The smoke in the distance quickly disappeared, as if a Pokémon was in a bad mood and spit fire at the rock wall, causing some innocuous damage. It's just that the roaring sound was too unfamiliar, and the roar was much louder than an ordinary Pokémon fight. The doubtful trainer decided to investigate.
——In case criminals want to attack Pokémon in the protected area, you might be able to get a bonus if you report it in time.
Xiaoye ran all the way in the direction of the sound, and soon passed through shrubs, branches, and jagged rocks, and arrived at the Bailang River, which was rarely inhabited.
That wisp of smoke had long since melted into the blue sky. Xiaoye could not pinpoint the specific location, so she could only release the power of the waveguide and sweep forward like a wave.
Such scrawled detection is like standing at a high altitude and overlooking the earth. It can only give a general understanding of the terrain environment, and it is difficult to detect whether there are any traces of battle left. But among the chaos of soil, trees and water, there was a "point" as bright as a flame in the dark night, which almost instantly captured Ripple's attention.
The trainer's expression changed and his steps quickened. The lush branches and leaves of the trees dispersed layer by layer in the field of vision, and when the broad white river surface appeared in front of the eyes, the Piqiu hanging on the shoulder opened its eyes wide and let out a surprised "chirp".
An "ice sculpture" stands in the middle of the river and is slowly floating downstream along the current. It looks like a large spiny ball, with ice edges sticking together in a radial pattern - and in the center of the spiny ball, at the root of the ice edges, a stinging jellyfish is frozen in the ice, like an artificially carved art. Pin generally motionless.
Even if he was accidentally hit by a move like freezing beam in the melee, the look of being frozen into a big ice flower would be too weird. Xiaoye carefully explored the surrounding waters and after confirming that there were no other wild Pokémon nearby, she sent out Ghost Stone and used her mental strength to drag the Ice Spike Ball, which was two or three people tall, to the shore.
Before he even got close, the chill was already hitting his face, dispelling the summer heat almost instantly. Pichu couldn't help but tremble, and swishly got into Xiaoye's collar - but because he forgot that the trainer had changed into summer clothes, he got too far and fell directly from the cuff of his short sleeves.
Xiaoye was not surprised by this, she reached out and caught the hair ball.
Standing in front of the frozen stinging jellyfish, the surging air-conditioning makes you feel like you are in late autumn. Xiao Ye only felt that holding the snow boy was not that "cool", so she stretched out her hand with an inquiring mind and tried to touch the surface of the ice.
The warmth that spread along his fingers was stronger than imagined. Although she quickly withdrew her hand, the fingertips that came into contact with the ice cubes still immediately turned from pale to reddish. If she had withdrawn her hand a little later, red and swollen frostbite might have formed.
This effect, which was close to the "lasting release of freezing debuff", made Xiaoye's heart sink, and she began to worry about the life safety of the frozen stinging jellyfish.
She immediately released Charizard, signaling it to try to melt the radiating ice edges first. The big guy who was named vigorously breathed out scorching flames, burning for a while with a firepower that even Gyarados found too hot. When he stopped and looked at it, he was dumbfounded.
Not only did the ice edges not disappear, not even a few drops of water fell.
Charizard puffed up his face in disbelief, as if he wanted to replace the jet flames with large-character explosive flames and try again. Halfway through taking a breath, the trainer raised his hand to stop it.
Xiaoye dragged Charizard, who was out of breath, and cautiously took two steps back away from the ice edge - she realized that this was a problem that could not be solved by her own strength, so she took out her mobile phone and dialed the number of the Pokémon Protection Association.
The area around Bailang Town is vast and sparsely populated, and the Pokémon Reserve area is also quite large. The "Ice Sculpture Stinging Jellyfish" is quite far away from the Protector's Lounge. Still, people who got the call came pretty quickly.
Ten minutes later, the protection officers riding the Big Birds landed on the riverside one after another. The reporter stepped forward and described what he saw and heard to the protection officer in detail.
The frozen appearance of the stinging jellyfish is not similar to the effect of any move, and the protection officers seem to be a little confused. After confirming that although the signs of life of the stinging jellyfish were weak, they still existed, the conservation officer began to try to rescue him. Xiaoye, who could not help much, left his contact information and evacuated early to avoid causing trouble to others.
Pichu and Charizard, who were forced to leave the game, had question marks all over their heads, and they chirped at the trainer. Xiao Ye also searched with confusion whether there were ice Pokémon living below the snow line of Fengxue Mountain, and then looked at the phone screen that showed "none" and was helpless.
This strange phenomenon was really confusing. In the end, Xiaoye could only fool her own Pokémon by saying "it might have been a passing Frozen Bird sneezing", and she stayed away from the Bailang River in confusion.
After all this trouble, the sky was already dark. In order to make up for the training progress that was delayed by the unexpected incident, Xiaoye simply had a picnic in the forest, and took advantage of the situation to practice a few more night battles with the well-fed Pokémon. It wasn't until the compatriots who had poor eyesight at night showed that they were worried about running into a tree that the trainer retreated with the Pichu furball and slowly returned to the town at the foot of the mountain.
It was approaching nine o'clock, and the Trainer's Square was unexpectedly brightly lit with people coming and going. The trainers who had just finished their hard training were wandering around the square with friends, looking for shops of interest. There were also young people who caught their eye and went to the ring to compete with each other excitedly - it seems that living at the foot of the snow-capped mountains has no effect. Southern enthusiasm.
Stepping onto the colorful hard pavement of the square, Xiaoye looked at the pharmacy next to the Pokémon Center and saw the store owner named Shimura leaning in front of the door, talking to a young man wearing a tank top and shorts. The north-facing nose still stood in the same position as during the day, staring motionlessly at the southern night sky.
Xiaoye was about to walk straight into the Pokémon Center, but she felt a distant gaze falling on her. She turned around hesitantly, and her eyes met the drug store owner's.
Trainers who "caught eyes" don't have to fight, it's always okay to say hello. Xiaoye thought that the other party was probably concerned about the progress of collecting herbs. After saying good evening, she proactively reported: "I have collected half of the cold herbs and the task will be completed tomorrow. Don't worry."
Shimura was stunned and said in surprise, "Half?"
Xiao Ye knew that her performance in the morning was really unreliable. After hearing this, she immediately made a prudent statement and swore that she would have the help of Ghost Stone, so trivial matters like pulling weeds would be no problem.
The young boss' eyes were reserved and thoughtful, making it hard to tell whether he believed it or not. But the young trainer who was chatting with him before exclaimed, "Wow, you actually took on the task of collecting cold herbs? It's far away and troublesome. I thought no one would do it."
"Those who are forced to make a living will do it." Xiaoye replied seriously.
The boy in shorts suddenly burst into laughter. He put a hand on Xiaoye's shoulder in a familiar manner, and pulled the man who was forced to make a living into the chat.
This local boy named Alon seems to be a frequent visitor to the medicine house. He is about the same age and height as Xiao Ye. Xiaoye originally thought that he was also planning to participate in the Snowstorm Battle. When she asked casually, she saw the boy shaking his head like a rattle.
"Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, no!" Aaron said with lingering fear, "I have a senior who participated last year and was carried down the mountain while foaming at the mouth. I don't want to become a reserved joke in our school like the senior. point."
Night:"……"
Recalling the horror movie theme of last year's Snowy Battle and the statistic that up to 20% of the people who were eliminated were overly frightened, the questioner felt speechless and decided not to mention his intention to compete in order to avoid suffering the feeling of staring at a martyr. look.
Aaron obviously didn’t want to talk more about last year’s horror movie, so the topic turned to the “news” he had a happy chat with his boss Shimura Masaru before, “Oh, by the way, since you just came back from the mountains, have you heard that a mysterious thing was found by the river? A goose whose head grew too big and was completely frozen in the ice? The newspaper said that the ice was ten meters high, and the conservation officer was alarmed."
"..."
Xiaoye didn't know whether to refute that there were no ice geese in the Orange Islands first, or to complain about what kind of newspaper kept up with current events while going off-topic. She finally gave up on sorting out her messed up mind and chose an angle at random with a face full of confusion. Then he said, "It's not that high..."
"How do you know?" the boy in shorts asked curiously.
"I reported the case." Luan Hua said.
As soon as he said this, even Shimura, whose expression was blank due to the "ten-meter giant ice goose", looked over. Aaron was even more excited. He almost threw himself on Xiaoye and couldn't wait to ask, "So you have seen the 'first scene'! Tell me quickly -"
"Is its head hair also ten meters long?"
Xiaoye: "...I think you should read another newspaper."
After a long and laborious explanation, Xiaoye allowed this classmate who was full of ice and goose-headed feathers to accept the simple truth. The three people gathered around the door of the medicine house, staring at the stinging jellyfish frozen into the ice spike ball on Xiaoye's phone, and exchanged questioning looks with each other.
Aaron felt that he had only been a trainer for a short period of time and had little experience. After asking the experienced pharmacy owner for help, the answer he received was the same: "I have never seen such a freezing method before."
The boy in shorts suddenly became interested - but it was too late. Before he could vomit out his speculations, the calls from his mother urging him to go home came three times in a row. In order to save his life, the boy had to rush Ended the conversation and left in despair.
And it turns out that the curiosity of the young trainer from the southern country cannot be defeated by the vicious mother. Early the next morning, Xiaoye learned from Shimura that Alon rushed to the mountains before dawn to explore the secret of the stinging jellyfish frozen in ice.
However, after entering the mountain, Xiaoye found that the conservation officers had cordoned off the area where the stinging jellyfish was found, and it seemed that they were still conducting investigations. The curious boy in shorts would probably have to return empty-handed.
Xiaoye did not get close to the isolation belt pulled up by the conservation officers, and continued the unfinished weeding work yesterday at a different section of the river. She picked a few more trees than the number required by the mission to prevent the mission from failing if any of them were of poor quality, and then she concentrated on training before the competition.
The "vigorous" sparring group still played very lively. The individual training group on the other side didn't move much, but their progress didn't fall behind at all.
The main moves Pichu, the number one member of the solo training group, practiced this time were shadow clones and flashes. Regarding the commonly used move of shadow clone, "36 Examples of Use of Moves" provides Xiaoye with practical guidance. After several discussions, the final plan was "fixed-point release of clones."
Pichu's usual method of using shadow clones is very casual, basically throwing as many electric rats as possible, which is very effective in making people dizzy. But for Pichu who takes the dexterous guerrilla route, releasing a single shadow clone exactly where it is needed will be more conducive to tactical arrangements.
Xiaoye didn't even need to look up specific cases in the textbook. When the Quartz Alliance fought against Xiaotian, the clone released by Yan above the flame vortex was enough to explain everything - even the least intelligent Charizard nodded in understanding.
The training direction of flash is "directed release of strong light". Although the trainer himself does not mind being dazzled all the time, considering the mood of his partners during team battles, he should still control the direction of the light - if this project is not put on the agenda, the compatriots who are being dazzled every day may be beaten violently. Electric mouse.
Unlike his comrades, the Forest Lizard did not concentrate on honing a certain move, but practiced all his common moves in turn. The leaves of the magic leaf were scattered on the ground, picked up by the airflow of the lightning flash, and turned into debris under the waving of the blade.
In terms of agility and quick moves, the Forest Lizard is second only to the Big Bird, and is the member who is easiest to cooperate with Xiao Ye in high-speed battles. To this end, it is honing the release speed of its moves, and will surely become a new fighter under the high-speed combat system soon.
Probably due to the positive effects of the delicious food in the Valley of Flames and the recent significant improvement in the quality of rations, Ghost Stone, who usually likes fishing, has been very motivated in training recently.
After successfully practicing the miraculous skill of breaking the will-o'-the-wisp into eight hundred shapes, its new mission is to break the Shadow Fist along with it.
Ghost Stone's hands can be separated from the body, so he can completely control his hands to send out shadow punches from a distance, but his skills are not good enough and need more practice. At the same time, he was also ordered to practice a little trick - making the shadow fists of his hands collide with each other to create a short black storm to act as a blindfold.
Compared to long-range boxing, Ghost Stone obviously prefers the latter. The moves clashed loudly for a while, single-handedly accounting for 90% of the noise in the solo training group, and even occasionally had the tendency to overwhelm the duel between the two fire dragons.
Xiaoye, who was standing in the center, had no expression on her face. She took out the earplugs she had already prepared from her bag and took them with her - without such an artifact, she would become an inspirational deaf trainer in a few days.
Without the "frozen stinging jellyfish" and other minor episodes, today's training mission was successfully completed before nightfall.
Xiaoye flew back to the town in the glow of the setting sun on a big bird, and handed the prepared bag full of ice-cold vanilla to the medicine shop owner Shimura as promised.
The young boss seemed worried. Xiaoye asked tentatively, and then heard some bad news.
——Alon, who set out for Fengxue Mountain early in the morning, has not returned yet.
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small theater:
A small night between Pichu and Ghoststone: As we all know, as a qualified trainer, before training Pokémon, we need to prepare several essential props - I sincerely recommend the friendly store blind brand sunglasses and deaf Ren brand earplugs are of excellent quality and affordable. They are fireproof, waterproof, electricity-proof and explosion-proof. Please be sure to prepare at least three sets in case of unexpected events. (tired smile)
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Growth record card:
·Pichu: Move [Shadow Clone][Flash] proficiency up
·Forest Lizard: Move speed increases
·Ghost Stone: Move [Shadow Punch] proficiency up
Team members (8): Charizard, Gyarados, Dabi, Pichu, Forest Lizard, Ghoststone, Yukidouji, Riolu
