Lin Tian made a preliminary inference.

However, the hidden task "Real Ash" did not give any feedback, indicating that Lin Tian's inference was incorrect or incomplete.

"What's next?"

Lin Tian rubbed his temples and glanced at the many incomparably powerful disciples behind him, and for a while, he also had a state of strength and nowhere to go.

After spending a lot of time preparing funds and improving his strength, he came here to find the only strange corpse waiting for him, the head of Pikachu...... This made Lin Tian experience a sense of detachment from the power of a punch on the cotton.

At the moment, the only thing that can be explored in this world is estimated to be the hidden quest "Real Ash" and the worldview of the world.

The former is still full of mysteries.

The latter is even more clueless.

Lin Tian felt a little irritable for a while.

After exploring the wooden house for a while, still not finding any useful information and items, Lin Tian sighed and prepared to leave here first, and go to other places where there might be information about Xiao Zhi to check it out.

First stop,

Lin Tian came to Ash's hometown, Zhenxin Town.

Zhenxin Town has not yet been plundered by the Alliance of Outlaw Maniacs, and is barely maintaining order at this time.

Lin Tian came to check out the old mansion of Ash's family and the local monster research institute, although he learned some fragments of stories about Ash who had set off here, and also saw many photos of Ash when he was young,

However, this information,

Obviously, it was not helpful for Lin Tian to complete the task.

According to the route of Xiao Zhi's cultivation back then, Lin Tian then came to another nearby city, and like Zhenxin Town, there are many footprints left by Xiao Zhi here, but there is no too important information.

......

It took three full days and ran many cities.

Lin Tian has gained very little, no matter what kind of information he obtains from the source, Ash seems to be the same as in the original book, a lively and cheerful, hot-blooded and tenacious sunny boy who loves pocket monsters.

Such a character,

It doesn't match what he did to Pikachu in the later years.

Seeing that after spending a lot of time and energy, the task of "True Wisdom" still made no progress, and Lin Tian also had some thoughts of giving up this task.

But, before that,

He still turned on the computer he had found in the underground laboratory in the suburbs and played the video of Ash experimenting on Pikachu to check it again.

"Surely, Pikachu, you can definitely evolve......"

Stared at the screen and watched it several more times.

Still nothing to gain.

Lin Tian sighed: "It stands to reason that this video and the hidden mission appeared at the same time, and it should contain key clues...... Wait a minute! ”

It seems that something suddenly came to mind,

Lin Tian opened his eyes wide and checked the shooting time of the video.

"If the accident on Ash happened before and after the shooting of this video, then the shooting time of this video is the key to completing the task!"

"According to the time when this video was filmed, investigate what happened to Ash during that time period, and you should be able to find out the reason for Ash's accident!"

Thinking about this,

Lin Tianxiang has discovered a new world!

He immediately searched for Ash's movements during this time period in the many information files that he had already obtained according to the time of the video shooting.

5 months before the video was taken,

Ash enters the black alert area and completes the suppression of a ferocious beast.

2 months before the video shooting,

Ash attends a lecture by a famous monster trainer.

Half a month before the video was filmed,

Ash competed in the last Global Trainer League of his career and won the championship.

Up until here, everything was perfectly normal.

However, half a month after the end of the last Global Trainer League, Ash suddenly changed his temperament and came to the suburban laboratory to conduct the experiment on Pikachu in the video.

And after that,

Ash rarely appears in public.

In the following time,

He's probably been working on how to transform Pikachu for a long time.

Seeing this information in the archive,

Lin Tian's eyes lit up and he smiled: "Sure enough!" The message of this video is not in the content of the video, but in the timing of the video! ”

"Judging from this timeline, most of the key events that changed Ash were his last Global Trainer League!"

Finally got the exact clue,

Lin Tian did not delay, and immediately came to the city where Xiao Zhi participated in this game.

At the venue in charge of hosting the monster trainer competition in this city, Lin Tian found the video of the year's game, and after picking out the number of games in which Ash appeared, he sat in front of the TV and immediately began to carefully review the game footage one by one.

The content of the first few tapes is about the qualifiers, nothing special, the powerful Ash defeats the opponent by chopping melons and vegetables all the way with the powerful monsters in his hands.

However, just after entering the quarterfinals, something happened happened!

This one,

The opponent that Ash faced was a world-famous poison-based pocket monster trainer at the time!

In this game,

After defeating the two monsters on the other side, Pikachu's state became a little wrong, and its movements began to become sluggish, and sometimes it would fail when releasing its signature skill of 100,000 volts!

With his strong strength and Ash's command, Pikachu finally defeated all the monsters on the other side by himself, but since this match, Ash's Pikachu has not played again.

Subsequent

Ash won the league championship with Charizard.

If it is said that Ash's change is due to Pikachu.

That overall,

The match against the Poison Pocket Monster Trainer must be an important clue to continue reasoning about the truth!

Flipping out the tape,

Lin Tian watched again.

While watching, Lin Tian inquired about the information of the monster sent by this poison pocket monster trainer, and sure enough, among the several monsters sent by this poison pocket monster trainer, Lin Tian found a mutated insect monster with a skill called "reverse growth".

The effect of this skill,

It is to make the "reverse growth" gene expression effect in the enemy pocket monster's body, so that it temporarily degenerates to a lower state, but Ash's Pikachu has never evolved, and it is likely that it already has a strong "reverse growth" gene in its body.

Since being hit by the opponent's "Reverse Growth" skill,

Pikachu is in a strange state!

Thinking of this,

In Lin Tian's mind, the scene of Ash injecting reagents into Pikachu's body suddenly appeared again.

He immediately turned on his computer, flipped through the video, and looked at it again.

"Surely, Pikachu, you can definitely evolve......"

......

I've watched it countless times before,

Lin Tian didn't notice it,

Ash in the video has tears in his eyes!

"In this way, it is very likely that the match against the poison pocket monster trainer will cause some irreversible damage to Pikachu's body."

"The reason why Ash wants to force Pikachu to evolve by injecting reagents may not be to transform Pikachu and make Pikachu stronger at all, but to let Pikachu get rid of this damage and let Pikachu live!"

"Ash, has always been the one who loves Pikachu deeply, in order for Pikachu to live, he even chose to sacrifice himself and let his body merge with Pikachu......"

Thinking of this,

Lift away the clouds and the light appears!

Many mysteries have finally been clarified!

Hints for task completion,

Also popped up abruptly at this moment!

[You complete the hidden quest "Real Ash"!] 】

[Get the Quest Reward: The settlement reward of this game will be increased by 300%!] 】

......

At this point, the hidden mission is complete.

Many things that I didn't understand before have become smooth at this moment.

But

Doubts remain.

It was a long time ago.

If Ash fused with Pikachu to save it, then it stands to reason that the experiment should have been successful, in that case, why did Pikachu suddenly die recently after fusing Ash's body?

Is it a coincidence?

Lin Tian felt that it was not.

And that's it,

If the person behind the scenes who controls and directs a group of retreat masters to carry out operations is the fusion of this Xiaozhi and Pikachu, then how did it know about Lin Tian's threat to this world and make a layout in advance?

Lin Tian faintly felt that there was a bigger secret waiting for him to excavate.