Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 273 The Crystal Tower Has No Emperor

"Here you go, Night Hawk, have a taste!"

Xiao Zhi took a piece of pastry out of his pocket.

"Pica-"

Before it could be handed to the night owl, the pastry appeared in the hands of the man with the middle parting.

"Hey, you with the middle part, what are you doing?"

Xiao Zhi was taken aback, then reached into his pocket again.

"Skin?"

On the other side, the person with the middle parting looked suspiciously at the pastry in their hand, then waved it over and handed it to Natsume.

"Eat what you take yourself."

Natsume fiddled with the few black sticks in his hand.

"Come on, Night Hawk, there are many more here."

Xiao Zhi took out several more pieces of pastry.

"Cuckoo?"

Noctowl shifted its attention and stopped staring intently at Ash's ears.

"Crack!"

Xiao Zhi felt something pat his waist.

Looking down, I saw it was a man with a middle parting; it had released the baby saw-toothed crocodile.

"Vani!"

The little saw-toothed crocodile happily swallowed the pastry in the middle-parted haircut.

The next second, the familiar smell hit the top of his head. The little tortoise covered its mouth and glanced at the night owl, nodding as it turned away.

"Look, it's delicious."

"Goo?"

Noctowl swallowed the pastry in Ash's hand in one bite.

The strong smell exploded in his mouth. Nocturnal Loboon tilted its head, stood on one leg on Ash's shoulder, and twitched its other leg, drooling and tears streaming down its face.

"See that, Xiaoxia? Night Hawk and Totodile were crying from how delicious it was! That's just how amazing my taste is!"

Taking advantage of Noctowl being moved by food, Ash threw a Poké Ball and easily caught it.

"What?" Xiaoxia's lips twitched slightly.

"It seems like food temptations are pretty good too."

Ah You stroked her chin, lost in thought.

"Mr. Ayou, now that Noctowl has been captured by Ash, what are you going to do?"

Xiao Gang's voice rang out from behind.

"Oh, that's nothing. I have King Shimmer's treasure map!"

Ah You chuckled and suddenly pulled out a map.

"Flash King?"

"Treasure Map?"

Everyone gasped in surprise, and even Natsume turned to look at them.

"Hmph, that's right, it's the Flash King." Ayou cleared his throat and said with a hint of smugness:

"A hundred years ago, there was a legendary trainer who caught all the shiny Pokémon!"

"It's a pity that the hero grew old, and in his later years, he released all these Pokémon into the wild."

"However, he recorded the release location, which caused quite a stir in our circle of flash chasers—this is the treasure map known as the Flash King's treasure!"

Ayou proudly held up the treasure map in his hand, which seemed to have some landmarks marked on it.

Natsume: "."

Why does this script sound so familiar?

"But Mr. Ayou, this treasure map only costs five hundred on the Alliance Treasure website."

Xiao Zhi picked up the encyclopedia, identified and searched, and soon a product appeared.

"Yeah, yeah, can we really find the King of Light's treasure this way?" Xiaoxia asked curiously as she leaned closer.

"How is that possible? I bought it from a talking magical cat, for 200,000!"

Ayou snatched the treasure map from Ash's hand, opened the product details, and found that the displayed content was exactly the same as the treasure map in his hand.

"Oh no, I've been scammed."

Ayou squatted down, covering her head, and began to withdraw into herself.

"This treasure map is real, but the alliance couldn't find it, so it was sold to the public as a commodity."

Natsume glanced at it a few times and nodded slightly.

"real!"

Ayou stood up again, stroked his chin, paced back and forth, and muttered to himself:

"Yes, that's right, you're right. At least I found the Shiny Strength, Machamp, and this time the Noctowl!"

Ayou rallied her spirits and waved goodbye to everyone. "See you later, and maybe I'll be the new King of Flash!"

Ah You is ambitious.

"Travel is amazing; you can even meet people like this."

Ash watched as Ayu's figure disappeared into the depths of the forest, muttering to himself.

After Ayou left, the group continued their journey towards the green grassland.

Along the way, Xiao Zhi was a little restless.

"The more I think about it, the more curious I get, hehe."

Ash couldn't resist and finally placed an order on the Alliance Treasure website to purchase a digital copy of the treasure map.

Natsume glanced at it and found that the electronic version cost 500, the paper version cost 2,000, and the leather version cost 5,000, not including shipping.

Meows are really something.
Ash held the Pokédex and began to look at it with great interest.

Suddenly, as if he had discovered something, he asked curiously:

"Natsume-nii, isn't the flash of the Unown blue?"

"Correct."

Natsume didn't turn his head.

During this time, he spent every day tinkering with the Black Rod, and Ash's understanding of Unown also deepened a lot.

"But why is this treasure map shown in gold?"

Ash curiously flipped the Pokédex over and handed it to Natsume.

The treasure map records many places for releasing animals, including an ancient site in Kanto, which is where animals with shimmering, unknown totems were released.

At each release site, Shiny King thoughtfully created a replica of the released Pokémon's appearance.

Where Ash was pointing, the 28 unidentified totems he had copied were all golden!
"Well, actually, the King of Light is ultimately just a legend."

Jiaozi leaned closer, glanced at it twice, and slowly said:
"Many of the recorded locations are questionable. The alliance has a dedicated search team, but they have searched for a long time without finding them."

"In the end, the academic community unanimously agreed that Shiny King may have indeed possessed many Shiny Pokémon, but not all of them."

"Some of the shiny Pokémon on the map might just be figments of the other party's imagination."

"Perhaps the unknown totem he imagined was golden."

Jiaozi took out his phone, found a picture of a blue, shimmering Unknown Totem, and placed it next to Ash's Pokédex, creating a striking contrast.

Natsume did not comment, but the glittering individual of the Unknown Totem was indeed blue.

but
He thought of the golden stick.

The top of the golden staff was also engraved with many unknown totems.

"Gentlemen, we have arrived at the green grassland."

Xiao Gang's voice rang out from the front, interrupting their conversation.

Looking ahead, a vast grassland unfolds before you, and the sun is slowly setting on the horizon.

“Let me see, Dr. Snowton’s house is over here.”

Natsume, who rarely looked at a map for a while, pointed in a direction and said.

"Great, I can stay in the big house today!"

Misty, holding Togepi, seemed even more enthusiastic than Ash.

However, when everyone arrived at their destination, they were dumbfounded.

"Ah, Natsume, you've arrived."

Snowden peeked out from inside the small green tent.

The campfire beside it flickered, casting its shadow long and slanted.

"I've prepared your rooms as well."

Snowden pointed seriously to several tents on the side.

"Um, senior brother, don't you live in a villa?"

Natsume looked puzzled.

He hasn't done any experiments here either!
"You said that."

Snowden yawned and crawled out of the tent.

"Bang!"

A high-powered flashlight, just like the one used by Natsume, was suddenly turned on, illuminating the surroundings as if it were daytime. People were startled by the sudden burst of light and abruptly closed their eyes.

"Look over there."

The flashlight beam shifted, and everyone looked up. They couldn't tell what it was shining on, but the dazzling, multicolored light refracted intensely and intricately, assaulting everyone's optic nerves.

"Wow, this is practically light pollution."

Xiaoxia felt dizzy and thought she was about to collapse.

"What's that? A mirror?" Ash squinted.

After a while, everyone finally got used to it.

The flashlight shone on a gigantic tower constructed of seven-colored crystal!

(End of this chapter)