Jiang Jing fanned the air. The smell was a mixture of sweat, sourness, paint from the equipment, and rust.
The first time you smelled it, it really made you feel dizzy.
As he continued inward, Jiang Jing opened his Data Eye to observe the Pokémon around him.
Pokémon: Beautifly Attribute: Bug Talent: ★ Level: LV20 Ability: Swarm ...
Hmm, this was the Pokémon of a pretty high school senior.
Pokémon: Swellow Attribute: Normal, Flying Talent: ★ Level: LV22 Ability: Guts
This was an upperclassman's Pokémon. Jiang Jing looked around for quite a while and found that almost all of them had One-Star Talent. There were barely any with Two-Star Talent.
It seemed that the students training here mostly came from ordinary families. They could not afford better training centers and could only work hard in the school's training center.
There were probably three or four hundred people in the entire training center, making it especially crowded. That was why the smell was so strong.
Jiang Jing truly admired the upperclassmen who trained here every day.
Liu Bin said, "There are so many people, and they're all seniors. Don't they have evening study sessions?"
Sun Le said, "I heard a teacher say that seniors have already learned most of what they need to learn, and there won't be much improvement anyway. So they might as well train like crazy and raise their levels. Maybe they'll have a chance at getting good results."
Jiang Jing nodded in understanding. Senior year grades had basically taken shape already. Doing practice papers during the day and coming here to train at night was actually pretty good.
Sun Le continued, "Some students do not even attend classes during the day. They just come to the training center."
Liu Bin asked doubtfully, "They skip class? The teachers don't care?"
Sun Le said, "Only a small number of students do that. Besides, during the last two months of the final semester in Spirit Studies, the school is fairly lenient and lets them skip class."
Jiang Jing understood. Next, the three of them could not even find a place to put their things, so they could only leave them somewhere unoccupied.
Then they joined the crowd of people training and tried out all sorts of equipment.
Half an hour later, the student using a sandbag was probably tired from punching it. He left with his Hitmontop.
Jiang Jing quickly brought Aron over to train. Sun Le's Mankey and Liu Bin's Shinx joined them as well.
The three Pokémon gathered around the sandbag and unleashed their moves.
"Aron, use Tackle on the sandbag!"
"Mankey, use Scratch on the sandbag!"
"Shinx, use Tackle on the sandbag!"
Aron was the first to launch its move, its body slamming into the sandbag like a cannonball.
Bang!
The sandbag began to swing, swaying in front of Shinx. It immediately burst forward, curling into a ball and smashing fiercely into the sandbag.
When the sandbag was knocked toward Mankey, it locked onto its target and resolutely swung its claws, scratching the sandbag.
Its claw marks only left faint traces on the sandbag before quickly disappearing.
The outer layer of this sandbag was not made of ordinary material. It had a certain ability to restore itself.
The three Pokémon continued attacking the sandbag with their moves. They kept at it for a full three minutes until they were exhausted, then let the Pokémon rest and gave the Trainers waiting beside them a turn.
While they rested, Liu Bin asked curiously, "Brother Jing, why does it feel like Aron's Tackle is smoother and stronger than Shinx's, even though they're using the same move?"
Jiang Jing smiled. "It's probably because its mastery is higher."
Aron had already trained Tackle to the Proficient level. It felt like it was not far from Specialized.
Liu Bin's eyes widened. "So fast? I think Shinx's Tackle is only Proficient too, but it's still quite a ways from Specialized."
"Brother Jing, how did you train it?"
Jiang Jing said, "Aron probably just likes training more. It liked ramming targets only a few days after hatching, and it's very self-motivated too. Even when I leave it alone in the room, it trains by itself."
"So its mastery of every move is pretty high."
Sun Le chimed in from the side, "There's another reason too. Aron's talent is better."
"Even among Two-Star Talents, there are still differences."
"Brother Jing's Aron has higher talent than Shinx and Mankey!"
Liu Bin suddenly understood. "Right, so that's how it is. Damn, Shinx really has to keep working hard. If its talent can't compare to others, how will it catch up in the future if it doesn't work hard?"
Shinx shuddered all over, feeling that its future was going to be rough.
Jiang Jing said, "Actually, I watched some Aron training videos on Douyin. They were posted by some experts, and they seemed pretty useful."
Sun Le said, "I watch them often too. You can learn quite a lot from them."
After they finished discussing it, Jiang Jing noticed that Liu Bin's expression occasionally became unusually serious. It seemed the pressure was starting to weigh on him.
After trying all kinds of training equipment during their session, they found it quite novel, but they also wasted a lot of time waiting.
Every time, they had to wait until someone else was tired and went to rest before it was their turn to use the equipment.
They trained until ten thirty before leaving the training center. When they left, there were still more than a hundred people training, all of them senior year students.
Liu Bin sighed. "They really are hardworking!"
Jiang Jing said, "When we reach senior year, we'll probably be about the same."
Sun Le nodded in agreement.
However, the three of them had already decided never to come to the school training center again. They had trained for nearly two hours, but almost an hour of that had been spent waiting.
The efficiency was simply too low. Continuing to train here would truly be a waste of time. They might as well get training cards at an outside training center and train there every day.
Zhang Haocheng also returned at ten thirty. Liu Bin asked how he felt about it, and Zhang Haocheng immediately knew that the school training center was not great. He then told them about his experience at the Longxiang Pokémon Training Center.
The entire Longxiang Pokémon Training Center was divided into two floors. The first floor was the training hall, where all kinds of training equipment were available. You could train with whatever you wanted.
The second floor had private rooms. Some Trainers did not like others seeing their training process, whether because of their personalities or because their training methods were unique and they did not want to show them to others, so they rented private rooms.
However, private rooms required an additional fee, and monthly private-room packages cost far more than ordinary Trainer packages.
Mainly because the rooms were larger and had more extensive equipment. They were specially prepared for wealthy people.
Zhang Haocheng had purchased an ordinary monthly card. He would only consider switching to a private room after this month ended.
He was clearly someone who did not lack money. After hearing him out, the three decided to check out the Longxiang Spirit Training Center tomorrow.
August 2nd, the second day of school.
After morning reading class ended, Cheng Cheng suddenly turned around and said, "Do you know what the highest level was in yesterday's Level Test?"
Liu Bin said, "Wasn't it Brother Jing? Level 17 isn't the highest?"
Jiang Jing said, "Level 17 isn't the highest. There must be someone with a higher level than me."
Cheng Cheng widened her sparkling eyes. "It was Ye Zijin from class one. Her Pokémon tested at Level 18 yesterday."
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