Chapter 940 Going deeper

After Gengar left, Xia You released Gardevoir to take over its guard mission.

Although Psychic-type Pokémon have no restraining effect on Ghost Girl and Ghost Butler, just like Squirtle and Froggy, thanks to the powerful performance of Psychic itself and Gardevoir's own powerful strength, it can cause effective damage when dealing with ghosts. It will not be as weak and powerless as other Pokémon and can fight normally.

That's enough.

Just like Gengar, Gardevoir can also suppress two human ghosts, making it impossible for them to make much waves.

After Gardevoir fully appeared, Xia You turned around and told Xiaoyao and Yami, "You stay here and hide. Next, I plan to go to other rooms to see if I can find some clues to the cause of the ghost."

"Eh?" Xiaoyao's face changed when he heard that. "Just leave us two here? Brother Xia You, I'm a little scared..."

"There's nothing to be afraid of, right? Don't you already know their true identities and have fought with that ghost girl just now?" Xia You comforted, "And don't worry, they have been chased away and will not cause trouble for you in the short term. What's more, their target is me, and Gengar is also chasing them. It's okay!"

Even though Xia You said so, and even wanted to leave some Pokémon to protect them, the two of them had the same idea and were unwilling to stay in this room. Instead, they thought that staying with Xia You was the safest and would make them feel most at ease!

This also made Xia You shake his head in amusement.

You know, it's not surprising that Xiaoyao has such thoughts. After all, she is his traveling companion and has long regarded him as his support. But this Yami, we have only known each other for such a short time, less than four or five hours, why is she so clingy?

What about your self-esteem as a trainer?

Where is your courage as a trainer?

I never thought that just two human ghosts could turn her into this.

Well, although these two human ghosts are indeed difficult to deal with, it is still inappropriate for them to behave so badly.

But seeing that they insisted, Xia You did not refuse: "Okay, since you want to follow, then just follow me."

Actually, his original intention was to keep the two of them here and deal with the matter himself, but since they were unwilling, he did not force them, but the three of them walked out of the room together.

In fact, this is a good thing. It allows them to be taken care of and relieves them of worries.

Outside the room, it looked equally scary.

The corridor and other places, even the entire mansion, were just like the room they were in. There was no longer any bright lights. They had long been in disrepair, and some floors were even damaged to the point where they would break if stepped on. This made them take every step very carefully, for fear of missing a step and falling through the floor.

The cool night wind blew in through the leaky windows and hit their bodies, causing goose bumps to appear on Xiaoyao and Yami's arms.

Of course, it's not just the cold, it could also be due to nervousness.

After all, no one knew whether the two ghosts would suddenly rush out from the corner, which made them highly alert, forming a sharp contrast with Xia You who was walking in front with a relaxed look on her face.

With flashlights in hand, the three of them walked through several empty guest rooms.

It was not until he passed the fourth room from the left and swept the flashlight across that he noticed something amiss in a painting on the wall.

The painting depicts a middle-aged woman dressed as a maid. She looked ordinary and did not attract anyone's attention at first. But just as several people walked past the painting, the eyes of the woman in the painting suddenly turned and stared at them!

Including the huge portrait in the corridor, this is the second portrait with moving eyes.

However, compared with the first painting, because it happened under the light of the three people's flashlights, the movement of the portrait's eyes this time was naturally noticed by Xia You and others immediately.

This also made the two women's hearts skip a beat. They subconsciously stopped and focused the flashlights in their hands on the portrait.

"Just...what was that?"

Xiaoyao's face changed and her voice trembled a little. It can be seen that although so much time has passed and even though she has already fought with the ghost, she still hasn't been able to adjust her emotions.

Yami also quickly hid behind Xia You, daring to show only half of her head: "It feels like... those eyes seem to come alive, are they looking at us?"

Among the three, Xia You was the bravest and the most fearless. When he saw the strange painting, he raised his eyebrows, then walked to the painting and looked it up and down.

Strangely enough, the painting returned to normal at this moment and looked like an ordinary painting. Even the maid in it had lost her weirdness and became ordinary.

"Huh?" With Xia You taking the lead, Xiao Yao became a little bolder. Seeing this, he asked in confusion, "The eyes in the painting did move just now? Why are they not moving now? Did we see it wrong?"

Yami asked cautiously, "Could it be because of the lighting?"

"Impossible." Xia You directly rejected it. "You two should stop having such fantasies now. This is where ghosts live. All the abnormal things you see are affected by the power of ghosts. It's just that the intensity of the influence is different. Whether it poses a threat to us or not is the only difference. So I guess there should be some ghost power hidden in this painting."

As he spoke, Xia You stretched out his hand and took down the painting. However, when he saw that there was only a solid wooden wall behind it and the painting no longer had the weird feeling it had just had, he knew that the ghost power contained in the painting was still too weak, so he hung it back up.

His movements were very smooth and natural, but Xiaoyao and Yami were shocked that Xia You dared to touch the painting with both hands and even hold it in his hands.

In their eyes, Xia You was so powerful at this moment!

They found nothing, so after leaving the room, they walked through the entire second floor.

However, they did not find any trace of the two human ghosts and Gengar, nor did they find any clues about the mansion and ghosts, so they all went downstairs together.

When they got downstairs, they first walked around the hall a few times, and finally came to a three-story library covered with spider webs.

A staircase spirals upward to the third floor.

Compared with other places in the mansion, although this place is still full of mold and looks quite dilapidated, it is relatively well preserved. This can be seen from the large number of books placed on the shelves of the library. Moreover, this is also the only place in the entire mansion where lights are still on!

There is even a brightly colored striped sofa placed in the middle of the room, which looks out of place with the shabby surroundings!

This also allowed Xiaoyao and Mei to see at a glance that this was definitely the core area of ​​the entire mansion!

"Here..." Xiaoyao looked around as she walked across the red carpet covered with scraps of paper and glass. "It looks completely different from other places. Could it be that... this place is very important to those ghosts?"

"That should be the case." Xia You nodded, "Maybe the answer we are looking for is here. Okay, let's look for it separately and see if we can find any clues."

Perhaps it was the lights here that made people feel safe and relieved Xiaoyao and Yami's anxious mood a little.

After hearing Xia You's words, they looked around nervously. After making sure that no ghost suddenly appeared from the corner, they walked to the bookshelves in front of them and slowly began to search.

Xia You also walked to one of the bookshelves, picked up a book at random, and opened it.

This is a fairy tale. Most of the pages are moldy, blurred, and damaged, so Xia You can't tell what the book is about. He can only judge from a few words that it should be a children's book about "The God of the Lake and the Girl".

There are actually a lot of such reading materials in the world. Most people like to combine those legendary Pokémon with children's stories and spread them in this way. It's just that each region has a different version.

After putting the book back to its original place, Xia You flipped through other books and found that they were basically the same.

Thinking back to the ghost girl just now, it is not difficult to guess that these should be the reading materials she used to read when she was a "human".

Turning his attention away from the books, Xia You's eyes wandered across the bookshelf, and soon he found a photo in the corner of a certain layer.

Holding the yellowed photo in his hand, he looked down in the light and saw that it was a family portrait. There were five people in the photo, including a family of three sitting on the striped sofa. They were the man in the huge painting on the stairs, the ghost girl he had just seen, and a lady whose face could no longer be seen clearly.

Behind the sofa, there were a man and a woman standing. The man was the old butler they had just met, and the woman was the middle-aged maid with moving eyes they had seen in that room!

I see……

After looking at it silently for a while, Xia You sighed softly, then put the photo in his arms.

Just at this moment, Xiaoyao seemed to have discovered something and shouted from the other side.

"Brother Xia You! Come and see!!"

Hearing her voice, Xia You walked over quickly. When he got to her side and looked down, he saw that she was holding a piece of paper that looked like it was torn from a notebook. There were some words scribbled on the paper, but they were also blurred and unrecognizable.

Taking the paper in his hand, Xia You was about to take a closer look when a figure flashed beside him. Ya Mi came to his side at this moment and moved her head closer, just blocking Xia You's sight. He could only see the back of a head full of green hair.

With a helpless sigh, he could only move his hand away.

But in order to see the words clearly, Yami unexpectedly started shaking along with it.

When Xia You's hand moved to the left, her head moved to the left as well. When Xia You's hand moved to the right, her head moved to the right as well.

Xiaoyao was finding it very funny watching from the side, and she didn't come to her senses until Xia You raised her hand too high, so high that Yami couldn't reach it.

"I'm a timid person, but I didn't expect you to be so curious."

After complaining, Xia You put his hands back on his chest and finally saw clearly what was written on the paper.

There was a very sloppy handwriting on it: The horse...was actually taken away by...that unknown thing...

Because the paper was too severely moldy, only these few words could be identified on it, and the limited text made it impossible for them to tell what was written on it. They could only tell from the few remaining words that something must have been taken away, but they had no idea what it was or who took it away.

what is it?

Holding this piece of paper, Xia You kept thinking and flipping through his memories.

When he played this generation of games before, he had indeed been to this forest mansion.

But he skipped the text and plot in the game most of the time and didn't pay attention to what was written. He would only remember the plot if it was particularly impressive. Therefore, no matter how hard he thought about it now, he couldn't come up with any clue.

If I had known this earlier, I would have watched more of the plot...

Just as Xia You was sighing with emotion, he saw purple mist rising again around him, surging out from all directions and sweeping towards Xia You and his companions!

This sudden change scared Xiaoyao and Yami. They reacted almost instinctively and hid behind Xia You together, grabbing the corner of his clothes at the same time. Without Xia You saying anything, Gardevoir on the side flashed blue light in its eyes and raised its arms at this moment.

"I'm going to eat you!!!"

The ghost girl who had just disappeared and escaped appeared again. She floated in the air, wrapped in the thick purple fog, and pounced towards Xia You with her claws spread out.

But just like before, Gardevoir used its ability to form a telekinetic barrier in front of Xia You. Although this power was very different from Gengar's, it still blocked the attack of the ghost girl.

Just as she was about to bypass the barrier and continue her attack, Gengar came out from the wall on the other side with a strange laugh.

Seeing this scene, Gengar was amazed.

"So that butler just now tried his best to stop me, even willing to be caught by me, just to let you come here and fall into my trap! I really don't understand, you are clearly in a situation where you have to hide, why do you dare to appear in front of my trainer?"

It is not difficult to hear from Gengar's words that after it chased out, it must have entangled with the two human ghosts, and with their strength, they were obviously no match for Gengar, so that the ghost butler had to abandon his own plan to let the ghost girl escape.

But unexpectedly, the ghost girl appeared in front of them again.

Waving his hand, Xia You stopped Geng Gui from approaching, then raised the piece of paper with his finger and said to the ghost girl: "Although I don't know what you have been through, why not talk to us, maybe... we can help you."