There will be one more update later tonight. I'm busy at home making more updates.
In a blink of an eye, the sky turned from clear to overcast, and large patches of dark clouds drifted over.
Soon, a strong wind and heavy rain began. This rain came quickly and left just as quickly.
After about fifteen minutes, the dark clouds dispersed, revealing a magnificent rainbow.
Qing Wu's boots stepped into the puddles on the ground, splashing shallow water.
The water quickly settled back into the puddles, only to be disturbed by subtle ripples.
Not far away, a desolate power plant stood majestically, its massive silhouette clear.
It stood silently in the sunlight, like a steel beast waiting for its prey.
Qing Wu watched the crowd of hunters surge towards this steel beast. Soon, these people were swallowed clean by the steel beast.
Qing Wu walked over unhurriedly.
Around the power plant, black-clad men held guns. These were mercenaries hired by Mauville Group to maintain order at the scene.
Qing Wu showed the black-clad men the invitation sent by Mauville Group, and they let Qing Wu in. The whole process took less than a second.
Qing Wu looked at the gaping maw of the "steel beast" before him and stepped inside.
Upon entering, Qing Wu saw a layout map placed at the entrance of the power plant hall.
Qing Wu compared the map of the power plant hall with the map provided by Mauville Group and found a small difference.
This power plant building had a basement, but the map provided by Mauville Group did not show this basement.
Was it because Mauville Group's map printing was wrong, or because Mauville Group's people were confident enough to think that no one would find this basement?
The basement only had a rough outline on the map, but where exactly the basement was, how to enter it, was not indicated on the map.
However, a question still lingered in Qing Wu's mind at this time: why did Mauville Group's people not destroy such an obvious map, but instead placed it in such an obvious location?
Are Mauville Group's people so calm that the hunters and trainers who come in won't compare the maps, and where did all these people and trainers go?
How did so many people disappear all at once?
Due to being a power plant, power was abundant, and the light from the fluorescent lamps was a bit dazzling.
At the end of the main hall, there was a door controlled by electricity, with a password lock. However, this large door had already been broken by a Pokémon's skill.
However, Qing Wu did not rush in recklessly. He knew that in this power plant, recklessness meant death.
The safest way was to go where no one else had gone.
Qing Wu glanced at the still operating ventilation shaft, looked at the distance between the ventilation shaft and himself, and whether the ventilation shaft could accommodate his body size.
Although Qing Wu was fifteen years old, his body was relatively slender. Qing Wu estimated for a while and felt that he could still enter various parts of the power plant through the ventilation shaft.
This was the best and safest passage Qing Wu had found after many years of detective work.
"Yuan, what do you think?" Qing Wu asked the large bat flapping its wings.
Yuan. Large bat. Fang...
...The large bat thought to itself, just be happy. I'm just a bystander.
"What, big bat, you said this is a wise decision, then?" Qing Wu asked proudly.
Big bat...
It indicated that it said nothing, don't talk nonsense so seriously.
The lid of the ventilation shaft was directly opened by the big bat. The big bat took Qing Wu and drilled into the ventilation duct. Qing Wu carefully put the lid of the ventilation shaft back on.
The ventilation duct was wide enough for one person to pass through with plenty of space.
Just then, Qing Wu would discover that the map originally placed in the main hall had disappeared.
Although the ventilation shaft had been operating continuously, long-term ventilation still left a lot of dust. Fortunately, Qing Wu was wearing a Ditto mask.
Ditto successfully blocked the floating dust in the ventilation duct.
Ditto...
Qing Wu's goal was the staff lounge. There shouldn't be so many Pokémon there. Next to the staff lounge was an archive room, where Qing Wu could check the original structure of the power plant and see if there were any hidden places.
Why did Mauville Group directly abandon the power plant? Qing Wu felt that this was not simple.
In the power plant staff lounge, a figure opened the lid of the ventilation shaft, followed by another figure dropping down from the ventilation shaft.
The staff lounge was about 200 square meters. There were countless meter-long lockers inside, where staff changed clothes and relaxed.
However, most of these lockers were locked. Qing Wu patted the skin on his face, and Ditto squirmed and climbed onto Qing Wu's hand.
Ditto extended its body into the keyhole of the locker, and its body quickly condensed into a key.
Ditto gently turned the key, and with a click, the locker opened.
Inside were some clean clothes, but what Qing Wu was looking for was not there.
It wasn't until Qing Wu searched the seventh locker that he found what he was looking for.
It was a staff card. Kondo Shinya's name was written on the thin staff card, and there was a photo of a brilliant, sunny boy on it.
This pass could lead to various parts of the power plant. This was also a useful tool Qing Wu wanted to obtain.
"This Mauville Group definitely has a conspiracy, otherwise, why would such an important pass not be given to the current trainers and hunters?"
Qing Wu inquired with the power plant staff and found that these power plant Pokémon were not the wild Pokémon Mauville Group spoke of, but were auxiliary Pokémon raised by the power plant staff to assist in power generation.
This power plant staff member also successively revealed that he saw Mauville Group continuously releasing power plant Pokémon.
And they also hired people to catch many, so the power plant had such a huge number of Electric-type Pokémon.
"What kind of plan is Mauville Group ultimately enacting?" Qing Wu was unclear.
"What kind of illusory beast is it that requires so many people to capture it?" Qing Wu felt that his thought process was wrong.
Some rumors said there was an illusory beast in the power plant.
The reason Mauville Group wanted to explore the power plant was to capture this illusory beast.
After Qing Wu heard this news, the Pokémon that immediately appeared in his mind was Zapdos.
This kind of illusory beast likes to descend into desolate power plants and devour electricity.
But Qing Wu felt that if it was just Zapdos, Mauville Group wouldn't need to sacrifice so many people.
The illusory beast that required so many sacrifices should be a Ghost-type Pokémon, combined with Mauville Group's recently urgent research on Psychic Resonance technology.
Qing Wu understood that this technology was developed to control this illusory beast.
"Interesting." Qing Wu licked his lips with his tongue. It was finally being revealed, and it was getting more and more interesting.
Qing Wu searched all the staff lounges and found four or five staff cards.
To get the help of the power plant's Electric-type Pokémon, Qing Wu changed into the power plant staff uniform.
According to information provided by a power plant staff member who used to work here, these Pokémon recognize the power plant staff by their uniforms.
The power plant staff uniform was blue, somewhat resembling a maintenance worker's uniform. Qing Wu had Ditto memorize Kondo Shinya's face.
Ditto only needed muscle memory when transforming into a Pokémon, but when transforming into some fragmented objects, it no longer relied on muscle memory.
Opposite the staff lounge was where data was stored.
Sure enough, Qing Wu found the earliest power plant construction blueprints here.
Qing Wu discovered that there was a basement under this power plant, and there was also a basement of one to two hundred square meters.
The entrance to this basement was directly below the unmanned generator.
"It seems I really have to fight these Electric-type Pokémon head-on." Qing Wu tossed the Poké Ball in his hand.
Suddenly, an explosion sound came from a distance, accompanied by several screams. Qing Wu knew that Mauville Group's prepared killing feast had already begun.
Mauville Group was quite fond of its own feathers, so they would not personally act, but would let these hunters and trainers fight each other to the death.
These souls filled with resentment were the best supplements for Ghost-type Pokémon.
Ghost was hiding in Qing Wu's shadow, and several times it couldn't hold back, wanting to rush out of Qing Wu's shadow to hunt souls.
But Qing Wu stopped them all.
These souls filled with resentment would only corrupt Ghost's sanity, and in the end, Ghost would become a machine that only knew how to kill.
"So that's how it is. Mauville Group is actually planning this." Qing Wu chuckled. He didn't understand why the key point finally connected.
Mauville Group wanted to corrupt this illusory beast's sanity, and then control this Pokémon with Psychic Resonance technology.
Because this Pokémon had the Ghost-type, Mauville Group's people wanted to corrupt this Pokémon's sanity by using souls filled with resentment.
Souls filled with resentment are a fatal temptation for Ghost-type Pokémon.
Qing Wu knew that when Ghost couldn't suppress its own nature and wanted to rush out to hunt, this soul was like a withered sunflower.
Once this Pokémon lost its sanity, it would become a puppet of Mauville Group.
At the same time, it would also become Mauville Group's killer.
In this Pokémon world where Legendary Pokémon do not appear, illusory beasts have become the ceiling of the Pokémon world.
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