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"If we're talking about unforgettable impressions, it has to be the Lavender Town BGM. It's super terrifying!"

"Yeah, the town's eerie, dark purple background, coupled with the bizarre music, always scares me witless whenever I go there. I really want to drag someone along to play with me, or just skip it as quickly as possible."

"I don't dare go in at night. It's just too scary!"

"Lavender Town? I haven't been there yet. Is it really as scary as you guys say?"

"Heh, the core building there, the Pokémon Tower, is full of graves of dead Pokémon and a large number of ghosts. Do you think it wouldn't be scary?

Legend has it that Team Rocket came to poach Cubone in order to sell their valuable skulls. A Marowak mother was tragically killed protecting her Cubone child, and her vengeful spirit lingers in the tower."

"I advise players with heart conditions not to stay in Lavender Town for too long. My buddy said that a friend of his had a heart attack yesterday. When his family rushed him to the hospital, they found out he was playing Pokémon before he got sick, and what's even scarier is that he was in the Pokémon Tower at the time."

"Holy crap, really? Could it be that he was just staying up too late playing games?"

"It's not just that. Legend has it that you'll suddenly die if you listen to half of the Lavender Town BGM,"

"Some people actually believe such a bogus claim. Look at me, I'm still..."

"Don't joke around. This is actually true. Back when Wang Jian was finishing the first edition of 'Pokémon,' he selected some players for internal testing. A friend of mine went to the internal test, and he told me that the original Lavender Town BGM used two different frequency melodies in two audio channels, creating a sense of misalignment that gave people an extremely terrifying psychological experience. Listening to it for a long time would cause dizziness, nausea, and, in severe cases, even vomiting and memory loss. So, it was urgently modified later. What you hear now is not the original version."

"Lavender Town is truly eerie and strange. I saw a big shot in the group say that he accidentally saw a rotting white palm on the third floor of the Pokémon Tower. You could even see the bones under the peeling flesh, which scared him so much that he ran out."

"That must be an easter egg designed to make the atmosphere more terrifying. It's said that when talking to NPCs in the town, someone will ask you what the white hand on your shoulder is..."

"Fake, fake! It's all rumors, okay!"

"Exactly, I've cleared Lavender Town and haven't seen anything like that."

"A really good friend of mine from high school told me this story. The night before yesterday, he was working overtime late into the night as usual—don't be surprised, he's a programmer—but the sky was covered with dark clouds. He had never seen such a dark night, and the streets were deserted, with only the dim yellow light of the street lamps.

The wind was a little cold at night, which made him shiver. He was walking home while looking at his phone when he suddenly glimpsed a shadow in front of him, which startled him. Guess what he ran into?"

"Holy crap, don't scare me!"

"It's my favorite ghost story time again."

"Hey, does this story have anything to do with Pokémon?"

"My buddy took two steps back in fear, but the shadow didn't move. He mustered up his courage and shone the light of his phone on it. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a tattered schoolbag.

He breathed a sigh of relief, chiding himself for being startled by a broken schoolbag. However, as he was about to step over it, he noticed what appeared to be a somewhat old handheld console in the side pocket of the bag."

"????"

"My buddy is also someone who likes to play games, so he naturally pays attention to Pokémon information. When he saw this handheld console, he recognized it at a glance and couldn't help but be surprised and suspicious. Hasn't Pokémon not been released yet? Why is there a handheld console here? Is someone playing a prank?

He originally wanted to walk away, but after taking a few steps, he came back. Seeing that it was dark all around and no one was in sight, his curiosity got the better of him, and he picked up the handheld console."

"And then? Your buddy just went missing?"

"Keep making it up. I'm watching how you make it up."

"Don't curse people like that. If my buddy went missing, would I still be able to hear him tell the story?

However, after he picked up this handheld console, some strange things did happen, and he was still palpitating when he told me about it.

When he got home, he immediately turned on the handheld console and found that there was only one game called 'Pokémon Black' in it.

'Pokémon Black?' he thought. 'Aren't the only Pokémon games FireRed and LeafGreen?'

Right, in the 'Pokémon' games you play, doesn't Professor Oak give you three starting Pokémon at the beginning: Charmander, Bulbasaur, and Squirtle?

However, in this 'Pokémon Black' game, the protagonist's starting Pokémon is a ghost emitting black air and with a strange smile."

"……"

"Mom, I'm scared!"

"And this ghost only has one skill, which is 'Curse'.

When the protagonist carries this ghost and battles with trainers, any attack is ineffective against it, and as long as the curse skill is used, the opponent, along with their Pokémon, will die. After the battle, these trainers will no longer appear, and only their tombstones will remain on the map.

At the end of the game, it returns to the Pokémon Tower in Lavender Town, and the old man who accompanies many graves turns out to be the protagonist many years later.

When controlling the protagonist to walk out of the Pokémon Tower, it will be discovered that the world is empty, with only the protagonist left.

However, at this moment, the ghost who has slaughtered countless people along the way suddenly starts attacking the protagonist!

The protagonist undoubtedly also fell under the curse, and the game crashed when the protagonist died.

After my buddy finished playing this game, he felt like his whole person was not well. He looked in the mirror before going to bed and found that his face was pale.

He had a nightmare the night he finished playing, dreaming of many trainers' figures, sweating profusely, as if shrouded in endless darkness.

When he woke up, he planned to throw away this unknown handheld console, but found that 'Pokémon Black' in the handheld console had disappeared.

When he told me this strange story, he said that he suddenly remembered one thing.

The tattered schoolbag he saw that day seemed to be the same style as the one the protagonist carried in 'Pokémon'…"

"Holy crap! I'm at home alone right now, and I feel a cold wind blowing behind me. I'm getting goosebumps!"

"So the old man in the Pokémon Tower is the protagonist many years later?"

"Damn, it sounds so real. You're lying to ghosts."

"You scared me to death. My little heart is beating so fast."

"Hey, is the story you're telling really true or false!"

"Food for thought! So Pokémon is a paranormal game!"

"I... I don't believe it! Get away, demons and ghosts!"

"Prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, the rule of law, patriotism, dedication, integrity, and friendliness..."

"I'm in Lavender Town right now, and I'm so scared that I ran out..."