Chapter 131
Chapter 131: Using Forbidden Drug To Catch a Dragon, a Crown Prince, and Old Mud Loach’s Partner and Youngling
Asais’s breath hitched. She lifted her chin high, and her disguised golden eyes turned back to green: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, you really are as hateful to bugs as always!”
Chong Ming shot back at her: “Same to you.”
Asais forced down the violent fire in her chest and did not let her hands turn into insect claws to grab him: “Name your terms. I will do my best to agree.”
Chong Ming blinked his golden eyes: “I thought Your Highness Asais already knew my conditions. So you do not. It seems you have not paid much attention to me. There is no point in me saying more. I will not entertain you here. Go back to your hotel and rest…”
“I will think about it.” Asais cut him off: “I will ask my empress mother and try to give you the entire Shibu Yi star system.”
He held the initiative, and she was completely at a disadvantage. She did not have much time left.
Chong Ming smiled, but the smile did not reach his eyes: “I will quietly wait for Your Highness Asais’s good news. Secretary Wen, escort Her Highness Asais. Treat her well and do not slight her.”
Secretary Wen answered at once and stepped out: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Chong Ming strode off without looking back.
Asais was so angry she almost smashed the table. Bastard. Turtle spawn. When she became empress of the insectoid race, that would be the moment she invaded Zhenlin the Empire.
Then she would slice this evil dragon Chong Ming apart, cut by cut, to pay him back for today’s humiliation.
“Pa pa pa!”
At the shooting range, the teacher turned off the live broadcast, clapped his hands, and said to Jiang Tea Tea and the other seven: “Students, today’s homework is to write about Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s attitude toward traitors and how he keeps the people from forgetting their blood feud. Your essay must be at least eight thousand words.”
Jiang Tea Tea stared: “???”
Today’s class was supposed to be about getting familiar with taking apart different guns. They had just watched thirty or forty minutes of the live stream on the side. How did it suddenly turn into a nighttime homework essay on what that Old Mud Loach Chong Ming did and what they thought of it? And it could not be less than eight thousand words?
[Heh, whoever wants to write can write. She definitely will not.]
The teacher paused, then added: “All right, you have ten minutes to go to the bathroom and drink water, then we will continue the afternoon class.”
Jiang Tea Tea and the other seven climbed up from the ground. Those who needed the bathroom went, and those who wanted water went to drink.
After they finished and gathered again, there was still time before the afternoon lesson, and they began wailing together: “Eight thousand words. Has the teacher gone crazy? There is no way I can casually write eight thousand words.”
One of them gave a dry laugh: “Hehe, you cannot write it, and you think I can? People who know we are studying guns today. People who do not would think we are in a politics class and need all kinds of essays.”
“What do we do?”
“Sui Xuan Chu, what do you say we do?”
Sui Xuan Chu, called out by name, looked like his life was over: “What is there to do? If we really cannot, we find outside help.”
Jiang Tea Tea and the other seven rushed up to him: “Outside help? We can really find outside help? Who?”
Sui Xuan Chu spat out two words: “My uncle.”
Jiang Tea Tea narrowed her eyes and asked from the soul: “Are you sure your uncle can help you write eight thousand words?”
That Old Mud Loach Chong Ming might write eight thousand words for him, so he might also write eight thousand words for her. Eight thousand more was not much, eight thousand less was not much. If he could ask, she could ask. They could all ask together anyway.
Huang Da Zhuang and Cheng Xiao Ting were curious too: “Sui Xuan Chu, if your uncle can really help you write eight thousand words, can you help us write too?”
“If it is really like that, let your uncle help us all at once?”
“Yes, yes. Sui Xuan Chu, your uncle is our uncle. You are his good nephew, and so are we. Let him help us write.”
Sui Xuan Chu spat out one word: “Scram.”
He had meant to say it only for his roommate to hear, so that his roommate would go to his uncle. He was trying to give his uncle and his roommate a chance to spend time together.
Why were these guys butting in here? If they later found out his uncle was their idol, their heartthrob idol, it would scare them to death.
Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Xiao Ting and the other boys, faced with Sui Xuan Chu telling them to scram, swarmed him at once: “We will not scram, not scram, absolutely not. Beat us to death and we still will not.”
“Sui Xuan Chu, what about the team spirit of helping each other? If someone is helping you write, you should take us along too.”
They pushed Sui Xuan Chu to the ground and pinned him. He could not break free or make a sound.
Jiang Tea Tea took the chance, tapped open her light-brain wrist terminal, pulled up Chong Ming’s contact, typed quickly and sent a message.
Not long after lunch at Imperial Military Headquarters, just as Chong Ming was getting ready to handle official business, his light-brain wrist terminal buzzed with a special vibration.
He tapped it open and glanced at it. His golden eyes narrowed. After a moment, a faint smile curled at the corner of his mouth. He opened the holo projection screen, called out a virtual keyboard, and his long-fingered hand began to type.
“Go investigate for me.”
Back at her hotel, Asais was snapping at her attendant officials as she gave orders: “Go find out why Chong Ming knows my situation in the insectoid race.”
“Go find out how many inside agents he has planted in my insectoid race that he can know my other female bug younger sisters are coveting my Crown Princess Heir position.”
“Go find out who his partner is and who his youngling is. We can skip catching the 3S variant plant-type ability superpowered Jiang Tea Tea, but you must catch his partner, his youngling, and the crown prince.”
“I will not allow that bastard Chong Ming to shit and pee on my head, and I will not allow the dignity of me, the insectoid race’s Crown Princess Heir, to be worth nothing in front of him.”
“I do not care what methods you use. In five days, within five days, you must find his partner and his youngling for me, or you all die.”
The attendant officials felt as if they were facing a great enemy and answered in low voices: “Yes, Your Highness.”
Within an hour, the insectoid inside agents hidden on Zhenlin the Empire’s capital planet received the order from above and, at any cost, began searching for Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s partner, youngling and crown prince.
After typing the last word and quickly scanning through the eight thousand words, Chong Ming sent the document to Jiang Tea Tea. Right then he received a real-time surveillance system feed sent by Cai Xi Chao.
He opened the real-time surveillance image and watched for a while, then made a few internal calls to give orders and began handling his official business.
It was not until the afternoon shooting practice ended and she was about to eat dinner that Jiang Tea Tea saw the document Chong Ming had sent. She opened it, took one look, and shouted: “Sui Xuan Chu, come quick!”
Sui Xuan Chu darted over, leaned in to look, and felt as if lightning struck him: “You you you… he he he… you two, no way?”
Jiang Tea Tea looked at his face, like his uncle had died and his life was over, and nodded happily: “Yes. I did it just the way you suggested. It is great.”
Great. Great his foot.
He had just casually suggested it, thinking that Jiang Tea Tea would look for his uncle in the evening, and the two of them would chat and get a little closer.
He never thought Jiang Tea Tea would go find his uncle right after his suggestion.
Even more, he never thought his uncle would actually write it for her.
What happened to the wise, heroic, iron-faced, impartial and fair Commander in Chief and lord of the Three Armies? This was way too much of a double standard.
Still unwilling to accept it, Sui Xuan Chu swiped through Jiang Tea Tea’s light-brain wrist terminal twice and was shocked to find that only about an hour had passed between her sending his uncle a message and his uncle sending the document back.
That meant his wise, heroic, iron-faced, impartial uncle had slacked off in the middle of his busy schedule and spent an hour writing her an eight thousand word essay on Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s attitude toward traitors and how he keeps the nation from forgetting their blood feud.
Jiang Tea Tea reached out and patted Sui Xuan Chu on the top of his head: “Watch it carefully, finish reading, then let’s go. I am treating you to dinner.”
Sui Xuan Chu felt dark clouds and storm raging over his head. He was no longer his uncle’s only one. His uncle had a youngling and a partner now and did not need him anymore.
Huang Da Zhuang cheered: “Sister Tea is treating us to a meal, let’s go.”
Cheng Lin Yue added: “I wonder if the cook from this morning is making dinner too. I am a little excited.”
Cheng Xiao Ting yelled: “Charge! Charge to the school cafeteria!”
Jiang Tea Tea and the other seven ran out of the training ground. The sun was bright, and they ran into the wind like the most dazzling scenery of the royal military imperial academies, drawing the attention and envy of many teachers and schoolmates. They were so full of energy and spirit.
For dinner, the dishes in the school cafeteria had also changed. They were rich, delicate, fresh and tender green. No matter meat or vegetable, all looked, smelled and tasted wonderful.
Jiang Tea Tea and the other six swept by like a strong wind, taking one of every new dish. As soon as the food was on the table, Sui Xuan Chu came over, grabbed chopsticks and a bowl without a word, and started shoveling food into his mouth.
Do not ask. If you ask, it was because he had asked his uncle to write him an eight thousand word essay. Not only did his uncle refuse to write for him, he even added two thousand more words for her.
The double standard broke this dragon’s heart. He turned his grief and anger into appetite. Eat, eat, eat. Stuff himself to death, whatever.
After dinner, each of the eight took a fresh red fruit. They walked and munched as they hurried to the evening class.
On the way, after finishing their red fruit, each of them recited a copy of the law code. After three months of reading and memorizing it, even with a few stumbles, they could recite the whole thing.
The evening class ran from 6:30 to 9:30. Not only their group was in class, but also others from different grades and departments.
At 9:30, when class ended, the sky was fully dark. There were no stars, no moon, only the streetlights on campus, and the wind was howling.
Jiang Tea Tea and the others pulled their uniforms tighter, faced the strong wind, and hurried toward the dorms. When they reached the fork where they would split off to their own dorms, Huang Da Zhuang suddenly called: “Wait, Sister Tea, something is up!”
Yawning, Jiang Tea Tea stopped. Her sleepy eyes instantly turned sharp and clear as she looked at him: “What is up?”
Huang Da Zhuang’s face was serious: “There is a very strange, very faint smell in the air. It feels like it is aimed at some kind of beastman. I cannot remember where I smelled it before for the moment.”
“In the distance, far away, there is the thunder of wild beasts running. No, there is the sound of many wild beasts running.”
As soon as he finished, Cheng Xiao Ting, this wolf tribe beastman, dropped to the ground. His ears turned into wolf ears and pressed against the ground as he listened.
Before he could finish listening, Huang Da Zhuang cried out in shock: “I remember now. The smell in the air is Dragon Lure Drug, the forbidden drug Dragon Lure Drug!”
Jiang Tea Tea had never heard of this forbidden drug. She was just about to ask what it was when Cheng Lin Yue reached back into her space knob storage device, pulled out a spray bottle, and sprayed it at Sui Xuan Chu’s mouth and nose.
But she never expected it. Sui Xuan Chu turned his head aside, dodged the foul-smelling spray, and kicked at Cheng Lin Yue, roaring in rage: “You are looking for death!”