Pokémon: The Climb

More than half an hour later.

"Huh..." Yang Yan took a deep breath: "I didn't expect Mr. Tomioka's home to be so far away. It's really hard to find. Don't you think so, Bada Die?"

"Hey..." Bada Die nodded.

At first, Yang Yan thought it would only take half an hour to get there, but when he got off the car, he discovered that Tomioka's home was still about five miles away from the station. This is not the key point. The key point is that his home is built in a mountain forest, which is very troublesome to find.

……

"We're finally here." Yang Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked quickly towards the two-story wooden building in front of him.

"Dong dong dong."

"Mr. Tomioka, are you at home? I am Oki Yohiko who has contacted you before."

There was a slow sound of footsteps behind the door: "Wait a minute, I'll be down soon."

After waiting for a while, the door finally opened.

"Hello, Trainer Omu, come in and sit down."

On the phone before, Yang Yan could tell that Mr. Tomioka was an older man, but when he actually saw him, Yang Yan was a little surprised because the old man looked haggard and was in low spirits. , with his back hunched and his steps weak, he looked like he was about to die.

Yang Yan stepped forward quickly and held Tomioka's arm: "Grandpa Tomioka, let me help you."

Tomioka looked at Yang Yan's hand holding it, and then at the gentle expression on Yang Yan's face. He seemed to have recalled something for a moment, smiled and said nothing, and just let Yang Yan hold him up, slowly Walk towards the living room.

"Grandpa Tomioka, please slow down."

Yang Yan carefully helped Tomioka sit on the sofa.

"Damu..."

Yang Yan waved his hand: "Grandpa Tomioka, you should call me Yang Yan."

"That's fine," Tomioka said slowly with a muddy voice: "Yangyan, to be honest, grandpa is very happy that you can accept grandpa's commission. After all, grandpa really can't get much in reward. "

Yang Yan shook his head: "It's not that difficult. Why do you need so much reward? How much you do, how much you get, this is the attitude towards every commission."

"Haha, I didn't expect that a kid like you would be so knowledgeable at such a young age," Tomioka said with a smile, "It's so rare."

"You're flattered." Yang Yan scratched his head: "Let's get back to business."

"Okay, Grandpa, let me explain it to you in detail. It's like this..."

About twenty minutes later, Yang Yan almost understood the details of this commission.

The general content is that Tomioka can always hear strange noises coming from outside at night, but whenever he goes out to look for them, he can't find anything.

At first, he thought there might be some ghost-type Pokémon playing tricks on him, so he wanted to find a trainer to drive the Pokémon away.

This was the mission he commissioned at the beginning, but after the trainer arrived and stayed for a long time, he didn't find any ghost Pokémon around.

Tomioka didn't care at first, thinking that the Pokémon might have left, so he paid someone to leave.

Unexpectedly, Tomioka heard the sound again the next night. In desperation, he could only send another request, but five trainers came one after another, and no one found any trace of the Pokémon.

Gradually, this matter spread among the trainers, saying that Tomioka was just teasing people, and the reward was not high, so no one took his commission anymore.

Until Yang Yan took over the task.

After listening, Yang Yan pondered for a while. This task is easy to say, but difficult to say. After all, many people have come here before, but they still haven't solved the problem.

"Yangyan, you don't want to leave after listening to what grandpa said, do you?" Tomioka opened his cloudy eyes and asked in a low voice.

Yang Yan looked at Tomioka's expression at this time, and he felt a little distressed in his heart.

"Grandpa Tomioka, I want to ask, where is your child? Why don't you ask your child to come over and resolve this matter?"

"Child?" Tomioka slowly shook his head: "My child is no longer here..."

"How could this happen?" Yang Yan opened his eyes wide.

Tomioka's eyes were full of memories and sadness: "I remember it was a bright morning. That day Xiaofei told me that he was going to explore a ruins, and he would tell me about his experience in the ruins when he came back. The adventure allowed me to wait for him at home.”

"So, I waited, waited, and waited..."

"But in the end, what I waited for was a notice informing me of Xiao Fei's death! This was written to me by one of his companions after confirming that Xiao Fei was killed. It also said that because of the collapse of the ruins, there was no People know what happened down there, and no one who went down came back, and even Xiao Fei’s body..."

As he spoke, Tomioka's tears couldn't stop flowing out.

Yang Yan stepped forward and gently stroked Tomioka's thin back.

"Sorry, Grandpa Tomioka, I don't know..."

Tomioka wiped his tears and calmed down for a while: "It's okay. After so many years, I have already thought about it."

Yang Yan looked at Tomioka's lonely back and felt sad in his heart. He couldn't help but said: "How about this? I will stay with you for a while every day from now on. Grandpa Tomioka, do you think that's okay?"

Fu Ang was stunned for a moment, and then slowly turned around. What he saw was Yang Yan's sincere and warm smile. Once again, his eyes were wet, but this time, it was no longer sadness, but tears of joy.

"Good boy, grandpa is really happy that you can come and see me."

"only……"

Yang Yan knew what Tomioka was going to say, but he really couldn't bear that such a lonely old man had to die alone in his last period of time in this world.

"Grandpa Tomioka, don't worry, I go to school at the nearby Forest Ranger College, not far from here, so even if I come here every day, it won't be a delay."

"That's good, that's good, Yang Yan, you are such a kind and good boy!" Tomioka patted Yang Yan's hand, with a happy look on his face.

"Okay, grandpa, I think it's getting dark soon. I'd better go take a look around and help you solve the problem first. What do you think?"

No matter what, Yang Yan came here to do a task, so he still wanted to complete the task first.

"Okay," Tomioka smiled: "Well, Yang Yan, be careful. If you find that Pokémon, just try to drive it away."

"Okay, grandpa, don't worry."

……

Yang Yan walked around Tomioka's house several times, and also asked Baddie to use ultrasound to test many places. But let alone ghost-type Pokémon, he didn't even see a living creature.

"Forget it, let's wait and see. Grandpa Tomioka just said that most of the time there is no movement until midnight. Maybe only then can we find any traces."

He said loudly to Badadie who was still looking for him in the sky: "Badadie, come down and have something to eat. We are still busy at night."