Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 229 Seeing You Again

After returning to the ranch.

Su Yu first took a bowl of soup, and then went to the hillside where the pumpkin spirits lived.

Su Yu summoned the Gengar that lived here and said:

"Gengar, can I ask you for a favor?"

"Kou Jie~"

Gengar was making faces at the riding lambs, unlike Wooloo and Farfetch'd who were afraid of ghosts. The riding lambs were almost immune to Gengar's black face.

After making a series of funny faces, the little sheep remained expressionless throughout.

Hearing Su Yu's call, Gengar floated over, looking puzzled.

After Su Yu made his request, Gengar chuckled and nodded. Helping out is something this ghost loves to do.

With Gengar by his side, Su Yu quickly returned to the ranch they had previously visited.

Handing the still-warm soup to Anna, Su Yu said:

"Feed her this soup, and after that, my Pokémon will activate its special ability."

"At that time, she should be able to see the soul of the paparazzi bag."

Hearing this, Anna nodded. After taking Su Yu back to the room, Anna fed the mushroom soup to the homeowner.

But after feeding the child only halfway through, the homeowner immediately collapsed and fell asleep. Seeing this, Anna quickly helped him up. After that, she looked at Su Yu.

Su Yu smiled and nodded, indicating that this was normal.

From Su Yu's perspective at this moment, the homeowner's soul had already left her body. However, Anna, lacking any special abilities, couldn't see any of this.

This is the soup's inherent ability to cause the soul to leave the body.

Under the call of the power in the soup, a soul also returned from the spirit world, and it gradually took the shape of a paparazzi bag.

Upon seeing the homeowner, the dog wagged its tail happily and ran over.

The homeowner glanced at his own body on the bed in surprise, then looked at Su Yu.

Su Yu nodded slightly, and beside her, the chubby little purple boy also waved his little hand with a chuckle.

Seeing this, the homeowner immediately understood the reason for the situation. She smiled and gently picked up the dog bag, scolding it playfully as before:

"Where have you been, you paparazzi? I've been looking for you everywhere, but I can't find you anywhere."

In response, Pao Zai Bao said:

"I've always been here, Meimei. I just don't know why, you've stopped seeing me."

"And I think I had a dream. In the dream, I was locked in a dark place, where many ghosts were floating around. I felt so scared there..."

"And those Pokémon all say I'm dead, but I'm not dead at all. I'm perfectly fine, so why are they cursing me like that?"

Homeowner: "You called me...Meimei?"

This was the first time the homeowner had understood what Paolao Bao was saying, and it was also the first time she had learned how Paolao Bao addressed her.

"Don't you like it?" the paparazzi asked with concern. "What's wrong? Why are you crying? If you don't like it, I'll get you another one. Don't cry!"

"...No, I like it very much." The homeowner smiled and wiped away the tears from the corner of his eyes.

"These are tears of joy. Sometimes when people are too happy, they actually cry."

Paparazzi: "You humans are really strange sometimes."

"But if you like it, Meimei, then I'll call it a few more times."

The two of them lingered there for a while, with Su Yu standing silently to the side watching.

The effects of the dish gradually disappeared after a few minutes.

The paparazzi bag then turned into specks of light and slowly dissipated. Only then did the paparazzi bag see the homeowner lying on the bed and its grave behind the house.

It then realized:

"So, I really am dead...?"

"Then I'll have to go back to that dark world. But I really miss you, Meimei, I wish I could stay with you forever..."

Even after the light completely dissipated, the homeowner still wanted to keep the paparazzi bag. But it was all in vain, and in the end, the homeowner's soul returned to her body.

……

……

Take Gengar and leave the ranch.

Gengar looked dejected throughout the journey. It said:

"Ku jie..." Death is so scary. The homeowner looks so pitiful.

Does this mean we will die too?

Upon hearing this, Su Yu looked at Gengar in surprise, not expecting that this chubby purple creature would actually be thinking about such a question.

He said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry:

"Why are you worried about these things? You're already a ghost, and you have a long future ahead of you."

Compared to other Pokémon, the Gengar family is remarkably long-lived. Su Yu estimated that living for at least a thousand years would be no problem at all.

"What?!" Is it possible that the lifespan of our race is this long?

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Hearing Su Yu say this, Gengar started counting on its fingers, trying to figure out how many years it had left to live. Halfway through the calculation, Gengar started chuckling to itself.

If that's the case, then it's still quite a long time.

"Kou Jie?" And what about you, Su Yu?

"Me?" Upon hearing this, Su Yu shook his head and smiled. Compared to Gengar, humans have much shorter lifespans.

Unless one can live to the level of AZ, a normal human being generally only lives for seventy or eighty years.

Given his physique, he'll probably live to be a hundred years old.

"Kou Jie?! (д；)" Wow, that's so short...

"Yes, that's how it is for humans; life is very short," Su Yu said with a smile.

But he's come to terms with it; he's already a time traveler. At least until he's old, he can enjoy life on the ranch.

Seeing Su Yu's expression, Gengar chuckled and patted Su Yu's shoulder, waving generously.

"Gahhh~!" It's okay, in that case, I'll share half of my lifespan with you! (￣▽￣)~*

When the time comes, I'll just use a Pain Sharing buff on you and a Fate Sharing buff, okay?

In that case, our lifespans will be split in half.

Upon hearing this, Su Yu was both amused and exasperated.

"How can it be divided so evenly?"

If this were truly successful, many people throughout history would have already done it.

This also shows that this method cannot succeed. However, Su Yu was still very happy that Gengar thought this way.

After all, they'd only known this Gengar for a few days. Su Yu figured only a truly naive Pokémon would think that way.

Upon hearing this, Gengar scratched his head in distress, unable to think of any solution for a moment.

……

Back at the ranch, several more days passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past few days, the exploration team sent by Xindong has been going deep into the spirit world every day to search for the location of the phantom and the surrounding area.

But for several days in a row, the phantom changed several times, and they still couldn't find the legendary Pokémon.

Until they encountered a Pokémon that claimed to have been captured by a Ghost-type Pokémon and taken to the spirit world, but escaped on its own.

Upon hearing this, the trainers checked it out. One of them nodded and said:

"Hmm...that's right, it was one of our Donghuang Gym Leaders who reported the disappearance of Mimikyu. The identity matches perfectly."

"The other party has already confirmed it with me."

Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief; that was wonderful.

After searching for so many days, they finally found a reliable clue.

(End of this chapter)