Pokémon: Trainers start as bounty hunters

"roar--"

Painful and violent screams echoed in the underground.

"Pa"

At the same time, a faint thumping sound was heard along with a roar.

"We looked in the wrong direction again."

Tetsuya sighed helplessly as he looked at the wild big rock snake in front of him who was beaten by the monarch snake and couldn't take care of himself.

It is quite normal to encounter spirits like the Big Rock Snake underground, but it also means that the nearby area is not within the activity range of light ghosts.

But not many elves are willing to live with a guy who is gloomy all day long and wants to absorb your soul to increase his power.

It's scary to think about being killed by a neighbor in your sleep.

The huge rock body fell weakly to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

As a quasi-king-level grass-type elf, Monarch Snake is invincible to this kind of rock-type elf in the wild.

"Thank you for your hard work, come back and rest."

As usual, Tetsuya took out the luxurious ball and took the monarch snake back.

The little princess is quite repulsive to this kind of underground cave. If it is not fighting, she is not willing to stay outside at all.

"Let's go."

Tetsuya called to his friends and turned around and walked in the other direction.

Fight, keep fighting.

The types and number of elves living in the underground caves obviously exceeded Tetsuya's initial expectations.

Small fist stone, rumbling stone, big rock snake, super sonic bat, big mouth bat, little ratta, orb silk spider, blue...

The underground cave seems to have perfectly constructed an ecosystem that is the same as the one on the ground.

However, I don’t know if it was because they had not seen the light all year round, but these elves without exception chose to attack when faced with Tetsuya who broke into the territory.

Their temperament is much worse than that of their counterparts on the ground.

Of course, for Tetsuya's friends, they are basically only at the ordinary level of strength. Sometimes they even need to put in some effort for fear of actually beating them to death.

"Don't worry about it, let's go."

Facing the flame chicken's gaze again, Zheye shook his head and turned away without paying attention to the elf hiding in the dark.

"sonasi~"

Behind him, a blue elf in the darkness looked at Tetsuya and his party who had disappeared and let out a cry of relief.

It's true.

The underground cave is a perfect place for Guoran Weng, who hates bright lights and needs to hide his black tail.

Although he does not have the ability to actively attack, Sure enough, Weng Ye has won a living space in this area by relying on his hedgehog-like defense capabilities.

"Something's wrong."

Tetsuya frowned as he kept walking on the dirt.

More than an hour had passed since he found the first unlucky guy swallowed by the light ghost. The area he explored had also expanded a lot, but he still couldn't find any trace of the other party.

"Dangoro!"

The Pangyan monster made a sound at this time.

It found the fluctuations that were suspected of fighting between the opponent and the trainer.

Zheye's face lit up: "Lead the way."

If the Flame Chicken's waveguide is incomparable to the Pangyan Monster in terms of accuracy, then the range of perception brought about by the Pangyan Monster's own special ability is also beyond the reach of the current Flame Chicken's waveguide.

Through its dual keen perception of sounds and rocks, underground caves are a natural home for the Pangyan Monster.

Under the leadership of Pangyan Monster, Zheye quickly shuttled through the underground cave.

.......

"Lapp"

The lamp ghost that looked like the medieval oil lamp from Tetsuya's previous life let out a cry of joy.

There is a circle of white mist surrounding it.

Looking carefully, the mist outlines the intertwined appearance of human heads and elves, which looks extremely terrifying.

Gradually, the white mist "squeezed" into the flame of the lamp ghost's body little by little.

"hong----"

Just as the light ghost was enjoying this ultimate happiness, a huge roar interrupted it.

A rock wall of the cave directly shattered, and pieces of rubble flew out from the smoke.

"Pangyan monster, rock collapse."

Accompanied by the command of human language, huge rock blocks burst out at a faster speed with earth-yellow air currents.

"Lapp"

The lamplight ghost reacted immediately and decisively stopped absorbing life energy and began to avoid it.

But it ended up being a little slower.

Although it escaped the attack of the first rock, the second and third rocks still hit it head-on without any suspense.

The flame in the body of the lamp ghost kept trembling, flickering on and off.

This means that its condition is quite bad.

The light ghost with fire attributes is quite average in terms of resistance to rock-type skills. Coupled with the difference in strength, it is completely expected that it will be severely damaged in one blow.

The smoke dispersed, revealing a large hole in the rock wall, and Zheye's figure emerged from the large hole.

Looking at the familiar black wreckage not far away, he knew that he had arrived a step too late after all.

"It seems that I was too full to digest it so quickly, so I found it."

Looking at the gradually dissipating life energy not far away, Tetsuya paid a moment of silence for the unknown trainer who died, and then came to a conclusion.

If this were not the case, the lamp ghost would have used life energy to strengthen its own flames and then run away.

Think about it, it would take at least seven or eight days for an elite-level light ghost to completely absorb the life energy of a normal person plus his elves.

It had only been a few hours since the last time this light ghost committed a crime, so it was natural that it was too full to absorb it quickly.

"Want to run away? That's a good idea."

Seeing the light ghost that was getting smaller and smaller and preparing to run away after being attacked, Zhe also smiled disdainfully.

"Electric dragon, scent detection, and then electromagnetic waves."

"Boom"

The electric dragon next to him, who was the lighting tool elf, barked and his nose kept twitching.

Invisible energy fluctuations dispersed, and the light ghost that was about to become transparent was forcibly condensed into a solid entity again in an instant.

"Lapp"

The light ghost made a helpless sound.

In all the time it has lived underground, it has never encountered such a situation.

Although elves like Guisi can't hide their figures easily, as a quite powerful existence among ghost elves, Lantern Ghost still has quite good abilities in this regard.

However, this trick is not enough in front of the electric dragon who has inherited the smell detection skill.

Especially when it is seriously injured.

Before it could react, the yellow arc flashed around the body of the light ghost.

Well, it doesn't hurt? The lamp ghost thought for a moment that he was not hurt.

But the next moment, the feedback from the body told it that this was an illusion.

It suddenly found that it could not move.

"Pangyan monster, sharp stone attack to understand it."

Tetsuya's slightly cold voice echoed in the small cave.

In the light ghost's painful perception, extremely sharp stone pillars pierced through its body.

"Pa"

The sound of breaking glass was heard.

The light ghost that had just swallowed a human and several elves dissipated between heaven and earth.

The blue-violet flames floating in the air are the final proof of its life.

Of course, the ordinary elf Zheya would not kill him, after all, there is no need.

But this light ghost cannot be counted among ordinary elves.

Taking the initiative to kill two people in a row fully demonstrated its cruel nature.

It didn't have to do this originally. After Tetsuya finished rescuing the people and left, it could just sit back and wait as before.

Like the previous method of absorbing the souls of humans who died normally, Zhe would not want to kill it.

Its city-dwelling cousins ​​often do this in the death chambers of human hospitals.

But once you take the initiative, the nature changes.

If you kill the first and second one, there will be a third, fourth, and even countless more. If you let this light ghost continue to do this, who knows what it will do.

The Alliance also agrees to take different measures against such elves.

As Tetsuya watched, the life energy turned into ghost lights completely disappeared.

The next moment, white light appeared where it had just been.

"This is....."

Zheya squinted his eyes, it seemed that he was lucky.

"Click"

The sound of objects** sounded.

Zhe also stepped forward and picked it up.

It's something like black sunglasses.

"I didn't expect this light ghost to actually carry black glasses."

He was quite satisfied with this unexpected surprise.

The props carried by the elves can be dropped in two ways. One is that the elves actively hand them over, and the other is that they appear passively after death.

It's no surprise that the black glasses with the light ghosts on them are the latter.

You have never seen a pig running or eaten pork. The scene just now is clearly recorded in the textbook.

According to Zero's testing, the black glasses' amplification effect on evil attribute skills is 9%. It's a pity, but it's better than nothing.

"Sorry, I'm late."

Throwing the black glasses into the space backpack, Tetsuya bowed silently to the pile of bones.

This is probably the final destination of every trainer, he thought of this inexplicably.

I just don’t know who will feel sad for me if I die during the expedition in the future. Zheya felt a little lost for a moment.

"Xia Mo"

The flame chicken patted his shoulder with its paw.

"fine."

Zheya came back to his senses and smiled at it.

What are you thinking? He won't die that easily. He hasn't yet become a Pokémon master and left his name in this world.

"Let's go. Then we can find the remaining three people without being so anxious."

After putting away the fragments of ashes, watches and other items again, Tetsuya patted his cheek and continued his task.

...

"Really? It turns out that besides me, there are four other people who are also lost."

In a certain cave, Tetsuya took the first surviving victim he found and began to prepare to escape the coming flood.

"Yeah, but apart from you, there are probably only two other people alive."

Tetsuya said casually while searching for the "safe spot" based on his memory.

"There are probably two more..."

The middle-aged man with a slovenly beard smiled bitterly.

In other words, it is possible that he is the only one left alive, right?

From Tetsuya's mouth, he learned that the other two had definitely died at the hands of the Lantern Ghost. He could only say that his luck was pretty good.

"This is it."

Regardless of his inner thoughts of surviving the disaster, Tetsuya sat down on the ground tiredly after confirming the high point where the safe point was.

In the process of searching for these victims, he also spent a lot of energy.

"Here, have something to eat."

The uncle who had been trapped for a long time took out food and water from his space backpack.