Perhaps because he had listened to the same music too many times throughout the day, in the mountains far away from the town, Xiao Ye actually heard a familiar melody mixed with the torrential rain.

In fact, even the light of the festival lights could not be transmitted here.

The blue sword light pointed far ahead. When the girl's words fell, the dark robe danced in the wind and rain.

“…… ...... hatred"

The "creature" made a hoarse sound in its throat. It's not so much a human voice as it is the groan of some old machine that has been forced to work.

Sensing a sticky malice coming, Sayo's knife light flickered to warn. But the figure hidden under the black robe seemed to be afraid of anything, and walked stiffly towards the tip of the knife step by step.

“…… Month...... Damn it...... Yamada ......"

What is he saying?

Xiao Ye frowned deeply, trying to discern the clues from the fragmented words.

And the enemy with an unknown body didn't give Saya much time. It stretched out its withered palm and grasped the sharp, crystal blue long knife.

Xiao Ye's gaze passed through the black robe, and came into contact with the scarlet gaze hidden beneath it. A second before the attack, the monster's speech suddenly became clear.

"The darkness is endless. ”

"The Way Home Walking Alone"

"Don't Let the Tears Fall"

The pouring rain is obscured by the light shield, making the brightly lit square look like a world in a glass ball, with only the sound of crackling as an accompaniment to the festival soundtrack.

Xiao Ling, who had already turned around in the square, ran back to the team with the new large loot, and stuffed things into Xinghai's hand without saying anything, "Mr. Xinghai, this is for you!"

Xinghai: "......"

Looking at the fluffy little sea lion doll with half a human height in his hand, Mr. First Investigator, who was wearing a small sea lion mask, was thinking about how to euphemistically express to these children that he was not a little sea lion lover.

"This is also a prize?" Xiaojie looked at it.

"Well, it's the first prize reward of the boxing game over there!" Xiao Ling nodded, pointing to the exaggerated boxing ergometer on the other side of the square.

“…… You're welcome. Xiao Jie suddenly didn't know whether to sympathize with the boss who maintained a stunned expression.

Xiao Ling's strength is already very strong, if she secretly uses superpowers to assist...... I'm afraid that the strength of a strong man's punch can't compare to her.

Even Xiao Tian may have remembered the tragic situation of losing to Xiao Ling with a wrist wrench, and his face was a little complicated for a while.

"Anyway......" Xiao Ling tiptoed and glanced at the clock in the center of the square, "It's been so long, why hasn't Xiao Ye come back yet......?"

"It's okay"

"Your Voice That Day"

"It's still ringing today."

The claws collided with the blades again, and the sparks that burst out were immediately doused by the rain, silent.

This guy ...... What the hell is it?

Xiao Ye frowned, and one after another galaxy-like sword light swayed. The pitch-black robes had become tattered, and when the blade landed on the skin of the enemy, it seemed to have slashed at the metalwork, and it was struck crookedly.

Under the cover of night and torrential rain, a hazy black gas slowly overflowed from under the robes. The information fed back by the power of the waveguide made Xiao Ye instinctively chill in her heart, and the lightning flashing under her feet carried her from side to side, avoiding being entangled in her hands and feet by the black qi.

She has a hunch that once she hits the trick, I'm afraid it won't be a problem that can be solved by two slashes.

The enemy under the black robe was as hard as iron, and his hands with sharp nails were no longer as stiff as before. It was like a liberated demon, its squeaky paws could make it catch up with lightning speed, and its thin nails were no less destructive than the blades condensed by the power of the waveguide.

The swollen black gas raised the back of the robe. The sudden acceleration of the figure caught the knife-wielder off guard, and his sharp claws cut through the white tracksuit, oozing dark red blood.

The initiator grinned like a man-eating flower in hell.

“…… Traitor...... You want to protect the town?...... I'm going to ruin it...... It's like...... The same ...... five years ago"

The girl's purple pupils shrank suddenly.

"Then"

"I finally realized it."

"What's going on, Mr. Xinghai?"

The silver-haired young man slowly opened his eyes and shook his head, "I carefully searched all the streets of the festival, but I didn't find the breath of the night. ”

“…… Are you really lost and lost to a neighboring town??" Xiao Jie and Xiao Ling stared at each other for a while, and only came up with such an unreliable guess.

Xiao Tian, who had never said a word, had already frowned. He seemed to have a premonition that something was going bad—but there shouldn't be any danger at such a well-secured festival.

Seeing that the three children were a little at a loss, Xinghai comforted him, "It's okay, maybe it's because I went home to get something." I'll expand the detection range and try again......"

Before he could finish speaking, a thunderclap suddenly exploded in his ears, drowning out the last words of the young man's words.

Xiao Jie hurriedly covered his ears, thinking that listening to the thunder was better than listening to the magic sound of the same song of the festival.

Probably afraid of something, the sky that had been quiet before played a symphony continuously, and the thunder light illuminated the marshmallow-colored sky outside the light mask miserably white.

Before he could complain anything, Xiaojie saw that Xinghai and Xiaotian's expressions changed.

"You're not alone"

"No matter how far apart"

Blazing blue light filled the girl's eyes, which should have been purple.

She didn't really care if an inexplicable enemy rushed out and waved his claws at her, and she didn't care if the enemy was shouting for revenge on you. Although the unknown creature in front of her who was full of malice towards her was powerful and could easily hurt her, but just in this way, she was still able to maintain a relaxed mind to fight the enemy.

- However, if the enemy says "Destroy Shin Shin Town", everything will be different.

The song hovering in my head had come to an end, and it was drowned out by the thunder overhead. However, this also gave Xiao Ye an idea.

She already knew that her knife skills would hardly be able to threaten this monster that was not human. If you want to destroy it, you'll have to use even more powerful attacks.

Sayo doesn't have a lot of attacks. But during the special training a few days ago, she accidentally discovered a property of the power of the waveguide - it can transmit other energies well and fuse with other energies, just like a high-quality good conductor.

At that time, she successfully conducted Charizard's flames with the power of the waveguide, so now-

Conducting lightning should be fine, right?

The sword light dissipated, and Xiao Ye stretched out his hand to the sky. The power of the crystal blue waveguide began to climb upwards along her movements, condensing into a pillar of heaven in wisps, like a Dinghai Divine Needle that began to grow larger, all the way into the dark clouds.

Before the waveguide's power could be unleashed to its limit, thunder rang out.

It was a loud bang as if heaven and earth were opening up. The blazing silver Lian was like a dragon in a rainstorm, calling for wind and rain to fall into the world, digging his sharp teeth into the hard rock of the back mountain, devouring the broken black robe.

Xiao Ye only felt the fiery temperature hit her face, pushing her out unreasonably. The power of the waveguide spread as the thunder fell from above, and the hum spread throughout the mountain.

"Reach out"

"Whenever"

"We're right there"

After a few seconds, the thunder subsided.

The overload of the waveguide's force causes Saya to fall into a state of detachment for a short time. When her body regained her mobility, Xiao Ye immediately used the maximum power of her five senses to stay vigilant.

When this ability is exhausted and unusable, Sayo always wishes she could have a real knife. Unfortunately, the thought of this question inevitably requires a moment of silence in front of an empty wallet, and now is clearly not the time to cry poor.

Computing is ready to take over the control of the body at any time instead of will. However, the overstretched gaze swept all the way around, but failed to catch the shadow of the enemy.

After standing still like a statue for dozens of seconds, Saya cautiously stepped forward and looked at the location where he had been struck by lightning.

The torrential rain shows no signs of stopping. Xiao Ye saw several pieces of black cloth that had been wet under her feet, the edges of which had been scorched. However, under the shattered black robe, the figure of the humanoid monster was gone.

Although the power of the heavenly thunder is powerful, it is not enough to split a living person into ashes. Escaped? or ......

"It" isn't a living person at all?

Walking around the place where the thunderbolt fell, the rags that Xiao Ye found were almost able to put together a complete black robe. Could it be that this strange-shaped enemy still has a habit of taking off his clothes when he escapes?

Just as Saya felt confused and wanted to use the power of the waveguide, which had only recovered a little bit, to probe her surroundings, she heard a voice from deep in the soil beneath her feet.

Like countless gears staggered and running-in, the squeaking and dull noise blended with the sound of the rain, so that Xiao Ye couldn't tell for a moment whether the trembling sensation under her feet was real or hallucinatory. And this sound with an ancient taste, like the activation of a mechanism a hundred years ago, made Xiao Ye feel a stir in the cold rain, and realized in hindsight where he was standing.

As long as you climb over this mountain, there is the place in front of you that Xiao Ye once reached a year ago-

The open-air altar of that ancient ruin.

The sound of the cogs clattering spread from under their feet into the distance, and soon spread through the mountains. It's not an enjoyable experience – when the eerie noises fill the air, those who are in it only begin to wonder if they are in the mouth of a giant beast or under the wheel of a chariot.

Xiao Ye didn't know if it was the lightning she had attracted that had touched one of the ruins' mechanism - in all fairness, she didn't think that the super-large thunderbolt had the ability to do that, and at most it scorched the dirt. However, no matter where these ominous sounds came from, when she reached the other side of the mountain, Xiao Ya knew that she would not have time to think about it.

The water in the lake churned violently, spinning rapidly around the altar in the middle, and the branches and blades that fell into the water were shattered, as if there were a dozen or so powerful sea monsters underwater. And in the middle of the lake where the stars hold the moon, the intricate lines clinging to the rock altar are glowing. They flickered to the rhythm of the thunder and lightning, and even the most daring finches could read the menacing warning, and flew away from the area in the face of the torrential rain.

The rhythm of the light streaks gradually accelerated, and the whirlpool in the lake water was divided into three. The viscous foreign object struggled to rise from the bottom of the lake, twisting and swaying in the whirlpool, enough to make the night patrol of Halloween terrifying. As the speed of the water decreased, their movements gradually became gentle and graceful, as if they had completed the transition from a demon to an angel, spreading their wings and levitating in the air.

Xiao Ye had already seen a giant bird made of flames in the underground research institute of Red Lotus Island, but he didn't expect to find an existence similar to the artificial phoenix king so soon - the form formed by the condensation of the water stream was somewhat like a seagull with flapping wings, but the wings were far more slender than ordinary seabirds. The thorny tail twitched and shook as if it were a dead leaf that had fallen.

When the three newborn "birds" flew into the air with their own strength, Saya had already walked to the altar. There were no facial features on the liquid condensed body, but Xiao Ye still felt three "gazes" lock on him like a laser.

A year ago, Xiao Ya had heard Xiao Tian say that this altar was built by people in ancient times to worship the god of the sea. According to the inscriptions on the walls of the ruins, the people who built the altar at that time had the power to control the sea, and were able to control the "Water Monster" for their own use, and anyone who trespassed on the altar would trigger the attack of the Water Monster, leveling everything around it.

The word Warcraft is the ancient name for Pokémon, and both Saya and Tenden believe that the phrase means that the builder can command the water type Pokémon. Undoubtedly, they are thinking too simply.

"No wonder the Tyrannosaurus didn't want to come near here. Muttering softly, Nighta looked up at the foreign object formed by the condensation of the three streams of water.

Their wings were already slightly arched, like arrows ready to leave the string at any moment. The tallest one twisted its head to look at the light beyond the mountain in the distance.

The music of the festival caused the air of the whole town to vibrate, and the lights of the festival spread the warmth to a hundred miles away. Xiao Ye knew that in the eyes of the group of monsters in the sky, that might be the best target - a few wisps of black gas churned in the water of the lake that should have been crystal clear, and it was plain to express to Xiao Ye who activated the strongest defense mechanism of this ruin.

Xiao Ye took a deep breath.

"Hey, you guys. ”

The girl's voice pierced through the torrential rain, causing the three foreign objects to bow their heads and let out a rumbling roar.

"You want to destroy True New Town, just like you did five years ago. Xiao Ye said word by word, and a blue flame began to jump from under his eyes, "And you want to kill me as a traitor, right?"

She got the answer from the reactions of the foreign bodies. The ghostly black qi stirred, causing the water beast to roar and almost convulse. Obviously, I just repeated the words of the strange enemy before, but I didn't expect to get such honest feedback.

"Come on, then. ”

The dazzling crystal blue thunder gathered on the soles of her feet, reflecting the girl as if she was a warrior who fought with the sea god with a sword in her hand thousands of years ago.

"Bring me down, if you still want revenge. ”

When the words fell, the heavens and the earth shook. Three alien objects from the depths of the lake burst into countless spikes, rushing towards the tiny human like meteorites about to hit the planet.

The last of the energy in the thunder reshaped the blade in the girl's hand. The sword-wielder ignored the cracks on the blade and raised his weapon towards the enemy in front of him, who was beyond human common sense.

"Boom-"

Blue dragon flames rained down from the sky, and in an instant, the entire lake was set on fire, scorching the three foreign objects into a squeaky roar. The dim sky and earth were lit up in an instant, and the high temperature, which was different from the thunder, made Xiao Ye, who was about to launch the final blow, stunned and looked up at the sky.

Two humans stood on the golden Pokémon spewing dragon breath, their silver hair dyed the color of flames.

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Small Theatre:

Xiaojie: Xiaoye, being idle is also idle, let's wrestle our wrists!

Sayo: Okay!

Xiaojie: I'll count, one, two- (stalemate for 10 seconds) I'll win! Xiaotian Xiaotian, I'm going to challenge you next!

Xiaotian: Well, come on.

Sayo: (stops talking) Uh, that, I advise you not to ......

Bang –

Jj:...... Why do you have so much strength, Xiaotian?

Xiaoling: Eh, what are you doing, wrestling your wrist? I'm going to participate too!

Xiaotian: Okay. (Reaching out)

Xiaojie: (stops talking) Uh, that, I advise you not to ......

Bang –

Xiaotian: ......

Xiaoling: Eh, Xiaotian, have you worked hard?...... Alas, you boys are so bad. (shakes head and sighs)

The first to last in the power rankings is the melee class Night: ...... I'm going to doubt my life.