Chapter 136
Chapter 136: Take Out Your Heart, Then Try Seducing Me
The young man’s red, moist lips trembled from the pain and turned pale. When he opened his mouth, his voice shook, full of disbelief: “How is that possible? You clearly inhaled my scale powder. You were clearly under my hallucination and hypnosis.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s lips curled up. She talked past him on purpose, arrogant enough to make someone die of anger: “You say I clearly inhaled your scale powder, clearly got hypnotized by you. I’m not ‘Clearly’. What’s that got to do with me? I’m not the one your hallucination and hypnosis worked on.”
A tiny Overlord Butterfly flapped its wings, scattering glowing powder, and thought it could take her down, make her like him, love him, and turn into a love-brained fool. It was so ridiculous it made even monsters want to laugh.
The young man refused to give up. His beautiful, shining eyes stared straight into Jiang Tea Tea’s, trying to hypnotize her: “Jiang Tea Tea, I’m this good-looking, this handsome. You really don’t like me? You don’t love me? You’re not obsessed with me?”
Jiang Tea Tea clicked her tongue and tightened her grip around his beating heart.
The pain almost made the young man’s androgynous face revert to its insect form.
He could not hypnotize her. He really could not hypnotize her.
Why?
With his scale powder plus his hypnosis and supernatural abilities, no living creature could escape him. Why could she?
Jiang Tea Tea’s mouth lifted higher as she looked the young man up and down: “Little butterfly, I won’t deny your insect form is gorgeous. It’s beautiful, dazzling, and it really catches my eye.”
“But your human form is ugly. So ugly my eyes hurt. It makes me want to rip out your heart, crush it, and wash my eyes with your blood.”
She was a Tree Spirit. Her sense of beauty for all things was simple: the more gorgeous, stronger, more dazzling, taller, and more imposing, the better it looked.
In a forest full of trees, a scrawny, undernourished tree thinner than a person’s arm was obviously ugly. Only the thick, straight, towering ones could be called good-looking.
To her, the Overlord Butterfly’s original form was the best-looking. But he had to turn into a human to flirt with her and hypnotize her. That was like taking off your pants just to fart, a total waste of effort.
The young man’s whole body trembled from the pain, but he still would not give up: “If you don’t like how I look now, I can change into what you like.”
“What type do you like? Someone strong and arrogant like the Western Kingdom’s Executive Commander, that beastman? Or like the Merfolk, with deep blue eyes, seaweed-like hair, and a beautiful fish tail? Or maybe you like the Empire’s national idol, Chong Ming, the Commander in Chief, all shining gold?”
“Jiang Tea Tea, tell me. Whatever look you like, I can change into it. I’ll look exactly the same, absolutely identical…”
Jiang Tea Tea cut him off coldly: “Little butterfly, you’re too noisy.”
As soon as she spoke, the young man let out a muffled groan. His mouth gaped open, and the scale powder on his wings fell off like autumn leaves in a gust of wind.
The hand Jiang Tea Tea had shoved into the young man’s chest slowly pulled out. In her hand came a bloody, still-beating heart.
The young man, now without a heart, clutched his chest. Fresh blood soaked his fingers in an instant and poured out through the gaps between them.
Jiang Tea Tea held the heart out toward him and smiled, her smile even more bloody and cruel than the heart in her palm: “Little butterfly, I think your heart is more likable than your human form.”
Crawling bug-like lines spread over the young man’s face and neck. He used all his strength just to keep his wings flapping: “Who are you? Your cruelty is not like that of a pure human.”
Jiang Tea Tea laughed lightly: “Little butterfly, you’re a bug. You’re not human. Don’t use human thinking to judge whether humans are cruel or not.”
“Today, you used your scale powder to drive the aberrant beasts in the entire Primeval Forest into hallucinations, controlled all the aberrant beasts in the Primeval Forest, and made them attack the Royal Military Imperial Academies. I dug out your heart. You are not being wronged.”
Missing his heart, the young man’s blood gushed out like a spring. Under Jiang Tea Tea’s laughter, he could no longer hold his human form. He turned back into a huge, dazzling Overlord Butterfly and fell toward the Primeval Forest below.
Jiang Tea Tea held its still-beating heart in one hand and swung her Branch Staff in the other. She tossed the heart once in her palm, then called to the person rushing toward her, Sui Xuan Chu: “Roommate, here’s a first-class merit for you.”
The giant, bloody Overlord Butterfly came crashing toward Sui Xuan Chu.
Sui Xuan Chu was so startled he jumped, then grabbed the Overlord Butterfly’s wing with one yank: “Roommate, this is your first-class merit, not mine.”
The huge Overlord Butterfly was heavy, dozens of kilos. It was also a trusted follower of the Insectoid Race’s imperial clan, and its colors were so dazzling. There was no way his roommate’s first-class merit could run away now. He himself might be able to get a second-class merit, maybe even a third-class merit out of this.
When that happened, his resume would look as impressive as his roommate’s. No wonder Huang Da Zhuang always said that as long as you held onto the right thigh, it was like taking an express elevator straight to the sky.
Yeah, even the Crown Prince needed that kind of sky-route, to polish his record. When he became Emperor, His Majesty, in the future, only then could he hold down the people below.
Jiang Tea Tea waved her hand carelessly: “What’s between us? What’s yours is mine, and what’s mine is still mine.”
Sui Xuan Chu heard her clearly and nodded fast: “Right, right, right. With our relationship, there’s no yours and mine. Come on, let’s go see how the Police Bureau, the Special Affairs Bureau, and my uncle’s Personal Guard squad are hunting the aberrant beasts.”
Jiang Tea Tea gripped the Overlord Butterfly’s heart, then leaped from treetop to treetop until she landed in front of Sui Xuan Chu: “They came too slow. Let’s give them some work.”
Sui Xuan Chu was holding the half-dead, not-quite-dead Overlord Butterfly. When he saw the heart in Jiang Tea Tea’s hand, he sucked in a breath of cold air: “Roommate, what are you going to do?”
She was way too cool. She had actually ripped the Overlord Butterfly’s heart out.
His uncle had good eyes for people.
He also felt she was perfect to be his Commander in Chief of the Three Armies in the future.
Jiang Tea Tea sprang away from his side and tossed back a line: “Just watch.”
Sui Xuan Chu quickly turned and chased after her.
Jiang Tea Tea jumped from the Primeval Forest’s treetops and hopped across the pointed tips of branches, making her way back to the rear gate of the Academy.
She stood on top of the courtyard wall and swept her eyes over the endless wave of aberrant beasts slamming into her Ice Wall, and the countless Police Bureau, Special Affairs Bureau, and Personal Guard people floating above their heads.
She twirled the Branch Staff in her hand, then stabbed it into the top of the wall. In an instant, the Ice Wall blocking the aberrant beasts collapsed with a crash.
The faces of everyone from the Police Bureau, Special Affairs Bureau, and Personal Guard squad changed at the same time. They jumped down from their flying devices, airships, and fighter craft, guns in hand, blocking the rear gate of the Academy and firing at the aberrant beasts rushing in.
The aberrant beasts were too fierce. Bullets could not stop them in time. The people from the Police Bureau, Special Affairs Bureau, and Personal Guard squad could only use their supernatural abilities, one after another, refusing to let even a single aberrant beast past them into the Academy to attack the students.
Sui Xuan Chu dragged the Overlord Butterfly over and jumped up beside Jiang Tea Tea. He gave her a big thumbs up: “Roommate, you’re way too willful. There goes your first-class merit.”
Jiang Tea Tea shrugged like she did not care: “So it’s gone. It’s not a big deal. I don’t care anyway.”
Sui Xuan Chu’s mouth twitched: “My darling roommate, you might not care, but I do. Just now, we got credit for attacking the Insectoid Race, credit for capturing the Insectoid Race, and credit for blocking the aberrant beasts from invading the Royal Military Imperial Academies.”
“You… you then tore down your high Ice Wall, and let the aberrant beasts rush into the Royal Military Imperial Academies. Great, congrats. Your first-class merit is gone. Your second-class merit is gone. Your third-class merit is gone. If things go badly…”
Jiang Tea Tea pointed down at the people currently hunting aberrant beasts: “If the people from the Police Bureau, Special Affairs Bureau, and Personal Guard squad down there can’t block them, that only means they’re useless. What does that have to do with me?”
“And your uncle’s speed-type ability is slow, the Police Bureau’s speed-type ability people are slow, the Special Affairs Bureau’s speed-type ability people are also slow. That’s the Academy’s responsibility. What does that have to do with me, a tiny pure human?”
Sui Xuan Chu: “???”
He suddenly felt she made a lot of sense.
It really did not seem to have much to do with her.
Jiang Tea Tea snapped her hand closed: “Roommate, from the time we found out the Insectoid Race drugged the Royal Military Imperial Academies to now, it has been almost thirty-five minutes.”
“In these thirty-five minutes, if it weren’t for us holding the line, and if it weren’t for Huang Da Zhuang and the others with their tranquilizer guns, the Academy would already be a river of blood.”
“I would like to ask, where is that so-called top-tier Royal Military Imperial Academies? I would also like to ask, the Insectoid Race pulled this off right under your uncle’s nose, and he still has the nerve to blame the two of us?”
Sui Xuan Chu nodded hard: “Roommate, suddenly your twisted logic sounds very reasonable. I need to learn from you.”
Jiang Tea Tea tilted up her chin and glanced at the sky: “You’re welcome. Let the people from the Police Bureau, Special Affairs Bureau, and Personal Guard squad handle things here. We’re going to find Huang Da Zhuang and the others at the Academy.”
Chong Ming sat in the brightly lit Imperial Military Headquarters, staring at the giant screen in front of him, where Jiang Tea Tea was arrogantly yelling at him.
Deputy Officer Ai, Secretary Wen, Secretary Yao, and a group of staff members stood in front of his desk, not daring to even breathe too loudly.
Chong Ming moved his gaze from the giant screen to Deputy Officer Ai: “Has Aceras, the eldest Imperial Prince, gone to bed yet?”
Deputy Officer Ai replied in a deep, respectful tone: “Reporting to Commander in Chief, His Highness Aceras usually does not rest until after midnight. At this time, he is spacing out.”
Chong Ming’s fingers tapped the desk once, soundless: “Find a few people, have them disguise themselves as subordinates of Asais, the Crown Princess Heir, and give him a beating.”
“Then find an excuse to go to Asais, the Crown Princess Heir, and show her the current state of His Highness Aceras. Blur the image a bit, but make sure it looks real.”
“After the beating, keep the video. Send it to Aceras’s fiancee Atuya, who is far away with the Insectoid Race.”
“As for what you tell Atuya, keep it subtle. Call in Minister Cai and cut off all contact between Asais and the Insectoid Race. Make sure that after Atuya gets the video, she cannot reach Asais for one to three hours.”
“Yes, Commander in Chief!” Deputy Officer Ai answered and left.
Chong Ming’s golden eyes turned toward Secretary Wen: “Has Cheng Lin Yue’s uncle, Cheng Yuan, arrived?”
Secretary Wen replied: “Reporting to Commander in Chief, he arrived this afternoon. After he arrived, he went straight to the doors of the Judicial Department.”
“He has stayed at the Judicial Department entrance for almost eight hours. Right now he is resting in the hotel used by the subordinates of the Judicial Department.”
Chong Ming thought for a moment: “Bring him to the Imperial Palace.”
Secretary Wen’s heart skipped a beat: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Chong Ming shifted his gaze again: “Secretary Yao, list the case of several Insectoid Race spies invading the Royal Military Imperial Academies as a major public dereliction incident and urgently set up an investigation team.”
“Once the aberrant beasts are cleared and the invading Insectoid Race are dealt with, investigate from top to bottom: starting from the Director of the Central Public Security Bureau, the Director of the Special Affairs Bureau, the Royal Military Imperial Academies, and all other relevant authorities. Check every level, all the way through.”