Pokémon: An Encounter with You

Chapter 532 Dead Souls

"Zoroark."

Shi Qiu called out softly, and the Poké Ball on his waist opened automatically.

The big white and red fox nodded at Shi Qiu and quickly disappeared into thin air.

Then, Shi Qiu and the other two followed the old man holding the lamp and walked into the inn.

“(People in this world who stay in the spirit world for a long time will gradually lose consciousness, lose the characteristics of being alive, and eventually completely transform into ghosts.)” After blocking a curious Haunter, the crystal lamp spirit said to Shi Qiu.

The ghost elves here are not affected by the excessive soul energy and the attraction of the real world, so they do not have the madness of the elves outside.

“(The candlelight spirits here suck their vitality, but they are also their most important helpers in maintaining their “alive” characteristics.)”

However, unlike the two young men who had the assistance of the crystal lamp spirit and Shi Qiu Bodao, these people in the world who remained inside the spiritual residence had obviously gradually become blurred in consciousness.

"In other words, you need me to use the waveguide and your candlelight to wake them up one by one?" Shi Qiu asked.

The crystal lamp spirit nodded: "(But the most important thing is that these living people need to return to the real world.)"

Otherwise, it would be nothing more than drinking poison to quench thirst.

On the empty corridor, the eaves were mottled under the dim firelight. Except for the wandering Shadow Dolls and Candlelight Spirits that appeared from time to time, even the previous elves such as Gastly and Haunter gradually disappeared.

Xiaoye and Ayu walked tremblingly.

Apart from the footsteps of the four people, one could only vaguely hear the low conversation between the boy and the elf.

"You can live in these three rooms." Suddenly, the old man stopped and said.

Shi Qiu raised his eyes slightly and slowly scanned the rows of old and quaint doors in front of him.

These doors are closely connected and stand side by side, carrying a sense of vicissitudes and secrets of the years.

Strange and mysterious runes were carefully outlined on each door. Those runes flickered with a faint but eye-catching light, like a veil that flickered in the night sky.

Rich soul energy and rich breath of life.

Just when Shi Qiu was about to open his mouth to discuss something with Xiao Ye and A Yu beside him, he suddenly found that the expressions of the two people became extremely strange in an instant.

It was as if he had seen something. In an instant, under the influence of some invisible force, his body stopped shaking. Instead, he stared blankly to the side, focusing on the narrow and cramped wall on the other side of the door.

"Grandfather..." Xiaoye and Ayu whispered almost at the same time.

Then, the two of them took two steps towards the wall at the same time, as if they were going to ignore the wall and just crash into it.

Is this a dead end?

Shi Qiu frowned slightly upon seeing this and was about to step forward and call out to the two men, but at this moment, the old man who had remained silent all the time suddenly stretched out his arm as dry as a branch and firmly grasped the dazed young man.

He just pulled with a little force, and the young man who was walking forward paused, staggered, and the girl next to him also stopped.

The two men seemed to have just woken up from a dream. They turned their heads blankly and looked at the hunchbacked old man next to them with bewildered eyes.

“People on the other side, people in this world…if you cross over, you will become lost souls.” The old man said quietly.

On both sides, candlelight spirits suddenly appeared together, and the faint blue candlelight caused by the candlesticks suddenly became brighter, illuminating the entire dim corridor.

When Shi Qiu looked again, the wall opposite the door had disappeared without a trace, and the cramped space suddenly became several times wider.

On the opposite side, there appeared a series of mysterious doors outlined with transparent silk threads.

Scattered people, like transparent gauze, suddenly appeared in front of them, and the whole space was no longer empty... They were souls.

The young man and the girl, who had come to their senses, opened their mouths and were almost speechless.

But at the moment of panic, he saw a familiar figure wandering in a room again.

Looking at this scene, Shi Qiu slowly exhaled.

Xi Cui Zoroark was standing beside him invisibly, and he told himself that this was a true mirror image of reality, not an illusion guided by some force.

"In the elf world, there are two negative worlds. One is the reverse world ruled by Giratina, and the other is the spirit world." Shi Qiu whispered.

The old man quietly kept his eyes on Shi Qiu, while the two people who had been stimulated several times in a short period of time also looked at the young man blankly.

"The reverse world is a reflection of the real world. It exists to repair the various errors in the real world. For example, if the space is distorted or there is a loophole in the environment, the reverse world will need to repair it."

The Reverse World and the real world are interdependent. Once the Reverse World is destroyed, the real world will also collapse. Therefore, there will be no second individual in the Reverse World except Giratina.

Neither dead souls nor living beings are allowed to appear.

But the spirit world is different, it is the world of ghosts and the dead.

Since the environment of the mortal world does not allow the soul to stay, after the death of people and elves in the mortal world, most of the souls will automatically enter the spirit world in order to survive instinctively.

Of course, the spirit world is different from the underworld in the previous life. The dead souls who enter there will not be reincarnated. After staying and wandering for a long time, their consciousness will gradually dissipate and eventually turn into pure soul energy.

"But, in the spirit world, apart from a large number of ghost-type elves, there are very few or even no ghostly spirits. Are they... all gathered in these inns that are automatically built in the spirit world?"

Lingsu is a place for the souls and ghosts of the dead to rest after they die.

The old man did not answer.

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Inside the room, Shi Qiu was sitting on a chair, distracted.

Although the ghost-type elves in the spirit house and the unknown old man were not friendly, they did not have any hostility towards them.

If I have to say it, it is complete indifference, just like a simple boss and customer.

But here, what the dead souls pay is their consciousness and soul, and what the living pay is their vitality.

Therefore, living people cannot stay for a long time in this place which belongs to the dead souls.

He must resolve the so-called turmoil in the spiritual world as soon as possible and bring all the living people in the Spirit Inn back to the human world.

"It's just... the dead souls..."

"Come back to your senses." Dark Mewtwo said coldly in the boy's heart, "What are you thinking about?"