Hope and disaster.
The most unusual phenomenon in the Ancient Insect Realm.
A special scene created by the thought overload phenomenon of intelligent life. Although no disaster capable of threatening Wu Pifu had appeared so far, the existence of these disasters—disasters that followed no path, no logic, and violated the fundamental rules of extraordinary paths—still left him wary.
This combination of hope and disaster struck Wu Pifu as deeply strange. The moment he entered, even the environment changed, and it was a change wrought by supernatural power, with almost no trace to follow.
The instant the melody appeared, Wu Pifu's vigilance flared. At the same time, he activated the Pokémon System.
He did not know what this melody was, or even whether it truly was a melody. Even with his senses, he could not hear where it came from. It felt more like some hallucination erupting from the depths of his own heart. Yet as it emerged, other images appeared before his eyes... or rather, they were not images at all.
He saw countless lives churned together into a mass. Yet it was not mutation, nor distortion or corruption, but rather... immortality!?
This was not a melody at all!
It was a chorus of groans, born from the agonized entanglement of countless lives that could not die...
After terror reached its ultimate extreme, darkness its ultimate extreme, and malice its ultimate extreme, the principle of extremes reversing took hold, turning that chorus of groans into an incomparably beautiful melody. But this was a melody from hell!
"...Oh no!"
Wu Pifu shuddered and snapped out of that state that was half real and half illusion. He immediately turned back and shouted in alarm.
But when he turned around, everyone aboard the boats had already vanished.
As living beings, they could not