Not a trainer this time

As soon as autumn passes, the temperature drops immediately.

Pokémon in the mountains and forests began to stock up on berries for the winter, and Pokémon that were afraid of the cold also began their annual migration, flying to the distant south.

The cold wind was blowing, and the withered yellow leaves swirled down from the branches.

Naoki stopped cultivating the fields and simply planted two kinds of radishes that Linyouma and Snowstorm Horse liked to eat.

He took his Pokémon with him to store the vegetables he had harvested before, or make them into pickles for rice.

It is worth mentioning that the green onion garden overseen by Green Onion Duck is also affected by the seasons.

Those thick and strong green onions have become very old because they have not been harvested for a long time.

Scallion Duck is very familiar with this kind of thing.

So before these green onions died of old age, it waved the green onions in its hands and harvested the green onions in the green onion garden one by one, then tied them into a bundle and gave it to Naoki to sell for money.

After several months of fitness, Scallion Duck has now developed a strong body, with burly muscles under the fine down.

That green onion that was originally very exaggerated has become extremely convenient for the current green onion duck.

"Well, it seems that your onion skill proficiency has broken through again!"

Looking at the green onion duck waving green onions in front of him, Naoki couldn't help but nodded.

Green Onion Duck holds the green onion in one hand and sweeps it violently. The fallen leaves on the ground float up into the air along with the air flow generated by swiping the green onion.

Hearing Naoki's words, the green onion duck stopped exercising. It held the green onion like a gun, looked back with firm eyes and said, "Gah!"

"Do you have any other plans in the future?" Naoki asked.

"Gah..." Green Onion Duck thought carefully and then shook his head.

It wants to stay in the pasture and continue to practice here!

"Then please take care of me from now on!" Naoki smiled and touched the head of the green onion duck.

As he spoke, he tied the red wool scarf he bought from the town around the neck of the green onion duck.

"This is a gift for you. I'm afraid this winter will be very cold." Naoki said.

When he was watching the news a few days ago, he saw that a strong cold air was sweeping across the Western Sea of ​​​​Padia, and it was estimated that it would not be long before it came to the Padia area.

Green Onion Duck lowered his head and looked at the scarf around his neck, looking very happy: "Gah!"

Saying goodbye to the green onion duck, Naoki returned home.

It is now November, the temperature is starting to get colder, and it feels like it will snow in a while.

Last winter, he went to the Galar region to look for the Crowned King. This winter, he had nothing special to do.

Therefore, Naoki plans to spend the whole winter at home with his Pokémon.

According to Naoki's understanding, the Padya League also took a holiday.

Gym leaders such as Qishu and Gurusha do not need to stay in the gym. They can use this time to travel outside or return to their hometown to spend time with their families.

After the temperature dropped, Naoki reopened the lava bug's ventilation duct.

As the lava worm moves inside, the warmth radiated from it will float along the pipes to every corner of the house, making the entire house warm.

The Eevees have thick fluff on their bodies. Even in such cold weather, they are not affected at all and still have fun playing outside.

In the living room, apart from King Lei Guan who was watching TV and his royal tea set, the Sad Tea and the Scary Tea Pot, there was only the Motorized Lizard, who was afraid of the cold, lying in front of the warm fireplace and sleeping.

Naoki took out the ingredients from the refrigerator and started preparing lunch for the Pokémon.

He had other things to do in the afternoon. Dr. Olin called him yesterday and said he planned to visit the ranch this afternoon to observe Zhinyifa's life in the outside world.

So, when Naoki finished his lunch and sat on the sofa to replenish the black tea in his body, Dr. Olin rushed to the ranch with Pipa.

After not seeing each other for a long time, Pipa didn't seem to have changed much. He was still the same taciturn person before.

Naoki smiled and greeted him: "Long time no see, Pipa!"

Pipa looked at him and replied politely: "Long time no see, Mr. Naoki."

The little sister's caretaker brought two cups of hot black tea to Piper and Dr. Olin.

After Dr. Olin took a few sips, he couldn't wait to see Zhanyifa's life in the ranch.

"The flutter should be over there at Kirby Park now." Naoki said as he stood up: "Let's go, I'll take you there!"

The two immediately stood up and followed Naoki through the pasture.

On the way, Pipa looked left and right, and he suddenly noticed that many Pokémon were missing from the pasture.

The mount goats were gone, and so was Oliva.

Seeing this, Pipa couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Naoki, where are the goats and the others?"

"They?" Naoki replied, "They went to a warm place to spend the winter."

To be precise, I went to the World Tree in the reverse world.

The current World Tree has grown very tall and large, and can fully accommodate the mount goats and Oliva. Even if there are a hundred more, there will be no problem.

In addition, inverting the world's constant temperature all year round, the natural energy emitted from the World Tree is of great benefit to grass-type Pokémon.

Therefore, after the temperature dropped, Naoki asked them to practice on the empty island where the World Tree was located, and then come back when the weather warmed up in spring.

The entrance to the reverse world is in the lake in the pasture, which is also very convenient for milking goats.

Hearing this answer, Pipa nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

After crossing the river, the three of them came to Kirby Park.

After many days, Dr. Olin finally saw that special flapping hair again.

At this moment, many Pokémon have gathered in Kirby Park.

A group of Eevee were jumping around on Kirby's belly as a trampoline.

Flapping Wings, on the other hand, stayed alone on the slide, curiously holding on to the slide with his wing claws and sliding down.

Seeing this situation, Dr. Olin's eyes lit up.

The violent ancient Pokémon is playing on the slide. This is a very rare sight!

Naoki on the side told in detail what happened after Zhan Yifa arrived at the ranch.

"In the beginning, Flapping Hair still retained the habits of ancient life. It would quietly go out to hunt at night. It liked to eat raw meat and used its sharp teeth to tear pieces of meat."

Dr. Olin nodded. This is the ecological habit of Pokémon like Flutterhead.

Influenced by the violent and primitive energy of ancient times, all ancient Pokémon from that era retain very primitive habits.

Just like the savages described in some adventure books.

"Later, I introduced Gulledon to it and introduced it to modern life, teaching it what it should and should not do. In order to change the habit of fluttering its wings at night, I gave it a refreshing coffee. Gradually, Zhanyifa slowly adapted to life on the ranch."

"Did Flapping Hair make any friends?" Dr. Olin asked.

Naoki thought for a while, and then said: "Fluttertail still likes to be alone, and rarely acts coquettishly towards me like other Pokémon, but when I touch its head and help it comb its hair, it will do the same. Show an expression of enjoyment.”

"Flutter's relationship with other Pokémon is quite harmonious. It likes to watch them play around, but the best relationship with Flip't is Luton."

"I understand." Dr. Olin nodded slightly. She took out her camera and took a precious picture of Fluttering Hair playing on the slide.

Then, Dr. Olin stayed here to observe for a while before following Naoki back to the living room.

Pipa was very interested in the Pokémon in the ranch, so Naoki asked his brother to take him to visit.

And he and Dr. Olin stayed in the living room chatting.

Dr. Olin took a sip of hot tea and said, "It feels like this winter is extremely cold!"

Naoki smiled: "Do you and Dr. Futu plan to return to the ground to celebrate the New Year this year?"

"It's not clear yet." Dr. Olin recalled the research he was conducting and continued: "It depends on whether the research institute is busy, but if we can't come back by then, we will take Pipa over."

Naoki nodded slightly: "Pipa will be very happy with your company."

"Yes." Dr. Olin nodded lightly: "That child is the pride of me and Futu. Next year, Pipa will go to Padilla College to attend school. By then, he will be able to make more friends there. friend."

That way, Piper wouldn't feel alone.

Hearing this, Naoki couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Time flies so fast!

When he first arrived, Piper was a dull little kid, and now in the blink of an eye, Piper was going to school.

I just don’t know if Dr. Olin’s expectations can be realized.

Because judging from the game, Pipa was still alone when he was studying at Padea College. Later, the Mastiff Godfather was injured, and he also relied on his own strength to run around looking for a way to treat the Mastiff Godfather.

At that time, Piper met the protagonist of the game. After experiencing the adventure of exploring Area 0 together, he became good friends with the protagonist, Nemo and Peony.

Speaking of time, Naoki suddenly became curious about the time machine in Area 0.

As far as he knew, with the current technology in the Pokémon world, it was impossible to create a time machine. After all, time travel was the ability of Dialga and Palkia.

"Doctor, can the time machine in Area 0 really achieve time travel?" Naoki asked curiously.

Dr. Olin nodded slightly: "Of course, we relied on its power to summon so many ancient and future Pokémon to this era."

"Doesn't that mean that humans can now explore the distant past and future through time machines?" Naoki asked.

"About this matter..." Dr. Olin thought for a moment, and then replied: "To be honest, at present we have no way to grasp the specific time, nor can we locate an exact point in time. We can only roughly time period to call Pokémon."

"As for traveling back in time and exploring..." As a doctor, Olimbo has done a lot of research on this aspect.

She organized her words a little and then said: "Although it is my and Futu's dream to go to that era and see it with our own eyes, we don't plan to do that."

"Why?" Naoki asked.

Dr. Olin looked at him and asked: "I wonder if you have ever heard of time paradox, that is, time travel or traveling through time and space, which leads to logical derivation of contradictory conclusions."

"Moreover, time is a developing line, and everything you do has a causal relationship. If your actions in the past have changed history, then everything in the future will change accordingly, and you will no longer be able to do anything about it. Return to the time and space you are familiar with.”

Naoki's eyes darkened when he heard this.

Dr. Olin continued: "In the past, some scientists have made various hypotheses in order to solve the time paradox."

"For example, in the popular "parallel universe" hypothesis, some scientists believe that our world has many similar clone worlds in the universe."

"And when someone goes back in time, he enters another parallel world, that is, a world in which the future has been changed because of his actions, and the parallel world because at a certain moment, it may be the moment when you yourself go back to the past, and Collapse occurs and disappears.”

Naoki: "..." I don't understand it at all!

Seeing the expression on his face, Dr. Olin couldn't help laughing and said: "In short, if you play with time, time will also play with you. There is no way to change some established facts."

"If you force a change, everything in the future will collapse because of what you do, and all the people, Pokémon, and things you know will be affected by the butterfly effect and change again."

"For example, if someone in the future travels back in time and space to prevent his grandmother and grandfather from getting married, then that person in the future will disappear with him and never appear again."

"……so complicated."

Looking at Dr. Olin in front of him, Naoki couldn't help but curse in his heart: So in the game, the two doctors who died in the end of the research were also the consequences of playing with time?

He had tried to change the fate of Dr. Orin and Dr. Fotu before, but it was unknown whether he had succeeded.

Dr. Olin sat for a while and then prepared to leave.

There were still things waiting for her to deal with at the institute, and she planned to take Pipa with her to Area 0.

If there is no time then, the family of three will celebrate the New Year there.

Seeing this, Naoki stood up and saw them off.

"Be safe!" he said.

A smile appeared on Dr. Olin's face, and then she disappeared down the country road with Pipa.

Naoki returned to the living room, only to see the Motorized Lizard there with a confused look on his face, not knowing what he was thinking.

Naoki raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong? What are you thinking about?"

"Gah." The Motorized Lizard replied.

Lei Guanwang casually helped translate, and it turned out that the Motorized Lizard was stunned by Dr. Olin's time paradox.

The Motorcycle Lizard asked: "Gah?" (Does Naoki know what that means?)

Naoki thought about it carefully, and then explained what he understood to the Motorized Lizard in detail.

"For example, I had parents before, right?"

Biker nodded, everyone and every Pokémon has a mother and father.

"If someone goes back in time and prevents my parents from falling in love at that time, then I will never be born again, and the current me will also be affected and disappear together. This should be the butterfly effect... Dr. Olin said this of."

But Naoki was a little unsure. After all, the God of Time existed in this world, and some of his scientific theories in his previous life simply could not be established in this magical world of Pokémon.

Motorized Lizard seemed to understand.

Naoki wanted to say something else, but the video phone at home suddenly rang.

Zhi Shu stepped forward to answer the call and heard Xiaomei's voice on the phone.

Mei, the granddaughter of the owner of the Pokémon Ranch store in the town.

"Is Mr. Naoki at home?"

"Here, what's the matter?" Naoki asked.

Xiaomei replied: "That's right, my grandfather met an injured tropical dragon in the wild jungle the day before yesterday. The tropical dragon was supposed to fly to the south for the winter, but its wings were injured and it couldn't fly. "

"The weather is getting colder and colder now, and it will snow soon. Although its injury has healed, it is too late to leave for the Southland at this time, so grandpa plans to help Tropical Dragon find a trainer to help take care of it. You See if you have time."