NOVEL WEB Chapter 126 - After the Competition
Regarding Mai Dongzi hiding after winning the school-level individual championship, there wasn’t much of a stir at The University. Not only the first to third-year students, but even the fourth-year students accepted the result calmly.
After all, even those who couldn’t see the match clearly during the live event understood her high combat skills once the competition video was released. She definitely won through martial arts.
The campus online buzzed with discussions about this event, gradually shifting the topic back to Mai Dongzi’s psychic abilities. Since no one had seen them, curiosity about her psychic powers grew.
Before the match, many were eager to see her use psychic skills. However, throughout the competition, she relied solely on martial arts, never utilizing her psychic powers.
As people debated why Mai Dongzi never used her psychic skills, a fourth-year student suddenly remarked, “This junior must have some attack power in her psychic abilities, right?”
This comment awakened everyone, leading them to connect her choice to study sound therapy and directing instead of focusing on psychic abilities, prompting many to speculate in that direction.
Not all psychic ability users possess offensive power.
Many psychic users lean towards support roles, similar to students in the directing program, where the psychics focus on brain development. Sound therapists also tend to have weaker psychic abilities with insufficient attack power.
Mai Dongzi’s primary impression on the students at the University came from her performance in the survival livestream game.
After entering The University, her impressive martial aura made no one perceive her as weak. Thus, everyone naturally assumed her psychic abilities would be even stronger.
However, during the competition, even when Mai Dongzi struggled, she did not use any psychic skills, seemingly supporting the fourth-year student’s speculation.
With just her martial arts abilities, Mai Dongzi had already become the top student at The University, and many believed she possessed even stronger abilities beyond martial arts.
Such a prodigy was beyond what anyone could surpass, forcing people to suppress their feelings of envy and jealousy.
Now, suddenly hearing that the psychic abilities they thought were stronger might actually be just for show, and that Mai Dongzi’s true strength lies solely in her martial prowess, left everyone in shock.
It felt as if everyone realized that someone they once saw as untouchable was really just slightly stronger than them. Even if they couldn’t match her, it didn’t mean no one could.
As a result, those who initially felt a bit sour seemed to have an epiphany, enthusiastically speculating that Mai Dongzi’s psychic abilities couldn’t be applied in combat.
Soon after the semester began, news broke about many instructors vying for Mai Dongzi in the waiting hall at the harbor.
The exposure suggested that her refusal to join the combat and psychic departments, insisting on staying in the arts to study sound therapy, might be due to her psychic powers lacking offensive capabilities.
Mai Dongzi’s fight with Ye Zhengyan wasn’t in vain; she gained some insights and retreated to her nearby arts dormitory after the match, remaining in seclusion until noon the next day.
After emerging, she discovered that Ren Guang and Zhuang Huiya had tried to contact her several times.
Mai Dongzi first replied to Ren Guang.
“You’ve been in seclusion since your match yesterday?” Ren Guang asked.
To avoid being disturbed by anyone knocking on her dorm room door, Mai Dongzi left a message before entering seclusion. Anyone who sent her a message would receive an automatic reply stating she was in seclusion, which is why Ren Guang contacted her.
“Yeah, is there something up?” Mai Dongzi asked.
Ren Guang’s expression and tone indicated he had something to ask but was hesitant to say it outright.
“There’s a lot of intense discussion online about your psychic abilities,” Ren Guang said cautiously.
Upon hearing this, Mai Dongzi immediately opened the campus website and entered the gossip forum, where she saw the alarming headlines and understood why Ren Guang was reluctant to ask.
“Are you wondering if my psychic abilities have offensive power?” Mai Dongzi inquired.
“I haven’t seen you use any psychic attack skills,” Ren Guang admitted.
“No student at The University can withstand my psychic attacks, so I won’t use my abilities against them unless absolutely necessary,” Mai Dongzi replied candidly.
In her previous life during the apocalypse, after awakening her psychic abilities, most of her battles were based on psychic attacks. After countless training sessions, her strongest attack was directly incapacitating the enemy’s brain, which was the most straightforward and rapid skill.
Such a direct psychic attack could only be mastered in real combat by seasoned psychic warriors.
Although this interstellar era isn’t entirely peaceful, with humanity facing various alien threats and small-scale skirmishes, even psychic warriors have limited opportunities to continuously incapacitate enemies.
As for martial arts, Mai Dongzi could temper her killing intent and refrain from using lethal moves.
However, her psychic skills were all lethal moves; once unleashed, they radiated killing intent, making it difficult for her to use such deadly powers against her fellow students.
Moreover, her martial arts were already sufficient to handle them.
She was surprised that people could leap to such conclusions—assuming her psychic abilities lacked offensive power simply because she hadn’t used them in public—discussing it with such enthusiasm.
On the gossip forum yesterday afternoon and this morning, there were numerous posts claiming her psychic powers had no attack capability, as if they had received official confirmation.
Ren Guang naturally trusted Mai Dongzi, and after hearing her, he felt reassured enough to end the message.
Since Ren Guang came to terms with the fact that he was not as strong as Mai Dongzi, he had started to let go. He didn’t feel any shame about being less powerful than his cousin; in fact, he took pride in her exceptional martial skills in front of his classmates.
As members of the Xi family, with his father as the family head, Ren Guang lacked any of the jealousy others might have. He genuinely hoped for Mai Dongzi’s continued strength, not only because their bond had grown closer over the past six months but also because they shared a common fate.
After the individual competition, the team matches would follow, with the preliminaries scheduled for tomorrow. Therefore, instead of directly replying to Zhuang Huiya, Mai Dongzi sent a message to all members of the Phantom Team, asking them to gather for training in the directing department’s training room.
Just after she sent the message, she received a reply from Zhuang Huiya, indicating that all five of them had been training in the Phantom Team’s training room all day.