LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 203 - Bad Intentions
Sometimes, the simplest words can express the truest feelings.
After this incident, Mai Dongzi felt that these people had begun to accept her identity as a cousin and had started to treat her as one of their own.
This was different from when they met the day before, when, although they were polite on the surface, there was an underlying sense of caution and wariness.
Mai Dongzi had also been cautious about these people before, because Zixuan was young, and these people were experienced veterans. She was worried that they might develop other intentions that could harm Zixuan.
It’s important to remember that the original Jiang Zixuan had died in an assassination, which was the reason for Mai Zixuan’s transmigration and rebirth.
Furthermore, Mai Zixuan had tried to investigate the details of the assassination after his rebirth but found no clues, suggesting that there were hidden dangers around Zixuan.
Sure enough, today, she had already noticed that two of the people were suspicious. The one holding the blasting gun had already raised doubts among the others.
But the other person was hiding, trying to incite others, seemed to have gone unnoticed by everyone else. After all, his emotions were well-hidden.
If he hadn’t spoken up to stir others and made Mai Dongzi suspicious, she wouldn’t have used her mental energy to “observe” him and discover his suspicious behavior.
Seeing that most of the others were genuinely happy after noticing Zixuan’s rapid improvement in cultivation, Mai Dongzi breathed a sigh of relief. At least most of them were still loyal to Zixuan, but a small portion…
Mai Dongzi subtly observed two people who were clearly smiling, yet their eyes flickered with uncertainty.
Confirming that these two people were not as happy as they appeared on the surface about Zixuan’s rapid improvement in cultivation, and that they harbored malicious thoughts, she immediately planted mental energy seeds in them.
Not to mention the one who hadn’t shown his true intentions yet, even the one holding the blasting gun didn’t have any apparent wrongdoing. His actions could also be justified as concern for the young master.
These people were all old members of the mercenary group, left behind by Jiang Zixuan’s mother. Without solid evidence, Zixuan, still a young adult, couldn’t just act against them.
Although Zixuan thought he was very capable now, in Mai Dongzi’s heart, he was still that foolish little brother who she needed to protect when the time came.
As expected, Zixuan’s ability potential was raised to 2S, while his martial arts cultivation remained at its original potential.
The mercenary group members arrived quickly and left just as quickly.
Although Mai Zixuan was the current owner of the house, the leader, Uncle Jiang, had been a half-guardian for Jiang Zixuan before he came of age and had the freedom to enter and leave this house.
After Mai Zixuan’s rebirth, it would have been difficult to immediately revoke the elder’s access. And from the looks of it, the elder didn’t seem to intend to give up this privilege on his own.
“Out of these twelve people, at least ten have no ill intentions toward you, but they are, after all, people left behind by your mother. Each of them still carries the role of an elder, and you can’t let them continue like this. You need to find a way to use them for your benefit, otherwise, it will cause trouble in the future,” Mai Dongzi said.
“I realized this problem shortly after my rebirth, but at first, I had to pretend to fit in, so others wouldn’t notice the differences between me and the original host. Plus, I was young and my cultivation wasn’t high enough, and I didn’t have any people I had personally trained, so I could only delay things,” Mai Zixuan said thoughtfully.
“As long as you’re aware of it, that’s enough,” Mai Dongzi replied.
Knowing that Mai Zixuan had everything under control, Mai Dongzi didn’t say anything further. She had no intention of getting involved in this aspect of his affairs.
Although they were siblings, in their previous life, Mai Dongzi, as the older sister who was rarely home, hardly ever interfered in Mai Zixuan’s matters.
After the apocalypse, Mai Zixuan and his classmates formed their own mercenary team, so he wasn’t completely ignorant when it came to managing a mercenary group.
He had the advantage of his status, and now that his cultivation had reached the mid-stage of level six, surpassing most of the people in the mercenary group, and with his youth on top of that, it wouldn’t be difficult for him to bring the mercenary group under control, as long as he had the right means.
“Sis, twelve people came, but you only mentioned ten. Are those two people suspicious?” Mai Zixuan said sharply.
Mai Dongzi then told him about the behavior of the two individuals, and Mai Zixuan immediately brought up the training room’s surveillance footage to check.
If Mai Dongzi hadn’t mentioned it, he wouldn’t have noticed anything odd about these two people. The one holding the blasting gun could raise some suspicion, but the person who was speaking incitement didn’t seem suspicious from the video.
“The one holding the blasting gun is Uncle Lv, and the other is Uncle Bian. These two have been with my mother from the very beginning, and their attitude towards me is the same as everyone else’s,” Mai Zixuan said with a frown.
He didn’t doubt Mai Dongzi’s words, but he couldn’t just act on her claims alone. Given their status, he couldn’t rashly take action against them. Doing so would harm the reputation of the entire mercenary group.
“These two have been hiding their intentions all this time. They must have been very careful. If they hadn’t been in such a rush this time, trying to stop your advancement, and if I hadn’t used my mental energy to observe them, you would have never noticed anything. We can’t act on them without evidence, but you need to make sure they’re being monitored,” Mai Dongzi said.
“I’ve already started training my own people. Although they’re not yet fully capable and can’t go up against these older members, monitoring them is something I can manage,” Mai Zixuan replied.
“From what we’ve seen, only these two are problematic. As long as you’re cautious and careful, there shouldn’t be much of a problem. But your bodyguards also have some issues,” Mai Dongzi said, feeling a bit frustrated.
If Mai Zixuan hadn’t come to find her, given the number of people with ulterior motives around him, he probably wouldn’t even realize that he had been plotted against.
“You’re talking about the bodyguard Sha, right? He was originally assigned to me by Uncle Bian. When we discussed taking the cultivation potential enhancement potion, he must have sent a message to Uncle Bian and the others,” Mai Zixuan said without surprise.
Hearing this, Mai Dongzi relaxed her furrowed brow. It seemed that this guy wasn’t completely clueless, which was a good thing.
“We were in the cultivation room for about half an hour, and only then did those people rush over. If Uncle Bian was really worried about you having problems with the enhancement potion, he should have stopped you before you entered the cultivation room, not wait until things were already in progress and then rush over to try and stop it.”
“We discussed it and had something to eat before entering the cultivation room. There was at least a twenty-minute gap between that,” Mai Zixuan recalled the situation at the time.
Seeing that he understood, Mai Dongzi continued, “Based on the experiences of others who have taken the enhancement potion, half an hour is exactly when the person starts entering a dangerous phase. Think about it—if you were in that state and the door to the cultivation room was blasted open with a demolition gun, what do you think would happen?”