Chapter 687 Lulina's Challenge
After hearing Lurina say that she already knew who the murderer was, Joe and Lansten became nervous.
Although she is usually just a relatively quiet and cool girl, she has a strong desire to win. Whether in battle or in her modeling career, she has a very aggressive and unstoppable style.
Now that their diving friend has encountered an accident, the other party's fiery emotions have indeed emerged!
Facing Lurina who is about to announce the answer, Zhou You and his party have their own guesses in their hearts.
Lurina, Joe, and Lance, Hannah's diving partner can only be these three, and the murderer can naturally only be one of them!
Zhou You: I think the murderer is Lance. He is the first person who rushed to Hannah to squat beside him to check the situation. Maybe he is dealing with some missed clues. If he searches her at this time, he may find key evidence.
Arthur: Lurina is also suspicious, right? She could have let the gull fly to the cliff to find the nest of the electric petrel, but she rode the raptor to the bottom of the cliff to release the gull. Could it be that she wanted to do something to the aberrant barracuda... the scoop-pointed barracuda while others were away?
Xiaoqi: I don't really understand. What does a kiss taste like?
Nuomici: It must be the one who has a crush on Hannah. He doesn't even care about the life and death of his beloved. He must feel guilty!
Pokémon: Why must there be a murderer? Can't no one be the murderer or everyone be the murderer?
Fireball: ZZZ...ZZZ.
Looking at the elves that jumped out of the Wandering Poké Ball to watch, Lurina felt a little weird for some reason.
But she didn't think much about it, but spoke out her reasoning.
"The burn marks on Hannah's diving suit are concentrated on her back, but the marks on her body are relatively even, which means that it is definitely not an ordinary electric shock.
"Moreover, a Pokémon like the Thornfish cannot be hurt by Pokémon such as the Electric Petrel, the Electric Tetra, or the Snapping Sea Urchin. It can escape from their attack range in just a moment."
Hearing this, Lance raised an objection: "Maybe it was electrocuted just to protect Hannah? Think about it, it has evolved into a Sharp-pointed Thornfish, and it must have experienced a fierce battle in the process."
Lulina shook her head. There must have been a battle, but the question is when.
You know that Hannah's injury is on her back. How can a qualified trainer expose her back to the enemy?
They all know Hannah very well, and the other party is definitely not such a reckless person.
Therefore, Lurina believes that Hannah's injury came from before the battle.
This means that she and her diving partner were attacked without realizing the danger.
Speaking of this, Zhou You suddenly realized something: "So that's it. If it was there, it is indeed possible for such a thing to happen. "
Arthur was puzzled when he heard this. Why did Qiao Qiao start to riddle people again?
"The place where Hannah was in danger was a coral reef, where many small fish and their predators usually live...but they are not attackers."
After a pause, Lurina mentioned a special water-attribute Pokémon: "You should all know the reason why coral reefs are formed, right?"
Sun Coral, a coral Pokémon. It is a special existence with a pink body, white abdomen and limbs, and beautiful and bright coral branches on its head. It has been deeply sought after by people since ancient times.
This Pokémon likes the beautiful sea in the south and once lived near the coast of Galar in ancient times.
When they have enough nutrition, the coral branches at the front of their heads will repeatedly fall off and grow, becoming more beautiful.
"Does this have anything to do with Hannah's injury? "Lance was puzzled. Sun coral obviously did not have the ability to cause electric burns or electric shocks.
Joe's face turned black, as if he had recalled the relevant knowledge.
Zhou You reminded: "Since the injuries on Hannah and the different-colored scoop-pointed shuttle were not caused by electric shocks, then naturally only the effect of fire is left. "
"Impossible! Fire-attribute moves can't play much effect in the sea. How could the scoop-pointed shuttle be defeated by the fire-type elves in the water? "
Seeing that Lance still hadn't seen through the whole picture of the incident, Zhou You looked at the sea and sighed slowly: "Ordinary flames are indeed difficult to take effect on the seabed, but some special flames are enough to cause effects underwater as usual. "
First, rule out the speculation that the fire-attribute elves are strong enough.
"Magic flames" controlled by superpowers, "ghost fire" cast with special energy, and "jealous fire" amplified by mental energy.
These three moves can be unaffected by the underwater environment to a certain extent.
Hint: At this point, anyone can figure out which Pokémon attacked Hannah.
Joe's face turned pale as he uttered the name of the Pokémon: "It's the ghost of Sun Coral!"
Sun Coral, Galar's appearance, is also a coral Pokémon, but its attribute has changed from rock/water to ghost.
Sun Coral has extremely high requirements for environmental factors such as water temperature and water quality. When the ocean is polluted, their beautiful coral branches will become dull.
And Galar's ocean is more than just "polluted".
In ancient times, the fragments of a mysterious meteorite caused a huge change in Galar's ocean-after all, the attribute of the Infinite is poison/dragon.
The sudden change in the environment caused the Sun Corals to die quickly, forming one piece after another of ancient coral reefs.
And some of them have also become a new form of ghost attributes.
They attack humans and elves, absorb the spirit of the living, and curse those who treat them as stones.
"The appearance of the Galar Sun Coral is somewhat deceptive, and sometimes you may not recognize it at the first time."
Recalling the place where Hannah was drowning - near the coral reef, Lurina came to the conclusion: "Hannah's diving partner treated the Sun Coral as an ordinary stone, causing it to be cursed by its cursed body and fall into a state of being unable to move."
"Then, the Sun Coral attacked Hannah with will-o'-the-wisp and fought with the barracuda."
Once humans lose the ability to move underwater, it means drowning and death.
Realizing this, Hannah rescued the diving partner while being in the will-o'-the-wisp state, but it also led to her own death.
"Considering that the diving partner must have the ability to escape in that environment, that person is obviously..."
"Yes! It's me!"
With a plop, Qiao knelt on the beach: "Gu Yue Niao used surfing to take me away from the coral reef!"
It's inevitable when you think about it. Hao Li, Mud Fish and Giant Carbon Mountain can't let Lance escape in that environment.
Since Lu Lina knows that the diving partner is not herself, it's easy to guess who it is.
Qiao's fear and self-blame prevented him from telling the truth for a while...
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As Junsha took Qiao and the sun coral brought back by Eden to the police station for further investigation and record, Lu Lina had time to come to Zhou You.
"Fengyuan champion (former) Zhou You, please fight with me!"
Uh, I studied for a long time how to insert Lu Lina's picture into the main text without touching the minefield, but in the end I didn't dare to mess around.
As a result, I suddenly found that there was a major bug in the battle in the next chapter and I didn't have time to fix it...I'll update it tomorrow.