Pokémon: The Climb

My name is Shan Cheng, born in an ordinary family in an ordinary town.

When I was 5 years old, wild Pokémon came out of nowhere and suddenly attacked our village.

The leader was just Bankilas. At that time, I didn't know what kind of strength it was, but just taking a simple look at it made me tremble in my heart.

The Bankelas was so powerful that no one in the village could deal with it, but in order to protect their homeland, everyone in the village fought hard, including my parents.

That day, I never saw them again.

Even now when I think about it, I can't even remember what they looked like.

How ridiculous.

I don't know how long it took before the people from the Last Alliance finally came. They drove away the Bankiras and other Pokémon, but the village has been turned into ruins, and the only survivors are some children who are about my age.

The alliance arranged for us to go to an orphanage.

But we don’t want to go, it’s not our home!

So my friends and I fled back to the village from there.

I miss my parents, but I can't find them no matter how hard I look.

In fact, I already realized that they left at that time, but I just didn’t want to believe it!

After searching for a long time, I realized that I was hungry, but where could there be food in the ruins?

So as soon as we, a group of children, gathered together, we went to the neighboring village to look for food.

It was also from that moment that I began my wandering career.

Gradually, I grew up, but the only thing I grew up with was my age, but my body was very thin because I never had enough to eat.

I don’t remember what it feels like to be full.

But I know I want to be full.

It was also at that time that I was seen by a kind-hearted man passing by. He said he would take me to a place where I would be able to have enough to eat as long as I worked hard every day.

When I heard that I could eat enough, I agreed without saying a word.

And my companions, the companions who are still alive.

In the past few years, some people have suggested going back to the orphanage, but when we went back, they severely rejected us because they said they didn't even know there were people like us.

I later learned that they had declared our deaths from the day we escaped from the orphanage.

In other words, we have become a gangster. There is no way to get any support from the alliance!

Some friends wanted to argue with each other, but they were greeted with ruthless fists.

At that time, we all thought that when we grew up, we would take revenge on the people in that orphanage. As a result, not long after, that orphanage was banned by the Alliance, and those who had hurt us could never be found again.

Far away.

I went to a nursery with that guy, and we all know what a nursery is like, and knowing that we were going to work here, we all felt like life was rekindled.

In the end, this hope only lasted until sunset.

After sunset we were given various things to do.

If you don't do well, those people will whip you.

But done well, you can have a full meal.

In order to eat enough, we endured it for the time being.

After about a year, we've learned a lot and learned more about the world and what we do.

To put it simply, it is to tame those disobedient wild Pokémon and make them obedient and able to obey anyone's command.

Of course, we are just following behind them. Because those wild Pokémon are so fierce and can hurt us if we are not careful.

A few years later, I seemed to be 15 years old.

At that time, Xiao Jin and I were the only remaining friends. The others either fell ill and died, or escaped because they no longer wanted to endure such a life, but none of them really escaped.

Others were beaten to death by those people, right in front of me! Because of doing something wrong.

I don't understand what's wrong, I need to pay with my life?

Two years later, I turned 17. Because I was already very familiar with the work, I never made any mistakes, so I could eat enough every day and my body finally grew up.

They gave Jin and I a tamed Murkrow as our starting Pokémon.

Because only by owning Pokémon can we get in touch with what those people are actually doing.

They said that once they learn these things well, they will enjoy the same treatment as them and no longer have to hide behind the nursery all day long.

I forgot to mention that the door of the breeding house was seen once on the day we came in, at night, and it was arranged here afterwards.

There is a lot of space here because there are two floors.

Our main work is carried out underground, and above, is the room where we sleep during the day.

There are many people like me here, but no matter who came before me or behind me, I can’t vaguely remember their appearance.

Because they were too stupid and never got things done right, they disappeared.

I have been smarter than my peers since I was a child, and my parents taught me how to read, so even if I didn’t understand what the other person said at the time, I could memorize those things in a short time and write them down when I got back. In this way, as time goes by, I will remember it.

Xiao Jin doesn’t know how to read either, but if I teach him, he can learn it. This is how we have been able to support each other until now.

After getting Pokémon, our status and treatment have also improved. Those people made me and Xiaojin the leaders of these people, responsible for leading them to do the work well.

However, being the "boss" doesn't mean we have time to rest.

From that day on, we were forced to learn all kinds of knowledge about Pokémon.

Because only by knowing enough about Pokémon can we be comfortable with what we want to do in the future.

It was indeed difficult at the beginning, but fortunately my brain has been sharpened over the past few years and I can barely keep up with the progress of the course.

Xiaojin will not work.

Fortunately, those people didn't plan to do anything to him, but they didn't seem to care much about Xiao Jin anymore.

Xiao Jin likes this situation very much. Rather than learning these boring knowledge, he is more willing to teach the "juniors".

It may be because of this that those people did not punish Xiao Jin because of his poor academic performance.

After two years like this, I basically learned everything they taught me, and Dark Crow also improved to an intermediate level of strength.

So I started to get into the practical part.

Although in the process of learning, I knew that these were cruel, after all, I only heard them from their mouths and never saw them. It was not until I started to come into contact with them that I understood how bloody it was.

It took me a long time to get used to that place.

And under the forced orders of those people, I began to "educate" the first wild Pokémon I handled.

The experience during this period is really like a year.

But I was also there, gradually losing the conscience in my heart.

Later, Xiao Jin said that every few days, he would feel that I was becoming more and more strange.

I feel the same way about Xiao Jin.

Because my feelings seem to be losing little by little...