LIGHT NOVEL Chapter 227 - The Reborn One
Although Mai Dongzi didn’t overhear their conversation, she immediately knew the reborn individual was real when she saw the immigration surge in V Nation on the star network, along with the discussions about the reborn person.
In the novel, when the Goya star system’s invasion of the Dagula star system occurred, V Nation was the first to be destroyed. Not only did no one in V Nation survive, but several neighboring countries also faced the same fate.
“In the book I read, there was a similar scenario, but there were no reborn individuals at all. What’s going on in this world? Why are there so many reborn people?” Mai Zixuan muttered.
The siblings fell silent for a while, and in the end, they didn’t bring up the topic that concerned them the most.
Last month, during the Blue-Black Empire cultivator star network tournament, Mai Zixuan won the overall championship in the youth group. His incredibly gifted cultivation made him the most outstanding figure in the competition, gaining widespread attention on the star network and earning the title of the Blue-Black Empire’s number one genius young cultivator.
However, during the interview, he told everyone that he was not the true number one genius young cultivator—his cousin Mai Dongzi was. This led to the uncovering of Mai Dongzi’s information, and the issue of the true and false young ladies was brought up again.
Of course, this was not an offhand comment by Mai Zixuan; it was something the siblings had discussed and agreed upon in advance.
Although Mai Dongzi didn’t want to attract such attention, this would generate even more media focus and enthusiasm. If they could maintain Mai Zixuan’s popularity for a longer time, it would allow more people to see them. To achieve this goal, Mai Zixuan had even purposely showcased a photo of the two siblings together.
However, more than a month had passed, and their popularity on the new network had already declined. There were no more headlines about them, and they still hadn’t received any calls from their parents.
The siblings’ hopes had shifted from excitement to heaviness. Neither of them wanted to discuss the topic anymore, but they kept it alive in their hearts, holding on to the hope.
Since last year, when Uncle Zhuang had found information about Zhuang Yuelan on the edge planet, he had been unable to find any further relevant details.
The information Arthur Prince had given Mai Dongzi showed that Atom might still be alive.
Ren Guang had said he encountered someone very similar to Atom in the desert oasis of Liva Star.
However, when Mai Dongzi passed this information to Uncle Zhuang, he immediately sent someone to Liva Star to investigate. They found no trace of the person Ren Guang mentioned or any related clues.
All of this left the siblings with heavy hearts, and when they saw the news about a reborn individual in V Nation, it immediately triggered their concerns.
In the end, it was Mai Zixuan who spoke first.
“Now that I think about it, I don’t know if I should hope they also reincarnated into this world. We both died in the last apocalypse, and now this world’s apocalypse is about to come. This apocalypse is even more brutal than the one we experienced in our past life, and I don’t want them to go through it again,” Mai Zixuan said with a heavy tone.
Mai Dongzi had already thought about this issue. When she realized she had been reborn into a book, she thought about facing the apocalypse again, and she, too, had moments where she felt like not wanting to live. The apocalypse was truly too cruel.
The only relief was that this time, they were prepared. They had plenty of supplies, and their cultivation levels were high enough.
“The survival training competition in the wasteland starts the day after tomorrow. You need to experience it well,” Mai Dongzi instructed.
The annual grand competition and wilderness survival training at the Imperial Capital University were about to begin again.
In this year’s individual competition, Mai Dongzi was still unstoppable, successfully defending her title as the individual champion.
Mai Zixuan claimed second place without any controversy, and Ren Guang came in third.
In the team competition’s group stage, Wu Yongzhang’s Thunderbolt Team had all advanced to the fifth year and no longer participated in the school team competition.
The Phantom Team’s members all advanced to level five or above. Aside from Mai Dongzi, the super-strong individual champion, Zhuang Huaiya also reached level six, surpassing the normal 3A cultivation speed. This allowed the Phantom Team to easily win first place in the group stage.
Although Mai Zixuan’s cultivation was second only to Mai Dongzi’s, he faced the same difficulties that she had encountered last year.
His cultivation was indeed very high, but his teammates were all at the mid-to-late stages of level four. He couldn’t carry the team on his own. As a result, his team, like last year’s Phantom Team, clearly settled for second place in the group stage.
However, Mai Zixuan, the second genius recruited by the Imperial Capital University, still gave the abilities department a boost, which had almost become the bottom of the three main combat departments.
With Ye Zhengyan and Booker, two combat students who had been dominating the Imperial Capital University, moving up to their fifth year, they each went on their internships during the long break, starting a year-long practical experience. The highest-ranked combat student was Ren Guang.
However, Ren Guang’s cultivation was far below that of Mai Dongzi and Mai Zixuan. Fortunately, Shi Zimo and Lin Qingzhou both reached level six during the break, making the number of level six combat practitioners in the combat department higher than in the command and arts departments, maintaining a surface-level balance among the three combat departments.
But everyone knew that with Mai Dongzi’s strength, she could easily take on three level six cultivators.
This academic year, not only did the atmosphere on the entire Imperial Capital Star become tense, but the mood at Imperial Capital University was also very strained.
The instructors and coaches seemed to drain every ounce of energy from them, pushing them to the limit. Even the time for cultural classes was cut in half compared to the previous year.
And the cultural classes weren’t specialized courses; they were more focused on knowledge such as wilderness survival.
From Wang Rili and the others, Mai Dongzi learned that students from the First Military Academy were facing the same situation.
This year, Imperial Capital University’s wilderness survival training wasn’t separated like last year. Instead, everyone was sent together to a planet called Mufei.
Mufei Star was completely different from Liva Star. It was a planet full of greenery, and even the air was filled with wood-type energy, making it very friendly to wood-type ability users.
Before landing on Mufei Star, the instructors gave them a lesson by showing a video about the planet’s situation.
From the video, it was clear that the dominant force on this planet was the mutated plants, which occupied four-fifths of the planet.
These mutated plants were very different from the ones on Water Blue Star. The mutated plants here were extremely ferocious, with many high-level variants.
Apart from the tree roots being fixed to the ground, these mutated plants were almost like animals. They could capture and devour animals passing nearby, and some could even induce hallucinations in humans.
After watching the vicious hunting tactics of the mutated trees in the video, although there were tens of thousands of students aboard the starship, the entire ship fell silent.