I, the Pokémon Master, now resign

Bai Chen expressed his feelings very seriously.

He has tried foods such as sauerkraut and pickles before, but the results are generally not very good, and he doesn't know which steps went wrong.

"Really? Since you like it, that's fine." The old man saw that Bai Chen said these words from the heart, so he nodded kindly and continued: "If you like it, I can tell you the recipe later. I don't have any special achievements in my life, but I still have a hand in making pickles, how about it?"

"It would be great if I could, although I can cook a lot of other dishes, but I'm always not good at pickles and sauerkraut."

Bai Chen replied with some surprise, he didn't expect to have such an unexpected harvest in Huayuan Town today, so traveling is full of fun.

"Hehe." The old man smiled again. It seems that no one has said that the pickles she made are delicious for a long time, and no one else has eaten her dishes for a long time. She is still recognized by young people today. Very gratifying.

"But before that... aren't you also very interested in the history of Huayuan Town? Since I have enough time, let me tell you here."

"Ah."

Bai Chen took another sip of porridge, and then made a gesture of listening attentively. The old man's words also slowly lingered around the small dining table in such a peaceful atmosphere.

........

More than 60 years ago, Huayuan Town was just a wilderness, with no vegetation around it, only bare land, not to mention human beings, and even wild Pokémon were not seen here at all.

Located between the roads from Heijin City to Baidai City, there are not many people coming and going, and no one has cared about this open space.Most people just passed by, and then sighed why the environment here is so bad and then left silently. This has been the case for decades.

But there are a dozen or so people, they are different from others, they passed by here, stopped and stopped, they looked at the barren open space, feeling a little sorry.

"This place was also full of vitality a long time ago, right?"

In a certain corner of the wasteland, at the junction of dry and cracked land and stones, there is a broken flower that is about to wither.

The soil has almost lost all vitality, and they don't know why a flower still grows in such an environment. Could it be that a passer-by carried the seeds of the flower and dropped it unintentionally?None of them knew the answer to that question, and they didn't even know what the flower's name was.

But... in such a wasteland that no one cares about, there is such a weak life still growing tenaciously. Such a scene made them feel moved.

"You said, if you can make this land full of flowers...will it cause widespread discussion in the entire Sinnoh region? Will we be famous by then?"

A person who came with him and prepared to go to Baidai Forest for a picnic looked at the flowers that were about to wither, and made such a suggestion that no one had thought about, and no one dared to think about it.

No, it wasn't even a suggestion at the time, it was just a sudden thought.

But it was such a sudden idea that got the approval of the other people present——

"This idea is very good! It is worth a try!"

"What will happen if it really gets into the newspaper? What will life be like after becoming a celebrity?!"

No one knows what the future will be like when they do this, and no one even knows whether they will be successful. In fact, they didn't have the idea that they would be successful, right?After all, none of the dozen or so people present had grown plants, and none of them knew anything about them.

But these ten people gathered together under such a whimsical proposal, started to learn from scratch and made continuous attempts in such a wasteland-reactivating the fertility of the soil and selecting suitable flower seeds Let it bloom in the wasteland one step ahead......

In this way, I don’t know how many days and nights passed, and I don’t know how many times they failed during the period. In short, in the third year after they made a decision and settled here in the form of tents, the first small flower field finally bloomed.

Turning such a vast wasteland into a sea of ​​flowers, although it was indeed proposed in the beginning, but at the beginning, no one believed that they would really turn this vision into reality, because no matter how they heard it, it was really It's ridiculous, isn't it?They are just the most ordinary dozen or so people. They have no team, no technology and financial support. They have always relied on their part-time jobs in the two surrounding cities and their own work in the dark. Study hard in the tent with lights on.

That's right, they have been working hard with a tentative mentality all the time, and what they have been pursuing is that they can see some gains from their own efforts.

At the beginning, no one thought that they could turn this place into a sea of ​​flowers by themselves.

But... when did this concept change?

Perhaps the answer is the same in their eyes, after three years of hard work——

When the first flower field blooms happily, the fragrance of flowers is overflowing.

When the first Pokémon came here and took a deep breath beside the flower field.

When the first passer-by came to the flower field and felt the miracle contained in this flower field.

Perhaps from that time on, that initial, crazy and unrealistic fantasy began to gradually become the dream in each of them.

Perhaps since then, they have begun to look forward to the sea of ​​flowers that did not exist, and began to imagine which colors of flowers to use together to make this place more beautiful.

Time flies by in the eyes of these dreamers and strugglers. Three years after three years, I don’t know how long it has passed... They have even settled here and built their own small houses. They even got married and had children, and this dreamy flower field finally came to an end.

In fact, their actions and dreams have been noticed by the world a long time ago. Many newspapers published their feat and gave them high praise and affirmation. Many people took the initiative to contact them and gave them great praise. There are a lot of supplies, and even the alliance has contacted them a long time ago, claiming that they can provide them with team help.

They readily accepted the former, but they declined the alliance's proposal.

If the alliance had contacted them at the very beginning, perhaps they would have happily accepted the alliance's help, but now that the end is doomed, they prefer to achieve their goals with their own hands, and they don't need official help. help.

A wasteland that is almost barren of grass and even Pokémon are unwilling to set foot in, has turned into a sea of ​​flowers after nearly 20 years. It has become the fairyland on earth described by the author, a paradise for living, and it has become a favorite of the residents of Sinnoh object of the Tao.

On the day when Huahai was completed and countless people came to visit, the previous champion of the Sinnoh Alliance also came here. He congratulated them on their achievements with the alliance's respect for them, and in the name of the Sinnoh Alliance Granted the place a brand new name——

Huayuan Town.

.......

"This is the origin of Huayuan Town..."

When the old man came Wanwan, Bai Chen was also fascinated by it, and while listening, he had already finished the porridge in his hand unconsciously.

To be honest, he never thought that the origin of Huayuan Town would be such a dreamy story, just like a fairy tale in the hands of many authors.

"At the beginning...will you be very happy?" Bai Chen closed his eyes and asked in thought.

"Are you happy...I forgot too...I don't know if I'm happy or not, but at least we were happy that we were able to master new things and put them into practice immediately."

The old man can't remember the original thoughts now, but at least she is fighting for a wonderful thing together with her companions. This kind of emotion is something she will never forget no matter how long it has passed.

"Alas... It's a pity that most of the original friends have left now... Two of them were taken to live in other cities by their children, and the remaining two are now staying in the garden like me town."

On the face of the old man, there was a man-made sigh about things. This small town carries too many things. Although no one wants to live here, she is unwilling to leave no matter what, even if it is Even if she leaves, she also wants to sleep forever under this land, under the sea of ​​flowers that she cultivated so hard.

After expressing all this, she found that Bai Chen had also put down the bowls and chopsticks unknowingly, and her mood obviously became a little depressed. After realizing her mistake, the old man waved his hands optimistically and said with a smile:

"I don't want to mention these things anymore. People always have to live in the moment~ Anyway, life and death are not up to me to decide. I just want to stay here."

The old man's seemingly relaxed words did not make Bai Chen's mood more relaxed. If the old man was really as relaxed as she said, he would not have said such things before.

"It's just because the interval is too long, no one can listen to me, so..."

After knowing the past of the old man and Huayuan Town, and savoring this sentence carefully, Bai Chen felt that he was not in a good mood at all.

......

530 Group photos from the past to the present

After being entertained by the old man, Bai Chen suddenly realized that he seemed to have nothing else to do.

There are indeed some beautiful seas of flowers in Huayuan Town, but it is precisely because they are surrounded by flowers that Bai Chen can't even find a suitable place to train Pokémon.

As for the Pokémon Center... It is said that there were people here when they got the name Huayuan Town, but as the reputation of the town gradually faded away from magazines and newspapers, the number of people here also began to decrease. From the initial number of dozens of people gradually evolved into the current number three, and the Pokémon Center will naturally not continue to open in such an inaccessible place.

"Do you need me to help tidy up here? If you can tidy up the extra things, the space here should be much more spacious."

Bai Chen felt crowded from the very beginning, but now he finally had the opportunity to say it out, after all, this is someone else's home, and it was impossible for Bai Chen to propose such a situation when they didn't know each other well.

Of course, Bai Chen said this because he had nothing to do when he was free, and because he really wanted to help the old man a little out of respect for her and her former companions.

However, Bai Chen's proposal was not approved by the old man, she just waved her hands in a panic when she heard Bai Chen said that she would help tidy up the place.

"No, that's fine!"

"Is it good..."

Bai Chen took another look at the environment inside the house with some incomprehension. The degree of crowding here has even blocked the sunlight outside, and the air is filled with dust. Even if such an environment is good or bad, at least it is not suitable for the elderly. Life.

"..."

The corners of the old man's eyes trembled slightly, and she also understood Bai Chen's thoughts, so why didn't she think about it herself?Her favorite thing to do when she was young was to move a small table and a small stool, make a pot of scented tea, prepare a little snack, and then sit on the balcony and enjoy the leisure time of afternoon tea while basking in the sun.

only--

"I really don't want to lose the things here..."

The old man walked past Bai Chen, came to a seemingly useless empty cardboard box, and stroked it gently.

"This box was brought back from Baidai City by my deceased husband. It used to contain many flower seeds..."

After all, the old man walked to the small cabinet on the other side, and picked up the broken alarm clock that was no longer moving around, but it didn't get much dust.

"This is the alarm clock that my husband bought because he was afraid of getting up late and missing the best time to take care of flowers. Although the alarm clock is completely broken now, I still wipe it every day as a memory of the past. One of the few joys in life now..."

The old man is still introducing to Bai Chen the origins of these "sundries" in the house. For all the waste products that are useless in the eyes of outsiders, the old man treats them with care as if they were jewels.

Regardless of how it looks from the outside, everything here carries her memories.Memories are not to be discarded, they need to be cherished.

It was only here that Bai Chen roughly understood the old man's thoughts, it seemed that he was still too abrupt.

As he had guessed before, no matter how good the old man said, the loneliness that was hidden deep in her heart and would often be revealed inadvertently could not be concealed.

The town that I have spent my whole life building is now rarely visited by people, and those friends and lovers who have moved forward with me in the past are also one step ahead in the progress of time... Bai Chen has never experienced everything that the old man faces, but such things only come to an end. Even thinking about it makes people feel sad.

From the old man's mouth, it is not difficult to know how many people respected Huayuan Town when it was first completed.But now Bai Chen hasn't seen any of these in any magazine, even if there is, it's just a simple slogan - Huayuan Town, a town covered in flowers.

Does the person who said this sentence know that this place was a wasteland where there was no grass a few decades ago?Now, does anyone still remember these people who gathered together with only one sentence similar to a joke, and spent their entire lives to achieve happiness?

Sadness and sentimentality were mixed in his heart, and he was speechless.In a blink of an eye, he wanted to calm down a little bit, but the next second he saw a few photos above the closet—the photos were the records left by the old man at various stages.

The photos are arranged in order from left to right. The far left seems to be the most distant one, with dozens of figures recorded on it. Surrounding them is a wasteland, which must be the figure of the people who pioneered here back then.

The second record is a small flower field. The people in the previous photo posed various poses next to the flower field, with smiles on their faces. There is no doubt that this photo was taken at the first time in the old man’s mouth. It was taken when a field of flowers successfully bloomed.

And then the shooting style changed. It is no longer a group photo of the pioneers like the previous two, but a family portrait of three people, the old man, her husband, and then her daughter, right?It is worth mentioning that the old man's husband seems to be one of the companions who pioneered Huayuan Town with her at the beginning. It seems that they have also developed feelings between them during such a long time here.

And further on...

The family portrait is no longer visible, and all that remains are the figures of those people at the beginning, but with each additional photo, the number of people in the photo will decrease by one, until the last photo has only three figures left.However, among the photos that record the ever-decreasing number of people, there is one special photo.

There is only one person and one Pokémon inside.

The protagonist of the photo is of course the old man, and beside the old man is a queen bee who looks a bit decadent and spiritless.

Although there are not many photos, they record the life of the old man, and also the life of the city. There are only three people left in the photos, and the three are now guarding the town alone. No one wants to leave, and no one wants to come in.

The logic between the photos seems to be very clear, but Bai Chen felt strange about the photo of the queen bee after reading it.

Bai Chen hesitated for a moment, but in the end curiosity prevailed. He asked the old man softly, "Excuse me, is that queen bee your Pokémon?"

This is where Bai Chen was puzzled, because Bai Chen didn't see anything related to Pokémon in the old man's home, and in the photos on the cabinets, there were no photos with other Pokémon except the Queen Bee.

"Queen Bee...I really miss it..." After hearing Bai Chen's doubts, the old man raised his head and looked at the photo above. "It's not my Pokémon. Pokémon trainers were not a common job decades ago. After all, it was too dangerous to be a trainer before the Pokémon Guide was developed... The Queen Bee is just a wild Pokémon , it does not belong to anyone."

Wild Pokémon, this answer was within Bai Chen's expectation.

"The queen bee came here not long after the first flower field bloomed. She seems to like the flower field very much, so she flies here from the nearby forest every day, and will help us while visiting the flower field... ..."

Whenever he thinks of the queen bee, the old man's face can't help but be filled with happy memories.

"Alas... and it can be full of flowers here, and to some extent, the queen bee is also half of the credit... It's just that it's not particularly difficult to cultivate a flower field, but to keep all the flower fields in the present In such a state, the help of wild Pokmon must be needed... At that time, there were no other Pokmon except the queen bee, and the arrival of the queen bee also attracted many three people who followed her. The bees... that is, the flower fields here began to gradually enter the stage of prosperity after they came here."

The queen bee and the three bees......

Bai Chen nodded in understanding.

Among the many Pokmon, the queen bee and the three bees can be said to be the most helpful to the growth of flowers, and the three bees are social Pokmon, and they generally do not change their habitat at will unless they are leaders. The queen bee decides to migrate.

To put it simply, it is not the three bees who brought the queen, but the queen who led the three bees.

Without the guidance of the queen bee, it is difficult for the three bees to work in an orderly manner. If the queen bee in a cluster of three bees disappears, and the three bees that originally lived together cannot evolve a new leader, the three bees will be unable to evolve a new leader. Bees will gradually leave their original residences and seek new places to live.

And right now...

Bai Chen didn't come to Huayuan Town for a long time, and he didn't walk much, but he didn't see or hear the movement of the three bees. Although the three bees might be in the garden behind, according to the old man's expression And the condition of the queen bee in the photo......

Ugh.

Bai Chen was speechless immediately, people will leave, and Pokémon will also leave, who will go first just depends on whose lifespan is longer, and the lifespan of insect-type Pokémon is higher than that of all types. Among the Pokémon, it can't be regarded as the longest.

"Even before leaving, it is unwilling to go back to its own forest... It is just like us, it regards Huayuan Town and the flower field that it has cultivated so hard as its new home... It is a place where you can feel at ease place of rest."

Bai Chen didn't continue this topic, but the old man followed Bai Chen's words and continued.Although it is a sad thing for people and things around to leave one after another, the old man herself has already looked away from life and death, but at the same time, she doesn't like the feeling of loneliness.

I don't like being alone, so I find something to do for myself every day. ,

Obviously there are few people coming to this town now, and even if they pass by, it’s just a quick glance, but the old man still goes to take care of his flower shop every day, or walks to the flower field every day to have a look; It is more tidy, but because of the nostalgia for the past, I am reluctant to throw away those items full of memories, but keep them carefully one by one and place them in every corner of the home.

"It should be better to be accompanied by Pokémon, right?"

Bai Chen said so.

For trainers, loneliness is also fatal. In the forest at night, when the bonfire is burning quietly, and even the world becomes quiet, a feeling of loneliness and loneliness will inevitably arise in the heart.But the main reason why trainers can overcome this emotion is that there are Pokmon as their companions around them. It won't be as popular as it is now.

"Pokemon..."

As the old man said silently, there was a trace of hesitation in his eyes.

Bai Chen didn't know what kind of emotion this was, but thought it might just be that the other party thought there was nothing he could do. After all, she was already old, and she didn't have her own Pokémon like an official trainer, so in her opinion Maybe conquering Pokémon itself is an unrealistic thing.