Chapter 129
Chapter 129: I want to have dragon eggs with you, lots and lots of dragon eggs
Chong Ming’s golden eyes slid over to him, sharp and cold, warning him.
Sui Xuan Chu instantly shrank like a dog with its tail between its legs and clapped his hand over his own mouth.
Chong Ming withdrew his gaze, took out his tools, and moved forward without a sound. He stood in front of Jiang Tea Tea’s bedroom door and quietly picked the lock.
The door opened a crack. He slowly stepped back, turned off the lights in the living room, and then went to sit down on the sofa.
Sui Xuan Chu: “!!!!”
He had thought his uncle was going to go lie down and sleep with his roommate.
He never expected his uncle to go full pure-love style. He only picked the lock open a small crack and then began to release supernatural abilities and spiritual power toward the room.
He was his blood nephew, and Chong Ming did not even let him go back to his room first to put up a supernatural ability shielding device to block that strong, overwhelming oppressive aura.
Sui Xuan Chu really could not bear the weight of his uncle’s powerful supernatural ability oppressive aura. Cold sweat broke out all over him, his legs went weak, and he slowly shuffled back step by step into his own room. He shut the door and pulled out his supernatural ability spiritual power shielding device.
But his uncle’s supernatural abilities were too strong. With just one wall and one door between them, even with a shielding device, he could still feel the pressure.
And it was not just him. Everyone in the whole building, and in the dorms next door, and in the ones even farther away, and all the beastmen and half-beastmen within a hundred kilometers in their sleep, could feel the oppressive weight of that spiritual power.
Jiang Tea Tea was a great demon stage cultivator with only thirty percent spiritual power in a strange interstellar space era. Of course she did not sleep that deeply. The moment the door was opened, even though it was almost silent, she woke up.
She kept her eyes closed and gathered spiritual power in her hand. If that old mud eel Chong Ming dared to come into her room, she would give him a hard slap and beat him to death.
What she did not expect was that he only opened the door a crack. Right after that, a steady stream of supernatural ability spiritual power flowed in through the gap.
Wrapped in that strong, endless spiritual power, she felt like she was standing in spring rain and spring wind. Her whole body relaxed, and it felt like every pore on her skin opened up.
She felt good, and the cubs in her belly felt good too. They all became lively and restless, just like a bunch of night owls.
Jiang Tea Tea turned over, formed a hand seal, and used her spiritual power to cover herself. She pulled the quilt up, laid her hand across her belly, and went back to sleep.
After several hours of this spiritual power comfort, Jiang Tea Tea woke up at dawn, feeling wide awake and full of energy. She could feel that her spiritual power was rising.
She hummed a little tune as she changed into her training uniform, washed up, and stepped out of her room at 4:50 in the morning. She did not see the usually punctual Sui Xuan Chu, only the half-open window and the dark sky.
She walked to the window, pushed it all the way open, and looked out into the sky. It was pitch black, with only a few stars hanging high above.
That old mud eel Chong Ming had left less than ten minutes ago. The warship had run fast and vanished in the blink of an eye.
Jiang Tea Tea closed the window, went to knock on Sui Xuan Chu’s door, and called: “It’s 4:52. Time to go running. Speed-type ability points.”
Sui Xuan Chu rolled out of bed, sprang to the door, and looked down at her belly: “Y-you’re going to run…”
Jiang Tea Tea stepped back and cut him off: “Pull your gaze back. When it’s time to run, you run. When it’s time to eat, you eat. Speed-type ability points.”
Sui Xuan Chu gave her a big thumbs up: “As expected of you, my strong Sister Tea. Give me two minutes, I’ll be ready.”
With Chong Ming’s spiritual power comfort, plus her own over thirty percent spiritual power, Jiang Tea Tea felt like her whole body was filled with endless bull strength. Running was nothing.
Before, she jogged slowly and needed an hour and a half to run twenty kilometers. Today, in the same ninety minutes, she did fifty kilometers. Her speed-type ability was so fast it left all the beastmen and half-beastmen on the grand parade ground staring with their mouths open, unable to believe it.
Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Lin Yue were the only two who knew she was pregnant. They watched her run, jaws nearly dropping to the ground and eyes almost popping out.
They wanted to chase after her. They couldn’t. They simply could not catch up. She was as fast as a moving afterimage, a blur rushing past with a swoosh.
When she finished fifty kilometers, the beastmen and half-beastmen doing running training on the grand parade ground gave her a warm round of applause.
“Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, you’re amazing. Fifty kilometers in ninety minutes, that’s insane. You’re the strongest pure human female I’ve ever seen.”
“Yeah, yeah. Junior schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, I really didn’t think it. Usually you jog slowly and barely do twenty kilometers in ninety minutes. Today you just clenched your teeth and sped up and you casually took fifty kilometers. You’re more beastman than us beastmen. Respect, massive respect.”
“Junior schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, I think you are not only a variant plant-type ability supernatural ability user. You might have awakened another supernatural ability. You should get it checked.”
“Right, right. Dual-type supernatural abilities are super cool.”
Jiang Tea Tea smiled and answered them: “Thank you, senior male schoolmates, senior schoolmates, and schoolmates for your concern. I’ll go get checked when I have time. I won’t chat anymore, I’m going to eat.”
“Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Lin Yue, let’s go…”
Huang Da Zhuang and Cheng Lin Yue answered: “Coming, Sister Tea…”
Their eight-person team quickly ran off the parade ground toward the dorm buildings, making other people sigh as they watched.
“If I’d known the personal and team champions of the Supremacy Tournament from the thirty military academies would have such strong follow-up, I would have joined their team no matter what.”
“For sure. Since they came back from the Supremacy Tournament, that eight-person team has been getting special training. Each of them is taking at least five to eight departments’ classes, turning like a spinning wheel. They only get three days off every three months. Their worst grade is a B.”
“It’s not just that the worst grade is a B. Among them, the beastman from the Pacification Division with no supernatural abilities, Huang Da Zhuang, awakened his supernatural abilities the day before the day before yesterday. His level isn’t low either, and he even awakened dual abilities, enhanced sense of smell and speed-type ability or something.”
“Yeah, I heard that too. Old Jin from the academy healing department examined him and was so happy his mouth wouldn’t close. He even said he would treat Huang Da Zhuang like a special case to study, to help more beastmen, half-beastmen, and pure humans who haven’t awakened supernatural abilities yet.”
“What’s the point of using him as a case? The reason he awakened supernatural abilities is thanks to Jiang Tea Tea, that mutated Level S plant-type supernatural ability pure human.”
“Right. Without Jiang Tea Tea, there is no way Huang Da Zhuang would have awakened supernatural abilities. The one Old Jin should be studying is Jiang Tea Tea.”
“I think so too. A mutated Level S plant-type supernatural ability user who can help a beastman with no supernatural abilities awaken them… how many people could she help?”
“She has already helped seven people.”
“What?”
“In their eight-person team, the other seven. On the day before the day before yesterday, right before their three-day break, Jiang Tea Tea took them all to the healing department. She calmed their restless supernatural abilities and combed through their spiritual seas. After she finished, every one of them either awakened supernatural abilities, or their supernatural ability level went up one whole level, or went up half a level.”
“So that’s what you mean. Jiang Tea Tea, this Level S, variant plant-type supernatural ability user, helped those seven people and not anyone else.”
“What if we apply to the headmaster together, and pool money to ask her to calm our supernatural ability restlessness and comb through our spiritual seas, help our supernatural ability levels go up?”
“That’s a great idea. But I also heard their eight-person squad is very important to Commander in Chief Chong Ming.”
“So what if he values them? It’s not like we aren’t paying her or asking her to work for free. If she helps our supernatural abilities level up, we’ll still be serving the nation.”
“Good point. Let’s try applying…”
“Come on, come on, we’ll apply right after breakfast.”
After Jiang Tea Tea and the others went back to the dorm to shower and change into clean clothes, they headed to the school cafeteria to eat.
They found that breakfast in the cafeteria was more refined than usual, with more variety, and it tasted better too.
Even the nutrient fruit that used to cost money was now set out in baskets on the counter. Anyone could take them and eat as much as they wanted, for free.
Jiang Tea Tea had no money at all, so she never refused free things. She took two big baskets of nutrient fruit, about fifty jin in total, and stuffed them into her space knob storage device.
While chewing his refined, delicious breakfast, Sui Xuan Chu sulked in his heart. His uncle was being biased. He even brought the Imperial Palace cooks over to make breakfast. Too much. Way too much. Total double standards.
“This is so good.” Huang Da Zhuang wolfed down his food and grabbed straight with his hands: “Sister Tea, today’s breakfast is so good. Hurry, taste this. It’s so fresh.”
Zhang Ting Zhou, this octopus beastman, nodded fast in agreement: “Yeah. The shrimp in this fresh shrimp bun… from getting scooped out of the sea to going into our mouths, it took less than an hour. I never thought we’d eat such fresh shrimp in our school cafeteria. Sister Tea, come on, try it.”
Cheng Lin Yue, as a mouse-rabbit who ate both meat and plants, also spoke up: “Sister Tea, this beef bun is amazing too. The meat is tender and juicy, so delicious. I’ve never eaten something this good. Oh my god, did the school cafeteria change head chef?”
Orange Sparrow still hadn’t finished what was in his mouth. He mumbled: “The school cafeteria definitely changed head chef, and it’s a very skilled head chef.”
“I hope lunch is cooked by this amazing head chef too. I love this taste.”
“Yeah, yeah, me too. Sister Tea, hurry and eat, hurry.”
Because she had downed two bottles of dragon blood yesterday and been soothed for hours by Chong Ming’s spiritual power last night, Jiang Tea Tea didn’t eat as crazily as before.
But she still tried every kind of new breakfast dish in the cafeteria. Luckily she was a tree. Even if she ate until she was stuffed, it wouldn’t show on her belly.
After the eight of them ate and drank their fill, they went to class. Today’s class was at the training ground: lectures, disassembly, and shooting with all kinds of the most advanced hot weapons.
Their training ground was sealed. There were shoulder-mounted cannons, mechanical rifles, air-compression guns, everything imaginable.
Besides going to the bathroom, even lunch was in the training ground. Each person got two tubes of nutrient injection. But they did get a half-hour lunch break to watch the live broadcast of traitors Jiang Yi Cheng and Jiang Yi Zhu, the brother and sister, being executed by firing squad.
The crimes of Jiang Yi Cheng and Jiang Yi Zhu were too serious. As soon as the live broadcast started, over a hundred million people flooded in to watch.
The brother and sister wore handcuffs and shackles, prison clothes, and ball gags. They were brought out of the Judicial Department, heavily guarded, and escorted to the execution ground.
The comment barrage in the live broadcast room moved so fast it made people’s eyes hurt.
“I don’t know where those two got the guts. One released aberrant beasts in the academy to slaughter students and tried to murder Commander in Chief Chong Ming. The other colluded with the insectoid race and tried to kidnap the Crown Prince at the Supremacy Tournament of the thirty military academies!”
“If you ask me, with such clear evidence, there is no need to send them to the execution ground. Just kill them on the spot and save the trouble.”
“Kill them on the spot, my ass. Killing them right away is too easy for traitors. It has to be broadcast to the public, to tell everyone that colluding with the insectoid race and trying to murder the royal household means death.”
“Exactly. These days, a lot of Dragon Clans, Tiger Clans, and Lion Clans think their groups are big enough, with enough family members, and they dare to dream of replacing the Golden Dragon Imperial Clan. Today’s live broadcast will show them that taking their place is not that easy.”
“Careful, upstairs commenter. If you call them out like that, the Dragon Clans, Tiger Clans, and Lion Clans might sue you for slander.”
“There are tons of Dragon Clans, Lion Clans, and Tiger Clans. I didn’t name names. What can they sue me for? I have freedom of speech.”
“Look, Jiang Yi Zhu still looks unconvinced. She’s trying to run…”
Jiang Tea Tea stared at the screen without blinking. It was not really her watching. It was the remaining consciousness of the fake young miss in her body.
To the fake young miss, Jiang Yi Cheng and Jiang Yi Zhu were both people who had tried to kill her. Now they were getting what they deserved and about to be executed by firing squad. The remaining consciousness of the fake young miss wished she could be there in person, clapping happily.
“Commander in Chief Chong Ming, two of your country’s children are traitors. Why are you showing this to me?”
Asais had thought that if Chong Ming came to see her at noon, he would bring her Imperial Elder Brother. She never thought that he would come just to watch a live broadcast with her.
Those two useless traitors from Zhenlin Empire had cost her many insectoid spies hidden in Zhenlin. She didn’t want to see them at all. If anything, she wanted to personally blow their heads off.
Chong Ming sat in the seat of honor. He wore a black military uniform with the buttons fastened all the way up to his Adam’s apple. He looked ascetic, strong, calm. His cold eyes turned to Asais: “I want you to watch their execution.”
Meeting his icy gaze, Asais’s heart skipped a beat. She reminded him: “It’s not like I told them to betray your country. Showing me this is pointless.”
Today, to please Chong Ming, she still kept her hair disguised as golden, and her eyes disguised as golden too.
Chong Ming looked at those golden eyes and said in a deep, even voice: “It is very meaningful. If possible, I hope your insectoid race will also broadcast it.”
Asais stood up and walked toward Chong Ming: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, your citizens’ betrayal is not something to be proud of, and yet you want it broadcast in my insectoid race. Are you afraid the shame isn’t big enough?”
Chong Ming replied: “What is shame? In a forest, it’s normal to have a few boring worms. You pull them out and hang them high for the other bugs to see. That isn’t shame. That is deterrence.”
“Besides, when I pulled out these two boring worms, I also wiped out more than a dozen bugs and even caught one queen bug. That’s not shame. That’s a big profit.”
Asais walked up to him and leaned over the table, supporting herself with both hands. Her body bent toward Chong Ming, and her chest swayed and hung downward.
With those golden eyes she had deliberately disguised to match Chong Ming’s, she stared at him with a hint of charm and said in a soft, sweet voice: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, wiping out a few dozen bugs and capturing my Imperial Elder Brother is not a big profit.”
Chong Ming sat still. His cold gaze didn’t change at all: “Oh? If that’s not a big profit, then what is?”
Asais leaned closer and closer to him: “I’ll tell you what a big profit is. You are Zhenlin Empire’s Commander in Chief and Prince Regent. I am the insectoid race’s crown princess heir. You are single. I don’t have a main consort yet. Why don’t you be my main consort, and I’ll be your Prince Regent consort?”
“If we join forces and split the whole M31 Star System between us, taking all the planets into our hands, then I’ll give you dragon eggs, lots and lots of dragon eggs. I’ll make your Golden Dragon Clan thrive with many descendants. That is what I call a real big profit for you.”