Chapter 114
Chapter 114: Younglings’ Cries For Help Are Everywhere, Are You Scared, Old Mud Loach
Jiang Tea Tea flipped her hand up and gave Cheng Lin Yue a thumbs up: “Yes, that is exactly what I mean. If Chong Ming insists on finding me, I will let him search to his heart’s content.”
As the months passed, the babies in her belly were getting more and more strong and sensible. With her spiritual power covering them, and with the wide school uniform, her belly did not show at all, and no one could notice anything.
But she could not stand the way that old mud loach Chong Ming kept thinking about her. With her strength right now, once he learned about her and set his sights on her, she would not be able to protect the babies at all. She was afraid that after all the hard work she put into carrying them, that old mud loach Chong Ming would swoop in to pick the fruit, then send her to a laboratory to dissect her body and study how she was built.
Cheng Lin Yue reached back into her space knob storage device and pulled out a makeup kit. She patted the box with her hand: “Sister Tea, this is a work kit from the Camouflage Department. I brought it with me. I can do makeup to look like you.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s smile was bright: “Thumbs up for you. Let’s start.”
Cheng Lin Yue nodded hard: “Okay!”
The two of them, a shameless pair of partners in crime and both action types, did what they said without delay.
First, they went out and removed all the shielding devices in the room.
Then they called hotel service and ordered enough food for the whole day.
When the hotel worker brought the food and saw both of them inside the room, that was the most direct and most useful human evidence.
The two of them ate a little, then went back into the bedroom. Cheng Lin Yue started doing makeup. The three months she had spent in the Camouflage Department were not wasted.
Just as she had said, with all kinds of tools and a human-skin mask laid over her face, in less than fifteen minutes she already looked seventy to eighty percent like Jiang Tea Tea.
When she loosened the fake long hair and let it fall down, then stood next to Jiang Tea Tea, they could almost pass for twins.
To make sure there were no flaws and no traces left, Jiang Tea Tea took off her light-brain wrist terminal and her space knob storage device. She did not keep any electronic equipment on her body.
Then she used invisibility and walked out of the bedroom together with Cheng Lin Yue. They went to the door. Cheng Lin Yue opened the door and posed as if she was leaning there to look out at the beautiful view.
Jiang Tea Tea used this chance, slipped through the door under invisibility, gathered her spiritual power, and used the shrinking ground to inches technique and teleportation to jump fifty kilometers away. After pausing for a moment, she teleported again to one hundred kilometers away.
She hid in the dark and talked with the younglings in her belly who were not yet seven months old. No matter if they could understand or not, she still needed to say what she needed to say and pass on what she needed to tell them.
The babies did not let her down. While she was talking with them, they rolled and tumbled hard inside her belly, as if they were answering her and had understood her words.
Jiang Tea Tea pulled her spiritual power back into herself. In that instant, the Dragon Clan younglings’ distress aura spread out from her body, thick and pure.
Nearby there were residential areas, a shopping mall, an academy. All kinds of races lived there, including Dragon Clan.
In less than a minute, Dragon Clan clan members smelled the Dragon Clan younglings’ distress aura. People who were working stopped working. People who were resting stopped resting. Even people who were lying down got up.
Some people walked out the door to search for the youngling. Some went onto StarNet to make posts asking for help and trying to find the source: “I am Flower Dragon Clan, and I am currently living in Gan Community. I just smelled a Dragon Clan youngling’s distress aura. In this day and age, which Dragon Clan female who is pregnant with a youngling is not staying at home being treated like a little darling? What is she doing outside?”
“Hey hey hey, you in Gan Community, I just smelled it too. I thought it was my imagination. I didn’t think it was real. I am in Liulin District.”
“Liulin District is two to three hundred kilometers from Gan Community. Can a youngling’s distress aura spread that far?”
“The one upstairs clearly is not Dragon Clan. According to records, a Dragon Clan youngling’s distress aura can spread to over one thousand kilometers at most.”
“A very long time ago, before Dragon Clan blood was mixed so much, when a youngling in the mother body ran into danger, it seems that the Dragon Clan bloodline could resonate and let every Dragon Clan feel it.”
“Now the reason we don’t have this kind of resonance is because Dragon Clan pure blood got mixed. There is no pure blood anymore, so there is no resonance.”
“But a youngling’s distress aura spreading five hundred to one thousand kilometers is totally normal.”
“Yes, yes, the science lesson upstairs is right. There is one more point. The purer the Dragon Clan bloodline is, and the higher the level of supernatural abilities, the farther they can smell a Dragon Clan youngling’s distress aura. For example, Commander in Chief Chong Ming at Imperial Military Headquarters. With his level of supernatural abilities, he can at least smell Dragon Clan distress aura from one thousand to fifteen hundred kilometers away.”
“Wait, wait, wait, my goodness, just how many Dragon Clan younglings are being harmed right now? Why is it that I am one thousand five hundred kilometers from Gan Community, on Mingnan Road, and I also smelled a youngling’s distress aura?”
“I am not like the person upstairs said with a high level of supernatural abilities. My level is only level S. If the Dragon Clan youngling’s distress aura appeared in Gan Community, by reason I should not be able to smell it.”
“Ah, no way. From what you are saying, are you telling us that someone on Capital Planet is harming Dragon Clan youngling mother bodies, so all these younglings are sending distress auras together?”
“What you just said is very possible. Call the police, hurry and call the police. I feel it is not just one Dragon Clan youngling sending out a cry for help.”
“We reported it, we already reported it. The Police Bureaus of all the major regions have sent out Dragon Clan police officers and have also called up Dragon Clan clan members to act as temporary police officers to search for Dragon Clan younglings and their mother bodies.”
One place, two places, three, four, five, six places. Within less than twenty minutes, Dragon Clan youngling distress aura appeared in all of them. On StarNet, huge waves were rising, alarming all the regional Police Bureaus and also alarming Chong Ming at Imperial Military Headquarters.
After he finished listening to the reports from deputy officer Ai and secretary Wen, he gave his order: “Tell the Dragon Clan at Imperial Military Headquarters to put down all their work and fully mobilize…”
He did not even finish his sentence before the thick Dragon Clan younglings’ distress aura rushed straight at his forehead and cut his words off at once.
Chong Ming stood up from behind his huge desk and quickly walked over to the window. He opened the window and poured out his supernatural abilities and spiritual power to catch the exact location where the Dragon Clan younglings’ distress aura was coming from.
Two hundred kilometers away from Imperial Military Headquarters, Jiang Tea Tea patted her belly and released the spiritual power she had drawn back earlier: “Good job, kids. When we go back, I will reward you with nutrient fruit.”
The babies in her belly rippled once, as if answering her, saying, Okay, okay, let’s go back and eat fruit, eat fruit.
Jiang Tea Tea gathered her spiritual power again, silently chanted her magic spells, and used the shrinking ground to inches technique. With a few instant trips back and forth, she returned to the mountain treehouse hotel.
From the time she went out to the time she returned, it took her less than two hours total.
When Cheng Lin Yue saw her suddenly appear in the bedroom, she jumped in fright and quickly asked: “Sister Tea, you are back. You were not discovered, right?”
Jiang Tea Tea pulled out her high ponytail and let her hair fall: “My invisibility ability is very good. No one found me.”
Cheng Lin Yue patted her chest and let out a breath: “That is good, that is good. I saw on StarNet that many places had Dragon Clan younglings’ distress aura appear. I thought something had happened to you.”
Jiang Tea Tea smiled to comfort her: “I know what I am doing. Hurry and take off your disguise. The two of us will go out for a walk.”
Cheng Lin Yue asked in surprise: “We are going out for a walk now? Where are we going?”
Jiang Tea Tea pointed down at the floor: “We will just walk around this treehouse hotel, soak in the hot spring and pick some wild fruit. Tomorrow morning we go back to the academy. My treat.”
Cheng Lin Yue’s face was full of a happy smile: “Okay, okay. But should we call Sui Xuan Chu, Cheng Xiao Ting, Huang Da Zhuang and the other six to come too?”
“The more people there are, the more witnesses we have. Even if Commander in Chief Chong Ming suspects you later, one or two of them will be the best witnesses. Don’t you think so?”
Jiang Tea Tea curled up the corner of her mouth: “You are right. Hurry and take off your makeup and destroy the face mold of my face.”
Cheng Lin Yue gave her a thumbs up, took out the makeup box and started to remove her makeup and take off the face mold.
Jiang Tea Tea snapped her light-brain wrist terminal back onto her wrist, shared the hotel address in the small group of eight, and sent a message: “Big Dog Huang, Brother Octopus, Sui Xuan Chu, hurry and come over. Soak in the hot spring. My treat.”
Sui Xuan Chu replied in the group chat at once: “Even if you treat, I still cannot come. I have been sent out on external duty. I am already on my way out and busy.”
Jiang Tea Tea asked: “What is going on?”
Huang Da Zhuang explained: “Sister Tea, you don’t go online, so you don’t know. There are seven or eight places on Capital Planet where Dragon Clan younglings’ distress aura appeared. Following our excellent Dragon Clan tradition of rescuing younglings nearby, Sui Xuan Chu was temporarily sent out to feel the youngling aura and look for them.”
Jiang Tea Tea suddenly understood: “So that is what is going on. Let him go and work. Do the five of you have time? If you do, come over. I will book rooms for you in advance. After soaking in the hot spring, eating, and resting, we will go to the academy tomorrow.”
Cheng Xiao Ting replied: “Sister Tea, we have time, we have time. We are coming right away. Wait for us.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “I will wait for you!”
After sending the last message, Jiang Tea Tea called the treehouse internal line again, booked three more treehouses and reserved two hot spring pools.
Feeling happy, she waited for Cheng Lin Yue to finish taking off her makeup while she logged into StarNet. As soon as she went online, the trending topics rushed up to her face. Things like:
“Shocking news! Dragon Clan younglings meet danger and send out strong distress pheromones. Poor younglings, they are not even born yet and already must suffer such a disaster.”
“Explosive news! At present, eight regions, each between two hundred and five hundred kilometers apart, have Dragon Clan younglings’ distress aura.”
“Breaking news! Why are there so many Dragon Clan younglings’ distress auras all at once? Could it be that Insectoid Race spies have broken into our Capital Planet and are carrying out large scale hunting of Dragon Clan youngling mother bodies, causing Dragon Clan younglings to spread distress auras?”
“Breaking news! Staff from Imperial Military Headquarters have already set out. Dragon Clan younglings are saved.”
“Breaking news! Chong Ming has given the order. At all costs, they must protect the safety of Dragon Clan younglings and their mother bodies!”
Under each trending topic were reposts and comments from netizens of all the nations in the M31 Star System:
“Didn’t you all say that Zhenlin Empire’s Capital Planet has defenses as solid as an iron wall? What is going on now? So many Dragon Clan younglings are facing danger. Looks like Zhenlin Empire’s Capital Planet is nothing special after all.”
“Right, and that golden dragon Chong Ming is still holding our Insectoid Race great imperial prince and won’t let him go. I guess he is being punished by the beast god and so their Dragon Clan younglings are being hunted on a large scale.”
“Bugs are so laughable. What do you mean, holding your Insectoid Race great imperial prince? If your great imperial prince had not driven his battleship into their star system, would they have captured him?”
“You are just too cheap to spend money, too cheap to give anything, too cheap to ransom back your Insectoid Race great imperial prince. How can you say this with a straight face?”
“In my opinion, this mess was probably caused by bugs who sneaked in, trying to rescue their great imperial prince.”
“No matter who caused this, I only hope that Dragon Clan younglings and their mother bodies will be fine and healthy.”
“But anyway, this time the Dragon Clan younglings’ distress messages spread very wide and very dense, and they even carried authority and power.”
“Hey hey hey, yes, yes, I felt the same. The distress aura sent by the Dragon Clan younglings had a kind of king’s aura.”
“If it were not for the Crown Prince just becoming an adult, and Commander in Chief Chong Ming being one hundred and fifty years old without any public girlfriend, fiancee or princess consort, for a second I even suspected that the Crown Prince or Commander in Chief Chong Ming had someone outside who is pregnant with their child.”
“Upstairs, I have to say, you are really bold. You dare to think even that. Respect, respect, much respect.”
“What is there to not dare think about? I am Dragon Clan. We Dragon Clan have a natural urge to submit to bloodlines.”
“As soon as the golden dragon Imperial Clan releases oppressive aura from Royal Clan blood, I have to fall to my knees and sing my obedience.”
“I am just saying, is there any chance that there really is someone out there who is pregnant with the Crown Prince’s or the Commander in Chief’s babies?”
When Jiang Tea Tea saw this comment, her eyelid twitched. She casually picked a trending topic about looking for the younglings and reposted it with a comment: “Protecting Dragon Clan younglings is everyone’s duty. I hope that under Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s lead, they will find the Dragon Clan younglings soon, remove the danger, and let them be born safely.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s StarNet account was certified as that of a triple level S variant plant-type ability healer. When she reposted and commented, that post also shot up onto the trending list. It led even more people from Zhenlin Empire to repost and comment, saying that everyone should protect Dragon Clan younglings and help them be born safely, and by the way asking her when she could open a healing room for supernatural power and spiritual power.
The people whom Chong Ming had sent out reported back that they did not find any Dragon Clan younglings or mother bodies. The distress aura also slowly weakened and disappeared.
He came back inside, sat down in his office chair, and opened the records to check Jiang Tea Tea’s movements over the past three days. He saw that after she left Imperial Military Headquarters, she went straight to the mountain holiday treehouse and had not left since.
She rarely went online and rarely cared about online news, yet today she had suddenly logged into StarNet and reposted and commented.
He read her repost. Her words were very normal, but for some reason, he could see a bit of gloating and small pride between the lines.
Chong Ming tapped his hand on the desk and stared at the real-time surveillance feed in front of him. On the screen, Jiang Tea Tea was lying on the sofa with her legs crossed, a basket of nutrient fruit resting on her belly, happily gnawing on the fruit.
He watched for a long time, then opened his light-brain wrist terminal and called Jiang Tea Tea.
Jiang Tea Tea’s terminal was on silent, and with her sleeve covering it, she did not notice that someone was calling her.
She kept eating the nutrient fruit, bite by bite, like a mouse gnawing on a fruit, eating sweetly and with great enjoyment.
Chong Ming frowned a little. The call went unanswered once. It rang a second time, and no one answered again.
Only when Cheng Lin Yue came out of the bedroom and reminded Jiang Tea Tea: “Sister Tea, your light-brain wrist terminal screen is lit up. Is someone calling you?” did she notice.
Jiang Tea Tea froze for a moment, then let go and held the fruit in her mouth. She pushed up her sleeve and took a look. The call was from that old mud loach Chong Ming.
Jiang Tea Tea swallowed the fruit in a few bites. She said to Cheng Lin Yue: “It is Commander in Chief Chong Ming calling.”
Cheng Lin Yue sucked in a breath of cold air: “My idol, my heartthrob idol is calling you. Should I go somewhere else so I am not in the way?”
Jiang Tea Tea waved her hand: “No need to avoid him. Why should you?”
Cheng Lin Yue sat on the side nervously: “Then I will sit here and not move.”
Jiang Tea Tea looked at her with a smile. When she was teaming up with her to trick that old mud loach Chong Ming, she did not see Cheng Lin Yue being afraid at all.
Now that she heard he was just calling, she was scared to death. This rabbit really had double standards, but at least her mouth was tight.
After the third unanswered call hung up, Chong Ming did not call again. After waiting a bit, Jiang Tea Tea called him back.
He purposely waited four seconds before answering the call, then looked at Jiang Tea Tea on the video. In a low voice, he said: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, I need you to come to Imperial Military Headquarters right now. I have some things to ask you.”
Jiang Tea Tea grabbed another nutrient fruit from the basket, but she did not bite it. Playing with it in her hand, she looked at the serious Chong Ming: “If you have something to ask, just ask. I will tell you everything I know.”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes narrowed, a sharp light flashing in them. He opened his mouth and used a trick: “Are you sure you want me to say it in front of your schoolmate, that I have found the female who stayed one night with me at First Hotel?”