Chapter 26
The Disaster Brought by Poison-type Pokémon.
The seventh day after the descent of Pokémon.
Another tall building burned with raging flames, and red tongues of fire licked the structure, sending billowing black smoke soaring straight into the firmament.
Lu Li looked at the high-rise spewing black smoke in the distance, and after a soft sigh, he pulled the curtains closed.
Fatty Lei beside him was filled with resentment, clenching his fists and growling in a low voice, "I specifically had people keep track, and that damned pack of Black Dog Magical Beasts feeds with absolute precision! One meal at noon, and one meal in the evening!"
Seeing that Lu Li had not snapped out of it for a long time, Fatty Lei could not help asking, "Brother Lu, do you think humanity still has any hope?"
Hearing this, Lu Li turned his head to glance at Fatty Lei, and seeing the corners of the other's eyes brimming with hot tears, Lu Li solemnly nodded. "Of course we do!"
He thought of the Feebas at home.
Where humanity's hope lay, he still dared not be certain, but his own hope definitely lay with Feebas.
Lu Li, who did not want to chat much more about this topic, shifted the subject. "Did any newcomers join the camp today?"
"No." Fatty Lei shook his head.
"Not everyone has the good luck of An Kang's family. Crossing the street with a whole family in tow makes it very easy to be targeted by flying magical beasts," Fatty Lei explained.
"Look, this is the log I had people keep." Fatty Lei handed a notebook to Lu Li.
"I specifically had people watch the street opposite. Actually, every day people try to come over from the Star Sea Residential Community side, but the vast majority of people die while crossing the street."
Lu Li curiously took the notebook and began to flip through it.
The observation log started recording yesterday and noted a total of three incidents.
The first incident was at eight in the morning, when a young man with two elderly people attempted to cross the street to come to the Shopping Mall.
But this family had bad luck; while crossing the street, they failed to notice the Oddish in the Green Belt.
Perhaps feeling that the soil in the Green Belt no longer had any nutrients, this group of Oddish invited this family to go into the Green Belt to cosplay as chemical fertilizer.
"Those magical beast-like plants actually learned how to fertilize themselves," Fatty Lei complained with a hint of bitterness in his tone.
Lu Li: "..."
At this moment Lu Li only felt fortunate; fortunately, he had bypassed that group of Oddish back then, otherwise he would have also gone to act as fertilizer.
The victim of the second incident was a young man. After seeing the corpses on the Green Belt, he chose to take a detour.
Then this young man inexplicably died on the road.
"Did the Observer not observe how the other party died?" Lu Li asked with a furrowed brow.
"No, the other party simply died inexplicably, and right before dying, he seemed very painful. The Observer at the time even recorded a video," Fatty Lei said as he took out his phone and tapped on the video inside.
Due to the distance, the figure in the video was extremely blurry, and one could only vaguely see him suddenly using both hands to tightly clutch his neck, struggling desperately in place.
When that young man finally died, his body even exhibited a bizarre stiffened state.
"It should be poisoning," Lu Li analyzed thoughtfully.
"Poisoned?" Fatty Lei looked at Lu Li in puzzlement.
Lu Li nodded, then explained, "In nature, insects like butterflies carry shield dust on their bodies."
"Look at those butterfly magical beasts resting on the trees in the video. I suspect that the shield dust on their bodies is highly toxic, and this intense poison is fatal to humans."
"From poisoning to death, this robust young man only lasted less than two minutes."
"You had best tell the people from the Supply Collection Team about this matter so they can try to avoid areas with butterfly magical beasts," Lu Li reminded.
Butterfree was an insect, and its main food was tree sap; under normal circumstances, it was impossible for it to eat meat, nor was it possible for it to deliberately hunt humans.
However, not actively hunting did not mean Butterfree lacked danger. After all, this kind of killing without hunting as a goal was the most terrifying.
Fatty Lei nodded hastily.
Lu Li looked over the third incident.
The victim of the third incident was a female. According to the Observer's description, that female should have been quite pretty, because the other party specifically emphasized that she was dressed quite exquisitely.
As for the cause of death.
She was bitten to death by a Gray Canine Magical Beast.
After closing the notebook, Lu Li returned it to Fatty Lei, and in his heart he also sighed softly, "No wonder Fatty Lei is full of pessimism toward the future of humanity."
If he were not a transmigrator, he would only be even more pessimistic than Fatty Lei at present.
If Butterfree's toxic shield dust was already this absurd, wouldn't Weezing be a walking poison gas bomb?
Thinking of this, Lu Li also felt a wave of relief.
Fortunately, no Weezing had refreshed inside the Shopping Mall.
Frightened by Pokémon once again, Lu Li decided to go back and feed Feebas to recover some sanity.
Yet just as Lu Li passed Jun Shutong's office, he was pressed into service by Jun Shutong, who happened to catch sight of him.
"Lu Li, we're planning to give this Survivor Camp of ours a name. What do you think sounds good?" Jun Shutong pulled Lu Li and asked enthusiastically.
Lu Li, who had been temporarily drafted, did not get angry either; after all, feeding Feebas was not something that required extreme haste.
"Are there any references?" Lu Li asked.
"Currently we have the following names for reference. First is named after my name, 'Jun Shutong Survivor Camp', and then there are ones named after the Shopping Mall."
"Finally, there are some more positive names, like Peace, Dawn, Hope, Future, and things like that."
Lu Li said without hesitation, "Dawn and Hope, I suppose. Right now, these are the two things humans most want to see."
The high-spirited Jun Shutong waved her small hand and announced with full confidence:
"Dawn and Hope? Then let's just call it Dawn. Dawn represents hope, and is also the precursor to the arrival of dawn. I always believe that humanity can surely usher in a better tomorrow."
As for why Jun Shutong was in such a good mood today, it was naturally because of the weather.
Today was not sunny at all; instead, it was overcast with heavy clouds. The lead-gray cloud layer pressed down extremely low, almost touching the distant rooftops.
This was the precursor to a torrential rain.
For the camp in its current state, this rain arrived far too timely and far too preciously.
"Then let's call it Dawn," Lu Li nodded, and then muttered the name to himself, "Dawn Camp, sounds not bad."
"If you want to take a bath, you can take empty buckets upstairs to catch the rain. If you just place the buckets outside the fire escape, there shouldn't be any danger," Lu Li reminded her considerately.
Hearing this, Jun Shutong's eyes lit up, and she invited him with a face full of excitement, "Then shall we go together? That way we'll have someone to look out for each other."
Lu Li desperately wanted to ask whether she was inviting him to take a bath together or to catch the rain together.
"Sure." Lu Li nodded, agreeing to her request.
Jun Shutong had a gun in her hand. If they really encountered danger while catching the rain, they would have backup.
If possible, Lu Li actually wanted to call Fatty Lei along as well. Ethics aside, Fatty Lei was actually quite useful and definitely a top-tier Sacrificial Teammate.