Chapter 191: Ancient Ruins

Hearing this sound, Huo La's hand touching the wall paused significantly, with some surprise in his eyes.

The system actually finished upgrading at this time, and actually didn't issue a task, just updated the scanning map?

"System automatically starts exploration mode, scanning map......"

"Scanning progress 10%... 30%... 70%... Scanning complete!"

"Simple ruins map generated, core area is located 50 meters northwest of the bottom of the deep pit; rock wall carvings preliminarily determined to be ancient civilization text, temporarily unable to parse specific meaning."

The system's voice disappeared, and a simple ruins map was clearly presented in Huo La's mind, marking passages, core areas, and several suspected traps.

"How is it, Huo La, any discoveries?" Brock saw him not speaking for a long time and couldn't help but ask.

Huo La withdrew his hand and said in a low voice: "These carvings should be ancient text, this place is probably not just a fossil pile of ancient Pokémon, I suspect there are ancient ruins here."

"Ancient ruins?!" Brock's eyes lit up, and he raised his voice unconsciously.

"Most likely." Huo La nodded firmly.

Bilan finally stopped playing with Bellsprout's Flash and leaned over quickly: "Will there be treasures in the ancient ruins? Or Pokémon fossils rarer than outside?"

"Treasures are hard to say, but there must be things more precious than fossils inside." Huo La's gaze swept over the carvings on the rock wall, his tone solemn.

"Then what should we do now? Ash and the others must still be inside." Brock put away his excitement and immediately entered the topic.

Huo La thought for a moment, took out his Pokédex and handed it to Brock: "Brock, we took advantage of the reaction difference of the explosion to come in first, the people digging fossils outside will definitely follow down after discovering the hole."

"This is an unexcavated ruin, there is no signal, and I can't contact the outside world directly." He paused and continued, "You take my Pokédex up, first stop others from coming down rashly—there may be traps in the ruins, so as not to hurt anyone. Then notify Professor Oak and Officer Jenny immediately, and let them bring a professional team to support."

He pointed to the inclined rock slope beside him: "This is a gentle slope, we can stabilize our footing, but Ash and the others fell directly just now, most likely rolled to the deeper part. Bilan and I will follow the slope down to find them as soon as possible."

Brock looked at Huo La, then at Bilan who looked eager to try, took the Pokédex and nodded hard: "Alright! I'll go up immediately, I will definitely stop others, and I will pass the news as soon as possible. You two must be careful, if you encounter danger, protect yourself first, don't break in!"

"Don't worry." Huo La patted him on the shoulder. "The Flash of Venusaur and Bellsprout is enough for lighting, we will retreat in time if we encounter a situation."

Brock didn't delay, summoned Zubat again, and went toward the pit.

"Let's go, let's follow the slope, toward the northwest."

The two went down slowly along the gentle slope, the carvings around became denser and denser, and the lines became more and more complex, occasionally seeing the silhouettes of huge Pokémon on the rock wall, but the years were long and the painting skills were rough and could no longer see what was painted.

"Ah—!" Bilan suddenly let out a scream, breaking the silence of the ruins.

Huo La was startled by her, and said unceremoniously: "What are you doing? Why did you suddenly scream so loudly!"

"Huo La, look at the wall in front!" Bilan's voice was trembling, pointing to the rock wall not far away.

"Isn't it just a wall... I'll be d*mned!" Huo La just wanted to say "mural," but when he turned his head and glanced, he instantly exploded—on the rock wall in front of him, a huge Pokémon skeleton was embedded, the silhouette was ferocious, revealing a bone-white chill under the Flash.

"Venusaur, vine whips move forward a bit, illuminate a bit!" Huo La ordered immediately.

Venusaur's vine whips moved forward slowly with white light, and the details of the huge skeleton became clearer: the wide wing bones, the sharp skull carrying a sense of deterrence, and the thick and powerful limbs.

"Heh... heh heh..." The eerie laughter suddenly sounded in the darkness, carrying a bit of etherealness.

"Ah! Who is laughing?!" Bilan immediately shrank behind Huo La, holding his clothes tightly with both hands, scanning the surroundings uneasily.

Huo La shook his head helplessly: "Old Ghost, it's easy to lose your life if you scare people in this place, come out."

"Heh heh heh..." The laughter got closer and closer, a pale purple figure floated out from behind Bilan, Gengar's head leaned in front of her, licked its tongue: "Little sister... shall we play a game?"

"Ah!" Bilan raised her hand and slapped it, but her palm passed directly through Gengar's body, hitting nothing.

"Alright, Old Ghost, stop playing." Huo La stopped Bilan who was still about to swing her fist, and introduced, "This is my hired partner, Gengar."

"Gen... Gengar?" Bilan calmed down, staring at Gengar floating in mid-air, looking at its mischievous smile, still feeling a bit scared in her heart.

"Why did you suddenly come out?" Huo La turned to Gengar.

"This place is interesting." Gengar floated around the skeleton, turning around it, "Especially this skeleton, it looks like the remains of some kind of bird Pokémon."

Huo La re-examined the skeleton, his tone firm: "This should be the skeleton of an Aerodactyl, and it was artificially embedded in the rock wall. But... do you know what place this is?"

"I don't know specifically where it is, but I've seen the carvings on the wall." Gengar floated to the rock wall and pointed to those ancient patterns.

"Hm? Can you understand the meaning?" Huo La's eyes lit up.

"Can't understand!" Gengar shook its head simply.

"Then you say you know?" Huo La raised his eyebrows.

"I'm just saying I know the type of these words, but I don't understand the specific meaning." Gengar explained.

"Tell me in detail." Huo La became interested.

"You know, because of the division of the Indigo Plateau, this region is now divided into two major regions, Kanto and Johto." Gengar said slowly.

"Nonsense, this is basic history, of course I know, Bilan knows it too." Huo La rolled his eyes unceremoniously.

Bilan secretly stepped on him, didn't speak, just pricked up her ears to listen.

"Heh heh heh... but that was a matter of nearly a thousand years ago." Gengar's laughter sank. "Two thousand years ago, there were more than two regions here, according to the current saying, almost one city or town was an independent small country."

It floated back to the rock wall and pointed to the carvings: "These symbols in front of you were the common text used by several joint small countries at that time."

"Joint small countries?" Huo La frowned, his fingertips rubbing the uneven textures on the stone wall—he had never seen this statement in any ancient books.

"Um." Gengar tilted its head, as if fishing for long-distance memories, "I vaguely remember there was a country called Feyto, and one called Wei Zhang, I can't remember the others specifically. These texts were used by them together." ===== CHAPTER 192 =====