Chapter 470: Underground Primeval World
"Big Sister Monet, something happened!"
Carbon entered the monitoring station and immediately found a green-haired woman.
"What's with all the noise?"
A woman sitting in the corner with her legs crossed stood up.
Although being called Big Sister, a title that sounds like a delinquent girl.
But actually, the feeling Monet gave people was very virtuous and quiet.
"Many Kabutops and Kabuto ran out of the forest mine; I've never seen those Pokémon there before!"
"Just because you haven't seen them doesn't mean they're not there. The depth of the forest mine currently explored is already over 1700 meters, and that hasn't even reached the core area. Those Kabutops should have run out from the core area; that's the territory of ancient Pokémon."
Monet shrugged, pointing to the numerous maps hanging on the wall.
Those maps were detailed maps of all natural environments near Ambrette Town, detailed to the point where even the location of ores and Pokémon territories in every mine were clearly marked.
Will and Cynthia walked under that wall.
Found the map of the forest mine.
The area within 300 meters underground belongs to the outer periphery; no Pokémon race occupies this place.
Or rather.
Monet's Garchomp is the boss of this 300-meter range.
Going further down, the position from 300 meters to 1300 meters belongs to the middle area.
Four of the seven roads are dead ends, occupied by four Pokémon races.
The other three belong to free areas with no Pokémon races stationed; miners all go to deeper places through these three roads.
The road continuing downwards is still being explored, temporarily marked as the inner periphery.
Starting from here.
Occasionally some ancient Pokémon will appear.
"According to our speculation, there is suspected to be an underground world in the deepest part of the forest mine. The environment there is very similar to tens of millions of years ago, allowing some ancient Pokémon to have lived there all along."
Monet pinched her chin, her eyes containing stars.
Her eyes looking at this map were full of interest; she was probably also a person full of desire to explore.
Doing this job really catered to her hobbies.
"Without human intervention, lived for tens of millions of years?!"
Cynthia felt very shocked.
"Mm, actually the number of Pokémon that have lived for tens of millions of years is more than ordinary people imagine. Most of them are distributed underground, in the deep sea, permafrost, volcanoes..."
Monet smiled and nodded, then her eyebrows slightly tightened,
"The climate on the surface is too hot for them. If it weren't for some big commotion happening, they couldn't have run out from underground..."
As her words fell.
Many people in the monitoring station stood up.
"You guys go back first. That place will be blocked off for the next few days; we need to conduct an investigation."
Monet waved her hand at Carbon and the others.
"Oh."
Carbon nodded, planning to leave with Shieldon.
However, he saw Cynthia and Will stay behind.
"You guys?"
"We want to go together too."
Cynthia spoke.
Going together with everyone, and led by people familiar with the road, then there would be no danger.
If not exploring at this time.
Then when?
"No, it's too dangerous there."
Monet refused without thinking.
"We were invited by Professor Sycamore as helpers to detect the energy source; even without you guys leading, we still have to enter. Now going together, it can be a bit safer."
Will took out the detector from Cynthia's backpack,
"You can confirm with Professor Sycamore."
"No need, I remembered. You are Cynthia."
Monet stared at Cynthia and suddenly shook her head.
Only then did she remember.
This blonde girl is a star trainer, a contestant who won many regional championships at a young age.
"Yes! I am Cynthia, a trainer from the Sinnoh region. Accepting the invitation of the Pokémon League, I came to the Kalos region to participate in the Star Trainer Tournament."
"Since that's the case, I'm relieved about your strength; we can act together. If you need help with anything, just ask."
Monet agreed to take them along this time.
"Uh..."
Carbon and Shieldon beside them were dumbfounded.
They usually don't watch regional tournaments.
So they completely didn't know Cynthia and Will.
"You guys are not allowed to go."
Monet glared at them.
Everyone geared up and set off again.
The monitoring station sent five rangers.
With them leading the way, advancing in the mine was like a fish in water; in an hour, they arrived at the 1700-meter underground position, which was already the end of the previous exploration by the monitoring station.
In this place, it should be dark with no daylight, unable to see one's fingers in front of one's face.
But the magical part is that there is light here.
Although very faint.
But in a deeper place, light is indeed coming from there.
This is also the reason why the monitoring station thinks there is an underground world inside.
"Next we have to be careful; a bit further ahead there might appear some..."
Rumble!
Monet's voice just fell.
The tunnel trembled non-stop as if there was an earthquake.
Countless rubbles fell from above.
Before everyone could react, an Aggron clan ran out from ahead.
"Dodge quickly!"
Monet shouted softly.
Several people all squatted towards both sides of the road, pressing tightly against the wall.
The Aggron saw them.
But didn't have the mind to hunt like the Kabutops clan; instead, they rushed out headlong.
"What's going on?"
Looking at the quickly leaving Aggron, Monet was directly dumbfounded.
Aggron is a clan with a fierce temperament.
To put it more bluntly.
They are iron-headed kids.
Even if their territory becomes desolate, what they think of is not migration, but transporting soil and planting trees to rebuild their homes.
Being able to make them run out of their territory.
Something incredible absolutely happened underground.
"We'll know when we go down and see for ourselves."
Will raised his eyes, his ears twitching.
Wind came from a deeper place.
And the sound carried in the wind was somewhat noisy.
"Let's go."
Everyone sped up their advance.
Along the way, there wasn't even time to explore the distribution of stones in the passage.
After all, things have priorities.
Right now, the top priority is of course to investigate the reason for the large-scale migration of underground Pokémon.
But this time.
Before they could run a few hundred meters, they suddenly stopped at a position about two thousand meters underground.
What lay across in front of them at this time.
Was an underground waterway leading to nowhere.
The lake water here reflected light coming from an unknown source, illuminating the place quite brightly, so much so that one couldn't tell where the light came from.
"Left, or right?"
Cynthia sized up the river water.
Starting to hesitate again.
"Wait a minute, let's check the machine."
Will raised his eyebrows, taking out the detector Sycamore gave them,
"Left."
The right is the upper waterway, the direction the river water comes from.
The left is the lower waterway, the direction the river water goes.
Going left.
Means they have to continue downwards.
"The footprints come from the left; the underground world should also be on the left."
Monet and a few others reached out and touched the bottom of the river.
Feeling out the direction of the footprints of those Aggron.
"Then we'll take the left."
Monet nodded.
Confirmed the direction, continued advancing.
During the process of going down along the waterway, they could also see some leisurely Relicanth.
Although Relicanth are also Pokémon that existed a hundred million years ago, they don't belong to fossil resurrected Pokémon, but lived through generation by generation abruptly.
Moreover.
Even if Relicanth don't specifically try to get stronger, their lifespan can be comparable to turtle-type, Dragon-type, and Psychic-type Pokémon in the Pokémon world; belonging to the only species under the category of [Long-lived Pokémon].
"Relicanth generally live in the deep sea; their appearance here means this underground water vein connects to the deep sea."
Monet took out the camera she carried and took pictures of the Relicanth.
A new Pokémon species appeared in the forest mine.
This is a major discovery.
As long as this news is brought back, some League scholars or Professors will definitely rush over to study and explore.
"Relicanth look like old men taking a walk..."
Cynthia took a few glances, and even reached out to touch a Relicanth beside her foot,
"The scales on their bodies, they're like rocks."
These guys actually didn't have any reaction at all to being touched by a human.
"They really are completely unaffected; do they still have combat power?"
Will bent down and picked one up.
Felt like picking up a big rock.
The picked-up Relicanth stayed motionless blowing bubbles, facing Will completely without showing the intimacy common Water-type Pokémon display.
Truly magical creatures.
Tossing aside the Relicanth in his hand, they continued advancing.
Following the river all the way down.
The altitude decreased by over three hundred meters again.
At this moment.
They were already at a position over two thousand meters underground.
However, there was no feeling of difficulty breathing or discomfort.
Whoosh...
The sound of breeze blowing in came.
"The exit, we're almost there."
Will's ears twitched, raising his eyes looking forward.
They saw sunlight at the end of the waterway!
"How is it possible?! There's actually sunlight in this kind of underground!"
Cynthia's eyes widened in surprise.
Even Will was the same.
Having lived for over a hundred years, it was also his first time seeing such a scene.
Cynthia impatiently pulled Will running towards the bright place; Monet and the others also followed one after another.
The exit at the end of the waterway.
Seemed to be on the peak of a high mountain.
The river water fell from the high mountain slope like the Milky Way, forming a slender waterfall.
Stepping out of the waterway.
Standing on the peak of the high mountain looking into the distance.
The scene appearing before their eyes made everyone feel shocked!
They actually came to a primeval forest that looked like a fairyland.
If not coming here personally.
Who could have thought there was such a small world in this underground of over two thousand meters.
Looking upwards, a patch of grayish-white.
Presumably the rock layer acted as the "sky".
Searched many times.
But couldn't find the thing emitting light.
"What is that thing? It's glowing?"
Will reached out and pointed.
Right in the center of this underground world, there was actually a green root penetrating the "sky" and plunging straight into the "earth".
It was that root that was glowing.
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