Elf: Sailing since being taken in by New Leaf Cat

Chapter 173 The Bean Cricket Arrives
Qiu Qing realized it later and looked at the surprised and shy expression of Mu Dan in front of him. He quickly waved his hand: "Don't get me wrong... I just..."

"It's okay, I know the last answer was subconsciously answered before you reacted, but I already know your answers..."

Mudan is not stupid. Even though her character likes to think wildly, some things are still very clear. But as long as she knows the previous answers, it seems that her conditions are not bad!
So there is still a chance!
"..."

Seeing her happy look, Qiu Qing scratched her hair, and then sighed.

"Well... I know you mean something to me, but I don't really want to discuss this kind of issue right now..."

"what?"

Hearing this, Mudan was slightly startled, what does it mean?
Could it be that the other party has been...impossible? Is it so obvious?

She instantly became nervous and bit her lip, as if she wanted to make a quibble. After all, it was too embarrassing to say such a thing.

But when she put on an angry expression and was about to forcefully argue, Qiu Qing suddenly became serious and said in a serious tone: "To be honest... I may have some good feelings towards you now... "

"what?"

Peony froze on the spot.

Qiu Qing continued: "But there are too many things that I need to be busy with now. If I can be free in the future, or if neither of us has changed yet... No matter what the final result is, I will give you an answer!"

"..."

"So let's not discuss this for now, okay?"

"..."

Listening to these words, Mudan gradually fell into silence, and suddenly realized that she had indeed been troubled by this matter recently. In fact, it was because of this that she changed her image in cyberspace. She felt that Qiu Qing might like it.

After a long silence, the expression on her face gradually returned to normal. She put her hands on her chest and responded softly: "I understand... I'm sorry for bothering you these days. I won't think about it anymore... I really should go find it." Something meaningful to do.”

"That's right!"

Qiu Qing nodded with satisfaction. Sometimes getting too close is not a good thing. Now Mudan also understands this truth. After all, if this continues, one person will always be embarrassed.

So I just didn't want to think about it anymore. Let's get the more important things done first. For example, she still had things to do at Orange Academy.

For example, after Qiu Qing comes back, we will work with everyone to overthrow the current Orange Academy system and save the students who are being bullied!
Thinking of this, Mudan raised her head, looked at Qiu Qing, smiled and said softly: "Thank you!"

"You don't need to thank me. After all, I have been troubling you. Instead, I should thank you."

Now that they have said this clearly, the two of them talk much more easily, as if they are back to the past, but they can still feel that their relationship is a little closer.

Peony pushed the mirror frame and said with a smile: "It's too late today. You should have a good rest first. I will give you the results of the investigation tomorrow."

"Well, please excuse me."

"fine."

After finishing the conversation, Peony went offline and left. After Qiuqing and Babu Tubo spent some time together, they decided to search nearby to see if any Pokémon that had been embodied in their hearts appeared.

Unfortunately, his luck was obviously not that good this time, or it could be that he had nothing to do with the Pokémon that could be embodied in Kitakamigo's heart, and he didn't even know each other at all, so he didn't appear nearby.

After waiting for Babu and the others to leave, he returned to the real world and prepared to rest.

Nothing happened all night, and early the next morning, he received news that Mudan was helping him investigate. There was a lot of content and it was compiled into documents.

"I feel more and more like I owe her..."

Qiu Qing sighed softly and glanced at the pages of the document. He planned to read it after breakfast.

After discovering that Tiremiao had gone to cook, he went to tidy up, and then went to Shali's room to wake her up, only to find that the door was ajar.

"Ok?"

With doubts, Qiu Qing called out to disturb her and gently pushed away, but there was no one in the room. Even the quilt on the bed was not made up and was a bit messy, with underwear and other things thrown on it.

He closed the door with some embarrassment, then raised his forehead and shook his head: "Do you girls have the habit of not cleaning up the house... Mudan can't even take care of herself, let alone you, but you are such a big person. Yes, but where have you been this morning?"

After complaining about these things, Qiu Qing began to search inside the spaceship, and finally saw Shali on the deck taking a camera to take pictures of the aerial scenery. So she walked up and asked curiously: "Get up so early?"

"In order to take pictures of the scenery, and you can also see the scenery on the top of Guishan Mountain, I wanted to go up there to have a look, but I was stopped by the patrolman and told not to get close to the top of the mountain casually."

After Sha Li glanced at him, she stared at the Ghost Mountain in the distance. Qiu Qing also walked to the guardrail, looked over there, and responded: "There is indeed a problem on the top of the mountain, but it is relatively safe during the day, but it's hard to tell at night. , it will be foggy there at night.”

"I don't know about this, but there is a rumor about the crystal light pool on the top of the mountain. In the pool there, you can see the figures of the deceased, such as the most important person who has died, so it attracts many people. Few people come here.”

"Well, I've heard of this legend, but it seems to be false. At least no one has seen it with their own eyes."

"That's not possible. After all, I have also studied those legends. You just need to remember one thing. Legends that can be circulated for a long time have a high probability of being real!"

When saying this, Shali's eyes gradually became serious, and then continued: "Just like me before, I also suspected that the mythical Pokémon Dialga did not exist and was just made up."

"After all, my family has always regarded time as the most important thing. I have grown up listening to various legends about Dialga since I was a child. And since I was relatively precocious, and in my rebellious stage at that time, I wanted to uncover the truth of the myth. Tell everyone that God does not exist..."

At this point, Shali paused, recalling the past events at that time, which made her sigh, and then continued: "The result is that he was taught a hard lesson, Dialga in EMI City in the Sinnoh region In front of the statue, at that moment I seemed to really see Dialga. The feeling was unmistakable, as if it came from blood... it was time."

"Even though I didn't see it with my own eyes, at that time I had completely believed in this legend and loved taking pictures... I seem to have told you about this before." "Well, when I was in Niangguang City."

Qiu Qing thought about it, but no one important to him had died.

Maybe it would be more appropriate to have Pipa come over?Although it is unclear whether Dr. Olin died or was sent to a very distant place by the teleportation device like them...

After a while, she returned to the kitchen to have breakfast. This was probably what Shali was most looking forward to. After eating, the spacecraft flew back to the vicinity of Emerald Town via AI. She expressed that she wanted to go to the town to investigate.

Qiu Qing asked her to be careful, and then in the spaceship conference room, she began to study the information documents Mudan sent him.

"That's a lot..."

He took a brief look at it. Fortunately, Mudan helped him classify each missing person's case, so it wouldn't be too troublesome.

So far, a total of 31 missing persons have been investigated, which seems to be more than what the taxi driver said yesterday. Maybe there are some that have not been found, maybe more.

Let’s start with the first case a few years ago, which was the drowning case of Jingguangchi. This case was not included in the missing cases.

Although the case ended with drowning, Miss Junsha, who was actually responsible for the investigation, still found many doubts. During the investigation, they also discovered that some people in Beishang Township were deliberately obstructing the case.

However, due to the lack of evidence and all the evidence pointing to drowning, the case could only be closed in this way. Although many online content related to the case has been deleted, Mudan still found some clues and sorted them out.

One of them mentioned that the reason why the deceased drowned was that he was poisoned after being attacked by some poisonous Pokémon, and then fell into the crystal light pool and died...

But this is theoretically impossible, because the deceased was with his companions at the time, and they were also trainers and had Pokémon with them.

Moreover, the only poison-type Pokémon that live around the crystal light pool are the Twin Bomb family and the Flame Queen family. Their poison cannot take people away instantly, and it is even less likely that they can lurk for so long before they attack, so it is more likely that it is What did the deceased eat?

All in all, it was an accident...

Next is the first disappearance case, which happened five years ago. A mountain man came to Beishang Township in the spring and said that he wanted to try climbing Ghost Mountain after failing to climb Tianguan Mountain.

As a result, she never came back. Miss Junsha came several times but couldn't find any clues. Finally, she had no choice but to give up. In short, it was another accident...

Then the second disappearance case still occurred five years ago. Four tourists came to Beishang Township during the summer vacation. At that time, the Crystal Light Pool had been blocked.

But they couldn't resist their curiosity, so they climbed the mountain together from several directions on Ghost Mountain to avoid being swept away by the patrols.

According to the recollections of the three people who were caught by patrol officers at the time, they and their missing companions actually had telephone contact after they separated until they were caught, mainly to inform each other to leave.

But after the companion told her the approximate location, when several patrol officers went to pick her up, they found nothing. They continued to search in the ghost mountain for half a month, but there was no clue. It was as if she disappeared out of thin air, which was very strange. .

In the end, many people speculated that he accidentally fell to his death while walking on a path to climb a mountain, and was then picked up by a wild black ruga... Although many people speculated like this, there is no evidence.

Anyway, it was an accident...

Then the third, fourth, fifth...all the way to Case No. 11. The missing person this time was a journalist from a newspaper in the Sinnoh region. He came specifically to investigate the drowning and disappearance cases. .

And just a week later, several colleagues and friends who were with her never saw her again. They completely disappeared without leaving any trace.

After this incident, not many people were willing to report or investigate the remaining missing cases. Many people just mentioned it. Everyone thought it was a taboo, just like the torrent of disaster, as long as they went If you follow it, you will be swept away by disaster. It is best to just ignore it.

Moreover, the publicity of Beishang Township is also very good. It can receive hundreds of thousands of tourists every summer tourist season. In addition, Beishang Township itself is remote and has a dangerous geographical environment. It is quite normal to have an accident in the wild and then disappear, so it is not Not many people care about this kind of thing, just don’t take any chances...

After spending nearly three hours, Qiu Qing looked solemn and finally saw the last case...

It should be said that it is not considered a case. In fact, it happened yesterday. Someone discovered that a friend who could still be contacted the night before suddenly lost contact yesterday morning, and it was here in Beishang Township.

They originally made an appointment to secretly go to Guishan Mountain to watch the night view the night before, but due to work, he had to end his vacation early, and his friend said he wanted to stay one more day, so he couldn't be contacted.

"After all, he has been killed..."

Qiu Qing shook her head and saw that the friend the other party was talking about was the one who was buried in the basement of the warehouse by the taxi driver yesterday.

But depending on the situation, there may be more missing cases that have not been discovered. At first glance, it seems that everything is a random victim, but in fact they all have one thing in common!

"Meow!"

Tiremiao has been watching from the side, so naturally she has discovered the problem a long time ago. All the missing people have climbed the ghost mountain, whether during the day or at night. There are more missing people at night, maybe because they need to avoid patrols. for the sake of.

"It seems that Ghost Mountain may also have a big problem... But why are only outsiders suffering, while locals patrol every day? Aren't they afraid of this kind of thing? Or..."

Thinking of this, Qiu Qing instantly had a guess in her mind, but she was not completely sure yet.

At the same time, in Emerald Town, Sha Li was coming out of the public hall with a camera. She still looked like she usually did to avoid being discovered by people here that she was investigating the case.

"Normal, but very abnormal..."

This was how Sha Li felt about this place. Anyway, she felt very uncomfortable. Then she picked up the camera and took a photo of the owl flying in the sky. Just when she was about to go to see other places in the town, her eyes suddenly What was discovered was a flash of surprise.

I saw a golden bean cricket on the side of the street not far away. It was confronting several coyote dogs. It was constantly being driven away by the barking of the other dogs. Dogs in the countryside had this reaction to outsiders.

But Bean Cricket ignored the dogs at all and seemed to want to leave, but was surrounded by coyote dogs. Shali, who was watching this scene, picked up the camera and smiled: "It's a very nice view!"

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(End of this chapter)