Chapter 9: Save Her
This was already the second time Li Wei had been princess-carried today.
To be fair, it felt pretty good.
Being held by Gallade felt way more exciting than being held by Mime Jr., of course it would be even better if it were Gardevoir.
The underground area was much more spacious and high-end than the dim little room Li Wei had imagined.
The silver-white walls enclosing the walls and floor seemed to be coated with some strange attribute, as in this space he couldn’t detect any aura at all.
This must be the “insulation material” his father had mentioned before.
Li Yuan Sheng didn’t hide their surprise attack at all, and the moment they landed, they were surrounded by a group of Houndoom and Golbat.
But many times quantitative change doesn’t equal qualitative change, and reality is just that cruel and bloody.
They didn’t even need Li Yuan Sheng to give orders; several Pokémon started acting on their own.
Aggron stood motionless, steady as a rock.
Neither the Houndoom’s flames nor the Golbat’s wing attacks made him budge at all.
It didn’t hurt a bit; he even yawned leisurely, lifted his front claw, and swatted away the annoying Houndoom and Golbat in front of him.
The remaining few Pokémon were the same, cut down like chopping vegetables, as easy as a king big shot abusing noobs in silver rank.
And Chandelure’s side was even more ridiculous.
He just floated there silently, doing nothing, playing with his flames.
It seemed his job was just to intimidate, or to highlight his father’s coolness.
But this one-sided crushing and “entertaining” battle didn’t last long.
The sealed door not far away opened.
Instantly, nearly twenty men in black rushed out from inside, summoning their Pokémon and launching a fierce attack on Li Yuan Sheng and Li Wei.
It was at that moment, when the door opened, that the lines named aura lit up before Li Wei’s eyes once again.
But this time the amount of aura was so dense that Li Wei felt a bit of trypophobia for a moment.
And mixed among the gray-white-black, a single blue strand stood out especially conspicuously.
At the same time, Gallade noticed something too, casting a meaningful glance toward the slowly closing door.
【Help···help.】
From that aura line that had begun turning gray-white, Li Wei read such information.
His eyes widened involuntarily; after silently taking a breath, he continued perceiving the information transmitted by this faint blue aura.
【Is there anyone who can···already···】
The information transmitted by the aura was intermittent, not even a complete sentence could be read, and more seriously, the emotion contained in this aura was a plea wrapped in endless despair, hoping for divine mercy.
As if praying for a miracle just before death.
Li Wei clearly perceived it as if through empathy, as if he himself were transmitting this emotion at this moment.
And being overly empathetic and easily influenced, Li Wei’s mood grew heavy in that instant.
“Dad, something inside the door is crying for help!”
“Hostage?”
Human and Pokémon aura are subtly different.
Human aura is mostly winding, tortuous, and complicated, countless lines bundled together; but Pokémon aura is the complete opposite.
The aura emanating from inside the door earlier was singular.
After judging this way, Li Wei continued shouting to his father.
“It’s a Pokémon!!!”
The two didn’t have time to quibble about whether humans and Pokémon were the same thing; Gallade, who had noticed the anomaly, nodded to Li Wei’s father at that moment.
The two exchanged looks for a moment, as if exchanging some unspoken understanding.
After encrypted communication, Li Yuan Sheng understood what Gallade had perceived, turned to look at Li Wei’s anxious expression, contemplated for a while, and made a decision.
“Do you want to go in and save it?”
“Yes!”
It wasn’t just wanting to go; he had to go.
The massive gray-white lines made it impossible for Li Wei to imagine what the Pokémon inside had suffered.
Slaughterhouse?
Corpse pile?
He didn’t know, and couldn’t imagine.
He only knew how desperate the still-living Pokémon felt right now.
And after accidentally over-reading that aura, Li Wei himself seemed to experience that pre-death despair once.
Clearly feeling his bodily functions gradually weakening, breathing growing shallow, consciousness fading.
He had to save it.
Regardless of anything else, this was life.
The definitions of Pokémon and pets are different.
This disaster made him realize this fact again in an extremely short time.
Apart from species differences, they are equals.
Trainers nurture, and those being nurtured will guard the trainers with their lives.
Perhaps lifespans differ, perhaps languages don’t communicate, but this trust and tacit understanding is sometimes something even fellow humans can’t provide.
Hearing his formerly silly son give such a serious answer, Li Yuan Sheng sighed.
Gallade’s detection method differed from Li Wei’s.
As a Psychic-type Pokémon, he sensed the thick aura of death inside.
Whether there were living beings he couldn’t confirm, but he was sure it wouldn’t be safe inside.
A mix of killing intent and resentment, perhaps soon producing a group of wandering spirits.
This level of resentment was no longer just a few Pokémon lives; hundreds or thousands were possible.
Even he would find it hard not to be moved by this inferno-like scene.
To be fair, if not for this accident today, Li Yuan Sheng wouldn’t have planned to let his son face something like this so early.
The trainer’s world isn’t as beautiful as imagined.
A simple Pokémon nurturing game doesn’t exist in this world.
As a father, he had stubbornly wanted to shelter his silly son under his wings until he was older…
“Sigh, alright then.”
The situation didn’t allow him to leisurely chat amicably with Li Wei here; the top priority was dealing with that group of obstructive trainers first.
And since growth was inevitable sooner or later, might as well today.
Worst case, he doesn’t become a trainer, comes home to live off the family; he and his wife Tian Lan could afford this big son.
After telling Gallade “Everything’s up to you,” a humanoid Pokémon named “Li Yuan Sheng” also joined the battle.
Gallade, receiving the order, grabbed Li Wei’s back collar, charged his legs, leaped up directly, charged in mid-air, and with his psychic power kicked the previously sealed door to pieces.
Fortunately, Gallade remembered the weaker Li Wei, casting a Protect skill on him; with the Protect barrier, Li Wei wasn’t cut by the various metal fragments.
Barely surviving, from friendly fire.
It was strange; clearly no aura could be sensed outside, but after entering this door, the aura became complicated.
Hard to imagine, behind this door was like another world.
Spacious corridors, quiet and modern zoned areas, and oncoming was the da-da-da-da-da of machine guns spewing blue fire.
Actually seed machine guns without fire.
Even with one hand dragging the pendant Li Wei, Gallade cleared this group of Pokémon and trainers at extreme speed.
And Gallade stuck to his old method: punch to battle incapacity, then slap on hypnosis, teleport to the next target.
The whole process was silky smooth yet extremely violent.
And Li Wei, still being dragged, felt like he was on a giant pendulum ride, experiencing wave after wave of weightlessness, the whistling wind brushing past his face.
“Where?”
This was the first time Li Wei communicated with a Pokémon.
Telepathy from Gallade.
“Left, to the end then turn.”
“Got it.”
Immediately after, the next second, they appeared at the position Li Wei described.
As a Psychic-type Pokémon, Gallade’s wisdom, accumulated over many years, was no less than a human’s.
Facing this situation, his judgment was to directly rescue the crying Pokémon and then rendezvous with Li Yuan Sheng.
This way Li Wei would be safer.
After all, having watched Li Wei grow from diapers, his impression of his trainer’s child was still of the cub smiling while playing climbing games grabbing his leg.
Cub.
Li Wei could be described this way.
So as a mature Pokémon, he had to protect the cub’s safety.
Thus all his current actions were based on Li Wei’s safety.
Though the long-lost feeling of punching felt great, this wasn’t the place to unleash his battle instincts.
Now considering the near-dead Pokémon, Gallade’s door-breaking method was much more elegant.
He didn’t smash the door barehanded, but used psychic power silently to cut a rectangular gap in the door.
The moment the door opened, what hit them was the familiar, nauseating bloody smell Li Wei had come to know today.
Even with the huge ventilating fans buzzing in his ears, the rot and blood stench in the room was still hard for Li Wei to accept.
The black plastic bags nearly piled to the ceiling and the sticky feel on the ground gave Li Wei a very bad premonition.
The pervasive gray made it hard for Li Wei to see the real scenery for a moment.
“Gulp.”
Subconsciously swallowing, Li Wei walked toward that nearly fully grayed aura line.
It was an Eevee.
A blood-soaked Eevee.
From the look, it seemed it had clawed open the plastic bag to barely “survive.”
Because it struggled and tore the plastic bag, avoiding suffocation.
He was alive, but no different from dead.
No intact skin or flesh could be seen on his body now.
Rather than saying he lay in a pool of blood, it was more like the entire Eevee was wrapped in blood.
Looking closely at him, Li Wei could even see the heaving flesh with his breaths and the constantly bleeding vessels.
【Help···help···】
Even up close, the information from this Eevee was still intermittent and unclear.
The light in his eyes had begun to scatter; he couldn’t even see the arriving Li Wei clearly.
His eyes stared fixedly at the wall behind Li Wei.
As if wanting to blast that wall apart, even without strength left, even with consciousness fading, the hatred in his eyes didn’t fade.
【People···go···save her.】
This was the last piece of information conveyed by the aura.
Li Wei, who came to rescue, never imagined that beneath this Pokémon Day Care would be a place like human inferno.
At this moment, bending down to pick up the injured Eevee and rush out to find his father for treatment, Li Wei froze.
Inevitably, his breathing grew rapid and heavy, mind blank.
In his scattered state, he noticed, noticed the several Eevees in the same black plastic bag under this Eevee.
Similarly mangled flesh, some even dismembered.
Their ferocious expressions and wide eyes all showed the pain they endured at death.
Buzzing filled Li Wei’s ears; blood surging made his head dizzy again.
Uncontrollably, his hands began to tremble.
Fear?
No, now only anger filled him.
Turning around, looking at the wall behind, Li Wei clenched his fist.
For the first time so impulsively, just to vent his inner frustration, he acted.
Left foot forward, right fist charging blue aura energy, visible even to Gallade watching nearby.
With a loud bang, Li Wei’s fist smashed hard into that wall.
Then several more in succession, like venting, Li Wei wildly gathered his aura power to hammer the wall.
The part of the wall he hammered eventually tilted backward and collapsed.
The angry emotion calmed at that moment.
At the same time, his right hand went numb.
Before he could regret covering his already aching right hand, following the light, Li Wei saw what was hidden behind the collapsed door-shaped wall.
Pungent disinfectant smell, precise instruments, and white-clothed people with masks still rushing around holding knives, scissors, syringes, and such, oblivious.
And in the center surrounded by this group was an Eevee.
The reason he noticed this small Pokémon amid the group was not just the blue lines starkly different from their black aura, but also the piercing screams.
“Bu Yi!!!!”
Looking toward the doctors’ hands, white knife in red knife out, followed by scissors.
He didn’t know what they were doing; he only saw the ecstatic smiles on their faces.
Frenzied and terrifying.
Li Wei opened his mouth, wanting to shout something, but “let him go” stuck in his throat, so pale and powerless.
“Gallade…”
Li Wei didn’t know what to say now, what order to give.
Kill them?
That word, with the corpses piled behind him, even in such rage, he couldn’t say it.
Voice and words choked in his throat; the painful scene filled his eyes with bloodshot red.
But Gallade understood what Li Wei meant, nodding to him.
In this group’s eyes, there was only the Eevee on the operating table, nothing else; they didn’t even resist the attack.
Eerie and spine-chilling.
Gallade charged straight in, flipping over all the instruments in the laboratory.
Dealt with the experimenters trying to block him, then teleported next to the one wielding the red knife.
Just as he approached, a heavy kick, no mercy, just short of Mega Kick.
And with Gallade clearing the way, Li Wei also rushed to the operating table.
He yanked the Eevee off the table, tore off all the IV tubes connected to her body, and held her with his still-usable left hand.
The Eevee’s blood instantly soaked his clothes; he panicked, looking around for anything to stop the bleeding.
Meanwhile, Gallade was handling the experimenters in the laboratory.
No holding back, wide-angle multiple Psycho Cuts released, then eyes shifted to the experimenter previously slammed into the wall.
Psychic lifted a scalpel; Gallade stepped forward to the experimenter kicked to the wall.
Pfft.
Under psychic control, the knife handle sank into the man’s chest.
“Ha···hahaha···”
The stabbing pain made the supposed-to-be-unconscious experimenter lucid for a moment.
“Useless···cough···”
Even spitting blood, the man’s face remained ferocious.
“Experiment···already complete hahahaha···”
His ferocious laughter echoed through the laboratory, but it didn’t last long.
Crack.
With a crisp bone-cracking sound, the experimenter’s expression froze at that instant.
Gallade quickly returned to Li Wei’s side, glanced at the blood-soaked Eevee in his arms without lingering, grabbed him, and teleported out of the laboratory.
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