"All right, that's it for today's survey. Let's head back out."
Upon hearing that there were Unown-and more than one of them-Lü Ming did not press onward. Instead, he led Xin Mu and the others out of the cave.
The appearance of Unown was hardly good news. Apart from the Legendary Pokémon they knew so little about, few Pokémon were as mysterious as Unown.
Whenever more than one Unown appeared in the same place, something unpredictable was bound to happen.
Crobat's sonar had already indicated that there seemed to be a special chamber inside.
They had come out to study Pokémon ecology. Scientific research demanded a spirit of exploration, not a death wish.
Once they reported the ruins hidden beneath the sand to the League, more qualified people would naturally come to handle things. Archaeology was not their specialty.
According to thoroughly unscientific research, fifty percent of horror movies happened because someone went looking for thrills and courted death.
As a professor teaching at a university, he might have had a bit of a reckless streak when conducting his own experiments, but during field research,
he still had to bring every student he took out back in one piece.
After leaving the cave, they set up a temporary camp nearby. Once the League's reinforcements arrived, they could leave.
Some wild Pokémon watched them from a distance, but none chose to approach.
They did not light a campfire. Instead, they simply had Cui Shiya let out her Rapidash.
Once Rapidash found a comfortable position and lay down, the fiery mane on its body served as a ready-made campfire. In a sense, it was quite environmentally friendly.
After all, regardless of its condition, the flames on Rapidash's body would never go out unless it was ill.
Those flames were rather mystical, too: