In the darkness and silence, the owner of the dream suddenly woke up.
She sat up suddenly and almost hit her head on the cabinet, causing her head to bleed. The little Pichu who was sleeping soundly on his shoulder was also thrown away. Fortunately, the trainer's subconscious reaction was quick enough and he retrieved the hair ball with one hand, thus avoiding an indoor electric discharge tragedy.
"mound……?"
The electric mouse reluctantly opened his eyes sleepily. Before it noticed that the human's breathing was too rapid, Xiaoye had quickly suppressed all abnormalities and gently stroked its furry chin.
The little guy couldn't resist the warm comfort and soon fell back to sleep. Until this moment, the trainer could breathe out gently and look through the narrow porthole to the misty sea.
She knew what everything she saw in her dream meant.
In addition to the "doomsday" images that are broadcast regularly every week, she occasionally sees brand-new unfamiliar images, and the content is often related to the location she is in - this is the case in the Valley of Flames, and the same is true in the Snowy Mountains. After a battle ended, she once dreamed of another completely different and sad future, where everything seemed to be going for the worse; sometimes the images from different time and space would arrive in advance, becoming a warning that foreshadowed a crisis.
...It’s just that this time it came too early.
The fishing boat had just sailed into the mist, and the ominous dream had already followed. The blood-red sea surface was still vivid in my mind, making it difficult to calm down my beating heart easily. Until the golden hairball began to snore, Xiaoye lowered her eyes and finally sorted out the chaotic thoughts.
——There is no doubt that she does not need to jump up and wake up all the crew members at the moment, and force them to return with lengthy honorifics.
The divine battle between ice and water seen in the dream is certainly terrifying, but there is one biggest contradiction with the reality at this moment - the state of the Cangyu God.
In her last dream, she saw two magical birds fighting on the top of the Snowy Mountain, and ended up with one dead and one injured. Perhaps the injured god of ice and snow broke away from human supervision and fled southward to the sea. Then he crashed into the heavy fog of the Central Ocean, triggering a series of fierce battles that followed.
But now, the God of Cangyu is living in Fengxue Mountain to "work" for his people, and has no time to leave the island. Presumably, that deadly battle will only be a phantom that stays in the dreamland.
As for the last effective information, "There may be mythical beasts living in the Sea of Final Fog"...
To be honest, in this dangerous sea area where strange phenomena often occur, it would be surprising if there were not even a single mythical beast.
Xiaoye shook her head and was about to lie down again to rest when her movements suddenly stopped.
When she woke up, her thoughts were in a mess. Her heavy heartbeat merged with the remaining screams in her dream, making it difficult to distinguish between illusion and reality. But at this moment...
Through the tiny gap in the porthole, Xiaoye heard the "voice".
It's not tinnitus, nor is it an illusion - there is indeed a faint and weird flute sound in my ears!
At this moment, human beings felt a chill on their backs, as the coolness rushed from the soles of their feet all the way to Tianling Gai, forcibly dispelling the midsummer heat.
For a moment, nightmare phantoms and all the horror movies she had watched in her past life were all swirling in Xiaoye's head, forcing her to take out the psychological suggestion method from the bottom of the box on the spot and hypnotize herself into being a cold-blooded, ruthless and bold North-facing Nose—— It immediately makes your heartbeat calm and your breathing steady, making you calmer than a sleeping Pichu.
...That's right, Pichu.
Xiaoye hesitated for a moment, then she gently put the confused electric mouse into her pocket, taking the Poke Balls with her one by one. She walked to the door step by step and opened it silently.
The sound of the waves hits us, accompanied by the twittering of birds and the sound of flutes. The sleepy Pichu poked his head out and saw the trainer making a "silence" gesture to it.
The young man ignored the annoying "muscle soreness" for the time being. The power of the waveguide spread out, and he cautiously stayed within two or three meters of his body and did not venture any further. Xiaoye followed the sound through the corridor and came to the slightly opened cabin door.
There was no doubt that the sound came from the deck - a place that should theoretically be deserted at this moment.
Xiaoye held onto Charizard's Poke Ball and tentatively pushed the door open. The well-maintained door shaft made no sound and slowly opened in silence, revealing the full view of the deck under the night sky.
The fog covering the sea area is not yet dense, and the light of the stars and the moon is softly shining down, illuminating the figures of the people on the boat - it is not a mysterious beast that has not shown its true form in the dream, nor is it a ferocious ghost in the movie.
It was just a cadet who got up early and played the ocarina.
Night:"……"
The mental shock of a false alarm caused the "cold-blooded and ruthless North Nose" to break his skills on the spot, and he returned to being the rookie second officer of the Kaiwang Maru.
Perhaps it was because the sound of her heartbeat was too obvious on the silent deck - or maybe it was because Pichu's yawn was so undisguised that the player turned around and the flowing music suddenly stopped.
Seeing Feng Chime's always energetic and determined face turning from surprise to panic, he stood upright with his feet straight and raised his hands to a saluting position, as if he was about to shout loudly at the volume that would wake up three hundred Magikarp in the next moment. After speaking, Xiaoye had no time to think about anything else. She immediately rushed forward as fast as she could, lifted up Pichu, and used the weapon that all trainers could not resist - the hairball to stick to her face, preventing an outdoor sonic boom tragedy.
It wasn't until the electric mouse started rolling on top of the girl's head that the wind chime finally got free, followed the second officer's gesture, lowered its voice, and said what had just been interrupted.
"Report to the second mate, I have followed the captain's order to 'rest' - trained naval reservists only need three to four hours of sleep a day. Morning training should begin now!"
The new ship's doctor stared at the new second mate with sharp eyes, eagerly hoping that the other party would understand that he was not "disobeying the order". Xiao Ye looked at the sky and suddenly fell into thinking about the definition of the word "morning".
...Is it true that the Third Military Academy of Dead Leaves has never been sued by parents for abusing students?
No matter what - after persuading the wind chime with the sentence "running and shouting slogans on the deck will wake everyone up and is equivalent to violating the captain's 'rest' order", the two temporarily sat on the ground next to the Kyogre sculpture on the bow of the ship and enjoyed the late night The tranquility of the sea.
"Did I disturb your rest...?"
Facing the young girl's apologetic eyes, Xiaoye waved her hands repeatedly.
"I just happened to wake up."
Her eyes fell on the ocarina hanging on the ship's doctor's chest - it was a small, palm-sized object, decorated with the blue of the sea and the white of the waves, making it look delicate and beautiful.
"You play beautifully—what's that tune?"
The cadet replied solemnly: "Thank you for the compliment. It's "Marine March"."
"..."
The stylistic conflict between the musical instrument and the title of the song made Xiaoye's hands tremble and she almost dropped Charizard's Poké Ball into the sea.
No wonder she had just dimly felt that the flute sound was a little too exciting, completely different from the melodious and gentle melody in her dream - hearing such "inspiring" music, even if there were real ghosts, they would probably have to flee.
After going back and forth like this, little Pichu seemed to have lost his sleep. He stretched his head and looked around, as if trying to identify where he was. Seeing the little guy muttering "Pichu Pichu" in confusion, the wind chime gave another standard military salute without any ambiguity.
"Report to Pichu, we are currently sailing in a south-west direction, and the estimated ship angle is..."
The military cadet rattled off a series of difficult lines filled with numbers and nautical terms, which left Pichu dumbfounded and almost fell asleep again on the spot. Even with Xiaoye's reaction speed in controlling high-speed battles, she couldn't find an opportunity to intervene, so she had to let her companions do what they wanted.
It wasn't until three minutes later that the wind chime finally raised its hand and pointed to the sky, officially ending its "report".
"——The above are all the answers I guessed through the 'stars'. Report completed!"
Xiaoye looked up following her guidance. Through the light mist, stars twinkling in the northern sky were faintly visible, brighter and dazzling than the blurred crescent moon in the clouds.
"That's the 'Twelve Stars of the North', right?"
"Yes. The teacher said that as long as they can see them, ships on the sea will never get lost."
Xiaoye looked at the familiar and unfamiliar stars in the distant sky, letting the twinkling lights fall quietly into her eyes.
In another world at the other end of time and space, in the same direction and in the same position, hanging in the night sky are the Polaris and the Big Dipper. For their "special group of people", "Beidou" is the name of the star and also the name of its kind; even five- and six-year-old children are happy to recite the names and myths and legends of each star, claiming that they are "from the Beidou" The warriors of the sect will eradicate evil and fight for justice."
——Of course, at this time, there will often be a disappointed teacher who left the second grade of middle school and told them that there is no sect in the 21st century. The name we registered is Beidou Fitness Club.
But in this world, it was probably just a coincidence - the North Star still existed in the sky, while the position of the Big Dipper was replaced by twelve other unfamiliar stars. Together with Polaris, they form the "North Star" and have been known to sailors since ancient times as direction indicators.
Looking through the mist, Xiaoye could clearly see the twelve bright dots connected together, pointing directly at the North Star like brilliant flowing fire. Their brilliance was not inferior to that of the Milky Way across the sky. The ancients used this to describe the mythical story of "a comet flying towards the sun", and it is still a common theme in children's literacy picture books.
Pichu seemed to be curious about the bright spots that were still visible through the white mist, waving his little paws and chirping Qiuqiu non-stop. And the wind chime didn't know whether it was being fooled or serious, but it actually had a serious question-and-answer conversation with the electric mouse.
"Pichu!"
"That is Polaris, also known as the 'Dawn Star' in ancient times. It is the star closest to the North Celestial Pole."
"Pichuchu?"
"Are you talking about Qinglong Star? It is the brightest star among the twelve constellations, and together with the other three, it forms the 'comet nucleus' of the comet."
"Pichuchuchu?"
"Of course. Their names are..."
Seeing that one person and one Pokémon were chatting back and forth, Xiaoye could only blink and remain silent for the time being, her mind gradually flowing in other directions.
I remember that Chief Officer Yukiji once warned the crew that even outside the Sea of Final Mist, where the fog is the thinnest, the operation of electronic equipment will still be severely disrupted. Since wind chimes need to rely on stars to determine their direction, it means that the mobile phone may no longer be able to receive signals, right?
Xiaoye took out her mobile phone, but her movements paused before she could see the signal icon clearly.
"Sorry, please allow me to interrupt." The second officer said stiffly, "The captain did say that it only takes three hours to drive to the supply island, right?"
"Report to the second officer, yes." Feng Chime nodded without understanding.
Xiaoye flipped the screen and showed the huge "04:38AM" to her companions.
"It's been seven hours since the ship set sail - why haven't we stopped yet?"
"..."
The second mate from Zhenxin Town in Kanto and the ship's doctor from Kuye City in Kanto looked at each other. For a time, countless incidents of people and pigs from the South getting lost and running around rolled through their minds, and finally they all turned into Ru Lin. The seriousness of the enemy.
"Go and have a look in the cab?"
"As you command!"
Without further ado, the two of them took action quickly and ran towards the cab with gentle steps.
The driver of the boat didn't seem to have lit the lights, and the room was pitch dark, making it difficult to see clearly through the glass. Just as Feng Ling was about to step onto the stairs, Xiao Ye suddenly held her back.
The ship's doctor turned around and saw the stern look on his companion's face, just like when he faced a swarm of agate jellyfish during the day.
"The rudder is turning, but there is no one in the cab." Xiaoye said softly.
Before he finished speaking, the chill was already close to the back of his neck, and the cold air instantly seeped into the seams of his bones, making people shiver unconsciously. Accompanied by hazy laughter, the shadows under their feet squirmed and turned into reality. He grabbed their ankles and threw them violently!
There was a vaguely open mouth in the mist, as if the fangs were about to touch the young man's skin in the next moment. But before that, the light of the elf ball lit up first.
"Wide area defense!"
As the huge insect-type Pokémon appeared, the golden barrier quickly opened up, motionless under the bombardment of dark energy balls, driving back all the cold arrows from the dark, and protecting the humans tightly. The water bubbles fell gently, sending the people who were thrown away back to the deck, while another Pokémon had already leaped up. Dazzling electric light radiated from Pichu's small body, and combined with the water flow, it turned into a dragnet covering the entire ship.
The numbness and severe pain forced the creatures hiding in the shadows to finally emerge. After seeing their appearance clearly, the two crew members looked at each other briefly, and both saw solemnity in each other's eyes.
"I'll leave this to you first, okay?"
"Yes, second officer!"
The huge spider raised its front legs, and the malicious black light surrounded its fangs, making the ghost jellyfish in the sea - the light and fluttery ones - step back in fear. And Xiaoye ran all the way, her body brushing against the poisonous limbs like ghost gauze, and she rushed straight up to the tall watchtower.
A few seconds later, the announcement sounded at full volume throughout the ship.
"Attention to all crew members - the frivolous swarm has invaded the ship, please prepare for battle immediately!"
The huge noise woke up an unknown number of people and Pokémon from their sleep. The sleeping captain shook his head and fell out of the bed with a clang, almost breaking his head.
There was chaos in the cabin for a moment, and the instigator repeated the warning three times before finally putting down the intercom and looking down at the slowly approaching floating jellyfish.
"Pichu, Electric Field."
"I can't wait for Qiu!"
In an instant, a wave-like electric torrent poured into the ship, and the golden light surged forward domineeringly, flying over the deck, crossing the side of the ship, and invading all the way to the surface of the water. The place where the crew members stayed was illuminated brightly, reflecting the figures of ghost-type Pokémon and making even the laziest crew members sleepless.
In less than half a minute, disheveled sailors rushed onto the deck.
Their consciousness is not yet fully awake, their shoes are crooked, and their coats are worn indiscriminately, like garbage bags. But the hot-blooded instinct of the southerners drove them to quickly enter a fighting state, and greeted the light and fluttering people with a poke ball. For a moment, water cannons, water columns and water balloons were flying all over the sky, almost affecting the Drip Spider Tyrant who was originally controlling the field, and the commander on the watchtower was immediately blinded.
"Light and light has the property of storing water. Please don't use water-based moves!"
The second mate shouted five times before finally extinguishing the Nanguo man's unconscious blood. He shouted so hard that Pichu started to turn around and stared at the trainer's throat worriedly. Xiaoye, who had trained her chest resonance intensely, could only shake her head and threw another Poké Ball.
The birds chirped, the air currents stirred up, and strong winds quickly swept across the ship.
The ghost jellyfish floating in the air had difficulty resisting the strong wind and was blown crookedly. The crew members who seized the flaw took the opportunity to attack fiercely, and soon the ghost army was retreating.
Taking advantage of her commanding position, Xiaoye could concentrate on every corner of the battlefield and command the big bird to retreat during the battle, adding support to her companions on the deck.
After experiencing the double refreshment of the electric venue and the "big sound", the crew of the Kaiwang Maru performed reasonably well. The fire team headed by the captain is responsible for the frontal attack, and the flexible small Pokémon roam to assist; the sun coral of the wind chime splashes the water, and the healing power accurately lands on each injured Pokémon, and occasionally even the seriously injured ones. He will be immediately taken back to the cabin by Luzi and Xuexiang of the engineering team and properly placed.
Only the rookie sailor Kazuo, who had little combat experience, was beaten to a terrible state. He ran in the dark with the Cammy turtle in his arms and cried so many tears that it almost triggered the light and water-storing property. Xiaoye had no choice but to take the Pichu fur from a distance. The group was thrown onto his bare head and the electric mouse was responsible for protecting the newcomers and preventing human tragedy.
The ghosts are still coming in a steady stream, and the sinister laughter is ringing in the ears, making people upset. Perhaps impatient with the stalemate in the battle, he quietly sneaked into the cab again - I don't know how these guys learned to steer. The Kaiohmaru, which was originally running smoothly, sometimes accelerated and sometimes stopped suddenly. The hull swayed left and right, standing at the end of the deck. Konosuke, who was on the edge, was directly thrown away. It was only thanks to the timely response of the big bird that he did not fall into the sea on the spot.
The already bold and fierce attacks of the crew's Pokémon were shaken into even more disarray. By accident, the infuriating bomb thrown by the mosquito-repellent swimmer deviated from the route and hit the Kyogre sculpture on the bow of the ship with a bang, breaking a section of its tail fin.
"not good!"
Captain Kaifu Masahiko's expression changed drastically, and he shouted loudly: "Hurry up and cover your ears——"
As soon as these words came out, the old crew members were all in chaos. They fell to the ground and held their heads in their hands, eager to get into the cracks in the ground. The newcomer was confused and suddenly realized that something was wrong with the situation on the deck.
One of the captain's partners, the mosquito-repellent frog king who always liked to take a nap on the Kyogre sculpture, looked dull, as if he had been struck by lightning. He stared blankly at the damaged sculpture, with big tears pouring out of his eyes.
The next second, an indescribable and terrifying song sounded.
At that moment, Xiaoye felt that her mind and memory were shattered. She couldn't describe whether she felt a headache, abdominal pain, wing pain or tail pain. She couldn't remember how long the singing lasted, where she was, or what year it was. It seemed like hours had passed, or it seemed like only minutes - when her consciousness finally broke free from the darkness, she got up with a splitting headache, looked down, and was shocked by the deck "strewn with corpses".
All the crew members, all the partner Pokémon, all the light and airy ones, and the singer Mosquito Frog King himself fell to the ground unconscious. Neither the sailor who covered his ears with his hands nor the Haoli who stuffed his head into the wine barrel were spared. If you look carefully, you will see that even the surrounding sea surface is filled with the belly-turned King Magikarp, the twitching tench, and the long-winged gull that cannot flap its wings. The scene is as scary as a real scene in a horror movie, and you can’t even see the real ghost jellyfish. You have to call out for ghosts and run away.
"..."
Xiaoye's eyes were blank, and for a moment there were only fragmented and bizarre thoughts swirling in her mind.
——Fortunately, the Mosquito-repellent Frog King didn’t get the walkie-talkie, otherwise it would have turned the entire Sea of Mist into a Sea of Death…
After a long time, the crew members woke up one after another, covering their heads and staggering around to start cleaning up after the war.
As the primary targets of the Song of Death, the Qingpiaopiao people had already been so unconscious that they could not react even when they were picked up upside down. The crew carefully avoided the poisonous gauze and threw these dangerous guys back into the sea one by one; some people took the opportunity to take out the elf balls and caught a few, and decided to give them to the island dojo for this year's departure. New trainers should increase their strength. Another quarrel broke out between the first mate and the captain about the parking location of the ship, until Xiaoye and Fengzhong came forward to testify - it was indeed Qingpiao Piao who had sneaked into the fishing boat and controlled the Kaiwang Maru without authorization, and it was not the captain who didn't know the road and drove it randomly - pitiful Only then did Shouhiko escape.
"I wanted to go back and sleep for a while...but it's already dawn, isn't it?"
Konosuke yawned and muttered reluctantly.
The rolling fog enveloped the Kaiwang Maru tightly, making visibility difficult. Diffuse reflection makes it difficult to distinguish the direction of the sunrise, and only the dim sky can vaguely indicate the real time.
"Then why not just set off?"
"Captain, where are we going today?"
Kaifu Masahiko nodded when he heard this.
"You are right, it's time to set off. But before that, I have a question to ask."
The captain cleared his throat, looked at his crew members seriously, and spoke word by word.
"——Where is this?"
In an instant, the entire ship fell silent. The first mate was frozen, the second mate was stiff, the sailor was sluggish, the mechanic was dead, and even the crying mosquito-repellent frog emperor miraculously stopped crying and turned into a sculpture harder than Kyogre.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"ah?"
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small theater:
Xiaoye: I'm sorry, I didn't respond quickly enough at the beginning of this battle. but……
Xiao Ye: After experiencing a "horrifying" incident such as "the music in the nightmare invaded reality, and the truth turned out to be that the ship's doctor got up early to play the flute", when I saw only the rudder turning in the empty wheelhouse, I subconsciously thought... It was the southern captain who got lost and was afraid of losing face if others found out, so he returned to the cabin and used a silk thread to remotely steer the ship. (repent)
