I, the Pokémon Master, now resign

Bai Chen didn't talk to Mari about these illusory coincidences, he just casually typed a haha ​​and passed away, and started to change the subject:

"Having said that, I didn't even ask who told him about the existence of Master House."

It was only now that Bai Chen began to regret that there seemed to be some problems with the order in which he asked the questions.

This is what he wants to know the most at the moment, but in the end, what he was curious about fell short of what he needs in life, and it's really embarrassing to think about it carefully.

"Hmm... It's really strange... After all, Wanshiwu didn't advertise. According to the village chief... You can even tell that he doesn't have the strength to get out of here just by looking at his condition."

Even if the middle-aged man in a sluggish state burst out with jaw-dropping action at the end, just that brief burst could not smooth out his own depression and decadence.

After all, it is accumulated over time and cannot be formed overnight.

"Oh, never mind, let's talk about these things at dinner time... The most urgent thing is to investigate the situation around the village as soon as possible."

After changing his mood, Bai Chen quickly entered the working state.

This time, he has already vowed in his heart that he will never make the first mistake. The information from the locals... or the residents is the most important. Only the information obtained from them can help Bai Chen find relevant leads.

However, although I said I wanted to ask the villagers here, but...

"There's no one there."

Ma Li spoke his heart out for Bai Chen.

In this small village, it was clearly morning, but no one went out.

On the path made of stone, only dust and fallen leaves are floating freely with the wind, and the whole space looks depressed and weird.

"..." Looking at the deserted country road in front of him, Bai Chen was silent for a long time, and finally had no choice but to make a decision. "I have no choice but to knock on the door from door to door."

"Is this the only way to go in the end..."

Mary also finally learned how difficult it is to run a master house.

......

"Boom boom~ boom boom~~"

One after another knocking sounded from every corner of the village. Counting the Baichen family had knocked on more than a dozen doors in succession, no one answered in the end.

Before knocking on the door, Bai Chen paid special attention to the surroundings of the house, making sure that every house is inhabited, not some abandoned hut, but...

"Hello, is anyone there?"

Bai Chen clicked his lips and shouted unwillingly, but the ending still disappointed him.

"Phew... what's going on in this village..."

When he got here, even Bai Chen began to wonder, but no matter what he thought now, it couldn't change the fact that no one responded to him.

......

406 Mary: Do you want to sleep together? !

In the mine to the north of Iron Island, Bai Chen and Ma Li are carefully searching the surroundings for possible traces related to Darkley. During the whole process of investigation, Bai Chen didn't speak, but kept a long face alone, It's hard to guess what he's thinking right now.

"Nothing was found here either."

Ma Li, who acted separately from Bai Chen, returned to Bai Chen's side after confirming that there were no clues in the area she was in charge of, and reported the work situation to it.

"Really... I didn't find anything suspicious here either." Bai Chen said the same.

Although it seemed difficult to investigate such a large area without other clues, Bai Chen felt that there was nothing difficult in the actual experience.In addition to the trouble of going up and down the mountain, in such a place full of potholes and rocks, it is difficult not to notice some strange things. Most of the places can be easily scanned. Confirmed the final result.

"It seems that there will be no results today."

Bai Chen stood on the hillside, looking at the setting sun in the distance, and said so helplessly.

Although the search process is not cumbersome, it can't stand the fact that the area is too big. The time spent on the road alone is several times longer than the search time. I just explored a few hillsides in the east. The days are gone.

"Mor—!"

"Ya~"

Not long after Bai Chen and Ma Li met, the team composed of Morubeco and Dark Crow had also rushed back from another place.

"How? Did you find anything there?"

Mary caught Morubek who had jumped into her arms from the ground, and asked with a smile while stroking its furry head.

"Mor~~"

Morubek lowered his head in apology. It seems that they didn't gain anything today.

"Hmm~"

Bai Chen looked at Ma Li who was hugging Molu Beike tightly, and secretly smiled.

Although on the surface Ma Li wanted to send Pokémon to help search, but Bai Chen could actually tell that she did so out of fear.

After all, it wasn't just the village head who behaved strangely at noon, but the whole village.

The deserted streets, the stone houses where no one responds, and this desolate mine...

To be honest, not only Ma Li, but even Bai Chen was a little apprehensive, but after all, he didn't believe in ghosts and ghosts that only existed in storybooks, so his negative emotions didn't worsen like Ma Li.

Whether there is any problem in this village will be revealed at night.

Bai Chen took a deep breath, and he didn't know if it was to calm himself down. At this moment when Ma Li was afraid, he absolutely couldn't show any wavering.

Besides, even if some strange guy really appeared, he still had a companion that he could rely on.

"Let's go, get ready to go back~ By the way, don't you plan to let Molu Beike return to the baby ball?"

"what......"

Mary didn't realize that Bai Chen was teasing her maliciously, she just shook her head in a panic, and casually found an excuse:

"Mo...Morubek hasn't spent the night outside in a long time, so I think it's a rare chance for him to get some fresh air...Is it?"

"M...M...Mor..."

Molubeke, who was being strangled more and more tightly by Mary, kept shaking his body, trying to break free.But Ma Li's strength seemed to be stronger than it is now, and it couldn't break free after many attempts. In the end, Morube could only tilt his head weakly, and fell into Ma Li's arms, losing the ability to fight.

"Really? Then you are really careful~"

After nodding his head satisfied, Bai Chen gave up teasing Ma Li, instead, as if he remembered something, he took out the small box from his backpack and threw it to Ma Li.

"By the way, this is where you are."

"Eh?"

Mary caught the box in a daze, and only at this moment, Morubek, who had been tightly restrained, could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

However, in contrast to Molu Beike, it was Mary's turn to be unable to calm down.

"This is... Crescent Moon Feather? Why did you give it to me..."

Ma Li looked up at Bai Chen, hoping that he could explain to herself.

"Even if you ask why..." Bai Chen looked a little troublesome. "If you didn't have the protection of the New Moon Feather, you would have the same nightmare as the people here at night, right? Wouldn't this affect the work of the next day?"

"But, in this way, Mr. Bai Chen, don't you just..."

"I'm fine~ I don't have a lot of nightmares~ It just so happens that I haven't done it for so many years. It's a good feeling to miss my past travels tonight."

Bai Chen smiled and reassured Ma Li, but in Ma Li's eyes, Bai Chen's smile was full of coercion.

"The Feather of the Crescent Moon, as long as it is worn on the body, or will it take effect as long as it is touched..."

"Well... Although I haven't used this thing before, it is reasonable to say that even if it is a legendary item, its use method is generally not complicated."

Bai Chen thought that Ma Li was just asking about the most basic way of using it, so he answered it bluntly.

"Is that so..."

While muttering like this, Ma Li lowered her head. Bai Chen stuck out her head suspiciously, but couldn't see her expression, until Ma Li quickly raised her head as if she had made up her mind, and asked in a stiff tone :

"Well, in this case... as long as we sleep together and hold the Crescent Moon Feather together... it'll be fine, right?!"

"..."

After asking this sentence, Mary's cheeks quickly turned bright red, and her eyes began to look like the surface of a lake filled with mist.

Don't say it if you feel shy...

Bai Chen sighed in his heart, although he would not accept this proposal, after all, Ma Li asked this question because she was afraid that she would not be able to sleep well, so he could only stretch out his hand, and comforted Ma Li while stroking her head :

"It's okay, you don't need to care about me, as long as you can sleep well."

Bai Chen didn't know whether it was good or bad for him to comfort her so much, but after seeing Ma Li's expression turned "worse" than before, he began to reflect on himself.

Sure enough, talking is an art, and comforting people is too difficult.

...........

407 People in the village

Walking back towards the village from the nearby mining area, Bai Chen was worried that the situation in the village would be the same as in the morning, and it would still be deserted. If that was the case, he might not even be able to sleep tonight.

But fortunately, when they walked a few hundred meters away from the village, the two of them could already see the burning flames in the distance, and the water vapor boiling with the flames.

Is there someone at last.

The two looked at each other, and they seemed to understand the meaning in each other's eyes. They smiled at each other, and then walked briskly towards the direction of the fire with light steps. Morubek was finally able to breathe normally.

......

"Let's add a little more. You can't let people come all the way and still not have enough to eat?"

"It's already a lot!? Could it be that the big eater is here? If it's not enough for 5 people, it's too exaggerated!"

Walking to the back of a certain hut, Bai Chen heard the lively conversation in the village, and after listening carefully, it seemed that the content of the conversation was still related to them.

"It seems that there is no need to eat dry food, which is great."

Bai Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and walked out as if relieved of a heavy burden, while Ma Li cautiously followed behind Bai Chen. Although she had already prepared herself to a certain extent, if the mental state of the entire village was the same as that of the village chief If so, she will also feel nervous and scared.

......

In the center of the village, a bonfire was burning, and the villagers in the whole village seemed to be gathered together at this time, everyone was still holding a basket in their hands, and they didn’t know what they were doing, but the two people closest to the bonfire The old man was actually preparing food.

"Let's have some more~ Don't be so stingy with customers~"

"So this is too much, even if that fellow Dafeng specifically told me, we can't waste food... huh?"

Accompanied by the suspicious voice of one of the old people, the eyes of the whole village instantly moved away from the bonfire, and fell on Ma Li and Bai Chen who were standing behind them at some point.

"Haha—! Are you back already? In that case, your speech just now was heard by the two guests? That's why I said don't be so stingy~ It will be beneficial to be more generous."

"Humph!"

The old man who insisted on pointing to the end immediately snorted coldly after being ridiculed like this, turned his head away, and didn't know whether he was in a good mood or a bad mood.

The flames reflected the shadows of the villagers, and the flames and the figures swayed in the breeze. The wind blew by and brought bursts of charcoal debris, which made Bai Chen raise his hand to fan him. After turning his eyes away, Bai Chen greeted them.

"Uh...that...Hello, everyone, I'm Bai Chen from Shuran Town, and she's my assistant Ma Li...We've been entrusted by the village head here to help deal with the nightmare problem, um... ..."

Oops, why did the atmosphere froze all of a sudden...

The surroundings were originally in a happy and harmonious state, but for some reason they fell into an abnormal tranquility now. If it wasn't for someone responding in the next second, Bai Chen would even start to think about whether they were ghosts.

"Ah~! We know, we know, that guy Dafeng hired him to help! Haha~ In fact, we've already heard what Dafeng said, and he specifically told us to treat guests well, so we don't Are you cooking for you?"

Seemingly seeing Bai Chen's embarrassment now, the surrounding villagers started talking and playing with each other again, the tranquility of the previous second seemed fake.

strangeness......

Bai Chen couldn't help but muttered a sentence in his heart, and then, under the hospitality of the villagers, he sat on a small stool near the campfire, and Ma Li sat beside him.In front of the two of them was a big pot filled with all kinds of ingredients, from vegetables to meat to seafood, and it was completely impossible to tell that these were all food from a small village.

"This...actually, you don't need to be so polite."

It was only at this time that Bai Chen saw what the surrounding villagers were carrying in a basket, without him, it was basically food.

Some can be thrown directly into the pot as the main course of a hodgepodge, while others are fruits and snacks to be enjoyed after meals, and even dried fruits are brought.

"No, no... Such a little thing is just a trivial matter. Don't look at our village as poor and dilapidated, but in fact our quality of life is still good..."

An old lady bent over and walked in front of Bai Chen, without looking at him, she just put the tofu in the basket into the pot by herself.

"Yes." After the first old woman backed away, another old man walked up, and he explained to Bai Chen and Ma Li with a smile: "Although the people living in the village are quite old now, But the juniors who go out to live will still miss this place, a lot of food and some little things we are not familiar with are all sent by them.”

He turned his head and looked at Bai Chen, his benevolent look made Bai Chen relax subconsciously, but under the flickering of the firelight, Bai Chen could still clearly see the dark circles under his eyes that were not inferior to the village head.

That's right, of course it's not easy to sleep well in such a place, even though it's been so many years, Bai Chen still knows the difference between adaptation and comfort.