chsdbacks Chapter 277 The Embarrassing Interpol
Chapter 277 The Embarrassing Interpol
Chapter 277 The Embarrassing Interpol
"Interpol? Handsome guy? Tied up?"
Ze Shu said something strange.
Higana listened intently against the tunnel wall for a while, then said curiously, "The place where he was tied up and imprisoned doesn't seem to be far from here! Maybe we can dig across from here!"
Campfire said, "That's a temporary base. It was probably built underground by Team Lava on the edge of Meteor Falls."
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Xiao Lan took out a device, and after examining it, said definitively, "It's about... twenty meters from here."
But this is a distance of twenty meters from the underground rock strata, which is not as easy as walking.
And digging a hole...
"Can we dig across?"
Higana couldn't help but question herself.
Her Salamence can dig in the dirt, though.
However, the small mine tunnel dug by this fossil-obsessed old man was only big enough to accommodate a few people. They all had to walk in a line, one in front of the other. If a Salamence came out, it would probably be squeezed into a cylindrical "Salamander barrel".
As Higana was thinking, she saw Zeshu pull out the hupa that had just fallen asleep.
"Get to work," Ze Shu said.
"Gulp..." Huba rubbed her eyes and complained, "Ze Shu, you're exploiting Huba, why are you making me work again so soon!"
Ze Shu laughed and said, "Don't we have Alliance Coins? I'll take you to buy some desserts after this."
Hupa suddenly realized, "Hey! Zeshu, the more work you give Hupa, the better! Tell me, what do you want Hupa to do this time?"
Ze Shu pointed to the rock wall from which the sound came and said, "There should be a space there. Let's see if we can open the door through."
Hupa snorted twice: "No problem!"
"Go for it!"
It waved the ring, spread it out, and after exploring for a while, a dim space appeared in the center of the ring. It looked like a small, dark room of less than five square meters, pitch black.
The dark room was sparsely decorated, with only a very faint beam of light shining down from the center. There sat a wooden chair, and on it, a person was tightly bound with rough hemp rope, repeatedly shouting, "Help me! Someone, please help me!"
It must be that hapless Interpol officer, "Handsome," who single-handedly pursued the Lava Team but was killed by them and ended up tied up here.
It seems nobody cares about him; he's shouting so loudly and no one has stopped him.
He probably thought that even if he shouted himself hoarse, no one would be able to hear him in such an underground area.
But they probably didn't expect that the shout would be faintly heard in the mine tunnel dug by the Fossil Maniac at home, and heard by Ze Shu and the others. But even if they hadn't heard it, with Campfire, the "traitor" of the Lava Team, there, they would have found this place anyway, it would just take them a lot more time.
"This little dark room looks a bit cramped, I'll go over there first."
After saying that, Ze Shu took the flashlight that Xiao Lan thoughtfully handed him and stepped into Hoopa's circle, arriving at this small, dark room.
With a "click".
The sound of him entering was drowned out by the handsome man's cries for help. The bound Interpol officer didn't notice him and continued to shout relentlessly, seemingly driven by an extremely strong will to survive.
"Help! Someone, please help me! I'm shouting so loudly, surely someone will hear me...!"
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Yes, someone can hear you.
"Yeah, there will definitely be someone who can listen... huh?!"
The handsome man stared blankly at the source of the sound, because there was no light there and he couldn't see anything.
But this is definitely a human being! Someone who came to save him!
"You, you..." The handsome man swallowed hard, his throat hoarse from shouting. "You've come here to..."
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Ze Shu snapped on his flashlight, shining it on the bound handsome man, and calmly said the words he wanted to hear: "I've come to save you."
The handsome guy shed tears of sorrow :(TT)
Finally... finally...
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The handsome man didn't know who the person in front of him was, or how he got in, but the words "I'm here to save you" were enough to make him feel both heartbroken and grateful.
Who knows how he survived those five or six days imprisoned in that dark room!
That's an even more despairing feeling than watching a green onion duck watch its precious green onions being thrown into a pot to be cooked as seasoning!
Ze Shu: "————"
He looked at the Interpol officer who had inexplicably burst into tears with a bit of a strange expression.
"How were you arrested?" Ze Shu took out a badge, flashed it, and then used its sharp edge to cut the rope binding the Interpol officers. "You recognize me, right? I'm an investigator. You can tell me, I need to know."
When asked this, the handsome man said somewhat embarrassedly, "Ever since the Weather Research Institute was destroyed, I've been tracking down those missing floating bubbles. Sure enough, I successfully tracked down this group of suspicious people on the outskirts of Kazuna City. They are none other than Team Lava, who kidnapped me!"
"But, unfortunately, another group was also tracking Team Lava that day, and they seemed to want the floating bubbles that Team Lava had created as well..."
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Ze Shu frowned: "Team Ocean?"
The handsome man looked slightly surprised: "Yes...yes!"
"So I got caught in the crossfire. I was caught between two groups of people, and escape was impossible. One of them was a fire-breathing camel attacking me with flames, and the other was a megalodon biting at me..."
Ze Shu: "So, unsurprisingly, you were defeated by both groups and became Team Lava's spoils of war."
Tied up here?
Handsome guy: "...You're absolutely right."
Discussing this matter in front of "colleagues" is truly a disgrace to Interpol.
A silence fell over the air, and the surroundings were dark; nothing could be seen.
But the handsome guy felt that the investigator in front of him who was rescuing him was trying not to laugh, and was definitely mocking him for being so embarrassing!
"Laugh if you want," he said weakly.
Ze Shu didn't answer, but simply put the badge back in his hand and said, "It's untied now, you can get up."
He then asked, "Do you know anything about this lava team's base?"
The handsome man stood up and said, "When I was carried in here, I observed the situation. At least... I roughly know where the floating bubbles are kept. Because... I received the same treatment as them; they were kept not far away in the next room..."
"There are quite a few Lava Team thugs in this area."
"Even though my Pokémon were taken, I still have the ability to fight. Let me help you..."
Before he could finish speaking, Ze Shu, upon hearing the location of the floating bubbles, waved his hand at him as if to say "I don't need you," and then turned and walked towards the steel door of the small dark room.
"This door..."
The handsome guy wanted to point out that the door was difficult to open.
In a flash, a Ditto appeared in Ze Shu's hand and obediently guided him into the steel door. Then, with two clicks, the door was easily opened.
This is Xiaolan's shapeshifter; she naturally knows how to pick locks.
Outside the door is a long, narrow, horizontal corridor.
Ze Shu walked out and saw that there were still many steel doors on both sides of the corridor.
The space here is larger, and it can accommodate more people. Only two faint "thuds" from Hoopa could be heard. A ring appeared out of thin air, and then Higana was the first to fall from it, landing with a thud on the corridor floor.
She wanted to scream in pain, but then she remembered that this was "stealth," so she quickly covered her mouth to stop herself from screaming. She rolled on the ground in pain.
a long time.
"Ouch...it hurts..."
Higana propped herself up, puffed out her cheeks, and whispered, "You stinky Hoopa, you bad Hoopa! It must have spent too much time with you, Zeshu!"
From outside the circle came Hupa's angry voice: "Don't talk nonsense! You're clearly a big idiot! I warned you, and you still fell!"
Higana puffed out her cheeks and retorted in a low voice, "You mean you just gave me a heads-up and then dumped me on top of you without giving me time to react?"
Hoopa: "Sawaki can react, why can't you?!"
Higana said indignantly, "Ze Shu is simply inhuman! How can I compare to him!"
Hoopa's voice of agreement came from the other side: "That's true..."
These two guys, who often bicker, inexplicably came to a conclusion that they both agreed on.
The point is that these comments aren't very pleasant to hear.
Ze Shu: "Cough! Cough!"
Higana and Hoopa: "!!!"
"Hehe~ Hoopa, Hoopa can't get past her own ring, so, she just won't come over..." Hoopa was relieved for the first time that her abilities were still incomplete.
"I...I..." Higana opened her mouth, then hurriedly said, "I'm an idiot, I can't help at all, or maybe I should go back too... Waaah!"
Ze Shu suddenly pinched her mouth shut: "Don't speak yet."
Higana obediently replied, "Mmm..."
From the end of the corridor, a voice could be faintly heard coming from afar.
"Yes...yes...Crimson Pine Boss...Campfire...was attacked by that despicable Alliance. And it was that wretched investigator who captured Fire Village again. Campfire might already be buried in the Karl Tunnel..."
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"Yes...yes...it's such a pity. Campfire was one of my most capable assistants...I was the last person I wanted to see buried...I even longed for her to inherit my name, Fire Goose..."
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"Me too... I barely managed to defeat a few Alliance members and escape death by sheer luck... My fire-breathing camel is still there..."
"But! Those despicable Alliance personnel, including that despicable investigator! They're buried there too! Compared to this achievement, this loss is nothing!"
Higana gasped in a low voice, "It's...it's that Fire Goose who betrayed her companions...How could she be so shameless..."
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Ze Shu gestured towards the circle in the air, signaling the others not to come over yet, and then said to Xi Jiana, "Let's go take a look first."
The sound came from the end of the corridor.
They slowly made their way over and found it to be a large room, probably a makeshift laboratory set up by the Lava Team. They could see some researchers in white coats, as well as Fire Goose, who was on the phone.
She reverted to the imposing attire of a lava team leader from the Karlü Tunnel, showing no trace of the disheveled state she had displayed when she blew up the entire Karlü Tunnel and escaped by digging a tunnel and crawling through the darkness.
"The plan won't be delayed... absolutely not! Even without the campfire, I can lead the team to complete the plan... Good... good... Boss Crimson Pine..."
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"Rest assured, you'll hear the news of my plan's success!"
"Yes! Yes! I'm absolutely confident it will succeed! News of the plan's failure will never reach your ears!"
After saying that, Huoyan hung up the phone and visibly breathed a sigh of relief.
Higana asked quietly, "What should we do?"
Ze Shu observed the surroundings and then decided, "Why don't we just take action and kill them all?"
Higana's eyes widened: "Aren't we supposed to be stealthing? Could this be...?"
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Ze Shu glanced at Xi Jiana's cautious demeanor and chuckled, "Haven't you finished your stealth? Time to unleash your full power."
"Go." He gave Higana a push.
"Huh?!"
Higana was pushed into the laboratory outside the corridor with wide eyes, exposing her body to everyone.
Everyone in the laboratory heard the noise and stared at her.
She stared blankly at the crowd.
Neither the people in the lab nor Higana expected the other to suddenly appear.
The air seemed to fall silent for a second or two.
"Who are you?!" someone stood up and shouted.
"How did you end up here!" These were the words Huo Yan uttered. The moment she saw Xi Jiana, her pupils shrank to pinpoints, revealing her astonishment, confusion, and terror.
And this woman even appeared in such a core area of the base!
Wouldn't that be a direct assault on the enemy's heartland?
Moreover, the appearance of this woman means that...
"I...I'm here to go on a rampage!"
Higanbana was stunned for a moment, and then, when she came to her senses, she shouted incoherently and promptly threw out two Poké Balls.
"Roar roar roar"
The Salamence and the furry Roaring Moon appeared. The two ferocious-looking Salamence wreaked havoc in the laboratory. With a flick of their tails, they smashed all the experimental equipment. Their menacing expressions made the researchers hesitant and hurriedly move away.
In an instant, the sounds of ping-pong bells rang out continuously.
The researchers cried out in alarm, "Lord Fire Goose, please, please stop this intruder..."
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But when they turned around, all they could see was the retreating figure of the wild goose.
When the invaders arrived, Lord Fire Goose actually ran away?!
The researchers stared wide-eyed, utterly astonished.
Upon witnessing this scene, accompanied by the destructive sounds of Salamence and Roaring Moon unleashing their natural instincts, Higana, after a moment of bewilderment, put her hands on her hips and burst into laughter: "Is this what it means to be the mighty Queen Higana?"
Ze Shu suddenly said, "You let someone else get away, how can you still be so confident?"
Higana's laughter stopped abruptly, and she said dumbfoundedly, "Oh right..."
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She looked anxiously at the fleeing fire goose, and was about to command the two dragons to give chase.
But a black light traversed the entire laboratory, chasing after the fleeing fire goose.
It was the Commander of Slash, its raised, sharp arm aimed at the Fire Goose's neck, and suddenly swung down, completing what it had failed to accomplish in the Kalu Cave—capturing the Fire Goose.
"Waaah..."
The cursed doll sat on the shoulder of the cleaver and chuckled.
The fact that the escaped Firebird was captured so easily—she didn't even have time to release her Pokémon, and didn't put up any resistance, as if she was terrified—truly stunned the researchers in the laboratory.
Just now, the Fire Goose told Boss Crimson Pine, "The plan will definitely succeed, and we won't let the news of the plan's failure reach your ears, Boss."
How could it have happened so quickly...?
The plan's failure seems like a foregone conclusion!
Boss Crimson Pine will probably hear the news of this plan's failure tomorrow...
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