Chapter 287 Xia Family

As he waited, Ren Yan, who hadn't slept all night, felt drowsy.

But then the eldest sister pulled his ear up with one hand.

Ren Yan opened his eyes and said in surprise: "Sister, you finally..."

Before Ren Yan could finish his words, Ren Sheng grabbed Ren Yan's ear, stood up, and walked towards the cabin.

"Sister, I was wrong..." Ren Yan said with tears in his eyes.

"Just stay in my room and don't go anywhere!" Ren Sheng pulled Ren Yan into the room and said seriously.

Ren Yan smacked his lips. Since his elder sister wouldn't let him go out, then Ren Yan had no choice but to accept it.

"I'll watch you here, don't go anywhere!" Ren Sheng then sat at his desk, received the data sent by Yu Haiyan on his computer and began to study it slowly.

Ren Yan sighed slightly, then fell asleep quickly on Ren Sheng's bed.

Ren Sheng turned his head and looked at Ren Yan, then picked up the computer and sat next to Ren Yan.

Although I am still researching, I have a lot of thoughts...

The brave Asahi took off slowly and flew towards the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

……

It was unknown how long it had been, but when Ren Yan woke up again, the spaceship was already approaching Sunlight City.

Because of the high altitude, thin air and clear sky, this area has abundant sunshine resources, hence the name Sunshine City.

Riko and the other two could see the magnificent Potala Palace from afar, with uncontrollable excitement in their eyes.

Molly held her forehead helplessly, and had to take on the responsibility of taking care of the three children after the spacecraft landed.

Fulide rode Charizard and took off with Pikachu in advance, heading to a place in Sunshine City to meet his old friend.

The Brave Asahi slowly landed. After getting off the spaceship, Ren Sheng pulled Ren Yan and Li Ke together and walked towards the Potala Palace.

Molly took Liko and the other two for a stroll, while Ren Sheng and Ren Yan went to a room in the Potala Palace with a purpose.

Before he got close, Ren Yan's wave power sensed the figure of Machado.

After coming out of the Kunlun Mountains, Mashado came to the Potala Palace.

Why do I want to see Machado? Is Sister Xia Rou in the spirit world?

Ren Yan followed Ren Sheng into the room in silence and saw the petite Machado standing with her back to them and her hands behind her back.

Machado turned around, and his dead fish eyes seemed to say, why you again?

Machado didn't say much. It had other tasks to do, so it simply stretched out its two little hands. The little hands condensed a huge amount of ghost energy and drew a Tai Chi diagram in the air. Then the circle expanded outward until a portal appeared.

"Come in..." Ren Sheng said.

Ren Yan nodded, and then stepped into the portal.

The scene changed, and it was still a cylindrical corridor that kept rotating.

There was still a person sitting cross-legged in the middle of the road.

The difference is that the person sitting there is no longer the disheveled old man, but Xia Rou, whom Ren Yan is very familiar with.

Xia Rou had disheveled hair and stared at the ground with lifeless eyes, as if she didn't notice Ren Yan's arrival.

Ren Yan was silent for a long time, and finally walked forward silently.

Ren Yan half-knelt in front of Xia Rou who was sitting cross-legged, and said softly: "Sister, I'm here..."

Hearing the extremely familiar voice, Xia Rou's lifeless pupils trembled slightly. Xia Rou slowly raised her head and saw the delicate face that she could usually see as soon as she opened her eyes.

For a moment, tears welled up unconsciously, and Xia Rou's trembling lips seemed to be saying something, but she couldn't say anything.

Xia Rou shed tears, opened her arms and hugged Ren Yan tightly.

"Yanyan, it's so lonely here, I'm so scared..." The strong woman who has never cried before, the queen in the eyes of others, completely lost control at this moment and cried loudly on Ren Yan's shoulder.

Ren Yan's eyes were slightly touched, and he slowly hugged Xia Rou tightly, carefully feeling the warmth that he had not felt for a long time.

It was unknown how long it was, until Xia Rou calmed down completely, and then Ren Yan let go of his arm.

"Sister, can we leave together?" Ren Yan asked.

When this was mentioned, Xia Rou's eyes suddenly dimmed: "I am no longer human, I can't stay in the human world..."

Ren Yan was slightly stunned: "What do you mean? What happened?"

Xia Rou smiled bitterly, shook her head and said, "Just like what you saw at the time, there are only ghosts in the spirit world. Any creature that survives in the spirit world for a long time will eventually be assimilated into a ghost by the spirit world. I am already a ghost now, and I can't survive in the human world..."

"Why did this happen?" Ren Yan was puzzled.

"Because this is my destiny, not the destiny of the eldest son..." Xia Rou explained.

After a while, Ren Yan finally understood what had happened.

The Xia family has been a ghost family of the Huaxia Alliance since ancient times. It has been passed down for who knows how many centuries, and it even once sat in the position of the first family in Huaxia.

Because he stood on the wrong side during the civil war in the last century, it is difficult for him to stand out in the current Huaxia Alliance.

In order to gain a certain amount of power in the current Huaxia Alliance, the Xia family violated their ancestral teachings and used a trainer training program that was strictly prohibited by the family elders - spiritual training.

Except for the eldest son of the clan leader, young children are thrown into the spirit world full of ghost-type Pokémon that absorb human spiritual power. Humans are the best food in the spirit world, and only one in a hundred can survive successfully.

Xia Rou is one of them.

Xia Rou has a natural affinity for ghosts, and in the spirit world she captured a champion-level Gastly who was intolerable to other Pokémon because of his mischievousness.

It's difficult to survive in the spirit world.

Later, he walked out of the spirit world together with a group of other children who had also survived and had ghost-related affinities.

In the outside world, Xia Rou represents the Xia family and is on the road to becoming the ghost attribute king. Her champion-level Gengar leads the Xia family to the center of power in the Huaxia Alliance.

So the Xia family took advantage of Xia Rou's influence in the alliance and abused their power for personal gain, until Xia Rou found out, which created a rift between Xia Rou and the Xia family.

Xia Rou always stands on the side of the Huaxia Alliance, and even her own family cannot cross the line at will.

It was not until the Ren Yan incident broke out that various families started a wave of attacking Ren Yan.

Xia Rou, together with the champion-level Geng Gui, personally suppressed her family's rising ambitions.

As a result, he completely broke with his family.

But Xia Li's father, Xia Qu, the patriarch of the Xia family, also revealed an unspoken rule of the family that everyone knew.

The reason why the Xia family sat at the position of the first family in China in the past was because of their training program for survival in the spirit world. The top trainers who survived led the top Pokémon to grow rapidly, which others could not catch up with. However, it also brought a serious consequence.

Ghost-type Pokémon trainers have short lives...

Especially trainers who come from the spirit world, most of them die young.

Because they have been transformed into ghosts and live in the spirit world, they will be assimilated into ghosts if they are exposed to the cold ghost aura of the spirit world for a long time. Ghosts will find it difficult to survive in the main world. If they want to survive, they can only return to the spirit world and live there forever.