Chapter 155: Lost
When Arthur and Kevin, on that bleak and cold night, amidst the soul-chasing sounds of gunfire, heard that continuously repeating voice...
An irrepressible joy of finding a new lease on life in a desperate situation surged through both their hearts simultaneously!
This night... was finally supposed to be over.
In this moment, Arthur was incomparably thankful that he was a Kubfu Alliance citizen, that he had a powerful Alliance behind him.
It should be over...
At the same time, the temporary commander of the opposing Stitched Shadow Army also dejectedly realized this point.
He reported the situation truthfully to Dayna, who was still on her way.
Subsequently, the communication channel fell into a prolonged silence.
Dayna, several kilometers away, had actually sensed somewhat earlier that the situation was becoming untenable.
Because she could sense it when her Pokémon died.
Poké Balls could help establish a mental link between a trainer and their Pokémon, so after a Pokémon died in battle, its master would naturally know in the first instance.
When Jynx died a few minutes ago, Dayna knew that this night, she had ultimately lost.
After a long silence, she suddenly let out a charming laugh.
Linda, traveling with her, turned to look at her, an expression of incomprehension on her face.
"It's already like this, and you can still laugh?"
Dayna feigned ease and said, "Why can't I laugh? It's just one failure. Doesn't Kubfu have an old saying: Victory and defeat are common occurrences for a military strategist. From now on, the Stitched Shadow Army will be under my command; we'll have plenty more chances to spar in the future."
After speaking, she took a deep breath and calmly issued the order to retreat.
This night's struggle... it was time for it to end.
As for whether they had forgotten someone? A certain Poison-type cadre still bitterly waiting for friendly rescue in the ruins?
That wasn't important...
Linda nodded, turned her head, and proceeded according to the command.
However, in the instant she passed by Dayna's side, her peripheral vision couldn't help but feel a few more points of admiration for this old colleague of many years.
Regardless of victory or defeat, to be able to recover from the huge blow of a failed plan and the death of a Pokémon in such a short time, not get dejected, not lose her head, and quickly readjust her state...
Dayna, this woman's mental fortitude was truly admirable.
If she were in the other's shoes, Linda admitted to herself that she absolutely wouldn't be able to laugh right now.
The Stitched Shadow Army falling into this woman's hands now was likely no accident.
Just as she said, the future was still long.
Perhaps there would indeed be more chances to spar!
...
Soon after, following the Stitched Shadow Army receiving the order for a full retreat, all surviving combat personnel began to withdraw in an orderly fashion.
The Kubfu Alliance army didn't expend too much effort before approaching the vicinity of the trenches, fishing out Arthur, who was covered in injuries, from the ditch.
Commander Levi personally came forward. He looked Arthur up and down several times, his eyes filled with incredulity.
"Brother, how did you manage to get yourself into this state? Did you go steam in a sauna with boiling water?"
Arthur gave a wry smile.
"Fire Blast" was much more potent than a sauna.
Immediately following, the reporter also arrived, and the cameraman quickly focused the camera lights on Arthur—
—his upper body, that is.
In reality, there was no setting where clothes conveniently tear off while pants remain intact. Having tanked a round of "Fire Blast" to the face, the clothes on Arthur's body now could be described as 'total loss' image quality; aiming the camera too low would easily fail censorship review...
"Mr. Arthur, could I briefly interview you? May I ask why exactly you appeared here tonight?"
"Can we wait a moment? I need medical treatment right now."
"May I ask what exactly happened to cause all these injuries on your body? Many of our Alliance netizens have been teasing that this time, you can't possibly still say you got lost, right? Regarding this, do you have anything you'd like to say?"
"It's true... I got lost again."
"..."
The reporter was momentarily stunned by his reply.
At this moment, the barrage comments on Kubfu's live broadcast channel were even more filled with mirth—
"God damn 'got lost'!"
"In the future, I'll never dare say I'm directionally challenged again."
"Going by this rhythm, next time he gets lost, is he going to time travel?"
Fortunately, at this moment, someone finally helped him divert some of the attention.
Someone from the military signaled the program team to cut the camera to the front.
There, the Stitched Shadow Army's battle line was steadily retreating, and the Kubfu Alliance army was advancing unstoppably!
As long as it was very positive energy, very mainstream propaganda footage, it naturally had to be recorded by the camera; otherwise, the purpose of letting them accompany the army for a live broadcast would have been wasted.
Thus, the reporter finally, briefly, let the injury-covered Arthur off the hook and began to provide battlefield commentary in front of the camera.
"Okay, friends in the audience watching from the rear, here we can see: under the attack of our army, the enemy has already shown clear signs of kuìtáo routing. We can look over there; in the sky and on the ground, everywhere are the enemy's Pokémon retreating and fleeing!
In this battle, our Alliance army has once again heavily crippled the Stitched Shadow Army! We have avenged the hundreds of wronged souls in our South Sea!"
After the reporter's passionate spiel, the camera then zoomed out, and the sound recording equipment also increased its power, truthfully presenting the most realistic battlefield situation to the Alliance audience.
Currently, the battle situation was one of absolute advantage; the enemy had already lost the will to fight. The live broadcast could naturally be a bit bolder, showing things as realistically as possible, with fundamentally no need for cover-ups or concealment.
And so, in this most realistic live broadcast footage, the next moment, everyone heard the command shouted by the Stitched Shadow Army as they retreated.
After all, the language across the entire East Continent was common; there was nothing difficult to understand.
What they shouted was—
"The Leader is dead!! Obey Cadre Dayna's command! Abandon rescuing Liam, all units retreat!! Repeating, the Leader is dead, obey Cadre Dayna's command, abandon rescue, all units retreat!!"
This command could be described as a thunderclap at the start, a royal flush right off the bat, leaving everyone completely baffled.
The Leader... is dead?!!
What the hell?!
The Stitched Shadow Army's Leader Oliver is dead?!
WTF, when did this happen? How come we don't know?!
The reporter quickly signaled for the camera to turn around. He reached out a hand and swiftly grabbed a communications soldier from the military, asking, "You heard what the enemy shouted just now too, right? Excuse me, can your commanding officer accept an interview right now? Can we ask when you completed the kill on the Stitched Shadow Army's leader?"
It was quite a coincidence that Levi was right beside them at this moment; he had even concernedly asked Arthur a couple of questions just now.
However, as a military man, he was very honest. Even though this was a heaven-sent great merit being served to him on a platter, he still replied truthfully, "I am the commanding officer. I'm very sorry, I cannot answer you. Prior to this, we had not conducted any operations targeting the enemy leader. We also just learned this piece of intelligence."
Now everyone was completely baffled.
The enemy's leader is dead? Such a big event, it couldn't possibly be an accident, right?
However, just at that moment, the camera inadvertently captured Arthur again, who was just about to slip away...
Levi also asked thoughtfully, "Arthur, previously when you requested our protection on the phone, what exactly was the reason you were being hunted by the Stitched Shadow Army?"
Now, everyone's gaze once again refocused on a certain "lost" citizen.
This matter, it seemed, was indeed very difficult to explain...
Arthur scratched his head, spread his hands to indicate innocence, "I don't know either. It's just... I got lost and wandered into a house, and as a result, by accident, or perhaps it was a mistake, anyway... a man wearing a mask just died. And after that, many people wanted to come kill me."
After he finished speaking, the reporter was so surprised his microphone almost slipped from his grasp and fell to the ground.
This 'getting lost' of yours...
Is truly impressively 'lost'!
(End of Chapter)
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