LIGHT NOVEL Chapter 216 - Wu Youqi
If Wu Youqi is on this spaceship, the Third Army Corps won’t be able to control him; only the personnel from the National Security Bureau can.
The director of the National Security Bureau is Prince Arthur, and even members of the National Congress have to show him respect. Wu Youqi, as a government official, would never go against the people from the National Security Bureau.
When Mai Dongzi noticed that the guards approached the two military academy students, she had already thought about the issue of detaining those mercenaries.
When the guards asked the two military academy students to hand over the mercenaries in the private room for detention, Mai Dongzi used her mental power to strike the eleven unconscious mercenaries in the private room.
As a result, these eleven mercenaries will be unable to wake up for several hours. Even if they do wake up, they won’t be able to be interrogated due to the intense headache.
The people on the spaceship won’t be able to find out from these mercenaries that the mercenary captain was knocked unconscious when releasing the parasitic beasts on the two military academy students.
As for the six mercenaries captured by Mai Dongzi, she didn’t use her mental power to strike their minds.
First, because these six mercenaries didn’t have parasitic beasts on them. Second, the mercenaries from the two military academy students’ side are now unconscious and unable to be awakened. If the mercenaries from Mai Dongzi’s side are also unable to be woken up, it would make the situation too obvious.
From the video, it was clear that these six mercenaries attempted to kidnap their cousins, but the cousins fought back, and the mercenaries ended up getting knocked unconscious instead.
Even if these six mercenaries were woken up and interrogated, and the parasitic beasts were mentioned, the cousins could easily pretend to know nothing and deceive everyone.
Wu Youqi is a government official. If he’s not on the spaceship, that’s one thing, but if he’s on the spaceship, it will be harder to deceive him.
After all, in just five hours, the Third Army Corps will come to take control of the spaceship. With Wu Youqi on board, his connections and influence might mean he already knows about this incident.
Wu Youqi’s presence on the spaceship, especially when there are mercenaries onboard looking for suitable candidates and releasing parasitic beasts, is highly suspicious.
If Wu Youqi is unaware of the situation, whether or not to inform him will be decided by the National Security Bureau. Mai Dongzi doesn’t want to get involved in this mess.
If this matter is connected to him, and the four of them reveal it, that would be suicidal.
Even if she could use Prince Arthur’s influence, if Wu Youqi truly wanted the four of them dead, he has many ways to do so without leaving a trace.
Therefore, they must not speak about the parasitic beasts. Even if Wu Youqi and others manage to get this information out of the mercenaries, the four of them must absolutely be kept out of this issue.
After using her mental power on the eleven mercenaries, Mai Dongzi placed a mental restriction on the two military academy students and Zhuang Huaiya’s minds.
This restriction merely made the three boys very reluctant to bring up the matter; it wouldn’t harm their minds. This way, she wouldn’t have to worry about them unintentionally spilling information.
Before Wu Bo and the others knocked on the door, Mai Dongzi had already hidden everything she could and taken care of the necessary details. Therefore, when Wu Bo requested to hand over the six mercenaries to the guards, Mai Dongzi readily agreed.
“Miss Xi, Young Master Zhuang, our captain requests your presence,” Wu Bo said.
From Wu Bo’s address, it was clear he was aware of both Mai Dongzi’s and Zhuang Huaiya’s identities.
Zhuang Huaiya glanced at Mai Dongzi, and seeing his cousin’s calm expression signaling him to follow, he also put on a similarly calm expression and followed behind her.
Seeing this, Wu Youqi, who had been watching Mai Dongzi through the surveillance video, smiled slightly and said to his son, Wu Yiding, who was also observing the scene: “This girl is really kind to her cousin. Her cousin is obedient too.”
“Given how she was treated by the Xi family, it’s not surprising she’d be closer to her maternal family. Luckily, her maternal family is decent. This little cousin has good potential for cultivation; with proper training, he could be a great help to her,” Wu Yiding replied.
“From how she dealt with those six mercenaries, her mental power is very strong. It’s a pity she’s not from the Wu family; otherwise, what would the Xi family matter? That Niegri is as dumb as can be; he’s a waste of food,” Wu Youqi said with some irritation.
“Then let her marry into our Wu family. If she were our Wu family’s grandaunt, she’d be better than marrying outside,” Wu Yiding suggested jokingly.
“You’re talking nonsense. Even if someone from the younger generation of the Wu family were worthy of her, it wouldn’t work,” Wu Youqi said, giving his son an exasperated look.
“Why not? Our Wu family ranks higher than the Xi family among the top ten families,” Wu Yiding said, somewhat disgruntled.
“That’s because you don’t know what Prince Arthur has done for her,” Wu Youqi had to tell his son a few things to prevent the fool from acting recklessly.
“Prince Arthur? Didn’t we hear that Prince Arthur helped her because of her father’s life-saving grace and her discovery of energy plants on Water Blue Star? I’ve never heard of any direct interaction between him and her.” The young man said, sounding somewhat unconvinced.
Prince Arthur had always been someone they all looked up to, and for his marriage, all the prominent families with eligible daughters had been closely watching.
If he were involved with any woman, it would be impossible for him to keep it a secret from everyone.
Prince Arthur’s special attention to Mai Dongzi had once sparked intense interest. People had long suspected that Prince Arthur might have taken an interest in her.
However, since they returned to Imperial Capital Star from Water Blue Star, they hadn’t even met once.
Prince Arthur had spent all his time, except for his fixed rest periods, completely immersed in cultivation and work, with no leisure time at all. Everything was exactly the same as before, with no changes.
Mai Dongzi, too, stayed quietly at Imperial Capital University, focusing on cultivation and studies. Later, rumors of her being involved with a male student from the university circulated, and there was no connection to Prince Arthur whatsoever.
So, gradually, everyone dismissed this idea.
“I used to think the same, until two months ago when Mai Dongzi was seriously injured by an assassin organization. At that time, Prince Arthur was the first to arrive at the Central Forest. Later, Prince Arthur mobilized several departments and, in just half a month, wiped out several major assassin organizations in the dark market, forcing the dark market’s backers to remove Mai Dongzi’s name from the assassination reward list. He didn’t care about his own name still being high on the reward list—he only focused on Mai Dongzi…”
Many people knew about Mai Dongzi’s ambush in the Central Forest, but Prince Arthur’s involvement was kept under wraps, and the outside world had no idea.
Wu Youqi happened to be near the Central Forest that day and saw Prince Arthur’s personal flying car, which led him to guess the story behind the incident.
Prince Arthur’s flying car had been disguised, so outsiders couldn’t tell it was his personal vehicle.
However, the Wu family’s main business is the manufacturing of spacecraft and starships, and they have several production lines for flying cars.
Therefore, Wu Youqi is very familiar with flying car manufacturing materials. Despite the change in the car’s appearance, he recognized it as Prince Arthur’s vehicle based on the materials used in its construction.