The red-haired boy stood stiff, clearly beside the hot crater, but he felt chills all over his body.

Every detail that has been overlooked since the night attack of the wind thieves began to gradually awaken in my mind.

Harina Hibara is a strong opponent who has served in the four major departments, and his combat ability is not inferior to the captain of the guards, Yasumu Hibara. It might be forgivable if she was knocked down from a distance by a hidden weapon or psychic attack, but the only scar on her body was the stab wound on her back, which did not come with any attribute energy, and was purely inflicted by a cold weapon at close range—how could she be careless enough to let the enemy get close to her at the point when Flame Valley was first attacked?

Her injuries had left her bedridden in the infirmary for a long time, but why had she never sent her powerful Pokémon to help with such a shortage of manpower, even if it was just for simple patrolling missions?

And - a few minutes after leaving the library and separating from Harina Hiruhara, they were sniped in that uninhabited alley, and thus fell into the enemy base camp.

Is all this really just a coincidence, or is it that the Flame People have long since been infiltrated by unknown villains?

Yang Yu was stunned and wanted to step forward and see the face of the person who was generally hanging in the air as a living sacrifice. He had just stepped forward when his wrist was jerked.

"Someone. Xiao Ye lowered her voice and dragged Yang Yu behind the tall instrument to hide.

Yang Yu looked forward fixedly, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

The stone walls surrounding the lava are not empty, with sparsely distributed stone platforms on both sides and opposite sides. There were six or seven black-robed men standing on the different platforms, their eyes under their hoods constantly patrolling the area. The drillhorned rhinoceros stood quietly behind the human, its solid rock armor shielding it from the heat in the air, keeping the behemoth's gaze sharp and sharp.

The two escapees looked at each other.

"They're not wind thieves. Yang Yu whispered, "Could it be the guy who instructed the wind thieves to do bad things as the patriarch said?"

"Mostly. Xiao Ye replied, remembering the black-robed people who had seen in the sharing of the five senses and had a completely different attitude towards Alia than the wind thief.

After barely calming down from the shock, the red-haired teenager's ears moved, as if he had caught something strange.

As Yang Yu struggled to discern the subtle movements coming into his ears, Xiao Ye also noticed something. She pressed her palm to the warm ground—the rocky platform was humming and shaking, a regular and rhythmic vibration that seemed to be playing music throughout the mountain.

After a moment of silence, the two of them suddenly spoke at the same time, "It's the sound of drums!"

"The sound seemed to come from below, although I couldn't hear it clearly...... But the sound seems to resemble the stolen Oope drum?"

As soon as the words fell, Xiao Ye sensed that something was wrong with Yang Yu's expression.

He's a good-tempered teenager, and he won't get angry even if he is dragged around by Yong Zhen without being polite. And now, Xiao Ye read the flame-like anger in those red eyes.

She turned her head as if she had noticed, and looked across the tall apparatus that stood in her way.

At the feet of the black-robed man was a bare gray pipe. It appeared and disappeared between the crevices of the rock, all the way down, as if it had been sunk into the lava.

From an angle that Nightshade couldn't see, more pipes meandered across the volcanic walls, eventually converging beneath the lava. Rhythmic vibrations run down the pipes, causing the carefully edited drum to rattle muffled inside the tumbling liquid rock—only a lingering sound as the soundprints leaked into the air, but beneath the unbelievable lava, the drums were as deafening as thunder.

"Yang Yu. The drums we heard...... What does that mean?"

The boy closed his eyes before replying in a dull voice.

"We are isolated, and the whole world is the enemy. The family of the flame is now coming to an end, and the only way to appease the wrath of the gods is to throw themselves into the lava in their flesh. ”

Xiao Ye subconsciously looked at the "sacrifice" suspended above the magma, revealing a stunned expression.

The young man of the Flame People gripped the corner of the metal instrument tightly, and the knuckles made a gurgling sound from overexertion.

"They...... It's to kill Harina-sama in front of Niwa-sama.,Coupled with such a drum.,Use anger to completely turn Niwa-sama into an irrational monster.。 ”

Xiao Ye was silent for a moment. Questions such as "why did the enemy master the drum language peculiar to the Flame People" and "What good would it do them to provoke the Flame Birds?" swirled in their minds, and fell silent because they could not be answered.

Then, Yang Yu broke the silent air first.

"Let's go. He said.

Xiao Ye raised his eyes in surprise, and saw that the boy seemed to have collected his emotions, and if the fingers that were clenched subconsciously did not tremble slightly, he looked as calm as usual.

"There's not much time left, we need to get the Poké Balls back before we find out, and hurry back to the Valley of the Flames. Niwa-sama will most likely wake up early because of the sound of the drums, and we must report the situation here to the patriarchs. Yang Yu smiled reluctantly, and his voice gradually lowered, "There are too many of them, let's ...... Can't save her. ”

There are seven enemy guards standing in the light, and they have a Pokémon as powerful as the Diamond Horn Rhinoceros. Factoring in the unknown existence of an ambush in the shadows, it was a wise and reasonable decision for the two underage children to choose to "escape" - even if they knew that the rope that hung the girl could be cut at any moment.

Xiao Ye saw the struggle and pain that Yang Yu was trying to hide. She shook her head and said clearly, "No—don't give up yet." ”

"I have a way to save her. ”

The boy was stunned.

The two of them had already lost too much time at the observatory. The Wind Thieves could pass by their prison at any moment and sense their escape, so they choose to retrieve their Poké Balls before talking about their battle plans.

The iron door was slowly opened by a crack. Xiao Ye cautiously peeked out for a moment, and held out a finger to signal to his friend that there was a man patrolling outside.

Yang Yu consciously let go of his breath and took a half step back, hiding himself in the shadows.

The wind thieves outside the door seemed to be just moving back and forth mechanically, and their movements were easily predictable. Sayoka was at the right time and slammed the door open halfway.

The rusted door shaft creaked long. The wind thief, who had just walked to the door, hummed in confusion, pushed open the door and peeked in.

The figure of the girl hiding by the door flashed, and instantly appeared on the side of the wind thief, bringing a scorching wave of qi. The glittering blue knife slammed into the back of his head, and the wind thief fell to the ground without saying a word.

"Smack-"

The crisp cracking sound made both of them shake at the same time. When the glass ballasts were splashed all over the ground, they realized that the patrolling wind thief was still carrying a wine bottle in his arms!

The sound of the glassware breaking was too harsh, and Xiao Ye's heart was not good, and before she could do anything, there was already a suspicious inquiry from the corner close at hand.

Yang Yu clearly heard the footsteps of the two people walking in this direction, and he was about to turn a corner. Driven by a great sense of crisis, he grabbed a glass shard and threw it in the opposite direction.

The splinters slammed into the wall with a clanging sound. At the moment when the two of them subconsciously turned their heads, the messenger of the waveguide swept out like lightning. The wind thief standing on the right side felt a hand suddenly poke out from behind his back, covering his mouth so tightly that he couldn't make a sound, and then the back of his head was pinched by a huge force, and his vision immediately sank into darkness.

The other turned his head as if he had noticed, only to be greeted by a cloud of dust mixed with stones. The wind thief choked twice, and his teary eyes dimly felt that the figures in front of him seemed to have increased.

The next moment, a fist wrapped in blue light smashed head-on on his face. The hapless thief fell backwards with a long nosebleed, and his neckline was grabbed again, and he carefully lay it flat on the ground without making a sound.

After doing all this, Xiao Ye gave a thumbs up to Yang Yu, who had issued the move "Yang Sha" in time.

She still had the heart to smile, but Yang Yu only felt frightened, and hurriedly glanced at Xiao Ye, signaling to hurry up and clean up the mess, otherwise a few more patrols would really be over.

The two closed the door to the observatory again, dragging the three unconscious wind thieves into the dusty utility room.

There is never a shortage of ropes where the clutter is stacked. They tied up the unlucky ghosts, stuffed them with cloth in their mouths, and threw them into the deepest shelves in the utility room, so that they could not move for a while when they woke up.

Then, they all looked at the table where the red and white balls were placed.

The Poké Balls, which had finally returned to their owners, shook violently and almost rolled down. If it weren't for the Wind Thieves setting the Poké Balls to a mode that can't be turned on from the inside, a few of the more impulsive ones might have howled and pounced.

Xiao Ye hurriedly said a few words of comfort, which made the Pokémon barely quiet down - they had never been forcibly taken away from their masters in this way, and they had been thrown into the utility room for a day and a night, and perhaps even thought that they would never see their trainer again.

Seeing that Charizard, who was the most excited, gradually calmed down and no longer slammed the Poké Ball left and right, Xiao Ye raised his head and saw Yang Yu stroking the gray Wupei drum on the side.

She thought for a moment, walked over to the Upei drum, tugged at Yang Yu's sleeve, and motioned for him to squat down with her. The thick drum body completely obscured the figures of the two young men, and even if they looked from the outside in, they couldn't find anything unusual.

Xiao Ye lowered his voice, and Xiang Yangyu roughly described what he wanted to do.

After finishing speaking, she was not surprised to see Yang Yu start to shake her head violently, "That's too dangerous, it can't succeed - the opponent is a full seven people, even if Charizard flies fast, it is impossible to escape under the attack of seven drill-horned rhinoceros." ”

"You're right. "So, to do this, you need an opportunity—an opportunity to divert everyone's attention at some point." ”

The red-haired young man looked puzzled, and the young hairs on the top of his head swayed twice in confusion.

"You just said that the drums played by the enemy will anger Niwa-sama and cause it to wake up early, right?"

"That's right......" Yang Yu nodded.

"Then, our first priority is to inform everyone in the Valley of Flames about this, organize the team in time, and calm Niwa-sama before it hurts someone. "And ordinary escape routes are dangerous, and even if we are lucky enough to leave the tunnel without being detected, we are not sure that we will escape the eyes on the ground." Once you get into a fight, you will waste a lot of time, and at worst, you will be defeated and put back in the dungeon. ”

"So-"

The purple-haired girl cast her gaze on the huge Upe drum behind her.

"I remember you saying that even if it is buried deep in the earth, its sound can still penetrate obstacles and great distances and convey messages to any corner of Mt. Aso. Saya smiled, looking a little apologetic, "I don't think the language of the drums can accurately describe 'someone is an impostor', but at least the message that the gods are about to wake up can be conveyed, right?"

Yang Yu was stunned for a moment. When he realized what Saya was trying to say, he panicked.

"No, no, absolutely not!" the young man of the Flame People instinctively chose to resist, "You know that, don't you? The Upe Drum can only be used by the Patriarch or his successor, and even if it is played without permission, even the Flame People will be considered an enemy!"

"Well, I know. Sayo nodded, "If I could, of course I would choose to ring it myself - but I don't have the ability to do that." ”

The stranger did not understand the language of the Upe drum and did not know how to make the drum sound correctly. She knew what she was doing was a tough one, but when Nighta remembered the proud look on her face as the flames told their stories and praised their gods—she felt that she should be a "wicked person" for a while.

Not only to protect anyone, but also to make sure that each other does not regret it.

Yang Yu opened his mouth, but couldn't make a sound.

He knew that at a time when the situation was already terrible, the plan proposed by Xiao Ye might be the most appropriate plan. It's just that......

When the sound of the Upe drum sounded a few days ago, the angry expressions of the tribesmen still flashed vividly in front of their eyes. If his relatives, friends, and beloved elders all looked at him with such hostile and cold expressions...... Can the young boy who values his clan the most really afford it?

In the midst of his mixed emotions, the red-haired boy felt a tingling in his temples. A memory that couldn't be beaten flashed for no reason.

"Are you going to give up?"

In a long memory, the boy with ice-colored hair confronted him. The man's expression was whitened by the glare of sunlight shining through the window, but he knew that his friend must have said it with disappointment and anger.

"Just because it hurt me—do you want to choose to escape?"

After a few seconds, the touch from his shoulder brought back the boy's consciousness.

"I didn't mean to persecute you. The purple-haired girl softened her voice and smiled comfortingly at her friend, "Of course you can choose whether or not to do this, and I will never blame you for your refusal." ”

Her fingertips touched the Poké Ball slightly. The fire-breathing dragon in the translucent spherical shell seemed to be aware of it, revealing eyes full of battle intent.

"From now on, we'll split up - I'll go back to the platform I just had, and in half an hour I'll act according to the plan I said before to rescue Harumi-san. ”

Xiao Ye straightened up. Yang Yu saw that her expression was still calm and excessive, as if the battle plan like sending her to death could not make her feel half afraid.

"Just ......"

The earth of Mt. Aso shook again, and it seemed that the creatures hiding in the lava could no longer suppress their impulses, and at any moment they would break through the shackles and burn everything.

In the rumbling sound, the girl's voice came clearly into the ears.

"Each of us has something that we have to protect even if we offend someone, if we offend someone, if we hurt someone, don't we?"

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Small Theatre:

Storm Thieves Patrol Brutally Beaten: ...... (It hurts so much that you faint on the spot)

The supersonic bat in the back mountain of Zhenxin Town and the big needle bee in the forest at the gate of the town and the three-in-one magnetic monster in the Thunder Mountain and the bigmouth bat of the fake rocket team in Red Lotus City and the rocket team members of the underground base and the quartz alliance players in the village elevator Aba snake and the wind thief's scorpion and dark crow: (Come over and nod in a humanoid form) Welcome to the anti-purple hair violent maniac squad.