Chapter 119
Chapter 119: Exposing the Little Brat Is Not As Fun As a Fight, So Fight First
Jiang Tea Tea reached up and covered her mouth, hiding the smile she could not hold back. Her eyes were wide and bright as she stared straight at Sui Xuan Chu.
[Roommate good, roommate great, roommate amazing. As expected of the Crown Prince. His aura is fully out. One word: handsome. Two words: overbearing. Three words: super overbearing.]
See, who said she had no helper? This was a helper. And he held high rank and power, a very good helper who could stand up to Chong Ming and everyone else.
Chong Ming pulled back his own aura. He did not speak and did not stop them. He glanced sideways at Jiang Tea Tea, at this person who always liked to talk in a weird tone in front of him, who feared nothing, always bargaining with him and challenging him, now looking at his nephew with eyes that were almost worshipful.
Li Ao’s eyes flashed with desire, madness, and excitement for the rare variant supernatural ability. He opened his mouth to argue with Sui Xuan Chu: “Who said I want to claim other people’s variant supernatural abilities for myself and go against their will?”
“The Supernatural Ability Research Institute carries the name of the Empire. I take pay from the Empire. The rare supernatural abilities I study will be open to everyone. They will benefit the whole Empire and also benefit military academy students like you.”
“Right now, in front of the Commander in Chief, I am asking the Commander in Chief to order schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea to cooperate with my research. At the same time, I am also inviting schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea.”
“You are just a little military academy student, jumping out to point at my nose and curse me, asking what I am. I am the dignified Institute Director of the Supernatural Ability Research Institute. So tell me, what am I?”
Sui Xuan Chu slowly turned his head toward his uncle. He spoke in a calm and logical tone: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, don’t you think Institute Director Li Ao of the Supernatural Ability Research Institute has a kind of madness toward rare and variant supernatural abilities that is not normal for a researcher?”
Chong Ming’s frown smoothed out. While teaching Sui Xuan Chu how to do things, he asked back: “You think his madness is not normal for a researcher. Do you have proof?”
“The Empire is a society ruled by law. Everything needs evidence. It is not about you just saying what you feel, and it is not about him just saying what he wants and getting it.”
Sui Xuan Chu’s hand, which had been pointing at Li Ao, turned and pointed at Jiang Tea Tea: “She is the proof. He is going against her will and asking you to pressure her.”
Chong Ming asked again: “Have I pressured her?”
Sui Xuan Chu choked: “No.”
Chong Ming spoke two simple words, sharp as a blade: “Too impulsive.”
Sui Xuan Chu lowered his head: “Yes.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “…”
[Roommate is not on my side again?]
[Do I really have to use magic spells to bewitch him and hypnotize him?]
While the Commander in Chief and that military academy student were talking, Li Ao pressed down the excitement, desire, and madness in his eyes and spoke respectfully: “Commander in Chief, everything I do is for the Empire and for the common citizens of the Empire.”
“For example, there was once an excellent 3S-level healer. In order to help me crack the secret of fertility, illusion technique supernatural abilities, and to test black medical arts, he was willing to stay in the Supernatural Ability Research Institute for ten years…”
“Wait a moment.” Jiang Tea Tea cut Li Ao off and stepped out from behind Sui Xuan Chu. She faced Li Ao directly and asked: “The excellent 3S-level healer you just mentioned, is he a mouse-rabbit beastman?”
Li Ao’s eyes lit up: “Yes. You know him?”
Jiang Tea Tea asked again: “Is his name Cheng Yuan?”
Li Ao nodded quickly: “Yes, yes. It seems he mentioned me to you. You should know, because he cooperated with me, I broke through…”
Jiang Tea Tea stopped his proud speech about his own achievements: “Hold on a second.”
Li Ao’s voice stopped at once. He looked at her in confusion.
Jiang Tea Tea stepped back to Sui Xuan Chu’s side, eyes fixed on Li Ao. She tilted her head and said: “Roommate, turn on your light-brain wrist terminal. Record the screen.”
Sui Xuan Chu did not understand, but he did it, and still asked: “What for?”
Jiang Tea Tea moved her fingers a little: “I am going to beat him up. You remember to record it. If I can’t beat him, you go in…”
Sui Xuan Chu let out a sound and turned his head to look at her: “You are going to hit him here, in the Imperial Military Headquarters, this, this, this…”
Out of the corner of his eye, he could not help looking at his uncle. His roommate was not only wild, she was also jumpy. How did things suddenly turn into beating someone up? Leave it to the law, leave it to his uncle. He trusted his uncle.
Chong Ming’s gaze swept back and forth over Li Ao and Jiang Tea Tea. He reached one conclusion: she knew the 3S-level healer who had stayed in the Supernatural Ability Research Institute for ten years and was now going to hit Li Ao for his sake.
Jiang Tea Tea finished moving her fingers, pushed up her sleeves, and strode toward Li Ao.
At first she had not planned to act. Cheng Lin Yue had treated her well, risking her own life to arrange a way out for her and telling her to find her uncle so she could protect her babies.
Even though she had not managed to go, a life-saving favor still had to be repaid.
Seeing that his uncle did not speak, Sui Xuan Chu aimed the recording light-brain wrist terminal at them.
Jiang Tea Tea stopped in front of Li Ao: “You said you are inviting me, that you want me to willingly go with you to your Supernatural Ability Research Institute and study my variant supernatural ability with you, right?”
Hearing her words and the bit of conversation between her and that male military academy student, Li Ao answered: “Yes, but you do not seem willing and even want to hit me?”
Jiang Tea Tea’s lips curved into a smile: “Yes. I want to hit you. Maybe if I hit you and feel better, I will go.”
Li Ao narrowed his eyes. His voice rose, and he did not forget to show off in front of the Commander in Chief: “If you are truly willing to go and cooperate with all my research, I will let you hit me. To sacrifice for the country and for the common citizens, what is there to be afraid of…”
Bang!
Before he finished speaking, Jiang Tea Tea’s fist smashed hard into his cheek.
Li Ao’s head snapped to the side. His mouth filled with blood that spilled out from the corner of his lips. She hit really hard. Something was wrong.
He opened his mouth: “Jiang Tea Tea, you just asked me about Cheng Yuan. Did he say something to you that made you misunderstand m…”
Before he could finish, Jiang Tea Tea’s fist smashed into his cheek again, just as vicious as before. This time it did not only make him spit blood. It knocked out two of his teeth.
Li Ao stared at the teeth mixed with blood as they fell out. He was angry: “Jiang Tea Tea, I do not know what relationship you have with Cheng Yuan, and I do not know what he said to you.”
“But I want to tell you this. Cheng Yuan is in the Supernatural Ability Research Institute. I treat him very well. He was willing to stay and study with me…”
Jiang Tea Tea reached back and pulled out a branch staff from her space knob storage device, then whipped it across his mouth in one stroke.
Chong Ming grabbed the back of Sui Xuan Chu’s collar and pulled him backward, making more space for them.
Then he opened his own light-brain wrist terminal and sent a message to his Information Department minister, Cai Xi Chao, ordering her to investigate Cheng Yuan’s information.
Sui Xuan Chu was shocked and excited as he watched his uncle. His roommate was beating someone up right in front of his uncle, beating his subordinate, and his uncle did not stop her. He did not ask anything. He even stepped aside to make room.
With all that, how could his roommate still misunderstand and think he would send her into the Supernatural Ability Research Institute to have her belly cut open?
And whose baby was his roommate carrying in her belly? It could not be his uncle’s, right?
[No, it should not be. It is definitely not.]
The Dragon Clan lays eggs. They lay eggs that hatch outside the body.
But the thing in his roommate’s belly seemed to be born live.
When his hand had pressed against his roommate’s belly, it had been a little head pushing against his palm, not a round egg.
After sending the message, Chong Ming looked up at Sui Xuan Chu and reminded him: “Don’t look at me. Record your video.”
Sui Xuan Chu made a sound of agreement and stopped looking at him. He continued to record the video, filming Jiang Tea Tea beating up the Institute Director of the Supernatural Ability Research Institute.
Crack!
Jiang Tea Tea’s branch staff whipped across Li Ao’s mouth, splitting his lips open and showing his gums. Blood flowed out of his mouth.
He sucked in a sharp breath from the pain. When he spoke, the torn mouth leaked air, spraying bloody foam: “Jiang Tea Tea, I do not know what Cheng Yuan said to you to ruin my good name and make you hate me like this. For the Commander in Chief’s sake, I am not holding it against you and I have not fought back.”
“But if you keep beating me without telling right from wrong, don’t blame me if I fight back and stop being polite to you!”