Just then, Lugia emerged from the sea. Although it had suffered serious electrical burns, it was still in reasonably good shape and was not badly hurt.
It shook the seawater off its body, then opened its mouth and spat a scorching orange beam, striking the wreckage of the airship on Ice Island's volcanic crater with pinpoint accuracy!
Boom!
In an instant, the airship exploded, bursting into raging flames!
Clearly, it had not forgotten the attack it had just suffered, and this was its answer to those metal rings!
At the sight, Xia You could not help nodding.
Good! With the Collector and the Thunder God dealt with, the situation was turning in our favor again!
Whup-whup-whup-whup...
But just as Xia You was about to press his advantage, the roar of rotor blades suddenly reached his ears. He looked up into the sky and saw a helicopter swaying from side to side as it flew toward Shamouti Island!
As they watched, the helicopter seemed to suffer some kind of malfunction and crashed straight into a hill near the Altar!
Crash!!
Since it was not very far away, Xia You could clearly hear the violent impact as it struck the ground!
"What happened?" Misty asked in surprise as she watched thick smoke billow up. "With the weather already this bad, someone still flew a helicopter here?"
"Maybe something urgent came up," Xia You guessed. But with things as they were, he certainly could not leave now, so he could only turn to Sabrina. "There's no telling whether anyone was hurt or killed in a crash like that. Sorry for the trouble, but could you go take a look?"
"Understood."
Sabrina nodded and left. After weighing things up, Misty and Tracey knew they would not be much help here, so they followed her.