An Encounter Across Spacetime

Eevee's rabbit-like, slender ears twitched imperceptibly, and her acute hearing system perceived the rapid approach of someone.

She felt that in her two lifetimes, there had never been a moment as exciting as the present. And as complicated.

Could she finally feel his embrace once more, one so warm that it made one forget all troubles?

At the mere thought of that feeling, which she couldn't forget in this life—no, no matter how many reincarnations she went through—Eevee's body trembled slightly and uncontrollably.

I'm back, Xia Chen. This time, I'm going to make up for all the regrets of my past life and embark on that highest peak together with you.

Eevee's thoughts gradually drifted away, and her memories returned to the day of her rebirth.

The Zhijiang Pokémon Breeding Base was the largest place for artificially breeding Pokémon in Zhijiang City.

It was also the best channel for students and citizens of Zhijiang to acquire their favored Pokémon.

Its area alone spanned several thousand hectares, and the Pokémon within were as numerous as carp crossing a river, with the number of Pokémon in each zone counted in the tens of thousands.

On an ordinary spring day in a certain year, a group of cute and ordinary Eevee crawled out of their eggshells.

As the most popular Pokémon breed, the Zhijiang Pokémon Breeding Base hatched tens of thousands of Eevee every year.

There was nothing unusual about this matter.

What was unusual was that one of these Eevee had shown outstanding traits since birth.

She ate the most, ran the fastest, had the most active athletic cells, and displayed a wisdom that was the most astounding.

The traits and potential displayed by this Eevee earned her better treatment within the breeding base.

After all, the breeding base also had to make a living; an excellent Eevee like this could be sold for a good price at first glance.

The investment made in her now could be earned back tenfold the moment she was chosen by a trainer.

Without a doubt, she had become the highest-quality Pokémon on the breeding base's salesperson list.

After getting past the infant stage, staff members led one customer after another every day to visit the area where she lived.

Clearly, the breeding base believed it was time for the investment in her to pay off.

Yet a strange thing happened: whenever guests walked past, this usually bouncing Eevee would act dejected.

Quite a few customers even directly asked things like, "Does she have depression?"

Either that, or she acted extremely irritable and unfriendly, looking not at all like an Eevee, but more like a Mankey.

Undoubtedly, Eevee's various abnormal behaviors deterred wave after wave of guests.

The staff members were also helpless, figuring only that this intelligent Eevee did not want to leave this place that gave birth to and raised her, nor her companions.

Yet how could they have guessed that hidden inside this Eevee, who looked completely ordinary aside from having better talent, was a soul that had lived twice as a Pokémon?

Eevee did not know if Xia Chen would choose her again among the vast sea of Eevee in this life.

Therefore, from birth, she chose a path different from her previous life, making the greatest effort to improve herself and become the one standing out from the crowd among the Eevee.

This wasn't difficult for her, having reached Elite Four level strength in her past life; what was difficult were the subsequent changes brought about by her flapping butterfly wings.

Her outstanding self quickly became the apple of the eye among the Eevee in the eyes of the breeding base personnel, and she experienced what it was like to be overly popular for the very first time.

Yet she also thought for the first time that by doing this, she might instead fail to wait for her encounter with Xia Chen.

So whenever someone came to pick an Eevee, Eevee would act extremely out of the ordinary.

The crisis of being picked away by others was quickly averted.

Yet her intelligent self thought of another problem.

Her current price seemed to be something a poor guy like Xia Chen couldn't afford.

But words spoken were like spilled water, and things like talent were the same.

If she wanted to play dumb now, she would definitely be thought of as concealing her skills, and the breeding base certainly wouldn't lower the price.

Then there was only one way left—jailbreak!

No sooner said than done, and Eevee quickly started preparing for her prison-break plan.

Management at the breeding base wasn't that strict; firstly, the place was too big and there were too many Pokémon, so management inevitably had oversights.

Secondly, none of the baby Pokémon in the breeding base would be foolish enough to leave this well-provided-for place to become a helpless wild Pokémon.

At least there was no precedent.

So Eevee's jailbreak plan went smoothly, and she quietly hitched a ride on a large truck distributing to an ordinary Pokémon breeding house.

With a dozen or so of her kind on the truck, Eevee—whose appearance wasn't much different—escaped just like that by muddling through.

Once outside, for an Eevee who had lived twice, adding up to ten years of life, it was like a Kyogre leaping into the boundless sea and a Rayquaza soaring through the vast sky.

Even if her strength was still temporarily inferior to those Rattata living in the sewers.

Yet relying on her wisdom to outsmart rodents, Eevee arrived without a hitch at the place where Xia Chen lived during that time in her memory.

Looking at the bluestone slabs beneath her feet and the white walls and black tiles above her head, Eevee seemed to return once again to that most carefree period of her life.

Every weekend, Xia Chen would take her and set out from home to go buy groceries at the vegetable market.

Xia Chen would satisfy all the things she wanted to eat.

Right, why not just wait for him on the path Xia Chen inevitably took to buy groceries?

Eevee's mind immediately flashed with the best way for a chance encounter.

Given Xia Chen's temperament, he certainly wouldn't just ignore her.

The more she thought about it, the more reliable it seemed, so Eevee rolled around in the muddy water that hadn't dried up after yesterday's rain.

She even had a Rattata that had already sworn allegiance to her scratch a few bloody marks on her body, and afterward, she lay down right on the path Xia Chen frequented from home to the vegetable market, waiting for the person she thought of day and night to arrive.

And then came that earlier scene.

Xia Chen stopped two to three meters away from Eevee, not rashly going to rescue it.

Having arrived in this world for nearly a year, the first thing he learned from the stray Pokémon in the city was not to impose his own thoughts on them.

Hell is other people.

In his own eyes, this was a pitiful little Eevee waiting for rescue.

Yet in the eyes of an Eevee that didn't know what kind of harm it had suffered and held an unknown attitude toward humans, he might just be an ill-intentioned aggressor.

The attentive Xia Chen even noticed that as his footsteps approached, Eevee's body trembled even more violently.

Did it develop a repulsive reaction to his approach?

This was Xia Chen's initial judgment, which made him even more hesitant to easily make contact with this Eevee.

As someone with an extremely clear life plan, Xia Chen did not like surprises appearing in his life.

Just like the roads he could take from home to the vegetable market were intricate, yet Xia Chen would only choose this small path whose scenery he was almost tired of looking at.

When he usually saw a Pokémon that seemed unfriendly, he would typically call the neighborhood committee aunties here; the wild Pokémon in the city needing rescue were all handled by them.

Yet this Eevee—for some unknown reason, the moment he saw it for the first time, a nameless flutter arose within Xia Chen's heart.

Acting on an impulse, Xia Chen squatted down and asked with a soft voice, a sentence that would change the trajectory of his life.

"If you need my help, would you gently nod your head, please?"

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