NOVEL WEB Chapter 153 - Training Exercise 1
The Blue-Black Empire does not have the death penalty. Zhao Fanni, convicted of treason, was sentenced to 500 years in prison.
The average lifespan of interstellar people is around 200 years, so Zhao Fanni will undoubtedly spend the rest of her life behind bars.
According to Prince Arthur, given Bai Zhizhi’s crimes, she should be sentenced to at least 1,000 years.
If it were just for the crime of hiring an assassin to kill Mai Dongzi, since Mai Dongzi is still alive, Bai Zhizhi’s offense would only count as attempted murder. The maximum sentence for that would be around 40 to 50 years.
Thus, Bai Zhizhi’s crime against Mai Dongzi is a minor issue. She has committed an even greater crime, one more severe than Zhao Fanni’s treason.
What crime could be more serious than treason? Mai Dongzi looked through the relevant laws but found nothing that fit Bai Zhizhi’s situation.
Since Prince Arthur isn’t telling her, it means Bai Zhizhi’s crime has nothing to do with her. Although Mai Dongzi was curious, she didn’t want to reach out to Prince Arthur unless absolutely necessary.
From this information, Mai Dongzi couldn’t figure out why Bai Zhizhi would want to harm Little Lucy. Fifty million credits is a huge sum. What kind of grudge or hatred could make Bai Zhizhi take such extreme action against her?
Mai Dongzi “searched” her mind for any connection between Bai Zhizhi and Little Lucy and was certain that the two had only met once at a banquet, and they hadn’t even spoken.
With Zhao Fanni’s precedent in mind, Mai Dongzi couldn’t help but suspect that Bai Zhizhi might be a reincarnator.
Only if Bai Zhizhi had a grudge against Lucy in a previous life could she harbor such hatred toward her. Otherwise, there’s no clear explanation for why Bai Zhizhi would target Little Lucy.
However, something still felt off. Given Bai Zhizhi’s status, if she were reincarnated, shouldn’t she be focusing on cultivating her abilities and finding other cultivators to team up with, in preparation for the impending apocalypse and the Great Purge?
What could be more important than her own life? Why would she, a wealthy heiress, go to such lengths and end up getting herself into the National Security Bureau?
It’s important to note that anyone convicted of serious crimes will have their cultivation abilities destroyed. Without cultivation, surviving the apocalypse and the Great Purge would be impossible.
So, even if Bai Zhizhi is a reincarnator, she isn’t an ordinary one.
Mai Dongzi thought for a while and recalled that around this time, Prince Arthur had discovered the presence of Goya star spies. These spies were people from the Dagula star system who had been “brainwashed” by the Goya star people.
The crime of betraying the entire human race of the Dagula star system is definitely more severe than the treason of betraying the Blue-Black Empire.
Thus, it’s highly likely that Bai Zhizhi had been “brainwashed” by the Goya star people and had become their puppet.
The task of the Goya puppets is to cause chaos in the various countries of the Dagula star system, with their primary mission being the assassination of high-level cultivators from the system.
If this is the case, it explains why Bai Zhizhi spent a huge sum to hire an assassin to kill Mai Dongzi.
However, Mai Dongzi believed that Bai Zhizhi was not only a puppet of the Goya people but also a reincarnator. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have exposed the truth about the fake and real heiress situation.
Thinking of this, Mai Dongzi couldn’t help but want to give Prince Arthur a thumbs up. He was truly impressive. When there were problems around her, he quickly had people investigate and directly arrested those involved, significantly improving her personal safety.
Otherwise, with Zhao Fanni in the Xi family wanting her dead and Bai Zhizhi at Imperial University also plotting against her, Mai Dongzi’s life would have been full of danger.
Not to mention anything else—just this upcoming wilderness survival training alone. Bai Zhizhi was still part of the training team at Imperial University. Not only would Mai Dongzi be in danger, but even Zhuang Huaiya and the other members of the Phantom Squad would be at risk.
Mai Dongzi had originally been worried that she might drag the Phantom Squad into trouble, but now that Prince Arthur had helped her resolve the issue of the bounty on the Dark Market, she no longer had to worry as much about tomorrow’s wilderness survival training.
According to the rules, Mai Dongzi was originally supposed to return to the Arts Department to participate in the wilderness survival training.
However, since she was participating in the team training exercise, the location for these team drills was different from where the rest of the school was headed. The training was always organized by squads, so naturally, she had to stay with the Command Department.
It wasn’t until the squads saw the landing ship that they realized they were leaving the capital planet.
Upon entering the spaceship, Mai Dongzi and the others first encountered members of the Thunderlight Squad.
They had been rivals in the group competition, and now they were still opponents.
But since both teams were from the Command Department, there was a strong sense of camaraderie when they met. The members of the Thunderlight Squad eagerly greeted the Phantom Squad.
When greeted by their seniors, the Phantom Squad, as juniors, naturally walked over politely.
The Thunderlight Squad couldn’t help but take a few extra glances at Phantom Squad’s two substitutes, but they didn’t say anything and soon turned their attention to Zhuang Huaiya.
After all, everyone had just played two matches, and they were familiar with the Phantom Squad members. They also knew that Zhuang Huaiya’s promotion hadn’t been through the usual channels.
Mai Dongzi also spotted Thunderlight’s two substitutes—two fifth-level members originally from Squad 2 in their fourth year.
“Mai Dongzi!” She heard Ren Guang calling her from behind and quickly turned around.
Ren Guang was leading his Starlight Squad members toward them from the entrance of the spaceship. Starlight Squad had arrived slightly later than Phantom Squad.
When the others from Thunderlight and Phantom saw the Starlight Squad arrive, none of them wanted to speak anymore.
The captain of the Starlight Squad is a level-six martial artist. Among the five regular team members and two substitutes, the lowest cultivation level is mid-level five.
Fortunately, following the Starlight Squad was the team from the Healing Department. Their captain was only at mid-level five, and as for the team members, some were even at mid-level four.
It’s important to note that these were senior students, so this gave the Phantom Squad an odd sense of psychological balance.
But before they could fully enjoy that sense of balance, a team with an imposing aura appeared at the entrance of the spaceship, led by two level-six martial artists.
This was the famous Sunlight Squad, the champion team of the previous group competition.
The surrounding spectators immediately turned their attention to the Phantom Squad with great interest, even the Starlight Squad members were the same.
It was well-known that the captain of the Sunlight Squad, Ye Zhengyan, had been the individual competition champion for two consecutive years, both the year before last and last year. However, this year, he was defeated in the individual competition by none other than Mai Dongzi, a first-year student from the Arts Department.
Many onlookers were excited, hoping that the Phantom Squad would pull off another upset and defeat the Sunlight Squad.
However, while hopes are beautiful, reality is often harsh.
Ye Zhengyan led the Sunlight Squad over to greet Mai Dongzi.
Once they stood together, it was inevitable that people would start comparing the teams.
The lowest cultivation level among the Sunlight Squad members was late-level five, whereas the Phantom Squad, aside from Mai Dongzi, had two members at early-level five and five members at late-level four.
The contrast between the Phantom Squad and the Sunlight Squad was so stark that Mai Dongzi suspected Ye Zhengyan did it on purpose, especially since the amusement in his eyes was so obvious.