Travelling through the interstellar world, starting with the real and fake daughter - Chapter 223

The small starship, compared to the large spacecraft, was much smaller in overall size, but it also had fewer people, so the personal room space was just as good as the private cabins on the larger ship.

The small starship had another major advantage: its flight speed was a third faster than the latter. Additionally, with private star travel, it didn’t need to stop at life-supporting space stations on various planets to let passengers disembark.

While the journey on a regular spacecraft would take five days, Mai Dongzi and the others made it back to Capital Star in less than three days, saving almost half the time.

On their way back, they didn’t encounter any trouble and returned smoothly to Capital Star.

It was a coincidence that the two military academy students also lived on the Fourth Ring Road of Capital Star, not far from the Zhuang family.

Over the past three months, Wang Rili and the other military academy student had shared many hardships with Zhuang Huaiya and had developed a strong bond of camaraderie. Now that they discovered they all lived nearby, they immediately decided to continue training together during the few days before school started.

At the Third Army Corps, Mai Dongzi had trained separately from the three boys. Upon hearing that the three of them had made plans to train together, she chose not to participate.

Mai Zixuan knew that his sister had returned to Capital Star, so he wanted Mai Dongzi to live with him in the Jiang family’s mansion.

However, Mai Dongzi had no interest in living there, especially considering the group of mercenaries who had free access to the mansion. Instead, she moved into her own small villa on the Fourth Ring Road.

That night, Mai Zixuan came over with just one bodyguard, claiming a room for himself as if saying, “Wherever my sister is, I should be there.” As his older sister, Mai Dongzi naturally had no objections to such a small matter.

In her past life, Mai Dongzi was eight years older than Mai Zixuan. After entering military school, she had little time to return home, and they had even less time to spend together. The siblings weren’t very close.

It wasn’t until the apocalypse struck, when Mai Dongzi returned home, saved her family, and brought them to the survivor base, that they had any significant time together.

But in the three years of the apocalypse on Water Blue Star, their mother passed away first, and then Mai Zixuan also died in battle.

Now that they had been reborn, Mai Dongzi couldn’t tell how much the shadow of her past death affected Mai Zixuan. Seeing him act as though he feared he might lose her at any moment, it was clear that the impact had been substantial.

Over these three months, Mai Zixuan had not been idle either. His metal-type ability had reached the late stage of level six, and his martial arts cultivation had risen to the mid-level of stage four.

In two months, with Mai Dongzi’s help and a martial arts potential-enhancing potion, his martial arts cultivation would advance to stage five.

Last year, because of being schemed against by his stepmother, Mai Zixuan missed the intermediate school graduation exam and couldn’t attend the first military academy’s entrance exam.

This year, knowing that Mai Dongzi was at Capital University, he changed his choice from the first military academy to Capital University.

For students who aren’t direct entrants to Capital University, the responsible instructors and mentors would conduct an interview.

This interview didn’t require face-to-face interaction; a full-holographic meeting was sufficient, as the authenticity of the holographic network reached 99.5%.

Due to Mai Zixuan’s high cultivation, the mentors and instructors in charge of admissions at Capital University immediately decided to recruit him as quickly as possible, lest he be poached by the First Military Academy.

Just like Mai Dongzi, Mai Zixuan was fiercely sought after by both the Combat and Psychic Departments at Capital University.

Mai Zixuan followed Mai Dongzi’s advice, knowing that the end-of-world crisis would come in just over a year, and they didn’t have much time to waste. His metal-type ability was the most prominent at the moment, so he decided to focus on honing his metal ability for the next year, doing everything he could to improve his combat power.

In the end, the Psychic Department won out, and they finally had a level six cultivator.

“Have your stepmother and stepfather given you any trouble?” Mai Dongzi asked.

After she went to the Third Army Group, the interview for Capital University had just begun.

“Last year, they managed to scheme against me because I had only just been reborn. Although I had the memories of the original body, I didn’t expect that my stepmother would be such a piece of work. I didn’t even realize my biological father was just as bad, which is how I fell into their trap. But more importantly, there was a traitor within the mercenary group. This year, sister, you found the traitor, and I was prepared. I didn’t give them a chance to scheme against me,” Mai Zixuan said with some disdain.

“After I received the admission notice from Capital University, I went back to the family. My stepmother was so jealous when she saw that I had already reached level six in my cultivation. She couldn’t hide it at all. She’s always been relying on her biological son’s higher cultivation potential to gain more favor from the family, constantly causing trouble. Now…” Mai Zixuan sneered.

It seemed that Mai Zixuan had done something to make his stepmother’s life difficult, but Mai Dongzi didn’t ask for the details. After the apocalypse, Mai Zixuan had become a bit like a black sesame bun, and now that he had died and been reborn, he would only become more devious.

“That Uncle Lu is from my original mother’s side. I used him to send a big gift to my stepmother and father,” Mai Zixuan smiled.

“What kind of big gift?” Mai Dongzi asked, curious.

“A big gift of a green hat. My father lost face in front of dozens of family members; his face turned green with embarrassment.”

“It should be a ‘green hat’ on top of his head,” Mai Dongzi teased.

“Unfortunately, gene technology is too advanced in this world. There’s no doubt about the identity of my two younger brothers, so the ‘green’ can’t be complete. But that family of four is all about face, so this mess has caused them so much trouble that they haven’t been able to calm down until now. For the past few months, they’ve had no heart to focus on their cultivation. From what I can see, they’re doing pretty well now.” Mai Zixuan said with a bit of pride.

At a time like this, having no heart for cultivation was the harshest punishment. And once the end-of-world purge day arrived, they would regret the lost time for cultivation. In that situation, it would be extremely detrimental. Mai Zixuan’s way of getting back at them without using force was a direct strike to their hearts.

It was great to avenge the original owner, but for Mai Dongzi, what mattered more was using this situation to eliminate the two traitors in the mercenary group.

Uncle Lu was the deputy captain of the mercenary group, and Uncle Bian was his subordinate. Both had left the mercenary group after this ‘green hat’ incident.

With their departure, the veterans in the mercenary group wouldn’t hold any ill thoughts toward Mai Zixuan, and his risk of being attacked from both sides was reduced.

It was truly a triple win.

The siblings had only been talking for a short while when eager customers came looking for them.

During the holiday, with Mai Dongzi’s assistance, Wang Yiyi and Tony’s cultivation levels both reached level five.

In the Phantom Combat Team, only Yu Lan and Chen Xinhe remained at level four.

At the beginning of the break, because Mai Dongzi’s schedule was so tight, the two of them couldn’t take the cultivation potential enhancement pills because their parents didn’t approve.

As a result, during the holiday, Mai Dongzi helped several people and they successfully passed through the dangerous period after taking the enhancement pills. This became widely known among the upper circles of Capital Star.

Yu Lan and Chen Xinhe regretted it immensely, and their parents finally agreed to let them take the pills.