ALL NOVEL Chapter 184 - Training Exercise 32
Suspicious that the boy named Jiang Zixuan might be connected to her cousin’s secret, Zhuang Huaiya no longer asked any questions and changed the subject to avoid further probing about Jiang Zixuan.
“Captain, let’s continue on our journey. We’ve already been delayed for half an hour, and if we don’t move on now, we won’t be able to complete today’s plan,” Zhuang Huaiya said seriously.
The appearance of Zixuan had filled her mind with countless thoughts, and she needed some time to think quietly. Zhuang Huaiya’s suggestion was exactly what Mai Dongzi needed. She waved her hand and said, “Let’s go. Yu Guangxi, you’ll be leading today.”
Mai Dongzi knew that with her current state of turmoil, it wasn’t suitable for her to take the lead.
Unless the captain needed rest, the leader would always be her. But now, suddenly handing over the leadership to Yu Guangxi meant that the captain’s emotions couldn’t settle down after meeting that boy.
Everyone in the Phantom Team was aware of the captain’s background. Even Yu Guangxi and Durant, who had joined the team later, had watched Mai Dongzi’s survival livestream game.
Thus, regarding the boy who suddenly appeared and left just as abruptly, when the captain mentioned that he was an old acquaintance and the team noticed the unusual expression on her face, the Phantom Team automatically connected the boy with the captain’s background. No one dared to ask further questions or disturb the captain.
The captain had always been silent about why people once considered her a failure, and they weren’t like Zhuang Huaiya, who would ask even when it was clear the captain didn’t want to talk about it.
“Huaiya, that Jiang Zixuan looks a lot like you, and he’s also an old acquaintance of the captain. Could he also be the captain’s cousin?” Tony couldn’t help but ask curiously.
Of course, he kept his voice low, afraid of disturbing the captain.
“What? He looks like me?” Zhuang Huaiya stared in surprise and immediately denied it, saying, “There’s no way we look alike, not at all.”
“There is a bit of a resemblance, actually. Zhuang Huaiya, if you and Jiang Zixuan stood together, we’d almost suspect you two were brothers, if not for the difference in your eye color,” Wang Yiyi agreed with Tony.
Since the two of them said so, Zhuang Huaiya hesitated. He thought back to Jiang Zixuan’s appearance and had to admit that they did bear some resemblance.
“That boy also looks a little like the captain, so he couldn’t be your relative, could he?” Tony repeated his speculation.
“Impossible. I’m an only child, and my cousin is an only daughter. My father only has one sister,” Zhuang Huaiya quickly denied.
Jiang Zixuan’s age seemed to be about the same as their cousin’s, or maybe even older. Although Jiang Zixuan’s cultivation was only a small level higher than his own, there was an imposing aura around him that made it clear Jiang Zixuan was definitely older.
Based on what their cousin had told them, her aunt had given birth to their cousin shortly before her uncle went missing. Afterward, their aunt was injured and became a vegetable, so she couldn’t have had any more children.
As for his father, Zhuang Huaiya was uncertain about that, since he was too young at the time to remember much.
However, at that time, it was said that their family was under pressure and facing setbacks. His mother couldn’t bear it and divorced his father, leaving them both. Zhuang Huaiya had never seen her again.
In that situation, his father probably didn’t have the mood to have any affairs outside. And later, after their divorce, if he had any children out there, he could have acknowledged them.
“To be honest, Zhuang Huaiya, you and the captain don’t really look alike. Otherwise, we’d have suspected your relationship a long time ago,” Lin Xinhe also said.
“I think Zhuang Huaiya and the captain look a little alike,” Durant interjected into the conversation.
“Really? I don’t think so. That boy actually looks more like the captain,” said someone from Yu Guangxi.
Zhuang Huaiya…
He was so frustrated. Why was it that he, as the captain’s cousin, didn’t look much like her, but Jiang Zixuan, that boy, resembled her more?
“So, what exactly is that boy to the captain?” Yu Lan, who had been listening in, couldn’t help but ask.
When she learned that Zhuang Huaiya was actually the captain’s cousin, she had been alarmed when Jin Zhongxing was expelled from the team for slandering him.
Although she had never intentionally slandered Zhuang Huaiya, she had often looked down on him and spoken harshly to him in the past.
It wasn’t until later, when she discovered the relationship between the captain and Zhuang Huaiya, that although the captain wasn’t pleased with her behavior, she still stayed in the team. After she changed her attitude toward Zhuang Huaiya, the captain and the others no longer gave her the cold shoulder.
But Yu Lan had learned to be discreet and reduce her presence. It wasn’t until she was swallowed by a beast and the captain ripped it apart to rescue her that she realized the captain had truly forgiven her past behavior.
Yu Lan’s question was exactly what everyone had been wondering, but no one but the captain could answer.
The others glanced at the captain, who had given the leadership to Yu Guangxi, and they fell silent. They didn’t have the courage to ask the captain directly.
Mai Dongzi hadn’t failed to hear their soft discussions, but she wasn’t in the mood to address their questions. Instead, as she watched Zixuan leave, a thought suddenly crossed her mind.
Why did she inexplicably reincarnate into a different world?
When she discovered that Li Ruiyou had likely been reincarnated as Prince Arthur, she thought it was just a coincidence.
She didn’t expect that Zixuan had also reincarnated into this world. Once is a coincidence, twice is suspicious, and three times is no longer a coincidence.
Why would such a thing happen?
Mai Dongzi thought for a long time, and the biggest commonality between her past and present lives was that both worlds faced an apocalyptic crisis.
All three of them had experienced the end-of-world disaster on Water Blue Star, and now this world was about to face another kind of apocalypse.
So, Mai Dongzi began to suspect that the reason they had been reincarnated into this world might be due to the coming apocalypse.
And what if her mother had also reincarnated into this world?
In her previous life, her mother had passed away two months before Zixuan.
The thought made Mai Dongzi so excited that she wanted to immediately discuss it with Zixuan and find a way to investigate it.
If Zixuan’s death had been a heart-wrenching pain for Mai Dongzi in her previous life, then her mother’s death was an unbearable sorrow. It was a pain she could not touch without losing control of herself.
As for her father, that was a different kind of pain. She couldn’t imagine how he felt, watching the spaceship leave Water Blue Star, leaving her and her teammates behind, watching her detonate the bomb on her body…
If it weren’t for her young cousin needing her father’s care, Mai Dongzi couldn’t bear to imagine how her father’s life had been after losing them all.
But she, Zixuan, and Li Ruiyou had all died in the end-of-world disaster on Water Blue Star, and they had all been reincarnated into this world.
Her mother had also died in the Water Blue Star disaster…
Only her father—her father had left Water Blue Star with the spaceship…