Route 111.

It had been a day since Kashiwagi arrived.

As a very special place in the Hoenn area, only Route 111 has a large desert style that is completely different from the birdsong and greenery of the Hoenn style.

Occasionally, huge sandstorms can be set off here, hindering passing travelers from moving on.

It's just that you don't have the prerequisites in the game that you have to wear goggles to walk through the desert, and if you choose to detour, you have to walk at least one more day.

In the anime, in the depths of the desert, there is a kingdom of Mirazu that worships Pokebi to the extreme, independent of the world, and if you want to become the king here, you must have Pokebi, which triggered the incident of Xiaoxia's Pokebi evolving into Pokkigu and leaving the team.

Interestingly, the kingdom of Mirazu has a magical "mirage", which seems to be a phantom but is actually a real secret realm, and a large number of pokébi live inside, growing through contact with the hearts of people on earth.

Once the human heart becomes evil, the environment of Pokeby's Land in the mirage will also deteriorate rapidly, causing Pokeby to become sick or emaciated.

It's amazing.

When it comes to games, this desert is even more eloquent.

Not only are there fantastic places like the Tower of Phantoms, but there is also a desert ruin in the deepest part, and solving the puzzle of the Road 134 Bulletin Stone Room will lead to encountering the legendary giant Reggie Lock, who sleeps inside......

The premise is that it is not subdued by the gods.

I remember that the anime doesn't explain where the Three Pillars of the Gods came from, only mentioning that the Reggie Ace in it comes from a certain ruin.

"Here's the head through."

The cypress with his head wrapped in a rice dumpling puts down his binoculars and looks out at the sandstorm that obscures the sky and the sun in the distance, and the terrifying natural disasters are daunting. According to the travel guide displayed on the phone, you only need to walk through the sandstorm to reach the kingdom of Mirazu located in the canyon.

But when it comes to being a kingdom, it is actually only the size of a town, and it is even inferior to the old Huangtie Town through the comparison of the overlooking area map published on the Internet.

The only thing that attracts him in that place is Xiaoxia's Pokkigu, but he may live in a mirage and can't see it if he wants to.

What's more, people don't know themselves, and it makes no sense for the body to break into a sandstorm.

"Let's go."

Kashiwagi shook his head and chose to give up, and said to Boskodora not far away.

"Goo~"

The big silver-clad monster replied, glancing over the rolling sand dunes and then down at its legs and tail sunk slightly into the gravel.

Although it is very adaptable to this environment, and the hot sand flowing on the surface of the body is not only not hot but very comfortable, but if it can choose, it still wants to walk in the mountains and forests.

It's too hot.

Boskodora flicked her thick tail, knowing full well that her body had been scorched by the fireball in the sky, and that if she didn't get close to the trainer, she would burn him.

Let's keep a little distance.

It was about to keep up with the trainer, when it suddenly stopped and looked at the crater in the far distance, surrounded by many towering sand dunes, and there was an unusual ripple in the twisted air under the heat wave, "Boom!"

"What's wrong?"

Kashiwagi turned his head sideways, followed Boskodora's line of sight, and took out the binoculars in his pocket to look at them carefully, "Huh? Flying Squirrel!?"

He looked surprised.

From his angle and position, he could just see the situation in the pit—

A humanoid Dream Song Cactus is leading two spherical spikeball cacti to beat an electric flying squirrel with scars on its body, which is in a critical condition, constantly trying to fly and always falling.

Why do flying squirrels appear in the desert in the United States?

Abandoned? Separated from the trainer?

"Come on, it's all like this, you can't pretend not to see it."

Kashiwagi ran in the direction where the electric flying squirrel was, doing good deeds helps to accumulate character, and it takes a certain amount to open a skill box and a simulator

of luck.

"Roar!"

Boss Dora let out a muffled roar, and his massive body dug into the ground like a shark and rushed towards it, obviously a little faster than running on the surface of the sand and digging holes.

It can also make the enemy confused.

Sure enough.

As the sand trembled wildly, the Dream Song Cactus and Thornball Cactus suddenly became panicked, looking around for the cause of the tremors.

"Wow!" "Ahem!"

Given a chance to breathe, the flying squirrel tried to escape, but the injuries on its wings and the symptoms of dizziness caused it to fall high into the hot sand, baring its teeth from the scalding.

"Wow......"

On the other hand, the Dream Song Cactus and Thornball Cactus finally spotted the raiders, and a bulging sand dune was flying towards them!

"Ahem!"

As the boss, the Dream Song Cactus immediately made a decision and commanded his thorn ball cactus brothers to attack the sandbag!

Puff puff puff!!

The three Pokémon were like holding three machine guns, constantly shooting countless arrows of bright green light at the bulging sand dunes, and the sand and dust rose into the sky, swishing so loudly that the sound of breaking the wind made people's eardrums explode.

But there is no doubt that the physical moves of the insect attribute have no effect on a steel behemoth.

"Roar!!"

A thunderous roar rang out.

Bosco Dora burst out of the sand with a thud, her massive body like a mountain peak obscuring the sun, casting a shadow and terrifying the faces of the Dream Song Cactus and the Thorn Ball Cactus.

Immediately, the huge metal mouth that was enough to bite through the steel bar opened like an ejector, and the orange-red flames gushed out like a tidal wave!

Boom ——!!

The flames instantly covered most of the crater sky, and the power of the jet flames under the scorching sun increased greatly, and the terrifying sound frightened the Dream Song Cactus and Thornball Cactus to turn their heads and run!

Obviously, they are all extremely slow Pokémon, but in order to save their lives, they showed an extremely terrifying explosive power, and they disappeared without a trace. Only one injured flying squirrel was left with its left paw holding its head and trembling.

"Well done!"

Kashiwagi, who emerged from behind the sand dunes, complimented that since it was not clear why the Dream Song Cactus and the Thornball Cactus would attack the electric flying squirrels, they only needed to be driven away, and there was no need to be ruthless.

What if the flying squirrel did something out of the ordinary?

Although it is nothing more than invading territory and fighting for water or food, after all, it belongs to the background of animation at the moment. If you follow the background described in the game's illustrated book, it is likely to be inseparable from hunting.

He put on the insulating gloves he had used to touch Lei Gong before, and squatted down next to the electric flying squirrel with his head in his arms, confirming that this guy's injury was not a disguise.

The little claw on the right side is broken, and the wing membrane can't open, no wonder it can't fly.

"It's okay, I won't hurt you."

He whispered, and Boskodora climbed out of the pit to keep out of the pit to prevent the Dream Song Cactus from running to call for help or something.

The two are becoming more and more agile, and they don't need to communicate to do what the other person wants.

"Wow......"

Hearing the human voice, the electric flying squirrel lowered his paw slightly and glanced sideways, and when he saw that it was a human boy with a friendly expression, his tense emotions suddenly relaxed, and then his eyes rolled and he fainted and fell to the ground.

Kashiwagi: "...... Touching porcelain?"

He gently lifted the squirrel's eyelids and looked at its mouth again.

Well.

Heat stroke.

It's not touching porcelain.

"We'll have to find a way to move to a shady place." Kashiwagi picked up the flying squirrel and said to Boskodora.

——

Under the shade of boulders.

Inside the tent.

"Wow......"

Feeling the wetness of its mouth, the flying squirrel opened its eyes to find a familiar pink oval creature holding a water bottle cap and feeding it drop by drop

。

Did you come to the Pokémon Center yourself?

It turned its head slightly, and saw the strange human crouching at the mouth of the tent before realizing that there was not.

「happy~」

"Awake? Don't move, let the happy egg bandage you,"

Kashiwagi turned his head, and suddenly saw the frustrated expression of the electric flying squirrel on the cushion twisting his little face and trying to get up and failing.

This guy's right paw was drugged and bandaged, and of course he couldn't get up when he lost his stability.

In addition to the most serious injuries, there are also some minor wounds that are not serious, and if you suffer from heat stroke, you have just been successfully cured with medical essence.

"Ahh

The electric flying squirrel looked down at his embarrassed self, his cute little face was extremely depressed, followed by a gurgling sound from his stomach.

Kashiwagi and Happy Egg glanced at each other and couldn't help but smile.

A moment later.

The electric flying squirrel kept stuffing delicious Pokémon food into its mouth, like a starving ghost reincarnated, and at the same time, a voice of inquiry came from the side.

"Why are you in the desert? Abandoned? Mistaken? Separated from the trainer?"

"Ahh Ahh

The electric flying squirrels on both sides of the cheeks bulged until they were about to explode, and explained their experiences with emotion.

And Kashiwagi understood this guy's situation through the text explanation of the polygonal beast in the mobile phone.

While chasing the wild desert dragonfly with the trainer in the hope of subduing it, they accidentally encountered a strong sandstorm, and the two were forced to disperse in a panic.

"Your trainer is chasing you with desert dragonflies??"

He looked at his phone and checked with the flying squirrel again to see if the content was accurate.

"Ahhh~"

When the other party nodded again and showed a pitiful expression, Kashiwagi couldn't help but marvel.

Where did the inverse attribute master come from so powerful?

Unfortunately, it encountered natural disasters that were difficult to resist.

He began to ask the electric flying squirrel training parents what it looked like, and took out his sketchbook and quickly drew it based on the content of the polygonal beast's translation, but the more he drew it, the more strange his expression became.

The girl, with slightly dark skin, wears beige and pink clothes, has extremely fluffy hair and a pair of double ponytails, the rope that binds her hair is golden, and the largest area can hide a Pokémon such as Tooth Tooth......

"Hey, is your trainer's name Alice? From the Land of the United Dragon?"

Kashiwagi put down his half-drawn sketchbook and asked with a strange expression.

"Huh?"

The flying squirrel suddenly heard the trainer's name, and the Pokémon food in the little claw's paws was shocked, "Ahh Ahh

It nodded frantically, its eyes twinkling like little stars.

I didn't expect to meet an acquaintance of the trainer! That's great!

"Inverse Attribute Master...... It seems that your testimony may not be credible."

Kashiwagi is still quite clear about the character of Alice's electric flying squirrel, and this one really lies without blinking.

He looked at the signal on his phone and said to it, "You'd better start praying that your trainer has a phone and that it's still battery or not."

"Huh?"

The flying squirrel turned its head in confusion.

Kashiwagi found Awu's number and called, waving his hand and saying, "It's okay, you eat yours, lucky you can find your trainer soon."

A few seconds later, Ah Wu answered the phone.

"Hey? You actually have time to call me? Can't beat the gym?"

"Of course not—you should know Alice, right?"

"Alice!? Yes! Yes! She's traveling in Hoenn right now! Did you meet her, she was next to you? Let her answer the phone!"

The noisy shouting made him bring the phone to the electric flying squirrel's ear.

The electric flying squirrel looked dazed.

Ah Wu on the other end of the phone said excitedly, "Alice?"

"Huh?"

"Is that you, Alice?"

"Sigh?"

「……」

「……」

Kashiwagi duly took the phone back, "As you can see Alice doesn't, she has one."

「…… Are you bored?"

"I'd like to ask you why you're so excited, without further ado, do you have Alice's cell phone number? I need to contact her here."

"That's it? Why didn't you say it earlier, you should have said it earlier......

"If you talk about it again, I'll ask the eldest mother-in-law directly."

"Wrong, don't, please."

Awu, who was begged to come to the door, apologized, and Kashiwagi, who begged for help, forgave him very generously.

And Alice actually has a mobile phone is indeed a good thing, you must know that even in the next few generations, many times Ash has to rely on the video call device of the Pokémon Center to contact Dr. Oki and Hanako.

Alice, who has traveled with him for so long, is like a wild child, and she watches Ash's games on a tree on a tablet in the later journeys, and it is completely understandable that she doesn't have a mobile phone at the moment.

But she did.

It's peculiar.

Kashiwagi glanced at the flying squirrel, perhaps knowing that he knew the trainer, who was now preoccupied with his meal, without lifting his eyelids, and seemed to have no idea what his fate would be.

Telephone broadcast.

Got through but no one answered.

Second broadcast.

Still no one answered.

Aired for the third time.

Still no one answered.

Could it be that the phone was also lost in the sandstorm?

He began to consider whether to simply use the capture ball to subdue the flying squirrel and send it to the Dragon Country, so that the people in Dragon Land could contact Alice on their own later.

While thinking like this, the phone screen suddenly lit up, as if it was Alice playing back.

Kashiwagi hurriedly pressed the answer button.

"Hello? This is Alice!"

The same crisp voice as the anime voice actor Yumu Bi came out, "I'm sorry that the phone fell to the bottom just now......

The bottom?

What the hell are you talking about?

He got straight to the point and said, "I picked up your electric flying squirrel, where are you?"

"Electric flying squirrel!?"

Alice quickly raised her voice, and successfully made the electric flying squirrel who was intoxicated with dry rice lift her head from the bowl, "Huh?"

Kashiwagi put the phone to the electric flying squirrel's ear again.

"Ahh Ahh

The electric rat with its own wing membrane anxiously shouted at the phone.

"Are you alright? It's great to hear you!"

Alice on the other end of the phone breathed a sigh of relief, and after thinking about it, she felt that something was wrong, "Wait, excuse me, how did you know my number?" I don't think I left a phone on the flying squirrel?"

"It's a long story, why don't you talk about it in person, where are you now? Are you coming for me or am I coming for you?" Kashiwagi pressed the anxious electric flying squirrel and asked.

Alice replied, "Of course I'm coming to you—I want to say it, but there's nothing I can do about it."

Her voice was slightly troubled, "I feel like I'm trapped in a strange tower."

"Tower?"