Travelling through the interstellar world, starting with the real and fake daughter

The members of the Phantom Team didn’t quite understand what was happening, but since Zhuang Huaiya had blown the whistle for an enemy attack, even though they didn’t know where the enemy was coming from, they immediately became alert.

As a result, they quickly noticed black creatures emerging from the sand, launching toward them, and naturally, they rushed to avoid them.

The Phantom Team was quick to dodge, but the black creatures were not just one, but countless.

In an unfamiliar environment, facing unfamiliar creatures, they all knew the rule not to make physical contact directly. With no weapons in hand, they instinctively reached for stones from their spatial tools.

After so many days of searching, each of them had found a stone suitable to use as a weapon.

Yu Guangxi, along with Durant and Zhuang Huaiya, reacted quickly. Not only were they able to dodge the black creatures’ attacks in time, but they also had enough energy to strike back.

The three of them used stones slightly larger than their fists, throwing them directly at the black creatures that were launched toward them. Any black creature hit by their stones would fall to the sand and remain motionless.

Although Wang Yiyi’s cultivation was not as high as theirs, due to her night watch duty, she had already reacted in time when the black creatures lunged at her.

She didn’t have the same inner strength as Zhuang Huaiya to crush the creatures directly with stones, so she held a stone slab in each hand. Whenever a black creature attacked her, she struck fiercely.

Although the black creatures she hit didn’t die, they fell to the sand and took a while to crawl back into the ground before ceasing their attack on her.

Tony also reacted quickly, and since he was positioned well, right behind Zhuang Huaiya, Zhuang Huaiya had blocked quite a few attacks for him at the start, giving him time to find a way to counterattack.

Once he figured out how to fight back, the two of them worked together back to back, dealing with the black creatures.

Only Yu Lan and Chen Xinhe were in a bad situation. Their cultivation was the lowest in the Phantom Team, and they were a step slower in reacting to the situation.

If it hadn’t been for Mai Dongzi helping them by dealing with some of the black creatures that were attacking them, they would surely have been bitten.

However, Mai Dongzi’s help was limited to preventing them from getting bitten on their faces, heads, or hands. She didn’t intervene with the black creatures that came up from beneath their feet.

As a result, not only the three girls but also Tony and Zhuang Huaiya were bitten on their legs when they were unable to defend themselves.

Fortunately, their combat suits prevented the black creatures from tearing at them, so none of the five were injured.

The black creatures that foolishly lunged at Mai Dongzi were quickly immobilized whenever she flicked her finger, causing them to drop to the ground and remain motionless.

After repeating this a few times, the black creatures seemed to realize the danger of Mai Dongzi and no longer attacked her.

Mai Dongzi only intervened when members of the Phantom Team were about to be bitten on the head or face, and most of the time, she stood by watching.

These desert beasts were generally not very strong, with most of them being at the third level. When hunting, they relied on their ability to move through the sand and their numerical advantage.

Mai Dongzi roughly calculated that there were more than 500 desert beasts in total.

It took the Phantom Team a full hour to eliminate the desert beasts and resolve the crisis.

After the battle, the Phantom Team, whose energy reserves had not yet recovered fully, were nearly exhausted.

However, they still had to clean up the battlefield and leave the area.

As they cleaned up the battlefield, everyone finally got a good look at the desert beasts that had attacked them.

These desert beasts weren’t actually black, but rather a dull yellow color. They looked somewhat like snakes, but also like insects, yet neither fully.

Although their bodies were only a little over a meter long, and their size was only about the width of a woman’s arm, their open mouths were larger than a woman’s head. The sharp, barbed teeth inside their mouths clearly showed that these creatures were vicious.

“If one of those bites you, it would definitely tear a chunk of flesh off. Fortunately, our combat suits are so reliable,” Zhuang Huaiya said, feeling somewhat horrified as he observed the desert beasts’ teeth.

“You should be glad that the desert beast’s bite force isn’t strong enough, or your leg would’ve been snapped in half,” Mai Dongzi said sharply, glaring at Zhuang Huaiya.

These desert beasts had emerged from the sand piles, yet he hadn’t thought to guard against the sand beneath his feet. If he got bitten, it was entirely his fault.

Each of them had relatively large stones in their spatial devices. No matter how urgent the situation was, throwing one or two stones down to stand on should have been possible, but they didn’t even think of it because their minds were lacking.

Zhuang Huaiya shrank his neck, too afraid to say anything more, while the rest of the Phantom Team silently continued cleaning up the battlefield.

It wasn’t just Zhuang Huaiya—Yu Guangxi
also realized that they had serious issues during this battle.

After the fight ended, everyone had questions. Why hadn’t the captain given them a warning? If they had received one, they wouldn’t have had to face the creatures so hurriedly, making the battle so much more difficult.

But then they realized that the captain had quietly watched them. While her expression seemed calm, her eyes, anyone who had made eye contact with her would know, showed she was very angry. She was giving them a cold, piercing glare they had never seen before.

Their captain was actually a very patient person. In their impression, they had never seen their captain angry. So, what had they done to make the captain so upset?

The Phantom Team members reflected on their actions and quickly figured out why the captain was angry.

After they learned how powerful their captain’s spiritual energy was, they gradually became dependent and lazy.

Like today, when they arrived in a new place, they should not have relaxed and gone to sleep without first confirming whether the surrounding environment was safe.

They didn’t do this because they felt the environment was secure, but because they believed that with the captain around, if something was wrong, the captain would warn them in advance.

But now, they were in a training exercise. Being lazy and overly reliant on the captain like this would make it impossible for them to grow.

Seeing that Yu Guangxi and Durant were the first to realize why she was “angry” and subtly hinted to the others, Mai Dongzi slightly curved her lips as she turned her head.

Because of Mai Dongzi’s “anger,” even though the Phantom Team members were exhausted, they dared not ask to stop.

They walked for another half hour before Mai Dongzi “sensed” that the three girls from the Phantom Team could no longer continue and finally ordered them to rest.

However, even though they were extremely tired, the Phantom Team members still didn’t dare to sit directly on the sand like they had before.

Previously, during the battle, they had been bitten by desert beasts that emerged from the sand beneath their feet. If they sat down like this now, it wouldn’t just be their feet that would be bitten…

But as they looked around, all they could see was desert, with no rocks in sight.

Mai Dongzi had no choice but to reluctantly take out a large stone from her spatial device, one big enough for two or three people to lie on.