Elf: Start your slow-paced life after becoming a farmer.

“Very good. Exchanging ideas with the Yamanashi Research Institute is the most important part of our talent development plan, and we cannot afford to fail.” Yeci turned his gaze away from the tablet in his hand. “Due to that accident, our Padia Alliance lost many researchers, and many research projects are at a standstill. If necessary, we can offer some projects for collaboration, but the research project on Taijinghua needs to be communicated to me in advance, understand?”

"I understand," Aoki nodded in agreement.

Just then, Clavell's phone, Rotom, which was on his desk, vibrated urgently. He picked up the phone, looked at Rotom, and immediately stood up and said to Yeci, "Chairman, Carl and Dr. Yamanashi are expected to arrive at Orange Academy in ten minutes. We need to leave now."

"Alright, let's set off then."

……

While the faculty and staff of Orange College were busy preparing to welcome Dr. Yamanashi, Carl was telling Dr. Yamanashi about what he knew about Orange College.

When Dr. Yamanashi heard about the bullying incident at Orange Academy and Yaji's cleanup of Orange Academy, he couldn't help but exclaim, "Even Orange Academy, with its long history, can something like this happen? But Miss Yaji's way of handling it was quite decisive."

“Of course, after all, she is the ‘only sun of the Padia Alliance’.” Karl said jokingly, “From what I know of Ye Ci, her only ideal is to develop the Padia Alliance. Therefore, she will eliminate any possibility that might hinder the Padia Alliance.”

"In some ways, she's a lot like Kikuno when she was young, both of them have that decisive and straightforward personality." Professor Yamanashi's tone revealed a hint of nostalgia. "However, she was much stronger than Kikuno was back then. If Kikuno had been able to become the Sinnoh Champion, the Sinnoh League would probably be better now."

“Indeed, they’re the kind of people who would say things like, ‘The region is my lover,’” Carl commented.

Although Dr. Yamanashi thought Carl's description was very accurate, as an elder, Dr. Yamanashi still reminded him, "It's okay to say such things in front of me, but don't say them in front of Kikuno."

"Oh dear, Doctor, do I look like the kind of person who's brainless?" Karl retorted helplessly.

“Of course you’re not a brainless person, but you always do things that are out of place, don’t you?” Dr. Yamanashi glared at Carl, annoyed. “Like when you sneaked away, I got scolded by Kikuno for quite a while.”

Seeing Dr. Yamanashi, who was usually so serious, showing such a complaining expression, Carl found it amusing and retorted, "But I really don't want to be the champion, Doctor. You know my personality. What if I lose my temper and beat up those old geezers who are just sitting around doing nothing? Wouldn't that make things even worse?"

“Okay, you are the kind of person who would do something like that, but in my opinion, Kikuno would probably rather you beat those people up than sneak away.” Dr. Yamanashi stroked his chin. “After all, Kikuno did something like that when she was young, and nothing happened to her, did it?”

"Oh?"

This was the first time Karl had heard this from Dr. Yamanashi. He smiled slightly and said, "So, when Kikuno was young, she was even more irritable than me? I thought she had been tormented by all that mess in the League for so many years before she became like this."

Seeing the subtle expression on Karl's face, Dr. Yamanashi realized he had let something slip: "Ahem, I didn't say anything just now, so don't go around telling everyone."

"Doctor, do I look like the kind of person who talks nonsense everywhere?" Karl asked with a serious expression.

Dr. Yamanashi glanced at Carl: "Yes, you won't go around saying it, but you will say it to Kikuno's face!"

“You understand me best, Doctor,” Karl chuckled.

"You, you." Dr. Yamanashi shook his head and didn't say anything more.

As someone who watched Carl grow up, Dr. Yamanashi is probably the person in the world who understands Carl's personality best.

In Dr. Yamanashi's opinion, this brat is very reliable most of the time, but he occasionally goes crazy and says some very infuriating truths.

In Carl's view, what he said was the absolute truth, and if you were angry, then you were in the wrong.

Just as Carl and Dr. Yamanashi were talking, the magnificent Table City appeared before them without them noticing.

"Dr. Yamanashi, we've arrived."

Chapter 255: Did the Prophecy of the Ancient Times Come True?

When Carl and Dr. Yamanashi landed in the plaza in front of the Orange Academy gates, the Orange Academy leadership, led by Ye Ci, immediately rushed to greet them.

“Dr. Yamanashi, I am Claver, the Dean of Orange Academy.” Claver, as the representative of Orange Academy, stepped forward and shook hands with Dr. Yamanashi. “Welcome to Orange Academy.”

"Hello, Principal Claver." Dr. Yamanashi smiled and said to the principal, who was about the same age as him, "My son Carl has been well taken care of by you."

“Not at all, Professor Carl is the most popular teacher in our college. Many students look forward to taking one of his classes.” Claver returned the smile. “Now, please come with us.”

"it is good."

Since Carl had discussed it with Dr. Yamanashi beforehand, he did not leave with Dr. Yamanashi and the rest of the Orange Academy students.

After all, as a teacher at Orange Academy, Carl was already quite familiar with the academy, even though he had only taught there for one semester.

As Dr. Yamanashi walked through the gates of Orange Academy surrounded by a group of faculty and staff, Carl immediately took out his phone and sent a message to someone in his contacts.

[Karl: Where are we?]

[Bamboo Orchid: Looking back.]

After seeing Zhu Lan's message, Karl subconsciously turned around and saw Zhu Lan standing not far behind him.

Today, Zhu Lan wore sunglasses, a simple white T-shirt, and washed denim jeans. The slightly tight denim fabric accentuated her perfect leg lines.

If an ordinary person wore this outfit, it would probably look quite ordinary, but it's Zhu Lan, so this outfit gives her a youthful and vibrant feel. In short, Zhu Lan's looks are so stunning that even if she were wearing a burlap sack, she would still look amazing.

Coincidentally, Karl was also wearing a white T-shirt and jeans today, but he wasn't wearing sunglasses.

So after seeing each other's outfits, the two of them simultaneously felt a strange, indescribable feeling.

"Sorry to keep you waiting." Karl quickly approached Zhu Lan and said apologetically, "It must have taken a long time to get from Niangguang City to Zhuotai City."

“I just arrived not long ago either.” Zhu Lan waved her hand and said to Karl with a smile, “Let’s go, let’s find a place to sit down first.”

“Okay.” Carl nodded. “How about we go to the coffee shop we went to last time?”

"no problem."

In fact, the reason why Zhulan asked Karl to meet her today was not because of Gadriya, but because of the "prophecy" that she had mentioned to Karl last time.

Because this matter is still confidential, Zhu Lan did not mention it online, but instead invited Carl to meet today to discuss Dr. Jie Zilan's new discovery in person.

In fact, if Zhu Lan hadn't brought it up herself, Karl would have long forgotten about the prophecy. After all, there was no plot related to the prophecy in his memories of his previous life, so he didn't take it to heart.

However, since Zhu Lan brought up the matter herself this time, Karl didn't want to offend her, as he still considered her a friend after all.

After the waiter left the table, Zhu Lan took off her sunglasses, casually took a tablet out of her handbag, and placed it on the table.

"So, what have you discovered this time?" Karl asked lazily, resting his chin on his hand.

“Karl, you should know that different regions have their own unique myths and legends, right?” Zhu Lan tapped the tablet a few times with her fingers, then pushed it in front of Karl.

“Of course.” Karl raised an eyebrow, looking down at the tablet, which displayed an old-looking stone slab. “So the new discovery is related to myths and legends from various regions?”

“Yes.” Zhu Lan nodded. “Although we haven’t completely deciphered all the unearthed stone tablets, we have roughly deciphered the contents recorded on this stone tablet.”

"Oh? So what's recorded on it?" Karl's gaze fell on the tablet, although he could vaguely make out that the stone tablet was engraved with unknown totems.

However, Karl had not specifically memorized the English letters that the unknown totem represented. Although he might be able to decipher the contents of the stone tablet if given enough time, he could not understand them at the moment.

"Could it be a prophecy related to the three sacred birds of the Kanto region?" Karl said to Zhu Lan with a smile.

As soon as Karl finished speaking, Zhu Lan gave him a surprised look: "You can read the writing on the stone tablet?"

"?"

Upon hearing this, Carl frowned. It was not hard to tell from Zhu Lan's expression that the research team that discovered the stone tablet had indeed deciphered the content related to the Three Sacred Birds from it.

In Carl's understanding, the only major event in the Pokémon world related to the three legendary birds was probably "The Birth of Lugia".

'So the prophecies on these stone tablets are true?' Karl's expression immediately turned serious.

While it's true that many Pokémon and humans in this world can briefly foresee the future, this stone tablet must be at least a hundred years old, right? Could it be that someone really foresaw what's happening in this era a hundred years ago?

In Carl's knowledge, there are very few Pokémon in the world capable of predicting the future to this extent, and if the scope is narrowed down to the Sinnoh region, there are even fewer.

Aside from the possibility that a Pokémon in the distant past used foresight to foresee the present events, Carl also considered another possibility—perhaps he wasn't the first traveler to this world.

The possible time traveler predecessor did not travel to this era. Therefore, out of a sense of responsibility or perhaps some kind of wicked sense of humor, he engraved all the major future events he knew on a stone tablet, which have been passed down to the present day.

"Hmm... Zhulan, besides deciphering that the contents of this stone tablet are related to the Three Sacred Birds, have you deciphered anything else?" Karl asked seriously.

"We've only deciphered that the Three Sacred Birds might cause chaos for some reason, but we haven't yet figured out what that reason is or where the chaos will occur," Zhu Lan replied truthfully.

After hearing Zhu Lan's words, Karl fell silent. Based solely on what Zhu Lan said, he could deduce that the content recorded on the stone tablet was most likely the plot of "The Birth of Lugia".

Although with Carl's current strength, speedrunning Lugia's Explosion wouldn't be difficult for him, he still frowned.

“Zhu Lan, if I may ask, how many similar stone slabs have you unearthed?” Karl asked.

“We’ve found nine stone tablets so far, but we’ve only deciphered part of their contents.” Zhu Lan’s tone grew increasingly serious as she looked at Karl’s grave expression. “Karl, have you thought of something?”

"Well, I guess so." Karl said the excuse he had just come up with: "After all, my team includes Zapdos, one of the three legendary birds."

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Chapter 256 Bamboo Orchid: Who is it?

"You caught Zapdos?"

Zhu Lan looked at Karl sitting opposite her, and her expression became quite interesting.

When Karl said those words, he spoke so calmly, as if he had just caught a Stardust, but that was Zapdos, a legendary Pokémon that only exists in the Kanto and Johto regions.

“Yes, you heard me right.” Karl said frankly, “However, the Zapdos I tamed is most likely not the one in the prophecy.”

Upon hearing this, Zhu Lan frowned, rested her chin on her hands, and adopted an expression of eagerness to hear more.

Karl collected his thoughts before explaining, "In fact, the three legendary birds are all legendary Pokémon with their own families, but only the three Pokémon called the 'Thunder God,' the 'Fire God,' and the 'Ice God' can truly have an impact on the world and can be called the 'Three Legendary Birds.'"

Zhu Lan nodded, then pressed on, "So, Karl, do you know under what circumstances the Three Holy Birds would have an impact on the world?"

“Hmm…that’s a good question.” Karl recalled his memories from his previous life and said with some uncertainty, “As far as I know, if the three sacred birds are provoked at the same time, they will go into a berserk state. Being closely related to nature, they will subconsciously vent their anger, which will cause the world to fall into chaos.”

“I see.” Zhu Lan looked thoughtful. “Judging from your description, Karl, the situation of the Three Sacred Birds seems to be somewhat similar to that of the Three Cloud Gods in the legend.”

After realizing that the world would be thrown into turmoil by various legendary Pokémon, Cynthia crammed on information about the Pokémon that appeared in myths and legends.

In fact, the Three Cloud Gods have not only left behind myths and legends in the Unova region, but ancient artifacts related to the Three Cloud Gods have also been unearthed in the Sinnoh region.

However, what Cynthia doesn't know is that there are actually four Cloud Gods. According to Karl, the Cloud God who represents spring seems to be somewhere in the Sinnoh region.

“No, they are not quite the same in nature.” Karl shook his head and explained, “The Three Sacred Birds essentially represent elements of nature, while the Three Cloud Gods represent natural ‘phenomena’.”

Carl then added, "However, in retrospect, their emotional fluctuations all affect the natural environment."

Of course, in addition to what Carl mentioned above, the three sacred birds and the three cloud gods have a fundamental difference: the four cloud gods do not actually have a direct subordinate relationship, while the three sacred birds have a common "superior".

Even though Landorus is the elder brother of Thundercloud and Tornado, it can only discipline Thundercloud and Tornado and clean up their messes, and cannot have the "commanding" authority over the three legendary birds like Lugia.

However, in the story of "The Birth of Lugia", the god of monsoons and ocean currents, who was good at slacking off, did not show its true strength. But in the movie "Halo: Hoopa the Movie", Lugia showed its powerful strength to fight against several other legendary Pokémon and was temporarily banished to a corner of the world by Hoopa.

Therefore, from this perspective, even if Carl doesn't participate in the plot of "The Birth of Lugia," the god of monsoons and ocean currents has enough power to cover everything.

But Carl was never the kind of person to place his hopes on others; even without the prophecy, he had already planned to participate in the plot of "The Birth of Lugia".

After all, Karl's team also has a Zapdos. If something happens to that Thunder God, then his Zapdos could also play the role of "Thunder God".

Next, Karl asked some questions related to the prophetic tablets, but according to Zhulan, the progress of deciphering the tablets was very slow, so Zhulan did not know any additional information.

"Speaking of which, Zhulan, why did you come to me with these things?" Carl took a sip of his iced latte and asked curiously, "Shouldn't these matters be discussed with the champions from the other regions?"

“In fact, I did contact them.” Zhu Lan’s lips curled up slightly as if she had thought of something interesting. “But, how should I put it, they all recommended the same person to me.”

Karl's eyelids twitched, and he said with some uncertainty, "This person isn't me, is he?"

“Yes.” Zhu Lan nodded affirmatively. “After all, someone’s strength has been recognized by many parties.”

Upon hearing this, Carl sighed helplessly: "Even if you say that, I'm just an ordinary farmer right now. This kind of important matter shouldn't be my place to get involved, right?"

Speaking of this, Carl recalled that the champion titles in both the Kanto and Johto regions were currently vacant, but Carl estimated that he would receive news soon that a Flying-type Elite Four member had become the Johto region champion.

However, the red-haired dragon tamer probably didn't have much time to deal with such "ethereal" matters, since he was more concerned with the present than with prophecy.

Steven, the current champion of the Hoenn region, is a rock fanatic. Carl guesses that he's probably still mining rocks in some mine right now. The current leader of the Hoenn region is probably Michael, the "Citizen of Sootopolis" from Sootopolis City.

According to information Carl recently learned, Mikoli seems to be developing his "Glamour Contest".

"So those guys all think I'm just bored?" Carl sighed helplessly.

“Isn’t that right?” Cynthia glanced at Carl sideways. “Do you know how much work the regional champion does every day? Not to mention our Sinnoh region, where the champion title has been vacant for a long time.”

“I guess, maybe I know?” Karl scratched his head awkwardly, then quickly changed the subject. “But even if I were to investigate these things, I wouldn’t have any clue.”

This is a lie. As a time traveler, Karl naturally knows the starting point of the plot of "The Birth of Lugia", but as Karl just said, he is currently just an ordinary farmer.

Although he had a "some" wide network of connections, he didn't actually have many resources to investigate the audacious "collector" who planned to collect Lugia.

Suddenly, as if struck by a thought, Karl muttered to himself, "If it's that guy, we might actually be able to find some clues."

After hearing Karl's words, Zhu Lan also became interested: "That guy?"

“It’s a scientist with technology far ahead of our time.” Karl gave a mysterious smile. “If it’s him, we should be able to find some clues.”

"it?"

Chapter 257 Mewtwo's "Amazing Wisdom"

In the common language of the Pokémon world, "he," "she," "it," and "he" all have specific meanings, while the word "it" is used in most cases to refer to other races besides humans, especially Pokémon.

Therefore, Karl's statement, "He is a scientist with technology far beyond what is available in this era," is roughly equivalent to saying, "I know a dog named Bruce who can perform nuclear fusion by hand."

Of course, this is the world of Pokémon, and Pokémon with intelligence far exceeding that of humans actually exist. Therefore, Cynthia naturally interpreted Carl's words as: I know a Pokémon with high intelligence, which may have a way to investigate this matter.