Chapter 103
Chapter 103: The Love Rival Tells Old Mud: I Want To Chase Your Wife
The frown between Chong Ming’s brows eased a little, and one brow lifted: “You also get scared? That really surprised me. I thought you feared nothing.”
She was petty and loved to hold grudges.
Whenever she disagreed with someone, she would immediately start talking in a strange tone, mocking and sneering, flaring her nostrils and glaring, not putting anyone in her eyes.
Jiang Tea Tea met his golden eyes with full provocation as she said: “Even a strong dragon cannot crush a local snake. The person who says I am sick has too much power. I cannot beat them. Of course I am afraid.”
“Ah!” Huang Da Zhuang cried out with his mouth full of meat and mumbled, “Sister Tea, my idol, my heartthrob idol is a dragon. What snake could possibly crush him?”
Jiang Tea Tea grabbed a lamb chop and stuffed it into his mouth: “Eat your meat and talk less.”
Huang Da Zhuang was stuffed right in the face. He gave a muffled “Oh” and buried his head in his food again, completely forgetting that his heartthrob idol, his idol, was sitting not far away.
In less than thirty minutes, the ship finished the meal and arrived at the Sixth Star System, above Hundred Claws Star, where the Imperial Military Academy was located.
The ten or so people from the Supremacy Tournament’s third place squad followed Deputy Officer Ai and left the ship. They were lowered from the warship, drawing all the teachers and students of the whole academy to raise their heads, stop, and watch, full of envy.
After they all disembarked, the ship circled once above the academy to show congratulations to the students who had taken third place. Then it rose again, left Hundred Claws Star’s atmosphere, and entered outer space.
Jiang Tea Tea stood at the window and watched the whole thing. She leaned toward Sui Xuan Chu and muttered: “Your uncle is really good at ‘face work’.”
The ten military academy students who had just gone down had stood straight with their backs like spears, saluting, and watched the ship leave until it disappeared.
If that old mud eel Chong Ming had gone down himself and told them to die for the country, to die for him, they probably would not have hesitated.
Sui Xuan Chu looked around on both sides and lowered his voice: “What do you mean, ‘face work’? This is honor, honor. Being brought back by the Commander in Chief of the Three Armies and Prince Regent of the Zhenlin Empire is an honor that not many people ever get.”
“Being personally sent back by my uncle is something they can brag about for eight generations. How can you call that ‘face work’? Roommate, your words are really hard to listen to.”
Jiang Tea Tea gave a dry laugh: “I do not feel it is honor. I just think your uncle is really good at winning people’s hearts.”
Sui Xuan Chu was neither angry nor annoyed. He comforted himself: “You do not have basic common sense. It is normal that you cannot understand.”
Jiang Tea Tea curled her lip: “How long until we get back to the Capital Planet?”
Old Mud did things too carefully. She still had to be cautious.
Sui Xuan Chu answered: “The ship has entered outer space. Soon it will enter a wormhole and perform a space jump. At most half an hour, and we will reach the Capital Planet.”
Jiang Tea Tea asked curiously: “What is a wormhole space jump?”
Sui Xuan Chu was already used to her silly questions and her total lack of common sense. He explained patiently: “It connects two different points in the universe. It uses a huge circular energy field to twist and overlap space, shorten the distance, and let you jump from one star system to another, from one planet to another.”
“To put it simply, from the Sixth Star System to the Capital Planet, if this ship flew at full speed, it would still take five years. But with a wormhole space jump, it only takes half an hour.”
The principle of a wormhole space jump was the same as magic spells like the Shrinking Ground to Inches technique, crossing thousands of miles in an instant.
But one used spiritual power, and the other used an enormous circular energy field. In essence, they were the same.
Jiang Tea Tea showed she understood and was just about to speak when she suddenly heard Chong Ming’s voice from not far away: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, are you interested in wormhole space jumps?”
Jiang Tea Tea did not even turn her head. She denied it at once: “No. I am not interested, not even a little. Do not make me learn this. I will not learn it.”
He had gone crazy and lost his mind. At the dinner table, after he saw her finish eating and was afraid she would have nothing to do, he sent her the study schedule he had planned out for her.
There was the Command Faculty, the Combat Department, the Intelligence Division, the Strategic Analysis Faculty, and many more departments and plans.
After she finished reading the schedule he gave her, she felt that he was not trying to train her into a Commander in Chief of the Three Armies. He was trying to train her into the Queen of the Empire.
Chong Ming walked over with the chief engineer of the Mecha Maintenance Department: “If you do not want to learn it, then do not learn it. If you are interested in anything, you can tell me. I will adjust your study schedule and let you learn the most in the shortest time.”
“I am not interested in anything,” Jiang Tea Tea rushed to say. “Do not add anything for me. It would be best if you cut, cut, and cut some more from my study schedule.”
Sui Xuan Chu pressed his lips together and silently leaned against the ship’s wall. In his heart, he kept chanting: [You cannot see me, you cannot see me, no one can see me.]
Chong Ming stopped in front of her, standing like an elder: “You are still very young. Whether it is your memory, your physical ability, or anything else, this is your best time. Learn more now, and you will use it later.”
She was a dignified Great Demon Stage, but for a few bottles of dragon blood, she had thrown away both her face and her pride. A verbal contract was still a contract. She could not go back on it.
[Please, babies in my belly, behave. Let me safely get through this learning period, finish all this studying, and complete the contract with that fake young miss.]
Jiang Tea Tea suddenly reached out, grabbed Sui Xuan Chu, and pulled him away from the wall: “You only push me to study and study. What about him? Is he allowed to be a useless person?”
Sui Xuan Chu: “!!!!”
He had been hiding so well. Why did she have to drag him in?
[Someone give me a gun. I want to shoot her.]
Chong Ming’s golden eyes darkened a little: “Him?”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded hard: “Yes. I have seen his class schedule, his study schedule, and his plan sheet. Compared with the one you gave me, it is not just a little easier.”
“So what, you catch only me, this one sheep, and shear me over and over, while you let him live free and relaxed? Then four years later, after graduation, he will be a high and mighty waste dragon?”
Sui Xuan Chu: “!!!!”
When had she ever seen his class schedule, study schedule, or plan sheet?
How could she tell lies with her eyes wide open and not change her face at all?
He was sure his uncle would not believe her nonsense and would not add anything extra to his study plan.
Chong Ming’s deep, calm golden eyes turned and landed on Sui Xuan Chu’s face. He looked at him for a moment, then nodded: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, you are right. His study plan sheet is indeed too easy.”
“By tomorrow night at the latest, I will overlap his study plan sheet with yours. The two of you can supervise each other. When I check on you, I can check you both at the same time and not waste effort twice.”
Sui Xuan Chu was crying blood inside. He not only had to study; he also had to handle government affairs. Coming out to fight in the Supremacy Tournament was the only time he had gotten to relax.
Now, thanks to her, he would not get to relax at all.
Jiang Tea Tea’s goal was reached. She let go of him and said, acting proud after taking advantage of him: “Roommate, I am working so hard for you. No need to thank me.”
Sui Xuan Chu ground his back teeth: “I want to strangle you.”
Jiang Tea Tea stretched her neck toward him: “Come on, come on, strangle me right here. As long as you can choke me to death, I will even thank you.”
Sui Xuan Chu clenched his fists so tight his knuckles popped. His teeth ground together with a squeaking sound.
“Why are you acting like a child?” Chong Ming’s low voice carried a thin thread of icy cold.
As soon as Sui Xuan Chu sensed that bit of coldness, he straightened up like a proper person, stopped all small movements, and spoke against his own heart: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, thank you for thinking of me. I will study hard and improve every day, and keep an eye on you too.”
Jiang Tea Tea smiled so brightly it was blinding. If she could not have an easy time, then this future emperor Sui Xuan Chu did not need to have an easy time either. They would harm each other together. Who was afraid of who?
“Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea.”
Just when Jiang Tea Tea was smiling her happiest, Chong Ming called her name.
Jiang Tea Tea’s smile froze: “What is it? Say it.”
Chong Ming introduced the man beside him: “This is my ship’s Mecha Armor Department chief mecha engineer. Besides repairing mecha armor, he also designs it. What he is best at is custom skeletal mecha armor.”
“For the personal first place of the Supremacy Tournament between the thirty military academies, besides the million credit prize, there is also a set of custom skeletal muscles. Since the ship has not landed on the Capital Planet yet, let him measure your body data now so he can customize your skeletal mecha armor.”
Jiang Tea Tea instantly became alert and guarded: “I do not need any custom skeletal mecha armor. I want to give this prize to someone else.”
Before dinner, Sui Xuan Chu had already told her his uncle would make a custom skeletal mecha armor for her. She had not expected it to come so fast. It scared the demon out of her.
Chong Ming took in every change in her expression and frowned slightly: “I need a reason why you refuse a custom skeletal mecha armor.”
Jiang Tea Tea stepped back two steps. She almost could not stop her hands from covering her belly: “I have no reason. I just do not need it.”
Chong Ming’s brows tightened into a ? shape: “Are you afraid I will collect your body data?”
Jiang Tea Tea paused for a moment and then said simply: “Yes.”
Her clean and direct answer made Chong Ming stare at her in thought for a while: “It is possible not to collect your body data. We can use my physical data as a template and make a custom skeletal mecha armor for you. How about that?”
Jiang Tea Tea did not understand: “On the battlefield, I can fight without a skeletal mecha armor. Why do you insist on giving me one?”
Chong Ming answered: “Every frontline warrior, or warrior preparing for the front line, in the Empire has their own mecha armor.”
“In the interstellar space era, technology is developing at high speed. War is not fought with bare fists. It is full firepower saturation, all kinds of drones attacking, and groups of mecha armor. Only when everything else is used up does it come down to hand to hand fighting.”
“Mecha armor is the last life saving shield for frontline and reserve frontline warriors. It is the key to turning defeat into victory. That is why I want to give you one, and why you need to have it.”
His starting point was not wrong. But her body could not appear in any data. She was also not wrong.
Jiang Tea Tea met his eyes and said: “Then use your body data as the template and customize a skeletal mecha armor for me.”
The chief mecha engineer reminded her: “Schoolmate, the Commander in Chief’s physical indexes are at the very top among beastmen. You are a small female…”
Jiang Tea Tea cut him off: “It does not matter. Any mecha armor he can control, I can also control. If I cannot control it, I will train. I will train until I can operate it skillfully.”
All at once, the chief mecha engineer seemed to see the Commander in Chief as he had been at seventeen or eighteen years old. His eyes could not help filling with admiration: “Good. Since you are so confident, I will make it according to the Commander in Chief’s physical data.”
“In at most six months, or as soon as three months, you can receive a custom skeletal mecha armor of the same style as the Commander in Chief’s.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s smile bloomed bright: “Thank you!”
The chief mecha engineer smiled back: “You are welcome. I will go get ready. See you in a few months.”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded to him.
The chief mecha engineer gave his Commander in Chief a salute, then turned and left.
The warship entered the Capital Planet, passed through the atmosphere, and hovered over the Imperial Academies.
Bai Mu Yuan and his squad members, about ten people, came from the visitor area of the ship to the main exit. They saw Commander in Chief Chong Ming and Jiang Tea Tea standing right at the hatch, as if they had already been waiting there to see them off.
The hatch opened, and the ladder slid down. A light breeze blew past. The others all gave Commander in Chief Chong Ming a military salute and started down the ladder.
When it was Bai Mu Yuan’s turn, he snapped a salute, his back straight as a spear, and said in a clear voice: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, I have a presumptuous request. Please, Commander in Chief, be my witness.”
Chong Ming looked at him and said coldly: “Schoolmate Bai Mu Yuan, to bring me a presumptuous request like this is very rude and very out of place.”
“You have not even said what the matter is, yet you want me to be your witness and give you a promise. That does not fit the purpose of a soldier who serves the nation and serves the people.”
Bai Mu Yuan’s heart tightened. He felt a huge pressure pushing down on him, but he still had to say it: “I am sorry, Commander in Chief. I did not think it through. But I still want to ask you to be my witness, to witness me pursuing Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea!”