After walking through the bustling Food Street, leaving the city, and following a woodland trail called Bell Chime Path, which was covered in red and yellow maple leaves all year round, Xia You and his companions finally arrived at the foot of the Bell Tower.
Compared with the bustling city center, this place was clearly extremely quiet tonight.
Apart from the occasional hoots of bird Pokémon in the forest, it was frighteningly quiet here, without even a single light.
It seemed that after so many years of silence, even on holidays, locals rarely visited this tower outside the city at night.
Daytime was another matter. As a famous attraction, it always drew first-time visitors to Ecruteak City, but at night, thinking of the fire over a hundred years ago really did make it feel rather eerie.
Still, that was fine. It made things easier for Xia You and the others.
Although he had been here once before, Xia You could not help looking over the Bell Tower.
The Bell Tower was a typical Japanese-style tower built inside a "castle." Though only nine stories tall, it stood on a hilltop outside the city, and its elevation gave anyone who climbed to the top a view of all of Ecruteak City.
In the distance, they could still faintly hear the bustle and clamor of Ecruteak City.
With no outsiders around now, Xiaojuan and her four sisters all removed their masks. Then they switched on their flashlights and approached the castle gates under the moonlight.
These so-called castles were actually the residences of the feudal lords who had ruled their own territories in ancient times. They built layers of high walls outside their Tenshu to protect themselves and their families, and such complexes were called castles.
Although Xiaojuan and her sisters' ancestors had