Pokémon: Dreams Come True Starting in Sinnoh

Chapter 170 Ruins, Unknown Totems, and Starlight

"Pikachu, be careful! We still don't know what's inside the ruins!"

"Pikachu~!"

Pikachu, walking beside Ash and remaining highly vigilant, responded with a sound of agreement.

Although it didn't know why Ash was in such a hurry to enter the seemingly dangerous ruins, Pikachu wouldn't question it since it was Ash's decision, as it always trusted Ash's judgment.

Well, except at intersections in forests and mountains.

"No...and not here either..."

Ash walked ahead, constantly searching through the various rooms within the ruins, trying to find some clues.

However, the ruins were completely empty.

That's for sure.

Anything of value should have been taken away by the league officials long ago.

This is just an old site for tourists to visit; it should only serve as a spiritual and emotional refuge.

But that shouldn't be the case.

There must be something that the league overlooked, but the Galaxy discovered.

"Pikachu, can you sense that there are other people inside the ruins?"

Ultimately, what Xiaozhi has now is just a conjecture. The probability of the conjecture being correct is high, but it is definitely not 100%. He is just on the way to verify it.

"Pi~"

When Ash asked him this, Pikachu closed its eyes and pricked up its ears, trying to find other sounds from the ruins that seemed to be on the verge of collapse at any moment. But in the end, Pikachu did not sense any presence other than Ash.

However, there is something strange. Although the sounds inside the ruins are very loud now, Pikachu's hearing and perception seem to be locked in a very small area. Even if it is just a wall away, it cannot get any information from inside.

Even if Ash didn't say anything, Pikachu could sense that this ruin was definitely not as simple as it appeared on the surface.

"Tsk, there aren't any here either."

Ash has been wandering around the ruins for half a day, but he still hasn't found anything.

Not to mention the Galaxy Team, he hasn't even seen a single person or even a shadow of an Unknown Totem.

Even Ash doesn't know whether the shaking of the ruins is related to Unown.

Just as Ash paused to consider whether to send out the other Pokémon to explore separately, Pikachu suddenly stood up, its ears twitching as if listening to something.

Suddenly, Pikachu's eyes widened and it began to scream.

"Pikachu! Pikachu!!"

"Ok?"

Pikachu's shouts drew Ash's attention back. Following Pikachu's direction, Ash saw a dark shadow moving about 20 meters ahead of them at the corner of the straight path.

The sounds seemed to be getting closer and closer.

Is it a person?

"Skin!"

Pikachu nodded at first, but then its expression became hesitant. It scratched its cheek, listening and thinking, and then came to a conclusion.

"Pikachu!" (They all exist!)

Xiao Zhi: "Huh?"

Before Ash could even express his confusion, the dark shadows that had been lurking around the corner instantly multiplied into countless figures and appeared before Ash and Pikachu.

Running ahead are the members of Team Galactic in their uniforms.

Behind them followed a vast and mighty army of unknown totems.

Countless unknown totems had crimson eyes that looked extremely angry.

Ash also recognized the person running in front among the Team Galactic members.

"really."

"Tsk."

Ash and the blue-haired man in the lead both recognized each other.

Zhenxing never expected to encounter this troublesome fellow in this ruin.

and--

Zhenxing looked behind him.

Behind them, there were still unknown totems surging forward like a tide. If they stopped here, they would probably be swallowed up by the unknown totems in less than ten seconds.

Since that's the case—

Zhenxing held the Gun Key he had unearthed from the ruins in one hand, and a Poké Ball in the other.

"Poison Skull Frog, face the wall and use Brick Break at full power!"

Under everyone's watchful eyes, Zhenxing changed course almost without hesitation, no longer heading towards Xiaozhi, but instead running towards another dead end.

"Lord Zhenxing?!"

"You mean...?!"

Before the Team Galactic members following behind Zhenxing could even speak, a hole was smashed into the wall of the ruins by Toxicroak's full-force attack.

The next second, Zhenxing and the Poison Skull Frog ran away from the cave entrance without looking back.

"Could what he's holding in his hand be...?"

Zhenxing moved too quickly, smashing through the wall and escaping just ten meters away from Ash and Pikachu at the corner, so Ash didn't even get Pikachu to launch an attack.

But the problem isn't there, it's in—

"Help! Help me!!"

"No!!"

Two seconds after Zhenxing escaped through the hole he had smashed, a black tide composed of unknown totems quickly filled all the empty spaces in the passageway.

Several members of Team Galactic were also swallowed up by the Unknown Totem in an instant.

"It's too late... Let's hurry! Wandering Night Spirit, use Heavy—hmm?"

Just as Ash was about to use Dusknoir to suppress the Unown that was about to reach him, the group of Unown at the front suddenly stopped and their blood-red pupils began to clear.

First came the leading group, followed by the second and third groups, and then all the unknown totems.

After making eye contact with Ash, they all calmed down without warning, but for some reason, Ash felt that the way they were looking at him...

It was like seeing a ghost; it was incredibly shocking.

"what is going on......"

“Pikachu…”

Ash and Pikachu stared at each other, neither understanding what was going on.

Is it really okay to just leave like this?

Just as Ash was thinking this, the thousands of Unknown Totems in front of him began to stir again. They connected one after another, floating and rotating in mid-air, eventually turning into countless phantoms and countless points of light.

In an instant, the entire ruins were enveloped in a deep blue light.

In Ash's eyes, the walls inside the ruins seemed to transform into endless starlight, streaking past him one after another.

My eyelids started to feel heavy, and my body felt somewhat out of control.

It's unclear how long he spent in that space, but Xiao Zhi's consciousness finally gave way, and he collapsed.

Just before he fainted, he seemed to hear Pikachu and Dawn calling urgently, and out of the corner of his eye—

A familiar figure stood beyond the starlight, silently watching him.

.......

P.S.: It seems that posts made after midnight are often stuck in the review process and won't be released until the next day.