The soul penetrates Xiaozhi and destroys Gou Hao at the beginning

Before Abba Sarud could finish speaking, Coco interrupted him.

Abba Sarud sighed again, deciding not to explain further. He strode off in a certain direction and said,

"You guys come with me."

Xiao Zhi had been listening to the father and son talking the whole time without saying a word. After all, even an upright official finds it hard to settle family disputes.

In fact, both father and son have deep feelings for each other, but Coco is angry right now and hasn't expressed it.

Sarud had never met Coco before, and it was already a great act of mercy that he didn't eat her when he encountered her.

Yet, he single-handedly raised Coco to the age of ten, treating her like his own son. His kindness to Coco is immeasurable.

It didn't tell Coco the truth because it was afraid that if Coco knew the truth, she wouldn't continue living with it, would go back to Coco's biological parents, and wouldn't recognize it as her adoptive father.

Coco, on the other hand, has already come to regard Zarude as her biological father and is very grateful to him. She is angry that Zarude did not tell her the truth. She wants to know who she is, and even her biological father cannot deprive her of the right to know the truth and her origins.

Neither side is wrong; they just need to talk things out.

Led by their father Zarude, Ash and Coco arrived at a ruin on the edge of the forest.

Xiao Zhi immediately recognized that this must be the ruins of some research institute, with various reagent bottles scattered all over the table, as well as many damaged instruments.

Abba Sarud jumped onto the lab table and searched around until he finally found the two things he was looking for.

The day I met you was a rainy day.

You are alone, lying in a strange box.

I couldn't find your parents around. You were still holding this in your hand.

After Abba Sarud finished speaking, he tossed one of the things he had just found to Coco.

Coco reached out and took it, only to find it was a pendant.

As for the strange box that Abba Sarud mentioned, it should be a baby incubator.

"Why did you pick me up?" Coco asked.

"Why? Maybe it's because I don't have parents, and I don't even know how I was born."

Seeing you, I felt a sense of shared suffering, so I couldn't bear to leave you there.

After saying that, Abba Sarud tossed another item to Coco: a framed photograph.

The photo shows a couple holding a newborn baby.

“The baby in the photo is you, and those two tall people must be your biological parents,” said Abba Sarud.

Coco stared intently at the couple in the photo, trying to memorize the faces of her biological parents.

“She really does look a lot like Coco,” Xiao Zhi said.

I want to send you back to your parents; I'm looking for them everywhere.

They eventually found this place; this is probably their residence.

But when I found this place, it was already like this.

So I thought, it seems I'll have to raise you myself.

However, looking back now, perhaps I made a mistake back then and hurt you.

As he spoke, Abba Sarud couldn't help but recall the day he first met Coco in this area.

That day, it was in the forest with the other Zarudes in its pack, as usual, stealing berries and other food from other wild Pokémon.

After it had eaten its fill, its companions all returned, but it smelled a strange odor it had never smelled before. Without telling the others, it...

Instead, one of them left the group and followed the scent, traversing almost half of the forest, until finally finding an incubator by a river. Inside the incubator was a baby boy wearing a pendant and crying loudly.

Abba Sarud was very curious about this human cub he was seeing for the first time, so he leaned forward and sniffed it to confirm that this was the scent it had just smelled.

But what it didn't expect was that the human cub was also curious about it, Zarude, and reached out to grab Zarude's fur.

But with just a simple reach, he flipped it over himself, and the baby incubator lid landed on the water's surface, drifting away with the river.

Baby Coco landed on the grassy bank while lying face down, thankfully without getting hurt.

But curiosity still drove Coco to continue trying to touch his father, Zarude; he even tried to stand up.

To achieve such a human miracle as a baby less than six months old walking, but being unable to stand steadily, he eventually collapsed on the ground and started rolling around in place, which made him laugh out loud.

Abba Sarud became impatient upon seeing this and immediately turned and left.

But baby Coco wanted to follow it, so she crawled up to it, climbed onto its head, and grabbed its fur and ears tightly.

This caused Abba Sarud to cry out in pain, and he quickly reached out and pulled the baby Coco off.

But he accidentally used too much force and threw baby Coco away.

She rushed over and caught baby Coco, but bumped into a tree and was knocked unconscious by the smell of baby Coco's fart.

Even so, Abba Sarud still carried the sleeping baby Coco back to its original home, the sacred tree in the forest.

This sacred tree is the source of the Healing Spring. It is an enormous, towering tree located deep within the Okoya Forest, the home of the Sarud people.

When Abba Zarude returned, the other Zarudes were watching the fight. After smelling the unfamiliar, human scent on Coco, they immediately became wary and gathered around Abba Zarude.

"Hey, what are you holding in your hands?" the strongest member of the pack, Zarud, demanded sharply.

“I need to speak with the elders about this,” Abba Sarud said.

But the other party was instantly enraged by Abba Sarud's dismissive attitude and rebuked him angrily.

"No one but us Zarude is allowed to enter this area, have you forgotten?"

At that moment, Elder Sarud's voice rang out.

"Alright, let me see what new gadgets you brought back?"

"Elder."

Upon seeing Elder Zarud arrive, all the Zaruds knelt down to pay their respects, including the strongest Zarud.

After glancing at the baby in his father Sarud's arms, Elder Sarud spoke.

"This is a human being, and a child at that."

"Humans! Are those humans?"

The Zarude living here had never seen a human before, so when they heard this, they started chattering amongst themselves, and many of them even wanted to get closer to take a look.