Chapter 118
Chapter 118: The Little Brats’ Bargain Eldest Brother Crown Prince, Going All Out to Protect the Little Brats
Jiang Tea Tea slowly let go of Sui Xuan Chu’s hand. Her eyes stared straight into his. She lifted her foot and stepped back, putting a little distance between them, then turned her head to look back at Chong Ming, giving him a provoking smile: “Whatever you saw us doing, that’s exactly what we were doing!”
[If she really wanted to, she could call in a whole warship group and drag Li Ao from the Supernatural Ability Research Institute over here. Did he really think she was some weak little herbivore, that she could not fight back just because he had a high rank?]
Chong Ming frowned, his whole body giving off a heavy low pressure. The staff members standing behind him, in a room held at a constant 26 degrees, felt as if the temperature had suddenly dropped to minus 26, a sharp bone-deep chill.
They did not even dare to breathe loudly. The way they looked at Jiang Tea Tea was full of respect. She dared to talk back to the Commander in Chief and was not afraid of his oppressive aura at all. She was really amazing.
Sui Xuan Chu stared blankly at his own palm. The fresh, lively feeling from just now still seemed to stay in the center of his hand. [Oh my god, Beast God above, h-he-his roommate is way too wild!]
Jiang Tea Tea looked at Chong Ming’s furrowed brows and tightly pressed thin lips. On one hand she felt happy that she had finally won a round against him. On the other hand, she was not sure at all whether Sui Xuan Chu would help her lie.
Chong Ming’s golden eyes met Jiang Tea Tea’s. He took in all her provocation without missing a bit, then turned his head and spoke coldly to the staff behind him: “You don’t need to follow me. Pay more attention to defense. Do everything else the way you usually do.”
The staff members answered at once: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Chong Ming, dressed in a black military uniform and black military boots, carrying that heavy low-pressure aura, walked into the lift. He looked deeply at the two of them. He did not say anything, just turned his back toward them and pressed the close button. The lift started going up.
Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu stood behind him, one with a head still buzzing, not yet recovered from the shock, the other staring at his broad shoulders and narrow waist, the corners of her lips lifted, her provocation not yet gone.
“Did any of you smell a very nice, very bug-luring scent?” Asais sat in the meeting room, asking her attendant officials.
Several attendant officials gave her different answers: “Reporting to the Crown Princess Heir, I did not smell a strong scent, but I felt the cold oppressive aura coming from Commander in Chief Chong Ming. It was very powerful.”
“I smelled it, Crown Princess Heir. It was very nice, like trees, like leaves. It is the kind of green smell we Bugs like.”
“I smelled it too, Crown Princess Heir. A strong green smell, a very enchanting green smell to bugs, as if it also carried the sweet scent of blooming and bearing fruit.”
“You cannot breathe it in too carefully. The more you breathe it in, the sweeter it feels…”
“No, the scent is getting weaker. It is almost gone.”
Asais was a bit lost in this scent. She sighed: “This smell is really good. It makes a bug want to claim the person, or tree, or flower giving off this scent as their own and chew it into their stomach.”
“Crown Princess Heir.” One attendant official’s eyes suddenly lit up. He quickly reported to his own Crown Princess Heir: “Do you think the one giving off this scent could be that 3S-level variant plant-type healer from the Empire of Zhen Lin?”
“You should know, if a supernatural ability user is a plant-type healer, the higher their level, the stronger the plant smell they give off. Controlling plants, making a seed sprout, grow, bloom, and bear fruit in a moment is nothing hard for them.”
Asais took a deep breath. Her pretty fake golden eyes turned into insect eyes with double pupils. She sighed: “If it really is that variant 3S-level healer, and we catch her, never mind my Imperial Elder Brother, even that big earthworm Chong Ming will have to pay me a whole star system in compensation.”
The attendant officials looked at each other. Among them were her trusted aide and her secondary husband. Whatever the Crown Princess Heir wanted, they would do everything they could to get it and offer it to her.
The lift stopped and opened on Chong Ming’s office floor.
Deputy officer Ai was waiting at the door with Li Ao and his subordinate. When he saw the lift open and their own Commander in Chief step out, he gave a military salute: “Commander in Chief, Institute Director Li has something to report to you!”
The first person Li Ao saw was not the Commander in Chief, but Jiang Tea Tea standing behind him. Since she was at the Commander in Chief’s side, everything next would be easy.
Chong Ming’s frown did not relax. He glanced sideways at Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu behind him: “You two go wait for me in my office first.”
Jiang Tea Tea stood still and answered: “I still have something to do…”
Chong Ming cut her off in a strong tone: “I have something to ask you two. No matter how important your business is, put it aside for now.”
A strong dragon cannot beat a local snake.
But he was an actual dragon. There was no way she could beat him at all.
Jiang Tea Tea was unhappy. She walked out from behind him and met Li Ao’s eyes: “Institute Director Li, weren’t you waiting for Commander in Chief Chong Ming? Why have you been staring at me the whole time?”
His gaze was really sharp, like she was a piece of fish on a cutting board and he was holding a knife, thinking about where to start cutting.
Li Ao suddenly came back to himself. His mouth held a polite smile, but his eyes were full of excitement. He had already forgotten that he had been on leave for more than three months and that the funding for the Supernatural Ability Research Institute had been frozen for three months. His head was full of Jiang Tea Tea’s variant supernatural ability and how to get her into the Supernatural Ability Research Institute.
“Sorry, schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea. Here is how it is, Commander in Chief. I re-examined the tea leaves you gave me before and found that, besides the natural plant-type spiritual power in them, there is also an unknown energy entity.”
“Since schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea is here, after I meet the Insectoid Race’s Crown Princess Heir, I want to invite schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea to my Supernatural Ability Research Institute. We can study her variant plant-type supernatural ability together.”
“Impossible.”
At first, Sui Xuan Chu could not believe what Jiang Tea Tea had said about his uncle sending her to the Supernatural Ability Research Institute. He never expected that the Institute Director Li Ao would start snatching her in front of him and in front of his uncle.
He opened his mouth and refused on Jiang Tea Tea’s behalf: “My roommate refuses to go to your Supernatural Ability Research Institute. The Commander in Chief will not agree to let her go to the Supernatural Ability Research Institute either.”
Li Ao narrowed his eyes and looked Sui Xuan Chu up and down: “Schoolmate, I saw you at the Thirty Military Academies Supremacy Tournament. You are her schoolmate and her teammate. You may not know that, once her variant plant-type supernatural ability is widely used, it will benefit many military academy students in the Empire like you.”
“Besides, schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea has not refused me, and the Commander in Chief has not disagreed. Yet you, a little student, jump out and make decisions for her, even trying to give orders in the Commander in Chief’s place. Aren’t you being a bit too arrogant and lacking in manners?”
What does “a pillow delivered when you are dozing off” mean?
This was exactly that.
Jiang Tea Tea was still thinking about how to better persuade Sui Xuan Chu to willingly lie for her when Li Ao walked right into the muzzle of the gun.
If it were not the wrong place, she would have loved to clap her hands and sing loudly, “Today is a good day.”
Sui Xuan Chu pulled Jiang Tea Tea behind him with one tug and faced Li Ao. As a young man, he was still wild and headstrong. The moment he thought of how Jiang Tea Tea was the Three Armies Commander in Chief candidate his uncle had picked for him, and that once she passed his uncle’s test she would have a bright future, guarding the Empire’s Three Armies as Commander in Chief, his anger rose even higher.
Now she was about to be taken into the Supernatural Ability Research Institute and tied onto a lab table. Not only her, but also the baby in her belly would be bled, dissected, and studied.
No wonder Jiang Tea Tea did not trust his uncle. This damn Institute Director dared to act so wildly right in front of his uncle. If she really entered his institute, what would he not dare to do?
“You say I am arrogant and do not know the rules?” Sui Xuan Chu pointed at Li Ao, his aura fully unleashed. “And what are you supposed to be? You are just an Institute Director of the Supernatural Ability Research Institute. Who gave you the right to see someone with a variant supernatural ability and try to claim them for yourself, to go against their will and drag them into your institute to be studied?”