Pokémon: Who told him to come out of Pallet Town!

Chapter 687 The Origin of the Teleportation Dragon Scale

"Perhaps the reason why Chi Ri hasn't made much of a splash in the real-world scientific research community is because he's focused his attention here?"

Natsume paced back and forth in the corridor, talking to himself.

It's strange, there aren't many people here.

The corridor is lined with tightly closed metal doors, each with a complex set of electronic locks and signs.

Natsume quickly scanned the room through the observation window on the door and saw signs for Energy Control Room, Data Analysis Center, and Sample Cold Storage.

Everything was in perfect order, so clean it was almost spotless, but also cold and lifeless. Only the occasional faint sound of machinery running from the ventilation vents reminded that this place was not deathly silent.

When he reached the end of the corridor and pushed open an airtight door, the scene before him made him pause slightly.

Outside the door was not the more laboratories or office areas he had imagined, but an extremely vast space that seemed to have no boundaries.

The "sky" here is distorted and dim, without the sun, moon and stars, only some constantly writhing, seemingly living, dark bands of light flowing slowly.

Beneath this eerie sky lies a... "junkyard"?

More accurately, it is a giant open-air sorting and processing platform.

The platform is far larger than a real-world waste treatment center.

Most astonishingly, from that distorted "sky," a massive amount of water was continuously cascading down like a waterfall.

Rubbish".

Those "trash" were not real waste, but rather strangely shaped, faintly glowing fragments of giant carapaces that resembled some kind of creature.

They vary in size, some resembling shields and others swords, their surfaces covered with intricate patterns, their texture neither gold nor stone, and they contain an ancient and chaotic energy fluctuation.

Natsume could even sense an extremely painful emotion emanating from above.

"Is this... Giratina's molted body?"

Natsume's pupils contracted slightly as he recognized the origin of these carapaces.

The shells landed, seemingly because of the corresponding landfills in the real world, and they became all sorts of garbage.

The outer shell shed by the Lord of the Reversal World over the long years has been collected and processed here by Team Galactic as a "resource".

On the platform, many industrial robots produced by "Red Sun Intelligence," the kind he had seen in real life, were working silently and mechanically.

They transported, sorted, and initially processed these huge shell fragments.

However, unlike in reality, these robots do not have a Rotom core drive inside them. Their movements appear more rigid, programmed, and lacking in spirit, relying purely on preset instructions to operate.

Natsume narrowed his eyes slightly.

Strange.

Didn't the three gods of the lake say that Giratina is on the World Tree in the Reverse World, in the entire spiritual realm of the Reverse World?

Furthermore, since we can see Giratina molting here, it should be not far from the World Tree.

What about the World Tree?

Natsume looked around, his telekinetic powers spreading far and wide, but he still couldn't see any trace of the World Tree.

This puzzled him greatly.

Judging from Dr. Yew's experience, the World Tree doesn't seem to have any ability to conceal itself.

Left with no other choice, Natsume's gaze returned to the "junkyard" in front of him.

These sorted shell fragments were then transported by conveyor belts in two completely opposite directions.

One faces the east side of the space, and the other faces the west side.

"East side, west side."

Natsume recalled the reality of that small cubicle as a coordinate.

The old tradition of "valuing the East and discarding the West" made his eyes narrow.

It seems that the reverse world also has a similar old tradition.

Natsume concealed his presence completely, and as if blending into the shadows, he stealthily moved westward.

Although the area corresponding to the small cubicle looks very grand.

But like the cubicles, this place only had the air of a research institute; there was no equipment or research data that Natsume wanted most.

It looks more like a huge transit hub.

Therefore, Natsume turned westward.

He speculated that since this is a reversed world, the rules in reality are likely to be reversed, so the tradition of "abandoning the West" may become "valuing the West" here.

After passing through a relatively narrow passage made of cold metal, the view suddenly opened up, causing Natsume to gasp.

This is no longer an open platform, but a huge, enclosed industrial workshop, like a giant oil refinery.

The workshop interior was extremely high, filled with a stuffy feeling from the high temperature and pressure, and a peculiar buzzing sound, as if energy was being forcibly compressed.

In the center of the workshop stood several enormous furnaces, connected by complex pipes and emitting a dark red glow.

The fragments of Giratina molted shells, radiating chaotic energy, that poured down from the "sky" were being continuously fed into the inlets of these furnaces via conveyor belts.

Inside the furnace, an unusual flame was clearly burning—a strange flame that was dark, almost black, yet emitted extremely high heat.

The huge fragments of carapace were thrown into it, but instead of melting and flowing like ordinary metal, they were forcibly stripped of impurities, purified, and compressed under the influence of high temperature and a special force field, eventually turning into a viscous, dark liquid energy that shimmered with a ghostly light.

This liquid energy was then injected into rows of sophisticated water-cooled molds.

Under rapid cooling and high-pressure molding, they solidified quickly, turning into scale-like objects about the size of a palm, as thin as cicada wings, as black as ink, yet faintly reflecting a rainbow of colors.

These scales have a texture that looks like the finest obsidian, but their surface flows with a restrained yet powerful spatial fluctuation.

"This is... a teleportation dragon scale?!"

Natsume's pupils suddenly contracted, and a storm raged in his heart.

He instantly recalled the dragon scales with teleportation capabilities that the Rainbow Rocket members possessed when he clashed with them in the Unova region.

He suspected at the time that its material and energy source were unusual, but he never expected that the source would be here!

Team Galactic is actually using Giratina's molted shell, the master of the Reversal World, to produce this strategic-level teleportation device for Team Rainbow Rocket.

This discovery sent a chill down Natsume's spine.

Team Rainbow Rocket is a vast and sinister organization spanning multiple worlds, with unfathomable power.

Team Galactic, as the native villains of the Sinnoh region, should theoretically be considered a nobody in Team Rainbow Rocket's eyes.

They probably don't even qualify for "cooperation".

However, the reality is that the Galaxy team was not simply eliminated as "street dogs," but instead established such a stable and large-scale production line.

What does this mean?

Natsume licked the corner of his mouth.

This means that the Red Sun and the Galaxy teams have acquired some kind of technology or resource that even the Rainbow Rockets have to take seriously.

There exists a deep, potentially unequal, but absolutely stable cooperative relationship between the two parties!

"No wonder the Red Sun was able to develop such a wicked technology as antimatter garbage Rotom so quietly; it must have had the knowledge or resources of Team Rainbow Rocket behind it."

Natsume's alarm bells rang, and his assessment of Team Galaxy's danger level instantly rose to the highest level.

He carefully observed the "oil refinery".

The entire production process is highly automated. Apart from a few robots next to the furnace that monitor instrument parameters, no Galaxy team members can be seen.

This place is more like a pure resource extraction and primary processing base, turning precious "garbage" into high-value finished products through "waste utilization".