Dawn of Pokémon

The thin smoke slowly dispersed, but the figure behind it seemed hazy, almost blending into the shadow of the night.

Under the vision of the waveguide power, Xiaoye clearly "saw" that the "creature" that was no different from Huihara Haruna in appearance or breath gradually melted, contracted and expanded like a soft-bodied creature, which made people instinctively Feeling creepy.

Xiaoye was keenly aware of the sense of crisis, and immediately stepped forward, blocking the injured clan leader behind her, and gestured to the fire-breathing dragon to prepare for battle.At the same time, the black shadow in the smoke suddenly expanded, and dark lights struck the girl like sharp arrows.

Charizard had just carefully laid Haruna flat on the ground, and his reaction was inevitably half a beat too slow.Before it roared out flames, the flames of all the surrounding torches suddenly swelled in the wind.

Those jumping, inconspicuous flames flew spirally in the air, gathered together, and condensed into huge waves of flames.The arrows formed by the black shadow melted into it silently like fragile objects, leaving only a few wisps of hazy smoke.

Xiaoye turned around and saw the young clan leader kneeling on one knee, his eyes flashing with bright firelight - and wherever he could see, the flame tails of the torches were also beating with the same rhythm.As he gently waved his hand forward, an even more majestic wave of fire pushed forward, crushing every inch of the blackened air; and then extinguished in a measured manner before hitting the wood and house walls, without damaging the houses. Every bit.

The firelight dimmed, and there was nothing in front of the two of them. The shadow of "Haruna" had long disappeared.

Xiao Ye's waveguide power swept back and forth three times before she said, "The life response has disappeared. Only the burnt fragments of clothing and this are left."

She picked up a round stone from the burnt pieces of cloth and handed it to Ye to see.

"Haruna"'s knife stabbed mercilessly, and the young clan leader's face turned pale. He could barely stand still with the help of Xiaoye's stretching hand.The two looked at the stone and frowned at the same time.

It was a translucent round stone, about the size of a ping pong ball.A crack penetrated deeply through it, and the inside was gray, with no light visible.

But its appearance is still very familiar - except for the faded gray tone, it is exactly the same as the Mind Stone in both size and shape.

Thinking of this, Xiaoye suddenly realized that there was one more thing she had to do.She extended her right hand to the person in front of her, and the white round stone on her wrist began to seep out spots of light, "Mr. Ye, let me help you treat -"

"stop."

Contrary to Xiaoye's expectation, the young patriarch stopped her in a hurried tone.

"We are about to fight a tough battle, don't waste your ability on me."

There is an upper limit to the time countercurrent of the Heart of the Moon. Each time it is activated, a considerable amount of "heart power" is consumed, and willpower is different from physical strength and cannot be replenished in a short period of time - as the owner of the Heart of Fire, Karma has This couldn't be clearer.

"but……"

Ye's light-colored top was stained with a large area of ​​crimson, and it looked quite scary. Xiao Yeguang felt her abdomen hurt just by looking at it.

"I said stop." Although he was seriously injured and there was cold sweat on his forehead, the patriarch's eyes were clear and stern, "Or do you want to disobey the order?"

Xiao Ye was silent.During the conversation in the infirmary, she indeed promised to pass the profession. In exchange for the right to participate in the war, when an accident occurred, she must obey the orders of the profession or Jingmu and never act recklessly.

"Listen to me." The red-haired man said solemnly, "If nothing else happens, Lord Niwa will wake up soon, and we must confront him head-on—perhaps at the same time we must confront those hidden 'crows'. "

"I want you to follow one rule. Only use your Heart of the Moon when someone is dying, and ignore everything else. Can you do that?"

The girl only thought about it for a short moment, then she calmed down the worry caused by Karma's injury and nodded sharply.

"Understood, I will obey your orders."

Ye breathed a sigh of relief.He asked Xiaoye to go home with him and treat the wound briefly first. Charizard also carried Haruna on his back again and followed the two of them step by step.

In the view of the leader of the Fire People, the person next to him was just a child who was too young, and he was at the age where he should enjoy traveling happily—rather than being involved in a bitter battle covered in blood.For a moment, he didn't dare to imagine what Xiao Ye went through during this day and night of disappearance. On the contrary, before the girl noticed his worried gaze, she spoke in a calm and natural tone.

"Please allow me to report to you the information I have obtained - including the location and general situation of the enemy base, and the reasons that caused Niwa-sama to wake up early."

"Also, where are Mr. Yang Yu and Mr. Jingmu."

The guards who were about to attack gathered in the central square, well-trained and lined up in neat rows.Their clan leader stood at the front of the queue - the stab wound on his abdomen had been tightly bandaged, roughly applied with some hemostatic and analgesic drugs, and covered up with layers of clothing.The bright red feathers rustled in the wind, and no matter how deep the night was, they could not swallow up the warm colors.

Xiaoye didn't have time to find any spare clothes, so she simply threw away the blood-stained white coat, leaving only a thin dark T-shirt on her body.

The sudden appearance of the missing person caused an uproar among the guards, but soon, the information released by Ye made them no longer surprised.

All the information obtained during the day and night at the Wind Thief base was truthfully conveyed to Ye by Xiaoye, and was relayed by the clan leader to the guards who were about to attack.Their expressions turned from surprise to concern and finally to anger at the abominable fake drumbeat.

Naturally, the leader of the Fire People would not let Qi Qing show up at such a critical moment. After synchronizing the new information with all members, he calmly ordered, "Team one, now go to the 'second pillar in the southeast of the big text' and Yang. Yu joins forces and rescues Jingmu."

The queue of 12 people standing on the far left came out in response.

Before the troops split into two groups, Xiaoye and Yang Yu discussed that if Yang Yu successfully escaped, it would be best to go to a fixed place to wait temporarily before returning to the Valley of Flames, so as to guide the guards of the People of Fire to find the specific details of the underground base. Location.And in this late night mountain, there happen to be some "markers" whose locations are kept in mind by all the Fire People. Even if the moonlight is dim, they will not lose their way - those are the ones they built with their own hands and combined into the Five Mountains Fire Ceremony. The wooden pillars and ropes with the word "big" in them.

So, they set the location next to the second pillar in the southeast direction of the big character - it was very close to the crater, and there were dense bushes and scattered timber as shelters, which was concealed and convenient enough.Even if Xiaoye fails to escape with Haruna successfully and returns to the Flame Valley to inform everyone of the agreed place, the tribesmen who hear the drums will go to the crater to greet the Flame Bird, and Yang Yu can take the initiative to show up at any time to join the large army.

The existence of the two of them is a double insurance for this escape plan. As long as the entire army is not wiped out, they will definitely be able to achieve their goal - to rescue their companions trapped in the dungeon before the God of Niwa awakens.

The group named was the first to leave, and their figures quickly disappeared into the jungle.There were more than 30 guards in the square, all looking at their clan leader with burning eyes.

"As for the rest—"

Karma turned around and pointed to the vaguely visible mountain top in the distance.

"Come with me to meet our gods."

Mount Aso crater, dark underground passage.

The cloaked wind thieves seemed to know that they were in trouble. They huddled in the corner and did not dare to say a word. They could only curse the two brats in their hearts for why they escaped at this critical moment - it would be fine if they just escaped quietly. They beat the drums and snatched away the "sacrifice", turning the base upside down.

Now they only worry that they will be thrown into the lava by the leaders in anger.

The "bosses" in black robes obviously had no interest in venting their emotions. They gathered together as silently as shadows and exchanged information in low voices.

"We couldn't find the person who took the 'sacrifice'. How is the situation on your side?"

"Same as you - more than ten holes were dug in the utility room, and there was no time to find out where he escaped from."

Before he finished speaking, the entire underground base shook again.The wind thieves in the corner were so frightened that they made strange noises and quickly covered their mouths to reduce their presence.

Earthquakes are not severe, but they are becoming more frequent.Everyone understands what this means.

"That's all, it's just a trivial deviation, harmless."

One of the men in black robes opened his pocket watch and took a look at the time.

"Our mission has been accomplished."

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Late at night, over Xiangju Island.

The big dark brown bird flapped its wings silently and flew through the thin clouds.The girl in cycling clothes checked the status of the riding device for the last time, then clapped her hands with a smile and turned on the camera mounted on the helmet.

"Security check completed - Hello, everyone! Welcome to Night Pilot Rebecca's live broadcast room!"

The girl made a playful gesture towards the camera above her head.The owl turned its head in a familiar manner and cooed twice in greeting.

The girl who calls herself "Night Pilot Rebecca" looks to be about fifteen or sixteen years old. Her long golden wavy hair is meticulously tied up and fixed in the helmet, with only two naughty curls sticking out from the side of her face. Shake with the air current.

"It is now 26:11 pm on July 30th, and we are over the Orange Islands... Oh, there are so many people today." Rebecca said in surprise - she had a watch-sized mobile terminal on her right wrist, which was Shows the scene captured by the night vision camera.It's just that the barrage floating on the screen is too dense, blocking the picture so that only a broken wave of the sea can be seen clearly.

"Um...it's summer vacation already? I see, that's it."

Rebecca chatted with the audience in the live broadcast room for a few words, and then brought the topic back to the right track, "Okay, let's continue chatting for a while - we are now over the Orange Islands, and according to the weather forecast, in about half an hour , there will be a thunderstorm in the waters near Xiangju Island."

The girl pointed to the sky excitedly, "Yes, today our goal is no longer to observe Pokémon at night, but to observe nature's thunderstorms up close!"

As soon as this statement came out, the live broadcast room exploded with excitement. There were people who were looking forward to it, and there were also people who thought it was too dangerous and tried to dissuade the anchor. It was very lively for a while.

Going on a journey alone with your trusted Pokémon when you are young may sound like a youthful and romantic story, but not everyone is willing to do this—or, in other words, most of them are unwilling.

Happy and comfortable travel often only exists in countless animations or novels about Pokémon trainers. In real travel, you always have to face a lot of troubles.For example, when you misjudge your footsteps and have to fall asleep in the hot and humid jungle, when you camp in the snow in the cold winter, your tent has a hole, when a sudden shower ruins your freshly prepared dinner, and when your luggage is gone after a good night's sleep, He disappeared and only left the footprints of Ratha. The Pokémon got into a fight and burned the documents. He accidentally fell into a gathering place of smelly mud so that three days later, his whole body was still filled with a strange smell. Katy was too sticky. People go so far as to make every piece of clothing covered with dog hair, shirts turn into plush coats, and so on - countless free trainers who choose to travel on impulse can fill a hundred A4 pages with their blood and tears.

Therefore, if a young person wants to know interesting things about traveling, or just wants to see the rich and diverse wild Pokémon instead of the well-behaved pets that can be seen everywhere in the city, but is unwilling to face the hardships of traveling in person - then pay attention A live broadcast room for trainers might be a good idea.

Due to the huge number of "cloud travel" enthusiasts, there are countless anchors who conduct such live broadcasts, and the content is even more bizarre, ranging from a hundred days of filming a green caterpillar to provoking Reggie sleeping in the ruins with only a Rattata. Locke; In comparison, Ms. Night Pilot’s idea of ​​“observing thunderstorms at close range” is already considered the least suicide-seeking project.

"Huh, it's so hot." Rebecca fanned herself with her hands bitterly, "It's so hot in the Orange Islands in summer... Mihara City is better, at least it's cool at night."

As she muttered, she looked a little confused.

Logically speaking, it wouldn't be too hot high in the air far from the ground, let alone a night without sunlight.But there is an abnormal heat wave rolling in the air - not the sweltering heat before the rainstorm, but a drier temperature.

"Ah, it's been half an hour?"

The content of the barrage made Rebecca stunned, and she glanced at the time in the upper right corner - it had indeed changed to 00:00.

[It’s raining, the anchor must have read the weather forecast correctly]

[After waiting for half an hour, it still didn’t rain]

[I’m so angry, I suggest that the live broadcast room be renamed wind sound hypnosis ASMR]

[I just checked the weather forecast, yes it’s going to rain]

[Everyone, please continue, I will withdraw first]

[I can see the stars, not even a cloud, and there is no rain]

Rebecca immediately grinned and sighed dejectedly, "It's so strange. Did I encounter a weather report that is rare in a century..."

While she was looking around, the barrage in the live broadcast room suddenly became intensive.

"Is there a fire down there...?"

Rebecca read out the content of a barrage and looked down.

Only a dark outline of the island remained in the middle of the night, and it was unclear whether it was a city or a wilderness below.In the darkness, the orange-red fire looked particularly dazzling.

"Oh, really!" Rebecca was worried that there was no way to end it. When she saw this, she immediately directed the owl to get closer to the fire, and at the same time she started talking non-stop, "Speaking of the Orange Island below us, I wonder if you have listened. Have you ever said that? There is a nation called the "Fire People" living in Mount Aso on the island. They hold a grand fire worship festival every midsummer, and tourists from all over the world come here to visit. Among them, the people called "Five Mountains Send" The fire ceremony is the most spectacular, and a large font spanning the entire mountain will be lit in the mountains..."

Her words paused.Years of travel experience allowed her to sense a sense of crisis in the increasingly brighter firelight, and she immediately shouted, "Owl, rise!"

The big dark brown bird immediately climbed up quickly upon hearing the order.At the same time, Rebecca and all the viewers in the live broadcast room heard a rumbling sound - it was like the entire island was shaking.

That bit of fire quickly expanded, exploded, and then completely erupted with a loud rumbling sound.The girl who was a night pilot was stunned to see a pillar of fire rising straight into the sky from the crater of Mount Aso. The flames were carrying lava and flowing out in all directions, almost turning the night into day.

The tongues of fire licked the ropes and wood that had been set up, expanding outward at an alarming speed.Rebecca's camera recorded all of this clearly - like a blooming red lotus, the word "big" composed of flames slowly opened up, covering the entire mountainous area.

It looks spectacular and dangerous.

Rebecca no longer had the time to pay attention to the rapidly increasing number of viewers in the live broadcast room.She was in the night sky that looked like day, staring blankly at the pillar of flames spitting out from the crater.

... no, not right.

It's not just the flames that light up the night sky.

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The light was too dazzling, like a second sun appearing out of thin air in the dark night.The faces of the Fire People who had just climbed halfway up Mount Aso suddenly changed.

The clan leader roared and ordered everyone to move forward quickly - they were still covered by dense forest, and their vision was too poor to see what was happening ahead.However, the rolling fire and lava caused the wild Pokémon in the forest to panic and rush down the mountain regardless, causing a great obstacle to the group's progress.

The young patriarch's thoughts were racing, "Flaming chicken - sharp stone attack!"

After more than ten years of coexistence, the Flame Chicken instantly understood what the trainer meant.It punched the ground, and countless huge rock blades protruded from the earth, arranging them forward one by one, forming a bridge in the air.

The mottled tree shadows dazzled people, and some people stumbled and almost fell down because they didn't see the position of the rocks clearly.Xiaoye signaled the Pichu on her shoulder to use a flash to illuminate the road below to prevent anyone from falling.

The group of people followed Ye and the Flame Chicken as they rushed all the way, jumping deftly on the tip of the stone blade and crossing all the low obstacles on the ground.It wasn't until they passed an area with sparse trees and finally saw the night sky in front of them clearly that the people of the flames were stunned.

In the dazzling pillar of fire reaching the sky, the silhouettes of birds gradually emerged.

The flames burned so fiercely that only the dark silhouettes of birds could be seen clearly.The eyes hidden behind the flames were filled with blood-colored light, making people shudder.

Almost instinctively, they felt fear.

Although everyone knew that it was the God of Niwa that they had longed for and loved for a long time, when they really faced the angry god, they only had bone-deep fear pouring from the Tianling Cap to the soles of their feet like ice water.

It didn't look like a benevolent god living in the scroll - it almost looked like a demon controlling fire.

The bird-shaped silhouette raised its head slightly and let out a deafening cry.As it raised its wings, the flames also wrapped around it, wrapping it like a shadow, like a fiercely burning battle suit.People felt that the creatures in the flames were looking towards them - at this moment, they almost thought that they would be mercilessly burned to ashes by the flames.

However, his eyes only focused on them for a brief moment and did not stay for a long time.The burning creature has spread its wings and flies high, passing over everyone's heads——

The young patriarch shuddered and suddenly came to his senses.

Isn't the direction that the Flame Bird is heading towards the only small town at the foot of Mount Aso?

The next moment, the sudden sound of drums awakened everyone's consciousness.

The clan leader standing on the highest point of the rock beat the drum on his waist.Although it cannot be compared with the Wupei drum passed down from ancient times, its volume is enough for everyone to hear the exciting drumbeat.

The people of the flames woke up from a dream and realized the seriousness of the matter.Neat instructions sounded at the same moment, and dazzling flame beams shot straight into the sky, pointing at the gods flying in the night sky.

According to the pre-arranged strategic layout, they did not aim the bullseye at the Flame Bird, but just crossed and overlapped in front of the Flame Bird, trying to attract its attention.However, the creature in the flames simply raised its wings and easily avoided the intersecting flame beams without wavering in its direction - as if it didn't care about the obstruction of the same source of power at all.

Xiaoye's hand was already on the Poke Ball at her waist, trying to use Gyarados' water-type attack to reverse the flight path of the Flame Bird.Before releasing the dark blue water dragon, the trainer's movements suddenly paused.

She felt that time seemed to slow down.

Everything around him gradually slowed down and stagnated in the senses, and people's anxious faces were frozen in the air. Only the flame bird's bloody eyes filled with anger were infinitely magnified in the field of vision, almost giving it the illusion of being roasted. .

Vaguely, there seemed to be some huge idea flowing from the inside of "Xiaoye"'s body, which was creepy and terrifying - but for the person involved, this was not the first time.

As early as on Honglian Island, the latent thoughts had surfaced for a time, but this time, "it" came even more fiercely, like a huge wave in the deep sea——

Accompanied by the excruciating pain in her brain, Xiaoye saw her right hand slowly raised, and bright blue light overflowed from her eyes and palm, distorting the air around her.

Even after many years, Xiaoye could still clearly describe - at that moment, a strange "determination" that did not belong to her roared and exploded in her mind.

[Priority 000: The bond between man and God should not be severed. ]

The strong thoughts turned into sharp knives and shot out uncontrollably.While Xiaoye staggered and almost fell, the figure flying in the night sky stopped.

The pain directly acting on the spiritual sea made it turn its head, and its eyes suddenly locked on the "foreign object" between the red-haired people.

It was a human with purple hair.An electric rat stood on her shoulder, releasing pulsating arcs of electricity.

Purple hair, lightning—two familiar elements combined together almost instantly caused anger to disperse the last remaining sanity of the god.

The creatures in the flames screamed shrilly, ignoring the denser breath of life coming from the town behind them, and dived desperately towards the purple point at the tip of the rock!

When the people of the flames screamed in panic, Xiaoye just kept kneeling on one knee and did not move.

The tsunami-like headache prevented her from noticing changes in the outside world, and even the strong killing intent from the flame bird was blocked.She felt that she had become "something else" - as if it was a side effect of the sudden, uncontrollable mental attack. What was crazily poured into her mind was a memory that did not belong to human beings.

It was a gentle but sad memory from the God of the People of Fire, the God of Niwa, who lived on the other side of the world for thousands of years.

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That gaze looked at the earth and the people fighting on the battlefield.

The ice edge and lightning brought pain deep into the bone marrow.But it turned a blind eye to this, and its eyes gradually fixed on each person with flaming hair.

"I bless you."

The clear light of fire that only gods can see enveloped the people of the flames.Their bodies were bathed in that sight, gradually becoming lighter, their fatigue was wiped away, and their pain was alleviated.

On the battlefield filled with mountains of corpses and seas of blood, these warriors had no time to notice the subtle changes in their bodies, nor were they aware of some kind of force that lifted them up to avoid fatal attacks one after another - and even less aware of this. The consumption of protection is so fatal to a god who is attacked from both sides.

The red-haired people were still shouting at the top of their lungs.They hope that the manipulators of Ice and Thunder will stop being used to fight, and they hope that their friends will recall the friendship that should live and die together, even if the weak voice has long been buried by resentment and anger.

Maybe the war will be stopped, maybe not.The efforts of the Fire People may or may not change the situation.Their sacrifice may have been of no use, it could not have restored anything, it could not have saved anything, it was just a waste of effort.

But so what?thought the god.

No matter what, I bless you, my people.

I bless you to save the island of Red Lotus and save the broken covenant.

I wish you to regain the glory of history and change the tragedy of thousands of years.

The war is getting fiercer and fiercer, devouring fresh lives like a monster.The invisible protection and the damage from the battlefield collided, offset, and crumbled again and again, but they never dissipated—and of course this came at a price.The temperature of the flame, which symbolized vitality, was gradually withdrawn and dissipated from the god's body, causing the god's vision to gradually blur in pain and weakness.

Ice, snow and thunder and lightning have become deadly weapons that no longer have warmth.The god spread his wings for the last time and used his chest to resist the energy beam that could kill human beings for his people.

Before his consciousness completely sank into darkness, the God of Niwa stared deeply at his people.It saw the flame-colored protection that only the gods could see shatter into pieces, and the cold weapons fell on them, splashing with flaming blood flowers, so poignant and gorgeous.

The god closed his eyes weakly.At the last moment, anger filled its heart.

"I exhausted all my strength, but I couldn't protect you."

"I'm so damned.