Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 274 Dr. Snowton

"My house is inside this tall tower."

Snowden's voice echoed softly.

"It seems so, I can vaguely see a outline," Ash muttered to himself.

Natsume stared thoughtfully at the crystal tower.

Unlike in the movie, the crystals in the tower did not spread outwards.

"Senior brother, was this the result of an experiment involving an unknown totem?"

Natsume asked a question he already knew the answer to.

"Sigh, yes, the experiment went wrong. There were a bunch of unknown totems inside. As for why the crystal tower appeared, I don't know either."

Snowden waved his hand; he was annoyed.

The laboratory was also sealed off by crystallization. All he could do was observe and record more outside, and then he had to go to Manjin City to borrow a temporary laboratory.

"As long as you're okay."

Natsume nodded.

It has happened, but it's not as bad as I imagined.

The crystal tower did not spread outwards, and Dr. Snowton was not sucked into another dimension and disappeared.

"father!"

A weak voice rang out from behind the group.

Looking back, I saw a cute little girl struggling to carry a large basket.

"Let me introduce you. This is my daughter. You can call her Xiaomei."

As Dr. Snowton spoke, he winked at Xiaomei.

The little girl was a bit timid, but with her father's encouragement, she still carried the basket to the crowd.

"Um, I... my dad asked me to prepare dinner for everyone."

As Xiaomei spoke, she opened the basket, which contained all sorts of bento boxes.

"Wow, thank you, you're welcome."

Ash enthusiastically accepted the lunchbox.

During the meal, Xiaomei came to Natsume's side and tugged at his shoulder:

"Natsume-nii, what happened to Mare the Sheep in the end?"

Xiao Mei looked at Natsume curiously.

"I'll send you the latest chapter in a bit."

Natsume ate his bento, speaking indistinctly.

"What latest chapter?" Xiao Zhi, with rice grains still on his lips, curiously leaned closer.

"Tell me a story! Natsume-nii's stories are so interesting!" The little sister looked at Satoshi with a smile.

"A story?" Ash turned around curiously.

"Huh? Natsume can tell stories?" Xiaoxia was even more surprised.

Is this a horror story about Natsume's emotional intelligence?
Natsume did not reply.

Although he can't come up with any interesting stories, he can sew them up.

Three years ago, when Natsume visited his senior, Snowton, he told Xiaomei a grand story, the details of which were roughly as follows:

Mare the sheep extracted alien energy from the colorful lotus pods of the Green Green Grassland, activated the Five Elements Lock, fused chakra energy, summoned the Decade Driver, and transformed into Emperor form.

He then piloted Unit-01, wielding the Universe Ring and the Golden Cudgel, and with the boost from the Spirit Bomb, finally used the Magic Arrow to pierce Belial's Dark WarGreymon armor, and activated the "Dark Archmage" sealing technique to turn it into endless energy.
"Hahaha, I'm going to tame Mare the sheep!"

Xiao Mei threw the toy ball, which hit her father on the head.

Snowden looked at Natsume with a resentful expression.

Before his lovely daughter was corrupted by Natsume, there was a time when she would lie on the princess bed and listen to him tell bedtime stories.

Snowden vaguely remembered that Xiao Mei's favorite stories were about Emperor Yan.

After a long day of work, the most relaxing time is when I tell my daughter a bedtime story.

After Natsume left, he added Xiaomei's email address and would send her updates on the story every now and then.

Xiao Mei was always so engrossed in watching it that she would even sleep with it in her arms, completely ignoring him.

Damn it, those good old days are gone forever!
"Senior brother, I'm actually doing this for your own good, do you believe me?"

Natsume looked at Snowden.

"What do you say?"

Snowton gave Xiaomei, whose purity was extremely high, a complicated look. She was wearing Zero glasses that Natsume had handcrafted.

"believe or not."

Natsume shrugged.

Xiaomei's mother passed away when she was very young.

My senior colleague, Snowden, is busy with work and rarely has time to spend with me; the other person tends to be aloof.

Coupled with the stories of Emperor Yan that she had heard over a long period of time, Xiao Mei's belief in the existence of Emperor Yan had become an obsession.

He even frequently fantasized that his father was Emperor Yan, which led to a series of disasters that followed.

The adverse effects of the morning include, but are not limited to:
The Crystal Tower expands outwards, Ash's mother is defended, Ash's father goes missing and sleeps until the end, and the gate to Charizard Valley is smashed open.
"Pikachu, do you think if we fuse, we can become a Super Saiyan?"

Xiao Mei held up Pikachu with a curious look on her face.

"Pickup?"

Pikachu looked completely bewildered, unable to understand what the other person was saying at all.

"That's strange, Xiaomei, aren't you usually quite shy?" Xiaoxia hugged Togepi and looked at Xiaomei curiously, who suddenly seemed much more outgoing.

"Ahem." Xiao Mei's expression suddenly turned serious.

She whispered to Xiaoxia:
"Don't speak, or she'll hear you."

"Who heard that?" Xiaoxia asked curiously.

"Another me!" Xiao Mei said mysteriously.

"Dr. Snowton, does Xiaomei have a split personality?"

Xiao Gang leaned closer, frowned, and asked.

"No, she just felt that saying it made her seem cool."

Snowden's lips twitched, and his expression toward Natsume became even more resentful.

Natsume, feeling the stare, finally became a little uncomfortable.

Okay, it is a bit cringey.

"But at least Xiaomei's personality is much more cheerful than before."

Natsume retorted evasively.

He nipped a disaster in the bud.

As a result, his senior brother didn't understand him and even blamed him!

Indeed, heroes are always burdened with many prejudices.

Natsume gazed into the distance, his figure forlorn and forlorn.

The next day.

After a night's rest, everyone was in high spirits.

"Wow, the crystal tower is really spectacular during the day."

Ash left the camp and approached the Crystal Tower, unable to resist praising it.

The sunlight was absorbed by countless crystals, refracting into seven colors that struck the ground and turned into spots of light.

"Hey, hey, hey, Dr. Snowton said we can't get close!"

Xiao Gang called Xiao Zhi back loudly.

Inside the camp, Natsume handed a black stick to Snowden.

"what is this?"

Snowden looked on with curiosity.

He examined the black rod and noticed that it seemed to have some densely packed things on it.

"This is what I'm going to give you."

Natsume spoke up.

"What does this have to do with the unknown totem?" Snowden asked, puzzled.

"The writing on this is all unknown totems."

Natsume took out a thick stack of research reports.

Upon seeing this, Snowden's expression changed drastically.

"Take it back. Take it back to where you took it from."

"what happened?"

With a flick of his hand, Natsume's black rod vanished.

Seeing this, Snowden breathed a sigh of relief.

"I'm telling you, these unknown totems could come to life at any moment!"

Snowden's expression was extremely serious:

"The origin of the unknown totem is still not accurately explained by the academic community. It is only known that it appears in some ruins."

With that, Snowden crawled back into the tent and took out a small box.

The box was opened, and inside were pieces of clay slabs, smooth and completely blank.

"These clay slabs were originally engraved with unknown totems, but during my research, all of these unknown totems came to life!"

"And then, my house became like this."

Snowden said with a strange expression:

"So a bold guess came to my mind: the unknown totem comes from ancient writing."

"To find out what I found, I did a lot of research."

Without giving Natsume time to ask questions, Snowden asked and answered his own questions:
"I discovered that the artifacts unearthed from the ruins where unknown totems appeared had little or no writing."

“In the ruins where the unknown totems do not exist or exist in small numbers, the artifacts unearthed almost all have inscriptions.”

"The relationship between them is roughly like this."

As he spoke, Snowden produced a graph showing an inverse proportional relationship.

"So, the black rods I have aren't engraved with some unknown totem, but might be dormant unknown totems?"

“Yes, it’s very dangerous.” Snowden’s tone was extremely serious.

Natsume's expression was strange, and he beckoned Satoshi over.

"What's wrong, Natsume-nii?" Ash asked, looking up curiously.

"Well, you'd better not put the golden rod in your ear."

(End of this chapter)