When the endless ice puppets appeared on the screen, the live broadcast room of Station N and the GT forum fell into an uproar again.

...... Hey, why do I say again?

All in all-after repeatedly confirming that there are no Pokémon responsible for controlling them near the ice puppets in the video, there can never be any electronic components hidden in the transparent body, and the realistic visual effects are unlikely to be three-dimensional projections, many people are trembling to find the promotional page on the official website of the Battle of Wind and Snow, and look at one of the sentences-

"This competition uses recently restored ancient tricks to ensure that the participants can have a fresh and exciting experience. ”

The contestants don't mention it if they feel that it is exciting, and the audience has been stimulated to the point of exclamation points. Before the start of the game, many people noticed this sentence, and only thought that it was a small trick similar to falling rocks and arrows, which would be easily beaten by modern technology.

As a result, I never expected that what was restored was not technology, but magic.

At the same time as the voices of doubt arose, many people questioned that this sentence was not referring to the scene in front of them, and the seemingly unbelievable scene was just that the Pokémon that performed the move was hidden in the dead corner of the camera - most of the people who said this had never been a trainer, otherwise they would know at a glance that relying on Pokémon to rub out these hundreds of ice puppets that can still run and jump, you have to exhaust three truckloads of ivory pigs.

Soon, more information was found.

[Friends, come and see!I just went to CiNii to find a paper that was only published at the beginning of this year![Web link]]

Many netizens followed the sound and clicked on the paper titled "Glorious Era Puppet Technology Restoration Practice Based on G-R Filtering Technology and Hidden Energy Loop Hypothesis...... After reading for a few minutes, I retreated with stars in my eyes, and I didn't understand anything except that the surname Bingjian was from the first to the third, and the person who wrote the paper wanted to make a puppet. Fortunately, someone soon published a concise and easy-to-understand popular science in the comment area.

As we all know, among the research fields related to archaeology, "ancient technology restoration" has always been the most difficult.

In the days before steam and electricity, this land was the birthplace of many incredible technologies. Turning stones into gold, manipulating minds, immortality, and giving life to dead things—most of them are too old to prove their authenticity, but they still attract many scholars to explore.

According to legend, during the glorious era, which has been thousands of years ago, there was a technique to drive ice golems. The elaborate puppet is able to understand simple human speech and act according to the instructions given by the maker. It's just that the vast majority of modern people only regard it as the mythical story of "Groudor created the earth", and they don't think that black technology similar to artificial intelligence can appear in ancient times.

About half a year ago, when this article "Too Long So Omitted into a Puppet Restoration Practice" appeared in the journal, the entire archaeological community was boiling over it. Due to the detailed data and strict logic of the full text, the creator is also a well-known leader in the archaeological field, almost no one doubts the authenticity of the experimental results, and only looks forward to the academic conference at the end of the year to see the true face of the restored puppet.

Of course, no matter how much the archaeological community is earthquaked, the common people still don't know anything about this matter and don't care about it. And fellow scholars never thought of it...... Those academic bigwigs who were born in the Fengxue Mountain branch of the Bingjian family had such an uninhibited style, and directly handed over their academic achievements to the popular celebrities on the set of the Fengxue Battle.

...... No, in fact, they should have guessed it a long time ago, for example, when an old gentleman took advantage of acting to talk nonsense, wantonly choreographed a second work with high hard work, and even said that his mother was a Pokémon......

When the viewers on the Internet experienced psychological activities such as stunned, full of doubts, thoughtfulness and sudden realization, and finally were able to face the live broadcast room with a normal heart, the unlucky players who were broadcast live were still in the first stage.

Until they were sent to the top balcony of an abandoned wooden house nearby, the Terashima siblings were still in a trance and didn't know where they were. Only Xiao Ye still maintained the sanity of a normal person, and seriously thanked the person opposite, "Thank you for your rescue, may I ask-"

"Shhhh ”

The silver-robed swordsman held up a finger.

He was surrounded by fine particles of ice, and the agitated currents made his robe flutter like water. Behind them are phantoms that disappear from time to time - it is the power of the Snow Witch that allows them to fly high into the sky and escape the pursuit of the ice puppets.

"Don't make a sound, they'll find out. ”

He lowered the volume of his speech to a very low level, leaving almost a faint hoarse voice.

"Please rest here for a while and wait until early in the morning to leave safely. ”

As the words fell, the swordsman took a step back, causing himself to fall through the window into the night. Wrapped in the cold wind, the Snow Demon Maiden melted into the dark air with the figure, and soon disappeared.

After seeing the mysterious life-saving benefactor go away, Xiao Ye turned around - and was immediately stunned by the frightened sibling who covered his mouth and didn't even dare to breathe.

“...... It doesn't have to be like this, just speak quietly. ”

Xiao Ye brushes the dust off the chair and motions for the two to sit down and rest first, in order to save their brains, which are gradually losing their intelligence due to lack of oxygen.

The three of them were in the attic of an old house, and it looked like no one had been here in a long time, and the furniture had accumulated a thick layer of dust. Xiao Ye looked around, but she didn't get any useful information, but she matched up with a secret she learned before going up the mountain - the head of the Fengmei Pavilion reminded her that the Bingjian family had built an old mountain village, which was probably part of the competition venue.

But now that I think about it, the street fighting she practiced at that time was too "simple" to be of any use at all......

“...... That, Boss. After Xiao Ye had rummaged through the entire attic, the siblings finally relented, and carefully lowered their voices—it was too painful for the Southlanders—and asked, "What are we going to do next?"

"According to what the man just said, rest here until dawn. Or venture out and look for clues. Xiao Ye closed the door of the cabinet with only some useless miscellaneous items piled up, and turned her head, "Which one do you choose?"

Li Jiu and Long Xing blinked, and together they showed an expression of "as a southerner, even if you are scared to death, you will take risks".

"The second, of course!"

After the three of them discussed and made a travel plan, they decided to send the most suitable Pokémon to act in the dark - Ghost Stone as the pioneer to test the ice puppet's enemy seeking mechanism.

These weird guys who are covered in transparent ice and don't even have facial features shouldn't theoretically have five senses. But judging from the reaction of the ice puppets when the dragon star stepped on the branch before, at least they have a "sense of hearing".

At one point, the Terashima siblings suspected that they were some kind of realistic technological artifact, or that they were made by Pokémon hidden in the shadows. It wasn't until the Waveguide Emissary himself declared that there were no humans or Pokémon nearby, and that the ice puppets were really a group of moving ice cubes, that the siblings could only reluctantly admit that they were about to face a group of magical monsters.

As a real ghost, Ghost Stone never knew what horror was, and swaggered towards the ice puppets downstairs. Fortunately, the trainer had instructed it to act cautiously, so the big ghost did not charge directly against its face, but casually threw a shadow clone over.

The hordes of ice puppets were unresponsive.

Ghost Stone tilted his head and thought about it, and went into battle in person, and the whole spirit fell at the most "crowded" intersection with a pungent smell of gas.

The hordes of ice puppets were still unresponsive.

Ghost Stone rolled his eyes and scratched the ground lightly with his paws, making a faint sound.

The hordes of ice puppets still didn't respond.

Ghost Stone completely relieved himself and sang a song.

The hordes of ice puppets stiffened for a moment, then gradually became angry and deformed, and they all twisted into angry ice hedgehogs and roared.

Until the purple ghost escaped incognito and floated back to the attic with a grin, Li Jiu and Long Xing still felt that the music of the soul lingered in their ears for a long time, and even their brains were about to be sung to the point of ionization. And their boss is worthy of being a trainer of Ghost Stone, and after experiencing the baptism of magic sounds from hell, he was able to conclude strongly: "So now we know that these monsters have no sight, no sense of smell, and cannot detect faint sounds. That's a good thing for us. ”

"In other words, as long as we don't make too much noise, even if we walk in front of them, it's fine?" Long Xing's eyes lit up.

"There is such a possibility, but there are differences between humans and ghost Pokémon after all, and experiments are still needed. "I'll try it first-"

"No, leave it to me, boss!" Probably because he felt that his performance was too bad all day today, and he was not a qualified little brother, Long Xing patted his chest and recommended himself, "Just quietly go downstairs next to the big iceman and take a turn, right?" I'm the best at walking silently!"

The boss didn't have time to stop it, and as soon as he raised his hand, he saw Long Xing sliding down the stairs like a loach and running away.

Sayo: "......"

I mean, I'll send out Pokémon that are close to humans first......

Long Xing's sentence "good at walking silently" didn't lie, I saw him raise his feet and step onto the street, and several ice puppets nearby were not alarmed at all. It wasn't until he cautiously approached the "puppet group" that the anomaly happened.

When he noticed that the ice puppet next to him slowly turned to him and hissed before the beast hunted, even if he was mentally prepared, the young man was still stunned - it was really that the two-meter-tall figure and the ghost-like shape were too penetrating. And Ghost Stone, who was not afraid of heaven and earth, still reacted quickly, and when he saw this, he dragged Long Xing's collar and flew into the sky. The ice puppets that had lost their target spun in place for a moment, and then quickly calmed down.

Long Xing, who was almost suffocated by his collar, didn't even breathe, so he hurriedly defended himself: "Boss, I definitely didn't make a sound!"

"I know. It's heat. ”

Xiao Ye pointed out the window - Ghost Stone had just thrown out a green ghost fire, and the ice puppets were clustered together like they had found treasures and crashed into ice puppet balls, and the scene was so lively.

"They can sense human body temperature. But this perception is also very weak, so don't get too close. Xiao Ye didn't seem to feel that the group of twisted and hideous ice puppets outside the window was worth fearing, and calmly packed her bags and brushed the dust off the corners of her clothes, "Considering that the sound will attract them, the battle test is better to wait until we meet the lone guy - then, let's go, two?"

In the old village where the monsters were entrenched, three figures slipped out of the house without a sound.

They tied layers of linen to the bottom of their boots to eliminate the sound of them touching the ground. The team leader always pays attention to the movements of the ice puppets and flexibly adjusts the direction of progress, so that the three of them can pass through the ice puppet army safely.

It's a bit scary to walk in the middle of a group of monsters that are more than two meters tall. But Li Jiu and Long Xing, as southerners, lack the spirit of head iron, and they walked boldly and breathed lightly all the way, and they were a little used to this kind of scene. Moreover, the example of the dragon star has been vividly demonstrated...... If you are found by an ice puppet, you will not die, but you may die of suffocation if you are rescued by Ghost Stone.

They didn't have a clear goal, they only approached in the direction of the dense buildings, trying to find information about the lost old village. Along the way, most of the houses they saw were dilapidated houses, with the occasional shop-like house, and the inside was as chaotic as if it had been smashed by robbers, and they really couldn't find any useful clues.

Except for the three of them, there seemed to be no living creatures in the barren old village. The original occupants disappeared without a trace, and the monsters did not want to come closer, even the silver-robed swordsman they had seen for the first time was nowhere to be seen. The oppressive and dead silence made the siblings uncomfortable, and if it weren't for the fact that there were still many ice puppets hanging around nearby, I am afraid that they would have complained loudly.

Just when Li Jiu, who had the most lively temperament, finally couldn't hold back and wanted to quietly hint to the boss to rest for a while, they heard an unusual sound.

In a certain direction, the ice puppets were in a commotion.

"Whew, Whew......"

The boy knew he shouldn't let out a heavy wheezing sound. But the intense exertion of his physical strength made it difficult for him to control himself, so he could only try his best to hold the little one in his arms and urge his legs to run faster.

The heavy steps of the monster are getting closer. And the boy staggered into the narrow alley, only to suddenly realize his mistake.

He chose a dead end.

The boy took a few steps back, his silver hair touching the dusty wall. At the other end of the alley, a group of ice puppets is slowly approaching.

The young fugitive gritted his teeth and reached out to unleash a sharp blade of ice that struck the ankle of the ice puppet in front of him.

He knew that the monster was easily attracted by the sound and lost sight of its original purpose, provided that the ice puppet didn't touch him and recorded his breath.

Nor did the blood of an ancient ice mage give him the power to escape from danger. In front of the tall monsters, the ice blade seemed so thin and small that it could not even leave a single scar on the enemy.

At this time, the little one, curled up in the boy's arms, struggled.

It was a young, round seal ball. It looked terrified and trembling uncontrollably, but it still managed to confront the ice puppets and let out what it thought was a fierce roar.

It took a deep breath and spewed out a jet of water.

Of course, the floppy water gun can't take down a two-meter-tall monster. But it seemed to anger the enemy, and the ice puppet hissed strangely, and suddenly picked up its pace, and pounced on the boy who had nowhere to hide!

At the moment when he subconsciously closed his eyes, the young man of the Himi family seemed to feel a wave of heat coming towards him like a tsunami. The painful gurgling of the ice puppets is blended into the explosion of the combustion, making it almost inaudible.

The boy opened his eyes in astonishment, only to see a white cloth dyed golden red.

He was gently embraced into his arms.

Two seconds later, the ice broke through the flames and struck with a chilling wind. And the man holding the boy leaped into the air, and soared high.

The young fugitive was seen in the air - the blazing flames lit up the night of the Lost Village.

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Small Theatre:

Ghost Stone completely relieved himself and sang a song.

The hordes of ice puppets stiffened for a moment, then gradually became angry and deformed, and they all twisted into angry ice hedgehogs and roared.

Ice Puppet: We didn't beat that guy because it made a sound, but because it ...... Singing too badly!! (angry into a hedgehog)