Chapter 510: Exploring Team Galactic
When Will and Cynthia walked out of the Snowpoint Temple and headed west towards Lake Acuity.
The underground Regigigas gradually showed signs of movement.
It moved its fingers.
Only feeling its whole body incomparably heavy.
So heavy that it didn't want to move, just wanted to fall asleep again.
"Regi..."
Regigigas sat in place and spaced out for a while.
It just had a dream.
A dream that felt close at hand, yet also seemed like a lifetime ago.
Why did I suddenly have this dream?
Better go back to sleep.
Hope to continue that dream.
Otherwise, it's too lonely.
[Hey hey, I say Iron Pillar (Registeel), you sleep too frequently, careful not to sleep your brain broken, hahahaha.]
But.
If I don't sleep.
What can I do now?
[Reminisce, reminisce about those beautiful things from the past.]
Reminisce...
Clearly reminiscing about beautiful things, but why do I feel so much pain, why does my heart ache so much.
Forget it.
Better continue sleeping.
Regigigas spaced out for a bit, and continued to fall into a deep sleep in the darkness.
Sleep is truly a good thing.
Can make one feel no pain at all, and can also silently kill time.
On the other side.
Will, who hadn't gone far, turned his head and glanced.
Continued letting Cynthia carry him and walk forward.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, that big iron lump went back to sleep. Sure can sleep."
"Hehehe... Sleeping soundly every day, truly not afraid of sleeping his head broken."
Cynthia covered her mouth and snickered looking at Will.
"Who are you pointing at?"
"Tini?"
"Not pointing at you, pointing at a certain big doggy."
Cynthia reached out and stroked Victini's little head.
All the way forward.
They arrived at the edge of a snow-white forest; further ahead was a large ice-blue lake.
This is Lake Acuity.
"Lake Acuity is already this cold appearance in winter, huh."
Cynthia stood by the lake, looking at the calm lake surface and sighing.
This wasn't their first time coming to Lake Acuity.
The last time they came was in winter.
At that time, the surface of Lake Acuity froze into a layer of ice; even if running on it, the ice surface wouldn't shatter.
"After all, this is the Alabaster Icelands~ The days you can see clear weather in a year don't exceed two days."
Will stretched his back.
Perhaps it was the genes inherited in a Lucario's body acting up.
As soon as he came to this kind of cold place.
He felt comfortable all over and full of energy.
"Tini..."
Victini was wrapped in a small scarf.
He didn't really like this kind of cold weather, so like a little koala, he hugged Will tightly, warming himself through his fluff.
"This is the place where the God of Knowledge, Uxie, lives, right? But we haven't seen him the two times we came here. Does he live underwater?"
Cynthia took out a camera and took a picture of the lake in front of her.
"Putting aside whether Uxie can survive underwater or not, if it was that easy to find, the Sinnoh League wouldn't completely ignore this place,
and would at least set up a nature reserve or something here."
Will shook his head.
Wanting to know if a place has any hidden existence.
First.
See if this is a nature reserve.
If it is.
There might not necessarily be a hidden existence here.
Because it might truly just be an ordinary nature reserve.
But if it's not.
Then there most likely aren't any treasures here.
After all, the League couldn't possibly not dispatch any forces to protect these treasures, and blatantly protecting them is equivalent to telling others there's something fishy here.
Establishing a nature reserve.
Is one of the means to protect those Legendary Pokémon from being disturbed.
"That's true too. Since the League completely ignores this place, does that mean the legend here is fake? Uxie isn't here at all."
"Who knows."
Will shrugged and smiled without speaking.
What Cynthia said is right.
And also wrong.
Is Uxie at Lake Acuity?
Not really.
But Lake Acuity truly cannot be separated from Uxie.
The Lake Guardians, like the Creation Trio of space, time, and antimatter, are Pokémon living in other dimensions; wanting to find them through ordinary means is impossible.
However.
If one really wants to summon them over, then they can only go to the respective lakes.
Here are the portals connecting to the world where the Lake Guardians reside.
"Want to go swimming?"
Cynthia smiled and turned to look at Will.
"Are you crazy? Go ahead, let the lake freeze you to death. Just consider it a sacrifice to Uxie; maybe it can summon him over."
Will rolled his eyes.
Clearly quite a smart kid, saying these silly things every day.
If it was Lorelei saying it.
Then he would really dare to believe it.
After all, Lorelei's essence is a tomboyish girl (hu niu).
But Cynthia saying it, it was obviously deliberately playing dumb to tease him.
"Hehe, even if I jump down, Lucario will fish me up. He wouldn't have the heart to let me freeze to death."
Cynthia casually flicked her hair, quite confident.
"...There's a group of people walking this way, not good guys."
Just as Will was about to say something.
Suddenly narrowed his eyes, turning to glance into the forest.
Ever since his level was raised to Champion level.
His Aura perception range became even broader.
The current range is eight hundred meters.
At this moment.
Eight hundred meters away, someone is coming towards Lake Acuity. About a dozen Auras, half of which might be Pokémon's.
Although he didn't see the people.
Will could basically already determine the identity of this group of people.
Team Galactic.
Team Galactic wants to realize the wild ambition of creating a world without spirit (heart/emotions).
Then they need to borrow the power of Dialga and Palkia.
But to catch these two gods.
They must restrict their power of space and time.
The method of restriction is the Red Chain created through the power of the Lake Guardians.
"Coming for Uxie?"
"Doesn't seem like it. They aren't very nervous or cautious; presumably what they want to do isn't afraid of being known by the League. They should just be coming over to investigate if Uxie exists at Lake Acuity."
Will frowned in deep thought for a moment, then shook his head.
The timeline right now is too early.
Even if he and Cynthia did something that affected the timeline, it wouldn't push the plot forward by ten years all at once.
It's not yet time for Team Galactic to make a move against the Lake Guardians.
Right now Team Galactic should still only be looking for traces of the Lake Guardians, exploring methods to capture them from another dimension.
"What should we do?"
Cynthia raised a hand and tapped her chin.
"Nothing we can do, we can't do anything."
Will shook his head.
They are Champions now.
Their making a move is equivalent to the Sinnoh League making a move.
So.
Have to talk about laws, have to talk about evidence.
The current Team Galactic is ostensibly still just a civilian for-profit corporation.
The Sinnoh League cannot make a move against an ordinary civilian corporation unless they have already grasped evidence of their crimes.
But that is impossible.
Unlike organizations like Team Rocket that started hiding their heads and showing their tails (acting sneakily) and doing all kinds of evil early on.
Team Galactic's style of doing things belongs to an organization that slightly still has some rules and bottom lines.
For example, recruiting people only recruits adults, forbidding children from joining.
They have no interest in making a move against commoners.
And won't specifically go do evil for trivial matters like making money.
When they do bad things.
It must be something they absolutely have to obtain.
And in the process of obtaining this kind of thing, it inevitably harms other people, Pokémon, or architectural facilities.
Such as the Adamant Orb and Lustrous Orb.
Such as the Draco Plate, Iron Plate, Splash Plate.
These are all things they must obtain to capture the gods of space and time and realize their ambitions.
And right now.
They haven't reached the time to start collecting these things yet.
They don't even know where these things are.
So they haven't started doing those bad things yet.
Precisely because of this.
These Team Galactic members can swagger over to explore Lake Acuity, without worrying at all about being caught by the Sinnoh League.
And the fact is indeed so.
Even if Will and Cynthia discovered their arrival.
Even if they saw them looking for things in Lake Acuity.
Even if they know they are not good sorts.
They still cannot make a move against them.
As the saying goes, a gentleman judges by actions, not by heart. No matter if the hearts of these people are good or bad, as long as they haven't done bad things yet, they cannot be treated as bad guys.
"Then what are we still staying here for, let's go, it's annoying to look at."
Cynthia curled the corners of her mouth.
"Can report this matter to the Sinnoh League, have them immediately send people to track and observe these people, collect some intelligence in advance; who knows, it might be convenient for dealing with them later."
Will doesn't plan to sit and wait for death.
Can't make a move.
Can collect some intelligence first.
His past memories didn't provide him with any detailed intelligence about Team Galactic; he can only rely on himself to collect it.
"Mm."
Cynthia nodded.
Took out the Pokédex and sent a message.
After that, they left.
Actually, even if Team Galactic really did some bad things, in the short term it wouldn't fall within the work scope of Cynthia, this Champion.
But rather matters that the nearby Gym Leaders and Elite Four should handle.
Only when matters have reached the point of involving Legendary Pokémon is it Cynthia's turn to make a move.
It's just that.
Will doesn't plan to wait until big trouble comes knocking on the door to solve it.
Make a move a bit earlier.
Nip small troubles in the bud.
Can also be considered saving trouble for themselves in the future.
Anyway, that kind of life of saving the Lake Guardians today and saving the gods of space and time tomorrow, he truly doesn't want to experience it.
These Legendary Pokémon have very big tempers.
After being enraged by Team Galactic.
Who knows, they might even attack Will and Cynthia, who went to rescue them, together.
That would truly be a thankless task.
"Where do you plan to go next?"
"Make a trip to Fullmoon Island and Newmoon Island? I heard Darkrai and Cresselia live there; I haven't seen such Pokémon yet."
"Oh."
Will was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
He hasn't seen those two in this life.
In his previous life, they could be considered friends with a pretty good relationship.
Especially Cresselia, who helped him leave a beautiful dream for Lorelei at the end; Will was still quite grateful to her.
"Lucario, so boring, tell me a story?"
"Let me think... Mm, I'll tell you a matter that happened on the shores of Lake Valor. There was a retired old firefighter who always talked about greed for life and fear of death all day long..."
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