The fifth king of the elves

Chapter 4 4. The speed of light is rejected

When Luther woke up again, the bus was already very close to Shuangye Town.

He took out his mobile phone and looked at the time. Only an hour and a half had passed, and Luther stretched beautifully. This sleep well replenished the overdrawn energy from staying up late last night.

Stretching halfway, Luther's movements became cautious, and he suddenly found that Lulili and Lalulas were sleeping soundly.

Glancing at the Shuangye Town stop sign visible to the naked eye, Luther took out the poke ball and put the two little guys in temporarily, and then checked himself to see if anything slipped out of his pocket due to his sleeping position.

"Shuangye Town, Shuangye Town, passengers whose destination is Shuangye Town, please be careful not to make a wrong stop." The bus driver stopped the car in front of the stop sign, and then began to use the radio to remind.

There were not many people who got off the bus with Luther. When they got on the bus at the beginning, the bus with the terminal in Heijin City was two-thirds full. Most people got off at several stops between Futaba and Masa. When they stopped at Futaba, the bus was already empty.

Originally, Luther was still thinking about how to find Dr. Yamanashi's research institute after getting out of the car, but after getting off the car, Luther saw a huge dome building on the hill opposite the stop sign at first sight.

When Luther got closer, he realized that although there were not many buildings in the institute, the area was astonishingly large.The first iron gate of the research institute is nearly one kilometer away from the research institute, and the radius from this distance belongs to the research institute, and a large number of elves of the research institute are active in this area.

Luther pressed the video call button on the door, and after a while, a short-haired female researcher in a white coat appeared on the screen.

"I'm Luther from Shuangye Town. Dean Qilan made an appointment for me to meet with Dr. Yamanashi today."

The night before departure, Luther entrusted Dean Qilan to contact Dr. Yamanashi through personal contact. He knew very well what a good stepping stone could do.

In his previous life, because of social fear, Luther had always had a hard time getting along with others, which also made him deeply aware of the role of connections.Each circle has a different degree of friendliness to outsiders, but when you get a referral from someone in the circle, the situation is completely different.

"Luther..." The female researcher picked up something similar to a circular board and checked it, then pushed her glasses, put her head close to the screen and looked at Luther carefully.

After confirmation, the electronic lock opens with a "click".

"Go straight along the road to the gate, Dr. Yamanashi is waiting for you in the lobby of the institute, oh, by the way..." The female researcher glanced at Luther, "I heard you have Pokémon phobia?"

"There was before."

Satisfying the female researcher's curiosity, Luther walked into the institute.

Luther looked around curiously. Most of the visible elves in the institute were water-type, grass-type, and flying-type. Rock and steel could be seen sporadically. I don’t know if other attributes are in other areas. At least Luther didn’t see one.

While Luther was looking at a tropical dragon taking care of a small grass-type Pokémon in the distance, Bawanghua led the Smelly Flower and walking grass brigade across the grassland of the research institute, and the mighty marching army blocked Luther's progress.

Luther suddenly remembered something, and released Lalulas and Lulili from the poke ball.

After putting Lalulas on his shoulders, Lalulas became visibly excited.For the first time, this little guy, who has only moved around the nursing home since birth, saw so many Pokémon moving together.

Lu Lili opened her small mouth, and her eyes sparkled. According to Dean Qi Lan, this Lu Lili just hatched, and now should be the time when she is most curious about the world.

Walking grass at the end of the team looked up at Lalulas, who was looking down at it from a high position, and suddenly stopped, and the two elves looked at each other dully.

Luther looked at Lalulas, then at the cute walking grass, and felt that it was necessary to ask Zhenggong Lalulas for his opinion: "What do you think about adding a walking grass to the team?"

After the walking grass evolves into the overlord flower, the property of adding poison to the grass is bad, but since it is an animation world line, there is a high probability that the battle will not be a turn-based system. Although there are race values ​​and individual values, the effort value does not seem to exist, or in other words, it is directly the bond between the trainer and the elf.

Just when Luther was thinking about abducting the walking plant, Bawanghua, the leader of the team, turned back angrily, gave Luther a bad look, and quickly left with the walking plant.

Is this despised?

"That Overlord Flower is the star of the research institute. Grass-type Pokémon listen to her very much. I probably misunderstood that you have strange thoughts about that walking grass."

No, no, no... She really didn't misunderstand me.

The female researcher who watched what happened at the entrance of the institute's house couldn't help explaining to Luther, and then led Luther to open the door and enter the institute.

Passing through the corridor of the research institute, the female researcher led Luther to turn several corners, and finally came to a wide room.In the sunlight cast by the skylight, an old man with silver-gray hair and wearing a white research suit was facing away from himself, holding some instruments and measuring something against a shellless sea hare.

"Doctor, this is Luther who made an appointment with you today." The female researcher reminded Dr. Yamanashi who was in a daze.

Dr. Yamanashi paused for a moment, turned his head slowly, his eyes stayed on Luther for a while, stroked the body of the shellless sea hare with his hands, and said, "Alright, let's stop here today, and I will leave the rest to you."

When the female researcher took the shellless sea hare away from the hall, Dr. Yamanashi pointed to the sofa beside him and signaled Luther to sit down.

"I learned about you from Qilan. You said you want to travel, become a trainer, and then... want a picture book, right?"

Luther nodded.

"I may not be able to agree to your request, because you are not qualified to own the illustrated book."

Luther was stunned... It wasn't even a minute since he entered the research institute and sat down, and he and Dr. Yamanashi didn't even say a word, and they were directly rejected?

"Dr. Yamanashi, can you tell me the reason?" Luther was unwilling to give up. At first he came here just for a sense of ritual, trying to start his journey with the illustration book as his starting point like Master Zhi.

But not now, such a simple and clear refusal made it difficult for Luther to accept. He really wanted to know what he was missing and would be judged as unqualified.

Dr. Yamanashi picked up a paper document from the table next to him: "This is what Qilan sent me, about your introduction, which describes your working conditions in the nursing home and your work attitude. A great introduction, touching, especially for a person with Pokémon phobia."

Yamanashi said with a blank face, but such a boastful word came out of his mouth, but it felt extremely serious.

"Isn't that nice?"

"It's pretty good." Dr. Yamanashi still showed no other emotions on his serious face, "For your work as a therapist."

"You mean, I can't be a good trainer?" Luther grasped the point.

"Kiran said that you had a drowning accident half a week before you overcame your phobia. After the accident, you began to dare to challenge the nightmare that you have been lingering. It was only half a week before you overcame your phobia and made the decision to travel."

Dr. Yamanashi looked at Luther, who was a little absent-minded, with sharp eyes: "Have you really overcome your phobia?"

Luther suddenly realized that he had made a stupid mistake.

The phobia of the original Luther was deeply rooted, otherwise he would not have been able to get along with Pokémon normally for more than ten years, but after he replaced him through time travel, his mentality changed too quickly.

From Dean Qilan's point of view, he hadn't completely overcome the phobia at all, and was just trying to adapt himself through patience, so he saw through it without telling the truth, and paved the way for himself.

But in the eyes of Dr. Yamanashi, who had no connection with him before, the decision he made was full of emotion and acted impulsively. Obviously, the phobia was not cured, but he deceived Qilan and tried to solve the problem through patience.

There is absolutely no way to explain this loophole.These researchers obviously also have research on Pokémon phobia. They have a lot of understanding of deep-rooted phobias, and the data supported by a large number of experiments and clinical proofs will obviously be suspected to the end if monsters like themselves appear...

I can't explain it, and explaining it through mentality will only make me fall into Dr. Yamanashi's specialty field, and lying in other people's field is simply killing me.

"Qilan said that it was Lalulas who saved you when you were drowning. It can be seen that you took the opportunity of being saved by Lalulas to try to overcome your phobia, and you chose Lalulas as your original elf, which means that you hope that Lalulas can witness all this with you."

Luther really wanted to tell Dr. Yamanashi that he chose Lalulas only because Kirulian and Xanadu were so good-looking...not as far-reaching as he thought.

But he can't say that, he can only follow Dr. Yamanashi's way of thinking and continue to help Dr. Yamanashi continue the words.

"Yes, I lied to Dean Qilan. I am still afraid of their existence, but is this a contradiction?" Luther tried his best to pretend to be terrified, but his words were as forceful as possible. "Lalulas' kindness made me know that it was wrong to be afraid of them all the time."

"I have wasted more than ten years. I refused to live with them, and refused to understand them... Lalulas gave me courage. Although I was still afraid, I still came here, looking for opportunities to break through myself. Do you judge whether a person is qualified just by a resume?"

"I never judge a person by flat data." Dr. Yamanashi threw the documents aside, "But they have reference value."

(End of this chapter)