Pokémon: Start with an Admiral Crab!

The rumbling sound continued to echo in the tunnel.

The speed at which the giant rock snakes burrowed into the ground was no slower than their speed on the ground.

I walked underground for several minutes, but the rumbling sound in my ears still did not stop.

"Ayao...how do I feel..."

Xiaogang was sweating profusely and he struggled to open his collar and fan himself.

"…Underground…it's getting hotter and hotter!"

"Ayao...Ayao?"

Xiaogang called out several times but got no response from Wang Yao.

When he turned around, he found that Wang Yao's eyes were rolling in circles and his unconscious body was swinging on the giant rock snake like a piece of seaweed.

He didn't know when he fainted from the heat!

If his legs hadn't been stuck in the cracks of Onix's body, he would have been thrown into the tunnel long ago.

"Onix—Stop!"

Xiaogang hurriedly stopped Onix and dragged Wang Yao down.

"Wake up! Ayao! Wake up! Oh no...that's right!"

Xiaogang suddenly had an idea and took the Poké Ball of the giant crab from Wang Yao.

"Giant Crab! Use the water gun! Cool everyone down!"

Xiaogang doesn't have any water-type Pokémon, but Wang Yao has plenty.

"Guji~"

The giant crab sprayed water all over the sky, and the water was dispersed into large amounts of fine mist by the hot air underground, which poured down on the two of them.

Even Xiaogang's Onix was bathed in the mist, but the mist did not cause any harm. Instead, it made it feel much refreshed.

"Forehead……"

Wang Yao woke up when Xiaogang called him.

"Ayao... the temperature underground is too high, maybe we should go back!"

Xiao Gang persuaded.

Wang Yao wiped the mist off his face, shook his head and pulled himself together again.

"If I'm not mistaken... there should be an active magma layer under Mount Miacha."

"Only with such crustal movement can rare minerals be brought to the surface and cause the giant rock snake here to grow in size."

Xiao Gang deduced, narrowing his eyes.

"I'm fine... Let the giant crabs help us cool down. Let's explore a little further down. I think we're almost there..."

Wang Yao took out the Poké Ball of Otter and let the two Pokémon spray water mist together.

"Listen... the Onix seem to have stopped moving forward!"

While the two were talking, the rumbling sound in their ears stopped, indicating that the giant rock snakes had arrived at their destination.

"This……"

Xiaogang was also a little hesitant.

After all, the target is such a rare wild giant steel snake...

Thinking that Onix is ​​his trump card and will continue to evolve in the future, Xiaogang thought it would be good to see it in advance.

"……Oh well!"

The two of them rode on Onix again, but this time, there were two more people, a crab and a seagull, who sprayed water around them to cool them down.

……

Under the Miacha Mountain...

On a hollow platform next to the lava pool.

A huge steel snake was lying on a stone bed made of countless rare minerals, lazily enjoying the body cleansing SPA provided by the lava snails.

"Woo~"

The high temperature that was unbearable for Steel-type Pokémon was a comfortable and relaxing temperature for this big Steelix.

After all, its powerful body, which has evolved through hundreds of years of training in underground high-pressure and high-temperature environments, is harder than any known metal.

"Eeeeee~Eeeeee~"

[On the right side, apply a little more force on the third vertebral column~]

A female lava snail slowly crawled to the location Steelix said.

Using its hot body, which is as sticky as magma, it slowly and gently wraps around Steelix's high-temperature forged steel body.

Afterwards, hot magma flowed all over the body of this female lava snail, and there were even many flames erupting from the cracks in its back shell formed when the magma solidified!

The originally rough surface of Steelix has been cleaned by the lava snails over the years and has become shiny and smooth!

"Eh~Woo~~"

[Ah~ So cool~~]

The Steelix groaned with great enjoyment.

"Eeeeeeeee? Eeeeeee!"

[What is your name? The mountain god will reward you! ]

Steelix turned his head and looked at the female lava snail with a domineering look in his eyes.

"Magu~"

【Mountain God~】

The female lava snail looked at the mountain god with adoration.

"Mah-mah-mah-mah~"

[Please just call me 'Snail Girl'~]

Snail Girl looked shy and was so nervous that the magma temperature in her body soared by several hundred degrees.

"Eeeee! Eeeeeeeee!"

[Very good! The mountain god will accept you as my 39th wife! ]

Steelix opened his mouth and chewed a rare ore that was passed to him by the lava worms, and said slowly.

After saying that, Steelix lay down comfortably again and continued to enjoy the joint service of his eighteen lava snail wives.

"Magu..."

The other lava snails and lava worms who failed to be appreciated by the mountain god all cast envious glances at this lucky "snail girl".

"Ahhh~"

[Today is another beautiful and fulfilling day~]

Steel Snake thought so.

rumble--!

rumble--!

Just as Steelix was thinking about how to spend a day that was as boring as usual.

Suddenly, a rumbling sound of rocks being crushed came from the hollow space above my head.

"Ew!"

[It must be those annoying Rhodons again! ]

There are many tunnels dug by Steelix to find food nearby, and occasionally some Rhodon will roll through the tunnels.

Although it had warned them several times... those stone men, whose brains were no bigger than walnut kernels, were the kind of people who only cared about eating and not about being beaten.

Rumble——!

The sound of crushing rocks was getting closer.

Even the rock wall above Steelix's head began to crackle.

"Eh?"

【what's the situation? 】

Boom! Bang!!!

Just as Steelix raised his head to look upward, the rock dome above him suddenly shattered!

A huge gray figure fell into the magma pool beside it!

A huge cavity was created by the viscous magma, and the splashing high-temperature magma covered the entire underground space.

Bang!

Bang-!

Bang——! !

……

Huge gray figures followed closely behind and fell into the magma pool one after another!

"Woooooooooo!"

Arriving at the magma layer one after another were the mother Onix and the giant Onixes.

The huge rock bodies were stacked on top of each other, even filling up the magma pool!

Fortunately, their rocky bodies are not afraid of fire, and because of their density, they can float on the magma.

But after all, the solid ground was more comfortable, and the huge rock snakes climbed onto the platform one after another.

Steelix was also somewhat dazed as he looked at this group of younger generations of the same species who were of similar size to himself.

For some reason...it always felt that the aura of these giant rock snakes was somewhat familiar.

It seemed - like an old friend long forgotten.

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!"

“Slow down! Slow down!!!”

Maybe it was because the mother snake sensed the breath of the scumbag mountain god and became impatient...

As a result, the angle of the last small section of the tunnel is almost vertical!

“I’m going to fall!!”

Xiaogang can already feel the heat wave coming from below!

"Big-billed Gull!!"

Wang Yao used amazing hand speed to retrieve the Giant Claw Crab into the Poké Ball, and then grabbed the webbed feet of the Toucan.

"Gaou!"

The toucan gull opened its mouth and grabbed Xiaogang's backpack, then spread its wings and used the rising thermal air currents to quickly stop its descent.

The giant rock snake they were riding fell directly into the lava pool, stirring up another pool of hot lava.

flutter--!

flutter--!

Flapping its wings vigorously, the Toucan slowly landed with the two of them on the platform where the giant Onix and Steelix were.

"Huh... I survived!"

Feeling the air around them was even hotter than before, Wang Yao and Xiao Gang were thankful that this underground adventure was safe and sound.