After a brief rest, the team immediately began the operation to eliminate the poachers at Apollo's urging. However, the first problem facing everyone was how to pinpoint the poachers' camp on this vast, unfamiliar ice field riddled with danger.
The terrain around the Seafoam Islands was far more complex and treacherous than the caves within. Beneath the thick, year-round snow lay countless deadly, bottomless crevasses. One wrong step meant certain doom. Violent blizzards blowing in from the sea whipped up curtains of snow, reducing visibility to less than five meters. They could easily leave someone lost, ultimately freezing to death in the wilderness. Not to mention, the area was home to large populations of highly aggressive and territorial wild Ice-type Pokémon. Recklessly entering their territory was no different from seeking death.
Apollo frowned, preparing to send out large numbers of Golbat and Crobat as he had in the past, sacrificing some of them to conduct a sweeping search with Supersonic.
Just then, Ye Li approached him on his own initiative, holding a simple yet precise route map he had just drawn on his data terminal.
"Lord Apollo, please wait." Ye Li's voice sounded somewhat muffled in the wind and snow, but his words reached Apollo's ears clearly. "These are three potentially safe routes I deduced from the wind direction over the glacier, the depth of the snow, and the activity patterns of the surrounding wild Pokémon."
He held the data terminal before Apollo and pointed at the winding route he had prominently marked in red on the map, analyzing it with a serious expression. "Of these, this route may look like something of a detour, but it completely avoids every known habitat of large wild Pokémon, such as the Cloyster and Dewgong colonies. It also skirts most of the areas