Chapter 113
Chapter 113: Pregnant women are irritable, especially toward the little brat’s dad
After Jiang Tea Tea and Cheng Lin Yue finished their message chat, Jiang Tea Tea set her light-brain wrist terminal to mute and did not see any new messages from her.
She took control of the flying device again, pushed the speed to the maximum, and followed the navigation, racing straight toward the Imperial Military Headquarters.
The Imperial Military Headquarters covered a huge area. Before Jiang Tea Tea’s flying device even came to a full stop at the gate, she saw twelve guards on duty there: six mecha armor soldiers and six fully armed soldiers holding live ammunition guns.
Among them were beastmen, half-beastmen, and females. Each one stood as still as a tree, solemn, alert, and steady-eyed.
Her flying device landed at the gate. Before it had fully stopped, Deputy Officer Ai rushed out of the one-way glass guard room and pulled open the flying device door for her as he said: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, long time no see. Hello.”
Jiang Tea Tea stepped out and tossed him a small box of tea leaves as she said: “Long time no see, Deputy Officer Ai. You got even more handsome. This is a gift for you. Brew three to five leaves each time. It will help calm restless supernatural abilities and comb the spiritual sea.”
There was no way she could really buy her way into that old mud loach’s inner circle, but she still had to maintain her image as a triple Level S variant plant-type ability healer.
Besides, the tea leaves she gave him were old leaves from her true tea tree body. Even if she did not pick them, they would fall off.
“Thank you. Then I will not be polite,” Deputy Officer Ai said as he quickly caught the box and slipped it into his space knob storage device. “Come, Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, please follow me. The Commander in Chief is waiting for you.”
She was a Commander in Chief certified variant strain triple Level S plant-type spiritual power ability user. If she gave someone something, he did not even need to think about it. It was definitely good.
Jiang Tea Tea strode through the gate behind him and looked at the tall, high-tech buildings in the distance that seemed to pierce the clouds as she said: “It is pretty far from here to your Imperial Military Headquarters office building. Are we walking over on just two legs?”
Deputy Officer Ai paused for a moment, then said: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, everyone who comes to the Imperial Military Headquarters, except the Commander in Chief, gets off at the gate and walks over.”
He meant that walking on their own legs was the rule here. That old mud loach was really double-standard. He did not walk, but he made other people walk.
Jiang Tea Tea raised an eyebrow: “Really?”
Deputy Officer Ai nodded: “Yes.”
Jiang Tea Tea sighed: “That is so far. At least five kilometers, right?”
Deputy Officer Ai answered her seriously: “The straight-line distance is fifteen kilometers…”
Before he could finish, Jiang Tea Tea turned around to leave and said: “Tell your Commander in Chief that the road to see him is too far. I am not going. He can just send what he promised me to the Academy.”
Deputy Officer Ai had not expected that telling her to walk fifteen kilometers would make her turn and leave. He hurriedly called out: “The Commander in Chief is already waiting for you at the Imperial Military Headquarters. Fifteen kilometers is not far. If you walk a little faster, you will be there in the blink of an eye.”
Without even turning her head, Jiang Tea Tea waved a hand at him, quickly walked back to her flying device, pulled the door open, started it up, and left in style.
Her spiritual power was depleted, and the cubs in her belly were tossing around. She had been thinking of his blood, longing for the soothing of his supernatural abilities, but she was a Great Demon Stage being with pride.
Old mud loach had arranged to meet her, knew she would come, and had someone pick her up. If he made her walk three to five kilometers, that would be one thing. But fifteen kilometers? She was already exhausted, and he still wanted her to walk that far. The dignity of a Great Demon Stage could not be trampled.
Deputy Officer Ai had no way to stop Jiang Tea Tea. He watched her flying device disappear into the distance, then used his speed-type ability to rush back to the Commander in Chief’s office as fast as he could.
When Chong Ming saw him come in, his gaze shifted to the doorway. Not seeing anyone behind him, he asked: “Where is Jiang Tea Tea?”
Deputy Officer Ai snapped to attention and saluted as he reported: “Reporting to the Commander in Chief, Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea came but felt that walking fifteen kilometers from the Imperial Military Headquarters gate to your office building was too far, so she left.”
“She also said that you can just send what you promised her directly to the Academy.”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes narrowed: “All right, I know. You may go.”
Deputy Officer Ai replied: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Chong Ming set down his pen, opened his light-brain wrist terminal, pulled up the video contact with Jiang Tea Tea, and placed a call.
It rang once with no answer, then twice, then six times with no answer. The video call timed out and cut off automatically.
Chong Ming raised his brows slightly and dialed again. This time it rang five times before being picked up, and Jiang Tea Tea’s image appeared on the large projection screen in front of him.
Looking at her, he said: “For you, fifteen kilometers would not take fifteen minutes if you go fast, and at most thirty minutes if you go slowly.”
“You all have three and a half days off, and you are not even willing to walk those fifteen minutes?”
Without even looking at him, Jiang Tea Tea kept driving the flying device and said impatiently: “Yes. I am sick of it. I do not want to walk. I do not feel like walking.”
Through the screen, Chong Ming studied her. After three months of study, her grades, except in one department where she had an A-level, were all Level S.
Every teacher who had taught her felt that her innate talent was amazing and that she could be better, and then even better, and then better again. But she herself just went with the flow. No matter how hard the questions were, she could get an S score, but only an S. Any more and she was not willing to do it. She would not put in extra effort.
Over the three months, the other seven people in their squad had all lost some weight to different degrees. She had not lost weight. Only her face was a little pale.
After waiting a long time without hearing him speak, Jiang Tea Tea said: “My grades are excellent. Hurry up and send me the dragon blood. That is it. I’m hanging up…”
“Wait,” Chong Ming called out to her. “I will open Imperial Military Headquarters access for you right now. Drive your flying device straight here and dock with my office.”
Jiang Tea Tea turned her face away, looking sideways at the Chong Ming on the holo projection screen. Suddenly, a nameless fire rose in her heart, and she snapped at him:
“What am I, your pet cat or dog? When you told me to come over, you did not open the access. After I left, you open it and wave for me to come back. Do you think I have that much free time?”
“Get lost. I do not want to see you. You are annoying.”
The cubs in her belly also did not want to see him. When she called him annoying, they tossed around even harder, clearly agreeing with her.
[Very good. The cubs are on my side. Without their dad’s supernatural abilities and spiritual power to soothe them, they can just eat my spiritual power. I can afford to raise them.]
Chong Ming looked at the black screen of the light-brain wrist terminal and frowned. Her temper today was not only big, it was also very irritable. That was not how she usually was.
After Jiang Tea Tea hung up on Chong Ming, she saw the message from Cheng Lin Yue. She had originally planned to go back to the Academy, but now she did not go back. Instead, she went onto StarNet, searched for the closest mountain forest hotel, booked a treehouse, and flew over there.
She was a tea tree. Returning to the mountains was like a small river flowing into the sea or a flood dragon soaring in the sky. It felt comfortable and free.
In the forty to fifty square meter treehouse, she walked around once, checked everything once, then called up her spiritual power to block off the surroundings. She kicked off her shoes, flopped onto the bed, and her feet turned into branches and roots that pushed down into the earth.
The treehouse stood in a vast mountain range. Jiang Tea Tea had chosen a treehouse that was far from the others, so she could let her roots spread all through the mountains and absorb the fertilizer and nutrients in the earth.
She also practiced her cultivation method, drawing spiritual energy from the air to increase her monster spiritual power so she could feed the cubs in her belly.
The cubs, who had been longing for their real dad’s supernatural abilities and spiritual power to soothe them, became quiet once they had the support of her spiritual power and plenty of nutrients. They settled down and slept.
One day passed, then two days. On the third day, Jiang Tea Tea finally rolled off the bed, withdrew her roots, and placed her hand on her stomach.
The cubs in her belly felt her hand and rushed to greet her, using their heads to bump against her palm and moving their bodies.
Jiang Tea Tea used her spiritual power to see them. The cubs were not yet seven months old. Except for that bright golden color, she liked everything about them.
She watched the cubs for a while, then opened her light-brain wrist terminal. She saw that it was still on mute and that inside were several missed calls and messages from Cheng Lin Yue, saying there was something important she needed to tell her face-to-face.
Huang Da Zhuang had sent her good news. He had awakened dual-type supernatural abilities: one speed-type ability and one enhanced sense of smell. Even though they were only C-level, it was still a miracle among miracles.
Sui Xuan Chu, Cheng Xiao Ting, and the others had also sent messages, telling her that their supernatural abilities had upgraded. Even if it was only half a level, they had indeed gone up.
Jiang Tea Tea did not reply to any of their messages. Instead, she shared her location with Cheng Lin Yue.
Cheng Lin Yue came very fast, arriving in less than an hour. The first thing she did after coming in was set up shielding devices in the treehouse: signal shielding devices, sound shielding devices, and video shielding devices.
After she finished placing the shielding devices, Cheng Lin Yue pulled Jiang Tea Tea into the bathroom and said to her very seriously: “Sister Tea, every female in the Royal Military Imperial Academies, teachers included, has already had a physical exam. You are the only one left.”
“Teacher said that when you get back, he will give you a physical too. I told him that you are a triple Level S variant strain plant-type spiritual power user and do not need a physical. Teacher said no. As long as she is a female at the Royal Military Imperial Academies, she has to have a physical.”
“I tried to sound him out. Teacher said this was an order from Commander in Chief Chong Ming. Every female at the Royal Military Imperial Academies has to be examined.”
“You are almost seven months now. The moment you stand on that machine, you will be exposed. What do we do? Should you ask for leave?”
“That does not seem good either. If you ask for leave, it will look even more suspicious. Once you are exposed, you, who are seven months pregnant, will be forced to take a break from school.”
“No, no, you cannot take a break. If you take a break, what will I do? Without you, I cannot study at all. Without you, I have no backbone. There are so many things I just cannot learn.”
Seeing her spin around like an ant on a hot pan, Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes moved and a plan formed in her mind. She said: “Do not panic, do not be scared. I will not be forced to take a physical.”
Cheng Lin Yue did not believe her: “But Commander in Chief Chong Ming gave our teacher the order…”
Jiang Tea Tea smiled and comforted her: “Giving orders is his business. Carrying them out is the teacher’s business. Whether I cooperate or not is my business.”
“Relax. I already have an idea.”
Cheng Lin Yue’s eyes lit up: “What idea?”
Jiang Tea Tea said to her: “In these three months, we learned a lot of subjects. One of them was the Camouflage Department.”
“If Commander in Chief Chong Ming insists on finding me, then I will turn the whole Capital Planet into my shadows and let the youngling’s distress aura spread all over the Capital Planet.”
Cheng Lin Yue’s eyes went wide as bells: “You mean, I will disguise myself as you and stay in this Treehouse Hotel as your proof.”
“You will use your own invisibility supernatural abilities, disguise yourself as other people, and go all over the Capital Planet to spread Dragon Clan youngling distress auras, trapping Commander in Chief Chong Ming!”