Chapter 545: Emergency Evacuation

In the serene morning light, the first rays of dawn were long overdue.

In their place, the top of the sky turned gray at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the moisture in the air surged upward at an unnatural rate.

A thunderous roar sounded in the distance, like the bellowing of an ancient beast, shaking many people who were still fast asleep awake.

Immediately following this, a shrill alarm blared, startling the citizens of Magic City who were still groggy and reluctant to open their eyes.

A moment later, the citizens of Magic City, having understood why the alarm was sounding, let out terrified screams, dragging their families onto the streets to begin a massive escape!

A massive tsunami capable of destroying Magic City would arrive in a short while!

The entire city fell into a state of panic in an instant.

Trainers with flying Pokémon released them one after another, ignoring the city's no-fly order, wanting only to escape Magic City a step faster.

At the same time, the official trainers and civil servants of the Shenzhou Alliance immediately activated the highest level of emergency response.

Those with lower strength were distributed throughout the streets and the air, trying their best to maintain order during the evacuation.

Those with strength at the Gym Leader level or above gathered in an open space, beginning a brief mobilization meeting.

The current situation was a race against time; the leader did not waste words with empty rhetoric, stating bluntly: "By joining this operation, you may die."

"Those who do not want to die, feel free to leave. Only this once, you will not be treated as deserters."

After waiting for a moment, seeing that the hundreds of people before him still had firm gazes and showed no signs of wavering, he briefly introduced the current situation: "You all understand the matter of the tsunami, so I will not explain further."

"The goal of this mission is only one: to block the natural disaster as much as possible before the Guardian Beast arrives, and to delay its progress."

The leader's voice was filled with the determination of burning one's bridges; under a natural disaster of this scale, what Gym Leader-level Pokémon could do was truly limited.

"Currently, the Elite-level trainer stationed in Magic City, Chu Ya of the Elite Four, is already on the front line, doing her best to delay the tsunami's pace."

Only Elites, Champions, and even higher-level Masters, along with Legendary Pokémon, could play a role in the face of such a natural disaster.

In other words, this operation was a one-way ticket.

There would be no return.

"That is all I have to say. I wish you all great martial fortune!"

Not long ago, when Su Hao dialed Su Qing's phone, a brutal massacre had just ended on an island near Magic City.

The once-thriving island was now a scene of ruins and devastation, with the blood of humans and Pokémon staining the entire island.

An old man with white hair leaned against a broken wall, his eyes wide, staring with hateful intensity at the man in front of him.

Beside the old man lay the cold corpse of a middle-aged man.

If Su Hao were here, he would recognize at a glance that the dead middle-aged man was none other than Chi Ze, the Gym Leader of the Flying Wing Gym who had gifted him the Silver Wing.

Chi Ze's body was in a mangled state, showing what kind of inhuman treatment he had suffered before his death.

Chi Ze was only an ordinary Gym Leader-level trainer; he could not hold out for long against a man with Elite-level combat power.

The old man's lips trembled, his gaze as if he wanted to devour the man before him, and he said with grief and indignation: "You devil! You scum in human skin! You will not die a good death!"

Opposite the old man was a man dressed in a light blue robe, with a few strands of medium-length blue hair peeking out from under his hood.

Madness flickered in his ocean-blue pupils, and he pulled his lips into a mocking smile, his tone nonchalant: "Before you die, old man, let me give you a bonus piece of good news: the Neutral faction and the Kyogre faction were wiped out by me before you were~"

The elderly leader of the Sea People's Lugia faction—the old man—felt his pupils constrict; in his eyes, the man seemed to have transformed into a clawing, rampaging monster.

After a long while, he trembled as he spoke: "Within them, there were your parents, elders, brothers, and sisters!"

Although the four factions among the Sea People were superficially at odds, there were no other conflicts besides their stances.

The old man now felt a sense of sorrow, like a rabbit mourning the death of a fox.

Why had the man who once loved the sea, hailed as a once-in-a-century genius of the Sea People, become what he was today?

But fortunately, Chi Ze had not revealed the whereabouts of the Silver Wing before he died.

Otherwise, he truly could not imagine what other crazy things Chi Lang might do if he obtained the Silver Wing.

"So what? After they rebuked my ideal of 'letting the sea cover the entire planet,' I no longer had any family."

Chi Lang... or perhaps it would be more appropriate to call him the Sea King... pulled an indigo orb that shimmered with a faint blue light from his bosom.

He laughed wildly: "Look, they were all lying to me! The item capable of reaching the creator of the sea was right within the tribe, yet they chose to seal it away because of the Alliance's petty favors!"

"Old man, be honored!"

"After you die, there is still the Magic City not far away to be buried with you!"

As soon as Chi Lang finished speaking, with him holding the indigo orb at the center, a magnificent blue light wave rippled outward.

The old man pointed at Chi Lang with trembling fingers, his heartbeat gradually accelerating.

The next moment, raindrops fell onto the old man's fingertips, and a massive tsunami, with an initial scale of thirty to forty meters in height, formed in the blink of an eye.

The roar of an ancient beast seemed to explode within the orb, and the crashing thunder illuminated the old man's despairing face.

"You... beast."

A moment later, the old man's eyes widened, his right hand fell powerlessly, and he was actually scared to death by Chi Lang.

Chi Lang clicked his tongue without any burden, staring at the indigo orb in his hand, regretting: "The surface energy accumulated over countless years has been used up just like this; I'm afraid I won't be able to do this again until I find Kyogre."

"Don't you think so, Ghost Elite Chu Ya?"

Chi Lang turned slightly, looking with a full smile at the beautiful woman who had arrived at some point.

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Team Aqua.