Liu Bin's eyes widened as he cried out, "Holy crap, that's insane—Level 18! Even if you gave me another month, I still couldn't reach Level 18! How was it trained?"
Cheng Cheng rolled her eyes and continued, "Don't interrupt me. Besides Ye Zijin, there's also Peng Yu from class 2. His test showed that he was Level 17, the same as Jiang Jing. So Jiang Jing's Lairon isn't the highest-level Pokémon anymore."
Liu Bin said dismissively, "Tch, it's just Level 18. Thinking about it now, that doesn't seem hard for Brother Jing."
"Brother Jing and I both hatched our Pokémon at the end of June. If we'd started twenty days earlier, maybe we could've reached Level 19, right?"
"Isn't that right, Brother Jing?"
Jiang Jing nodded. "That does seem to make some sense. But why haven't there been any Level 18 Pokémon in the previous classes? Even Level 17 ones were rare. Do you know why?"
Liu Bin asked curiously, "Why?"
Jiang Jing spread his hands. "I'm not too sure either. Maybe after reaching Level 16, most Pokémon can undergo their first-stage evolution, and leveling up becomes more difficult."
Sun Le said from the side, "Brother Jing's right about that. I saw experts saying online that evolved Pokémon level up more slowly."
"So in previous years, it was especially rare for anyone to break through Level 16 during the first Pokémon level test."
Liu Bin gave him a thumbs-up. "Brother Jing is still awesome. You even managed to guess that."
Jiang Jing said modestly, "All right, I was just making wild guesses. There's no point dwelling on this now. We should think about how to train our Pokémon instead."
Sure enough, by that morning, many people had learned about the level standings in each class of the grade.
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