Chapter 124
Chapter 124: The Old Mud Loach Knows He Has Babies – Calm, Rational, Bossy, Overbearing, And Still Funny
Chong Ming’s golden eyes, fixed on her lower belly, suddenly tightened. His voice sank as he repeated Jiang Tea Tea’s words: “Less than seven months…”
Jiang Tea Tea’s voice cut off. Her eyes went wide, her heartbeat suddenly sped up, her face turned pale, and her whole body went cold.
Time seemed to stop. The big office was so quiet it felt like only their breathing was left, facing off in the air.
After quite a while, Jiang Tea Tea hurried to speak, forcing a weak explanation: “What I meant, what I meant is that it has been less than seven months since my mutant supernatural abilities awakened, not that the youngling is under seven months.”
After she finished explaining, she wanted to slap her own mouth.
[I am doomed, I am doomed. Why is my mouth so fast? Sooner or later this stupid mouth is going to kill me.]
[Why do I have to talk back to everything and pick up every line?]
[Great, now if he does not believe this weak excuse and drags me off for an exam, what am I going to do?]
[With thirty percent spiritual power, I should be able to escape, right? I can escape, I can definitely escape, right?]
Chong Ming forced his eyes away from her lower belly, stood up, and slowly walked toward Jiang Tea Tea.
The thud of his military boots hitting the floor exploded in Jiang Tea Tea’s ears, making her even more guilty and scared. As he came closer, she backed up, and backed up again, and again.
Until she had nowhere left to retreat, she opened her mouth and threatened: “That Chong guy, you stop right there, or don’t blame me for being rude to you.”
Chong Ming did not take her threat seriously. His steps did not pause at all until he reached her. His tall, strong body leaned toward her.
Jiang Tea Tea panicked and fell back onto the sofa, her breathing a little rushed: “Did you use supernatural abilities, spiritual power, or oppressive aura on me?”
He had used supernatural abilities, spiritual power, and oppressive aura to calm the little ones in her belly. He was probing whether the babies were his.
[That dog of a man, that bastard. He did not act like someone who already knew. It was like he was just now tricking her, counting on how she talks back to everything and picks up every line, so he could catch her off guard and make her slip up.]
Chong Ming lowered his eyes and stared at Jiang Tea Tea, who had fallen onto the sofa. His deep voice was hoarse as he answered her: “I did not use supernatural abilities, spiritual power, or oppressive aura on you.”
He had not used supernatural abilities, spiritual power, or oppressive aura on her, yet she could feel the babies were very happy, very comfortable, and very active.
This level of activity felt almost the same as before, when they absorbed his supernatural abilities for comfort.
[Oh, she got it now. As he came closer, these heartless babies in her belly sensed him and got all happy.]
[The dad was a dog of a man and a bastard, and the babies were little dogs and little bastards. They were really going to make this demon die of anger.]
“Less than seven months.” Chong Ming bent down, one hand braced on the sofa. His golden eyes stared at Jiang Tea Tea as his body leaned close to her. His deep voice was so hoarse it was almost icy as he stated, “At the Supremacy Tournament of the thirty Military Academies, when you were taken by the Insectoid Race and Jiang Yi Cheng hit you, that was it sending out a distress signal.”
“A few days ago at the Imperial Military Academies, when you helped Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Xiao Ting, Cheng Lin Yue and the other seven sort out their spiritual power and calm their restless supernatural abilities, you used your abilities too hard. That was also it sending out a distress signal.”
“Today, the seven distress signals that spread out across the Capital Planet were also from it. Jiang Tea Tea, you are really something. In less than two hours, you managed to cross three thousand kilometers of the Capital Planet and make it send out cries for help.”
Jiang Tea Tea wrapped spiritual power around her hand and suddenly struck at him: “What are you talking about? I do not understand. Get out!”
Her speed-type ability was very fast, like an afterimage. Normal people could not dodge it.
But Chong Ming easily caught her wrist, pinning it against the back of the sofa. He took a long step, half kneeling on the sofa to press down her legs, completely trapping and covering her under him.
With only thirty percent spiritual power, Jiang Tea Tea had no room to use it and was completely suppressed. She could not break free. Her heart thumped wildly. She stretched her neck and lifted her chin high: “Whether I am strong or not is none of your business. I do not need your praise.”
“Yes, I am pregnant, so what? Can I not have babies? Which law did I break that makes Commander in Chief Chong Ming come question me in person?”
Chong Ming’s grip on her wrist tightened: “The babies are mine…”
Jiang Tea Tea did not even think before she denied it: “They are not!”
Chong Ming’s already hoarse voice sank lower: “Sui Xuan Chu’s?”
The babies were in her belly. She had the advantage. She could say whatever nonsense she wanted.
Jiang Tea Tea answered, “Yes, they are his.”
Chong Ming reminded her, “The friendship between you two is not strong enough, and you did not match your stories. He would not dare take the blame for you.”
[She really wanted to smash his face and kick away that serious act of his.]
Fearless and not afraid of death, Jiang Tea Tea shot back, “Whether he takes the blame or not is his problem. What, are you going to throw me into the Supernatural Abilities Research Institute to prove they are not his? Let your good subordinate Li Ao dissect me, take the babies out of my belly, and test if they are yours?”
[If this demon did not show her fangs, did he really think she was afraid of him?]
[Fine, she was afraid of him, afraid because she could not beat him.]
[But as a dignified Great Demon Stage demon, she still had pride and needed to save face. At worst they would go down together. She could not let him stomp all over her.]
Chong Ming was really about to be angered into laughter. His deep voice carried a hint of helplessness as he asked, “When did I ever say I wanted to send you to the Supernatural Abilities Research Institute and tie you to a dissection table?”
Jiang Tea Tea glared at him: “That Chong guy, you will not admit that you want to send me to the Supernatural Abilities Research Institute and onto a dissection table?”
“Fine, let me ask you, which bastard was it who saw me eat a lot and said I was sick, who kept thinking all day about finding me a healer?”
“And let me ask again, which bastard dog is it, who whenever he sees me, out of eight sentences, nine are tests, asking how many kinds of supernatural abilities I have awakened?”
Facing Jiang Tea Tea’s questions, Chong Ming had a brief headache. His body went slightly stiff, and what finally came out of his mouth was: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, according to medical common sense, imagining too much really is an illness.”
Jiang Tea Tea cursed him: “You are sick, you are the one who is sick, your whole family is sick.”
Chong Ming helplessly asked back, “Does my whole family include the one in your belly?”
Jiang Tea Tea snapped in anger, cursing, “The one in my belly is my baby. What does it have to do with you? Stop flattering yourself and let me go, get far away from me!”
Compared to Jiang Tea Tea’s fury, Chong Ming’s mood was as calm as a still lake, without a single threatening ripple.
He spoke again, his voice dropping lower and slower as if to soothe her: “Alright, calm down a little and listen to me, listen to my explanation. First, I suspected you were the female who spent the night with me at the First Hotel, but I did not smell my dragon scent on you, so I ruled you out.”
“As I kept interacting with you, all the things you showed made me appreciate you. They made me feel your future had endless possibilities and that you should not stop at just being a Soothing Specialist.”
“Second, when I saw you eating so much, I thought you might be ill and asked you to get checked because there really are such medical cases. People have died from binge eating that burst their stomach and guts because they did not get healing in time.”
“Lastly, at the Supremacy Tournament of the thirty Military Academies, your performance was far too outstanding. It went beyond what I expected from a Three Armies Commander in Chief candidate.”
“I have asked you more than once how many kinds of supernatural abilities you awakened. You would not say, and you bared your teeth at me and played tricks. I could only test you afterward.”
“Those tests were not to drag you to the Supernatural Abilities Research Institute, dissect you, and take your supernatural abilities for myself to ‘benefit the people’. I wanted to know how many abilities you had awakened so I could make a training plan that fit you better and push you toward the position of Three Armies Commander in Chief.”