Elven settlers

Chapter 72 The Vibrant Estuary
"click"

The buckle is locked with a crisp sound.

Rock buckled the straps of his backpack, raised his head and glanced at the sky.

The sun is rising, and the blue sky is cloudless.

Confirming that it was a fine and sunny day, Rock put on a brown cowboy hat and set out from the camp with the ash stick he found yesterday.

To explore the bay in the south of the territory today, Rock got up before dawn.

He first went to the tree orchard and the bee farm to check, and made sure that the tree fruit seedlings and iron shells were all normal.

Then he and Abo blamed them for hastily finishing their breakfast, and couldn't wait to put on their backpacks.

Rock was going to follow the river bank so he wouldn't have to stop to get his bearings.

At the end of spring and the beginning of summer, the water volume of the big river is very abundant, and the two sides of the river are full of vitality.

Some wet-loving trees grow near the water, and the bank is full of wild flowers, and several butterflies and ladybugs are flying.

"Yeah!"

Bayleaf suddenly stood on the bank of the river and shouted.

Rock looked in the direction it was facing, and on the other side of the river stood the Marsh King's family they had seen before.

Two Marsh Kings with a few little Ubos.

Wubo has blue skin, a short body with a large oval head with lavender antenna-like horns on both sides.

It has no arms, only two small feet and a thin, powerful tail.

At this time, the little blackbirds on the opposite bank were bouncing around with the bay leaves to echo each other.

As if sensing Rock's gaze, a marsh king waved his short hand with three round fingers at him.

Rock also waved in response, and then continued on his way with the three elves.

The river channel becomes wider and wider as it goes downstream, and the water flow becomes gentler.

The clear and translucent river reflected the sky like a mirror, and Deluby came to the river curiously, and the river water clearly reflected its figure.

Jingkong River.

These three words suddenly appeared in Rock's mind, and he felt that this name was very suitable for this river.

"Anyway, this river is mine now, so it's called the Jingkong River!"

In the wilderness, Rock announced the name of the river loudly.

Unexpectedly, it disturbed a few mosquito coil tadpoles who went ashore to rest, and they jumped into the river again with a "plop plop".

Along the Jingkong River all the way to the south, a continuous hill gradually appeared in Rock's field of vision.

Here the river turned a bend and disappeared into the hills.

There were some tamarisks and pittosporum growing on the hill, and Roque let the bay leaves cut the way with the joints and climbed up.

The sound of the waves rang in his ears, and when Rock climbed to the top of the hill, his eyes suddenly opened up.

The endless sea appeared in front of him, Rock took off his cowboy hat, and the sea breeze was blowing his hair.

The blue sky and the sea meet, as if they are connected together.

Rock withdrew his gaze and looked down at the coast on the side of the hill.

As he expected, the beach here is full of gravel just like the beach in Sunshine Town.

A large number of jagged reefs emerge from the sea.

Not far away is a trumpet-shaped estuary, from which the Jingkong River flows into the sea continuously.

Although there is also a rocky beach around the estuary, from a distance, Rock seems to have a lot of Pokémon.

So he turned over the hills and walked towards the mouth of the sea.

After approaching the estuary of the Jingkong River, Rock found that it was very wide, nearly 20 meters wide.

A large school of cannon fish swims in the estuary, and a large number of light gray short horns are exposed on the water surface.

Several small ball flying fish jumped out of the shoal of iron gun fish, their oblate bodies twirled and stretched in mid-air as if dancing, and then fell into the sea.

The splashing waves refract the sunlight, forming rainbows.

Suddenly, a few black shadows shot rapidly from under the water, rushing towards the school of iron gun fish like torpedoes.

Rock stared closely at the bottom of the water, and found that several barracudas were rampaging to prey on these iron gunfish.

But the barracuda can only swim in a straight line, so only some unlucky barracudas hit the opponent's sharp jaws and become food.

After a brief turmoil, the sea returned to calm again.

Both sides of the estuary are continuous rock beaches and rocks, and the hills on the side close to the sea are relatively steep with large exposed rocks.

Many electric petrels build their nests on the rock walls, and they stand on the nests condescendingly looking down at the fish school below.

Seeing a few barracudas become sluggish after eating, the whole group of electric petrels immediately flew down to attack.

Dense electric lights lit up on the sea surface, and the barracuda was turned upside down by the electricity.

A few electric petrels grabbed the paralyzed barracuda and flew back to the nest.

Looking at these wild elves on the coast, Rock licked the corner of his mouth.

Barracuda is a delicious sea fish Pokémon, and the bird's nest of Electric Petrel is a rumored delicacy.

But Rock found a better delicacy.

His gaze followed the rocky beach under the rock to the east, where a few dumb beasts were basking in the sun leisurely.

The pink bodies of the slow-witted animals are very conspicuous, and Rock found them on the hill just now.

These slow-witted creatures are fat, with short limbs, and a long tail that ends in a very pale pink, almost white.

This tail is a precious ingredient famous throughout the Pokémon world.

Rock is going to chop a few and try them for lunch.

Slow-witted, slow-witted and laid-back.Its tail is almost painless and grows back quickly if it breaks.

"Ya Duo?"

Seeing Rock approaching, these dumb beasts tilted their heads, and then moved their bodies aside in a friendly manner, giving him a flat rock.

In their eyes, lying on flat stones and basking in the sun is the most comfortable enjoyment.

This made Rock a little embarrassed to start.

He's not a madonna, but slicing off the tails of laid-back and friendly slow-witted animals alive with a knife is beyond Rock's bottom line.

"Oh, forget it, let's take a look at it next time, maybe if you are lucky, you will pick up a tail that falls off naturally."

Rock sighed and inserted the knife back into the scabbard, pinched the stupid beast's curly ears, turned and left.

He didn't feel too disappointed, seeing many elves that he had never seen before, and witnessing the wonderful predation process between different Pokémon, these were enough to make him happy.

There are several islands and reefs lined with strange rocks on the sea not far away. This season is the season when the big-billed gulls and long-winged gulls in the south fly north.

They spread their white wings with blue patterns, soar freely in the sky, and from time to time, they cross the water surface to snatch away the fluorescent fish that jumped out of the sea.

Rock found a rock and sat down to rest, and Derby lay next to him and looked curiously at the distant sea.

Bayleaf found a clam with a closed shell, and it beat the shell of the clam with the sickle on its head, trying to open the other's shell.

The Arbor stared at the electric petrel drooling on the rock wall, just like its greedy trainer.

"Look! It's the Howling Whale King!"

Rock suddenly pointed to the distant sea and said in surprise.

(End of this chapter)