Why is my Pokémon acting a little weird?

"..."

Only Phoebe felt a bit strange while listening to those people's awkward boasting. Even she had never expected that it would end so soon!

On the other side, Qiao Ran also met up with Lillie and the others, and they reported their situations to each other, especially Lillie... Qiao Ran was still quite worried about her.

"Me? Um... that clone seemed pretty weak, so I wasn't hurt."

Lillie smiled and waved her hands, indicating that she was fine. It wasn't because she had put all her points into defense, but because her opponent was just too weak.

"As long as it's okay, it'll be okay."

Qiao Ran felt a little relieved, but... Lillie said her opponent was weak, so doesn't that mean she's weak too?

Strictly speaking, the basic abilities of these clones are even stronger than the originals.

"Okay, let's move on."

After organizing the team, under Phoebe's command, the scientific expedition team began to move forward again. This time they had to pass through a long alley, and this time - what they encountered were just some normal mechanisms.

For example, sinkholes, flying arrows, falling rocks and the like, these things the scientific expedition team had seen many times, and they cleared out these mechanisms in no time. Qiao Ran and others also arrived at the mysterious altar smoothly.

This altar was set up in a huge space. The surrounding stone walls were carved with huge strange patterns. Each one looked like a huge, bizarre monster, overlooking everything around it. However, in contrast to these strange carvings, what attracted everyone's attention the most was the sword stuck straight into the altar.

Even if the blade is rusted and the hilt is broken, it stands upright like an indomitable warrior. Even in the face of danger, it will never fall.

"This sword is..."

Phoebe carefully released a few ghost Pokémon and flew up to the altar with them. As the king, she naturally noticed the specialness of this sword.

However, when she reached for the hilt of the sword, intending to pull it out to see what was going on, she found herself being counterattacked by a force. She felt as if she had been electrocuted, and quickly retracted her hand.

"This... this thing shouldn't be what I'm looking for..."

Phoebe looked at her injured hand and murmured to herself. This was not what she wanted. After sensing the power in the sword, she understood this.

How could such a righteous and awe-inspiring aura be the power of time that she had been looking for?

The gap between the two is as far as heaven and earth.

"I'm tired, you guys can continue on your own."

Phoebe shook her head, her disappointment was beyond words. She simply waved her hand, indicating that she would no longer be in charge and that other matters could be left to the scientific expedition team members.

These team members will organize all the information and hand it to her, so that if there is any important information, she will not miss it.

And that long sword stuck in the stone received the special attention of countless people in the following time. However... those who tried seemed unable to pull it out directly, and they might even suffer backlash like an electric shock.

"I'll go over and have a look too."

Qiao Ran also pretended not to care and moved closer, wanting to see if he could pull it out.

He leaned down, put his hands on the hilt of the sword, and tried his best to exert all his strength, even his face turned red, but in the end it seemed that there was no way.

"Oh my god...what is this?"

Qiao Ran rolled his eyes, and Lillie and Mei also looked at him with helpless smiles.

"Forget it, since I can't pull it out, I'll just take the key first..."

While others were not paying attention, Qiao Ran held the sword with his left hand and gently reached for the sword with his right hand, and he had already grasped the key tightly in his hand. In fact, this was his real goal. He had been going for the key from the beginning.

However, at this moment, something that no one had expected happened without any reason.

"Zheng!"

A blazing light suddenly appeared, and an unknown object instantly cut a scratch at the place where Qiao Ran was. The scratch was like opening a door to another dimension, and directly sucked in Qiao Ran, who was closest to him.

"...!"

"!!!"

Mei and Lillie, who were farther away, didn't react in time. Only Diancie and Vulpix, who were closer, immediately pounced on Qiao Ran's position.

They and Qiao Ran disappeared into the scratch that suddenly appeared, until everything disappeared - everyone present looked dazed.

"What just...happened?!"

Phoebe, who was slacking off, was also in confusion and shock.

In shock, not only Qiao Ran, but even the sword that was previously stuck in the stone disappeared. What... happened? ? ? ?

Is this... some new magic trick?

Chapter 162 159 [Singularity: 040]

"Singularity...040...enter..."

"Singularity Name: Extreme... Sand... End... Sand... Siege..."

"Danger level... rustle..."

"Target……"

"Uh-huh?"

In a daze, Qiao Ran felt waves of severe pain.

It was as if someone had suddenly thrown him to the ground, and his whole body was in pain.

He opened his eyes drowsily, but was surprised to find that he... seemed to have appeared in a wasteland overgrown with weeds?

There are trees and grass all around, and there is a smell wafting over from the distance, I don’t know if it’s a lake or a sea. Is this some desolate wilderness?

"That's not right... I just... seemed to be participating in a scientific expedition at the bottom of the lake. How did I appear here now?"

Qiao Ran blinked in confusion. He really couldn't figure out whether all this was a dream or reality.

Suddenly, he saw two familiar figures beside him. They seemed to be asleep, lying next to Qiao Ran.

"Dianci? Vulpix?"

Qiao Ran struggled to stand up, but - it was not until this moment that he suddenly discovered that there seemed to be something hard stuck on his left hand.

No matter how he tried to shake it, it seemed as if it was bound and always stuck to Qiao Ran's left hand.

"this is……"

Qiao Ran took a breath of the green air of nature. Isn’t this the sword he saw on the altar before!

What's the matter with you sticking to his hand all the time?

"No... No, we have to get it down first."

Qiao Ran frowned, thinking that this was not normal. He tried all kinds of methods, but none of them had any effect on the sword. It was as if the sword had taken hold of his left hand and refused to move.

"..."

Qiao Ran was almost mentally broken by this thing, and even when he was making a fuss, Diancie and Vulpix woke up.

"Master... Master, you are finally awake!"

"That's great...that's great..."

Both Pokémon were very worried about Qiao Ran's safety. When they saw Qiao Ran finally wake up, they couldn't help but grab Qiao Ran's arms excitedly.

"What...what happened?"

Qiao Ran was a little confused about the current situation, so he asked them, perhaps they would know something.

"Actually, it's like this..."

Diancie and Vulpix looked at each other and told each other everything they had seen before. To put it simply, they saw Qiao Ran being sucked into a crack. They were frightened and hurriedly chased after him. By the time they recovered, they were already here. Not only that, Qiao Ran also fainted and only woke up now.

"So... I was actually sucked into the crack? And it was after I came into contact with that key?"

Qiao Ran's heart skipped a beat and he thought to himself that this was not good. Was he... suddenly teleported to a singularity?

If it really is a singularity, then he won’t be able to get out until he completes his mission!

"By the way, where's Rotom? Doesn't Rotom come out and explain the situation at a time like this?"

Suddenly, Qiao Ran remembered Rotom's name. As a Pokémon with a very special status, Rotom follows Qiao Ran 24 hours a day.

"Rotom...it seems like she hasn't appeared since her master fell into a coma."

"Never showed up?"

Qiao Ran frowned at what Diancie said. He opened the backpack and saw that Rotom had collapsed at the bottom of the backpack, looking listless. The screen kept flashing words like "low battery" and "low battery".

Not only that, there was a golden key inserted in her body. It was obvious that the singularity had really been opened...

"Rotom? Rotom?"

Qiao Ran was startled by her condition and quickly stretched out his left hand...

"Click."

However, Qiao Ran did not raise his left hand as he wished, but instead scratched the ground with his sword, picking up a pile of broken grass.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Qiao Ran's face was covered with black lines. What the hell is this? ? ?

What the hell? ? ?

Unable to reach out with his hand, he had no choice but to place Rotom on the back of his left hand, using this special position to transfer the power of Tokiwa into her body.

“Ahem… ahem… Master…”

Gradually, Rotom's condition seemed to improve slightly, but she still couldn't form complete sentences.

"Let me rest for a while... please... it seems like there's no way to replenish some special energy... the previous consumption... was too great... rustling..."

"As long as we keep moving forward... rustling... hope will continue to grow..."

Having exhausted all her strength, Rotom fell asleep before she could finish her words, and on her screen, the message "Please charge" kept flashing.

"Please charge" three big words.

"LO-TO-M-!"

Qiao Ran held the motionless Rotom in his arms and couldn't help but shout out her name.

—Then, within a minute, he put her back into his schoolbag.

"Let's look for a place nearby where we can charge... If that doesn't work, we can try looking for an Electric-type Pokémon to see if that can solve the problem."

Qiao Ran muttered to himself that the current situation was very special and this was the only solution he could come up with.

"An electric-type Pokémon?"

Suddenly, when Qiao Ran was talking to himself, a voice suddenly came from behind him - it was a female voice that Qiao Ran had never heard before.

It sounds a bit childish, but it contains immense strength.

"Where...are you a survivor from?"

"Who?"

Qiao Ran turned around warily and was shocked to find that the person behind him was a girl with black twin ponytails, a strange hairstyle, and a relatively high hairline.

Behind her, there was a large group of men and women dressed in very strange clothes. They were holding strange trumpet-like instruments in their hands, blowing them soundly. Some of them even held the girl's half-body painted carpet in their hands and swung it wildly in the air.

"This is……"

This strange dress... this weird painting style...

The expression on Qiao Ran's face suddenly became interesting. There was no doubt that he knew the identities of these people and the girl.

She is...

"My dear hero!!"

However, what Qiao Ran did not expect was that after he turned around, the girl screamed even more excitedly than he did.

She even took a step forward expressionlessly and excitedly shook his left hand.

"This sword is... absolutely correct... absolutely correct!"

There was a glint of excitement in her eyes, but her expression was still as expressionless as ever... or rather, cold.

"You...are the true hero!!!"

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Chapter 163 160 [Gallar: Spike Town]

When Qiao Ran heard the girl's fantastical name, a huge question mark popped up in his head.

Brave...?