Pokémon Devil King

Chapter 347 Moving mountains and filling seas

After the researcher left, the snow-white shadow appeared silently in the woods again.

It did not come closer, but just perched on a tree trunk dozens of meters away, its scarlet eyes cast at Jiuji, like a silent supervisor.

The team changed direction and headed towards the source of the disaster upstream in the valley.

The deeper you go, the steeper the terrain becomes.

The soft humus underfoot turned into hard rock and slippery moss. The air was filled with water vapor. A huge roar came from the front, shaking the eardrums.

That's the sound of a waterfall not far away.

Heracross had a particularly difficult time walking.

It took every step with extreme caution, its pace seemed a little slow on this rugged terrain, and its mind was highly tense, fearing that something unexpected would happen to it again.

Jiuji's eyes swept over its tense limbs without saying anything to comfort it.

Some knots in your heart need to be untied by yourself.

Finally, after passing through the last narrow crevice, the view suddenly opened up.

A silver-thread-like waterfall rushed down from a cliff tens of meters high, crashing into the deep pool below, stirring up mist all over the sky.

Absol was already standing on a jutting rock opposite the waterfall.

It raised its head, its sickle-like horn pointing diagonally upwards.

Everyone looked in the direction it pointed.

On the cliff on the north side of the waterfall, a huge rock the size of a house stands suspended in the air, with only a small part of its bottom connected to the mountain, and it may collapse at any time due to its own weight.

It was frightening to watch.

[That's it.] Absol's thoughts came, carrying an undeniable warning, [Below is the loosest structure of the mountain. If it falls, the entire valley will be buried alive.]

Jiuji looked at the cliff quietly, then looked at the watch terminal. The screen displayed the energy monitoring map provided by the researcher.

A flashing red dot clearly marks the highest risk area.

But the red dot is not on the cliff on the north side.

But in the middle of the river.

Absol seemed to sense her hesitation, and a hint of impatience flashed in his scarlet eyes.

In its view, danger is imminent, but these humans are still hesitating.

"We need to confirm another location." Jiuji raised his hand, pointing to a seemingly normal area of ​​the river covered by turbulent water. "According to the instrument's detection, the geological structure there is more unstable."

【Impossible.】 Absol turned his head and retorted subconsciously.

Its ability to foresee disasters, passed down through countless generations, had never failed. All signs of danger pointed to that overhanging rock.

Jiuji didn't argue with it. It was clear at a glance whether it was true or not.

Her gaze turned to Daidai beside her.

"stay."

The next second, a powerful mental force enveloped the river ahead.

The roaring and rushing water suddenly stagnated strangely, and under Absol's incredulous gaze, the turbulent river water parted to both sides, revealing the dark and moist riverbed below.

One of the huge bedrocks forms the foundation of most of the cliff face.

At this moment, a huge crack appeared in the center of the bedrock.

The rushing river water washes and erodes the crack 24 hours a day.

If left untreated, within a month at most, this bedrock will completely crack and be washed away by the water...

The researcher's instrument is correct.

Absol fell completely silent. This disaster hidden beneath the water was more deadly, more hidden, and more difficult to deal with than the cliff.

With its perception, it would probably have to wait until the bedrock was damaged more severely before it would discover it.

Jiuji squatted down on the shore and reached his hand into the cold rapids, feeling the impact of the water on the rocks.

Huahua's vine whip dived deeper into the water, sensing the fragility of the rock inside.

Daidai was suspended on the side, and his invisible mental power stabilized the surrounding airflow, isolating the water mist that was blowing in his face.

After a brief moment of reflection, Jiuji stood up and came to the same conclusion as Huahua.

The interior of this bedrock has long been eroded by water into a crispy consistency.

There is basically no possibility of reinforcement.

Now, things get tricky.

The huge rock hanging on the north side is an obvious threat, and it is relatively straightforward to deal with. At most, it requires a little more effort to move it or destroy it.

But the cracked bedrock underwater is the real trouble.

It is the foundation of the entire mountain.

Forcible removal would be like cutting off the fuel supply, causing the entire cliff to collapse one after another, with consequences even more serious than a cliff fall.

The reinforcement plan could not be implemented at all.

Heracross looked at the crumbling rock in the north and the hideous underwater crack in the south, and his huge horn drooped unconsciously.

It felt as if it had come to a place where accidents were bound to happen again.

At this moment, another slight tremor came from underground without warning.

"Hera?!"

Heracross slipped and his already tense body suddenly fell backwards.

In panic, its huge horn subconsciously leaned to the side for support, but unexpectedly it dug into the cliff behind it!

There was a dull thud and gravel flew everywhere.

It actually pried a millstone-sized rock off the cliff.

The rock rolled over its head, with a whistling sound, and fell straight into the crack of the riverbed below.

"boom!"

The rock hit the edge of the crack, splashing a lot of water, and then got stuck there steadily, neither too big nor too small, just fitting into a corner of the crack.

Heracross froze completely.

It slowly retracted its horn, looked at the small gap that it had "filled", and then looked at Jiuji, its eyes quite hurt.

I really didn't move at all, I don't know why it turned out like this...

Absol on the cliff changed his posture, and a flash of light flashed in his scarlet eyes... speechless.

Is this guy here to help or to cause trouble?

However, Jiuji didn't even look at it.

Her eyes were fixed on the rock embedded in the crack.

He carefully distinguished the material of the rock and the shape of the fracture surface, then slowly raised his head, looking past the roaring waterfall to the lonely giant rock on the opposite cliff.

An idea instantly formed in her mind.

Size… shape… texture…

The corners of Jiuji's mouth curved up into a curve that was a mixture of amusement and admiration.

"Heracross," she said softly.

Heracross, who was almost petrified, shuddered, thinking that he was going to be scolded, and his huge horn drooped down.

"You've really accomplished a great deed this time," Jiuji's tone didn't contain a trace of blame, but rather a strange, heartfelt praise.

She turned around and glanced at Daidai, Huahua, and the still vigilant Absol on the other side.

"I think we have a solution." She pointed to the overhanging giant rock opposite, then to the river, and spoke clearly, word by word: "We will move mountains and fill the sea."

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