chsdbacks Chapter 278 The Abnormal Floating Bubbles
Chapter 278 The Abnormal Floating Bubbles
Chapter 278 The Abnormal Floating Bubbles
"Everyone, raise your hands and line up."
Fire Goose was knocked unconscious by Commander Slash without any ability to resist—even from the moment Higana appeared until this point, the alarm in the research lab hadn't been sounded.
The researchers here were no longer able to fight back, nor could they possibly sound the alarm. Under the experienced command of the "handsome guy" who followed them, they could only stand in the corner of the laboratory like prisoners, raising their hands and bowing their heads.
"This is... the central location of Team Lava's base. The thugs are all on the outer perimeter." Ze Shu observed his surroundings.
In other words, they stumbled upon the heart of the Lava Team through the mine dug by the Fossil Maniac, stormed straight to the enemy's lair, captured the leader, and caught the henchmen completely off guard.
The handsome man said, "Now that things have come to this, we should notify the alliance."
Ze Shu said, "I notified them when I came, and judging by the time... well, they shouldn't be here anytime soon."
Because he went straight to the heart of the enemy, he might need to give the alliance members time to react.
Before the Alliance members arrived, Ze Shu saw Xiao Lan and the campfire that later emerged from the Hoopa Circle, and said, "Let's rescue those floating bubbles first."
Xiao Lan: "Okay!"
The campfire's brown pupils reflected the fallen fire goose in the distance, lost in thought. After hearing Ze Shu's words, it nodded silently and took the lead into the corridor.
"Keep an eye on this place. If any Team Lava members come in after hearing the commotion, arrest them on sight," Ze Shu said to Xi Jiana.
Higana scoffed, "This is no challenge for me, Queen Higana!"
Although she's a bit slow-witted, at least her fighting ability is trustworthy.
Ze Shu waved his hand at her and walked into the corridor.
Although there were quite a few rooms along the corridor, most were empty. The cages imprisoning the floating bubbles weren't hard to find, especially with Xiao Lan's "Xiao Bai's" superb lock-picking skills...
With a "click," the door opened.
The room inside was much larger than the small dark room where the handsome man was imprisoned, but it was still pitch black.
However, despite the darkness, the room contained quite a few... unhealthy "suns".
They resemble sunflowers rising in the sky, but their bodies unconsciously radiate an unhealthy grayish-brown halo, making one able to see the drooping of their faces, as if they were a dim sun about to die.
These sun-shaped floating bubbles, like points of light, are scattered and illuminate the room.
It also illuminates the "water droplets" and "snow clouds" around them.
They are floating bubbles in various shapes!
Despite their different shapes, their expressions were all similarly downcast, dejected, and fearful... Their forms were also different from the cheerful floating bubbles that Sawaki had seen when the Weather Research Institute was still in operation...
A dead sun, gloomy raindrops, and withered snow clouds.
It was squeezed and crushed!
Furthermore, they showed no reaction to the arrival of Ze Shu and the other two, seemingly numb.
Ze Shu looked at the dark environment in the room and the huddled together like caged beasts waiting to be slaughtered, and remained silent—a normal person would feel depressed if locked in a dark room for a day or two, let alone these floating bubbles that were so easily affected by the environment.
This lava team is really unprofessional.
If the energy from these gloomy, floating bubbles were used to awaken Groudon, it's likely that the moment Groudon was awakened, it would immediately crush Team Magma.
In that sense, the "handsome" international police officer who was locked in a dark room for five or six days can be considered to have good manners.
"Looks like this is getting a bit complicated."
Ze Shu and Xiao Lan exchanged a glance, then looked at the campfire together.
As expected, upon seeing the appearance of these floating bubbles, the campfire froze. She reached out, wanting to touch the nearest floating bubble that resembled a raindrop, but withdrew her hand halfway through.
Seeing this, Ze Shu suddenly asked, "What are you afraid of?"
The campfire opened its mouth: "I..."
Ze Shu looked back at the floating bubbles, which were clearly in a bad state, and said, "That's why you chose to come here, isn't it?"
"...Yes." After hesitating for a moment, the campfire walked straight into the pile of floating bubbles that were not in the right state. "I...I want to help them find their way back to their original state."
"The most urgent task is to give them a new environment," Ze Shu said.
"But given their condition, I'm afraid even the staff at the Weather Research Institute who spend every day with them would find it difficult to take them away," Campfire said sadly, frowning. "Besides, there isn't a suitable environment around Meteor Falls for the floating bubbles to recover."
That would allow Hoopa to move.
However, the current situation is not good, so they will be moved immediately.
"Then let's not move them for now," Ze Shu said. "If there's no suitable environment for them, we can make some temporary modifications ourselves. I think some of the rooms here are quite large."
"In this dark environment free from any elemental interference, some of these floating bubbles transform into water droplets, while others transform into the sun. This shows that they themselves have a greater affinity for this element, and gradually accumulate to transform into this form."
"So, we need to move the water droplet and snow cloud-shaped floating bubbles to the other two rooms, and the remaining sun-shaped floating bubbles here..."
Ze Shu looked at the campfire and smiled.
"Your 'Sunlight' Nine-Tailed Fox should be able to calm them down."
By creating a warm, sunny day, the abnormal environmental energy within these easily affected floating bubbles can be gradually replaced, allowing them to gradually transform into a normal "sun".
"My little tail can help too," Xiao Lan added.
Her "small tail" is also a characteristic of "sunlight".
The campfire understood Ze Shu's thoughts immediately and nodded emphatically.
Seeing this, Ze Shu said no more and casually picked up the nearest floating bubble that looked like a snow cloud.
It looks just like an ice cream cone.
It also has a handgrip at the bottom for people to hold.
However, Ze Shu only slightly touched the ice and snow that had condensed on its body, and the ice and snow turned into snow fragments with a "crack" sound, like rotten wood, and fell to the ground.
"The ice is so crisp."
He sighed.
Then he grabbed another "ice cream" that offered no resistance and placed the two snow cloud floating bubbles into another room.
With the help of the three of them, in less than ten minutes, they had separated the floating bubbles into three groups according to their shapes. During the separation, Xiao Lan also counted them.
There are a total of... thirty-seven floating bubbles.
With so many floating bubbles gathered together, even if they don't actively change the weather, they still represent a force to be reckoned with. The unpredictable and unnatural weather in Autumn Leaf Town is truly a result of these floating bubbles unconsciously messing things up.
Zeshu was in a room filled with floating bubbles that looked like snow clouds.
Looking at these "withered snow clouds".
There were a few fewer of them, a total of nine—after all, floating bubbles in this warm Hoenn region, which is more suited to snowy weather, are quite rare.
But the coolness in the air is not diminished at all.
Higana and her two husky dragons merely peeked in out of curiosity.
In an instant, the man and the two dragons were chilled to the bone by the overwhelming cold and fled in panic.
—The Salamence fled with its tail between its legs, which was quite unseemly, and Roaring Moon mocked it. But Roaring Moon was no less formidable; it was so cold that it had gone bald, and the entire corridor of its escape route was covered with its shed fur.
But Zeshu adapted well to this environment.
After all, although the "coldness" created by these nine abnormal floating bubbles was strange, its strength was naturally no match for Liu Bo's, and even less than the ice and snow used by his own Pokémon.
"Get to work." Ze Shu pulled out his own six-tailed fox.
"Ooh..."
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Liuwei yawned, and as his fluffy white tail throbbed, snowflakes gathered from the air and fell down.
When it comes to the task of evoking "snowy scenery"—a support role that involves providing support and assisting from the sidelines—among Zeki's Pokémon, perhaps even Glaceon isn't as skilled as Vulpix.
As the snow began to fall, the stiff and dejected floating bubbles regained some liveliness. Accompanied by the snowflakes, they swayed gently, looking like a group of ice cream cones growing from the ground and swaying with the snow.
But that's all there is to it.
It may be a long time before they recover...
"Eevee!" At Zeju's feet, Glaceon curiously watched the swaying floating bubbles, narrowed its eyes, and a wisp of icy blue light emerged from its body, causing an icy blue stone slab to emanate and illuminate the floating bubbles.
In an instant, as if they had smelled some rare treasure, the floating bubbles looked at the ice pillars surrounding Glaceon and moved towards it.
"Bu-i?!"
Ice Eevee was taken aback.
The nine floating bubbles had formed a circle two meters away from it, but maintained a certain distance. As the "icy pillar slab" surrounded them, they swayed like flowers in a gentle breeze, their faces showing expressions of enjoyment.
"They really like Eevee," Zeju said with a smile.
"Eevee..." Glaceon blinked in confusion, then looked curiously at the ice pillars surrounding it.
As these floating bubbles surrounded them, they swayed together.
Why did it sense that some unknown change was taking place on these icicle slabs?
On the opposite side is a room with floating bubbles shaped like water droplets.
Under Blastoise's clumsy "Rain Dance," a light drizzle began to fall, wetting the surface of its body, which was covered in floating bubbles shaped like water droplets. To keep the rain from dissipating, Blastoise continued to shoot bubbles into the sky with its two cannons—since it wasn't good at "Rain Dance," it would make up for it with sheer strength.
The room that was originally filled with floating bubbles shaped like the sun.
Nine-Tailed Fox raised its nine tails high, bathing the otherwise pitch-black room in the warmth of the sun. Little Blue's "little tail" tried to imitate Nine-Tailed Fox's posture, clumsily raising six tails and struggling to produce as much sunlight as possible...
"It looks like the floating bubbles are enjoying themselves," said Zeki, who had arrived at the scene.
Because the floating bubbles had all "divered," the room was much wider. In the center of the room, he had also released his Growlithe.
Whether it was because Growlithe's fur was too warm or something else, these floating bubbles nestled among its petal-like mane, as if Growlithe were wearing a sunflower necklace.
The campfire pursed its lips and nodded: "I will help them recover again."
Ze Shu: "Go for it!"
After learning about the floating bubbles, he walked out of the corridor and entered the laboratory where the fire geese were captured.
After a series of loud bangs, there was no movement for a long time. Although the alarm did not go off, many of the Lava Team's thugs had come to check the situation.
After shivering from the cold, Higana went back to guard the place.
She killed every thug who came in.
"Dragon Pulse!"
With just that one casual command, Salamence and Roaring Moon seemed to startle each other, unleashing powerful dragon waves towards the entrance, startling the Lava Team members who had burst in.
Even if the enemy is lying in ambush here.
But he was just a lowly henchman...
Is it really necessary to receive such a "generous gift"?!
With a "bang," Salamence's Dragon Pulse struck the Magma Team's henchman first, causing Salamence to glance smugly at Gorozuki. Gorozuki, unconvinced, grunted and angrily tossed his head, blasting the Dragon Pulse into the laboratory ceiling.
Then there was another loud "boom".
A large hole was blown in the ceiling.
then...
A round-headed Pokémon fell out of the hole with a "whoosh".
This Pokémon is very familiar to Cynthia.
She exclaimed, "Wow!" and said, "It's a baby dragon!"
"Fortress..."
Baby Dragon covered its bottom and whimpered.
Looking up, I saw the Flying Dragon and Roaring Moon vying for my attention like huskies, curiously bringing their hideous faces closer.
"A fortress?!"
Baby Dragon's eyes widened instantly, and he was so frightened that he quickly backed away.
But as it backed away, it felt itself bump into something and was then lifted up.
Higana looked curiously at the baby dragon she had lifted up: "How come there's a baby dragon here? It looks exactly like you when you were a baby Salamence!"
Ze Shu said, "This base is located right under Meteor Falls."
Higana's eyes widened. "This is Meteor Falls?!"
Ze Shu remained silent.
Was this information mentioned not long ago?
Then, he saw Higana suddenly say, "Then isn't this my territory, Queen Higana's territory? Not just 'Shigana's' hometown, it's my hometown!"
Ze Shu: "How did this become your territory, King Xijiana?"
Higana raised her head: "I am the inheritor of the Meteor People! We Meteor People live in the 'Meteor Village,' deep within Meteor Falls, and I've been active in this outskirts of Meteor Falls since I was a child!"
So...
"I'm the local bully here, you know that?! A local tyrant!"
Ze Shu: "A local bully arrested by his own people who issued a warrant for his arrest."
Higanbana: "!!!"
She puffed out her cheeks and stared directly at Ze Shu, saying, "Can we please stop talking about this? Was that what I wanted?"
"It's not that I don't want to mention it, but..." Ze Shu pointed to the hole in the ceiling that had been blasted open by the Roaring Moon. At that moment, three pairs of eyes were peering inside through the hole. "Judging from their attire, aren't these three people peeking out from behind the scenes your Meteor People?"
"Are they here to arrest you?"
Higana looked up in the direction Zeshu pointed.
"Huh?!!"