Pokémon Beyond the Blue

It's dark, humid, and sends chills down your spine.

This is the feeling that Shion City brings to people.

This is true for Ziyuan City, and even more so for Elf Tower.

Ikki and Red struggled to push the door open a crack, and Riolu squeezed in along the crack.

The air is humid and has a faint musty smell.There is only one straight road in the tower for people to pass through. On both sides of the road are coffins used to bury elves. The light is very weak and can only be seen clearly.

After looking around and finding no members of Team Rocket, Riolu shouted into the gap and helped the two of them continue to push the door open.

"It seems like they are all on the upper level, so no one should have noticed us." Red called out his fire dinosaur.

"Fire dinosaur, please lead the way."

The flames on the fire dinosaur's tail illuminate the surrounding area as soon as they come out, which can be regarded as a flashlight.

"In that case...Charmander, you can come too!"

In this way, the two guys without flashlights each had their own light source.

"Well, how can ghosts exist?"

Red followed the fire dinosaur forward, but found that a person seemed to be walking in front of him.

"Hey! What are you two doing here?"

The sudden words made the unsuspecting Ikki and Red break into a cold sweat.The fire dinosaur assumed a fighting stance, and at the same time, the flames on its tail suddenly grew in size, illuminating a wider area.

"Ghost...?"

"No way……"

"I'm not a ghost."

The man continued to approach, still speaking nonchalantly.

After seeing the face of the visitor clearly, Ikki and Red breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ghosts seem to be haunting the upper floors, probably because they hate Team Rocket..." the woman explained to red.

But if you let your long hair down to cover your normal face in a place like this, everyone would be shocked, right?

Riolu came to the stairs and looked up. After making sure it was safe, he returned to Ikki.

"Then what are you here for?"

The woman frowned slightly, sighed, and pointed to a coffin not far away.

"I'm here to pay homage to our Nidoran. After all, the feelings between humans and elves are not so easy to eliminate."

After sorting out her emotions, the woman asked Yihui: "If you want to come over to pay homage, please be careful." She passed between red and Yihui and left the elf tower.

[The lower two floors are safe, let’s go up. 】

The condition of the second floor is no different from the first floor. The only difference is that there are a few more decorative pillars.

"There are so many elves..."

Ikki looked around as he walked.This was his first time in a place like this. If Red and Riolu hadn't been with him, he might have turned around and run away.This is not a matter of cowardice, but of rationality.

After successfully passing the second floor, they walked up the stairs to the third floor.

"Wow!!!!!"

Just as he was halfway up the steps, someone's shrill screams came from the upper floors of the tower.

"Let's go and see!"

"Ah."

Taking advantage of his light body, Riolu jumped up two or three times, closed his eyes and manipulated the waveguide.

'The fourth floor... no, the location of the fifth floor!It seems that the so-called ghost should be there. '

Red and Ikki also followed.

"Riolu, did you find anything?"

[The ghost should be around the fifth floor. 】

Through the waveguide, he didn't see the ghost. After all, it was absolutely impossible for that kind of thing to have a waveguide, but he did find something running down quickly. It probably wasn't Team Rocket.

"I gonna go see."

Red ran towards the stairs leading to the fourth floor with the fire dinosaur.

"Then what should we do?"

Although Charmander has been serving as a light source for a long time, judging from his personality, he can no longer hold on.

"Wow wow wow!"

Even the screams started to tremble.

"Thank you, Charmander, come back and rest."

Ikki also knew that Charmander had not yet been educated and had no way to overcome his own difficulties.

"I'm really a competent trainer. I'm not like Red at all..."

Riolu jumped up when he saw him doing this again.

Here comes another claw.

"Uuuuuuuuuuah, it hurts!"

Ikki was about to burst into tears.Even though Riolu was less than half of Ikki's strength, he was quite strong. Being hit hard was quite painful for a child.

[Don’t say such depressing words!Come on, we're leaving! 】

After that, he handed the illustrated book to Ikki and followed Red towards the fourth floor.

"Am I blaming myself too much..."

After staring at his hands for a while, Ikki shook his head violently, shook the messy things out of his head, and followed Riolu towards the fourth floor.

But as soon as he arrived on the fourth floor, he saw Red sitting on the ground with a man of his age wearing green clothes in the middle of the passage on the fourth floor. Fire Dinosaur and Riolu stood in front of them, fixed. Looking at the two people.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

The man in green clothes seemed to know Red. He grabbed Red's shoulders and said in a panic: "It showed up, it showed up!"

Red, who was in some pain from being caught, took his hand away. When he saw the person who hit him clearly, he was shocked: "Green?! Why are you here?"

"Never mind this for now! The ghost! The ghost has appeared!"

what? !

Ikki took two steps back nervously.

"Where did you see the ghost..."

"It's right behind, behind!"

The man called green by red was obviously so frightened that he couldn't even control his voice and shouted at Ikki.

"Olu!"

"Roar!"

Riolu and the Fire Dinosaur felt something strange at the same time, turned around at almost the same moment, and stood in front of the three of them.

"What... what's the matter?"

Red and Green stood up and took two steps back.

"Get out of here! Get out of here!"

On the stairs leading to the fifth floor, a cluster of purple flames suddenly appeared, rushing down menacingly.

"There really are ghosts!"

"Run away quickly red, we can't defeat it!"

But afraid of returning, Red still shook his head.

"If you want to leave, you can go alone. I have to save Grandpa Fuji!"

As if he had made up his mind, red turned around and walked to the fire dinosaur regardless of Greed's actions.

"Hey! red."

"Yes, we still have tasks to do. If you want to leave, please go alone."

Ikki also walked past green and came behind Riolu, standing on the same line as red.

"You...ah! Really, if that's the case, then I'll come too!"

Although he said that, Green did not follow Red and Ikki. Instead, while they attracted the ghost's attention, Green sneaked around between the coffins nearby.

'Ghost, tut, what a troublesome thing. '

Judging from this posture, it seems that this ghost does not intend to let Red and Ikki pass.At the same time, he also knew that with his absolute pure physical attacks, it would be impossible to harm a ghost-type elf, let alone that the opponent was a real ghost.

[There are elves reacting around me! 】

The illustrated book that had just been handed over to Ikki suddenly sent out a message, and it was read aloud in this empty place with an emotionless electronic voice.

"What? Is it actually an elf?"

Ikki opened the illustrated book and pointed it at the ghost with purple flames.

[No elves detected, please try again]

This is strange. It clearly shows the reaction of the elves, but it is not the one in front of me. Where is it?

Riolu didn't intend to fight. It was ineffective anyway, so why did he do so much useless work?

"Olulu." Riolu took the illustrated book from Ikki's hand and started pressing the buttons again.

'If there is an elf reaction, it means that there are indeed elves around. Since there is no way to detect it, then it must be the ghost type. We can't waste this opportunity. '

Three more people ran down the stairs. It was obvious that they were members of Team Rocket.

Greed happened to reach the top of the stairs, turned around and glanced back at Red, who was still deadlocked, and felt relieved.

"Since the opponent is a human, there is nothing to be afraid of!"

Green reached for the elf ball on his waist.

"green! Grab what they have!"

Ikki suddenly shouted loudly at this moment.