LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 58 - End
“Little Lucy, if you continue in the current direction for another five or six hundred kilometers, you’ll enter the inner ring of the forest. That area is ruled by level-four mutated beasts, and there’s a possibility that higher-level mutated beasts from the inner forest ring might come out. It’s too dangerous; you should avoid going further,” Vice Admiral Chen advised Mai Dongzi after some consideration.
They did not plan to inform Lucy that Prince Arthur had sent two shadow guards to protect her, in order to keep the upper hand.
Thus, he was unaware that although Mai Dongzi’s psychic ability was only at level five, her psychic strength was greater than that of a typical level-five psychic.
The two shadow guards, who were hiding just outside the range of a level-five psychic’s detection, had already been discovered by Mai Dongzi.
At first, Mai Dongzi didn’t know who the shadow guards were, whether they were enemies or allies, so she kept observing them quietly. She was prepared to take preemptive action if she discovered they intended to harm her.
When the sandstorm arrived, although she still didn’t know the true identity of these two individuals, she was able to confirm that they were likely there to protect her.
Vice Admiral Chen didn’t know this. It was a good thing he didn’t mention it, but as soon as Mai Dongzi heard him say that continuing forward would lead her to level-four mutated beasts, her eyes lit up.
Over the past thirty days, she had hunted many level-three mutated beasts, but apart from the level-four mutated centipede, she had not encountered any other level-four mutated creatures.
According to Mai Dongzi’s knowledge, most other adventurers had encountered level-four mutated beasts. She wasn’t sure if she was lucky or unlucky.
What Mai Dongzi didn’t know was that her lack of encounters with level-four mutated beasts was a result of human intervention.
However, since she was still on the outskirts of the forest, this intervention wouldn’t raise any suspicions from the livestream audience.
If she were to enter the middle of the forest, where level-four mutated beasts were prevalent and still didn’t encounter any, it would be too suspicious. That’s why Vice Admiral Chen was advising her.
On the thirtieth day of the survival game, seventeen adventurers had been eliminated so far.
One of them was Adventurer No. 088.
Mai Dongzi later learned that during the mountain flood that day, the pine tree that Adventurer No. 088 was climbing was toppled by the flood, causing him to fall into the torrent.
Although his skills allowed him to avoid various fatal impacts in the flood, he was still seriously injured and had to activate a distress signal.
However, Vice Admiral Chen told her that Lieutenant Fu requested that Adventurer No. 088 stay away from her.
Mai Dongzi watched the video of Adventurer No. 088 during the mountain flood and felt that he actually had a chance to climb another tree before falling into the water. She wondered why he didn’t do that.
The other adventurers who were eliminated later had only been seriously injured and did not die.
In the past few days, the weapon experts stationed on Shui Lanxing had developed several energy plant detection devices based on the characteristics of various energy plants.
As long as they carried an energy plant detector, even non-wood-elemental ability users could easily find energy plants.
Therefore, Mai Dongzi’s task became much easier; she only needed to focus on finding new species.
Once the weapon experts developed a device that could detect energy plants based on their common characteristics, Mai Dongzi would lose her unique advantage.
However, Mai Dongzi was not disheartened. She had already gained enough benefits from this endeavor, including ample training resources and credits.
She knew she couldn’t stay in the forest forever; with the survival game ending soon, the start of the academic season at the Imperial Capital University was approaching.
Since they had not activated the video, Chen’s aide did not see Mai Dongzi’s words “I understand, I will be careful” matched by her eager expression.
When Chen’s aide saw that Mai Dongzi not only ignored the advice but also quickened her pace and immediately drew her sword upon encountering a level-four mutant beast, he understood her little ploy.
Aside from instructing the secret guards to be cautious about her safety, Chen’s aide said no more.
For the next twenty days, Mai Dongzi’s experience could only be described as uneventful. She roamed the middle perimeter of the forest, searching for energy plants and hunting level-four mutant beasts, staying very busy.
During this phase, an issue arose: viewers in the live broadcast questioned how Miss Lucy could still have room in her space backpack given its capacity provided by the show’s crew, considering the number of mutant beasts she had hunted.
The spokesperson for the show’s crew immediately addressed the viewers’ concerns in the live broadcast, explaining that the capacity of the space backpacks they provided was not uniform; they had only revealed the minimum capacity.
Miss Lucy was fortunate to have obtained the largest-capacity backpack available, though the spokesperson wisely chose not to disclose its capacity.
The issue was thus smoothed over, and Mai Dongzi mentally gave a thumbs-up to the show’s crew.
Unbeknownst to Chen’s aide and others who hadn’t considered the space equipment issue, they believed the show’s staff’s explanation.
Meanwhile, the survival game crew, believing that Chen’s aide had privately given Miss Lucy a new space device, was too wary of offending Prince Arthur to refuse. They promptly spoke up for Mai Dongzi.
In the final days of the survival game, Mai Dongzi was busy and seemingly safe, with no major dangers.
However, unbeknownst to everyone, an adventurer was stealthily moving towards Mai Dongzi but was eliminated without a trace before getting close.
With three days left until the end of the survival game, a small landing craft suddenly descended from the sky in the dead of night, landing in the mountains not far from Mai Dongzi.
Within ten minutes, both the craft and its occupants were taken back to the military base by the garrison forces. Almost simultaneously, a small spacecraft in orbit around Water Blue Star was horrified to find itself locked onto by a warship.
After interrogating the new arrivals, Chen’s aide kindly sent the results of the interrogation of the assassin organization to the Xi family.
Since midnight marks the start of a new day, the survival game’s end time is also at midnight.
Mai Dongzi stood atop a tall treetop, waiting for the landing craft sent by the production crew to pick her up.