Su Hao quickly identified himself to the person before him, who looked like he was about to faint from fright.
"Champion...?"
He Wen stared wide-eyed and murmured under his breath. His brain, sluggish from the cold, nearly failed to process it.
Wasn't the Divine Land Alliance's Champion Liao Xingchen? Then this young man was... Oh, right. It seemed that around the time his expedition team had set out last year, before the polar night arrived, the Pokémon League's Elite Four and Champion had all been replaced.
It wasn't his fault for failing to react at first. After spending nearly half a year in the Arctic Circle during the polar night, coupled with their signal cutting out from time to time, he truly knew very little about what had been happening back home.
Not to mention that, a month before the polar day arrived, the Yellow River Research Station had completely lost contact with the Alliance due to external factors.
If Su Hao had not shown up, this isolated state would have continued for some time.
As a researcher with one of the sharpest minds in the world, He Wen quickly sorted out the situation.
Then, he burst into tears.
"Waaah! We were only temporarily out of contact, but the Alliance actually sent the Champion for us? I'm so touched, waaah!"
If the temperature outside had not been so low, He Wen, who was clutching Su Hao's sleeve as though he had just found family, would have already smeared Su Hao's clothes with tears and snot.
Su Hao was speechless.
Why was someone with the clear yet foolish air of a college student working at an Arctic research station?
Facing Su Hao's doubtful look, He Wen blinked and said innocently, "After I completed my combined bachelor's, master's, and doctoral program, I