NOVEL WEB Chapter 145 - Dizziness
Although Mai Dongzi had been reborn, the special training she underwent in her previous life was not in vain.
Especially after experiencing life-and-death situations numerous times during the apocalypse, she was instinctively able to maintain a semblance of awareness even in her current state of dizziness, where she was too injured to hold on.
Therefore, while on the surface it seemed that her mental sea was severely damaged and she had fainted after spitting out blood, in reality, she had not completely lost consciousness and was even barely managing to project a weak mental power outward.
Now, she was in the Anning flying car with Bodyguard Su, in a relatively safe environment.
However, for her at this moment, the biggest threat was Bodyguard Su, so she had to remain vigilant.
Mai Dongzi had not spent much time with Bodyguard Su, and from what she had observed, he seemed very competent.
But people always have multiple facets, and Mai Dongzi had not forgotten the betrayal of companions. In her previous life, the time when she was most severely injured and nearly shook hands with death was due to a companion’s betrayal.
However, it was her other companions who had saved her at the critical moment, snatching her back from the hands of death.
Those companions, who had shared life and death experiences with her, all had the potential to betray her. Having been at school for six months, with Bodyguard Su returning to Deputy Admiral Chen’s side, it was understandable that Mai Dongzi was reluctant to entrust her life and death to Bodyguard Su.
Even though she was severely injured, she still had to risk aggravating her wounds by using her dwindling mental power to “observe” Bodyguard Su.
Although her mental strength had been severely damaged, it didn’t mean she lacked the ability to fight back in a dire situation.
Fortunately, through her blurry “vision,” she saw Bodyguard Su catch her with great urgency after she fainted, her expression anxious and tense as she took out a healing potion from a spatial device and poured it into her mouth.
After tasting it and confirming that it was a high-level healing potion specifically for mental injuries, she opened her mouth to drink it.
After “seeing” Bodyguard Su feed her the healing potion, he hurriedly dialed a communication device: “Deputy Admiral Chen, Miss Mai Dongzi has been seriously injured and fainted after an attack. Now we have both taken refuge in the Anning flying car, but I suspect there are still another group of assassins nearby.”
Finally reassured about Bodyguard Su’s loyalty, Mai Dongzi could no longer hold on. She had not yet heard Deputy Admiral Chen’s response before she fell into darkness…
Although she was unsure how long she had been unconscious, Mai Dongzi believed it hadn’t been too long.
This was because she had taken a high-level healing potion for mental injuries before fainting. If a considerable amount of time had passed, she should have already recovered significantly.
After all, the effective duration of the high-level healing potion for mental injuries is about an hour, and she hadn’t recovered much.
Her current condition was that her consciousness was gradually returning, but the splitting headache and mental exhaustion had not improved significantly.
This indicated that her time in a coma had been short, and the high-level potion’s treatment had yet to fully heal her injuries.
Since she did not sense any danger, and because her head hurt too much, she remained in a dizzy state without opening her eyes.
She could feel that she had been placed in a soft chair, half-lying down, with a safety buckle fastened around her.
She was still inside the flying car, and there was only Bodyguard Su around her.
The flying car was not in flight; it was clearly stationary.
It seemed that during her time in a coma, Bodyguard Su had remained stationary on the Anning flying car.
Before she fainted, she vaguely heard Bodyguard Su send a message to Deputy Admiral Chen, indicating that there should still be assassins lurking in the area. Mai Dongzi speculated that she was waiting for reinforcements sent by Deputy Admiral Chen.
When the Anning took off, the energy zone located in the belly of the flying car was a weak point. Once the energy was depleted and the protective shield was breached, the energy zone would certainly be the first target to be attacked.
By staying grounded, the Anning could greatly save on energy consumption, and even if the energy was exhausted and the protective shield was breached, it would still take a lot of effort for anyone to break into the Anning’s cabin.
Of course, this premise relied on having reinforcements; without them, it was only a matter of time before they were caught like turtles in a pot.
Therefore, they had not yet escaped danger. After assessing her current situation, Mai Dongzi silently practiced her meditation technique, hoping to accelerate the healing potion’s effects so that she could recover as soon as possible.
This fragile and helpless state made her feel extremely unsafe.
However, as she practiced, Mai Dongzi nearly fainted again from the pain.
Under such intense agony, her training was interrupted, and she remained in a dazed state for several minutes before her consciousness gradually returned.
Due to insufficient mental power, Mai Dongzi did not use her mental strength to “look within.” She hadn’t realized just how severely she had been injured in that explosion; she had already sustained damage to her meridians, which was why she could not practice meditation.
Injuries to the meridians are the most severe wounds for cultivators.
If the injury is mild, it might be manageable, but if it’s more serious, it can’t be healed with just one or two high-priced healing potions; it usually requires a month or two of recuperation to recover.
However, if she could take out her spatial device, which contains a specially designed treatment pod for mental-type ability users, and combine it with high-level healing potions, she should be able to recover in about four days.
Unfortunately, the current environment isn’t safe enough. Realizing she had injured her meridians, Mai Dongzi didn’t rush; she stopped to rest quietly with her eyes closed. Once the intense pain in her mind, triggered by her meditation practice, gradually eased, she used her wood-type abilities to heal her meridian injuries.
However, her mental-type ability had already reached mid-level seven, while her wood-type ability was only at mid-level three, which meant that the healing effect of her wood-type abilities was, well, not comparable to that of high-level healing potions.
Perhaps it was because in her previous life she was accustomed to using mental skills and martial arts, or maybe her potential for cultivating wood-type abilities was too low to reach a higher level. As a result, Mai Dongzi somewhat neglected her wood-type abilities.
After all, from a purely survival standpoint, mid-level three wood-type abilities were already sufficient. So, Mai Dongzi felt there was no need to waste too much time on wood-type abilities to avoid splitting her training time between body techniques and meditation.
Thus, after returning to the Imperial Capital Star from Water Blue Star, Ming Dongzi only maintained a routine practice of one hour per day for her wood-type abilities.
However, after Zhuang Huaiya was burned by a fire-type ability user last time, and Mai Dongzi used her wood-type abilities to treat him, she realized the value of her wood-type abilities.
Now that she was injured, she understood even more deeply that if her wood-type ability level were higher, she could merge her wood-type abilities with healing potions to treat her injuries, resulting in double the healing effect.
Mai Dongzi made up her mind to spend more time each day to properly cultivate her wood-type abilities.
Although her wood-type ability level was too low and the self-healing effect was insufficient, she did not give up. Instead, she carefully used her wood-type abilities to merge with high-level healing potions to treat her injuries.