Pokémon: Shadow of the Dawn

Chapter 723: Execution in Guandu

At this moment, Huoyan had a huge doubt in his heart.

Yeah, how could that be?

How could she be twenty-five?

However, in my memory, my date of birth is clear, the year and month when I joined the Oak Research Institute at the age of fifteen is clear, and the year and month when I left the Oak Research Institute at the age of twenty five years later is also clear.

But today, it has indeed been five years.

What happened during these five years?

Huoyan tried hard to recall in a daze. Although he could not remember anything in his head, the figure of a gloomy middle-aged man suddenly appeared in front of him - Chiyansong.

Chi Yansong looked over with extremely sharp eyes, and his voice was like the hardest rock in the world: "Follow me to change this world, Huoyan. Our Lava Team is to awaken the monarch of the earth and overthrow this dirty and corrupt alliance..."

"..."

"Huoyan, Dean Huoyan?"

Willy waved her hand in front of her eyes again and again.

Huoyan's eyes were a little out of focus, and when she turned around and saw Weili, her whole body trembled. She came back to her senses, as if she had finally caught her breath, and breathed deeply.

"Did you recall any bad memories?" The other two female researchers looked at her with concern and asked one after another: "Would you like some hot water?"

"fine......"

Huoyan still shook his head, with doubts lingering in his heart.

The image of her uncle Chi Yansong seemed real, as if he was really standing in front of her and speaking those words to her.

But how is this possible?

How......

"The following is an emergency notice. This year, the Kanto General Alliance plans to execute the leader of an evil organization at 5:30 in the Quartz Plateau. All channels will temporarily change their content. From now on, the Kanto Daily will broadcast live for you..."

The images on the TV switched, and soon a beautiful female host appeared, reporting the news calmly.

Many researchers were also attracted by it, and many of them waited here just to watch the live execution.

The main reason is that the person who was executed was the leader of the Hoenn Magma Team, the Red Flame Pine, who is almost known to everyone in Hoenn recently.

It is said that the revival of the legendary Groudon that was previously rampaging in Hoenn was closely related to Team Magma.

"They deserve to die a thousand times!" said a local researcher at Hoenn angrily.

A Hoenn uncle who worked in the restaurant stood by with his hands behind his back and snorted, "No, even if I do it a thousand times, I won't feel better!"

"These evil organizations only know how to cause destruction and chaos," Willy also said.

"Yeah, I heard that evil organizations all want to destroy the world." someone followed.

"They are just a bunch of crazy antisocial lunatics." said another person.

Only Huoyan was in a daze, feeling an unprecedented strange emotion, which merged with the doubts he had felt in the blank age before, and continued to linger in his mind.

The people and things on TV kept changing, and as time passed, the perspective soon shifted to the towering quartz plateau.

In the quaint altar square, a thin middle-aged man in a red robe stood in the center with his hands and feet tied and his head bowed.

"He is the leader of Team Magma from Hoenn - Red Flame Matsu!"

...

"The Lava Team led by Chi Yansong has committed all kinds of evil in Guandu. In addition to destroying the city for no reason, harming residents, and illegally capturing experimental Pokémon, they have also committed other heinous crimes such as attacking Pokémon Doctors and robbing important treasures of the Alliance. As the culprit, Chi Yansong's crimes are too numerous to list and cannot be condoned!"

On top of the Kanto Quartz Plateau, a female host faces the camera in a helicopter.

Outside, countless trainers were flying in the air on Pidgeots.

"Red Flame Song was arrested by the current Galar and Hoenn Champion Wang Jin, and cannot escape the sanctions of the League's laws..."

...

"You can escape by going down."

At an ancient stone road crossing below the Quartz Plateau, Albert, Vice President of the General Alliance, held a naturally fluorescent stone in his hand and spoke expressionlessly.

In the dim cave in front of him, a middle-aged man in a gray robe with disheveled hair standing on the stone steps nodded. He looked exactly like the red flame pine tied on the altar.

"The person who replaced you was a clone created using a special method. There's no way he'd be exposed."

After saying that, Albert was about to turn around and leave when he was stopped by Chi Yansong.

"Why did you save me?" Chi Yansong's face was calm.

"Save you..." Albert smiled strangely, "Don't you know? The Lava Team still exists, and the three cadres and a large number of grassroots members are still intact, right?"

"Three cadres..." Chi Yansong muttered, and just shook his head: "I don't know."

"Haha, don't be so modest. When we get to Hoenn, we can always pull together a new Magma Team." Albert paused and said, "Overthrowing this ugly alliance was your original intention, wasn't it?"

Chi Yansong was silent for a moment, then nodded slowly.

"Then go ahead." Albert looked at him one last time and turned to leave.

"Chi Yansong leader, let's go quickly..."

At the bottom of the stone cave, an alliance staff member anxiously pulled at Chiyansong's sleeve.

The red flame pine did not hesitate and disappeared into the darkness of the ancient stone road.

...

"The Red Flame Pine is gone, Damaranki."

Kikuko's hoarse voice suddenly appeared in the president's office on the top floor of the general alliance.

Shadows seemed to have life as they enveloped the door, allowing Kikuko to walk in with crutches as if nothing happened.

"Oh, then it's almost time for us to go on stage."

Damaran looked up, pushed away the documents in front of him, took off his glasses, took a red round hat from the hanger behind him and put it on his head, looking neither hurried nor slow as if he was going out for a walk.

"We have already found all the headquarters staff who helped Albert with his actions during this period." Kikuko stood in front of the desk with crutches in both hands and said in a sinister tone: "Should we send them all away now?"

"This is such a headache~" Damaranchi twisted his short and fat body like a penguin, waved his hands in annoyance and said, "Let's just dismiss them normally. They won't affect the alliance anyway."

"You are just too soft-hearted, Damaranchi," Kikuko said sarcastically.

Damaranchi did not argue, but just sighed and left the office with Kikuko.

The two were wrapped in shadows, as if they were in a strange shadow world. They passed through walls and doors freely like ghosts and quickly came to the edge of the cliff at the corner of the alliance building.

Albert was walking slowly along the path below.

"Albert, you work so hard and still come here to do things in person. You are old, but you are really not afraid of death." Kikuko's hoarse voice was extremely clear.