Chapter 107
Chapter 107: My Name Is On the Bounty Notice and Every Star Pirate in Interstellar Space Wants Me
“Sister Tea, you did not lie to me, right? This really is the study plan sheet my husband personally made? Every word on it was typed by his own hand?”
“Heaven Above, Mother Earth, beast god, my husband is not treating me like the Insectoid Race. He is treating me like a youngling he spoils. I love him. I will love him until death without regret!”
“Heartthrob idol good, heartthrob idol wonderful, heartthrob idol the best. I am willing to carry the banner for my heartthrob idol and smash my head into walls for him!”
“I declare, he is my eternal idol and heartthrob idol. As long as he is willing to marry me, I can marry him as a male and love him until Interstellar Space explodes and the universe is destroyed!”
“Roll, all of you. His orientation is normal. Stop dreaming about marrying him here.”
As soon as Sui Xuan Chu heard this group of male old masters calling his uncle “husband” and shouting about marrying his uncle, his head started to ache. He really did not understand. All humanoids had one nose and two eyes, so why were they so crazy for his uncle?
His uncle, other than being a bit taller, a bit stronger, having higher supernatural abilities, being a bit more fierce and ruthless, having a bit more power, money, and influence, doing things without leaving any loose ends, being a bit more savage at killing bugs, and governing the Nation a bit better, did not have any other merits. So why did everyone act like they were hooked on drugs as soon as they saw him?
Jiang Tea Tea also looked down on the six of them: “Huang Da Zhuang, Brother Octopus, Cheng Xiao Ting, I have found that you are really double-faced. When you did not know the study plan sheet was made by your heartthrob idol, you said he was treating you like the Insectoid Race.
“Now that you know, tsk, tsk, tsk, look at you. You flip your faces faster than you flip the pages of a book. I am embarrassed for you.”
[If that old mud eel were really as good as they say, how could he still be single at one hundred and fifty, with nobody wanting him?]
[Clearly, his good side is just a fake outer shell. In truth, he is a dog of a man who is not worth a thing.]
Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Xiao Ting, and the others surrounded Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu, united as if facing a common enemy and arguing with reasons: “Sister Tea, Commander in Chief Chong Ming is the best-studying beastman in all Interstellar Space. We are his subjects. How could he treat us like the Insectoid Race?”
“Exactly. He treats us like younglings he spoils and loves, which is why he made such a strict study plan sheet for us.”
“He handles countless matters every day yet still took the time to make these study plan sheets for us. He must have thought very carefully about them and decided we can finish them. If we cannot finish, then the problem must be with us. It has nothing to do with him.”
“Right, anything made by an excellent person is excellent. If we cannot study it or keep up, then it is our fault. We are the useless ones.”
“My heartthrob idol trusts me so much and thinks so highly of me. Even if I drop dead at my study desk, I am willing.”
“Sister Tea, top student rank Sui Xuan Chu, you two do not need to say anything more. I am going back to the dorm to print this study plan sheet out and paste it on my wall, on my bed, everywhere I can see it. I am going to send it to my parents and to my grandma and grandpa. See you tomorrow.”
“Sister Tea, Sui Xuan Chu, I am going back too, to tell my parents this good news. See you tomorrow.”
“See you tomorrow, you two…”
Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu watched them walk away without looking back, then slowly turned their heads toward each other until their gazes met.
After a long time, Jiang Tea Tea finally found her voice: “Roommate, your uncle is really not a good person, and your teammates are really double-faced.”
Sui Xuan Chu shot back: “This is all your fault. He made your study plan and then dragged me into it.
“You say my teammates are double-faced, but they are also your teammates. It is your teammates who are double-faced.”
Jiang Tea Tea pointed at herself: “Fine, blame me, blame me for being too excellent, blame you for being too useless. He did not increase your difficulty. I had to remind him before he added more for you.”
Sui Xuan Chu rolled up his sleeves: “Do you want to fight?”
Jiang Tea Tea rolled up her sleeves too: “Come on, who is afraid of who, grandson?”
Sui Xuan Chu had not even clenched his hand into a fist when Jiang Tea Tea’s light-brain wrist terminal chimed. He opened his mouth to ask: “Who sent you a message?”
“I do not know. Let me see.” Jiang Tea Tea tapped her light-brain wrist terminal and saw a message and its signature. She burst out swearing: “Sui Xuan Chu, your uncle should not be called old mud eel. He should be called old bastard.”
Sui Xuan Chu blinked: “What happened? Quick, let me see.”
Jiang Tea Tea angrily thrust out the hand with the light-brain wrist terminal so he could look.
Sui Xuan Chu poked his head closer and glanced at it: “Wow, roommate, congratulations. You now have a security monitoring system at the same level as me. Thank you for sharing three satellites of surveillance with me. Love you!”
Jiang Tea Tea almost gave herself a stomachache from rage. She took a deep breath: “Where is your uncle? I am going to fight him. I am going to kill him.”
Sui Xuan Chu grabbed the back of her collar and dragged her along: “Do not act on impulse. With your small body, you think you can fight him? You cannot even get into his office hall, let alone kill him.
“Forget it, forget it. Endure for now. If you take one step back, the sea and sky grow wide. He is doing this for your safety. After all, you are a three Level S variant plant-type supernatural ability user. If someone kidnaps you, that would be a loss for the Empire.”
Jiang Tea Tea shook off his hand and stomped along beside him, huffing: “He is surveilling me. Surveilling me. I have no freedom at all.”
Sui Xuan Chu tried to comfort her: “You will get used to it. You will get used to it. Look at me, the lesson from the one who came before. I got used to it just fine.”
[Get used to it, my ass.]
Three satellites were aimed at her, surveilling her twenty-four hours a day.
[How is she supposed to get used to that?]
[Do the babies not need to be raised?]
[Do the babies not need to be born?]
[Is she supposed to stop hiding the fact that she is a tree?]
[He really is going to piss a demon like her to death.]
When Jiang Tea Tea returned to the dorm, she was still furious. She discovered that all the textbooks and study materials for her various subjects were already laid out on the desk in her room.
Book after book, pile after pile of materials, almost as tall as her lifespan.
Jiang Tea Tea looked at them and clenched her fists, pounding them down on the stacks with a bang, bang, bang.
The babies in her belly seemed to feel her unhappiness and began to roll around inside her.
Jiang Tea Tea kept hitting the books and materials with her fists, but she did not dare hit her stomach or pat it. She was afraid that old mud eel watching through the surveillance would see her.
He was still thinking about that dragon clan youngling distress warning aura he had smelled during the Supremacy Tournament.
Who knew if he would get bored, open up the satellite that surveilled her, see her touching her belly, and start to suspect her.
“Ahhh!”
Jiang Tea Tea let out a scream, ruffled her long hair with both hands, and looked as resentful as a concubine thrown into the cold palace, as gloomy as a ghost crawling out of the eighteenth level of hell.
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that she could not let him surveil her or keep the satellites aimed at her. She opened her light-brain wrist terminal, found Chong Ming’s communication number, and hit video call.
Chong Ming was working in the Imperial Military Headquarters building. He had just finished scolding the commanders of the thirty main army corps and then scolded dozens of other officers of major general rank and above.
After scolding them, he started a meeting to discuss and make policies on matters like national defense, border frontier star region defense, weapons upgrades, and attacks on the Insectoid Race. Right then, his communicator rang.
The sound of the incoming call echoed through the video meeting. The senior officers and planetary enforcement officers on the screen all fell silent at once and hid their shock. Someone dared to call the Commander in Chief during a meeting. Which hero was so bold?
Chong Ming glanced at the caller ID, waved his hand to the others to pause the meeting, then tapped his light-brain wrist terminal and holo projection screen to accept the video call.
Jiang Tea Tea’s video image appeared at the front of the meeting video, in a little window.
Chong Ming looked at her messy hair, red-rimmed eyes, and furious gaze. His brows pinched slightly as his low voice carried a chill: “What happened? Who bullied you?”
Across the screen, Jiang Tea Tea stared straight at him and spat out one cold word: “You.”
Chong Ming’s knotted brows loosened: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, I just explained to you not long ago that slander and false accusations are against the law.”
Jiang Tea Tea blew at the strands of hair hanging in front of her eyes: “Then let it be against the law. If you are unhappy, go get a gun and shoot me.”
Chong Ming’s voice turned a bit lighter: “There is no need to go that far. Come on then, tell me. Ever since we parted, I have been working in the Imperial Military Headquarters. You have been at the academy receiving a warm welcome from all the teachers and students. We have not had any contact at all. How did I bully you?”
[She really wanted to crawl through the screen, scratch his face, and punch out his eyes.]
Jiang Tea Tea took a deep breath and squeezed out two words: “Satellites.”
Chong Ming suddenly understood: “Oh, you received the message Secretary Wen sent you. You are the only three Level S variant plant-type healing master in the Empire. Protecting your safety means protecting the Empire’s treasure. This is what I should do. You do not need to thank me.”
[Who wants to thank him? Keep that mud eel face to yourself!]
Jiang Tea Tea ground her teeth and dropped the act entirely: “That Chong guy, old mud eel, do not push your luck. Hurry up and pull back those three satellites surveilling me.”
She was a demon.
She kept telling herself not to stoop to the level of a mud eel.
But he kept challenging her bottom line.
Her spiritual power had only recovered thirty percent, and she still had babies to raise.
If she did not have babies and her spiritual power had recovered to full, she would have flipped his Imperial Military Headquarters upside down and beaten him to death already.
Chong Ming watched her puff up with anger like some non-mutated pufferfish: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, your identity is not like your roommate’s. At the Royal Imperial Academies, your existence is kept secret.
“You have secrets. You would rather hide those secrets and expose your variant plant-type supernatural abilities than let my people examine your body.
“Fine. I went along with you and got you certification from the Imperial Authorities. Did you not think that once you got that certification, unless you stayed in the Imperial Palace, the Imperial Military Headquarters, or at my side, there would be danger everywhere else?
“Those three satellites aimed at you are not there to surveil you, and I will not casually turn on any video feed to watch you. They exist only to protect your safety.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s stomach twinged with pain from anger. She pressed a hand over her belly: “I am very safe. I can protect myself. I do not need three satellites to surveillance-protect me.”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes suddenly turned icy: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, do you know how high your bounty reward is on the Interstellar Space black market right now?”
Jiang Tea Tea frowned: “What? What are you talking about?”
Chong Ming said very seriously: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, on your bounty notice in the Interstellar Space black market, the price for capturing you alive has already reached fifty billion star credits.
“That number is not the highest. It is the minimum. The amount is still going up. The top twenty star pirates on the star pirate rankings have already taken the bounty notice and are preparing to come to Zhenlin, the Empire, to capture you alive.”