Chapter 138
Chapter 138: Anyone Who Hits Me or My Cubs, How Could I Not Retaliate Openly
Sui Xuan Chu hurried to speak under his uncle’s powerful, calm anger: “Uncle, I’ve always worked closely with my roommate. We teamed up and fought hard without backing down. That doesn’t count as… too useless, right?”
But the last three words came out very soft. He had just thought about it, and by his uncle’s standards, he really was kind of a useless snack.
Still… people need their pride, trees need their bark, and dragons need their dignity.
As the dignified Crown Prince, he absolutely could not be tied to the label of “useless snack.” He had to fight for himself and shake off that name.
Chong Ming’s gaze cut sideways toward Sui Xuan Chu. His deep voice was as sharp as a knife stabbing straight into him: “You are even more useless. You are a golden dragon of the Imperial Clan bloodline, with a 3S, almost 4S lightning element affinity ability, and you still got grabbed and torn up by a few S-level and 3S-level white dragons, blue dragons, and patterned dragons, covered in wounds, blood everywhere, your scales falling off.”
“If Jiang Tea Tea hadn’t shot tranquilizer darts to help you escape, and healed your wounds, you would have bled out and exposed your identity as Crown Prince.”
“Once your identity was exposed, those bugs that invaded the Royal Military Imperial Academies would have swarmed you like crazy. And you still say you’re not useless?”
“I’ll redo your training plan later. As much as possible, I’ll add at least two more hours of Beast Form training for you every day.”
Sui Xuan Chu lowered his head and shut down, wishing he could find a crack in the floor.
Where was the crack, where was it? Once he found it, he would crawl in and never come out again unless his uncle begged him.
Seeing Sui Xuan Chu get scolded so badly, Jiang Tea Tea couldn’t help feeling a little sorry for him. She lightly cleared her throat and spoke: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, from the way you’re talking… am I supposed to be thanking you for praising me?”
Chong Ming’s sharp tone eased a bit: “You are excellent. You don’t need to thank me. Now I’m taking you to meet the Insectoid Race Crown Princess Heir.”
Jiang Tea Tea was confused: “Why am I going to see her?”
Chong Ming’s gaze dropped to the heart in her hand: “You’re going to give her that heart in your hand. And while you’re there, you can beat her up.”
Jiang Tea Tea looked even more confused: “Why do I have to beat her up?”
Chong Ming answered, “When the cut-off signal was repaired, we were able to watch the lost video. I saw a bug clan member shooting tranquilizer darts at your belly.”
Several darts had been aimed at her stomach. He didn’t know if the Insectoid Race had gotten some kind of information.
Jiang Tea Tea: “!!!!”
[That’s it?]
He was the top leader of the Empire, and he was dragging her over there for personal revenge?
Did he even finish watching the whole video? She had only been caught in a capture net and thrown down from midair. The rest of the time, she was the one one shotting other people.
Clearly it should be the Insectoid Race Crown Princess Heir coming over here to beat her, not her going over there to beat the Crown Princess Heir.
Sui Xuan Chu: “…”
He knew it. His uncle had changed. Really changed. Changed into a total double standard.
He really was like a little cabbage growing in the field, loved by no one.
The imprisoned Aceras, the First Imperial Prince, was being attacked by bug clan members. Their blows split his skin and flesh, blood poured everywhere, and he was barely hanging on.
When Deputy Officer Ai led people over to rescue him, there was not a single patch of good skin left on his body. Luckily the healing pod worked well. They sent him into the healing pod to be healed.
Right after, Deputy Officer Ai rushed off with the recording of Aceras being beaten and went to the hotel where the Insectoid Race Crown Princess Heir Asais was resting. When he saw Asais, he immediately apologized: “I am truly sorry, Your Highness Asais, for disturbing you so late at night.”
It was past eleven. Why had Deputy Officer Ai from Chong Ming’s side come?
Asais asked calmly, “I don’t know why Deputy Officer Ai has come so late. What is the matter?”
Deputy Officer Ai opened his light-brain wrist terminal and played the video: “It’s like this, Your Highness Asais. Tonight, the First Imperial Prince Aceras was surrounded and attacked by several bug clan members. We arrived late, and he was badly injured.”
“But please don’t worry too much. Our people have already put him into a healing pod. His life is not in danger.”
“However, after checking our surveillance system, we found that the bug clan members who surrounded him look a bit familiar, like people from your side. The Commander in Chief specifically sent me to ask if any of your people went out tonight.”
In the blurry video, merciless punches and kicks, along with supernatural ability attacks, beat Aceras until he had no strength to fight back.
After watching, Asais’s expression changed slightly: “Those are not my bugs. It looks like someone disguised themselves as my Insectoid Race on purpose, to stir up trouble between my Imperial Elder Brother and me.”
From the outside they looked like her bugs, but her followers knew she was trying to win over High General Atuya. There was no way they would rashly strike and seriously injure her Imperial Elder Brother.
So it was very likely that her Imperial Elder Brother had been attacked by someone sent by that stinking loach Chong Ming, who then cried thief and blamed it on her.
Deputy Officer Ai blinked: “If those aren’t your people, then which Insectoid Race bugs are they? They went too far. They were going straight for the First Imperial Prince Aceras’s life.”
“Luckily our people discovered it in time. Otherwise, the First Imperial Prince would have died tonight.”
“Also, to catch the bug clan members who hurt the First Imperial Prince, we have already sent this video to his fiancée, High General Atuya.”
“High General Atuya knows many insectoids. Maybe from this blurry video she can still tell which bug clan member was willing to pay with their life to take the First Imperial Prince’s life.”
Asais frowned: “You sent the video to High General Atuya?”
Deputy Officer Ai nodded: “Yes, Your Highness Asais, we have already sent the video to High General Atuya.”
“I heard High General Atuya cares deeply about the First Imperial Prince. She will surely cooperate with our staff to find out which Insectoid Race bugs seriously injured him and avenge him.”
Asais forced herself to hold in a breath so she wouldn’t swing her hand and slap him in the face: “Leave the video. I will take a good look at it and see who is so bold as to dare harm my Imperial Elder Brother.”
Deputy Officer Ai replied respectfully, “Alright. I’ll transfer the video to your attendant official. If you think of anything, you can contact me.”
“I won’t disturb your rest any longer. I’ll take my leave.”
Asais nodded and watched Deputy Officer Ai leave.
As soon as the door closed, she opened her light-brain wrist terminal and called Atuya.
But no matter how many times she tried to call, the connection would not go through.
After she dialed several times in a row, a sudden thought hit her. Chong Ming had placed an information expert near her, blocking her signal so she could not contact Atuya and explain that the bugs who beat her Imperial Elder Brother were not hers.
Since she could not explain in time, Atuya would think those bugs were sent by her.
That stinking loach Chong Ming wanted to drive a wedge between her and Atuya so she could not win Atuya over to work for her.
Asais was so angry she was about to call for her attendant official, when her attendant official walked out from the next room: “Your Highness, something has happened.”
Asais’s brows twisted: “What happened?”
The attendant official reported, “Wang Die has been caught.”
Asais’s voice stopped for a moment: “Caught by who?”
The attendant official said, “Jiang Tea Tea.”
Asais’s tone turned cold and vicious: “Don’t tell me that while I was thinking about Zhenlin Empire’s Crown Prince, Chong Ming’s partner and youngling, and that mutant 3S-level healer, Wang Die led bugs straight into the Royal Military Imperial Academies to grab them?”
The attendant official lowered his head: “Your Highness, please calm your anger.”
So it was true.
“Pa!”
Asais slapped the attendant official across the face: “You all are so bold and so capable. You went into his Royal Imperial Academies to grab people right under Chong Ming’s eyes. Do you really think he eats grass?”
The attendant official dropped to his knees at once: “Your Highness, please calm your anger. We only wanted to share Your Highness’s worries and solve problems for you.”
“Originally it was foolproof. We did not expect that mutant 3S-level healer Jiang Tea Tea to be even stronger than we thought.”
“And the dragon at her side is a dragon with lightning element affinity abilities close to 4S-level. That’s why Wang Die and the others lost so badly.”
“But please rest assured, Your Highness. Even if they were defeated and captured, they have never appeared in front of you. As long as they refuse to admit anything, Commander in Chief Chong Ming has no way to put the blame on you.”
Just hitting his face was not enough for Asais. After listening to him, she kicked him in the chest and made him cough blood: “Aote, Wang Die is my most trusted and capable right hand. Now that he’s been caught, he has no way out except death!”
“If he dies, it’s like cutting off one of my hands. In the future, how am I supposed to conveniently deal with bugs who disagree with me?”
The attendant official lay on the ground: “Your Highness, please forgive me.”
Asais wished she could chop off his head.
Out of so many people to send, they had to send Wang Die.
Wang Die was her trusted confidant. His phosphor powder and hypnosis techniques were top tier and completely unique. The other Wang Die butterflies did not have his level of skill.
One problem after another had Asais so angry that she stood there with her hands on her waist, thinking of countermeasures. Just then, someone knocked on the door. She looked up, the door opened, and one of her accompanying bugs came in to report: “Your Highness, Commander in Chief Chong Ming has come to see you. Do you want to see him?”
Asais’s brows almost twisted into the shape of the character for “river”: “He came alone?”
The attendant bug said, “He also brought their mutant 3S-level healer Jiang Tea Tea, and a few attendants.”
Asais’s hand at her waist loosened: “Take him to the reception room. I’ll change into a dress and come.”
The attendant bug answered, “Yes, Your Highness.”
Asais did not actually change dresses. She stayed in her room for a moment, then took several of her close attendant officials and went to the reception room.
They were staying on one floor of the hotel. The floor had all the facilities they could need. The large reception room alone was three to five hundred square meters.
Jiang Tea Tea was standing there holding the beating heart of the Overlord Butterfly when Asais arrived.
The golden hair and golden eyes were gone. Asais now had green hair and green eyes. Her face was still beautiful, and her figure was still curvy, her chest full and high.
Asais walked toward Chong Ming, reached out her hand, and smiled first: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming coming to see me so late really caught me off guard. I didn’t even have time to freshen up. Commander in Chief, you don’t mind, do you?”
Chong Ming took her hand in his: “However Your Highness Asais looks is fine. I don’t mind. Your Highness doesn’t need to think too much about it.”
After holding her hand, he let go.
Asais raised a brow: “As long as Commander in Chief Chong Ming doesn’t mind. I wonder, what brings you to see me so late?”
Chong Ming shifted his body and moved aside so the person behind him was visible. Jiang Tea Tea came into view: “It’s like this, Your Highness Asais. Today, the academy where Healer Jiang is stationed, the Royal Military Imperial Academies, was attacked by bug clan members.”
“She took out the heart of an Overlord Butterfly and wants you to see whether you recognize it, whether you’re familiar with it.”
Asais’s pupils suddenly shrank. Her gaze snapped to Jiang Tea Tea, and she saw a fresh red beating heart resting on Jiang Tea Tea’s left palm.
Wang Die’s heart.
Wang Die was not just injured. His heart had been dug out.
Trash. All of her subordinates were trash.
Jiang Tea Tea walked over and held the heart right in front of Asais: “Your Highness Asais, take a look. Does this heart look familiar?”
How could a heart look familiar?
But Asais was very familiar with the person it had belonged to.
Asais showed a proper, elegant smile: “How could I know such a bloody heart? How could it look familiar?”
“Commander in Chief Chong Ming, Healer Jiang, the joke you two are playing on me is really not funny.”
Jiang Tea Tea made a small sound of realization: “You don’t know it, and it doesn’t look familiar? Then I’ll just crush it. After all, its owner tried to hypnotize me.”
Asais was gambling that she wouldn’t actually crush it: “Go ahead and crush it. What does that have to do with me…”
Before she could finish, Jiang Tea Tea’s fingers tightened around the heart.
There was a soft pop.
The heart burst, making a muffled cracking sound.
Asais stared at the blood dripping from Jiang Tea Tea’s hand, and her own fingers clenched into a fist: “Healer Jiang really has quite the personality. How bloody.”
Jiang Tea Tea tossed the crushed heart onto the floor and stepped on it: “Thanks for the compliment. But, Your Highness Asais, how do we settle the debt for you sending your subordinates to grab me, throw me around, and shoot me with tranquilizer guns?”
Asais pretended to be clueless: “Who sent people to grab you? Healer Jiang, do you have some misunderstanding about me…”
Bang.
Jiang Tea Tea’s bloody hand wrapped around Asais’s neck and slammed her down onto the conference table.
Asais’s attendants rushed in at once, worried and scolding: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, what is your person doing?”
“Healer Jiang Tea Tea, who gave you the courage to attack our Crown Princess Heir? Are you tired of living?”
“Commander in Chief Chong Ming, we protest. You must punish Jiang Tea Tea, or our Insectoid Race will not let this go.”
In his neat military uniform, Chong Ming faced Asais’s attendants like a bystander. He did not even move from his spot. His voice was steady as he answered, “What is my person doing? My person is not doing anything. Did any of you see her do something?”
The attendants he had brought along all spoke in unison: “Reporting to the Commander in Chief, we didn’t see Healer Jiang do anything either. We only saw her and Crown Princess Heir Asais having a friendly exchange.”
“So,” Chong Ming looked at Asais’s attendants and summed up, openly lying through his teeth, “with so many bright eyes watching, don’t wrongly accuse my person.”
Asais cursed angrily: “Chong Ming, you are bullying us too much…”
Jiang Tea Tea cut her off: “It’s not him bullying you. It’s me bullying you, to get back at you for sending your people to the Royal Military Imperial Academies tonight to grab me, throw me, and shoot me with tranquilizer guns.”
“You’re talking nonsense, I don’t…”
Before she could say “understand,” Jiang Tea Tea tightened her grip on her neck again, lifted her up, and smashed her hard into the conference table.
Bang. The conference table broke through with a crash.
Asais’s head split open. Her beautiful face twisted in pain and became ferocious, quickly covered in blood.
“Your Highness…”
“Your Highness…”
Asais’s attendants called out in panic.
“Shh.” Jiang Tea Tea hissed at them, one finger at her lips: “Keep your voices down. If you’re too loud, my ears will hurt, and my hands might slip and twist your Crown Princess Heir’s neck right off.”