Chapter 130: Chaos and Hostage-Taking

Chapter 130: Chaos and Hostage-Taking

Boom!

A sudden roar from the second floor startled everyone.

Enzo's hand trembled in fright, and he directly pressed it onto Magcargo's crimson-red shell.

"Ah!!"

Immediately, a pig-slaughtering scream exploded.

"What's going on?! Exactly where did trouble break out?!"

Due to Enzo's scream being too loud, it momentarily left the gang members on the first floor of the warehouse confused as to whether the trouble was on the second floor or the first.

Fortunately, such annoyance quickly vanished—

Because a large amount of "Sludge Bomb" was already pouring down from the second floor, clearly marking their target.

The one releasing "Sludge Bomb" was a Weezing.

Weezing's body is composed of two balloon-shaped gas bombs, one large and one small. Although it's a creature, its body is filled with a large amount of poisonous gas, hence it can float in mid-air and move by jetting gas.

At this moment, one of Weezing's mouths was continuously spraying out a purplish-black, viscous, slurry-like substance. This poisonous sludge, after being sprayed onto the ground, would also explode like a bomb, causing further widespread contamination!

This was precisely the advanced Poison-type skill "Sludge Bomb"!

Sludge exploded, poison mist scattered!

In the blink of an eye, an area of toxic miasma, forbidding any living approach, appeared in front of the stairs in this abandoned warehouse.

"Retreat! Retreat! Careful of poisoning!! Anyone with purple spots appearing on their body, quickly swallow an antidote!"

Someone was yelling to retreat.

But soon, a minor boss also reacted.

"Not good, the Leader and the others are still on the second floor!"

This loyal minor boss had just finished speaking this sentence when, the next second, a thick puddle of deep purple sludge fell from the dome ceiling right above him, engulfing him completely in the blink of an eye.

This puddle of sludge was much thicker than the small streams of sludge scattered by the "Sludge Bomb." After engulfing that minor boss, sounds of squeezing, crushing, and even bone shattering quickly transmitted from within the rotten mud...

It was enough to make one's scalp tingle just listening!

It wasn't until two seconds later that this puddle of rotten mud continuously wriggled and gradually bulged upwards, strangely opening two eyes on its upper part, finally revealing its true form—

This was a Pokémon: Muk!

In reality, the appearance of this type of Pokémon is far more terrifying than its two-dimensional image in certain parallel spacetimes.

Viscous, wriggling sludge, a surface constantly forming and breaking bubbles, highly toxic fluid, unsettling eyeballs...

All of this made Muk look like some kind of sewer monster tale from a sci-fi movie.

Ugly, filthy, and deadly!

"Bastards!!"

Someone beside the minor boss immediately took out a gun and started shooting.

Unfortunately, bullets inflicted very slight damage on Muk's fluid body.

Grenades, explosives, incendiary bombs—these modern weapons could all normally pose a threat to Muk. But kinetic energy weapons like firearms were almost completely ineffective against them.

Liam upstairs had precisely calculated this point before arranging for Muk to come to the first floor.

No matter how influential the Yharnam Gang was, a gang that ruled the slums, where would they get large-scale destructive weapons like incendiary bombs?

They weren't Kubfu Alliance rangers, after all...

Thus, for a moment, Muk rampaged everywhere on the first floor of the warehouse, and almost no one could manage it!

And Weezing consistently guarded the stairs leading to the second floor.

Subsequently, a Nidoking, resembling an upright tyrannosaurus rex, also appeared and stood with it, alternately spraying "Sludge Bomb" downwards, firmly suppressing the stair entrance.

The Yharnam Gang downstairs was in a complete mess, like a pot of porridge.

Some were retreating to avoid the poison, some were panicking and yelling loudly;

Some people, loyal and wanting to protect their master, tried to rush to the second floor, but when they stood up and called out, few responded.

Moreover, the moment they peeked their heads out, they would receive special attention from the Weezing and Nidoking guarding the stair entrance. Often, before a group could even assemble, someone would be unable to take it and slip away first.

The slum gang's loose, sand-like discipline was exposed undoubtedly at this moment.

The Stitched Shadow Army's Cadre Liam had thus, using merely three Pokémon, briefly suppressed the dozens of thugs downstairs.

The Yharnam Gang's anxious and flustered reaction made Arthur, a former Elite Four member who had led troops, almost unable to bear watching directly.

But all of this was unrelated to him.

Seizing the opportunity amidst this wave of chaos, the instant the first explosion sounded upstairs, he launched himself at full speed, rushing straight to a corner. He struck out instantly, and before anyone could react, he had preemptively hijacked the Stitched Shadow Army member who had just come down to inspect the goods.

The opponent actually had a Pokémon too, a Fighting-type Timburr.

However, both being humanoid forms, Timburr had barely been out for less than two seconds before Frogadier put it down, its head violently pressed face-down onto the ground...

When battling humanoid-type enemies, Frogadier's experience was master-level; even without using skills, his martial arts were at least at a diamond rank.

At this moment, Timburr, pressed to the ground and unable to move, was entirely doubting its existence...

Between the two of us, who is actually the Fighting-type?

What do you usually train with?

At the same time, its master, with Honedge's blade pressed against his neck, was also doubting life.

"You, you, you... what do you want to do?!"

"Nothing much, just came to ask you a few things," Arthur tried to soothe him with a calm tone.

Unfortunately, the effect didn't seem to be too good...

"Don't tremble. I won't kill you. Next, I ask, you answer. That chaos over there is temporarily unrelated to either of us. Understand?"

The opponent could only nod.

"That Cadre Liam, exactly which Pokémon does he have? Among them, is there a Gengar?"

Arthur's first question left the person before him completely confused.

Bro, ah! Didn't you see they've all started fighting over there? That Muk pounced down, and someone even died! You're not asking why the two sides are fighting now, you're asking this?

Although, to speak the truth, this hijacked person also wasn't too clear why the fight had started...

He and Arthur, it seemed, were just two marginal figures from the very beginning.

Seeing the opponent hesitate for a moment, Arthur's sword decisively pressed a few points closer.

"Speak!"

"No, no, no! No! Boss Liam's Pokémon are mainly all Poison-type, but there's no Gengar among them!"

"Then among your organization's high command, who possesses a Pokémon like Gengar?"

Now, the way the opponent looked at Arthur became slightly strange.

"Of course, it's Leader Oliver! Leader Oliver has a Gengar and a Mismagius; those two Pokémon are both terrifyingly strong! This is something almost everyone knows, right? You... could it be you're one of Oliver's people?"

At this moment, this minor pawn still didn't know that his unintentional sentence had actually almost hit the truth.

Oliver...

Arthur silently muttered this name in his heart, his eyes becoming unprecedentedly blazing hot!

"What kind of person is Oliver? Speak in detail, huh."

Now, the opponent looked at him with an even more complex gaze, seeming to think in his heart: This person, what exactly does he mean?

However, with a sword at his neck, he had no choice but to answer.

"Oliver... Leader, he is very mysterious. He usually appears wearing a mask; it's said no one has ever seen the Leader's true face. Many times, he relays commands through the mouths of his own Pokémon."

"I heard from some old-timers in the organization that Oliver has served as leader for many years already, at least over fifty years."

"However, many of the Leader's methods make people feel he's too conservative. He clearly aims to subvert the existing relationship between Pokémon and humans, yet he consistently forbids us from creating overly radical massacres in the human world, especially his strict prohibition against us stirring up trouble within Kubfu Alliance territory."

"This damn it!! Our Stitched Shadow Army, now over half its members are from the Star Brilliance, Star Dust, and Maple Edge Alliances. Who among them has any good feelings towards Kubfu?"

"Before, when the organization's strength was weak, it was fine not to provoke the major alliances. But now we already have three cadres; on what basis can we not gnaw a few pieces of meat off Kubfu's body?!"

In that moment, Arthur's hand holding the sword trembled slightly.

Although there was currently still no direct evidence, just the facts of him serving as leader for a long term and forbidding attacks on Kubfu were already enough to make Arthur subjectively believe—

That Oliver... definitely had a connection with his own Gengar!

However, simultaneously, Arthur also deduced from the existing information an extremely bad, and very dangerous, piece of news—

"So, you're saying within your organization now, there are cadres opposing Leader Oliver, correct? For example, your direct superior, Liam."

(End of Chapter)

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