No.52 After crossing the turbulent waves, I glimpsed the light of day

The last rays of the sun also disappeared at the end of the horizon.

As night covered the sky, waves began to rise in the dark sea. The wind whistled outside the window, but it couldn't penetrate the thick clouds that intercepted the starlight overhead.

This level of bad weather is not enough to shake the huge steel cruise ship. It remained on a fixed course, carrying its passengers to the next island – but the residual impact of the waves against the hull was uncomfortable enough for the passengers.

Considering the danger of falling into the sea due to the rocking of the hull, the deck has been cordoned off by the staff and passengers are not allowed to set foot on it. The banquet hall on the first floor also closed early – not to mention whether the passengers would be able to eat in such a situation, and even if the glasses were glued to the table, the drinks would be poured all over the floor.

There was a queue in front of the infirmary to pick up the medicine, and people who were a little more tolerant of seasickness went back to their rooms to sleep against the discomfort.

The trainers don't dare to let the Pokémon out and sleep together in the guest room like they did yesterday - unless they want to spend the whole night cleaning. Fortunately, the Poké Ball blocked out the vertigo caused by the shaking, and the Pokémon soon fell asleep by the trainer's pillow.

The lights went out on the dark night cruise ship, and silence gradually enveloped the Sea Flaming Horse.

Xiao Ya almost never gets sick from the transport, and quickly falls asleep on the slightly bumpy boat. In a daze, she suddenly felt as if her body was suspended for a moment—the habit of quick alertness brought by her previous life saved her brain. Almost subconsciously, she grabbed the railing next to the bed, narrowly steadied herself, and did not hit her head against the wall.

The Poké Balls on the pillow were scattered to the ground as they shook, and the Pokémon had stunned question marks written all over their heads. Xiao Ye hurriedly jumped out of bed, fished the Poké Ball back in three or two, buckled it back on his belt, and then ran to turn on the light.

The cruise ship shook too violently in the wind and waves, and it was only a few meters from the side of the bed to the light switch, and Xiao Ye almost hugged the edges and corners of the wardrobe. Finally, the warm yellow light illuminates every corner of the room, and the co-occupant has already gotten out of bed and just picked up the last Poke Ball on the ground.

Xiao Tian looked at his friend who always reacted faster than him in sudden situations, and before he could ask a question, Xiao Ye had already shook his phone knowingly, and reported: "It's ten o'clock in the morning." The signal has been intermittent, and the weather forecast is not available, but I think there will be a ship-wide broadcast soon-"

Before the words could be spoken, the rustle before the announcement began was heard in the room.

A gentle male voice told the passengers in a gentle voice that the cruise ship was currently experiencing a large wind and waves, and although there was no danger for the time being, in order to prevent falling and injury, passengers were asked to stay in their rooms and not go out. Those who are injured or unwell can contact the staff by internal phone, and the crew will go to each room to assist in treatment.

Amid the sound of the ship's radio playing on a loop, Xiao Ye and Xiao Tian walked to the window and looked out.

As far as the eye could see, it was pitch black, and only the waves could be faintly seen churning on the surface of the sea with a cold light. The whistling sound of the wind pierced through the walls and glass, and was still vivid and clear when it reached the ears.

"Little Heaven...... Is this what happens often on boat trips?" the new sailor winked at his companion.

"I can assure you, no. The seafaring experience gave a firm and powerful answer.

The waves were so strong that the passengers on the ship could not walk as usual, which was obviously not a normal weather change, but it was like a typhoon head-on - but they had all checked the weather information before traveling, and there was no typhoon in the Orange Islands recently.

The radar monitoring system on each cruise ship monitors the weather conditions in the nearby waters in real time, constantly correcting the course to avoid bad weather. Since the Sea Flaming Horse failed to avoid the wind and waves, it may have been too widespread, or ......

Was this "typhoon" out of the blue?

The current Sea Flame Horse is bumping like a living flame horse jumping over Tokyo Tower, and even Xiao Tian, who is used to riding Pokémon, is starting to feel uncomfortable. Xiao Ye noticed the condition of her companion at a speed that was very suitable for her own reaction level, and immediately took out the seasickness medicine that had been prepared in advance from the drawer at the head of the bed and handed it to Xiao Tian.

"Are you alright?" the boy took the pill and didn't take it immediately.

"Of course. Saya looked at her waist—Charizard was eyeing the trainer with its eyes wide open—and explained euphemistically, "You know, I fly in Charizard a lot. ”

Xiaotian: "......"

When the three of them flew from the capital of the Alliance to the Orange Islands together, Charizard's "Turning Out Trainer's Brain Pulp Spiral Circle" came to mind again. He swallowed the ellipsis and swallowed the pill without saying a word.

Soon after, the ship's entire radio was once again announced, this time by the captain himself, a trainer who wanted to be fit and willing to help, to the banquet hall. This fresh instruction made the newcomer Sailing's mind full of Charizard spiral question marks, and even made up the Titanic-like scene in his brain - of course, Xiao Tian quickly extinguished his friend's imagination of excessive sense of crisis.

"It's just a practice for boats around the Orange Islands. "Little Heavenly Dao.

According to fellow experiencers, whenever a cruise ship in the Orange Islands encounters bad weather, the captain will always ask the entire ship trainer to gather and briefly take on the duty of guarding other passengers in a critical situation - of course, in fact, the cruise ship rarely encounters situations that endanger the lives of passengers, and the staff on board are fully adequate. This is just to reassure the passengers, and by the way, to satisfy the enthusiasm of the trainers in the south who do not want to help others all the time.

Sure enough, the young and old trainers gathered in groups and threes in the banquet hall, all talking and laughing while staggering, without the slightest hint of worry. The crew also prepared boxes of snacks and snacks early, and said to the regular customers with a smile that it was a dream to threaten the cruise ship with this little wind and waves.

Trainers in the southern country have more or less experienced crossing the sea in Pokémon, and they all say that their tyrannosaurus or Laplace is a hundred times more bumpy than a cruise ship. Only the good appetite of this group of people was not affected by the wind and waves, and the sweeping of the snacks and drinks on the table was like a cloud, which made the two trainers from Guandu amazed.

As one of the most energetic professionals in the world, trainers certainly don't settle for sitting around eating, drinking, and then asking around if there's anything they need help with. The crew was also unceremonious, and the laborers who had been bought with a meal scattered around the cruise ship to clean up the mess that had been tossed up by the waves.

Xiao Ye and Xiao Tian also seamlessly integrated into the group of Nanguo trainers, going to the infirmary to sort out the dumped medical supply racks on the ground. When the ship's doctor was short on manpower, Xiao Tian helped to bandage and medicate several passengers who had been injured by the bumps, and the huge medical box he carried with him was too complete, and he was unanimously praised by the ship's doctors—although the people who received the praise just sighed and couldn't laugh at all when they thought about how this thing got bigger.

In the interval of help, the crew finally learned about the weather change through intermittent signals and informed the trainers.

"I heard that the climate in the entire Orange Islands and the southern part of Guandu has become abnormal, and in some places it rains heavily one minute and sunny the next. The crew said with great interest, apparently they had not encountered such a strange thing, "The source of the change seems to be near the intersection of the currents in the central part of the Orange Islands, and we will not know until the storm has passed." ”

The trainers looked at each other. One of them didn't think to say the first reaction in everyone's hearts: "Gaioca has come to us?"

Xiao Ye pondered the words "meeting point of ocean currents" and "middle of the orange islands" repeatedly, looking thoughtful.

"What?" Xiao Tian turned his head.

"I'm wondering, Asia's island should be considered the middle of the Orange Islands?"

"That's right. ”

"So it's not Gaioca, it's Lokia. ”

Looking at his friend's determined look, Xiao Tian only felt that he saw three Charizard flying in a circle in front of him.

“…… Huh?"

The minute hand of the clock quietly turns twice.

In normal times, the eastern horizon would have begun to brighten, but now the clouds are pressing against the sky, and the gloomy feeling is almost incomprehensible.

The wind and waves intensified, but the cruise ship didn't shake more violently than before - the crew sent their own water-type Pokémon guards to the ship's left and right.

White sea lions, electric light monsters, or giant winged flying fish - each one is a good rescuer at sea. Together, they unleash a huge circulation of water that envelops the cruise ship in the center, and while it doesn't completely eliminate the turbulence, it at least reduces the shaking.

Quite a few tourists' Pokémon have also joined in. Although there is no way to tacitly integrate into the "ship stationary team", at least the small fish and shrimp that are swept away by the waves can be far away, so that they do not interfere with the work of the Pokémon in the crew.

The ship's cargo has been neatly packed up, and the broken pots and pans have been cleaned up. The trainers gathered in the lobby on the third floor, which had a better view than the first floor, and floor-to-ceiling windows allowed them to see the outside clearly.

"It's a big wave. My hometown is by the sea, and I have never seen such a big wave since I was a child. A local trainer who sent horned goldfish to help lamented.

"It's a pity we're a bit far away, otherwise I'd really like to see what's going on at the eye of the typhoon. ”

As soon as the young man said this, a group of people laughed and coaxed, and said noisily, "It's not too late to get into the water now, and when you rush over, you may be able to see the tip of Gaioca's tail." Until someone turned their head to look in front of them and hesitated, "Is that wave too high......?"

People are turning back.

A white line appeared on the turbulent sea level. In the howling wind, the white line approached the cruise ship at an alarming speed, and it was not until it approached that one realized that it was twice as tall as the surrounding waves, almost overwhelmingly enveloping the cruise ship!

"It's a killer wave!"

These sudden, long swells, often without warning and with incredible destructive power, were so widespread among sailors that hundreds of years ago were even talked about by sailors as demons in the sea. When the height of the waves exceeded the height of the overhead, even the steel giant ship became small. I don't know how many people let out a panicked cry and instinctively crouched down to find cover.

But there are also experienced trainers who go to sea who still have a calm face, and they just grabbed the table and chair fixed on the ground for the first time, and then cast their eyes on the front-

In the rolling waters, swarms of water-based Pokémon like ocean guards rise. The waters beneath them rise out of thin air, condensing and converging as part of a spear.

Seconds before the killer wave hit the cruise ship, the reverse wave stabbed towards the water curtain in front of it like an arrow from the string!

The loud crash was attenuated by the steel hull and the soundproof layers of glass, but it still exploded like thunder.

Rather than confronting the forces of nature, the "surf" formed by uniting the power of the entire ship is formed in an upside-down V-shape, splitting the oncoming water curtain in half, allowing them to pour down the road to both sides - like the traces of the saints who left the legend of dividing the sea in ancient times, the monstrous waves are cut off, and the magnificent water curtain is split in two, and the vision suddenly opens up in an instant.

The young man who had spoken wildly before couldn't help but open his mouth wide. Before he could say anything, he suddenly caught a glimpse of something unpleasant, "Wait, wait, left, left!

The collision of the two waves stirred up a turbulent aftermath, and one of them rushed straight towards it, and it was about to be set right on the side of the ship. The trainer next to him may have been screamed by him, sighed and then got up sharply and pushed open the window.

The wind and rain poured in through the window, but the skilled sailors tacitly braved the rain and poured to the window. Xiao Ye saw that many of them were holding a whistle in the shape of a conch.

Before the collision took place, the high-pitched horns sounded in unison.

Perhaps the sound was so loud that for a moment even the sound of the wind and waves faded from my ears, and only the cry of the horn echoed on the surface of the sea.

In the next moment, a dazzling beam of light from the left front tore through the gloomy sea.

Water cannons, water fluctuations, and even the destruction of light - compared to the Pokémon of the crew, the travelers' companions have no tacit understanding, their moves are uneven, and their positions are crowded with each other, and even one of the smaller companions is almost sprayed out with them. But when the sound of the horn sounded, they still aimed at the tentacles of the ocean, the enemies of the Sea Flaming Horse and their trainers.

Through the wind and rain, Xiao Ye dimly saw that his tyrannosaurus was also among them, and the golden light reflected its eyes brightly. The water Eevee stood on top of it, the current opening out in all directions, so that the sniper companions who had completed the sniper together would not be swept away by the current.

The girl was stunned, and turned to look at her companion—sure enough, he had just put down the conch whistle in his hand.

"It can carry sound deep underwater. Even in the midst of a storm, Pokémon can hear our instructions. Seeing his friend look at it, Xiao Tian explained lightly.

The trainers of the southern country had already celebrated that they had joined forces to break a wave, not caring that dancing in a bumpy boat would result in bruises and swollen faces. The crew standing by the door shrugged and eventually smiled.

Even if it hits a cruise ship, it is impossible to shake the steel monster in the sea, at most it will be two more blows, making people fall into the mud and swallow a big bag on the door of their heads - but, since they have the ability to deal with it, why not make the passengers on the ship more comfortable?

Trainers are such nosy creatures.

Over time, the waves at sea gradually decreased. The sea breeze no longer roared, and its strength became more and more gentle, caressing the cruise ship coming from the depths of the raging waves.

As the ship stabilized, passengers began to curiously run out of their rooms, huddled with the trainers and poked their heads out. There's no shame in stumbling once in a while – after all, the young, strong trainers are happier than they are.

Seven o'clock in the morning.

The dark clouds that surrounded overhead finally lifted. The first rays of sunlight shine on the sea, reflecting dazzling waves – like a declaration of victory after a fierce battle.

As the sun fell, a deafening cheer rang out over the Sea Flaming Horse.

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