Chapter 137
Chapter 137: Other Than You, They Are All Trash
Secretary Yao answered, then asked: “Do we need to notify Minister Yan of the Security Department?”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes darkened slightly: “He has already started investigating. No need to notify him again.”
Secretary Yao: “Yes!”
Chong Ming gave a few more orders to the others. After everyone left his office, he also walked out.
With the intervention of the Police Bureau, the Special Affairs Bureau, and the Personal Guard squad, the several hundred Dragon Clan military academy students under thirty who had gone berserk were all tranquilized in less than ten minutes.
Elder Jin led the Academy’s Healing masters and the Healing masters urgently transferred in from the National Healing Institute to heal the injured military academy students.
In the sky, the swarms of bats, owls, and flying insects were all blasted by high-flame guns. Not a single one escaped.
On the ground, mutant rats, black beetles, and other small crawling aberrant beasts were also cleared out on a large scale.
Except for Cheng Lin Yue, who followed Elder Jin to treat the wounded, Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu had already regrouped with the others. No one was seriously injured. They only had minor wounds that healed quickly with a spray of Healing mist.
Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Xiao Ting, and the others were very interested in the heart and the Overlord Butterfly in Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu’s hands. They stared without blinking as they asked: “Sister Tea, Sui Xuan Chu, is that the leader of this Insectoid Race invasion of the Royal Military Imperial Academies you’re holding?”
“Its wings are so pretty, so dazzling. If I didn’t know it was from the Insectoid Race, I would definitely be charmed by it in the wild.”
“Yeah, it’s so beautiful. The universe is really amazing. It can create such a pretty, dangerous creature that makes your skin crawl.”
“The lords were right. The prettier something is, the more dangerous it is. Look at it. It just looks poisonous and deadly.”
“Sister Tea, you’re holding its heart. Even after its heart left its body, it’s still beating in your hand. I have to say, its life force is pretty strong.”
The Overlord Butterfly’s heart in Jiang Tea Tea’s hand was wrapped in her spiritual power, which kept it active and beating. It was not that its life force was strong.
Facing their sighs and questions, Jiang Tea Tea said: “It’s true. Its life is very tough. Its heart left its body, and it’s still not dead.”
Huang Da Zhuang and the others were surprised: “It has no heart and it still isn’t dead? I thought it was already dead.”
“It’s really not dead? Let me touch it.”
Sui Xuan Chu handed the Overlord Butterfly’s insect body to them.
Except for the bloody hole in its chest, the huge Overlord Butterfly’s veins and pulse were still faintly beating, silently proving it was not dead yet.
Cheng Xiao Ting, Huang Da Zhuang, Yan Yu, and the others sighed: “Wow, it really isn’t dead. It’s so hard to kill!”
“Luckily it met Sister Tea. If it met me, I’d probably already be its prisoner, sucked dry of blood and eaten clean.”
Jiang Tea Tea was about to say they were exaggerating, when a case officer from the Police Bureau walked over and cut in: “Sorry to interrupt, classmates.”
Jiang Tea Tea and her friends all turned to look at the case officer.
The case officer pointed at the Overlord Butterfly in their hands: “That is a very high-level member of the Insectoid Race’s clan. Please hand him over to me. I will take him back to the Police Bureau.”
Sui Xuan Chu simply passed the Overlord Butterfly over: “Here.”
The case officer took the Overlord Butterfly, then pulled a Healing spray from his space knob storage device and sprayed it on the bloody hole in its chest.
The blood at the Overlord Butterfly’s chest stopped flowing. The case officer looked at Jiang Tea Tea: “Classmate, please give me the Overlord Butterfly’s heart.”
Jiang Tea Tea narrowed her eyes, doubt in her voice: “Who said the heart in my hand is the Overlord Butterfly’s heart? Did you make a mistake?”
Sui Xuan Chu sensed something was wrong and gave Cheng Xiao Ting, Yan Yu, Orange Sparrow, and the others a meaningful look. They quietly spread out and each took two steps back.
The case officer’s voice sank: “The Insectoid Race’s Overlord Butterfly is missing one heart, and you just happen to be holding a heart. You say it’s not his, so whose is it?”
Jiang Tea Tea asked back: “You say it’s his. How do you prove it’s his?”
The case officer scolded her: “Classmate, as a military academy student, you should know that interfering with Police Personnel handling a case is a crime. Right now, you are committing a crime.”
Instead of handing the heart over, Jiang Tea Tea lifted her hand higher, her fingers pinching into the heart: “You say I’m committing a crime?”
The case officer’s face changed a little: “Classmate, don’t be stubborn. Hurry and give me this Overlord Butterfly’s heart.”
“He invaded the Royal Military Imperial Academies. The laws of the Empire will punish him. There is no need for you to use his heart to punish him. Give me his heart.”
Jiang Tea Tea slowly lowered her raised hand toward him: “Fine. I’ll give it to you.”
The case officer did not reach out his hand. Instead, he took out a medical box, the kind used to store body parts and keep them fresh.
He opened the box and held it out in front of Jiang Tea Tea, waiting for her to drop the heart inside.
Jiang Tea Tea slowly moved her hand toward the medical box. The heart was just about to tilt and fall in when she suddenly paused and looked at the case officer: “Officer, what is your Police Bureau badge number?”
The case officer froze and blurted out: “395789!”
Jiang Tea Tea asked again: “Then why is there no badge number on your uniform, and no body camera?”
The case officer’s face changed. He suddenly slammed the lid of the medical box down, trying to crush Jiang Tea Tea’s hand and snatch the Overlord Butterfly’s heart.
Jiang Tea Tea had been on guard. She pulled her hand back fast and stepped back even faster.
A thunderous boom exploded.
Sui Xuan Chu activated his supernatural ability and called lightning straight down at the case officer.
The fake case officer used his teleportation supernatural ability to dodge the huge bolt of lightning. He bent down to grab the Overlord Butterfly on the ground.
Yan Yu, a Level S blink-step supernatural ability user and half-beastman male, was faster. He snatched up the Overlord Butterfly first and blinked out of reach.
Cheng Xiao Ting, Orange Sparrow, Zhang Ting Zhou, and Huang Da Zhuang rushed in front of Yan Yu and pointed their guns at the case officer.
The case officer grabbed nothing but air. He straightened up, faced the black gun muzzles pointed at him, and snapped: “What do you think you’re doing? Hurting personnel of the Empire’s Police Bureau is a serious crime. Do you understand?”
Jiang Tea Tea tilted her head and peeked from behind Sui Xuan Chu: “We don’t know that hurting you is a serious crime. We only know that if we catch you, cripple you, or kill you, that’s at least a third-class merit.”
The case officer’s face changed and his voice went up: “Classmate, what nonsense are you talking about? Tell your classmates to put their guns down at once.”
Jiang Tea Tea reminded him: “Little bug, didn’t your superior tell you that when you care too much, you panic, and that’s when you slip up the easiest?”
The case officer curved his fingers into a circle and backed up two steps toward a spot where no one was standing.
Cheng Xiao Ting and Huang Da Zhuang rushed over and, together with the others, formed a ring around the case officer. At the same time, they kept Yan Yu holding the Overlord Butterfly’s body outside the circle, making sure the enemy could not reach him.
Seeing himself surrounded, the fake case officer stopped pretending. He glared at Jiang Tea Tea: “Jiang Tea Tea, you are really a troublesome one.”
Jiang Tea Tea smiled: “Thank you for rating me so highly. How should I address you?”
The fake insect clan member snorted: “You are not worthy of knowing my name.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out an “oh”: “Sui Xuan Chu, cripple him with lightning.”
“Got it, Sister Tea.” Sui Xuan Chu answered and called lightning again. Crackling thunder bolts rained down on the insect clan member disguised as a case officer.
The disguised insect clan member tried to use his teleportation supernatural ability to make a blink at the moment the lightning fell, but Cheng Xiao Ting, a wolf tribe beastman with a gale-type supernatural ability, whipped up a fierce wind that stuck him in place.
The lightning struck him head-on, slamming him into the ground. Zhang Ting Zhou’s hand changed into a giant Zhang Yu tentacle and slapped him across the face.
The insect clan member, who had not quite fainted from the lightning, was knocked out by the giant tentacle. His form turned into a big, heavy, pitch-black, shiny, hard-shelled cloth armor beetle.
“Holy crap!” Cheng Xiao Ting cursed and kicked the beetle: “The Insectoid Race is insane. He actually snuck in disguised as an Empire staff member handling a case. If it weren’t for Sister Tea, he would have fooled us and taken the Overlord Butterfly and his heart away.”
Huang Da Zhuang nodded quickly: “He even smells like a beastman. Not at all like an Insectoid Race bug. I couldn’t smell any Insectoid Race scent on him.”
“Wow, that’s really something. Seriously something. The Insectoid Race is way too bold. Tell me, how many Insectoid Race bugs have sneaked into our Academy?”
“Wrong, wrong. That’s not the question. You shouldn’t ask how many bugs have snuck into our Academy. You should ask how many bugs have mixed into our Empire’s public service monitoring system.”
“Yeah, this bug basically walked right up in broad daylight to ask for the Overlord Butterfly and his heart.”
“It’s terrifying. Really terrifying…”
Listening to their comments, Jiang Tea Tea turned to Sui Xuan Chu: “Roommate, tell your uncle…”
Sui Xuan Chu looked up at her: “My uncle already knows. He wants us to go over now.”
Jiang Tea Tea did not understand: “Go over? Go over where?”
Sui Xuan Chu pointed up: “Someone is coming to pick us up.”
Jiang Tea Tea looked up at the sky and saw a flying device descending from above.
Cheng Xiao Ting and the others also saw it and cried out: “That’s a Personal Guard squad flying device! Sui Xuan Chu, your uncle is in the Personal Guard squad?”
Sui Xuan Chu answered vaguely: “More or less.”
Cheng Xiao Ting and the others all looked at him differently now: “No wonder you said your uncle is amazing. If he can be in my heartthrob idol’s Personal Guard squad, he must be really strong.”
“You have to spar with him when you can and then teach us. Our goal is to enter the Personal Guard squad and protect the Commander in Chief.”
Sui Xuan Chu nodded: “Okay, okay. I’ll find time to spar with him.”
As they were talking, the flying device landed.
Someone from the Personal Guard squad opened the door of the flying device.
Jiang Tea Tea, still pinching the Overlord Butterfly’s heart, stepped in and sat down.
Sui Xuan Chu tossed the Overlord Butterfly and the knocked-out cloth armor beetle into the flying device, then climbed in as well.
The flying device lifted off and rose straight into the sky.
Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Xiao Ting, and the others watched it vanish above them. In their eyes, Sui Xuan Chu and Sister Tea were hidden boss big shots.
They all decided they had to cling tightly to their thighs and treat them as their sky-route backers, so they could avoid detours and run straight ahead.
The flying device climbed to ten thousand meters and slipped into an invisible warship.
Chong Ming already knew everything that had happened below and adjusted his strategy again. He redeployed troops from the Military Authorities to enter the Royal Military Imperial Academies and carry out a full sweep.
As soon as Jiang Tea Tea saw Chong Ming, still holding the Overlord Butterfly’s beating heart, she snapped at him: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, so you had six satellites aimed at me and Sui Xuan Chu’s heads and they were just for show?”
“Why didn’t you just wait until we were both dead and then come collect our corpses?”
Sui Xuan Chu: “!!!!”
[Idol. Absolute idol.]
He had thought his roommate would not dare to talk back to his uncle.
He had not expected her first words to be a jab.
Too handsome, too cool, too awesome. No wonder Huang Da Zhuang saw her as an idol, and the girls from the Pacification Division like Lin Feng Feng all went starry-eyed when they saw her.
Chong Ming’s golden eyes ran over her from head to toe, lingering on her lower abdomen for a few seconds. His voice was low: “Before the Insectoid Race dropped the forbidden Dragon Lure Drug on the Royal Military Imperial Academies, I had already gotten the news. I calculated the overall strength and response ability of all the teachers and students at the Royal Military Imperial Academies.”
“I did not expect that, other than you, they are all trash.”