Chapter 122
Chapter 122: Jiang Tea Tea, I’m Kneeling Here, Don’t Make Me Take the Fall, My Uncle Will Really Beat Me To Death
Li Ao’s eyes turned blood red in an instant, and his whole body started twitching and shaking like he had gone mad.
Chong Ming took one step forward, his golden eyes icy cold: “Director Li, just now you were activating your mutated hypnosis and illusion supernatural ability, getting ready to use it on me.”
“No, no, I did not…” Li Ao hurried to explain, denying it: “Commander in Chief, I did not, I…”
Chong Ming’s deep voice stayed flat as he cut him off and spoke over him: “You got shocked, didn’t you.”
Li Ao felt as if a knife had cut his throat. A dead silence filled his eyes, and his body went weak. Only because Da Ma Zi was holding him up by the arm did he not collapse to the floor.
Looking at him now, Chong Ming said slowly: “Director Li, you were right. The hypnosis ability users and healers I found could not break your mutated hypnosis and illusion ability.”
“They also could not turn your crimes into solid evidence. But now, you not only cursed the Crown Prince and tried to murder the Crown Prince, you just tried to use your mutated hypnosis and illusion to control me and murder me.”
“Do not say you did not. The electric shackles on your hands are the best proof, proof that you used your supernatural ability on me.”
The electric shackles worked by locking down an ability user’s powers. If the person forced themselves to use their supernatural ability, the shackles would release a current that made them shake and twitch.
Numb from the shocks, his whole body hurting so much he no longer knew where it hurt, Director Li lowered his head and rasped: “Commander in Chief, you truly are the Commander in Chief of the Empire. I cleaned away and erased everything about Cheng Yuan in the Supernatural Abilities Research Institute.”
“But just because of one sentence from Jiang Tea Tea, you could still find out that he once stayed in my Supernatural Abilities Research Institute. Everything you said and guessed was exactly right.”
“It seems that classmate Jiang Tea Tea has a supernatural ability, and it is stronger than the ten kinds of abilities I stole and snatched for myself.”
“I plead guilty, Commander in Chief, I plead guilty, but I have a request…”
As Li Ao spoke, his voice grew louder. He raised his head to look at Commander in Chief Chong Ming, and there was no fear of death in his eyes.
Chong Ming said coldly, without feeling: “Death-row convicts have no right to make any requests.”
To Li Ao, it was like a gunshot had gone off right next to his head. Every last bit of strength left his body, and he went limp in Da Ma Zi’s hands.
Chong Ming lifted his hand and waved. Da Ma Zi knocked Li Ao out, slung him over his shoulder, got onto the lift, and carried him away.
When the lift doors closed, Chong Ming spoke and gave an order: “Deputy Officer Yao, send someone to Changsheng Star to invite Cheng Yuan to the Capital Planet. Let him be a witness and testify against Li Ao.”
Deputy Officer Yao answered at once: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Far away on Changsheng Star, Cheng Yuan received a video that his niece, Cheng Lin Yue, had forwarded to him. He opened it, and his body that had been slouched in the chair suddenly straightened. His eyes stared fixedly at Li Ao being beaten up in the video.
“Ah!” Sui Xuan Chu, in his uncle’s office, let out a long sigh. He looked at Jiang Tea Tea, who knew his uncle’s office even better than he did: “Roommate, I already forwarded the video to you, and you already forwarded it to Cheng Lin Yue.”
“I am not going to ask you how you knew that Cheng Lin Yue’s uncle stayed in the Supernatural Abilities Research Institute for ten years and was tormented for ten years. I just want to ask you, you, you…”
Jiang Tea Tea narrowed her eyes: “You what you. Your uncle’s office should have the most complete surveillance system in the whole Empire, right?”
Sui Xuan Chu stood in front of Jiang Tea Tea, who was sitting on the sofa. One hand was on his hip and the other pointed at her: “I told you that you know nothing about his strength, and you still would not believe me. This is his office, his turf.”
“It is the place he spends the most time in every day, the safest place in the whole Empire. Not only is there no surveillance system here, when the two of us walked into this office, the satellites that monitor us both stopped working.”
Jiang Tea Tea sounded like a country bumpkin: “For real, there is even something like that?”
Sui Xuan Chu rolled his eyes at her: “Or what did you think? That his title as one of the strongest top beastmen in the whole M31 Star System was for nothing?”
Jiang Tea Tea let out an “oh,” relaxed, and sprawled out on the black sofa, almost wishing she could turn into a flat cat pancake and lie there.
Sui Xuan Chu: “…”
He had told her there was no surveillance system here so she would answer his questions, not so she could just lie there like a puddle.
Sui Xuan Chu sat down next to Jiang Tea Tea and nudged her with his elbow: “Roommate, you made me run all the way to the Imperial Military Headquarters to rescue you. About your belly, are you really not going to explain it to me?”
Jiang Tea Tea grabbed Sui Xuan Chu’s hand in one move and held it with both of hers.
Sui Xuan Chu jerked in fright and tried to pull his hand back on instinct: “What are you doing, what are you doing, let go, males and females should keep their distance, do not try to frame me.”
Jiang Tea Tea not only did not let go, she held on even tighter: “Roommate, do we or do we not have the bond of sharing one room and sharing one bed?”
Sui Xuan Chu hissed and rushed to correct her: “We two share a dorm, with two rooms. You live in one room, I live in the other. I have never gone into your room, and you have never gone into my room.”
“We do have some bond of sharing one bed, but… that was in the wilderness during the Supremacy Tournament of the thirty Military Academies. In the primeval forest, in the ice and snow, by desert and sea, together with other people, using the sky as a blanket and the ground as a mat when we slept side by side.”
“Please do not just open your mouth and talk nonsense, ruining my reputation.”
Jiang Tea Tea muddled things on purpose: “Same thing, all the same thing. With the bond we have of living and dying together, do not fuss over the details.”
Sui Xuan Chu let out a dry laugh, not buying it at all: “You tell me not to fuss, but I am afraid that after you sell me, you will still make me help you count the money.”
Jiang Tea Tea squeezed his hand tighter and tighter: “How could I? Am I that kind of person?”
She really was not that kind of person. She was that kind of demon.
He really did not understand her at all.
Since he could not pull his hand free, Sui Xuan Chu stopped trying: “Go on, you dragged me here to the Imperial Military Headquarters to save you because you want me to take the blame for you, right? Do I look that much like a green turtle?”
Jiang Tea Tea looked at him and laughed: “What are you saying. You are not a green turtle. You are a mighty, overbearing, shiny golden dragon dragon!”
Sui Xuan Chu snorted: “Thanks for the compliment. So is it my uncle’s?”
Jiang Tea Tea said with disdain: “Pft, what does it have to do with him. It is mine.”
Sui Xuan Chu did not believe her: “Then what unresolved matter do you still have with him about the First Hotel?”
Jiang Tea Tea was blunt: “How is that your business. I am just asking you, if it gets exposed that I have cubs, will you help me take the fall or not?”
Sui Xuan Chu refused completely: “I am not helping with that, and I am not carrying that blame.”
Jiang Tea Tea glared fiercely: “Why?”
Sui Xuan Chu shot back: “Why? If it is my uncle’s, and I take the fall now, when my uncle finds out later, I would become the dad of my own little brother or little sister. Are you afraid he will not beat me to death and will hand him a knife?”
“If it is not my uncle’s and I still take the fall, then I would be mixing up the Golden Dragon royal bloodline. That is a huge crime. When my uncle finds out, sigh, the one who gets beaten to death is still me.”
“And last, the most important point, Roommate, I only just reached adulthood. My coming-of-age birthday banquet has not even been made up yet. You have been like this for several months already.”
“If you make me take the blame and my uncle counts the dates, he will see that I got you pregnant with dragon life before I was even an adult. With one kick he will send me flying two li away and lock me up for eighteen years!”