Chapter 1817 Iron Ant Colony and Molten Ant Beast!
Seeing his opponent sneak underground, Xiaozhi was overjoyed.
"Is it a digging move? It's just the right time, use the waveguide to sense its location!"
For Riolu, who has the ability to sense waveguides, the burrowing move makes no sense.
Riolu closed his eyes and stood quietly on the spot, raising his palms as if he was about to launch an attack.
Phew...!
As the ground beneath his feet moved, the iron ant suddenly jumped out of the ground, and the steel jaws were about to cut off Riolu's neck and head.
"Leo!"
However, Riolu was well prepared and leaned back slightly to avoid the dangerous jaws.
He even stretched out his palm with his backhand and placed it against the abdomen of the iron ant... This is the softest part of the iron ant.
"Now, use Fa Jin!!"
Boom bang!!
As the electric light erupted from the palm of his hand, the strong energy impact blew the iron ant away, and it fell to the ground in a rather messy manner.
However, this move did not completely determine the outcome. The iron ant shook his head and straightened his body again.
The fighting attribute does not have a very good effect on Iron Ant's insect + steel attribute combination... Among the 18 attributes, Iron Ant is the only one that is restrained four times by the fire attribute.
"Rush!!"
But this time, the iron ant did not take the initiative to attack, but raised its head and let out a sharp hissing sound.
Before Xiaozhi could do anything, familiar neighing sounds came from around the hilltop.
"Rush!!" "Rush!!" "Rush!!"
It's like an echo in the valley...but this is clearly not the terrain of an echoing valley.
The next moment, when Xiaozhi reacted, he saw that the hilltop was surrounded by a large swarm of iron ants.
The black army of iron ants gradually surrounded him from all directions, and there were roughly forty of them in total.
They all have gray-black steel bodies, with red eyes, and the jaws around their mouths are constantly opening and closing, making creepy sounds.
"So many iron ants?!"
Xiaozhi was shocked and kept looking around.
At this moment, not only the front, but also the way behind were crawling with many iron ants.
Poof...!
There were even a lot of iron ants that emerged directly from the reddish-brown rocky ground beneath their feet. They were obviously good at digging holes.
Many insect Pokémon are social creatures. When a wild individual is attacked, they will often instinctively call to their companions to engage in collective combat.
But you must know that iron ants are not green caterpillars, weak insects like one-horned insects...
According to the description in the illustrated book, each individual iron ant already possesses considerable combat power!
At this moment, being surrounded by such an army of iron ants, and seeing that the number was still growing, Xiaozhi also felt like his scalp was numb.
Are the iron ants on this island overrun?
"Pica...!"
"Leo...!"
Pikachu and Riolu retreated to Ash's side, warily looking at the approaching iron ants.
Did they hit the iron plate?
Riolu was not the first to touch this wild iron ant before...but when Xiaozhi approached, the latter rushed up and actively attacked Riolu, very belligerently.
"Wu~!"
Latias was like a frightened little girl, desperately squeezing into Xiaozhi's arms.
Well, although the ants on the ground are no threat to her who can fly...
...
At the moment of crisis, a loud shout suddenly came from a high-sloping mountain in the distance.
"Molten Ant Beast, use Flame Vortex!!"
The next moment, a fiery red beast-type Pokémon suddenly jumped into the air.
The mouth that gradually became slender and pointed suddenly spurted out a pillar of flame light.
Boo hoo hoo...!
The raging flames began to rotate continuously after falling to the ground, instantly forming a spreading circle of fire, surrounding Xiaozhi and several Pokémon.
The fiery red Pokémon landed on the ground, its body covered with yellow flowing lines.
The slender and gradually pointed head looks very strange, and the upright body is about one person tall, with sharp hooks and claws.
"Hiss..." "Hiss..." "Hiss..."
The sudden appearance of the Molten Ant Beast also caused the army of iron ants to temporarily stop their encirclement.
But in comparison, they were more afraid of the blazing flames released by the Molten Ant Beast, and they were in a stalemate there for a while.
"Isn't the firepower enough...The decision is yours, Fire Monkey!!"
Seeing this, Xiaozhi stopped being a passerby and released his Fierce Monkey with his backhand.
Only flames have an effect on this group of iron ants.
"We also use flame vortex!!"
The Fierce Fire Monkey nodded, showing no fear in the face of the somewhat frightening army of iron ants. The flames at its tail surged, and intense flames also spewed out from its open mouth.
Pfft...!
Coupled with the flames of the molten ant beast, the scale of this flame vortex fire circle skyrocketed again, forming a heat wave aperture that was three or four meters high.
"Hiss..." "Hiss..." "Hiss..."
Such flames finally frightened the iron ants, and they fled in all directions. After a while, the hilltop finally became much cleaner.
"Success!"
Xiaozhi felt happy and his eyes fell on the molten ant beast in front of him.
The molten ant beast's gloomy and depressed eyes reminded him of Xiaogang's bad frog.
This was the first time Xiaozhi saw this Pokémon, so he quickly took out the illustrated book.
"Didi. Moltenmon, a fire-type Pokémon, is a Pokémon from the Unova region. It sucks in air from the cavity in its tail and burns it in its body. Moltenmon is also the natural enemy of iron ants. It can melt iron ants with its high-temperature burning flame tongue.
A hard exoskeleton and eats the flesh inside.”
Putting away the illustrated book, Xiaozhi clicked his tongue in surprise.
It is very rare to tell the food chain between Pokémon so directly.
"Wait a minute, I remember that the Iron Ant is also a Pokémon in the Unova area... It seems to be the natural enemy there."
Hearing the footsteps, Xiaozhi also looked at the figure gradually approaching, and immediately said gratefully:
"This molten ant beast belongs to you, thank you very much for your help!!"
I saw this figure slowly walking up to the Molten Ant Beast. He was tall and wearing a dark blue formal suit and brown trousers.
He has a handsome face, probably in his twenties or thirties, with short black and blue hair, and wears a dark blue swallowtail hat on his head.
But when this person saw Xiaozhi, he smiled and said:
"Are you Xiaozhi from Zhenxin Town? I have always wanted to meet you."
Xiaozhi blinked, another person who knew him?
There are no outsiders on the island now. The man in front of me should be the Mr. Yaxuan that Bomu mentioned, right?
Yaxuan, on the other hand, took off his hat and introduced himself elegantly:
"Then let me introduce myself. My name is Yaxuan. I come from Orudolan, and now I am the owner of this steel island."
