Chapter 62: This World Is Not Normal (6000 words)
After receiving the illustrated summons from the Dao Ba, Da Duck prepared to leave with the white-eyed old man.
At this time, the white-eyed old man was still in a coma, and Da Ya had no choice but to support his body with his mental strength and walk outside step by step. However, because of this, the Thunderbolt Ball and Ghost Stone, who were originally very eyeing it, avoided it, and it seems that they did not attack the duck because of the old man with white eyebrows, which saved it a lot of trouble.
The undisciplined trainees greeted the duck at the elevator entrance, and they picked up the white-eyed old man while talking about Nazi's situation. To put it simply, Nazi was released by Team Rocket on her own initiative, and they didn't seem to want to imprison her, but just asked for Nazi's elf coins and villa, and at the same time, Nazi had to promise not to go against Team Rocket again. Nazi agreed to these conditions, and now she was in the Non-Trainer League, waiting for Da Duck to join her.
Da Duck is also looking forward to that moment, it is looking forward to reuniting with Nazi, and it is also looking forward to Daoba fulfilling his promise.
Although the development of things was somewhat unexpected, judging from the results, it still defeated the elder of the white eyebrows, and at the same time, Nazi also came back safely, reaching the previous agreement with Daoba, after they met, it was time for Da Da Ya to find out the truth.
More than twenty minutes later, Da Duck returned to the Non-Trainer Alliance in the car, and as soon as he got out of the car, he saw Nazi coming up, she looked in good condition, and there were no signs of injury, but her expression was a little anxious:
"Da Duck, do you really want to ask Dao Ba questions and find out the essence of this world?"
Da Duck nodded, "What are you doing in such a hurry?" Is there really a problem here? ”
Nazi sighed:
"Of course there are problems, but not everyone can bear those facts, it's not a wonderful story, it's just a cruel and helpless fact."
Instead of responding to her words, Duck changed the subject, "Sakaki didn't do research with you, did he?" Why is he willing to let you out? ”
"Sakaki isn't a researcher." Nazi smiled and shook her head, then said, "He just wants me to give up going against Team Rocket and compensate him enough for his property, which is more practical for him than restricting my freedom." ”
"What about the captured members of Team Rocket? I remember that Glenas is still in your hands, and you can trade him for it. ”
Nazi smiled bitterly when she heard this, "Sakaki knows me too well, he knows that I won't hurt the members of Team Rocket, so he didn't mention them at all, just repeatedly discussed the amount of elf coins, in his opinion, I can't guarantee the food and accommodation conditions of those people without elf coins, and I can only let them go." ”
"That's because you're being too polite to those people!" Duck thinks that this is entirely because Sakaki has taken advantage of Nazi's kindness, and if he thinks it way, he should let those people undergo labor reform, at least to earn their food money back.
Nazi wanted to say something, but she saw Daoba coming over, and she finally confirmed:
"You've really decided?"
Da Duck looked at the sword bully standing aside and nodded.
Nazi stopped talking, she turned to leave the place, and then went to Xiaoxuan and the others to explain the situation.
So the duck who had just returned to this place left here again with the sword master, and finally they came to the top of a grassy hillside. There was silence all around, only the whirring wind could be heard, Dao Ba sat on the hillside, turned his back to Da Da Duck and asked:
"What do you think of the world?"
Da Ya was asked by him for a moment, and then slowly replied:
"It's not a normal world." Seeing Dao Ba's body tremble, Da Duck continued to explain:
"As a Pokémon, my first impression of the world is that it is abundant and does not worry about food and drink. However, the source of human food is still very mysterious, like some rare resource. ”
"It's like a free and equal society, but what happened to the non-trainers is worrying. On the other hand, the gap between the rich and the poor is very obvious, the rich live in mansions, and there is nowhere to spend elf coins, but they don't care about the poor. ”
"It's like a place of peace and stability, but the Pokémon Alliance and the other three forces are always in constant friction. What's even more puzzling is that if the alliance forces in various places are combined, they will definitely be able to break the other forces one by one, but the alliance has not done this, but has an attitude of not caring about itself. ”
"The people here seem to be positive, but I always feel that the only ones who are really enthusiastic are those who are over 10 years old and under 30 years old, and everyone else has mixed attitudes towards Pokémon battles."
"Technology seems to be advanced here, but we haven't heard of reports of exploring time, space, and the unknown, on the contrary, mythical beasts like Shellabi have the power to travel through time and space, and there are legends about the Dialuka, the Palokiru, and the Hades Dragon."
"And one last point, although the special moves of different Pokémon seem to be colorful, the Super Department is an exception. For example, telekinesis looks like a simple power, and a shield made of superpowers is like a thrust that can reflect tricks; Floating with the help of telekinesis can also be understood as a force supporting the body.
I sometimes wonder if superpowers are a kind of power, can I turn it into a fist and use it as a fighting trick, so it seems like superpowers can do anything......
Hearing Da Da Ya's words, Dao Ba, who had been silent, suddenly turned around, and he stared at Da Da Ya for a long time before he said in his deep voice:
"Sure enough, you are a unique Pokémon who can realize that there is still a problem with superpowers in this world, no wonder you can defeat the Elder White Eyebrows. This gave me the illusion that you are not a Pokémon, but a wise human, a human who has a long-term vision and can see things for what they are. ”
Da Duck lowered his head when he heard this, although he felt that he was being praised, but he didn't know what to say, and he couldn't tell him "You guessed right".
Dao Ba didn't care about Da Da Ya's silence, it said to itself:
"Originally, you can't tell Pokémon about the nature of this world, just like mythical beasts don't interfere in human affairs, and we don't ask Pokémon for help. But now, there's nothing I can do. ”
Dao Ba sighed and said in a nostalgic tone:
"It all started with the establishment of the Pokémon Alliance, and 163 years ago, the world was still at war. At that time, although humans had learned how to subdue Pokémon, they only used them as tools, and the trainers at that time believed in strength and only fought for their own desires, so there was an extreme lack of order, and incidents such as snatching, bullying, and murder and stealing goods were frequent. That was the year that some people established the Pokémon Alliance in order to maintain order in this world. ”
"After the establishment of the Alliance, laws were enacted to restrict the actions of trainers, and facilities such as Pokémon hospitals and Pokémon centers were established, which stabilized the situation at that time, and in the following hundred years, the entire society was also in a state of vigorous development and prosperity."
"However, the league hid a lot of problems, and in the end, these problems exploded 21 years ago."
"At that time, Sakaki and I were still good friends, both worked in the Pokémon League, I was a trainer in charge of maintaining law and order, Sakaki was a statistical staff member, and on that day 21 years ago, Sakaki accidentally found a report that showed that the population of this world has been rising for nearly a hundred years, but the food supply has hardly ......changed."
Hearing this, Da Da Ya had to interrupt Dao Ba's memories and asked suspiciously:
"Shouldn't food be the most basic thing? Why is it like some secret? ”
Dao Ba sighed:
"Food is of course the most basic, no one can live without eating, but we rarely think about the source of food.
This world is a paradise for Pokémon, they can find all kinds of food, such as green caterpillars can eat leaves, three bees can suck pollen, but humans are different, we can't digest tree bark and grass leaves, and only a very few foods, such as honey from three bees, milk from large milk jugs, make us edible. It is said that our ancestors fed on wild tree fruits all day long, and because the calories of the tree fruits were not high, our ancestors had to travel long distances to find food, and even then, they were still malnourished. That's why there's an old saying that says, 'Pokémon are God's darlings, and humans are just God's illegitimate children'.
This difficult situation only changed after the discovery of citrus trees.
At that time, only tree fruits were known to man, so they were eager to find new things, and to taste everything they had not seen. They knew that one day, they would taste a fruit that was so hard that it would only knock out their teeth if they bit on it.
They thought they would find new food, but they were disappointed, but they also took a citrus fruit or two. However, just a day or two later, they suddenly found a ruin, as if left by another civilization, with this fruit carved into the murals on the walls.
On the walls, there are ways to open the orange fruit and make the orange fruit balls, and at the same time, the ancestors also found how to use the natural resources, smelt metals, extract fibers and other technologies, and this is when they finally put on clothes.
However, the most surprising thing for them was the contents of the orange fruit, when the orange fruit was opened, many things appeared that they had never seen before, and they could all eat them. At that time, people could not understand how such a small sphere could hold so much food.
It was because of these foods and the technology in the ruins that humanity developed rapidly, and over the years, they discovered many ruins, including various technologies such as metal balls, the predecessor of Pokémon. ”
"Then came the chaotic period before the Coalition was formed, when life was very difficult, there was a shortage of food, and there was no food in the oranges, but instead the food went to the metal balls.
Metal balls are scattered randomly around the world, requiring humans to constantly search for them, and of course, some people use force to snatch other people's food. It was not until the alliance got hold of a large amount of food that the situation stabilized.
Since then, the origin of food has become a taboo issue, and no one has raised it until Sakaki found out about that article.
If what that article says is true, then as the population grows, the pressure on us to survive will increase, but the amount of food will not grow, which means that sooner or later someone will not be able to eat, and sooner or later we will face a famine, or even the extinction of all mankind.
Realizing this, Sakaki and I had a lot of discussions, and in the end we decided that we could only find a way to increase the amount of food if we figured out where the food came from. At that time, we were young and vigorous, and after discussing for a while, we immediately went to the leader of the alliance and asked where the food came from, but the leader's idea was very firm, it was true that the food was gradually running low, but he still didn't want the alliance to accept any changes, and at the same time, he told the truth of the matter in order to dispel our thoughts, but it was difficult for us to accept it......"
"He told us that food comes from the sea!"
The duck stood up suddenly, and it finally understood what it was going to hear next.
At this time, Dao Ba slowly took out a map from his arms, he spread out the map, pointed to a few continents and said:
"These places are Kanto, Joto, Fangyuan, Xinao, Hezhong, and Carlos regions, which are all the regions we know. But larger than these regions are endless oceans that surround each continent and eventually converge here. ”
Dao Ba pointed to the top of the map and said solemnly:
"This place is called the Sea of Origins, and it is the place where humans and Pokémon were born according to legend, and the place is where the Alliance's food comes from."
"This, this can't be......"
Da Duck looked at the blue area on the map, and couldn't believe Daoba's words at all, and its reason told it that this map was very wrong, if the map was regarded as a globe, the location of the Sea of Origin should be at the North Pole, there should be a polar day and night phenomenon, and there was no South Pole on the map.
For this question, Daoba can't answer either:
"The Sea of Origin doesn't have the all-daytime phenomenon, and it doesn't have the South Pole as you said, and at the bottom of the map, it's also the sea, but we can't get there."
Da Duck didn't understand, but it still let Dao Ba continue.
"According to them, the Alliance also learned about it in the year it was founded, and several of their explorers stumbled upon a never-before-seen ocean, where the waters would glow faintly, and that was the Sea of Origins. We don't know what happened after that, but we only know that the leader at that time made a pact with Gaioca, the lord of the ocean, and Gaioca was willing to concentrate the future food on the Pokémon Alliance, on the condition that humans would not destroy the habitat of wild Pokémon in the future, and the development of the alliance would not disrupt the life of wild Pokémon. ”
"This is the will of all the divine beasts, and there is no loss to the alliance, the leader at that time readily agreed. In this way, the Pokémon Alliance, which controlled the food source, gained a huge advantage and quickly resolved the war, while also burying the secret to this day. However, Sakaki and I believe that this matter can no longer be hidden, and we suggest that this information should be disseminated so that more people can discuss the problem and brainstorm ideas to find a solution. ”
"However, the alliance decisively rejected us, and we were even more shocked."
"That's their final report, based on what they found in the ruins and all the calculations and discussions of scientists, and finally determined that the reason for deciding on food was nothing else, but the happiness of this world!"
"Happiness?"
Da Duck asked in surprise.
Yes, you heard it right, you can also call it satisfaction, happiness. In short, as long as life on this planet is happy and happy, it can get enough food, how ridiculous! It's like someone said to you, as long as you give me a smile every day, I'll give you something to eat. ”
Although Da Duck was also shocked, it was not as extreme as Dao Ba thought, and it put forward its own opinion:
"Wouldn't it be nice if every life could have access to food as long as everyone was happy? Compared with planting tree fruits, this at least saves the time from sowing to the ripening of food, and also saves manpower and material resources, doesn't it? ”
Dao Ba shook his head:
"You're thinking too simply, this happiness value doesn't refer to a momentary pleasure, but to the whole, the Sea of Origins distributes food once a week, and it doesn't increase because someone is ecstatic. At this point, Pokémon are okay, wild Pokémon are emotionally stable, and the Pokémon that are subjugated are usually pleasant, but humans are much more complicated. After all, everyone has seven emotions and six desires, and they will be happy or sad, even if some people like to fall from the sky, they will also provoke the jealousy of others, so that the average happiness value does not change much. We try to increase our happiness, but we can't solve the problem. ”
"What about the Pokémon League? Won't they care? ”
"The Pokémon Alliance is full of old-fashioned guys, they are afraid that the news will leak out, which will cause panic among the people, so that the happiness level that is not high will be quickly reduced, and the most serious consequence is that the alliance will not get any food next week, relying on the remaining food before, it will only bring the world back to the era of chaos."
"Sakaki and I also know this, and because of this, even if we left the Pokémon League and were considered villains by them, they didn't reveal the truth, and until now, there are still a few people who know this."
"Are you the only ones who oppose the Coalition's approach?"
"No, even within the Alliance, there is controversy about this, many people who know the truth don't want to sit still, but they are all cowards, they don't dare to risk reforms, they just stepped up the propaganda of the Alliance Conference and encouraged Pokémon to fight, we didn't agree with them, so we left there and developed our own forces."
"Encourage Pokémon to fight? What's the use of that? ”
"It can improve a certain level of satisfaction, after all, for young people under the age of 20, becoming a trainer and defeating the owner of the gym is a thing of fame and fortune and desirable, therefore, the income of the gym trainer and the Four Heavenly Kings will be so high, but that's just a pretense, the alliance can't exchange the same amount of food, because the merchant alliance hoarded food before, the alliance had to limit the amount of food that no one bought, so Nazi's elf coins can only buy villas."
"We are different from the merchant alliance that only focuses on profits, Sakaki and I seem to solve the problem with our own actions, but obviously, we did not succeed, but fell into the quagmire of power, and we can only conflict with the Pokémon Alliance now, and send force and alliance to grab food and maintain our power when the new week comes."
"Even so, we still can't approve of the Alliance's approach, which uses the enthusiasm of young people to improve happiness while ignoring the fact that people of other ages, such as those over 20 years old, have doubts about the nature of the world, and the older they get, the more doubts they have, and the less satisfaction they provide.
Most of them are still living a normal life, but they no longer yearn for Pokémon battles, they will only treat Pokémon as pets and live a peaceful and simple life. Only those trainers who have become military personnel will pick up Pokéball balls and continue fighting.
At the age of the white-eyed elders, many people become suspicious, and it is difficult to maintain their lives, let alone provide happiness. The alliance can only tell them the truth, however, this can't save them, most people can't believe the truth after they know it, and eventually they become insane, until they go crazy, because of this, old people like Dr. Oki and Elder White Eyebrows are very rare, they know the truth but can ensure that their minds are normal, this is not simple. ”
"And this system has a problem in its eyes, that is, resources can't be reasonably allocated, it's just that the alliance can't raise so many trainers, so they will make the joke that they have a ten-year-old Pokémon, but they are limited to only three people and only some towns. These behaviors of theirs have directly led to more and more non-trainers, but compared to trainers, we are still a minority. In order to safeguard the interests of the majority of people, the alliance is afraid of destroying the happy image of this world, resulting in a decrease in happiness, and deliberately conceals the fact that non-trainers are not trained. ”
"Of course, our approach is not much better than that of the league. I originally wanted to replace Pokémon with the technology in the ruins and find a way out, but in the end, I only made a robot for combat; Sakaki, on the other hand, is bent on power, and he wants to use absolute power to defeat the alliance and change the world, but after all, he is obsessed with power and forgets his original intention. ”
Hearing Dao Ba mention the robot, Da Duck couldn't help but ask:
"Since your technology is not weak, why don't you try to make food from people?"
"I remember someone who tried, but it didn't work, in fact, there were many attempts for food, and someone even went to eat Pokémon......"
Da Duck suddenly thought of the tail of the dumb beast and asked:
"The result?"
"Crazy! The testers are all crazy! No one survived. ”
After asking some more questions, Da Duck finally determined that the technology of this world is indeed very problematic, in some aspects, the technology here is on par with the earth, and even in terms of robots and Poké Balls, they are slightly better, but in terms of biology, they are still at the cellular level, and Da Duck finally understands why there are so many non-mainstream treatment methods in Pokémon Center Joey......
After sorting out the information in his head, Da Ya was full of emotion, these things that Dao Ba said were like a fantasy, revealing weirdness everywhere, but on the contrary, these things can explain the problems of this world.
Because of the happiness problem, the Pokémon Alliance strongly recommends the Alliance Tournament to make Pokémon battles mainstream, and it is precisely because they want to hide their happiness and avoid panic among the people that the Alliance is afraid to recognize the existence of other forces, and has caused a situation where non-trainers are poor but no one cares.
Although there are many problems in this world, when it comes to happiness, Da Duck has an idea, and it smiled at Dao Ba and said:
"Although this world is a headache, since entertainment can be exchanged for bread, this problem is not so difficult."
Knife Tyrant: "??? ”