"Mm-hmm, this is the place, right?"
Su Han politely thanked the old farmer who had just given them directions. "Thank you, sir!"
This was a remote village in China's North Lake region.
The two had learned about this place from local residents. More than twenty years ago, this unremarkable place had caused quite a sensation, because a temple dedicated to Raikou had been discovered here.
Raikou, the Thunder Pokémon, was said to be a Pokémon that had been brought back to life.
A single Raikou might have seemed insignificant, but the country took it quite seriously. After all, the one that had revived Raikou was the Legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh!
China was quite a remarkable place. Traces of all sorts of Legendary Pokémon and Mythical Pokémon had been discovered here over the years. Although there was no direct evidence that they still lived or slumbered on this ancient land, those discoveries had prompted investigations by many research teams from both China and abroad.
As for Ho-Oh, it was one of the Pokémon they were most interested in.
Ho-Oh seemed to be constantly touring the world, because temples dedicated to it could be found all over the globe. From South Africa to Asia, from Northern Europe to Arabia, they were everywhere.
But this was the first time Raikou had appeared in China. In fact, people had initially regarded the legend of Ho-Oh as a mystery, and a small minority did not even believe Ho-Oh existed. Yet they all believed in the existence of Raikou, Suicune, and Entei, because people had seen those three Pokémon with their own eyes!
Those three Pokémon seemed to travel all over the world. Suicune, for example, purified polluted water sources around the globe. Its last known appearance had been a few months ago, just after nuclear wastewater