Let you make animations and develop virtual Pokémon? Chapter 125

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Xiao Xi ()

Aside from Peaches, billions of players began their adventure from Littleroot Town.

Among them, a special young man was about to embark on his own journey.

…

When the sunlight pierced through the gap in the curtains and into the room, the scrawny young man instinctively pulled the covers over his head.

He curled himself up completely, as if he could fold himself out of existence from this world. The antidepressant pills scattered on the headboard of the bed shimmered with an unusual luster in the few rays of sunlight.

“Xiao Xi, Mom’s coming in.” His mother’s deliberately lowered voice came from outside the door.

He didn’t respond, but the door was still pushed open, accompanied by his mother’s deliberately suppressed footsteps.

“Son…” His mother’s voice caught in her throat as she carefully placed the breakfast tray on the bedside table. “Have some breakfast…”

“Mmm…” A faint response came from under the covers, but the curled-up figure tensed even more.

His mother’s hand, which had intended to caress her child, hovered in the air for a moment before silently retracting.

As she exited the room, she gently placed an exquisitely packaged box by the door.

“Xiao Xi, Mom bought you a virtual helmet and registered an account with your ID card. They say this is the newest game out right now… Do you want to try it…?”

“Get out.” Xiao Xi suddenly interrupted, and then the sound of the door being gently closed followed.

In the darkness, Xiao Xi slowly opened his eyes, his gaze falling on the scabbed scars on his wrists. Tears silently soaked the pillowcase.

He would never forget that day, when they poured ink over his head in the toilet cubicle, and the successive “ugly” laughter in the corridor.

Long-term school bullying was like a blunt knife, slowly torturing the 16-year-old boy’s mind, leaving it riddled with holes.

When his busy mother finally looked up from the mountain of documents, she found that the light in her son’s eyes had long since extinguished, and it was all too late.

According to the doctor’s analysis, Xiao Xi feared and resisted communicating with people, and also suffered from severe paranoia. When he became emotionally agitated, he would even engage in extreme behaviors. Medication could only stabilize his condition, and he had to overcome all of this himself.

…

It wasn’t until late at night that the silence of the night seemed to awaken Xiao Xi.

He got up and looked at the cold food on the table—that was the dinner his mother had replaced.

His stomach was already rumbling, but Xiao Xi had no appetite at all.

In a trance, his mother’s words from the morning echoed in his ears. Xiao Xi slowly walked to the room door and picked up the exquisite box with both hands.

He slowly sat down on the bed and opened the box. A black helmet with a strong sense of futuristic technology appeared before his eyes.

Xiao Xi’s fingertips gently brushed the surface of the device. Of course, he knew what this was.

“Virtual helmets” and “virtual Pokémon” were always mentioned by classmates during breaks.

However, he didn’t even have to think about it; his formerly strict mother would certainly not support him touching such “extracurricular drugs.”

Xiao Xi, who usually showed no interest in anything, now had a long-lost glimmer of light in his eyes.

He ran his right hand over the smooth surface of the helmet, took a deep breath using the few rays of moonlight seeping through the curtain gap, and slowly put on the virtual helmet.

[Welcome to the Arceus Virtual Helmet.]

[Calibrating identity…]

[Ding! Identity calibration successful!]

In an instant, Xiao Xi felt himself floating in nothingness. All around him was a chaotic, unformed universe where stars had yet to be born and time seemed to stand still.

As the virtual helmet’s creation god opening CG ended, Xiao Xi was utterly shocked.

“Is this really… a game?”

Immediately after, a magnetic voice sounded.

[Welcome to the Pokémon world. Please confirm your character.]

Xiao Xi suddenly snapped back to reality, finding himself in a room. Before him was a scrawny young man who looked exactly like him.

His breathing hitched, and he instinctively turned his face away, not daring to look again.

He was a young man only 1.6 meters tall, and long-term malnutrition had left his body extremely thin. On his wrist, there was a visible knife scar, a painful memory Xiao Xi preferred not to recall.

[You can tell me anything you want to change, but only a total of 30% can be altered.]

The system’s intelligent AI voice echoed throughout the room.

Xiao Xi gradually regained his composure, remained silent for a long time, and finally spoke in a low voice:

“Can you… help me remove the scar on my wrist?”

[Removal complete! Is there anything else you wish to change?]

He shook his head, his voice so soft it was almost inaudible: “No…”

[Please name yourself.]

“Xiao Xi,” he answered subconsciously.

The next second, the world suddenly changed. Dazzling sunlight poured down, and he suddenly fell onto an endless grassland. The fragrance of green grass, the gentle caress of the breeze, the warmth of the sun—all of this was too sudden, too unfamiliar.

Xiao Xi frantically curled up, his arms tightly covering his eyes, as if the sunlight would burn his body.

Time passed minute by minute. Only after confirming that no one was around did he slowly lower his arms, gazing blankly at this strange world.

Just like that, a few minutes passed—

[Player “Xiao Xi” has been inactive for a long time. The intelligent guidance system is now activating.]

A virtual panel of the [Game Version] suddenly unfolded before Xiao Xi. Among them, a striking game cover caught his attention.

[Pokémon: Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire]

Xiao Xi trembled all over and tried to reach out and tap it.

[Do you want to enter “Pokémon: Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire”?]

“En… enter,” he stammered in response.

Before his words faded, a portal shimmering with white light slowly unfolded before him.

Xiao Xi hesitantly stood up and cautiously reached out. The moment his fingertips touched the door, a gentle force pulled him in.

…

After an unknown amount of time and a breathtaking opening CG, when Xiao Xi’s consciousness re-converged, he found himself curled up in the back of a bumpy moving truck.

When a harsh braking sound rang out, the truck door slowly opened, and sunlight poured in.

Xiao Xi instinctively raised his hand to block it, the golden light spots filtering through his fingers making him feel dazed.

He looked down at his wrist, which was smooth and flat, without any trace of a knife scar.

“That’s right… This is the game world.” He whispered softly, his fingertips trembling slightly: “Here… I can definitely do it…”

Taking a deep breath, Xiao Xi mustered his courage and moved towards the light.

The moment he jumped out of the truck, he was shocked by the cozy town, and once again asked in disbelief: “Is this really… a game?”

“Xiao Xi, we’ve arrived at Littleroot Town!”

A sudden loud voice startled Xiao Xi, making him tremble. He turned his head and saw a middle-aged man in overalls walking towards him.