Dawn of Pokémon

June [-], early morning.

As expected, the nightmare woke up all members of the expedition team on time.When Xiaoye turned over and sat up with her head on the chicken coop, and saw Xiaojie and Xiaoling also with messy hair and frowning faces, she felt a little funny at the wrong time.On the contrary, Ghoststone and Yongjira, who were in charge of the security, were sleeping soundly. They obviously did not notice anything abnormal and could not prevent the nightmare from happening.

Fortunately, the contagious dream did not affect Xiaotian and Xinghai, which also fulfilled the previous speculation about "nightmare trigger conditions".After lightly completing a series of actions of washing and dressing, the team met in the lobby - even Tongye, who claimed to sleep until noon without stress, woke up on time, which shows that the masked monster in the dream is indeed not powerful. generally.

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 25:18, the four members of the expedition team arrived at the Hibiya Line's terminal station, H[-] Minami-Senju, on time.

"Wow, there's no one there." Xiaoling exclaimed as she looked around.The subway in Mihara City is always crowded, and it is rare to see a quiet scene without people. For a while, 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 on 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 and checked his cell phone, "There's no signal on mine either...how strange."

Mihara City's subway has seamless mobile communication coverage along the route, 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 said, "Did you hear anything?"

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

The sound of friction and collision between wheels and rails gradually approached, and even the air became restless.It was a black and white train - its body looked very dilapidated, with rust stains crawling all over its body like a spider's web, and the glass that should have been transparent was also covered with dust.When it slowly stopped next to the platform, a cold wind swept 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 50 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 had been damaged due to its long-standing disrepair, and 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 there." Xiaojie took full advantage of his eyesight and came to the conclusion after looking carefully.Considering that there was Tongye present who didn't know Xiaoye's ability, Xiaojie did not speak directly, but turned his questioning eyes to Xiaoye - what was the result of the detection of the waveguide power?

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 waveguide power has been expanded to the limit, but all that can be detected is hazy. The train, the track, and even the three living people around it seem to have been swallowed up, and they do not appear in the perception at all.For the waveguide messenger, this is as weird as hearing someone talking around but reaching out and reaching nothing.Perhaps because of the nightmare, she felt that her head was getting 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 suddenly came from the carriage.Everyone was frightened and looked around for the source of the ringing sound.

It was 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 were all people with sharp ears and eyesight, but they looked at each other after listening attentively for a moment - this strange ringing sound was clearly coming from all directions, reverberating violently in the small compartment space, as if it was about to blow the old The car body overturned.

"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 don’t know 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 hour." Tongye said thoughtfully, "Logically, 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 staggered around as the carriage shook.The old carriage creaked and groaned, making people suddenly think that it was about to fall apart.

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

"Anyway, let's go out and take a look first?" Xiaoye 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 ground that should have been solid was cracked, the wheels and rails were shattered like glass, and the four young passengers fell into the cold cliff.

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

In the instinctive trembling caused by the free fall, the purple-haired girl reluctantly turned her eyes and captured the figures of her companions below. She also saw the frightening creature.

The huge masked monster grinned, 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 when the fangs bit together, they made an explosion sound.

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

"Boom-"

The pain of her head hitting the ground made Xiaoye suddenly 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, and Xiaojie even stuffed his head under his belly.The cleaning workers passing by had astonishment written all over their bodies, probably thinking they had encountered a group of mentally ill people.

"It hurts, it hurts..." Xiaojie tried his best 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 - what she sensed this time was not a fog, but a platform and three living people.

Oh, four, and the janitor in the corner who already wanted 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 people 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 happened?" Xiaojie scratched his hedgehog head even more messily, "We took a train that shouldn't exist to the H19 station, 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 psychopath..."

"That." 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, "The pattern on this card has become lighter."

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 marks left by the black ink become blurred, making the stamps appear even more aged.

"What's going on..." Xiaojie looked at the two pieces of paper in confusion, and when he accidentally looked up, they 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 people suddenly started staring at him, Xiaoling raised her fingers tremblingly, and her voice changed.

"Face, mask... Kiriha, the mask is on your face!!"