Pokémon's Lord of Fear

"Alakazam, without a doubt." Gengar said seriously, and Teng Shu's mouth twitched.

There is a bit of personal vendetta in what you said.

The relationship between Gengar and Alakazam is often not very good, and the two sides often fight when they meet. After studying it, Pokémon doctors still don't know why this is the case. Teng Shu thinks it may be caused by the grudges between ancestors.

Teng Shu remembered that in the Pokémon cartoon, there were two huge ancient Gengar and Alakazam. They would fight whenever they met, and were extremely ferocious.

"Besides Hu Di?" Teng Shu thought for a moment. A Hu Di appeared in the darkness, bending the spoon here and there. It didn't seem that scary.

"Hehehe, then it's naturally me!" Geng Gui let out a smug smile.

Teng Shu stared at Gengar with empty eyes. How could he not think Gengar was scary? To Teng Shu, Gengar was more like a Pokémon that pestered him to play rock-paper-scissors every day. It was pretty cute.

"You don't believe it?" Geng Gui naturally noticed what was in Teng Shu's mind, and then his eyes suddenly changed, and then his body quickly expanded and twisted, and countless shadows were wrapped in his body. At the same time, a chilling breath spread out, causing a sense of fear to rise in Teng Shu's heart.

Moreover, the Gengar in front of him seemed more and more terrifying, just like a Cthulhu-type evil god.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 42: Puppet Theater

"I believe it, Elder Gengar, please put away your magical powers!" Teng Shu looked at the chaotic scene around him as if the end of the world had come, and hurriedly said to Gengar. Only then did Gengar return to his original state with a smug look.

But in just a short while, the Pokémon in the Orange Forest had become a mess, with Pokémon fleeing in panic everywhere. Teng Shu even saw a group of Beedrills falling from the sky to the ground, struggling constantly, and then they were directly frightened unconscious by Gengar's momentum.

It can be seen that when it comes to scaring Pokémon, Gengar is indeed unique and leading the way.

"Geng Li, are you willing to help me shoot a short film of about three minutes? You only need to appear on the stage for about ten seconds." Teng Shu looked at Gengar in front of him, and felt more and more that Gengar seemed more suitable for starring in the Pokémon-specific version of the horror short film "Lights Out", and it was scary enough. The only thing he had to worry about was whether the Jigglypuff he would find at that time could withstand Gengar's terrifying aura.

"Short film?" Gengar was a little hesitant.

"Two sugar cubes." Teng Shu made an offer.

"Deal!" Geng Gui slapped Teng Shu's hand.

The old butler stood aside and watched silently, feeling somewhat relieved in his heart. Now the relationship between Young Master Teng Shu and Overlord Gengar is getting better and better. This way, even if something happens in the future, Overlord Gengar can come to help.

"Then I..." Teng Shu touched his pocket, intending to take out the extra one as a deposit for Gengar, but then Teng Shu discovered that the ghost candy cube was gone.

Teng Shu was stunned for a moment. He searched around his body in confusion, but he found nothing. This made Teng Shu a little confused. What was going on? Why was the sugar cube gone?

When I gave it to Gengar just now, Teng Shu took it out, and then.

Teng Shu touched his pocket. He was very sure that he put the sugar cube in his pocket and hadn't touched it since. Moreover, Xiao Q was also above his head, so it was impossible that Xiao Q had eaten it secretly. So what was going on?

"My candy is gone." Teng Shu looked blankly at Gengar who was anxiously circling in front of him. Gengar's eyes widened, and he pounced over and put his face into Teng Shu's pocket and sniffed. There was still a lingering scent of candy there, but the problem was that the candy was really gone.

Gengar was as confused as a child weighing several hundred pounds.

Teng Shu was also very confused.

The candy disappeared from his pocket. Should we ask Kindaichi or Conan to take a look?

No, if they come, one of Teng Shu and the old housekeeper will die.

So where's my sugar?

Teng Shu didn't understand, but he really couldn't find it.

He could only put the matter aside for the time being, comforted the sad Gengar, and then followed the old butler to the outside of the puppet theater.

There is a queue at the Puppet Theater now, and many tourists holding "Dead Silence" movie tickets are talking excitedly. Fortunately, Gengar's momentum was quickly suppressed, otherwise this place would have been a mess.

"There are so many people." Teng Shu looked at the tourists in front of him with a smile on his lips.

These tourists had all seen Dead Silence, and then came to experience the Puppet Theater with their movie tickets. Teng Shu had previously asked the company's operations staff to promote the "Watch Movies and Visit Theaters" event. As long as you hold a Dead Silence movie ticket, you can use your ticket to enter the Puppet Theater for free and experience Jamie's escape journey.

The previously arranged Mary Shaw dolls and various other dolls are all in it, and then controlled by the ghost Pokémon originally in the mansion, which can bring the best fear experience to the tourists to the greatest extent.

"How's the traffic recently?" Teng Shu found the staff at the theater entrance, who were responsible for collecting ticket stubs and then invalidating them.

"Boss, the current daily traffic is about more than 23,000 people." The staff member hurriedly answered respectfully after seeing Teng Shu. Teng Shu nodded after hearing it. More than 20,000 people is not a small number. It is estimated that these people also contributed some fear points. I just don’t know whether these facilities will also collect fear points, or is it limited to movies?

The system didn't give a clear explanation, so Teng Shu could only figure it out on his own.

"How is the revenue?" Teng Shu asked again, and then the employee retrieved a revenue statement from the computer and showed it to Teng Shu. Teng Shu took it and took a look, and saw that the net profit was still very high.

Although the Puppet Theater and the Muppet Theatre are free now, other things inside are charged. The theater makes a lot of money just from the sale of drinks and food, plus the sale of swimming rings and boat shuttle services, so the Muppet Theater is actually still very profitable.

Teng Shu was very satisfied. When the popularity of Dead Silence died down, he would change the theater into other horror movie types, such as the abandoned hospital in The Conjuring, which is also a good choice, but the haunted house in The Grudge is also fine.

Moreover, the lake here in the mansion can also be used as a filming location for the movie "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village".

In the future, I may also shoot something like a cabin in the woods.

"Ahhh!!" A terrible scream was heard. Teng Shu was stunned for a moment, then looked at the door. Then he saw Miss Joy skillfully bringing Happiny in to carry the person.

"Is it that scary?" Teng Shu blinked. This puppet theater was designed by him. After entering, tourists actually just experience the whole process of Jamie entering the theater. It shouldn't be that scary, right?

After all, the horror level of "Dead Silence" is actually not enough for Teng Shu. It is far less scary than movies like "The Grudge". "The Grudge" really took horror movies in another direction, which is purely scary.

Many people think that it’s okay to hide in the quilt, go to the temple, or do it during the day. But Kayako has no moral principles and doesn’t care about these things at all and just kills him directly.

It is precisely because Kayako does not abide by the "Ghost World Convention" that "The Grudge" is so scary and the key reason why it is still popular despite being remade into so many movies.

"Ahem... Boss, could you please talk to the Dream Demon and ask her to hold back." The staff member walked over to Teng Shu and asked softly, but this also made Teng Shu understand why the tourists inside were so scared.

It’s no wonder it’s a dream demon.

This little thing is a little tsundere. Even though scaring people is a happy thing, she likes to pretend to be unhappy.

Some are like Chopper from One Piece.

"That little guy has the qualifications to be the overlord." A smaller version of Gengar jumped out from Teng Shu's shadow and lay on Teng Shu's shoulder.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 43 Fear Comes from the Unknown

"Overlord?" Teng Shu couldn't help but ask as he looked at the little Gengar on his shoulder.

He knew about the Overlords. The Alliance had done some research on Overlord Pokémon, but generally speaking, the specific causes of Overlord Pokémon were still a mystery and had not yet been fully deciphered.

There are quite a few Pokémon doctors in the league who are currently researching dominant Pokémon.

"Well, this little girl is just like me. She has an aura that can make people feel scared. But she still needs to practice. Being qualified and being able to become a dominant Pokémon are different." Gengar said proudly. He also went through a lot of hardships to become the dominant Pokémon that dominates an area.

"I see. It's like having Conqueror's Haki doesn't mean you can become a king, it just means you have the qualifications to be a king." Teng Shu understood. Isn't this almost the same setting as Conqueror's Haki?

"Although I don't quite understand what you are saying, it's okay as long as you understand it." Gengar looked at Teng Shu strangely. He didn't understand what Conqueror's Haki was, but looking at Teng Shu's expression, he seemed to understand it.

Just understand it.

"Mr. Gengar, aren't you curious about why my puppet theater is so scary?" Teng Shu said to Gengar with a smile, and Gengar immediately became interested after hearing it.

He was indeed very interested in why Teng Shu's theater was so scary. The fear that echoed in the theater made Geng Gui a little greedy.

But that was before. Now, what Gengar wants to eat most is the fear candy cube made by Teng Shu himself. The taste of that thing is simply amazing.

Gengar almost regretted eating so fast. If he had eaten slower, he might have been able to savor the wonderful taste more.

"Let's go. I'll take you in to experience it." Teng Shu led Gengar into the theater. The old butler wanted to follow him in, but Teng Shu felt that the old butler was too old, so he chose to let the old butler wait outside.

Then Teng Shu brought Geng Gui into the theater. He entered with four other tourists. The theater could accommodate five tourists at a time.

Teng Shu remained calm throughout the whole process. After all, all these scares were arranged by him.

He even knew when the puppets turned their heads, so naturally there was nothing to scare him.

But the other four tourists were different.

"Oh my God! Those dolls are looking at me!" A girl sang a very high note, and Teng Shu felt that she had the potential to become a soprano.

"How did you do it?" Gengar asked curiously while lying on Teng Shu's shoulder.

Little Q lay on the top of the rattan tree, staring at the tourists in front of it who were screaming in fear, and kept slurping his saliva.

These fear values ​​are delicious.

In Gengar's eyes, these puppets are just dead objects, with no ghost Pokémon controlling them at all, but these tourists are still so scared that they keep dropping delicious fears.

"Mr. Gengar, you should know that fear comes from the unknown." Teng Shu said softly.

This is also Teng Shu’s understanding of fear.

In Teng Shu's opinion, the biggest problem with movies and TV series in the Pokémon world is that they are not unknown enough. Most horror movies here have Pokémon appearing in them, and they are obvious.

It may seem a little scary at first, but it gets boring the more you watch it.

After all, there are just a few ghost Pokémon causing troubles all the time. After seeing Pokémon, the horror movie becomes an alternative trainer movie.

So for Teng Shu, Pokémon will not appear in the movies he shoots.

In this case, enough unknowns can bring about extreme fear.

"Unknown?" Geng Gui became interested. He was now a little interested in Teng Shu.

This guy seems to have a very unique understanding of how to scare people.

"Correct."

"Mr. Gengar, look, these puppets won't move, and there are no ghost Pokémon behind them. Even if tourists release Pokémon, they won't be able to find any ghost Pokémon."

"This way, tourists will feel fear, fear about why these dolls are staring at them."

Gengar moved closer and found something very interesting: no matter where he stood or from what angle he looked at the puppets, they were all looking at him.

This gave him a feeling of being watched.

"How interesting." Gengar stuck out his tongue and licked it. How do these puppets' eyes do this?

Just as the group continued walking, a puppet suddenly fell from above and landed in front of the couple leading the group.

Teng Shu blocked his ears skillfully, and then a sharp soprano voice tore through the silence of the theater, causing more puppets to fall.

This causes the soprano's pitch to continue to rise.

"Is this also your design?" Gengar floated to Teng Shu's side.

"Well, a small mechanism. However, the falling of these dolls has nothing to do with the mechanism." Teng Shu looked at the female tourist in front of him with a strange look. The singing voice of this female tourist was really outrageous.

Then, under the high-pitched singing voice of the female tourist, Teng Shu followed the tourist through scenes such as the puppet questioning and Mary Shaw puppet chasing.

By the time Teng Shu stood skillfully on the edge of the broken iron bridge, watching four tourists screaming and falling down, and then being frightened unconscious by Mary Shaw rushing towards them, the entire puppet theater tour had come to an end.

Mary Shaw flew up with a laugh. When she saw Teng Shu, she waved to him enthusiastically. Then she noticed Gengar on Teng Shu's shoulder.

This made Mary Shaw instantly alert.

"It seems that the only one appearing in your theater is this dream demon." Gengar didn't care about Mary Shaw's gaze. He just talked about his discovery with Teng Shu with great interest.

"Yes." Teng Shu nodded and admitted it.

In the entire theater, only the Dream Demon appears in front of the tourists, and the other ghost Pokémon are operating the mechanisms and sound systems in the back.

"People are too familiar with ghost-type Pokémon, so the appearance of ghost Pokémon will make people feel less scared." Teng Shu explained.

The same is true of his films.

There are no ghost Pokémon, but instead there are human evil spirits that humans cannot understand and most of the time cannot observe to make people feel scared.

This avoids the appearance of ghost Pokémon causing a change in the direction of the entire movie.

What Teng Shu wants to give the audience is The Grudge, but if Uncle Ying is included in the cast list, then domestic audiences won’t be too scared.

"Unknown?" Gengar seemed to be thinking about something. This method of scaring people seemed quite interesting. And looking at the screams of those tourists, it was clear that Teng Shu's idea was very successful.

Seeing Gengar, Haunter, and Gastly appear, I think most people are thinking about how to subdue them, rather than being afraid of [Doghead]

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 44: Pokémon Movie in the Pokémon World

"How is the work going? Do the employees have any other demands?" Teng Shu sat in the backstage, looking at the Pokémon working, and couldn't help but ask.

The dream demon was floating beside Teng Shu, and it was putting on makeup.

wrong.

It's called makeup, but it's more like plastic surgery.

The Dream Demon stretched its body to resemble Mary Shaw, even wearing a wig.