They encountered no Clefairy along the way. Perhaps living so long in these pitch-black caves had made the Clefairy afraid of light, and they had all hidden themselves away.
But Xiao Yan ran into a troublesome problem.
The winding passage still had no end in sight. After rounding one bend and walking a little farther, he would soon find another. His high-tech glasses were completely useless in this cave. Signals were blocked from reaching him, leaving the digital map unusable.
This repeated for another half hour. As time passed, Xiao Yan grew increasingly uneasy. He no longer knew which passage he had come from, because they all looked exactly alike.
After roughly another ten minutes of walking, Xiao Yan finally spotted the long-awaited end of the passage, just a short distance ahead.
A conspicuous opening stood in the passage wall, with light spilling out from within.
Xiao Yan stood excitedly beneath the opening, bathed in white light, and let his high-tech glasses pick up a signal.
"Beep!" The digital map on his high-tech glasses responded. All three red dots in the Angus Mountains were clustered around him.
Xiao Yan looked up at the enormous stone pillars standing around him. Each was studded with densely packed white crystals that emitted a white glow.
But on closer inspection, he found that the light from three of the pillars was mixed with other colors.
The closer Xiao Yan moved to those unusual pillars, the stronger the response from his high-tech glasses became.
"Looks like the Mega Stones are right here."
Xiao Yan took mining tools from his backpack and carefully extracted the Mega Stones embedded among the white crystals. He had to stay focused throughout the process. One mistake could bring down the stone pillars supporting the cavern. Forget retrieving the Evolution Stones-he