Uh, let me report the reason for the interruption: Because my mother's body has been severely unwell recently, even if she doesn't go to take advantage of the disease, she has to take care of the sick at home, so she is really powerless... Alas, I won't say too much, in short, I still hope everyone can understand~~Long live understanding...

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Meilin is familiar with the history of Ziyuan Town, but he knows little about the Ziyuan area, the history of Aster Valley, the origin and changes of this valley. The only thing he can be sure of is that before the Guancheng people in the modern sense used this valley as the burial place for monsters, this was the so-called sacred place where the ancestors of Guancheng buried the remains of monsters in the past dynasties.

The reason why Meilin has only a slight understanding of Aster's history and is even full of blind spots is not because he is not good at learning or because he is afraid of ghosts and deliberately avoids his understanding of this aspect, but simply because Meilin cannot access the exact historical materials about Aster.

Under the influence of various reasons that can be sued and cannot be sued, and cannot be explained, the historical heritage of this world is quite chaotic and fragmented. Even scholars like Meilin who study history specialize in history, even the so-called nobles who have been passed down for a long time, have a completely blank understanding of many periods of time in history. Yes, it is a blank, a complete blank, without a head or a tail, suddenly appears and then disappears suddenly, or reveals vacancies as if they were torn off.

One of the important reasons for this tragic reality is that rulers of all ages seem to be very afraid of history. They are more willing to remain silent or be more straightforward about the past - completely break the discussion of the past. However, today's alliances are a little different. They have inherited certain policies of the old rulers, such as they are very arrogant and strictly restricted the study and discussion of modern history, which directly leads to the so-called modern history that ordinary people and even most scholars are exposed to, and the so-called modern history is completely unified. Only a small number of scholars who are from old nobles or are not afraid of death can lift the mysterious veil of the extremely chaotic modern history from the side to see its ugly and dirty true appearance and then completely shut their mouths. But perhaps as a certain exchange for the academic community or to show the difference between them and the old rulers, the alliance has strictly prohibited the study of modern history and opened up the research of ancient and even super ancient civilizations to the greatest extent.

However, although the above agreed to the study of ancient and even super ancient civilizations, there are too many huge obstacles and insurmountable gaps in the research of old civilizations that have just begun. This may be one of the reasons why the alliance is willing to open up research, which can greatly distract the academic community from the energy of the academic community without worrying about their substantial progress in a short period of time.

The first obstacle to fanatical scholars who devoted themselves to the study of old calendar civilization with great enthusiasm is the serious lack of historical materials and dynasties. In many cases, they can only use word-of-mouth myths and legends to complete the broken historical timeline, which leads to many times scholars who feel deeply guilty and powerless for their irresponsible behavior.

The lack of historical materials is just one of the obstacles, and the obstacle that makes scholars cry without tears is that the ancient material that is already very rare is also filled with too many hard or simply undeciphered dead languages ​​and dead words. These completely undecipherable materials left over from civilizations that have long disappeared in the long river of history often make scholars fall into painful contradictions that are difficult to choose. They are reluctant to give up these extremely rare historical materials and are really difficult to decipher from them that can convince most of their colleagues.

Content. Since deciphering these dead words requires multiple translations through other interpretable words, the translated words can maintain their original meanings and have always been criticized and doubted by scholars. In addition, many scholars often add serious personal subjective thoughts and personal opinions in the translation process. Therefore, the combination of both factors has led to the emergence of several or even dozens of completely different versions of translations in just two sentences of ancient characters, and the content deciphered by different versions is even more incompatible.

Even though many scholars from old aristocrats have devoted themselves to the study of old calendar civilization with their profound family studies, helping other scholars to barely bypass or break through the obstacles of certain historical materials and dead texts, the overall progress of research in the old, ancient and super-ancient times is still extremely slow, and they often turn around.

That's why Meilin's grandfather suggested that Meilin use his unique talent in that area to exchange academic research results for his own safety. However, Meilin, who was aware of this and was uneasy, violated his grandfather's words for the first time. He did not dare to tell his grandfather about his speculation, and could only follow his own speculation and follow the path he thought was correct.

Although my grandfather could not fully understand and understand the various concerns expressed by Merlin, given that it was the first time that his grandson made such a strong voice, he decided to follow Merlin's opinion and let him join the wave of trainers to become a trainer who is likely to eventually become an unknown trainer.

"Ah..." Mei Lin, who was surrounded by the mist, sighed deeply. This ancient place always aroused Mei Lin's nostalgia plot, and he would involuntarily think of some irrelevant things in his mind.

"So I said, I'm really not suitable..." Stumbled to stop, Meilin slowly raised his right hand and first pushed open his glasses, and then used his thumb and index finger to rub and press his Tianying acupoint desperately, "...doing such a thing..." In my mind, all kinds of shocking or sad and cruel scenes were flashing like a film movie. Meilin's body also trembled with the flashing of these scenes.

"History is for me..." He used his superpowers to close his brain and cleaned up the things that did not belong to him. "It has a completely different meaning!!"

After half roaring and saying this inexplicable word, Merlin returned to normal. He raised his hands and rubbed his face a few times and then put on his glasses again, Merlin firmly walked into the foggy Aster Valley, and into this ancient, isolated grave...

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The deep, quiet and smoky Aster Valley is full of tomb buildings of different styles. Even without any professional architectural skills, the layout of these buildings that expand outward strictly according to the age is enough to make people identify the age and background of their construction.

In the center of Aster Valley, there are various strange towers built by the old civilization. On the outside, there are large wooden towers built by Guancheng people with a strong religious atmosphere. On the outside, there are a large number of stone tombs with the Southern Barbarian style. The towers standing on the outside are naturally built during the current Alliance period. These towers are called "Pokemon" by the Alliance to be slightly different from the old name "Bone Burying Tower".

However, these buildings made of reinforced concrete seem somewhat inconsistent with this valley. Whether it is monotonous style, ancient patterns imitated by industrialization, and the so-called texture painted by chemical paints - they reveal obvious care and perfunctory everywhere. Although the Alliance advocates the high-standard treatment and sincere care for Pokémon, comparing these tombs that stand in the present world can show its essence the most intuitively. To put it bluntly, the towers built during the Alliance period are not even as sincere as the towers built in modern times, even if the latter has a very bad attitude towards Pokémon.

Although the towers built by the Alliance were obviously lacking in their hearts, this did not prevent the towers - whether they were called Bone Tower or Pokémon Tower - from fulfilling their original functions. Merlin also saw several groups of people walking together along the way. They were either solemn or unable to hide their hearts or reluctance or full of sorrow. These mourners and the mourners and the deceased each left this place with their own different but identical grief with their own steps.

[Maybe I am very selfish and cowardly with this idea, right?] Meilin, who stopped, looked silently at a girl with tears and sobbing sobs and turned around and reluctantly left the valley with the companionship of her companion. Several times the girl wanted to break free from her companion's arms and pounce back again. [I would rather say goodbye to the timid me at the end than to experience even such a scene in person...] He did not share these words with his companion, but just buried it in his heart silently, allowing it to take root or wither or weather.

People who came out of the tower all carried their own stories of life and death. They buried part of themselves in the tower and dragged their broken bodies back to the world. Merlin did not think he had that kind of courage, so he could only choose to escape cowardly, to escape the responsibilities that he would bear sooner or later.

"Oh..." Seeing the girl who suddenly burst into tears, her back was completely swallowed by the smoke, Merlin, who felt a hint of heartache, sighed and then walked forward again to complete the small goal he set.

Among the various evil-proof props produced by Ziyuan, the most famous and most effective one is naturally the "purifying amulets" made by the witches of Shinto. This treasure that can avoid ghosts and even resist ghost power is protected by the mysterious power that has been able to continue the religion of Shinto for a long time. In fact, not only the amulets of Shinto, but the Onmyoji in the Onmyoji were also good at making similar props in the past and were very effective. However, the props they made today are not famous. As for the monks in the temple, they can naturally make some props with similar functions, but now they do not seem to be produced anymore.

If you want to get a talisman for purifying your body, you naturally have to find the witches of Shinto. As for how to find the witches? That's very simple. On the hills north of the valley, the famous Shinto Palace, the Aster Temple, gathers the most Shinto priests in Guancheng area, and naturally there are the witches who are originally Kagura dancers; of course, they can also be found in the Aster Valley. As the managers of Pokémon Tower, the witches are almost filled with every Pokémon Tower that is "operating" to the outside world.

Open business? Yes, it is open business.

The tombs in the Aster Valley are not free, and they should even be said to be valuable. In this regard, the alliance can be said to have set a vicious precedent for the charges for the funeral of Pokémon. In ancient times, at least in the era of history, Aster's tombs were always ignored for free use by class. The so-called nobles and superiors would invest themselves in building a luxurious bone burial tower dedicated to their own family or a certain monster to conquer the corpses of the dead monsters. The so-called civilians and inferiors could dig their own graves at designated locations in the valley to bury their own monsters - although they did rarely have such opportunities at that time.

Religious rituals for tribute, salvation or other meanings were also free in the past. Whether it is Shinto, yin and yang, they were spontaneous and actively sought various reasons to carry out large-scale sacrifices and Dharma Assembly. Although they would collect some alms from some believers, it was not forced after all. The so-called nobles would take the initiative to "invite" those religious people to hold a grander religious ceremony when they had money or suddenly remembered it. This naturally requires additional payment.

But by the Alliance period, these past rules changed. Not only did burial of Pokémon require payment, but even religious people also required additional payments for routine rituals.

Although according to the Alliance, they will provide free tombs for the majority of civilians to bury their Pokémon, the reality is cruel - tombs are free, everything else needs to be charged, and different levels of tomb management fees must be paid according to the specifications of the tombs. Especially tombstones, coffins, so-called tributes, etc. are even more valuable. This is the so-called universal open-air cemetery in the Alliance - the prices of public cemeteries that are squeezed into a large number of public cemeteries. If you want to bury Pokémon in the tower, the cost will be even higher. Moreover, the tombs in the tower have completely different prices according to the number of floors and the locations of the floors. In addition, the cost of various styles and specifications of tombs, coffins, tombstones, and additional services is even more expensive.

In short, Pokémon, who can afford a complete set of graves in the tower, is considered to be the so-called middle class and wealthy family in modern times.

As for his family, like Merlin, his family has an ancient special bone burial tower in Aster Valley, and there is more than one. However, Merlin, who has been removed from the family and has no right to use the surname, has even been deprived of the qualification to go in and pay attention to it. Although he himself did not mind at all, when he thought of the tomb in Pokémon Tower, he had somehow become a bit inexplicable and mixed emotions.

Merlin didn't want to go to the Asters Temple, so he had to go to the Pokémon Tower that was open to business if he wanted to find the witches. So he naturally took the new nine-story tower closest to him as a target - the group of priests he met before were probably from this tower.

After wandering in front of this tower full of boring modernity for a while, he unwillingly walked around the tower. Meilin, who had never found the ideal witch who stood outside the tower to greet guests, had no choice but to walk towards the place he least wanted to enter. Following the dozen steps in front of the tower gate, he pushed open the bronze gate made of alloy made of unknown materials, and Meilin walked into the tower mourning tower.

To Merlin's surprise, the appearance of the Pokémon Tower was not as gloomy as he had expected, with a terrifying spirit and a lingering spirit... On the contrary, pure white tiles reflecting clean luster covered the ground under his feet. The whitened snow-white walls were inlaid with antique candlesticks every distance. The milky white ceiling was emitting soft white light from top to bottom. The lights mixed with swaying and flickering candlelight made the place very warm. The air was filled with the smell of herbs, essential oils and candles... Quiet and sacred, this is the most intuitive feeling of Merlin after entering the Pokémon Tower.

Of course, to have this feeling, we must first ignore the two rows of small shops selling souvenir supplies and various amulets at the entrance of the first floor, as well as funeral service points with clear prices...

Unfortunately, Merlin was unable to ignore these real things in the end. All his emotions before seeing those things disappeared, "It's inappropriate..." He curled his lips and said softly.

The air was filled with sweet smells of mixed herbs and plant essential oils and mixed with various candles and incense. Meilin couldn't tell what was there, but he was not tired of this mixed smell. The melodious sounds echoed in the space, which were hit by ancient musical instruments but played by modern equipment. The mysterious murmurs of the witches and priests who had recorded the loop in advance made Meilin feel in a daze...

There are no tombstones or tombs on the floor of the huge tower, only a few sad people who are still sad and a few Shinto witches engaged in profit-making activities.

[Environment, light, shadow, smell, sound...] Meilin bit his tongue and used the pain to restore his clarity to his mind. [Using external forces to build it through artificial...] ​​He quickly glanced around, [Sad, sad, how many points are your emotions caused by external forces?] He asked himself, [It's still some tricks to seduce people...] He obviously started to think randomly again.

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The difficulty of obtaining a talisman that was cleansed seemed to exceed Merlin's expectations. He originally thought that he would quickly complete his goal by going directly to the stall around him to use some props to discuss with the part-time clerk's witch to exchange a talisman, but the lonely girl with a stern face ruthlessly broke Merlin's fantasy. She bluntly told Merlin that the amulets she sold here were specially used to make money, and that the effect was very low. If you want a real amulet, he had to go to the seventh floor of the tower to find the tide of presiding over the work of this tower to get it. Only then could she give Merlin a "really effective" amulets.

In order to obtain amulets, Merlin had to continue to move towards the higher level of the tower.

[Tide comes?] Merlin, who was climbing the stairs, was thinking randomly, [Is the witches of the northern sects Shinto? During the national sects, Shinto in ancient times, Shinto was unified under the shrine Shinto, and these local guys were absorbed...] With the help of recalling various anecdotes, Melin strongly controlled his thoughts and did not think about ghosts and ghosts. [These blind women are said to have super powers to communicate with the dead and exorcism. After experiencing the harshest ritual, they married themselves to a certain "god". The unique scriptures they sang have stronger power than the priests in the shrine... I remember that the older the tide, the more powerful it is...]

Through the tombstones of various shapes and walking through the ladders, Merlin controlled his thoughts that could go astray at any time through compulsory means.

Just when he had seen the three-story and four-story stairs that could immediately break through another cemetery again, a luxurious tombstone that happened to pass by was strangely attracted his attention. It was a delicate work of art that seemed particularly abrupt and huge among the tacky tombstones around him. The upper part of the tombstone made of pure white marble was a statue of Lada with equal body and proportion. The statue was carved vividly like a living thing, and it was obvious that it was from the hands of a famous artist. Below the statue was carved an image of Lada. In the picture, Lada was clutched with a thick log and the middle of the log had been bitten into a rough human form.

"Radar?" Merlin was a little surprised. He was both surprised by the great work of feeding people and the talent shown by this Lada. Merlin was sure that this image must have been engraved by a craftsman in the photo. In that photo, the Rada was able to carve a rough human form on the wood with his front teeth. This exquisite control of power is really rare. In comparison, it seems too low-level to bite it off.

Merlin couldn't help but keep moving his gaze down. Under the engraved image, there was a small piece of beautiful but obviously trembling words: "I will always remember that day, because I lost too much that day... You are my biggest regret in this life - Green, 1997...."

"Green?" Meilin was stunned for a moment, "Is it..."

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Well, this section has buried a small foreshadowing about the protagonist that will only be used after a long time~~

Then, this section applies a certain setting in the weird story, poor Rada~~~
Chapter completed!