Dawn of Pokémon

There is silence in the deep mountains, and even the sound of birds flapping their wings and taking off in the distance can be clearly heard.

Xiaoye saw the red-haired boy's expression changing several times, and finally lowered his head in guilt.

"I'm sorry." Yang Yu whispered, "I know what we did was excessive, as if we were trying to drive away people who were kind enough to help. But..."

When the young man pursed his lips and wanted to make a ninety-degree bow to apologize, the tourist's voice sounded first, and his tone was full of surprise, "Don't be like this - if you are seen by your own race, they will definitely think that I'm bullying you."

"……Hey?"

"I'm just asking casually." Xiaoye said briskly, as if she didn't care much about the answer to the question, "There are still a few days until the Fire Worship Festival, and I think the probability of finding the Upe Drum before that is still high. Very tall, isn’t it?”

"Well, you're right. And..."

"what?"

Yang Yu followed Xiao Ye and crossed the tree trunk blocking the road, and said seriously, "We will soon reach our area of ​​responsibility. There are no people of my clan nearby, so you don't have to worry."

Night:"……"

Yang Yu: "?"

Xiaoye: "...I don't think the point is here."

And what kind of magic statement is "Don't worry"? Does it encourage me to bully others with confidence...

After arriving at the arranged patrol point, the two of them each released a Pokémon to defend themselves and started today's patrol.Yang Yu carefully inquired about the waveguide detection range that Xiaoye used, and planned a detailed route based on this. Xiaoye only needed to follow him to conduct a blanket search of the entire responsible area.

There are no roads in Aso Mountain, so it is not uncommon to have to climb branches to advance.Fortunately, the strong chickens and forest lizards who were leading the battle were both good at jumping in the forest, and the two trainers were agile enough so that they would not delay their work.

Not a moment after the search started, Xiaoye pointed to the top of her head and asked in a low voice, "Are there usually so many dark crows here?"

The cloudy weather makes the deep mountains and jungles look even hotter and quieter.Through the branches and leaves, you can vaguely see the dark crow flying overhead from time to time, making a rough and unpleasant cry.

Yang Yu shook his head, "There are very few wild dark crows in Asu Mountain—those are the scouts of the Wind Thief."

As he said that, he stopped, put the strong chicken back into the ball, and replaced it with a Fire Eevee.

Xiaoye was stunned for a moment, roughly understanding that Yang Yu wanted to shoot down the enemy's "eyes", and silently observed his movements.

In the next few minutes, Yang Yu did not give any instructions, but looked up at the dark crows that appeared from time to time in the gaps between the tree crowns.Xiaoye noticed that his fingers were drawing slow and rhythmic circles in the air, as if searching for the flight patterns of the dark crows.

"Fire Eevee, aim directly upward."

As the boy spoke, he subconsciously took a few steps back.

As the trainer finished speaking, the orange-red beast pricked up its ears, and a fireball appeared in front of it.

It was not in a hurry to take action. A steady stream of flame energy was released from its body and condensed into the fireball, like a cannonball ready to go.

A few seconds later, before Dark Crow appeared in sight, Yang Yu's boots lightly tapped the ground.

The flaming shells popped up from the bottom like meteorites, passing through the blockade of the dense forest and shooting straight into the cloudy gray sky.The moment it broke through the canopy, the Dark Crow slammed into the flame bomb as if it was deliberately preparing a move.Amidst the flowing fire and the instantaneous shock wave, the scout didn't even have time to scream to warn his companions before he fell down - Xiaoye didn't hear its fall to the ground, so it probably landed on a branch somewhere.

The girl let out a small cry of admiration - the Dark Crow flew so high that it was not easy for the Pokémon on the ground to reach it, let alone rely on vision and prediction to achieve precise strikes against the air.

"That move just now is also one of the uses of 'explosion'?"

Xiao Ye asked - at the same time, she noticed that Yang Yu seemed to have retreated too far. The moves used by Huo Yibu were obviously not so easy to affect the surroundings.

"Well, it's a little trick to use the accumulation of flames to increase explosive power and make moves go farther." Yang Yu replied, gently touching Fire Eevee's head to encourage him, "The scouts of the Wind Thieves are very cunning. , if you engage in air combat, there is a high chance that they will run away. If you want to deal with them, you must hit them with one hit."

After switching his Pokémon back to Strong Chicken, which was more suitable for traveling in the mountains, he smiled at the tourists.

"Leave all these chores to me, Xiaoye, just do the detection."

As human footsteps advance, invisible waves sweep through the branches, leaves, air and soil.

Using another sense besides the five senses to observe everything around you without distinction is actually a very energy-consuming thing.It's just that Xiaoye has always been relatively good at this kind of analysis and calculation tasks. Even if she works non-stop until noon, the accumulated fatigue is far from enough to cause her to lose concentration.

Due to the heavy workload, both of them simply ate some of the sandwiches they had brought with them when they set out for lunch - they were placed in the small package Yang Yu carried with him, and Xiaoye didn't even notice when his companion picked them up.

The strong chicken who followed the boy opened the package with ease and distributed the sandwiches to the trainers. He looked very much like Yongzhen's mother stuffing food for her children.Pichu, who got the smallest sandwich, looked at its bright red appearance, hesitated for a long time before taking a tentative bite - and then ate it all with eyes gleaming.

While Xiao Ye was eating her own portion of lunch, she secretly concluded in her heart that perhaps the biggest feature of Lieyan Valley's specialty is that it is "red and sweet".

Their temporary settlement was a rare piece of fairly flat land in the mountains.Above the two people's heads, a tall wooden frame passed through the branches and leaves of the forest, with bundles of ropes tied to it.Looking far away, the rope extends towards the top of the mountain, and the end is submerged in deep green.

"Is this the 'big text' connected to the crater?" Xiaoye asked curiously.

"Yes." Yang Yu nodded, "On the day of the ceremony, someone will light it from the foot of the mountain and let the fire burn along the rope to the top of the mountain. In previous years, many tourists would specially ride Pokémon to watch it in the sky."

Xiaoye approached the wooden frame and carefully looked at the objects in front of her.

She saw broken old ropes hanging on the ground, nearly half buried by the soil, and replaced by new ropes - probably because the earthquake a few days ago destroyed many festival decorations.

The Fire People will give priority to repairing the facilities required for the Five Mountains Fire Ceremony before their homes are rebuilt. At least this shows that they really want to celebrate this important festival seriously as usual.

So... where did the order prohibiting the presence of outsiders come from?

After lunch, the two quickened their pace and continued their search work.

They found no clues about the drum or the wind thief, but they picked up a strange device under the tree.

Xiaoye shook the dirt off the dark electronic equipment.The display screen was cracked like a kaleidoscope, and the buttons seemed to have been splashed with corrosive venom. The characters could not be read clearly. I could only barely guess from the shape that this was probably a walkie-talkie.

"Is it broken?" Yang Yu took the brick-like object and shook it in confusion.

"It's still sending a weak signal, so it shouldn't be completely broken yet." Xiaoye said - because of this, the detection of the power of the waveguide can instantly sense its presence among debris such as gravel and leaves.

The jet black device is heavy in the hand, and the outer shell is hard and dense, and seems to be able to withstand considerable impact.Although the characters on the keys have been corroded and blurred, the radio itself is intact - obviously, this is not a walkie-talkie for outdoor travel that was casually abandoned by tourists because of damage, but a walkie-talkie that is more "military" and can be used in the field. Equipment that maintains normal operation on the battlefield where Pokémon battle.

The girl and her companion looked at each other.

"Do you think this was left by the wind thief?"

"There isn't much dust on it. It should have been dumped here in the past two days - not many people have entered the mountain recently. I think it is probably the belongings of the wind thief. It's just..."

Xiaoye understood Yang Yu's confusion.

"The Wind Thieves are just a bunch of tough thieves. There's no reason they should have a walkie-talkie that's not available on the market - just like they shouldn't have guns, right?"

After a few brief discussions, the discoverer Xiaoye put the walkie-talkie away and planned to hand it in after returning to the Valley of Flames.

They didn't say anything more, but the doubts caused by Feng Thief's abnormality had long been buried in their hearts - and this emotion intensified as the sun set and the day's work ended.

"How strange." The red-haired boy frowned, "There are dark crows investigating, which means there are probably wind thieves active nearby - but not only did we not see the shadow of the wind thieves, we also couldn't find any traces of the wind thieves when they were eating and resting. traces."

"I didn't even detect any human footprints except for the two of us." Xiaoye added.

Yang Yu was silent for a while.

He didn't know if others noticed the anomaly, and he didn't know if the clan leader's series of incredible instructions were because he had more information.But as the most ordinary patrolman among the Fire People, Huoyuan Yangyu instinctively felt——

Something bad is going to happen to Mount Aso.

As the sun sank into the western horizon, Xiaoye and Yang Yu returned to the Valley of Flames.

The night is still glowing with afterglow, and every household in the Valley of Flames has eagerly lit up their lights. From a distance, it seems as if the starry sky is reflected on the ground.

The light of fire, the sound of drums, the sound of running footsteps, and the sound of laughter and noises are like traveling through time and space. The small village standing in the valley is enveloped in laughter and laughter, just like yesterday.

When standing at the entrance of the valley, Xiaoye was really stunned.She still remembered how dull the atmosphere was in the Flame Valley before setting off in the early morning. Could it be that...

"Has there been any major progress in the search? Or has Wu Pegu been found?" she asked tentatively.

"Probably not. If there is any big discovery, I will be notified." Yang Yu shook the phone in his hand, "Why do you ask?"

"Because everyone looks happy?"

Adults, children and Pokémon were all happily walking back and forth on the gravel road.When the residents got into the mood, they danced to the sound of distant drums, not caring whose house they walked into while spinning around - almost like a group of elves who had never experienced pain and had been carefree since birth.

"Oh, you said this."

The red-haired boy narrowed his eyes and laughed.

He turned to Xiao Ye lightly, stretched out his index fingers and put them against his cheeks.

That is an action that represents "smile".

"We have already been robbed of one treasure - how can we give up 'another treasure' too?"