Pokémon, start your journey from the East Glory Alliance

"Now, come and get your clothes. The girls will change in the car later, and the boys can find a place to change by yourselves. There are plenty of trees here. Gather here after you change your clothes."

After saying this, the deputy examiner began to distribute track and field uniforms.

It's not even March yet, the weather is not warm, it's even a little cold. Track suits are thin and light, and the feeling after wearing them can be said to be refreshing.

Someone complained a bit, but the examiner just smiled and said.

"It's cold now, but it won't be cold when you start running. Have you all changed into uniforms? Once you're done, assemble!"

Seeing that all the candidates had gathered, he picked up the whistle again.

"Everyone get ready, set - go!"

"Toot~!"

With a whistle, the assessment began.

But this time the candidates sprinted hard from the beginning.

After all, triathlon is very energy-demanding. If you run for your life at the beginning, it will be difficult to complete all the events in the end.

Su Yuan and Zhang Long mixed in the crowd and ran along. You have to know that they seldom exercise in normal times, so this kind of test is really very difficult for them.

The first item is a 10-kilometer run. It may be easy for people who exercise regularly, but for those who don’t run or exercise much, it may take more than an hour.

In the first ten minutes everyone was holding on, but after running for ten minutes some people couldn't hold on any longer.

"No, I can't take it anymore. This is killing me."

I thought that the fat boy slowed down his pace because he was out of breath, and finally he couldn't bear it anymore and stopped.

He looked at the crowd running past him and felt very unwilling.

He looked back as if he was looking for something.

"Didn't they say there was surveillance? Where is it?"

After searching for a while and not finding any surveillance footage, I couldn't help but come up with some evil ideas.

"Come out, heavy mud and pull the horse!"

"Uu~!"

A tall orange horse appeared beside him.

The little fat boy climbed onto the horse skillfully.

"Please, Xiao Ma, take me to catch up with those people ahead."

"Uu~!"

The heavy mud horse nodded and started to gallop.

This distance was nothing for a Pokémon that was good at carrying weights and running. Soon he caught up with the other candidates who had left him behind.

After confirming that there was no surveillance and no one else was trying to stop him, he felt a little dizzy.

"Goodbye everyone, I'll go wait for you at the front now!"

After saying that, he immediately ordered the heavy mud horse to speed up, intending to have it take him directly to the lake.

But at this moment, a voice rang out.

"Vulpecula, use Grass Knot!"

"Da-ah~!"

A thick vine suddenly emerged from the ground, tripped the heavy mud horse, and then tied it up tightly like a rice dumpling. The little fat brother also fell to the ground.

Everyone stopped and watched what was happening suddenly.

A huge shadow fell from the sky, and it turned out to be a Pidgeot.

A young teacher jumped off Pidgeot's body, walked up to the fat boy and pinched his chubby face.

"Oh my, it's only been a short while and you can't bear it anymore. Fatty, you're really disappointing. But it's good that we caught a typical example so quickly."

As he said this, he stood up and spoke to the other candidates.

"Okay, everyone, you've seen it all. This is what happens when you break the rules. To be honest, I'm not the only teacher supervising the entire exam, so I have to think clearly about what I can and cannot do.

Continue taking the test, don’t just stand there.”

Su Yuan and Zhang Long looked at each other, and without saying anything more, they continued running.

Obviously, the teacher is killing a chicken to scare the monkeys. The fat boy is the chicken, and they are the monkeys.

The test continued. After running for half an hour, many people felt exhausted.

The pace of movement slowed down significantly, and some people even found it difficult to lift their legs.

However, the journey was only a little more than halfway.

The strange thing is that Su Yuan actually felt that he was still okay and that he should have no problem finishing the run if he continued to keep going.

Zhang Long, who was following Su Yuan closely, asked with some anxiety.

"Yuan, did you secretly practice more at home? Why do you seem to be fine?"

Zhang Long started breathing heavily while talking, and it felt like he might faint at any moment.

"I don't know either. I just feel it's okay and I can accept it. Stop talking and keep holding on. There's less than halfway left."

Su Yuan said something to comfort Zhang Long and continued to run in front, trying to get Zhang Long to speed up his pace.

In fact, Su Yuan had already roughly guessed what was going on.

When I was in Yun Province, I unlocked a special skill tree. At that time, I thought it was useless, so I just randomly selected two skills.

Now it seems that it is not completely useless. When he started running, he felt the effect of this skill.

Chapter 117: Leading

"Zhang Long, follow my rhythm and keep your breathing steady!"

Su Yuan gave an instruction and started to lead Zhang Long to run.

Zhang Long was also very cooperative, trying his best to match Su Yuan's rhythm, breathing, pace, and arm swinging.

Gradually he found that running was not so strenuous anymore.

Soon, the two of them left the main group behind with their steady pace and caught up with the leading candidates.

One of them was also stunned when he saw Su Yuan catching up with him. He took a look at Su Yuan's posture of being unable to run away, his expression changed slightly, and he asked curiously.

"This rhythm, this pace, buddy, have you practiced this specifically?"

Su Yuan replied calmly.

"No, just running occasionally."

"It's okay to run once in a while. Your posture is quite professional. It's just that the guy behind you looks like he can't stand it any longer."

"Nonsense! I can still handle it."

This immediately aroused Zhang Long's strong character.

"Zhang Long, don't get excited, and breathe carefully."

Su Yuan quickly called Zhang Long, saying that this had entered the final stage and nothing could go wrong here.

"Brother, stop talking. We are almost at the lake. Don't mess up the rhythm. Let's talk again when we get there."

"clear."

The guy was also a smart man, so he responded and stopped talking.

Finally, Su Yuan and his group became the first group of candidates to arrive at the lake, taking 52 minutes, almost an hour. However, this result was very satisfactory to Su Yuan, as he had not exercised much in normal times.

"It seems that I need to re-evaluate the gold finger. It seems that it is not so useless."

"Huh? Hahu, hahu, what are you talking about? Hahu, hahu."

Zhang Long supported himself on his knees and breathed heavily. He seemed to hear Su Yuan say something.

"Nothing, just take it easy, there are other projects to come."

Su Yuan looked at the calm lake surface. There was a thin layer of mist floating on the lake surface. The red flag on the opposite bank was faintly visible under the cover of this layer of mist.

"We have about ten minutes of buffer time to rest and prepare to enter the water."

The requirement for this assessment is to complete the entire course to pass, so Su Yuan’s goal is to finish the race, so he doesn’t plan to work too hard, after all, there is no need to do so.

"By the way, you can swim, right?"

After taking a breath, Zhang Long straightened up, patted his chest and said.

"You must be joking. I grew up by the river, how could I not know how to swim?"

"That's good. You don't need to swim too fast. Swim in the way that saves the most effort and is the best for you. We don't need to compete for the first place this time. As long as we can complete all the events, it will be fine. Don't you understand?"

Zhang Long nodded seriously.

"clear."

He also knew that now was not the time to be competitive, and his primary goal was to complete the race.

The guy from before also came over.

"Dude, you have a pretty good foundation. It seems like you didn't have any big reaction after this trip."

"It's OK. Actually, I'm quite tired. It's just that I'm not very good at expressing myself."

Hearing Su Yuan's words, Zhang Long's expression froze. Damn it, you can't lie like this, do you need to express your tiredness? Man, I was almost exhausted just now, do I need to express it?

It was obvious that the other party also knew that Su Yuan was really trying to fool him, so he smiled and said indifferently.

"My name is Ning Zhi, and you are Su Yuan, the runner-up in the first-year group in the campus competition last year, right?"

Su Yuan nodded.

"You're not a freshman, are you? I've seen freshmen in the combat department more or less, but I don't remember anyone with your name."

"Normal. I'm a sophomore."

Ning Zhi asked with a smile.

"By the way, aren't you studying biology? Why are you thinking of taking the travel study test?"

"What's wrong? Biology students can't participate? This thing doesn't seem to be exclusive to your combat department."

Before, Ning Zhi said that he was not capable of it, and Zhang Long was more or less unconvinced, so he spoke a little aggressively for a while.

"No, that's not what I meant, I'm just curious.

After all, I heard that apart from our combat department, no one from other departments has participated in the assessment for many years."

Su Yuan replied calmly.

"I don't have any special ideas. I just happened to know about this and wanted to give it a try."

"Really? You might as well give it a try. I can see that you are a very capable trainer."

The three chatted for a while, and then most people rushed to the lake.

Su Yuan looked at Zhang Long.

"How's it going? Have you recovered?"

Zhang Long nodded.

"almost."

"Okay, let's go."

After saying that, the two of them walked to the shore and dived into the lake, with Ning Zhi following closely behind.

Seeing the three of them like water, several other candidates who arrived at the lake with them also followed them into the water.

The water is very cold, so cold that it's almost bone-chilling.

But for them who had just finished running ten kilometers, it was okay and they could handle it.