I run an orphanage in the Pokémon world.

So the effect of this thing is...

[Dialga Stone: Placed in any area, it slows down or speeds up time within that area by a certain factor, ranging from -3x to +3x.]

[The magical stone can only be obtained by traveling through time and space to repair the abnormal timeline.]

"Hiss... What does this mean? Acceleration and deceleration time? It looks good, but there seem to be some problems." Teng Shu looked at the stone and couldn't help but gasp. But why did this thing feel a bit strange? There was a sense of awe and wonder about it.

Thinking of this, Teng Shu took the thing aside and studied it. After trying it for an hour, Teng Shu finally figured out how to obtain it.

Strictly speaking, this thing is actually a rather peculiar little gadget that can speed up and slow down time. Judging from the current situation, it seems that Tengshu's thoughts will not be affected by slowing down, but speeding up will still have an impact, and it will only affect the area where it is used; time flows normally outside.

Teng Shu felt that this prop was somewhat mysterious and impressive, but he still put it away. Although he didn't know what it was used for now, it might come in handy in the future.

"So I just went to fix an abnormal timeline?" Teng Shu thought of the hints from this thing. He wasn't stupid, so he could naturally see what was special about this thing. So after making the connection, Teng Shu understood.

The dilapidated world he had just seen was indeed, as he had imagined, an abnormal timeline. In this timeline, Teng Shu saw Vladali, who had finally achieved his goal, activated the ultimate weapon, and successfully achieved immortality. The opponent had also subdued the X and Y gods, and even the Alliance might not be a match for him. After all, with this ultimate weapon, if too many Alliance members went, they would only be sending themselves to their deaths.

This weapon must be destroyed first.

"But I didn't expect it to be set up like this." Teng Shu scratched his head. But if that's the case, what about Hua Yedi in that underground building? After all, Ifiltar had told him not to waste his time on Hua Yedi.

Teng Shu couldn't figure these questions out, but the team building trip was almost over after a few days. After all, the beacon mission was completed, and Teng Shu felt that taking everyone back now was a good choice.

Just as he was about to leave, Tengshu saw Flareon waving at him. Tengshu was a little confused, but he still went over. As for where to put Flareon, Tengshu had already thought about it. He would just put Flareon in the orphanage.

Although strictly speaking, someone is still looking for the flower leaf bud, the fact that it has come to the vine tree at this moment makes the vine tree feel that this might be a hint at something.

But when it got close to the flower petal, the vine saw what it wanted it to see.

A map.

Something similar to a map.

The drawing was rather rough, but Tengshu understood it. The starting point was Miare City, and what it was pointing to seemed to be a town below. Looking at the name of that town, Tengshu remembered that the ultimate weapon seemed to be hidden in this place called the Final City, which was also called Estette City.

It is said that in the earliest days, people did this in order to revive their dead Pokémon, but since these stories are all passed down orally, it is questionable whether they are reliable.

After all, legends can be distorted, and sometimes the story may be very different from the original origin.

"You want me to go here?" Teng Shu sensed something, and seeing Hua Yedi nodding repeatedly, Teng Shu was certain that Hua Yedi did intend for him to go to this place. With that in mind, Teng Shu took Hua Yedi there.

When they arrived at this place, Tengshu saw some things that resembled Stonehenge. Not far from Stonehenge, Huayedi stopped and pointed eagerly down. A thought flashed through Tengshu's mind: Could this place be the buried secret of the Kingdom of Fran?

Thinking about it this way, it seemed to be a real possibility. With that in mind, Tengshu quickly called for help to dig. After all, Tengshu's Pokémon were all out having group activities, and Tengshu didn't want to disturb their rare leisure and entertainment, so he called for help himself. After the people came, Tengshu dug for a bit.

After digging it open, Tengshu saw what he wanted to see: those strange stone bricks. The discovery of these things excited Tengshu, and he quickly asked someone to help him try to break them open. However, Tengshu hesitated when breaking them open, because he didn't know if breaking them open would have any effect on the Pokémon inside.

Sometimes, certain ancient tombs require special excavation methods. In the past, when archaeology wasn't as advanced, there were instances where artifacts were destroyed during excavation, and even Pokémon...

"Wait a minute, if that's the case..." Teng Shu suddenly realized something. He had previously thought that the Flower Leafy inside had died outside, but looking at the excited Flower Leafy in front of him, Teng Shu realized that this seemed to be the Beacon Pokémon he had seen before.

But if that's the case, what about the dead flower bud? Why is the dead flower bud relieved of its burden?

Teng Shu was even more confused.

However, Tengshu still had people split open the wall. Strangely, the wall that couldn't be broken open from the inside was easily taken down from the outside. The moment it was taken down, a very peculiar smell wafted out. Tengshu looked down.

Sunlight streamed in through the opening, revealing lush green grass inside. Some Pokémon were wandering around, and upon seeing the sunlight, they instinctively closed their eyes.

Tengshu also saw Greninja and Piplup inside.

And this matter could no longer be kept secret. After all, the construction team was in a panic when they unearthed this thing that resembled an ancient ruin. They were even more panicked when they saw that there were quite a few Pokémon inside.

So, Officer Jenny arrived, Professor Pokémon arrived, and League staff arrived. Tengshu was both amused and exasperated, but he could only stand there and wait for others to ask him questions.

As the main force proceeded as usual, the excavation and protection here also went smoothly. However, to Teng Shu's surprise, although the exit of this place was still there, it was not an infinitely long corridor, but an ordinary small corridor leading to the location of the ultimate weapon.

The ultimate weapon became known to people because of this incident, but Tengshu was not paying attention to those things at the moment. He was watching the Pokémon.

The Pokémon were rescued, but...

One by one, the Pokémon fell to the ground, lifeless. Vine held Flower Leaf in its arms. Flower Leaf looked at this scene with a mixture of sadness and joy for their liberation.

“These Pokémon…they seem to be very old, their bone age is already…” This naturally attracted Officer Jenny’s attention, but after Nurse Joy examined them, she found it hard to believe. After all, normally, most Pokémon of this bone age would already be dead, but these Pokémon were still alive and could even hop around a few steps, which was quite absurd.

Although they were dying quickly, one by one.

As Teng Shu watched this scene, he felt a tightness in his chest. Just as he had thought, these Pokémon were a rather unique type of Pokémon. They were already dead, but it was the power of Florifoli that brought them back to life.

"Mr. Teng Shu, how did you know?" Miss Officer Jenny looked at Teng Shu with a puzzled expression. Teng Shu had a bit of a headache; these people had asked him this question countless times.

However, this time Teng Shu answered honestly that he had dreamed about it.

Officer Jenny was very suspicious of this, but she really had no way to prove that this matter was related to Teng Shu.

After all, Teng Shu had only been to Miare City once before, so it's impossible that he found it by following a treasure map, right?

Teng Shu turned his head away. He didn't want to see these Pokémon die. Although he knew that these Pokémon were already dead, after spending a day or two with them, just thinking about the claw marks on the walls made Teng Shu take a deep breath.

These Pokémon just want to survive, but it's clearly an impossible dream for these little guys.

"?" A strange voice rang out. Teng Shu turned his head and saw Greninja holding Piplup.

Chapter 573 Farewell

"Greninja, Piplup..." Looking at these two Pokémon, Tengshu felt a pang of emotion. He naturally remembered the scene of Greninja helping him without hesitation, and he also remembered Piplup's cute and adorable appearance. But now, they were going to die too.

Greninja and Pogaman let out a happy call. The vine tree couldn't sense their emotions, but it could sense that they seemed to be in a good mood. After all, their calls were full of gratitude, and the object of their gratitude was the flower petal.

Looking at the Pokémon before her, Flower Leaf looked at them with a hint of sadness in her eyes, but mostly with blessings.

Greninja made a strange gesture, then waved at the vine tree as if saying goodbye.

Immediately afterwards, Greninja quietly left, while Piplup jumped down, happily ran to the side of the vine, circled around the vine's feet, then tilted its head to look at the vine, happily waving its short little wings.

"...Goodbye, Piplup." Teng Shu looked at Piplup, raised his hand and waved. Piplup smiled and then lay peacefully next to Greninja, closing his eyes.

Everything seemed to have returned to its previous deathly silence.

The destiny of life and death has never been escaped. Even if one is lucky enough to occasionally gain a chance at survival, one may be trapped in an endless cycle of reincarnation, repeating the same cycle over and over again, and eventually losing oneself completely.

Fortunately, Florifolia finally let go of her resentment, thus preventing these Pokémon from dying day after day.

Then, inevitably, Teng Shu was invited for tea.

If it weren't for the fact that Teng Shu's whereabouts were normal, he had no criminal record, and he was a Deathspeaker of the Alliance, it would have been quite difficult for him to leave this place.

The ultimate weapon.

This is so scary.

Every child who grows up in the Carlos region has heard this distant story, though their versions may differ slightly.

In the ancient times of Carlos, before the Alliance was established, people there suffered a life of pain and torment. One day, death shrouded the Carlos region. It was the attack of the ultimate weapon. Just one attack almost sank the entire continent of Carlos into the sea.

This is the most popular legend in the Carlos region, but Tengshu was both amused and exasperated when he heard it. How could this ultimate weapon be so exaggerated?

It's possible to drain life force, and the effect didn't affect the entire continent of Carlos. Otherwise, Teng Shu wouldn't have been able to see the alliance members who came here to deal with the problem when he left.

However, just as Teng Shu was about to leave, he was called back.

"...You mean, Vladali wants to see me?" Teng Shu was a little surprised to hear this, but seeing the serious look in the Alliance police officer's eyes, he still went to see him.

Vladali.

The other party's strange behavior and the inexplicable words in the dream left Teng Shu somewhat confused. After all, this was the leader of the dark organization that he had sent in, so Teng Shu was also curious to see what the other party was planning to say.

When they arrived at the prison's visiting room, Teng Shu saw Vladali.

As soon as Teng Shu sat down and picked up the phone, he heard Vladali's voice.

"Tengshu, you just went into that place, didn't you? I still couldn't defeat you." Fradigri looked at Tengshu with bloodshot eyes. He had tried his best and tried all sorts of methods. With so many Pokémon in the dream, plus the attacks from Yveltal and Xerneas, Fradigri felt that he had a chance.

But unexpectedly, the Vine Tree was truly immune to all Pokémon attacks.

"What do you mean?" Teng Shu was somewhat surprised and uncertain, but he also considered some possibilities.

That was his dream, but it wasn't really a dream. According to the reward he received from the Dialga Stone, he must have traveled to another timeline and met a different version of Vladari, who had achieved his ambitions.

Just like in Team Rainbow Rocket.

"Nothing, you are indeed very different. But what did you do? Why didn't I have that dream again?" This was also the reason why Vladali contacted Tengshu. He would definitely have this dream every time he went to sleep. He was almost driven to the brink of collapse. Having this dream every day sometimes even caused Vladali to have some hallucinations.

He even suspected that his life in reality was a dream.

However, just now, he controlled himself, but he still couldn't beat Tengshu. To avoid being attacked and humiliated by Tengshu later, he committed suicide. He originally thought he would try a different method this time, but unexpectedly, he fell asleep normally this time.

After regaining consciousness, Vladali began shouting that he wanted to see Tengshu, even threatening to kill himself, just to find out what had happened.

"You're dead." Teng Shu looked at Fladali with some confusion. Fladali was dead, the timeline had returned to normal, Flower Leaf had redeemed herself and its trainer, and chose to leave peacefully. There was nothing wrong with that, so why did Fladali look so surprised?

Vladali was somewhat confused, so the way to escape the endless nightmare was suicide?

However, it seems that this is the only chance he has.

Vladari felt a great sense of relief. He had wanted to sleep so much. The entire Blaze team was under a lot of pressure because of Vladari's unstable emotions. Sometimes he would do strange things, which posed a huge threat to his teammates.

Now, Vladali finally felt relieved. If what Tengshu said was true, and if there really wasn't another chance to enter the dream world, then Vladali felt that he could finally get a good night's sleep.

"Thank you." With that thought, Vladali felt much more relaxed. He didn't want to do anything now, he just wanted to go back and get a good night's sleep. So much low-quality sleep had made Vladali want to die, but now, he was finally free.

Teng Shu was a little confused by Vladali's words, but he didn't care too much about it. Seeing that Vladali was alright, Teng Shu left. He planned to go back to the orphanage and leave with Hua Yedi.

As for the trainer of Flameleaf, Tengshu had a rough idea. Flameleaf's trainer must have gone to that world and sacrificed himself.

After all, the path to redemption is never walked alone. That ultimate weapon granted both Flora and the trainer near-eternal life, so it should be returned to those Pokémon.

“Miare City…” Teng Shu looked at Miare City, then left with Locke, who had returned after receiving the news, and the other little ones.

It's unlikely that it will come in the future.

After Teng Shu left, Vladali's backup plan was activated: Project ZA...

Teng Shu was unaware of this place. He had already arrived at the orphanage and was sitting on his bed. He felt all his fatigue disappear. However, he did not forget that he still had things to do.

After settling Flower Leaf, Tengshu went to the infirmary to check on the Arcanine and Growlithe.

As soon as he arrived at the infirmary, Teng Shu saw Miss Officer Jenny.

"What is this?" Teng Shu was a little confused. Locke hadn't come to work yet, after all, he had just returned. Teng Shu wasn't that devilish, making people come back to work immediately after their vacation.

Although Locke's work is relatively easy and pleasant, since his daily tasks are very simple and he shouldn't suffer from work-related stress, it's still advisable to let him rest for a while.

"Dean Teng Shu, hello. I'm from the Officer Jenny Police Pokémon Training Team of Changqing City." The other person greeted Teng Shu very crisply. Teng Shu was a little surprised to see this. This person is here? Could it be that these two Arcanines and Growlithes have some kind of background?

Therefore, the Officer Jenny Police Pokémon Training Team was originally called the Officer Jenny Police Dog Team, which was responsible for training excellent Growlithe and Arcanine for Officer Jenny so that she could have a qualified and capable partner.

However, as the number of Pokémon has increased, some Pokémon have been recognized and trained by Officer Jenny because they are more suitable as working Pokémon.

Since not all of these Pokémon are canines, the police dog center was naturally renamed the police Pokémon Training Center, which is quite unique.

However, this department is generally not accessible to the general public, since they specialize in training Pokémon. Occasionally, some Pokémon that have been trained but deemed unsuitable for police use will be sent out, and then it becomes the most festive day for people.

After all, while these Pokémon aren't really suitable as work Pokémon, they are still quite good. Some newcomers even come here specifically to choose them, making it a very special way to obtain Pokémon.

“These two…” Teng Shu felt something was off. If they really were lost Pokémon, Officer Jenny would probably be furious. After all, these Pokémon are unlikely to get lost most of the time, and even if they do, they are usually recovered quickly and the punishment is very severe.

Normally, people who aren't mentally challenged wouldn't intentionally acquire Pokémon through training in this way; the cost and consequences are too great.

"I'm here for testing, since one of our pregnant Growlithe dogs went missing from our center." Officer Jenny's words made Teng Shu breathe a sigh of relief. Could it really be true?

Fortunately, that wasn't the case. Officer Jenny checked it and found that the Arcanine was quite old and seemed to have been selected as a Pokémon for egg-laying and had undergone multiple breeding processes.

Officer Jenny's opinion is that this Growlithe was probably abandoned by a breeding center or private breeder, most likely a private breeding studio, since breeding centers are generally very reputable and unlikely to do such a thing.

Officer Jenny left, and Growlithe's condition became more stable thanks to the special medicine she brought. Arcanine remained the same, but it was much better than before.

"Private breeding?" Teng Shu's eyes held a thoughtful look.

So-called private training is actually an illegal industry, or rather, an industry that operates in a gray area.

"However, if it's a private breeding facility, there might be other Arcanines and Growlithes. After all, these dogs have canine distemper and parvovirus, which are highly contagious diseases. Could there be other abandoned Pokémon?" Teng Shu thought of a possibility. After thinking of this possibility, Teng Shu couldn't sleep. He hurriedly went out and took a walk around the orphanage.

But still, there was nothing.

This made Teng Shu feel somewhat preoccupied.

Indeed, what people fear most are not the spiders that come out into the open, but those that hide in the shadows; you never know how many of these spiders there are.

It's especially creepy when you're getting ready for bed at night and you accidentally see a big spider crawl by, and then you get up to look for it but can't find it.

At that moment, the house belonged to the spider, not you.

Teng Shu returned home somewhat dejectedly.

Confused about the situation, Tengshu couldn't sleep. When he tried to use the item to locate the trainer's ID, he discovered that the trainer of Arcanine had registered to release it.