Before the people on the first floor could react, the maid had already moved to the front of the owner's room and knocked anxiously on the door.

"Professor Medan! Mr. Hayden! ”

Bang bang. The heavy wooden door rattles continuously, and on this evening when the sun is setting, it looks like an ominous and restless bell and drum.

Zhulan, Junsha, and Ah Ying also ascended the stairs to the second floor at this time.

"Mr. Medan, are you alright? Miss Winnihar and I heard a strange hammering sound next door, if you're okay, please answer, okay? ”

Zina's loud shouts echoed in the empty mansion for a long time, but no one in the room answered.

"Will it ...... What happened? ”

Seeing that Xena knocked on the door several times in a row, but no one answered, Venisia turned white with fright, and began to stammer: "Dad, it's impossible for them not to hear such a knock, this is definitely not normal." Now is not the time to respect privacy, or why don't we hurry up and open the door and go in? ”

The maid nodded vigorously and tried to twist the grip outside the door, but she only heard a knock, and met unexpected resistance in her hand.

"Ah, they locked the door! Why is that? Feed! Professor Meydan! Mr. Hagrid! Are you all right? ”

Zina slammed the door of the room again and again, and the death knell-like slap became even more violent, but anyone in this mansion could definitely hear the deafening sound. Even Neil, who was in the room on the left, jumped down and hurriedly came out to check the situation.

However, the two people inside the door still did not answer.

The door of the secret room is like a desperate seal, completely separating the inside and outside of the space into two worlds.

"This, what can I do here......

Venexia stamped her feet helplessly, and looked around at the others who had gathered outside the door at this time, and after glancing around, she finally stopped at Miss Junsha, who was wearing a police uniform. Looking at the dark blue uniform that represented the credibility of the alliance, a glimmer of hope finally appeared on the panicked cheeks of the hall owner's daughter.

Jun Sha's face was expressionless, and he stepped forward and also twisted the grip, shaking his head-

"The door was indeed locked. Miss Zina, are there any props like a master key in this house? Or are there any Pokémon with superpowers or ghosts that can pick locks or go through walls? ”

"The master key is usually in the possession of Mr. Medan himself, either in the owner's room or on the owner himself. Either way, we can't get it right now. Zina replied in a low voice.

If they could get it from Meydan now, they wouldn't have to bother to open the door.

"My Wind Balloon hasn't learned how to pierce walls yet......" Professor Medan's assistant, Neil, scratched the back of his head and shook his head as well.

Junsha didn't show a disappointed expression, but just looked past the crowd standing in the front row and looked at the Sinnoh champion who had come to the Mori no Yokan with her.

"In a few days, there is a game that needs to be the main force of the ghost bonsai, and some special training must be carried out, so I didn't bring it out today. However, you can let Rose Redo try it with her "Divine Power" move. ”

"It's not going to work." Miss Police, who had a slight understanding of the tricks of the secret room, sighed, "The power of the 'Divine Power' is too fierce to be finely controlled, and it can only be used on objects within its reach, so it can't come in handy on such an occasion......"

Click.

The sound of a hard object hitting was abrupt.

At some point, Rose Ledot, who appeared in front of the champion, lowered her arm, and the red pupils under the mask proudly provoked the police officer.

"Looks like we're having a lot of luck this time." The Sinnoh Champion lifts the Poké Ball and takes Roseredor back into the ball.

“……”

Junsha's calm expression twitched, and then she gave instructions to everyone even more indifferently-

"Good. Now that the door lock mechanism is unlocked, let's get in. ”

Just like that, I pushed the door and entered the owner's room, which was said to be making a strange noise.

The moment she opened the door, Junsha immediately felt a strong sense of strangeness, and some kind of sticky and cold resistance was transmitted back to the police officer's body along the palm of the hand that pushed the door.

What's going on?

Junsha gritted her teeth, no matter what was abnormal or not, she took a step forward directly, pressed her shoulder against the door of the room that seemed to be stuck in the mud, pressed the weight of her body, and pushed hard, only then did she break through the inexplicable obstacle.

The door to the main room is fully opened, revealing a panoramic view of the interior.

Everyone was immediately taken aback by the scene in front of them—

It's not because there are some inhumane and bloody cases in this secret room, but because there is a humanoid Pokémon with a round head and a round brain, and it is angry to stop in front of the door that was opened.

Resembling a gentleman in a gown, the top hat is shaped like a snowflake, the mouth is covered by a mustache, the shoes resemble tap dancing shoes, and the mittens hold a civilized stick made of ice cubes in his hand.

"Ice treading dolls in the Galar region?"

Junsha immediately recognized the elf in front of her. So the resistance I felt before, is that ......

"Chloe, Klocklo!"

The ice puppet made a sound like ice rolling in its mouth, and a cane made of ice crystals swirled between the crowd and the room. It was clearly guarded here on someone's orders.

And past this ice-type Pokémon with a hat that is only 1.5 meters tall, no matter who you are, you can clearly see it-

In the owner's room, the two professors and entrepreneurs, who were thought to have suffered an accident and slammed the wall to cry for help, were now sitting peacefully on the wooden easy chairs and the single sofas opposite each other in the room.

Judging by the way they smile and talk happily, it is impossible for them to have anything to do with violent conflict in any case.

In particular, Mr. Medan was swept away like a battlefield after "clearing the fog" and was replaced by a sincere and hearty laugh that had never been seen before. Hayden, an old classmate sitting on the sofa across from him, was also waving his fingers at this time, not knowing what to say at a rambling point, causing Maidan to pat his thighs and lean back together.

"I see, it's because of the sound."

Zhulan, who had not yet entered the room, muttered behind everyone, as if she had understood the main reason for this oolong incident.

"Oh? How did you guys get in? ”

Hayden's peripheral vision caught a glimpse of the crowd blocking the door of the room, and immediately stopped talking to Medan, nodding to the ice-stepping puppet guarding the door.

"Chloe~" The comedian-like ice puppet made an exaggerated greeting gesture, and the hand that was not holding the cane flicked his fingers, and the atmosphere of the room suddenly underwent some indescribable change.

Everyone outside the door only felt inexplicable about this, but Junsha could immediately feel that the cold and slimy resistance that was originally pressing on her body completely disappeared in the moment when the ice puppet snapped its fingers.

At the same time, Mr. Hayden's voice in the room became very clear—

"Akei, tell me what's going on. Also, I wonder, why are the Sinnoh League police here? ”

"I'm so sorry!"

Without waiting for Mr. Hayden's named steward to respond, the maid lady who followed closely behind Junsha hurriedly stepped forward, bowed her head to Meydan and Hayden and apologized—

"We heard the strange sound of pounding against the walls in the next room, so we thought something was wrong in the owner's room. Unexpectedly, even if we knocked on the door, no one answered, and the door of the room was locked, so we made a fuss......"

"The door is locked?" Mr. Hayden looked surprised, as if even he didn't know what was going on.

"Probably there's something wrong with this wooden door." Medan waved his hand impatiently, clearly upset that everyone was disturbing his conversation with his old classmates.

"Occasionally, if you push too hard when closing the door, you let the door lock automatically re-lock...... Fashionable things are just unreliable, so I have to carry the keys with me every day when I go out. By the way, you don't have to worry about Junsha and them, they just happened to come to this mansion at noon today. ”

"They? By coincidence? The entrepreneur was visibly skeptical, feeling that there were many inexplicable elements in his classmates' words.

"Hehe, compared to those, Hayden, you better explain the question we can't hear knocking on the door, I think Neil is about to put a question mark on his face."

Assistant Neil scratched his face in embarrassment.

"There's nothing to explain about that." The big boss shrugged his shoulders boringly and said.

"In order to prevent the leakage of research secrets, I asked the ice puppet to use a "reflection wall" to insulate this room, which is usually the case in normal business negotiations, right? What's more, even if others don't know the inside story, Ah Ying, you should always understand what's going on, right? ”

As he spoke, Mr. Hayden cast an unkind gaze on his bodyguard and chauffeur.

"I'm sorry, sir." Steward Ah Ying trembled and bowed his head to admit his mistake, "I was disturbed by the sound of the hammer wall that the two young ladies said, and I didn't think in this direction for a while. ”

"So." Medan exclaimed in annoyance, "What the hell is the sound of the hammer wall you are talking about?" ”

"I heard the sound of hitting the wall next door." His daughter pouted.

"Hit the wall?"

Professor Hayden and Mr. Maidan looked at each other in confusion, and together they looked at the wall that separated the owner's room from the Venexia room.

There is no way to make a pounding wall!

Because there, there are no exposed walls at all.

The wall between Venexia and the owner's room had long since been completely covered by a huge bookshelf filled with books and documents.