"Gardevoir."
Gardevoir tugged at Ye Qing's clothes and pointed a short distance away.
Following Gardevoir's gaze, Ye Qing spotted a line of clearly human footprints a dozen or so meters away.
However, the continuing snowfall had blurred the footprints, which was why he had missed them earlier.
Were these human footprints?
Could there be someone else nearby?
Moving closer to examine them, Ye Qing found that the footprints were scattered haphazardly. After brushing aside the loose snow, he saw that they were small and looked as though a child had left them.
Curious, Ye Qing decided to take a look. Perhaps he would make some unexpected discovery-that was part of the fun of adventuring.
Because you never knew what awaited you the next moment.
Telling everyone to tread lightly, Ye Qing cautiously followed the footprints.
The freezing wind howled, whipping the snow on the ground into the air.
Everything around them was silent apart from the faint crunch of footsteps in the snow.
"Roar!!!"
As they drew closer, a savage bear's roar echoed from the distance, accompanied by heart-wrenching screams.
"Help! Help!"
Hearing the cries for help ahead, Ye Qing hurriedly picked up the pace with everyone.
"Can you sense how many people and Pokémon are there?"
Ye Qing did not let his guard down. In this primeval forest, there were no laws or morals to restrain others, so he feared walking into an ambush.
"Garde."
Gardevoir shook her head. She sensed no ambush ahead.
Pushing aside a curtain of vines, Ye Qing saw the scene before him.
Trees as thick as a thigh had been severed at the middle, and wood chips littered the snow.
A Sealeo and a Glaceon lay in the snow, already unable to battle.
A short distance away, a powerfully built Beartic over two meters