Long Weixi led Cheng Tian all the way to a closed door at the side of the training ground. Cheng Tian was very familiar with this place, because he knew that beyond it lay individual training spaces.
Long Weixi was taking me to a private training ground?!
They passed through the door, but what greeted Cheng Tian this time was nothing like the room above the Gravity Training Room, with its spiral staircase winding downward. This room was tiny, and directly ahead stood an elevator.
Yes, the kind of elevator in shopping malls that went straight up and down.
"Come with me." Long Weixi led Cheng Tian into the elevator. Cheng Tian noticed that it had only two buttons: "↑" and "↓."
Long Weixi pressed the "↑" button, and the elevator began slowly ascending.
In less than ten seconds, the elevator doors opened again. Only now, the view outside had become an enormous dome.
Beneath the dome was a training area as large as the training ground below. Cheng Tian noticed many bird Pokémon flying here. Quite a few Trainers were here too; even Head Coach Xiong Weidong was present, seemingly training Braviary.
"This is the Flying Pokémon Training Ground," Long Weixi explained. "Come with me, and be careful not to disturb anyone else's training."
"Mm, okay."
Cheng Tian obediently followed Long Weixi to the center of the field. A man who looked about the same age as Long Weixi approached with a smile and struck up a conversation. Cheng Tian noticed that his neck was rather dark.
"Yo, little Xi, finally here to train? Haven't seen you here these past few days."
Long Weixi teased him with a smile. "It doesn't matter to me. I can train whenever I like. But you, a Flying-type Elite Four member-surely you're not