Raticate's condition recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye. After all, it was an Pokémon. In just over half an hour, it opened its eyes: "Chirp?"
Seeing Ye Chuan, Raticate looked bewildered, but vaguely understood something.
At this moment, the little Rattata´s beside it saw it wake up and swarmed around it, chirping with joy.
Raticate finally understood that Ye Chuan was its savior. It and a few small Rattata came in front of Ye Chuan, lowered their bodies, and made "chirp chirp" sounds.
"You're welcome. This way, you won't go to the farm to cause trouble anymore." Ye Chuan smiled slightly, put away the potion bottle, and stood up to leave.
However, a few small rattata quickly blocked Ye Chuan, seemingly not wanting him to leave so soon.
"Is there anything else?" Ye Chuan was taken aback and then asked.
The little Rattatas spun around in place and then ran to a deeper part of the cave. After a while, they brought out various things and piled them in front of Ye Chuan, like a small mountain.
"So many?" Seeing the variety of items, Ye Chuan's face was full of surprise. Are you guys some kind of Pick Up ability Rattata spirits?
"Chirp." The little Rattatas seemed to want Ye Chuan to accept these things.
"Actually, there's no need for this. I was just completing a request." Ye Chuan shook his head, about to refuse when his gaze suddenly noticed a strange fruit among the pile of items in front of him.
Red and white intermingled, it emitted a peculiar fruity fragrance, like a large lychee that had been half-peeled.
A Leppa Berry?
Ye Chuan immediately recognized this Pokémon Berry.
"Chirp chirp chirp." Hearing that Ye Chuan didn't want these items, the little Rattatas chirped, sounding a little sad.
"Cough." Ye Chuan put the Leppa Berry into his backpack and then said, "Although I don't really want it, this is your kindness, so I'll just take one thing as a thank-you gift from you."
Seeing Ye Chuan accept it, the little Rattatas happily circled around him. Ye Chuan felt that the Leppa Berry was really fragrant.
After saying goodbye to this group of Pokémon, Ye Chuan returned to the farm and explained the situation.
"Really? Thank you so much!" Uncle Fatty and Xiao Guo looked grateful. After all, the Rattata problem had been causing them a lot of headaches, and they had tried all sorts of methods. Now that Ye Chuan had come and solved it, they didn't know how to thank him enough.
After declining Uncle Fatty and Xiao Guo's enthusiastic offer to stay, Ye Chuan left the farm and returned to the city. He first went back to Silver Mountain to settle the commission, then went back to the classroom to pick up some things. Seeing that it was already getting dark, he prepared to leave school and go home for dinner.
However, just as he reached the stairwell, a weak voice came from the classroom next door: "Is... anyone outside?"
"Hmm?" Ye Chuan was taken aback. The classroom near the stairwell was Class Three, and it had been six or seven hours since school ended. He figured that apart from some teachers, there shouldn't be anyone at school.
Ye Chuan walked over. He hesitated for a moment, then reached out and knocked on the door: "Is anyone inside?"
"Eek!" A soft, glutinous exclamation came from inside. However, the other side quickly calmed down and said, "Um, I'm trapped inside, sob... help."
"You're inside, so how can you be trapped?" Ye Chuan had a strange expression.
"I... I don't know, but the door just won't open."
"Is that so?" There were windows on both sides of the classroom, but the windows on the corridor side were very high. Ye Chuan thought for a moment, then moved a desk from his own classroom. He stepped on it, opened the window, and then lightly jumped over, landing inside the classroom.
"Hmm?"
After landing, Ye Chuan's gaze swept around, and he immediately noticed something was wrong.
Because there was no one in the classroom at all!
"I... I'm so scared—" In the dim classroom, that voice sounded again:
"Can you stay with me?"
"Sigh, I just wanted to go home for dinner, and I run into something like this." Ye Chuan sighed. Then, a faint blue light covered his eyes. At this moment, the dark classroom was incredibly clear under Ye Chuan's Aura detection. Beside him, there was a blue glowing object.
"Charmander, Ember."
Taking out a Poké Ball, Ye Chuan pointed in a direction. A spark flashed, and a surprised voice came from the air: "You you you..."
"Stop it!"
Ye Chuan was expressionless, and then continuously directed Charmander's Ember attack. Finally, in the classroom, the air began to ripple, and a purplish-black shadow emerged, emitting a faint light.
It looked like a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, wearing the Silver Mountain Middle School uniform. She had shoulder-length short hair, and her body was slightly floating in the air.
"I'm a ghost!" The girl in front of him tried hard to make a scary face to frighten Ye Chuan, but her little fangs looked rather cute.
"Still pretending?" Ye Chuan silently recited a Buddhist incantation for dispelling evil, then pointed his hand, and Charmander gathered Ember again.
"I... I was wrong!" The girl immediately knelt down in mid-air with all fours touching down, making whimpering sounds.
Ye Chuan looked at her, and the Aura power in his eyes slowly dissipated: "You're a Gastly, aren't you?"
The girl emitted bursts of purple mist and then turned into a round gas. It opened a pair of blood-red triangular eyes, revealing a pair of sharp fangs.
Ghost-type Pokémon, Gastly.
This is a gaseous Ghost-type Pokémon that can infiltrate anywhere and use its mist to create hands to grab objects. Because its body is easily blown away by strong winds, they prefer to live in groups.
Ye Chuan then recalled slightly:
"I remember the Pokédex saying that in rare cases, a very small number of Gastly will gain the ability to speak like humans and can change their form, transforming into images such as young girls or old women to scare humans for fun. They also have the ability to communicate with the souls of the deceased."
"So, you're that kind of Gastly with special abilities?" Ye Chuan sized up the Gastly.
"I messed up..." The Gastly in front of him made whimpering sounds.
Ye Chuan looked at it, turned around, and opened the classroom door next to him: "Alright, go back to where you belong."
"Eek?" Gastly stuck out its long tongue, looking at Ye Chuan curiously.
"I can sense that you were just being playful and didn't intend to harm me," Ye Chuan said. His Aura power could sense this kind of emotion and understand Gastly's inner feelings. Moreover, it was a Pokémon that naturally liked pranks, it was in its nature.
"Next time, don't play pranks on others like this."
After speaking, Ye Chuan left the classroom, leaving Gastly floating quietly.
Gastly floated to the door, curiously watching Ye Chuan's departing figure. It thought for a moment, then stuck out its tongue and wobbled after him.