Chương 119: Little Diamond and Garchomp

"Crack! (Which heartless Pokémon dug this hole? They kill it but don't bother to bury it, and even the tunnel they dug has a dead end?!)" Lu Sha stared at the thick rock wall in front of him, utterly unable to comprehend the thought process of wild Pokémon.

They went through so much trouble to dig the tunnel, they should at least have dug all the way to the surface. What's the point of digging only halfway?

"Oh dear, there's no road anymore."

Cattleya blinked her emerald green eyes innocently, crossed her hands in front of her, and made an exaggerated expression of surprise that she couldn't even pretend to be serious.

Lu Sha could tell with his toes that the young lady had definitely already scouted out the road ahead. As for why she kept quiet... she obviously wanted to see him, this local tyrant, make a fool of himself!

At this moment, Lu Sha's brain was working at lightning speed.

Normally, in this situation, the only option is to return the way you came and find another fork in the road.

but!

If they turn back now, they'll have to walk at least five kilometers back.

The worst part is that we have to wade through the mess left by those supersonic bats again.

Are you kidding me!

Shark Lord isn't the kind of shark that just keeps going back to the past!

"Click! (One-horned rhinoceros, come out! Use your straight drill to dig!)" One-horned rhinoceros: "Moo! (Why are all the laborers cows?)"

"Crack! (Stop talking nonsense! This is the perfect opportunity to practice your moves. If you dig through, you'll get extra food tonight!)" Lu Sha used coercion, enticement, and deception to the extreme, revealing his exploitative nature towards laborers.

Watching the one-horned rhinoceros tearfully charge forward and unleash its straight-through drill on the rock, Cattleya, who was standing to the side, finally couldn't hold back and chuckled softly, covering her mouth.

The rhinoceros huffed and puffed as it cleared the way ahead, while Sand and Scizor were also busy, helping to clear away the rubble from either side.

Having had enough of Lu Sha's antics, Gadriya naturally wouldn't let Lu Sha and the others do hard labor forever.

Her eyes flickered slightly, and a surge of immense superpowers swept out, subtly enhanced by her inherent attributes.

With the boost from the power of a Heavenly King, the One-Horned Rhinoceros instantly transformed into a heavy-duty tunnel boring machine, pushing forward relentlessly towards the east.

This push lasted for a full three hours.

Although they encountered many forks in the road, as long as it wasn't heading east, Lu Sha and Jia Deliya didn't even glance at it, sticking to one direction no matter what.

It must be said that the strength of a Heavenly King is indeed formidable.

In just three hours, they managed to advance thirty kilometers through the rock formations, a speed even faster than an average person running a marathon on flat ground.

"Click! (Young Miss, would you like to rest for a bit?)" Lu Sha looked at Cattleya; he was getting tired just watching her.

Later, perhaps feeling that they were too inefficient, Cattleya simply requisitioned several Gym-level wild Onix from underground and made them frantically dig a path ahead.

Two Onix were destroyed during the process, but Cattleya didn't complain of being tired.

"It's alright, it's just ordinary rocks, it doesn't put much pressure on me." Cattleya shook her head.

It wasn't a battle between top-tier players, so the strain on her was negligible; in fact, the damage was less than the recovery she could get from meditating during the break.

She might be a little mentally tired, but she can go without sleep for dozens of days without any problem. She even had a good night's sleep yesterday, so it's impossible for her to be mentally exhausted.

"Click! (Let's walk a little further and find a suitable place to settle down. We'll camp here for the night.)" Lu Sha suggested that they find a slightly more pleasing underground landscape to rest in.

"Crack! (To be honest, we haven't seen any good ore along the way.)" Lu Sha muttered something to himself, glancing at the red light emanating from not far away.

A low-grade Fire Stone can be used to evolve a Fire-type Pokémon and costs only around 1.

If he had just come down into the mine, he might have picked it off without hesitation, but now he doesn't even have the interest to take a second look at it.

Backpack space is already limited, so of course it should be reserved for more valuable items.

"Oiwa!"

Just then, the giant rock snake clearing the way ahead suddenly let out a terrified roar, and Lu Sha instinctively sensed that something was wrong.

He strode to Cattleya's side, and then a deafening roar came from the depths of the tunnel ahead.

No, that's the sound of rushing water!

"Crack! (Damn! We've struck an underground river!)" Lu Sha's expression changed drastically.

"Young Miss, give me a hand! Up there!"

In that split second of life and death, Lu Sha didn't hesitate for even half a second and decisively abandoned the unfortunate working snake.

His claws glowed with a blinding yellow light as he unleashed a digging technique at maximum speed towards the rock formations above him.

With Cattleya's powerful assistance, Lu Sha was like a deep-sea torpedo breaking through the ground, carrying Cattleya vertically through the rock strata at an incredible speed.

In a single second, it darted more than ten meters, leaving the surging underground river far behind.

It wasn't until they dug upwards for more than thirty meters, breaking through a thick layer of rock and falling into a wide, open space, that the deafening roar of the water was finally shut out beneath their feet.

"Snap! (That was close!)" Lu Sha plopped down on the ground, wiping the cold sweat from her forehead with lingering fear.

Although they wouldn't die even if they were swept into the underground river, who knows where the currents deep underground would take them?

"Is this a cave?"

Compared to Lu Sha's disheveled state, Jia Deliya found it incredibly exciting.

Because superpowers have difficulty penetrating dense rock layers, she hadn't detected the existence of the underground river beforehand.

This unexpected situation, however, allowed her to experience the joy of adventure.

Moreover, the scenery before us is truly breathtaking.

The underground space, which should have been pitch black, was now as bright as day.

Countless high-quality attribute gems, emitting various colors of fluorescence, are scattered like stars on the surrounding rock walls.

Combined with the stalactite formations formed by calcium carbonate sedimentation over thousands of years, the entire cave resembles a dazzling crystal palace, a dreamlike and enchanting sight.

"Click! (It's a stalactite cave, decorated with various elemental gems. Those gems look like they were installed by hand...)" Lu Sha was admiring the beautiful scenery, but as she was commenting, she suddenly realized something was wrong.

They're deep inside Tianguan Mountain!

Why are there artificial traces here?

What ancient ruins have they unearthed?

"Click! (What are you doing here...)" Lu Sha cautiously looked around. With the help of the bright light inside the cave, he discovered that quite a few indigenous people actually lived here.

Those were a group of Pokémon with extremely peculiar appearances.

Their upper bodies resemble gray rabbits, but their lower bodies are strangely attached to a piece of brilliant raw diamond.

"Click? (Small diamond fragments? Aren't these rare things supposed to live in the high-temperature, high-pressure environment deep underground?)" To compare the differences between memory and reality, Lu Sha carefully studied the Pokédex currently available at Zhuqing Academy.

DiamondCrush is a special Pokémon that is even rarer than pseudo-legendary Pokémon.

It's not because they are difficult to breed, but simply because the underground environment they inhabit is too extreme for humans to access.

What's even more interesting is that the Pokédex specifically mentions that the relationship between Garchomp and Diamond Smash is extremely delicate.

Because Garchomp possesses dragon-type blood, it has a fervent love for sparkling gems, so it often treats small diamonds as its treasure.

If a wild Sableye dares to steal a small diamond, Garchomp will even tear it apart in a rage and make it an extra meal.

"Chirp! Chirp!"

Upon seeing Lu Sha, this uninvited guest, the group of little diamonds showed no shyness whatsoever; instead, they curiously hopped and skipped around him.

It was as if they also felt a natural affinity for the land sand.

"Click! (Can we talk? Did you guys set this up?)" Lu Sha lowered his guard and generously took out a handful of premium food he had prepared for Rock-type Pokémon from his bag, scattering it among the little guys.

Wild Pokémon are mostly quite simple-minded. Except for those Pokémon with a strong sense of territory, the rest can generally be bribed with food.

"Chirp! (Delicious! Thank you!)" The little diamonds happily munched on their food, but because their intelligence level was not high, they could only express some of the most basic emotions and vocabulary.

"Click! (Who's in charge here?)" Helpless, Lu Sha could only ask a more common question.

"Chirp! (Queen! Queen!)"

"Click? (Huh?)" The sand shark's body trembled.

Good guy!

Shark, who had a lifetime of bad luck, is finally getting protagonist treatment in his reincarnation?

The Queen of Small Diamonds, isn't that the legendary Pokémon Diancie?

What? Diancie is considered a mythical beast?

Legendary Pokémon are still legendary, but they're still stronger than Regirock!