Pokémon's Lord of Fear

Chapter 55: Pokémon Environment Improvement and Maintenance Department
Looking at the Pokémon gathered below, Teng Shu smiled, then he pulled the curtains, and the whole room instantly became much darker.

Dean Lillian didn't care too much about it. After all, if the curtains were drawn, the strong light would indeed affect the experience of watching the short film.

Kirlia touched her good friend the coyote, which huddled in the corner, looking at Teng Shu with some suspicion.

Where does that uneasy feeling in its heart come from?

Before Kirlia could think about it, the sound of dripping rain immediately attracted all its attention.

In the video, the house shrouded in rain was lit up after dark, and then Kirlia saw a Jigglypuff pushing open the door of a room and walking out. The other party was wet and was wiping his head, as if he had just taken a shower.

Then Jigglypuff hummed a tune, walked to the corridor and turned off the lights.

Suddenly, a strange music sounded, and Kirlia saw a strange black shadow appear in the corridor behind. Kirlia's breathing couldn't help but become a little rapid.

But Jigglypuff turned on the light in confusion.

Under the bright lights, there is nothing.

"Is it an illusion? Or a ghost Pokémon?" A thought flashed through Kirlia's mind, and then he felt his good friend, the Coyote, leaning towards him.

Dean Lillian glanced at Teng Shu.

Boy, is this the short film you were talking about?
Jigglypuff turned the lights on and off back and forth, and the black shadow stood in the dark corridor, which made the Pokémon present watch more seriously.

Once again, Jigglypuff turned off the lights, and the weird music suddenly became louder. At the same time, a strange and twisted figure appeared in the darkness that the Pokémons could not understand. Then all kinds of screams resounded throughout the room, but these screams could not cover Jigglypuff's screams in the short film.

The lights were turned on, and the figure was gone, but the Pokémon present were all gasping for breath, with looks of fear on their faces.

Teng Shu was very satisfied. It seemed that Pokémon could also feel fear, but he didn't know if he could collect fear value?
Wait until you finish watching it.

Soon, the short film continues to advance the plot.

After Jigglypuff entered the bed, the degree of fear was slowly increasing, slowly gripping the hearts of the audience, and the music also made the Pokémon present watch more attentively because of the immersive effect.

"It should be okay, right?" Kirlia breathed a sigh of relief as she watched the ghost hand disappear as the plug was firmly inserted. The strange music in the room also stopped and the lights in the corridor came on.

Just when Chirulian was relaxing, Jigglypuff turned his head to look at the lamp, and then a scary ghost face appeared in the camera. The other party smiled weirdly, and then pressed the light off button, and the whole screen was instantly dark.
"I *you*!" A sharp scream sounded, and then the screen shattered.

Teng Shu was stunned for a moment, and then he saw a chair embedded on the screen, which was smashed by Kirliaan using his superpowers. At this moment, Kirliaan seemed to realize that it had overreacted a little, and lowered its head embarrassedly.

"Cough cough..." Dean Lillian coughed twice, then looked at Teng Shu with a strange expression.

She was also startled just now.

Although it was starring Pokémon, the problem was that the monster transformed by Gengar was very scary. It not only scared the Pokémon, but also scared her. At that time, Dean Lillian's heart was beating as fast as when she challenged the Four Heavenly Kings.

"It's just a good idea to change the TV." Teng Shu smiled. It was just a TV, and he really didn't care. The key point was the fear value.

[The fear value gained from "After Turning Off the Lights": 45]

The number popped up, and Teng Shu was somewhat delighted. He looked around the room. This large room, which was similar to a lecture hall, had 156 Pokémon sitting in it. All the Pokémon from the entire care center were there.

The fear value gained was 45 points, which is a bit low, but not bad.

Although Teng Shu still doesn't know how this system calculates the fear value, as long as he can gain the fear value, it is enough.

It is possible to provide Pokémon fans with a Pokémon-specific version of the movie.

Although there is no profit in showing Pokémon movies, at least for now, Teng Shu doesn't want any profit. He just wants to gain some fear value.

As for the cost of shooting short films and movies?

Although Dead Silence has not been released yet, the money it has earned is enough to sustain Teng Shu for a long time. What's more, most horror films are made on a low budget, so making a big profit with a small investment is also a feature of horror films.

There are even some horror films with very simple sets, only a few actors, and a total cost of filming no more than 100,000 US dollars, but the profits earned are hundreds of millions of US dollars.

So this is also the key reason why, in the past, although horror movies were a niche genre, people continued to make them, and that was because the return rate was too high.

Investors only need to invest a small portion of the money, and then if the movie becomes a hit, they can reap staggering returns.

"Teng Shu, is this a horror movie?" Dean Lillian opened the curtains and watched the short film. She always felt that there seemed to be something lurking in the darkness, making her feel uncomfortable.

"Yes, a short film." Teng Shu nodded. He now needed to think about how to make this short film visible to more Pokémon.

Although there are quite a few domesticated Pokémon, they are nothing compared to the huge number of wild Pokémon. For Teng Shu, wild Pokémon are his main target.

But it would not work to play it for no reason, and his company does not have so many employees to travel around the world to show movies, so if he wants to gain anything from this, he still needs to cooperate with the alliance.

Only the Pokémon League has a huge employee base, and those rangers and the like are all staff members of the League.

If he could cooperate with the alliance, he might be able to accumulate fear faster.

"Dean Lillian, I remember that the Alliance's wild Pokémon environment improvement and maintenance department has always been short of funds?" Teng Shu looked at Dean Lillian and asked with a smile. Dean Lillian nodded after hearing it.

Dean Lillian was once a museum owner, so she knew a lot about some not-so-secret things about the Alliance. Moreover, the Environmental Improvement and Maintenance Department had always been short of money. Every New Year, this department would routinely come out to cry poor.

For example, let the rangers wear the clothes of their predecessors, hold rusty shovels in their hands, and say in front of the entire alliance that they will definitely protect the living environment of wild Pokémon.

(End of this chapter)