Pokémon: Start with an Admiral Crab!

"Sometimes I wonder - maybe the legend of Askana was just fabricated by someone with ulterior motives..."

Old man Yamada shook his head and sighed.

“But I am also inspired by the unique patterns and architectural styles of ancient civilizations.”

"Incorporating it into the style of the stone carvings can be considered a commemoration of the lost civilization..."

As he spoke, old man Yamada picked up the unfinished temple stone carving and examined it carefully.

"The eaves here use a Chinese character '回' pattern... but a groove must be left, which is the drainage channel."

Old man Yamada carefully pointed out to Sandshrew the places that needed to be modified.

“These patterns are really beautiful.”

Wang Yao casually took a round plate carved from agate from the shelf of the stall.

The diameter of the round plate is about 20 centimeters, but the bottom of the bowl is very narrow.

The shape is similar to an inverted tea bowl lid, and the edges are polished to be very round.

The patterns above look very similar to those carved on temple stones, and have a simple and ancient style.

The main pattern on it seems to be based on an abstract flying bird.

The wings are broad and full, and there seem to be curly crest feathers on the head.

The whole bird is in a flying posture, and flames are spewing from its mouth...

"Ok?"

Wang Yao felt that the bird looked familiar.

Isn't this a photographer?

I didn't expect to see this guy in the Seven Islands waters.

"Young man, are you also interested in Ascana-style carvings?"

Old man Yamada asked with a smile.

"Hmm... I don't really care about exploring ruins, but is this stone carving also a relic from ancient times?"

Wang Yao pointed the front of the disc towards the other party and asked, pointing at the pattern.

"The one you're talking about... I copied this from the remaining stone carvings in the temple. There are three paintings like this..."

"The images inside are all unfamiliar Pokémon. They should be the gods worshipped by the people of Askana in the past."

Old man Yamada looked at the pattern on the disc and said thoughtfully.

"Three? Can you show them to me?"

Wang Yao became interested.

This one is Ho-Oh, and maybe there’s a corresponding Lugia... so what Pokémon is in the third one?

"Of course, but the rubbings are all at my house..."

These are just rubbings of stone carvings that he collected when he was young, but Mr. Yamada is not stingy about sharing them.

"It's okay, I'll talk to you when you're free."

Wang Yao was not in a hurry.

"Then after dusk... My home is on the top of a mountain near the North Channel."

Old Man Yamada agreed on a time with Wang Yao, and after finishing the work at hand, he went home with Wang Yao to look for the rubbings.

On the other side, Xinzi and Kuaiquanlang were still counting the goods, and Wang Yao also had time to stroll around the tourist area on the second island.

In addition to some daily food ingredients and daily necessities, the open-air market also sells fruits and props unique to the island.

Although most of them are simple street stalls, they still have a lot of good stuff.

"How much is this scale?"

Wang Yao picked up a heart-shaped scale that shone with rainbow light from a street stall. "Five thousand yuan."

The stall owner was a middle-aged man with dark skin, leaning back in a chair and browsing his phone.

There was a swimming weasel sleeping soundly with snot bubbles coming out of its nose at the other person's feet.

"Five thousand? Any more?"

Wang Yao remembered that the same scales were sold for as much as ten thousand in the shopping mall in Jinhuang City.

"This is the one that the swimming ring weasel brought back when it went out to sea. There is only this one."

When the stall owner saw that Wang Yao was interested in buying, he put down his phone and replied.

"Pity……"

Wang Yao rubbed the scales with his fingertips.

You can buy goods at half price at tourist attractions...which is very rare.

"And this shell?"

Wang Yao didn't rush to pay, but picked up another white shell.

From the appearance, it looks like a pearl oyster shell, but the original blue shell has now turned white.

"This one is more expensive. I found it by chance while diving. It costs 15,000 yuan."

The stall owner straightened up and said.

"Fifteen thousand……"

Wang Yao picked up the shell and looked at it carefully.

The appearance is complete, there are no gaps around it, and the quality is quite good.

Unfortunately, there is only half of it. The pearl oyster is two scallops, and the other half must have been washed away by the sea.

Wang Yao felt that the remaining half could be used as a fruit plate.

It is also very stylish to use it to serve dishes.

"Let's take it together..."

Although he had money in his pocket, Wang Yao still bargained out of habit.

The two items cost a total of 18,000 Baoke yuan.

Perhaps because there are not many tourists coming to the Second Island, the variety of goods in the stalls at the market is rather random.

There are fruit stalls that also sell fishing rods, and there are also stalls making pearl jewelry that sell dried mullets.

After all, they live by the sea, and when the islanders come back from the sea they often find some strange props in the sea.

Those whose uses can be identified are sold at second-hand prices, while those that cannot be identified are sold cheaply as miscellaneous goods.

Wang Yao walked around the market and found many rare props.

"I didn't expect there would be something like this..."

Wang Yao held a "glass bead" in front of his eyes.

Through the sunlight, you can see the interwoven black and grayish-white patterns inside.

The stall owner said it was taken out from the belly of a wild sea bass.

He gave it to Wang Yao as an ordinary marble.

I don't make a price, I bought it when I bought dried fish...

In order to repay the stall owner's kindness, Wang Yao bought 300 kilograms of dried fish in one go.

Super evolution, or MEGA evolution, is not a secret among high-level trainers.

After all, some gym owners and kings in the Carlos region... have already used it in actual combat.

[When I started writing about Mega Tanabata Bluebird, many people said the timeline was wrong and there was no Mega at that time...

The timeline of the Pokémon animation... Conan almost laughed when he heard it, after all, half a semester has passed.

In addition, in the anime, Dr. Blatano believes that when the final weapon was launched 3000 years ago, the life energy of Xerneas X or Yveltal Y spread throughout the Kalos region, thus leading to the formation of the Super Stone. 】

"I don't know what Pokémon's Ultra Stone is—is it really a glass bead?"

Wang Yao muttered something and put the glass beads into his backpack.

Because he was too obsessed with shopping on the street stalls, it was already noon when Wang Yao walked out of the market.

"Opening a game hall on an island... can this be a business?"

After walking out of the market, Wang Yao saw a game hall under construction.

Although the interior is still under renovation, the sign "Happy Game City" has been hung at the door.

"Forget it... Let's go eat first."

Because Xinzi's parents asked Wang Yao to stay for lunch, he didn't have to cook for himself.

After passing the game hall, Wang Yao walked towards Xinzi's house not far away.

"Mr. Ayao, thank you for your hard work and for bringing so many agate mines!"

Nobuko's father is a middle-aged man with the same square face as Professor Oki.

After a morning, the other party's parents had returned with the goods.

Although he is an islander, Wang Yao feels that Nobuko's father is a white-collar salesman in a big city.

He is very methodical in what he says and does, much more serious than his daughter.

"Just stopping by, you're welcome."

Wang Yao is not used to this serious style of doing things.

"You are so grateful to visit my humble abode this time..."

After Xinzi's father brought Wang Yao in, he knelt on the tatami in the living room, intending to chat with Wang Yao first.

"Ah~ dear, don't scare the guests away with your attitude!"

A beautiful auntie, dressed neatly in overalls and a yellow plaid headscarf, walked out of the kitchen.

Perhaps he had just returned from the orchard and had not had time to change into home clothes.

Still dressed the same as when working in the orchard.

"I'm sorry - my husband is always like this in front of outsiders~"

He is just an ordinary islander who runs a grocery store, but he speaks like a salesman from a big city."

Compared to her old-fashioned father, Nobuko's mother seems to be much more free and easy.