"Director, the examiner from the League has arrived. He's at the training ground behind the Pokémon Center," Miss Nurse said softly.
"All right, let's head over and get ready for the assessment," Fang Lin said to Zhang Cheng.
Zhang Cheng nodded and followed Fang Lin to the training ground.
Since the assessment was being held today, Fang Lin had ordered the entire training ground cleared in advance. Only the examiner and staff sent by the League remained inside.
After arriving at the training ground, Zhang Cheng looked ahead and saw two middle-aged men and a young Trainer in the rest area.
Zhang Cheng didn't recognize the two middle-aged men, but he froze when he saw the young Trainer. He hadn't expected to run into someone he knew.
As Zhang Cheng looked at the young Trainer, the young man noticed him and turned to look his way.
The young man looked pleasantly surprised to see Zhang Cheng. He jogged over from the rest area and stopped beside him.
"Long time no see, Yuwen Tian," Zhang Cheng said with a smile.
"I didn't expect you to remember me. I thought you'd forgotten all about me," Yuwen Tian said in surprise.
"My memory isn't that bad. It's been a few years, but I still remember you." Seeing Yuwen Tian brought one memory after another flooding back to Zhang Cheng.
During the summer after his college entrance exams, Zhang Cheng had gone to Jade Town. There, he had met Yuwen Tian and Zheng Hao through a team mission at the Pokémon Mission Hall.
The three had teamed up to complete several missions, and their last mission together had left a particularly deep impression on Zhang Cheng.
They had discovered a newly emerged Evolution Crystal and, after a hard struggle, defeated the powerful beast guarding