Pokemon Dawn

June 14th, early morning.

As expected, the nightmare woke up all the members of the expedition team on time. When Xiaoye turned over and sat up with her head on her head, and saw Xiaojie and Xiaoling also with messy hair and frowning faces, she felt a little funny at the wrong time. On the contrary, it was the person responsible for vigilance.

Ghoststone and Yongjira were sleeping soundly, obviously not noticing anything unusual, and they were unable to prevent the nightmare from happening.

Fortunately, the contagious dream did not affect Xiaotian and Xinghai, which also fulfilled the previous speculation about the "nightmare triggering conditions". After lightly completing a series of actions of washing and dressing, the team met in the lobby -

- Even Kiriha, who claims to have slept until noon without stress, woke up on time, which shows that the power of the masked monster in the dream is indeed extraordinary.

Unfortunately, the side effects of the Nightmare Alarm Clock were too great, and now all four of them felt like their heads were about to burst.

Xiaoling even started to stare at the ground in a daze, fearing that her brains would drip and stain the hall floor.

Even if it is to stop the nightmare, now they must find out the truth as soon as possible - if this continues, they themselves will become evil spirits.

At 6:25, the four members of the expedition team arrived at the terminus of the Hibiya Line, h18 Minami-Senju, on time.

"Wow, there is no one there." Xiaoling looked around and exclaimed. The subway in Miyuan City is always crowded, and it is rare to see a quiet scene. For a moment, it really felt like a big adventure.

The golden-haired girl seemed to want to take a closer look at the rarely quiet subway station, but she leaned against the wall before turning around a few times, "I can't stand it anymore, I feel dizzy..."

Xiaojie laughed heartlessly and took out his mobile phone, "But it's really rare to see a subway station like this. I'll take a photo as a souvenir... Huh?"

"What's wrong?" Xiaoye asked.

"My mobile phone has no signal." Xiaojie clicked the camera icon on the screen in confusion, "And it seems to have crashed...?"

Tongye was stunned for a moment, then checked his cell phone, "There's no signal on mine either...how strange."

Mihara City's subway has seamless mobile communication coverage along the way, so the signal should be very smooth. At least when they arrived at Minami-Senju Station yesterday, their mobile phones were working normally.

"Let me tell you..." Xiaoling, who could finally stop holding on to the wall, walked over and asked, "Did you hear anything?"

The four people pricked up their ears at the same time and held their breath.

The friction and impact of the wheels and the track gradually approached, and even the air became restless. It was a black and white train - its body looked very old, with rust stains crawling all over the body like a spider's web. It should have been transparent.

The glass was also covered with dust. When it slowly stopped next to the platform, a cold wind blew up, giving off an old and decaying smell.

The four of them did not make a sound, but communicated their astonishment with their eyes.

The Hibiya Line subway is not in such a state of disrepair. What appears in front of them now is clearly an antique train whose shape and style resemble those of fifty years ago.

"Is there really a train we haven't seen before?" Xiaoling's eyes widened and she whispered in an angry voice.

The dilapidated black and white train stood still next to the platform, and the door opened with a creaking sound.

The expedition team only hesitated for a second before stepping into the strange train - no free trainer could stop at such a moment.

There was no voice announcement in the car, perhaps because the equipment was in disrepair and had been damaged. Only rustling noises came from the speakers. The silent black and white train closed the door and drove the four young passengers in an unknown direction.

"Sure enough, there is no one." Xiaojie took full advantage of his eyesight and came to the conclusion after looking carefully. Considering that there was Tongye who didn't know Xiaoye's ability present, Xiaojie did not speak directly, but

Turning your questioning gaze to Xiaoye—what are the results of the detection of the power of the waveguide?

The other party hesitated for a moment and did not respond to Xiaojie's gaze. Instead, he kept staring at his friends, which made him temporarily suspect that his posture in conveying his gaze was not right.

Of course Xiaoye understood what Xiaojie meant, but she didn't know how to express what she was feeling now. The coverage area of ​​​​the power of the waveguide had been expanded to the limit, but all that could be detected was a haze, whether it was trains, tracks,

Even the three living people around him seemed to have been swallowed up and did not appear in the perception at all. For the waveguide messenger, it was like hearing someone talking around him but reaching out his hand but unable to touch anything.

Weird. Perhaps because of the nightmare, she felt that her head was getting more and more dizzy, and even the waveguide detection became shaky, and a sticky feeling of uneasiness suddenly crawled all over Xiaoye's back.

Before Xiaoye could decide whether to explain the truth or conceal it temporarily, a harsh phone ringing sound suddenly came from the carriage. Everyone was frightened and looked around for the source of the ringing sound.

It is a very old-fashioned ringtone. In this era when even the default ringtone of smartphones is sweet music, the only way to hear this kind of ringtone is to watch TV series set in the last century. The members of the expedition team are all hearing and seeing.

The people, however, looked at each other after listening attentively for a moment - this strange ringing sound clearly came from all directions, reverberating violently in the small compartment space, as if it was about to overturn the old car body.

"Let's go ahead and take a look." Realizing that this would only increase panic, Tongye said immediately, "Even if there are no passengers, we can still ask the driver about the origin of this car."

"Okay." Xiaoling knew that there was no point in staying here and being baptized by the unpleasant ringtone. She resisted the urge to lift the ground to look for the sounding phone and nodded.

As the group of people moved toward the front of the car, the ringing gradually became fainter and seemed to be absent. I wonder if the loud volume irritated the eardrums too much, but Xiaoling always felt that the sound was still ringing in her ears from time to time.

After walking in silence for a moment, Xiaojie finally couldn't help but speak: "We should have walked through at least ten carriages, right?"

"It's the eleventh day." Tongye said thoughtfully, "Logically speaking, you should be able to see the front of the car, but..."

Tongye didn't need to complete the second half of the sentence, and everyone knew what he wanted to say - there was still the same carriage ahead, and it was impossible to see where the end was.

"And the subway takes too long to run. The two stations shouldn't be so far apart." Xiaoye added softly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the train suddenly braked, and the four unsuspecting people swayed as the carriage shook. The old carriage creaked and groaned, making people suddenly think that it was about to fall apart.

When the train came to a stop, everyone stood up, rubbing their heads that had been hit somewhere, and found that the door had been opened quietly. The platform outside the carriage was illuminated by dazzling white lights, and everything seemed to be normal.

"Anyway, let's go out and take a look first?" Xiao Ye said, taking the lead to walk towards the door. Just as she reached the door, she was suddenly pulled by Tong Ye.

"Xiaoye...look at your feet."

Xiaoye lowered her head and her body immediately stiffened.

It was not the ground of a platform, but a pitch-black bottomless abyss.

Before the purple-haired girl could retreat to a safe position, the entire carriage suddenly shook violently. The supposedly solid ground was cracked, the wheels and rails were shattered like glass, and the four young passengers fell into the danger.

The cold cliff.

Xiaoye's hand instinctively wanted to touch the Poké Ball at her waist to release the flying Charizard. However, her body became extremely stiff, and even if she turned on the Absolute Calculation, she could not move even a single finger.

Amidst the instinctive trembling caused by the free fall, the purple-haired girl reluctantly turned her eyes and captured the figures of her companions below, as well as the frightening creature.

The huge masked monster opened its mouth, and the half-crying, half-laughing pattern continued to twist, releasing boundless malice. The black hole studded with sharp teeth expanded rapidly on the mask, and the sound of explosions was made when the fangs bit together.

The fire shredded the darkness. Xiaoye watched helplessly as the heat wave swallowed up the figure of her friend, and then she was completely enveloped by the scalding air.

"Dong——"

The pain of her head hitting the ground suddenly made Xiaoye wake up, and she immediately instinctively turned over and took a defensive posture.

Then...she saw her three little friends lying on the ground in various magical postures. Xiaojie even stuffed his head under his stomach. The passing cleaners had shock written all over their bodies. They probably thought they had encountered someone.

A mentally ill person.

"It hurts, it hurts..." Xiaojie tried hard to adjust his posture to that of a normal human, and looked around with lingering fear, "What's going on?"

"We did fall and were eaten by masked monsters just now... right?" Kiriha looked around hurriedly, finally recovering from the panic of life and death, and found that he had returned to the terminal station of the Hibiya Line

, next to the stop sign of H18 Minami-Senju Station.

Xiaoye, who opened the waveguide detection at the moment of waking up, finally felt familiar information coming from her, and couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief - this time what she sensed was finally not a fog, but the platform and three living people.

Oh, there are four, and there is also the cleaning worker in the corner who already wants to call the police.

"Ah, the clothes are not burned, and the face is not disfigured..." Xiaojie muttered quietly, and touched his head uneasily to see if it was still intact, "Why did we suddenly come back here? The explosion just now was so...

Meng, I feel like I'm dead... Uh, Xiaoling? Are you okay?"

Before he finished speaking, Xiaojie only felt a yellow shadow rushing towards him. Before he could see his sister's tearful expression clearly, he and two other friends who were confused were knocked down hard and kissed again on the back of the head.

to the ground.

"I...I thought you were all dead, wow wow wow wow—"

After finally calming down the crying blond girl, the four of them quickly left the subway station - now there were gradually more people in the subway station, and it would be too conspicuous to stay inside.

"So, what's going on?" Xiaojie scratched his hedgehog head even more messily, "We took a train that shouldn't exist to station H19, where we met a monster with a mask,

The monster ate us, detonated several bombs in its belly for us to see, and then vomited us back into h18??”

Before his partner could answer, the golden-haired boy shook his head and said, "No, this sounds like a speech by a mentally ill person..."

"Well." Xiaoye raised her hand, "I made a discovery, although I don't know if it is related to what happened just now..."

She took out the card she had kept in her pocket and said, "The pattern on this card has faded."

The three heads immediately came over and stared at the crying and laughing mask that had turned gray.

"Really." Tongye immediately took out his own stamp and exclaimed briefly, "Ah, mine is too..."

The traces left by the black ink become blurred, making the stamps appear more aged.

"What's going on..." Xiaojie looked at the two pieces of paper in confusion, and when he accidentally raised his head, it suddenly turned into a stone pillar.

Xiaoye and Xiaoling followed Xiaojie's gaze without knowing what was going on - they were both stunned immediately. Xiaoling's expression was as if she had seen a ghost in broad daylight, which was indescribably terrifying.

Tongye was wondering why the three of them suddenly started staring at her. Xiaoling raised her fingers tremblingly, and her voice changed.

"Mask...Tongye, the mask is on your face!!"

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Small theater:

Before he finished speaking, Xiaojie only felt a yellow shadow rushing towards him. Before he could see his sister's tearful expression clearly, he and two other friends who were confused were knocked down hard and kissed again on the back of the head.

to the ground.

Xiaoling: (crying loudly) I...I thought you were all dead, woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Xiaojie: (also started crying) I was not bitten to death by a monster, but I am about to die from a concussion!