[Pokemon] Late Autumn

Late Qiu watched this scene without blinking, waiting for the dazzling white light to dissipate.

Although I was surprised that Riolu evolved at this time, but if I think about it carefully, regardless of the accumulated experience and the conditions for evolution, it was almost this time.

The white light gradually faded, and a more slender and tall figure came out: its eyes were calm and composed, and its limbs were stronger. Even in such sandstorm weather, it was not disturbed.

"Lucario..." Shenqiu murmured to himself, looking at its back, feeling very relieved.

Now that he has evolved, there is no suspense in this battle. Lucario defeated the Big Jaw Ant in three strikes and two divisions. Then he turned around and walked step by step in front of Shenqiu.

"...Late autumn."

Lucario raised his head slightly, hesitated to speak, and finally just gently used the waveguide to call out the most important name again.

Lucario's voice is deeper and richer. Compared with the clear boyish voice before, it now looks more like a young man who has gone through the period of voice change.

"I understand..." Shen Qiu lowered her eyes slightly, but her tone was very brisk, "Because of this place."

Feeling the touch of Shen Qiu's fingers, Lucario was stunned, and he lowered his head at a loss and looked at Shen Qiu pointing at his chest.

"Here, we are connected."

Lucario mused.

Heart……

Yes, the person with the same mind is right in front of you, isn't it?

For a long time, Lucario and Shen Qiu looked at each other and smiled.

What a blessing it is to meet someone who is so in tune with me and whose spirit and will are similar to mine.

but……

Lucario lowered his head, glanced at the thorns on his chest and the back of his hands, and carefully held Shenqiu's hand to prevent Shenqiu from being hurt by the thorns on his chest.

...It's a bit in the way, really troublesome.

"Okay, it's almost time to get down to business."

Lucario looked at the Big Jaw Ant slowly, folded his hands on his chest, and was about to say something, but saw that the other person's body was covered in scars, he paused subtly, and his tone became a little embarrassed. , "...I'm sorry, I was too impatient. Let's get some treatment first."

Late Qiu had already prepared the wound medicine. Seeing that the ant showed no resistance, he carefully paid attention to the movements of his hands and gently sprayed the medicine on the injured area of ​​the ant.

The giant-jawed ant gritted its teeth and didn't let itself make a sound, but its body suddenly tensed up and unconsciously moved further away from Shen Qiu.

"It hurts a bit, but the medicine hasn't been applied yet. Please bear with it for a while, Big-jawed Ant." Late Qiu noticed the evading movements of Big-jawed Ant, and also slowed down his voice and gently comforted him.

However, the strange thing is that after careful observation in late autumn, he found that the scars on the body of the giant jaw ant were more than imagined - there were many small wounds on the back of the giant jaw ant queen, but these wounds did not look like injuries from the battle just now, but rather like An old wound from some time ago.

"...Eat some of this first, see if you like the taste." Late Qiu put some elf food and handed it to the giant-jawed ant, trying to divert its attention.

The giant-jawed ant had never seen this kind of fairy food before. It was completely attracted by the smell of the food in front of it, and its eyes lit up. It didn't notice that Late Qiu was still applying medicine to it.

It has never smelled like this before, but it seems delicious.

The giant-jawed ant did not hesitate and ate all the food in one bite.

Delicious!

The giant-jawed ant narrowed its eyes with joy, gently pushed its head against Shen Qiu's palm, and raised its head, with "I still want it" written all over its face.

"Do you like eating this?" Shen Qiu couldn't help laughing, and poured some more for the mandible ant.

She was being cautious and poured some food that the young toothed dragons liked for the ants. Since the ant's final evolution was a desert dragonfly and also had dragon attributes, their favorite tastes should not be too different.

Unexpectedly, the effect turned out to be surprisingly good.

The giant-jawed ant once again finished the food handed to it by Late Qiu at the speed of light. Just when it wanted to, it heard the gentle and helpless voice of Late Qiu above its head: "Nothing this time. But the medicine has been applied. Try standing up and moving around.”

Big-jawed Ant blinked and moved its body a little, and found that the fatigue in the body and those old injuries had completely disappeared. Big-jawed Ant was surprised and happy, and thanked Shen Qiu.

Although there is no more food to eat, the body returns to a very light state, and the strength continues to flow out. The giant-jawed ant feels that it has chewed dozens of rocks now!

"It'll be good once you recover." Shen Qiu understood what Big Jaw Ant meant without Lucario's translation, and rubbed Big Jaw Ant's head with a smile.

The giant-jawed ant was in a good mood, and gently nudged Shenqiu's ankle and barked a few times, signaling them to follow it and go in this direction.

"Okay, so amazing..."

Yamada stared blankly at the way the big-jawed ant behaved obediently in front of Shenqiu. He couldn't believe his eyes for a while. It took him a long time to finally come back to his senses and jumped up with great excitement, "Miss Shenqiu, you are so great." Awesome! Can we find the desert ruins this way? This is so... I can finally find this place, thanks to you all!"

Yamada was happily talking incoherently, but Daigo poured cold water on him helplessly: "Yamada-kun, although there are giant jaw ants leading the way, it is not necessarily... In this weather, it is entirely possible for the wind and sand to cover up the ruins. "

Indeed, the surrounding yellow sand is scattered, and the wind blows the gravel whistling past. At first glance, the surrounding scene looks exactly the same, but if you look closely, you will find that the terrain under your feet is constantly changing.

Yamada looked back and felt dizzy. He couldn't tell which direction they were coming from.

"Hug, I'm sorry... I was happy too early..." he said slowly, and slowly calmed down.

Fortunately, there is a giant mandible ant leading the way. It is familiar with the road in the desert, and even the changing terrain cannot faze it.

After careful observation in late autumn, I found that the mandible ants seemed to have their own set of exploration methods in the desert. From time to time, it lowers its head, close to the ground, or smells everywhere, not knowing what it is sensing.

It's so cute and interesting, Luo Qiu thought with a smile.

Lucario was not idle here either. It released the waveguide again to detect the surrounding terrain. There was a qualitative leap before and after evolution. Not only was the detection range this time much larger than before, but the level of detail in detecting things had also risen by more than one level.

But still not... Huh?

Lucario suddenly opened his eyes and stared at something.

"Here we are." "Here it is."

Lucario and Bigjaw Ant stopped at the same time and looked somewhere underground.

They looked at each other and told Shen Qiu to stay away, and then they used burrowing together.

The ant's digging speed was obviously faster than that of Lucario. Soon, they were surprised to find pieces of gray-yellow, strange-shaped rocks lying quietly in the sand.

Daigo went over to take a look with great interest, but regrettably found that the placement of these stones was completely chaotic, and the stones themselves had nothing special about them.

"You mean, there's something strange about the energy field here?"

Seeing Lucario nod, Mid-Autumn became even more confused. There is nothing here except these stones, and it doesn't look like a ruin at all.

Lucario shook his head: "The strange energy field is only in this area, but apart from these stones, there is really nothing further inside."

"But these rocks are indeed just ordinary strange rocks." Dawu approached these rocks and touched them with his hands. They were no different from ordinary rocks.

Late autumn believed in Lucario's waveguide and Daigo's judgment. She looked at the pile of rocks and thought carefully: "Could this be not the place Mr. Yamada said?"

"It's possible." Dawu frowned slightly, and then analyzed, "However, if it is here, there are two possibilities."

"One, suppose this is the "ruins". Someone found this ruins first, took away valuable things, and then destroyed the place. These stones are just worthless furnishings; second, there is no so-called "ruins" at all. The energy field is because this was originally the territory of a certain elf, but it left here, so the remaining energy was contaminated on these stones. "

"All in all, I think these stones must have witnessed something." Daigo asserted calmly.

"It makes sense." Shen Qiu sighed regretfully and had no choice but to accept this fact.

I thought I could see what the ruins in the desert looked like, but I didn't expect this to be the end result.

Yamada didn't hear what Miqiu and Daigo said at all. He looked at the rocks in this place blankly, feeling like a fool.

After working for so long, you can only find a pile of rocks in the end?

Impossible, he didn't believe it, there must be something wrong!

Yamada took out a detector, lay on the ground and searched carefully for something - unfortunately everything on the detector was normal and nothing happened.

He suddenly knelt on the sand and covered his face in despair.

Seeing this, Shen Qiu wanted to step forward and say something more. When she saw Daigo shaking his head gently, she hesitated and had to sigh softly to give Yamada some space.

Instead, Dawu carefully observed these stones, took photos of the place, and then used a chisel to gently chip away a small piece of stone and put it into a transparent bag.

"I can help study these stones." He took into account Yamada's mood and deliberately lowered his voice.

...As expected of you. Late Qiu gave him a subtle look.

Daigo was actually not in a bad mood, it could even be said to be pretty good. Although he didn't find any ruins, he found these interesting stones. For him, it was a worthwhile trip.

Shenqiu understood what Daiwu meant, nodded slightly, and said honestly: "I'm actually okay...after all, I didn't have high hopes from the beginning."

Looking for relics in a windy and sandy desert can be said to be like finding a needle in a haystack, so at the beginning of late autumn, he tried to persuade Yamada not to have such high hopes, otherwise he would be even more disappointed now.

Kuruga caught a glimpse of Yamada who was still depressed, snorted lightly and said nothing. On the other side, Lucario and Bigjaw Ant were also very quiet, and for a while they could only hear the whistling wind.

……

"You are very strong." The mandible ant suddenly spoke to Lucario.

Lucario glanced at the Giant Jaw Ant in surprise, wondering why it suddenly mentioned this: "Probably because I train every day...but it's not enough."

Lucario knew that Heiluga had fought against Metagross before, and it had also tried, although it had lost miserably.

Its current level is not good enough, and it will take a long time to reach the level of Metagross.

"I... also want to become stronger."

The mandible ant fell silent after speaking.

It wants to become stronger, likes to fight, and enjoys the process of becoming stronger. For this reason, it trains every day, and the scars on its body are the best witness. It is already the strongest one in the entire group of mandible ants, but until today, it didn't know that this was just the first step.

It knew that it could only improve its ability through training on its own, but it couldn't do what Lucario did - it had an entire tribe to lead.

However, it really wants to see what the world outside the desert is like.

I heard from the elders that outside there are clear rivers, towering mountains, sweet and delicious fruits, and all kinds of elves and humans. It is a vast and magnificent world.

But more importantly, there are stronger opponents out there!

"I really want to go out and see, travel everywhere - with you." As if he had made up his mind, the mandible ant raised his head and looked at Lucario, and then at Shen Qiu, "I know, this is called conquering the opponent. Bar?"

Lucario was stunned. This was the first time it had seen such a situation, and he immediately told Shen Qiu what the mandible ant meant.

"With us?" Shenqiu took a long time to react and asked the mandible ant again uncertainly, "But will you leave the desert and not see your tribe?"

"They understand me." The mandible ant was very determined.

It has always been like this, and once you have made up your mind, you will always move in this direction without changing it.

"But...I still need to say goodbye."

"Yes, otherwise they will worry about you." Shenqiu squatted down, took out an empty elf ball and placed it in front of the mandible ant, and said with a smile, "Then, you are welcome to be my companion."

The jaw ant's eyes widened slightly, and it immediately touched it with its head. Without any struggle, it turned into a red light and got into the elf ball, and was immediately released by Shenqiu.

"Go and say goodbye properly, Big Jaw Ant, I'll wait for you to come back!"

Wait for me and I will travel the world with you!