not left his body, so they were also helpless.

The bear disciple couldn't squeeze in from the outside, only able to worry anxiously.

The washed Zorua lay slumped in a heap, expression very complex, impossible to tell joy from sorrow.

The remaining Pokemon were quite bewildered, completely unable to understand what had happened.

Mime Jr. thought very calmly, suddenly jumped onto the bed, reached for the trainer's Thousand Worlds Bracelet in his arms, just about to say something, when Baimu lying on the bed abruptly opened his eyes.

"Cough!"

He was startled by the Pokemon surrounding him, "What are you doing?"

The crowd of Pokemon stared blankly at him, then either breathed sighs of relief or excitedly pounced to hug him.

Making Baimu quite helpless.

After soothing this group of Pokemon acting like they were attending a funeral, he learned the reason from Porygon-Z.

"..."

Baimu held his forehead, "Quick! Call it off, call it off! Tell Queen Leiguanwang and them I'm fine!"

Porygon-Z replied: "Already said it, Hu Pa and Furong's side is fine, but Queen Leiguanwang still wants to come over."

Thud!

A dull explosion sounded from outside the room.

It was Milotic swift as the wind carrying the shrunken Three Divine Pillars attacking; too anxious, it directly smashed the outer door.

Baimu didn't know what to say.

"Ah—hiss?"

After Milerton rushed in, he saw the Trainer sitting on the bed, his face full of "you're not dead" shock.

The three deity pillars following behind had their facial dot-matrices flashing wildly.

"Du du du?"

Is it April Fools' Day today?

The Rock Pillar told a joke.

Baimu got off the bed and apologized to them, recalling the content he had seen in the dream, then looking at Bastiodon and the other Pokemon.

"Hmm, for a while from now I'll often be like this, so don't make a fuss."

Observation Permission actually affected his soul; this was something he had completely not anticipated. Could it be that the scenes seen before the simulation started were all real?

Did he really go to the realm where Arceus resides, and use it as a transit point to travel through time and space for the simulation?

The probability feels very high.

Although it's unclear why similar situations didn't appear before, from when he lay down and fell asleep to when he woke up was only three minutes, so safety shouldn't be a big problem.

After seeing off the three deity pillars and barely propping up the shattered door panel, Baimu sat on the sofa, recalling this simulation.

The simulation subject was a Unova sailor who quite easily won the Hiun Conference, then successively defeated Iris and Caitlin in the Unova Champion League, and finally lost to Drayden.

Without a doubt, this simulation's time was exceptionally close to the modern era.

What caught Baimu's attention was that this sailor had originally received an invitation from the League, saying that after Alder retired, one of the Elite Four might become Champion, and he had a chance to fill the vacant Elite Four spot.

But the sailor refused.

Only because during his journey, he joined a secret organization whose goal was to liberate the populace of a certain remote region, and was preparing some kind of plan.

The simulation footage finally froze on the sailor preparing to head to that remote region to rescue many Trainers who had been swindled there.

Parallel world? The past?

Baimu quickly got the answer through the Porygon Phone: it was this world's past.

As for the sailor's current whereabouts, there was no relevant news on the internet, and he didn't remember this face either; he guessed the sailor was most likely one of the people who had rushed to aid Silph City back then.

To simultaneously deal with the personnel stationed in Silph City and Huang Tie Town, the Rescue Organization adopted a divide-and-conquer tactic: Silph City got the main force, Huang Tie Town got the smaller force.

After the region was liberated, many of those who had rushed to aid Silph City withdrew, leaving only locals to remain behind.

Now...

The sailor is most likely a high-ranking International Police officer by now, right?

In the final reward options, he subconsciously chose Time-Space Traversal, but what could he do even if he returned to the past?

Would it cause some change in the world?

Time in the Pokemon world is rather special; a changed past inevitably affects the future. Precisely because of this, Ash was able to save the world from the rampaging Arceus's hooves.

"Let's shelve it for now."

Baimu prepared to keep it for now; recently he also had no free time to wander around, and there were still many things he needed to be busy with.

He glanced at Bastiodon again, then didn't say much more, soothed the panicked Bear Disciple once more, explained to the hastily arrived Queen Leiguanwang, and then fell fast asleep together with them.

However, this night was destined to be not peaceful.

The Pokemon woke up many times, tiptoeing close to the Trainer to check his condition.

The Shiny Gengar's jumpiness truly caused this bunch to lose sleep, fearing something might happen to Baimu.

Bear Disciple was the most worried.

It had only just finished choosing its partner not long ago, and absolutely didn't want the other party to kick the bucket right away; at the very least he had to live to Master's age, right?

"Guma..."

Life isn't easy, Little Bear sighs.

Hisuian Zorua had a nightmare, dreaming that Baimu died and it returned to the lab to once again live the days of having food come to its mouth and clothes to its body, but due to its unrestrained binge-eating, its body grew larger and larger—

Finally exploding with a bang.

This scared it into a cold sweat; it immediately ran to Baimu's side, placed its claws under his nostrils, and sensed whether he had any breath.

After confirming it was just a nightmare, Hisuian Zorua finally felt at ease.

"Wu..."

But then it felt it was really crazy; it clearly wanted to return to the lab so much, so why would it have such a terrifying dream?

The fat fox couldn't quite understand its own thoughts.

A night of tossing and turning.

When Baimu woke up, he discovered most Pokemon looked listless, looking not just like they hadn't slept well, but even as if they'd fought a great battle for hundreds of rounds.

"You guys... forget it, get some proper rest."

In just one night, he fully realized how panicked his Pokemon would be if something happened to him.

This made Baimu feel melancholy about his own eventual passing.

However, considering he was still very young, he quickly adjusted his mindset, ate breakfast together with N and the others who had gotten up early, and then rushed to the Pokemon Paradise.

Mewtwo's side had already received the news from the Porygon Phone yesterday; it, which was very resistant to humans, rarely accepted the visit from N and the New Team Plasma members.

After all, it had lived in the Paradise for more than a day or two, and had long learned of N's existence from the villa's original residents.

It was very curious whether there really was such a person who would place Pokemon above humans.

And not long after Baimu and the others left.

A ring of light opened.

Accompanied by noisy clamor, Anxier rushed out in quick steps, followed by Shengcai, Dailuo, and Piru, and finally Taini.

"You guys are really too disloyal; if I hadn't come back, were you planning to abandon me again?"

Taini had no time to observe the surroundings, her mouth full of complaints.

Who could have imagined — he just went out to work and earn money for the Super Z Squad, finally got a day off, happily returned to the inn, and the person was gone!

Disappeared!

Asking others yielded nothing either, as if she had evaporated into thin air!

Those few days Taini was worried sick, afraid that Shengcai and the others had met with some accident, whether they were trapped in some other dimension together with An Xiner.

And you tell her they went to play in a parallel world?

And made many new friends?

What do you mean 'just got back after watching the Eight Masters tournament' — what the hell are the Eight Masters! A battle royale of eight regional champions?

Why didn't I think of such a good thing?

Taini was filled with grief and indignation.

What made her lose it most was that Shengcai and the others actually still planned to go!

And not take her along again!

"How could that be! We haven't left yet precisely because we were waiting for you." Dailuo naturally couldn't admit it.

Shengcai nodded vigorously; she wasn't the type to let a good girlfriend down — of course if you're too busy and have no time to come, she can't do anything about it.

Piru didn't speak.

His mind was still immersed in the clothing designs he had submitted to the studio.

His younger sister praised the new clothes he designed to the skies; Grandmother naturally hadn't replied, but he believed he could definitely conquer her.

This month's effort wasn't in vain!

After An Xiner arrived at the academy, the first thing she did was run to the principal's office to find Baimu; her birth mother was still in some distant region doing closed-set filming, and although she contacted her quite frequently, she wasn't too panicked about her not replying for a long time.

After all, An Xiner had already informed Caroni of many things in advance.

"Baimu? Baimu went out on business."

Xiao Yin said gently.

Busy and fulfilling work wore away the irritability in his heart; this Rocket Gang young master fully displayed his clan's excellent administrative genes, handling everything in an orderly manner.

Everyone in the school also knew there was such a principal's assistant, and respected him greatly.

This kind of recognition earned entirely through his own efforts made Xiao Yin quite pleased; at a young age he already had the mindset of someone much older.

However, not everyone looked favorably on him.

Adeku's grandson Fanshilang often came to make trouble, picking fights without cause.

Xiao Yin understood Fanshilang was jealous of him, only because Adeku often praised him and expressed hope that Fanshilang could become someone like him.

Fanshilang was very displeased, so he deliberately stirred up trouble.

Of course, this kid was quite smart — he didn't do anything over the line, only showed up when Xiao Yin was eating or resting.

Recently Xiao Yin kept being egged on to challenge the legendary Giant.

Although he himself had this idea too, he didn't really want to listen to Fanshilang — it felt like being provoked into taking the bait.

And so.

When An Xiner asked about his whereabouts, Fanshilang showed up.

"This Grandpa graces you with his presence! Hurry up and come out — hm?"

He saw An Xiner in the room and asked curiously: "You're that guy Baimu's relative, right?"

"... You, you have no manners at all!"

An Xiner was displeased with his tone when addressing Baimu — 'that guy' this, 'that guy' that, how could he address an elder like that!

Fanshilang chuckled: "Just a verbal tic, why be so calculative! Little squirt!"

"Little squ—"

An Xiner got even angrier.

Seeing this, Xiao Yin hurriedly stepped in front of An Xiner, "Fanshilang! If you have something to say, say it!"

But before Fanshilang could speak, Shengcai and Taini appeared outside; the two saw the tense, sword-drawn atmosphere inside, and for a moment their expressions were indescribable.

Taini, styling herself Super Z Squad captain, seeing her companion An Xiner seemingly being bullied, immediately stepped forward, "Excuse me, what do you want to do to my club member?"

"Club member?"

Fanshilang looked at this strangely dressed girl, then at Shengcai, his expression showing a few degrees of contempt, "Are you strong?"

Taini instantly felt fury rise to the heavens, "Come! Pokemon battle! I'll make you convinced heart and mouth!"

"Couldn't ask for more!"

Fanshilang laughed nonstop.

The two quickly left the principal's office, leaving the other three behind.

Xiao Yin was speechless for a moment, "Sigh, idiot."

"You okay, An Xiner." Shengcai showed concern for An Xiner, then told her: "Don't worry about Taini, Fanshilang... is very weak."

Her words stunned An Xiner for a moment.

Xiao Yin twitched his mouth; he was actually quite curious where Baimu found Shengcai — within a few days of "enrolling" she had beaten every trainer in the school who considered themselves strong, Fanshilang included.

If not for her having no such intention herself, the current Battle Club president should be Shengcai.

That Taini...

Probably also very strong.