Gourmet master of the Pokemon world

Chapter 227: Did We Really Find a Treasure?

“Houbi ~ Houbi ~” I can’t go on anymore, I’m so tired.

Excadrill had been digging for a long time but couldn't see the end of the rock, and sat down on the ground dejectedly.

Vaporeon stepped forward and patted its back.

“Shawa ~ Shawa ~” Just a little more effort, and you might dig to the end soon.

“Sanda ~ Sanda ~” Jolteon echoed with a nod.

“Houbi ~ Houbi ~” Hearing this, Excadrill had no choice but to rejoin the digging team.

“Di ~ Di ~” After digging for a while, Drilbur suddenly let out a cry of surprise.

“Kora ~”

“Houbi ~”

“Aowu ~”

Lairon, Excadrill, and Tyrunt hurriedly stepped forward to check the situation.

They saw regular cracks appearing on the rock in front of Drilbur.

The three Eevee came over, and after seeing the cracks, Vaporeon exclaimed in surprise:

Soon, the soil near the boulder in front of them was cleared away, revealing a huge and heavy stone door.

Looking at the stone door in front of them, the Pokémon jumped and danced with joy.

It's a treasure; they really found a treasure!

“Pusi ~ Pusi ~” Open it quickly, let’s see what’s inside.

Flareon said excitedly.

The Pokémon nodded and walked forward together, then braced themselves against the stone door and pushed hard.

“Shawa ~”

“Pusi ~”

“Sanda ~”

“Kora ~”

“Houbi ~”

“Diggu ~”

The Pokémon used all their strength, but the stone door didn't budge.

After a long while, they collapsed on the ground, panting.

“Hou ~ Houbi ~ ~” We really can’t push it.

Excadrill said.

“Kora ~ Kora ~” How about we go back and ask everyone to help!

Lairon suggested.

His suggestion was approved by everyone, so they returned along the passage.

When they came out all dirty, they were spotted by Swirlix who was passing by.

“Xiupu ~ Xiupu ~” Where have you been? Anjie is looking for you everywhere!

Swirlix landed on Lairon's back and said to the three Eevee.

Anjie? Anjie is back?

The Pokémon showed surprise upon hearing this, and they started running home.

Swirlix flapped its wings and flew up from Lairon's back, wondering with a puzzled face: What's wrong with them?

After searching around and not finding the three Eevee, Anjie was walking home with Munchlax and the others when they ran into the Eevee.

Seeing that the Pokémon were covered in mud, Anjie asked in confusion: “Where did you go? How did you get into this state?”

“Pusi ~ Pusi ~” Anjie, Anjie, we found a treasure!

Flareon said excitedly, looking up.

“Houbi ~ Houbi ~” Yes, a treasure!

“Diggu ~ Diggu ~” There really is a treasure!

… …

The other Pokémon chimed in, echoing Flareon.

Anjie's head was about to explode from their noise.

“Wait, what are you saying? You found a treasure? In Nibel Plateau?”

“Aowu ~”

“Shawa ~”

“Sanda ~”

… …

The Pokémon nodded at the same time.

“Are you guys dreaming? There’s a treasure in Nibel Plateau?” Anjie showed disbelief on his face.

The Pokémon looked dissatisfied when they heard Anjie’s words.

“Houbi ~ Houbi ~” Excadrill tugged at Anjie's trouser leg, wanting Anjie to go with them.

“Okay, I want to see what treasure you found.” Anjie didn’t take the treasure the Pokémon were talking about seriously.

On the way, Anjie listened to the Pokémon’s one-sentence-at-a-time explanation and quickly understood the process of their discovery of the “treasure.”

He said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: “You guys are really… Running off to dig a hole for no reason, what if you collapse Nibel Plateau?”

When they arrived at the entrance of the cave, Anjie followed the Pokémon down, and after walking for a long time without reaching the end, he couldn't help but say:

“I’m impressed you guys were able to dig such a passage.”

“Diggu ~” “Aowu ~” “Pusi ~”

Drilbur, Tyrunt, and Flareon proudly puffed out their chests.

Anjie raised his hand and knocked Tyrunt on the back of the head and said: “I’m not praising you!”

Tyrunt looked aggrieved: Why did you only knock me?

“And Flareon, it doesn’t seem like you helped with the digging, right? Why are you so proud?” Anjie looked at Flareon again.

Hmph~ ~ I’ll learn to dig a hole when I get back! Flareon thought unhappily.

All Eevee can learn the Dig move.

After walking for a while, Anjie and the others finally arrived at their destination.

Looking at the heavy and tall stone door in front of him, Anjie thought in surprise: No way? Did they really find a treasure?

“Pusi ~ Pusi ~” I told you we found a treasure!

Flareon said triumphantly.

“Kora ~ Kora ~” But we can’t open it.

Lairon said.

Anjie said thoughtfully: “Generally, this kind of door is opened by a mechanism; brute force is naturally not advisable.”

“Gang ~ ~ Gang ~ ~ ~” Master is so amazing! He knows everything.

Munchlax looked at Anjie with a face full of worship.

“Geng ~ Geng ~” Gengar echoed his senior brother.

Anjie: . . .

Hey, hey, hey~ ~ Munchlax, Gengar, you guys are too supportive, aren't you! I'm just saying that, what if there is no mechanism? Wouldn't I be embarrassed?

Anjie suddenly realized that sometimes it's not a good thing for disciples to be too supportive.

So Anjie braced himself and started looking for the mechanism.

Hmm? Immediately, he was surprised to find that there seemed to be patterns carved on the stone door, but it was not easy to find because there was too much mud on it.

“Vaporeon, would you please wash the mud off the door?” Anjie looked at Vaporeon and asked.

“Shawa ~” No problem.

Saying that, Vaporeon took a step forward and spit a stream of water at the giant door.

Whirr ~ ~ Soon, the mud on the stone door was washed away little by little, and the carvings on it were revealed bit by bit.

Carved on the door were two Pokémon, and Anjie had just seen them not long ago.

Carved on the left door was Latios, and carved on the right door was Latias.

The Latias and Latios in the two carvings faced each other, posing in a Tai Chi-like posture.

The place where their heads touched was a fist-sized sphere.

Could that be the mechanism to open the door?

Thinking this way, Anjie reached out and pressed it.

Sure enough, as a burst of rumbling sounds came, the giant stone door slowly opened.

“Shawa ~”

“Pusi ~”

“Sanda ~”

… …

Seeing this scene, the Pokémon showed surprise.

Anjie also breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, fortunately, he didn't lose face, and his tall and great image was preserved.

However, to everyone's surprise, the door only opened a crack and then stopped, and a burst of "crack, crack" sounds came, as if something was stuck.

Obviously, because it had been buried underground for too long, the stone door's mechanism had malfunctioned.

For a moment, the Pokémon looked at each other.

Anjie smiled and said: “It seems that the mechanism has been out of repair for too long and is broken.”

Saying that, he walked to the door crack, turned sideways, and easily passed through the stone door.

He said to everyone through the door crack: “Look, isn’t it possible to come in?”

So Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, and Excadrill followed behind Anjie and passed through the door crack.

When it was Tyrunt's turn, its huge head got stuck directly, and it couldn't get in at all.

“Aowu ~ Aowu ~” Tyrunt cried anxiously.

Looking at Tyrunt struggling to squeeze inside, Anjie said helplessly:

“Okay, Tyrunt, if you can’t get in, don’t force it. What if your head gets stuck in the door crack and you can’t get out?”

Hearing this, Tyrunt could only retreat with a grievance.

Not only could Tyrunt not get in, but Lairon and Munchlax couldn't get in either.

Needless to say, Lairon was too big.

Munchlax was completely stuck because of his chubby belly. Although he had tried to suck in his stomach, it was still useless.

“Gang ~ ~” Master… …

Munchlax looked at Anjie inside the door crack with a sad face.

Anjie’s heart melted when he saw him.

“Good, I’ll tell you what’s inside when I come out.”

“Gang ~” Munchlax nodded obediently.

Although Gengar's body was also chubby, he could control his body to float like smoke, so it didn't affect him.

In this way, Munchlax, Tyrunt, and Lairon waited outside the door, while Anjie took the other Pokémon inside to check the situation.

Anjie walked on the long corridor and found that the walls were carved with many patterns, all related to Latias and Latios.

Continuing forward, Ange was surprised to discover that the image also included Yveltal.

Huh? How did it get related to Yveltal?

He continued to look down, gradually realizing that these patterns seemed to form a story.

The story wasn't complicated.

A long, long time ago, there was a village that worshiped Latias and Latios, nestled peacefully in a corner of the Kalos region.

Suddenly, one day, the young people who had gone out from the village brought back something: a giant, pitch-black cocoon.

The villagers didn't know what the giant cocoon was, so they placed it in the center of the village and even started a bonfire next to it at night.

However, they didn't know that their actions had offended the God of Destruction sleeping in the giant cocoon, and disaster was about to strike.

So, as the party reached its climax, the pitch-black cocoon transformed into an "evil god" and appeared before them.

The appearance of the God of Destruction naturally brought great calamity, and the enraged Yveltal launched an attack on the village.

In that moment of crisis, the village chief took out a flute enshrined in the shrine and blew it.

It was the Eon Flute, a magical tool capable of summoning Eon Pokémon.

As the flute sounded, two Eon Pokémon descended, Latias and Latios.

To protect the village, Latias and Latios challenged the God of Destruction.

The final result was obvious: Latias and Latios were defeated, and the two Eon Pokémon were turned into stone statues by Yveltal.

However, it was precisely because of the two Eon Pokémon's valiant fight that Yveltal ultimately abandoned its plan to destroy the village.

It left the statues of Latias and Latios behind and flew away.

To express their gratitude for Latias and Latios's desperate protection, the village enshrined the statues they had become.

Countless years passed, and the village had long disappeared into the river of time, and even the terrain where the village was originally located had undergone tremendous changes.

But the place where Latias and Latios were enshrined was preserved.

Nibel Plateau is where the original village was located.

At the end of the corridor, the patterns telling the story disappeared, and what appeared in front of Ange were two stone statues.

They were statues of Latios and Latias.

Below the statues was a stone pillar, holding the two statues high into the sky.

In addition, in front of the statues was a stone rack about the height of a person, and on the rack was enshrined a flute.

It was the Eon Flute.

Ange walked to the stone rack and took down the flute, only to see that it had become incredibly mottled.

"Vaporeon, I need your help!" Ange said, handing the Eon Flute to Vaporeon.

Vaporeon understood and spat out a stream of water, helping Ange to clean the Eon Flute.

This flute, made of some unknown material, had remained as good as new after who knows how many years.

The overall shape of the Eon Flute resembled Latias, with two wing-like structures on either side of the cylindrical body.

Then, Ange was surprised to find that the wing-like parts on both sides of the Eon Flute each had a Mega Stone embedded in them.

"Are these Latias and Latios's Mega Stones?"

During the Divine War, those two Latias and Latios had completed Mega Evolution on their own. He thought that it was different from the anime and games, and that they didn't need to use Mega Stones.

Ange put the Eon Flute to his lips, and a melodious flute sound rang out. The two Mega Stones emitted a faint light, more dazzling and beautiful than gemstones.

In his previous life, he had learned the flute for a while out of interest. Although he couldn't become a musician, he could still play a few tunes.

The barely passable flute music echoed in the not-so-large secret room, and several Pokémon gently swayed their bodies, rhythmically following the flute sound.

It was a pity that Latias and Latios, turned into stone statues, could not respond to the flute sound.

Ange walked around this place that seemed to be a shrine. After not finding anything special, he decided to leave.

After taking the Eon Flute out of the secret room, Ange told Kordelia, Baby Tyrant, and Munchlax about the situation inside in detail.

After exiting the passage, Ange planned to go see Yveltal and ask if the story recorded on the walls of the passage was true.

At this time, Yveltal was sleeping in the bar, with Murkrow and the Dark Crow surrounding it as usual.

Seeing Ange coming, Murkrow quickly woke up Yveltal.

Yveltal opened one eyelid. After seeing Ange, it said softly:

"Woo~~" Welcome back.

It had now completely regarded itself as a member of Nibel Plateau, and it thoroughly approved of Ange.

Ange smiled and said, "Did I disturb your rest?"

Yveltal shook its head. It had nothing to do all day long and had plenty of time to rest.

Ange said, "I came because I have something I want to ask you."

"Woo~~" Yveltal looked puzzled.

What is it?

So Ange told it about discovering the Latias and Latios shrine underground and recounted the contents of the murals on the corridor of the shrine.

"Did such a thing really happen?" Ange asked.

Are those two statues really Latias and Latios, or are they just ordinary stone carvings?

Yveltal fell into thought and reminiscence.

Because it had lived for too long, it didn't particularly remember some trivial matters.

"Woo~~" It seems like there was such a thing... …

Yveltal said, actually, it didn't remember it very well either.

"Woo~~" I'll go take a look with you.

After seeing it, it would know whether it was a real stone statue or a Pokémon petrified by it.

Ange said helplessly, "The door of the shrine is broken. With your size, I'm afraid it will be difficult to enter."

He thought for a while and said, "How about this? I'll go back and ask Metagross to see if it can fix the door. After it's fixed, you can go and take a look."

"Woo~" Yveltal nodded.

"Then you continue to rest, I won't disturb you."

Leaving Yveltal, Ange planned to go find Metagross again.

However, before he could get home, he saw Metagross coming towards him.

It turned out that Metagross had learned that Ange was back and had come out of the laboratory specifically to see him.

It was not easy to get Metagross to come out of the laboratory on its own. Only Ange could make it do this.

"Metagross, I'm back!" Ange said to Metagross with a smile as he stepped forward.

"Meta~~" Welcome home, Ange.

Metagross also said to Ange with a smile.

After the human and Pokémon chatted for a few words, Ange told it about repairing the door.

Metagross said: "Meta~ Meta~~~" No problem, I'll go take a look right away.

"I'll lead the way for you." Saying that, Ange led Metagross in the direction of the underground shrine.

On the way, Ange remembered the Sundial Stone that Madame X had given him, so he took it out and gave it to Metagross, letting Metagross study it carefully.

Metagross was very interested in the Sundial Stone. After taking the stone from Ange, it put it into its system backpack.

After arriving at the entrance of the shrine, Metagross carefully studied the stone door. After a long time, it said to Ange:

"Meta~ Meta~" I'll try, it should be fine.

"Then I'll leave it to you." Ange said.

Afterwards, Metagross stayed in the underground shrine and tinkered with it on its own.

Time quickly came to the evening. Ange's return made everyone very happy, so they gathered neatly in the square to chat.

At the same time, tonight's gathering was also a belated welcome ceremony for Goodra and the others. Therefore, Goodra, Goomy, Eevee, and Lucario were pushed to the center of the square and became the focus of everyone's attention.

Goodra and Goomy were introverted, so they felt very cramped after becoming the focus.

The three Eevee were naturally familiar. They liked everyone's enthusiasm very much and shuttled between the Pokémon, able to chat freely with every Pokémon.

Lucario, Gothita, Girafarig, and Wobbuffet had also gradually adapted to the atmosphere of Nibel Plateau, so they were also familiar with and chatted with the other Pokémon.

After Ange and the others finished making dinner, everyone ate and chatted, and the happy time passed in the blink of an eye.