LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 208 - Spaceship 2
After just one encounter in the lobby, the mercenary team leader immediately wanted to follow Zhuang Huaiya. After being outwitted by Mai Dongzi, the team leader was still relentless, going to great lengths to search for Zhuang Huaiya.
This showed that the mercenary team leader’s intentions toward Zhuang Huaiya were not simple.
However, since this was a civilian interstellar spaceship, even though Mai Dongzi was confident in her own combat abilities, she didn’t want to get into a conflict with a mercenary team, whose numbers she didn’t even know, in an unfamiliar environment.
Although she was curious about what the mercenary team leader’s intentions toward Zhuang Huaiya were, Mai Dongzi planned to avoid confrontation unless absolutely necessary.
After all, they would reach their destination in two days. Once they disembarked the spaceship, they would immediately board a starship from the Third Army Group to be taken to their destination.
With the Third Army Group’s reputation, and the fact that they would be on their turf, the mercenary team leader would likely not dare to make any moves against them.
Noticing that there were people outside with unclear intentions, Mai Dongzi decided to wait until the situation escalated before telling Zhuang Huaiya about it, so as not to disturb his concentration during cultivation.
She stopped practicing meditation and kept her psychic power extended, always “monitoring” the outside to ensure she didn’t miss any signs of unusual activity.
Unexpectedly, on the morning of the fourth day, the mercenary team sent a young and beautiful female mercenary with mid-level water-based abilities, who pressed the doorbell to Mai Dongzi’s neighboring private room.
At this time, both military academy students next door were in the cultivation room. However, the doorbell was installed near the entrance to the room, and its pleasant chime disturbed the two students during their practice.
The two military academy students, clearly cautious individuals, stopped their cultivation and came out. They then activated the video system by the door to check who was outside.
Upon realizing that the person at the door was not someone they knew, the two military academy students were not swayed by the fact that the visitor was a beautiful young woman. Instead, they decided to ignore her and return to their cultivation rooms to continue their practice.
The female mercenary, after ringing the doorbell for a while and receiving no response from inside, opened her holographic device.
Mai Dongzi used her psychic power to “look” through the mercenary’s forehead and saw that she had pressed the communication signal of the team leader. Afterward, she closed the device and stood in place, waiting.
Less than a minute later, Mai Dongzi “saw” the mercenary team leader appear at the other end of the hallway.
At that moment, by coincidence, someone exited the private room at the very front of the hall.
There were many people inside that room, and it was obvious that they had pooled their money together to rent one private room, while others had bought cheaper seats in the hall. Everyone was staying together in the private room.
This was Mai Dongzi’s first time taking an interstellar spaceship, so she wasn’t sure if such arrangements were normal.
However, by doing this, they saved money by not renting multiple rooms, and it allowed them to remain in the comfort of the private room for the entire journey. For ordinary people, it seemed like a win-win situation.
But because there were so many people, the private room felt cramped. During the day, those inside would often walk around the spaceship’s hall, since the view from the observation windows was somewhat interesting.
Four men came out of that private room and ran into the mercenary team leader.
At this moment, Mai Dongzi suddenly felt a chill.
If she wasn’t mistaken, it seemed that the four men didn’t even acknowledge the mercenary team leader. They simply walked past him without a glance.
Unless it was intentional, in a corridor that could only accommodate six or seven people walking side by side, one would normally glance at the person coming toward them when passing by.
Mai Dongzi didn’t sense any psychic energy fluctuations from the mercenary team leader. If it wasn’t that his psychic abilities were at least two levels higher than hers, then something unusual must have been going on with him.
However, with Mai Dongzi’s cultivation level, the only way the mercenary team leader could completely hide his psychic abilities would be if he were a level 10 psychic.
A level 10 cultivator, known as a Saint in this world, would have a very high status, immense wealth, power, and would always be surrounded by followers. It seemed impossible for such a person to be leading a small mercenary team and traveling on a civilian spaceship.
Moreover, it was said that there were no level 10 psychic cultivators in the Blue-Black Empire today.
This meant that the mercenary team leader was definitely not a psychic and that something was odd about him.
Mai Dongzi quickly confirmed that something was indeed strange about the mercenary team leader, as when he reached the neighboring room, he didn’t ring the doorbell like the female mercenary had. Instead, he lightly knocked on the door.
The private rooms on the spaceship were made of solid metal, offering excellent sound insulation.
Given the force with which the mercenary team leader knocked, the two military academy students in the training room inside should not have been able to hear it.
However, Mai Dongzi “saw” that the two students stopped their training at the fourth knock, and simultaneously, they both tilted their heads as if listening carefully.
At that moment, Mai Dongzi also “heard” that the knocking had a certain rhythm. Since she was using her psychic power to “hear” rather than listening with her ears, she could only tell that the knocks followed a specific pattern.
When she “saw” the mercenary team leader knock the tenth time, the two military academy students moved in perfect synchronization, exiting the training room with a blank expression and heading toward the door.
It was clear that these two students were being controlled. Mai Dongzi was shocked; she had never seen or heard of such a method before.
The fact that such a light knock, in just ten seconds, could control two level 5 cultivators was a terrifying ability.
Mai Dongzi, who witnessed this, began to sweat on her forehead. She wasn’t sure if the mercenary team leader knocked on her door in the same way, whether she, too, would fall victim to it.
Seeing the two controlled military students walk toward the door, Mai Dongzi quietly moved closer to her own door so she could be closer to the two students.
Since she had witnessed this, she couldn’t let the mercenary team leader manipulate the two students at will.
What made her hesitate was whether she should use her psychic powers to “wake up” the two students now, or wait and see what the mercenary team leader was going to do.
Since the mercenary team leader had his eye on Zhuang Huaiya, she ultimately decided to wait and see what the leader was planning.
However, to prevent any mishap or regret, after confirming that the mercenary leader was not a psychic, Mai Dongzi used her psychic energy to create a mental defense net around the two military students.
After the two students opened the door, the mercenary team leader and the female mercenary showed no surprise upon seeing them. They simply walked into the military students’ room.
Mai Dongzi had originally thought that these two mercenaries were targeting Zhuang Huaiya, and that they had knocked on the wrong door.
But when she “saw” their expressions after they saw the two military students at the door, she realized her mistake. The two mercenaries were, in fact, targeting these two military students.