Pokémon Devil King

Chapter 341 Let’s Go for Insurance

Heracross has already established a preliminary sense of trust in Jiuji and his group.

After carefully testing the water temperature of the hot spring with its forelimbs, it quickly relaxed and immersed itself completely in the warm spring water.

When the spring water flowed over the hard shell and gently wrapped its injured part, an indescribable feeling of relaxation instantly spread throughout the body.

Jiuji sat on a piece of volcanic rock by the pool that had been polished smooth and warm by the water. The warm water just covered her waist, dispelling the fatigue of the journey.

Huahua and Daidai were quietly enjoying the hot springs on her left and right. The dust accumulated from days of running around and previous intense battles seemed to be gently washed away by the misty water vapor.

However, this hard-earned tranquility did not last long.

Just as Heracross slightly adjusted his posture, trying to make himself more comfortable, and moved his body center of gravity slightly backwards.

"Crack!"

An extremely slight shattering sound, but one that sounded unusually clear in the quiet hot spring courtyard where only the sound of flowing water could be heard, suddenly came from the rocks at the bottom of the pool beneath it.

Heracross froze instantly, with a bad feeling.

Followed by.

Huge splashes of water flew up violently, and with a dull thud, Heracross and the seemingly solid volcanic rock bottom beneath it collapsed without any warning.

The pool water seemed to have found an outlet and rushed madly towards the suddenly cracked hole. The water level dropped rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a chaotic whirlpool rose on the water surface.

"Ao?" The white sea lion, which was originally floating comfortably, was confused by this sudden change. Almost as a conditioned reflex, it immediately turned to Jiuji.

When in doubt, look at the Nine Nine first.

"Heracross?!" Jiuji suddenly jumped up from the rock.

The ones who react the fastest are always Huahua and Daidai. They move in an instant and protect Jiuji in the middle tacitly.

One of them stretched out a whip and scooped up Pichu and Pokémon Go, who were carried away by the current and drifting in the hot spring, and put them on the safe and dry stone steps beside the pool.

With a blue light flashing in one of his eyes, he used his telekinesis to hold up Heracross, who was falling along with the rubble at the bottom of the pool, and "pulled" it out of the hole that was still steaming, and placed it on the stone steps.

Heracross' eyes were filled with confusion and astonishment.

It knew that it was a bit unlucky, but it didn't expect that it was so unlucky that it would affect other people.

"Ao Ao!" Sister, are you okay?

The white sea lion climbed out of the pool by itself and immediately came to Heracross, his tone full of concern.

"Dana." Huahua's steady voice sounded, and it stretched out a vine whip and helped the frustrated Heracross up.

Heracross wanted to apologize for his bad luck in causing this disaster, but he was surrounded by the warm comfort and timely help of his companions.

This made it speechless for a moment, and it could only ask the white sea lion that was currently closest to it in confusion: "Hera?"

"Ao? Ao Ao!" What does this have to do with you? Don't worry, Jiujiu and the boss will solve it!

The white sea lion patted Heracross' shoulder with its flippers in a very open-minded manner, speaking like an experienced person.

It has always had a very clear understanding of its own positioning, which is to be obedient.

As for some complicated problems, just leave them to reliable teammates~

Things developed just as the white sea lion said.

Jiuji quickly put on a dry coat, and immediately went down to the bottom of the hot spring pool, which was drying up quickly, with Huahua and Daidai.

The water in the pool drained away, revealing the slippery black volcanic rock and shockingly broken structure underneath.

"Dana." Huahua's whip pointed precisely at the rock sections at the edge of the hole, which were extremely smooth, even with a hint of glassy luster and faint signs of burning.

Jiuji squatted down and carefully brushed his fingertips over the edge: "It's not a natural collapse or disrepair. This mark is more like it was formed by extremely high temperature melting and then cooling rapidly."

Before he finished his words, from deep inside the cave, amidst the sound of the hot spring water, there was a sudden burst of subtle but extremely frequent cracking sounds, as if something hard was cracking.

The sound is getting closer and clearer!

"Everyone, step back a little and leave some space." Jiuji quickly stood up and stepped back. After taking in all the data, she was suddenly not so worried anymore.

Huahua and Daidai protected her and stepped back a few steps as instructed.

The next moment, there was a sound of falling rocks and a sudden burst of heat mixed with a strong smell of sulfur and magma.

A round head covered with a rough dark red shell and topped with a pair of short but solid horns suddenly struggled out of the hole.

This little creature seemed to have no idea that there would be such an "empty" world outside the cave. It was using its lava-hot body and hard shell to brutally push away the last rock obstacle.

When its entire body fell onto the gravel at the bottom of the dried-up pool, it shook its head dazedly, its little eyes filled with confusion: "Who am I? Where am I?"

It's a lava snail.

The lava snail blinked its little eyes and looked around in confusion.

When it saw the shattered and messy bottom of the pool, the dried-up pool, and the group of strange Pokémon and humans around it that looked "aggressive" and sharp-eyed to it, it was so frightened that it suddenly shrank its neck, and the lava lines on the surface of its body began to fluctuate violently as if it was frightened.

"Don't be nervous," Jiuji spread his hands and said helplessly, "We have no ill intentions, but it seems that you dug in the wrong place and broke through the bottom of our hot spring pool."

Although the core temperature of lava snails is extremely high, enough to easily melt through ordinary rocks, they are relatively mild in temperament and not very aggressive. They usually only move deep in volcanoes or in areas with extremely active geothermal activity.

He appeared at the bottom of the hot spring, and judging from the other party's expression, it was obviously just an accident.

"Gurgle?" The lava snail seemed to understand the words "digging in the wrong place".

It carefully turned its body, looked at the big hole that was still steaming from which it had drilled out, and then looked at the messy environment around it, especially the big hole at the bottom of the pool that it had crashed into... Its little eyes instantly widened.

next second.

The lava snail let out a short and panicked whine, and the magma lines on the surface of its body flickered wildly, and the brightness soared.

It suddenly retracted its head, and its four short legs made of sticky magma began to scrape frantically on the gravel ground, trying in vain to dig a hole on the spot and bury itself in it.

What an ostrich behavior.

Jiuji couldn't help laughing out loud when he saw its overly honest reaction.

The huge commotion here finally attracted the owner of the hot spring hotel, an old man wearing a simple traditional yukata, with gray hair but in good spirits.

When he saw with his own eyes the hideous hole at the bottom of the hot spring pool that he had carefully built and was so proud of, his jaw dropped to the ground in shock: "Oh my God! My pool! What, what happened?! It's made of the strongest volcanic rock and it's been fine for more than ten years!"

"Let's use insurance, boss." Jiuji wiped his wet hair and pointed at the lava snail next to him that was still trying to "disappear on the spot" with a sympathetic and amusing smile, "This should be considered accidental damage, and the perpetrator... looks quite embarrassed."

The old man followed the direction she pointed and locked onto the curled-up lava snail.

He narrowed his eyes, took a few steps closer, and looked at the "culprit" carefully.

"This color, these patterns, and the temperature it emits..." The old man's brows were furrowed tighter and tighter, and the shock on his face was gradually replaced by an expression of sudden enlightenment, even with a bit of gnashing of teeth.

He slapped his thigh suddenly. "Oh! I told you! How can an ordinary hot spring snail have such destructive power! It turns out it's you, my little ancestor!"

He pointed at the lava snail and complained bitterly: "It's the seventh one!"

The lava snail shrank again at the old man's loud voice, and the lava lines on the surface of its body fluctuated even more violently, making a "gurgling" sound as if it was making an aggrieved excuse.

Jiuji raised his eyebrows with interest when he heard this: "Boss, do you know it?"

"More than knowing him!" The old man was about to beat his chest and stamp his feet, "This little fellow is from the Kamae Gym. That girl Asha just captured him from the hottest depths of Chimney Mountain."

"It's really capable and has great potential, but it's just too prone to getting into trouble!" He counted on his fingers the lava snail's glorious achievements, "Three in public hot spring areas, two in private hot springs in other time-honored hotels, and one that almost melted through the main pool of the century-old 'Earth Core Spring' in town!"

"This is the seventh one! She had assured me before that this little guy had learned to control the temperature and that it would be absolutely fine to leave it around Chimney Hill to move around on its own..."

"Result! It ended up moving to the bottom of my precious pool! And it gave me such a surprise gift package!" The boss became more and more excited as he spoke, and his fingers were shaking as he pointed at the lava snail.

Lava Snail