The downpour lasted nearly a week.
Pyrite Town's drainage system worked as hard as it could, but against rainfall on that scale, it had to admit defeat.
The mines flooded. The warehouses flooded. Many homes on lower ground were completely submerged.
Fortunately, the rescue efforts came in time, so the losses weren't disastrous. Even so, Shan Ren had worn a sour expression for days. Whenever he looked at Baimu, he looked as though Baimu owed him a fortune.
But Baimu was innocent! Lugia had volunteered to bring the rain. Besides, many of the saplings he and the Barza siblings had planted had drowned too.
He was a victim as well!
Seriously.
At this point, he had reason to suspect Lugia had actually been taking revenge on the Orre Continent. Why else would it unleash a week of nonstop torrential rain?
Did it think it was Kyogre after Primal Reversion?
"And then it just left the rain to sort itself out. How irresponsible..." Baimu recalled borrowing Hoopa's Warp Ring a few days earlier to ask them to stop the rain. He had nearly been swept away by an undersea current and crushed by the water pressure.
Thankfully, he had been cautious enough to send Porygon2, which was exceptionally adaptable to its surroundings, to take a look first. That had saved him from disaster.
According to Porygon2, the Lugia seemed to have exhausted themselves and fallen into a deep sleep. Even if he woke them, they would have a hard time stopping a downpour that covered more than half the region.
And bringing rain probably wasn't all they had done.
The facts proved Baimu right.
In the days after the rain stopped, temperatures across southern Orre gradually rose, though the midday highs remained much lower than before.
The air was more humid