Pokemon Dawn

No.260 The way back walking alone

Perhaps because she had listened to the same music too many times throughout the day, deep in the back mountains far away from the town, Xiaoye actually heard a hint of familiar melody mixed in the heavy rain.

In fact, even the light of the festival lights cannot be transmitted here.

The crystal blue sword light pointed forward in the distance. When the girl finished speaking, the dark robe twisted and danced in the wind and rain.

"……hatred……"

A hoarse and unpleasant sound came from the throat of that "creature". Rather than a human voice, it was more like the groan of some old machine that was forced to operate.

Feeling the sticky malice coming, Xiaoye's sword flashed as a warning. But the figure hidden under the black robe seemed to be afraid of something, and walked stiffly forward towards the tip of the sword step by step.

"...Yue...damn...Yamada..."

What is he talking about?

Xiaoye frowned deeply, trying to discern clues from the fragmented words and sentences.

The unknown enemy did not give Xiao Ye much time. It stretched out its dry palm and grasped the sharp crystal blue sword.

Xiaoye's eyes penetrated the black robe and came into contact with the scarlet gaze hidden under it. The monster's speech suddenly became clear just a second before launching the attack.

"The darkness is endless."

"Walking the road home alone"

"Don't let the tears fall"

The pouring rain was blocked by the light shield, making the brightly lit square look like a world in a glass ball, leaving only the crackling sound as the accompaniment of the festival background music.

Xiaoling, who had walked around the square for a full circle, ran back to the team with a new large trophy, and without any explanation, she pushed the thing into Xinghai's hand, "Mr. Xinghai, this is for you!"

Xinghai: "..."

Looking at the furry little sea lion doll that is half the height of a human in his hand, the first-class investigator wearing a little sea lion mask is thinking about how to express to these children tactfully that he is not a lover of little sea lions.

"Is this also a prize?" Xiaojie looked over.

"Well, it's the first prize for the boxing game over there!" Xiaoling nodded and pointed to the exaggerated boxing ergometer on the other side of the square.

"...You're so rude." Xiaojie suddenly didn't know whether to sympathize with the boss who maintained a shocked expression.

Xiaoling's strength is already very strong, but if she secretly uses super powers to assist her... I'm afraid a strong man's punch won't be as strong as hers.

Even Xiaotian may have remembered the tragic situation of losing to Xiaoling in an arm wrestling match, and his expression was a little complicated for a moment.

"By the way..." Xiaoling stood on tiptoe and glanced at the clock in the center of the square, "It's been so long, why hasn't Xiaoye come back yet? Could it be that she went to a neighboring town to buy apple candies..."

"It doesn't matter"

"Your voice that day"

"It still resonates today."

The sharp claws and the blade collided again, and the sparks that burst out were immediately extinguished by the rain, making no sound.

What the hell is this guy?

Xiaoye frowned, and rays of galaxy-like sword light were swayed one after another. The dark robe had become torn, and when the blade fell on the enemy's skin, it seemed to have hit a metal product, and was shaken away crookedly.

Come.

Under the cover of night and heavy rain, the hazy black energy slowly overflowed from under the robe. The information fed back by the power of the waveguide made Xiaoye instinctively feel chilled in her heart. The flashes of lightning under her feet carried her left and right to avoid being entangled by the black energy.

Stop your hands and feet.

She had a hunch that once she was hit, it might not be a problem that could be solved with two cuts.

The enemy under the black robe was as hard as iron, and when it waved its sharp-nailed hands, it was no longer as stiff as before. It was like a liberated devil, and its squeaking soles could actually catch up with the speed of lightning.

The destructive power of a thin nail is no less than that of a blade condensed with the power of a waveguide.

The expanding black air caused the back hem of the robe to rise high. The sudden acceleration of the figure caught the knife wielder off guard and revealed a flaw. The sharp claws scratched the white sportswear, and dark red blood oozed out.

The instigator grinned like a piranha in hell.

"...Traitor...you want to protect this town?...I want to destroy it...just like...five years ago..."

The girl's purple pupils narrowed suddenly.

"Then"

"Finally noticed it"

"How about it, Mr. Xinghai?"

The silver-haired young man slowly opened his eyes and shook his head, "I carefully searched all the streets in the festival, but I couldn't find Xiaoye's breath."

"...Did you really get lost and wander to a neighboring town??" Xiaojie and Xiaoling stared at each other for a while, but they could only come up with such an unreliable guess.

Xiaotian, who had always remained silent, had already frowned. He seemed to instinctively sense that something was going to be bad - but in such a festival with a complete security system, there should not be any danger.

Seeing that the three children were a little at a loss, Xinghai comforted him, "It's okay, maybe he went home to get something. I'll expand the detection range and try again..."

Before he finished speaking, a thunder suddenly exploded in his ears, drowning out the last few words the young man said.

Xiaojie hurriedly covered his ears, feeling that hearing the thunder was worse than listening to the magic sound of the same song from the festival filling his ears.

Perhaps out of fear of something happening, the sky that had been quiet before started playing a symphony continuously, and the lightning light illuminated the cotton candy-colored sky outside the light shield pale.

Before he had time to complain, Xiaojie saw that the expressions of Xinghai and Xiaotian changed.

"You are not alone"

"No matter how far apart"

The blazing blue light filled the girl's eyes that should have been purple.

In fact, she didn't care at all whether an inexplicable enemy rushed out and waved his claws at her, nor did she care whether the enemy was shouting, "I want to take revenge on you." Although the unknown creature in front of her that was full of malice towards her was powerful and could easily kill her.

It hurt her, but only in this way, she could still maintain a relaxed attitude to face the enemy.

——However, if the enemy says "Destroy Zhenxin Town", everything will be different.

The song that was swirling in her mind had come to an end and was covered up by the thunder from above. However, this also gave Xiaoye an idea.

She already knew that her sword skills could hardly threaten this non-human monster. If she wanted to destroy it, she would have to use more powerful attacks.

Xiao Ye does not have a wide variety of attack methods. But during the special training a few days ago, she accidentally discovered a characteristic of the power of the waveguide - it can transmit other energies very well and integrate with other energies, just like

Just like a good conductor.

At that time, she successfully used the power of waveguide to conduct the fire-breathing dragon's flames, so now -

It should be no problem to conduct lightning, right?

The sword light dissipated, and Xiaoye stretched out her hand toward the sky. The power of the crystal blue waveguide began to climb upwards along with her movements, condensing into a pillar of the sky, like a needle that began to grow in size, inserting all the way into the dark sea.

Among the dark clouds.

Before the release of the power of the waveguide reached its limit, thunder rang out.

It was a loud noise as if the heaven and earth were opening up. The hot silver drill was like a dragon in a heavy rain, falling into the world at will, digging its sharp teeth into the hard rock of the back mountain, swallowing up the broken black robe.

Xiao Ye only felt a fire-like temperature rushing towards her face, pushing her out unreasonably. The power of the waveguide spread with the vibration of high-altitude thunder, and the buzz spread throughout the entire mountain.

"Stretch out your hand"

"Whenever"

"We're right there"

After a few seconds, the thunder subsided.

The overloaded operation of the power of the waveguide caused Xiaoye to fall into a temporary state of debility. When her body recovered her ability to move, Xiaoye immediately used the maximum power of her five senses to remain vigilant.

When this ability is exhausted and cannot be used, Xiaoye always hopes that she can have a real knife. Unfortunately, when she thinks about this problem, she inevitably needs to mourn in front of her empty wallet, and now is obviously not the time to cry about poverty.

The computing power was ready to take over the control of the body instead of the will at any time. However, the stretched sight scanned the entire range, but failed to catch the shadow of the enemy.

After standing still like a statue for dozens of seconds, Xiaoye cautiously stepped forward and looked at the location struck by lightning.

The heavy rain showed no sign of stopping. Xiaoye saw a few pieces of wet black cloth under her feet, with the edges scorched. However, the figure of the humanoid monster was missing under the broken black robe.

Although the power of the sky thunder is powerful, it is not enough to chop a living person into ashes. Escaped? Or...

Is "it" not a living person at all?

Walking around where the thunder and lightning fell, Xiaoye found that the scraps of cloth could almost be assembled into a complete black robe. Could it be that this strange-looking enemy had the habit of taking off his clothes when escaping?

Just when Xiaoye felt confused and wanted to use her waveguide power, which had only recovered a little bit, to explore the surroundings, she heard a sound coming from deep in the soil beneath her feet.

Like countless gears grinding together, the dull creaking noise merged with the sound of rain, making Xiao Ye unable to tell whether the trembling feeling under her feet was real or an illusion. And this kind of ancient smell, like the sound of a hundred years ago.

The sound of a machine starting up made Xiaoye tremble in the cold rain, and she realized where she was standing.

As long as you climb over this mountain, you will see the place where Xiao Ye arrived a year ago——

The open-air altar of that ancient ruin.

The clanking sound of gears spread from the feet to the distance, and soon spread all over the mountains. It was not an enjoyable experience - when countless creepy noises are overwhelming and surrounding, people who are in it will only start to wonder whether they are in a dangerous situation.

In the mouth of a giant beast, or under the wheels of a chariot.

Xiaoye didn't know if the lightning she had caused had touched some mechanism in the ruins - to be fair, she felt that the super-large thunder had no such ability and could at most scorch the soil. However, no matter where these ominous sounds came from

Come on, when she reaches the other side of the mountain, Xiaoye knows that she won't have time to think about this.

The water in the lake stirred violently, rotating rapidly around the altar in the middle. The branches and leaves that fell into the water were smashed into pieces, as if there were more than a dozen powerful sea monsters underwater. And in the center of the lake where the stars were holding the moon,

The complex patterns clinging to the rock altar were glowing. They flickered with the rhythm of thunder and lightning. Even the boldest Spearow understood the sinister warning meaning and hurriedly flew away from the area despite the heavy rain.

The rhythm of the light patterns gradually accelerated, and the vortex in the lake was divided into three. The sticky foreign objects struggled to rise from the bottom of the lake, and swayed twistedly in the vortex, which was enough to scare those who dared to watch the night on the Ghost Festival. And then

As the speed of the water slows down, their movements gradually become gentle and graceful, as if they have completed the transition from devil to angel, spreading their wings and suspended in the air.

Xiaoye had already seen a giant bird made of flames in the underground research institute on Red Lotus Island. She didn't expect to discover an existence similar to the artificial Phoenix King so quickly - the shape formed by the condensed water flow somewhat resembled the flapping wings.

It was a seagull, but its wings were much slender than those of ordinary seabirds. Its spiked tail shook convulsively, cutting the fallen dead leaves in half.

When the three newborn "birds" flew into the air with their own power, Xiaoye had already walked to the altar. There were no facial features on the liquid-condensed body, but Xiaoye still felt that the three "eyes" were locked on her like lasers.

A year ago, Xiaoye once heard Xiaotian say that this altar was built by people in ancient times to worship the sea god. According to the text records on the walls of the ruins, the people who built the altar at that time had the power to control the sea.

It can control the "water monster" for its own use. Anyone who breaks into the altar without authorization will trigger the attack of the water monster, razing everything around it to the ground.

The term "Warcraft" is an ancient name for Pokémon. Both Xiaoye and Xiaotian thought that sentence meant that the builder could command water Pokémon. There was no doubt that they thought too simply.

"No wonder Gyarados doesn't want to get close to here." Xiao Ye muttered softly, looking up at the three foreign objects formed by the condensed water.

Their wings had already been slightly arched, like arrows that could leave the string at any time. The one flying highest turned its head and looked at the light outside the mountains in the distance.

The music of the festival caused the air of the whole town to vibrate together, and the lights of the festival spread the warmth hundreds of miles away. Xiaoye knew that in the eyes of the monsters in the sky, that might be the best target - Ben

A few traces of black air stirred in the crystal clear lake water, directly expressing to Xiaoye who activated the strongest defense mechanism of this ruins.

Xiao Ye took a deep breath.

"Hey, you guys."

The girl's voice penetrated the heavy rain, causing the three foreign objects to lower their heads and let out a low roar.

"You want to destroy Zhenxin Town, just like you did five years ago." Xiaoye said word by word, and crystal blue flames began to jump from her eyes, "And you also want to kill me, the traitor, right?

She got the answer from the reactions of the foreign objects. The lingering black energy stirred, causing the water monster to roar and almost twitch. She obviously just repeated the words of the strange enemy before, but she didn't expect to get such honest feedback.

"Then come."

Dazzling crystal blue lightning gathered at the soles of her feet, making the girl look like a warrior holding a sword and fighting the Poseidon thousands of years ago.

"Come and defeat me, if you still want revenge."

As the words fell, the heaven and earth shook. Countless spikes burst out of the three alien bodies from the depths of the lake, and they rushed towards the tiny humans like meteorites about to hit the planet.

The last energy in the thunder reshaped the sharp blade in the girl's hand. The man holding the knife ignored the cracks on the blade and raised his weapon towards the enemy in front of him who surpassed human common sense.

"boom--"

The blue dragon flames fell from the sky and instantly ignited the entire lake, burning the three foreign objects until they screamed. The dim sky and earth were instantly lit up. Unlike the high temperature of thunder, Xiao Ye was about to launch the final blow.

He was stunned and looked up at the sky.

Two humans were standing on top of the golden Pokémon that breathed out dragon's breath, and its silver hair was dyed the color of flames.

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Small theater:

Xiaojie: Xiaoye, you have nothing to do, let’s arm-wrestle!

Xiaoye:Okay!

Xiaojie: Let me count, one, two - (stalemate for ten seconds) I win! Xiaotian Xiaotian, I want to challenge you next!

Xiaotian: Well, come on.

Xiaoye: (He hesitates to speak) Uh, well, I advise you not to...

Bang--

Xiaojie: ...It hurts! Xiaotian, why are you so strong? (gasp)

Xiaoling: Hey, what are you doing, arm wrestling? I want to participate too!