ALL NOVEL Chapter 188 - Training Exercise 36
After Mai Dongzi exerted her pressure with her aura, the elderly man began to shrink back, moving away from her. It was clear that he was afraid she would make the first move.
However, what others didn’t know was that Mai Dongzi could sense that the old man had a protective shield on him, which was a very expensive piece of equipment.
After the elderly man stepped back, a level-four martial artist replaced him and directly faced Mai Dongzi. This level-four martial artist didn’t have a protective shield, but the “palm-sized gun” he held in his hand was quite special.
“Hand over all your space equipment quickly, or we won’t be polite anymore!” the level-four martial artist growled, raising his gun threateningly.
He and two others were holding electric net guns, which were not ordinary firearms. Instead of bullets, they fired a net of electricity, capable of trapping all ten of them in a net.
Even an eighth-level martial artist, if trapped by such an electric net, would lose their fighting ability temporarily—even if they weren’t knocked unconscious from the shock. That’s why these people were so confident in trying to rob them.
The martial artist exuded a heavy bandit-like air as he threatened them with the electric net gun, but his eyes kept wandering toward the few girls in the group, making others want to gouge his eyes out in disgust.
At this point, not only the girls, but even the boys were enraged.
Only Wang Zhelan glanced at Mai Dongzi without showing any expression. After they had discussed their plan last night, Mai Dongzi had asked Wang Zhelan to condense 300 metal needles for her.
Wang Zhelan hadn’t known what Mai Dongzi needed so many metal needles for, but now, she didn’t need to guess. She knew exactly what Mai Dongzi was about to do.
As expected, the metal needles in Mai Dongzi’s hands suddenly disappeared.
Wang Zhelan didn’t see how the metal needles appeared behind the heads of the armed men and then pierced into their acupoints.
When her metal abilities sensed the needles, they were already embedded in the backs of those people’s heads.
What Wang Zhelan saw was that all the armed men collapsed to the ground unconscious, while those who hadn’t fallen into unconsciousness immediately panicked.
Mai Dongzi made a sweeping motion with her hand, and the weapons of those who had fallen to the ground flew toward her.
It was only then that the panicking oasis people realized what had happened. They tried to grab the weapons, but it was too late. The weapons had already flown into Mai Dongzi’s hands and were stored in her space device.
In just a few seconds, all the armed men were unconscious, and their weapons were in the enemy’s possession.
The few oasis people who hadn’t fallen unconscious were only holding cold weapons. They dared not face off directly with the members of the Phantom Squad and hurriedly fled the scene.
Mai Dongzi looked at Zhuang Huaiya: “Disable that one.”
Zhuang Huaiya knew exactly who her cousin was referring to and immediately stepped forward to sever the meridians of the level-four martial artist with her knife, rendering him a cripple.
Although these oasis people seemed to be bandits, Mai Dongzi found them more tolerable than those who would rob and hurt others for their desires. As for the one repulsive oasis man, Mai Dongzi had no intention of letting him go.
A third of the attackers had collapsed to the ground, and two-thirds had fled. The Phantom Squad didn’t dare to linger. After dealing with the level-four martial artist, they quickly left the area.
After leaving the oasis, Mai Dongzi waved her hand in the air again. This time, Zhuang Huaiya, who was beside her, clearly saw a large number of metal needles appear in her hand, which had been empty before.
Wang Zhelan was shocked as she watched Mai Dongzi. Although the oasis wasn’t very large, they were at least 700 meters away from the unconscious people. Yet, Mai Dongzi was able to retrieve the metal needles that had been embedded in the backs of the oasis people’s heads. Her mental power was truly formidable.
Mai Dongzi had just demonstrated her ability to collect weapons using her mental power. After seeing the metal needles, Zhuang Huaiya immediately realized that Mai Dongzi had used the needles to strike the acupoints of the armed people, causing them to suddenly lose consciousness.
Perhaps Mai Dongzi’s action was so impressive, or maybe it was because they had taken all the weapons, but after they left the oasis, they didn’t encounter any pursuit from the oasis people. Instead, they came face to face with a large group of alien beasts.
The members of the Phantom Squad quickly dodged, trying to avoid the group of alien beasts while they were still at a distance.
They had just left the oasis and hadn’t fully shaken off the oasis people behind them.
Now, facing a group of over a hundred alien beasts, mostly level-five and level-six, if they managed to defeat these beasts and were then ambushed by the oasis people, things would get really troublesome.
It might be because they acted too quickly, or perhaps the alien beasts were attracted by the oasis, but they didn’t pursue them.
After shaking off the alien beasts, the Phantom Squad was relieved and planned to speed up to leave the area. However, Mai Dongzi suddenly stopped and said to the others, “You all keep moving ahead. I’ll go return the weapons to those oasis people.”
The others were reluctant, since these oasis people were definitely not good guys.
“Although these people are not good, given the state of this planet, only people like them can survive here,” Mai Dongzi explained to them.
Among the oasis people who had surrounded them earlier, aside from the leaders, the others didn’t appear to be wealthy. They were all following the commands of the elders, and it was likely that the elder was the leader of this oasis settlement.
Now, with alien beasts swarming in the desert, most of the oasis people only had cultivation levels of two or three. Without firearms, they would be wiped out by these alien beast groups, which were mainly level five or six.
For the Phantom Squad, humans were naturally prioritized over the alien beasts.
Mai Dongzi moved quickly. By the time she returned to the oasis, the alien beasts had just started entering it.
Mai Dongzi’s assumption was correct—she had taken most of the weapons from the oasis people. Without those weapons, the oasis people, armed only with cold weapons, looked hopeless.
The human structures in the oasis were unable to withstand the attacks from level-five or level-six alien beasts. It seemed these people would not survive if they left this oasis settlement. So, even though they knew they couldn’t win, the oasis people had no choice but to take a chance.
Mai Dongzi threw the weapons, except for the electric net guns, into the crowd of people preparing to fight the alien beasts.
The oasis people were thrilled when the weapons suddenly fell from the sky. With these firearms, they could kill the alien beasts without too many sacrifices.
After giving the weapons to the oasis people, Mai Dongzi quickly left the oasis.
She returned the weapons to these people based on a human standpoint, but she wasn’t so idealistic that she would help them kill alien beasts.
One of the benefits of not rushing to the finish line was that they could leisurely kill more alien beasts and earn more points along the way.