Chapter 145
Chapter 145: I bust my ass killing bugs, and you steal the credit
Jiang Tea Tea reacted as if facing a deadly enemy. She covered her lower belly with both hands and backed away from him like he was a venomous snake or a fierce beast: “This is my cub. Why are you saying hello to it?”
She had just moved around while fighting him, and the cubs in her belly had all woken up. They were squirming, jumping, full of life.
If he put his hand on her belly, he would feel that there was more than one cub inside. All the care she had taken to hide it, all that nervous guarding, would be for nothing.
[No way. Not in a million years. Even if it killed her, it was still no. Later she had to think carefully about how to avoid him when she gave birth and how to hide the other four cubs.]
Chong Ming’s half-curled fingers slowly straightened. His golden eyes lowered, hiding all the light inside them: “Alright then. Let us go eat breakfast.”
He was a 150-year-old dragon acting all wronged and pitiful. She was not going to feel sorry for him. Her heart was made of iron and stone. No one could sway her.
Jiang Tea Tea called out to Sui Xuan Chu, who was rolling around like he was dying, trying to untie the knot he had been tied into: “Sui Xuan Chu, we are going to eat.”
Before Sui Xuan Chu could answer her with a dragon roar, Chong Ming spoke first: “He is not eating. He will train here until seven fifteen.”
Sui Xuan Chu: “???”
He had never said he wanted to train until seven fifteen.
He just could not untie his knot.
He could not change back to human form to talk.
Jiang Tea Tea glanced at her Light-Brain Wrist Terminal. It was only a little after five. There were almost two hours left before seven fifteen. She suggested: “How about letting him eat first and then train?”
Chong Ming replied: “Training in a hungry state is better for him. Other than raising his supernatural ability level, your roommate’s beast form has not grown at all. He is terribly weak.”
“He needs to strengthen his beast form training. That way, if he runs into sudden trouble like last night again, he will not be surrounded and beaten down by a few dragons.”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded: “Alright. I will go eat and let him train slowly here.”
Chong Ming left the training ground with her, and he did not forget to call over four avian beastman male bodyguards from the Imperial Palace to keep Sui Xuan Chu company in training.
The four avian beastmen had beast forms of a vulture, a snake eagle, a crowned eagle, and a sea giant eagle. When their beast forms spread their great wings, they were several meters across, and their sharp claws shone from being sharpened so often.
Each of these avian beastman males was battle-hardened. Whether in beast form combat or human form combat, they were full of experience.
They received orders from Commander in Chief Chong Ming that when beating up the Crown Prince, they did not need to be too gentle. They were to let him taste the pain of blood and falling scales and teach him how to attack, defend, and escape in the sky in beast form.
Jiang Tea Tea left the training ground and walked along the small path in the Imperial Palace. No matter how fast or slow she walked, Chong Ming stayed side by side with her. His eyes swept over her belly on purpose or by accident from time to time.
Jiang Tea Tea silently chose to act like she was blind, telling herself she did not see anything. On top of that, she was wearing the school uniform of the Royal Military Imperial Academy. The loose uniform showed no belly and no waist. Even if he kept looking, it was useless.
Neither of them spoke until Jiang Tea Tea saw the steward. She immediately asked the steward to go call Cheng Lin Yue and Cheng Yuan to come eat breakfast with them.
Her biological clock of more than three months already had Cheng Lin Yue waking up at four forty-five. After getting up, she had nothing to do. Once she finished washing up, she did not dare to wander off and could only stay in her room reviewing her lessons.
When the steward came to get her, she went out with her. After she stepped out and saw her uncle, she happily ran toward him.
Under the steward’s guidance, she and her uncle went to the dining area of the Imperial Palace and soon saw her idol, her heartthrob idol, Chong Ming.
In the past, her idol and heartthrob idol always wore his long hair loose down his back. Today, her heartthrob idol had his long hair tied up. He wore a training suit and combat boots, looking extra young.
Of course, her heartthrob idol was not old to begin with. It was just that this outfit made his legs look longer, his shoulders broader, his waist narrower, and his male aura explode off him.
But the one who shone the brightest was still her Sister Tea. Even though she was small and delicate, fair as snow, her presence was not one bit weaker than his.
The two of them sat facing each other at the table. It was like they were negotiators in a meeting, trading moves back and forth. One was serious and calm, everything under control. The other was lazy and quiet, meeting each move with her own.
Cheng Lin Yue sat by Jiang Tea Tea’s side. Her uncle sat by hers.
The four-person table became Chong Ming sitting alone, facing three people as if one against three.
Under the powerful aura of Commander in Chief Chong Ming, Cheng Lin Yue and Cheng Yuan were cautious and stiff, unable to relax.
Jiang Tea Tea was totally relaxed. She ate like she was in the Academy cafeteria. She ate when she wanted and drank when she wanted. If she did not get enough of a dish she liked, she either asked for another serving or had it packed up.
Seeing how stiff they were, Jiang Tea Tea also took care of them and urged them to eat a lot too.
After they finished eating, it was just after six, not yet seven. The three of them left Chong Ming behind and went out for a walk.
Chong Ming sat in the dining hall for a while. Then he returned to his lodging palace, washed up, changed into a new uniform, let his hair down, and handled some official business.
At seven thirty, Sui Xuan Chu, hungry but freshly washed, got onto a flying device.
He thought they would be flying the device themselves back to the Academy.
He never expected that the one piloting the flying device would be his uncle. He sat in the co-pilot’s seat. Even though he owed it to his roommate, he still felt excited and flattered.
In less than half an hour, the flying device reached the gate of the Royal Military Imperial Academy.
Chong Ming turned his head and spoke to Jiang Tea Tea in the back seat: “Jiang Tea Tea, at nine thirty tonight, I will come pick you and Sui Xuan Chu up and bring you back to the Imperial Palace.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s hand froze on the door handle. She pointed at herself: “You are coming to pick me up at nine thirty? Pick me up for what?”
Chong Ming, his face blank, reminded her with a few words: “Follow the doctor’s orders.”
He had used his supernatural ability and spiritual power to soothe her, and last night he had done it for several hours. She thought that would be enough to last seven or ten days.
She had not expected him to plan to give her mental soothing every single day.
[Fine, if it is free, I might as well use it. It would be a waste not to use it. I will just treat him like a tool dragon.]
Jiang Tea Tea nodded: “Got it.”
Chong Ming unlocked the doors of the flying device.
Cheng Lin Yue and Sui Xuan Chu were both so nervous that they did not even dare to breathe loudly. They shrank in on themselves as they got out of the flying device.
When they closed the doors, they treated them like a little darling’s egg, shutting them very gently, afraid they might bump or scrape it.
Jiang Tea Tea, on the other hand, slammed the door with a deafening bang, like she was trying to smash the flying device’s door right off.
Once the doors were closed, the flying device still did not take off. Only after the three of them had entered the Royal Military Imperial Academy did the flying device rise into the air.
Cheng Lin Yue stole a look back. She happened to see the tail end of the flying device lifting off. She patted her chest: “That scared me to death. I really never thought that Top Student Rank Sui Xuan Chu’s uncle is my heartthrob idol, my idol.”
Sui Xuan Chu quickly made a shushing motion at her: “Low-key, low-key, you must stay low-key. Did you forget last night…”
Cheng Lin Yue hurried to cover her own mouth and mumbled: “Oh, oh, okay, okay. I will stay low-key. I will keep it secret. I will not let a fourth person know. Do not worry, do not worry.”
Jiang Tea Tea reminded them: “Hey, hurry up. We are going to be late for class.”
Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Lin Yue hurried to follow her. One’s stomach was growling from hunger, and the other was working hard to calm her wildly beating heart.
All traces of last night’s Insectoid Race disguised invasion and Aberrant Beast surge inside the campus had been cleaned up completely, as if nothing had ever happened.
The Academy was clean and bright, full of energy. Students either rode hovercars to class or ran there. Those who were not in a hurry strolled along slowly.
The team of eight that Jiang Tea Tea was part of had played a key role in stopping the Insectoid Race and Aberrant Beasts from invading the Academy. They protected others, raised the alarm, and blocked the enemies.
Because of that, the eight of them became famous in the Academy. As a result, when Jiang Tea Tea and her two friends walked across the campus, they received a lot of attention and respect.
When they met up with Cheng Xiao Ting, Huang Da Zhuang, and the others, Jiang Tea Tea had not yet had time to greet them. They rushed over and surrounded her. Everyone spoke at once:
“Sister Tea, how many bugs did you kill last night?”
“Sui Xuan Chu, how many bugs did you kill last night, and how many other Dragon Clan dragons did you beat into comas?”
Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu looked at each other. Then, seeing how serious and anxious their friends were, they asked in unison: “What is going on?”
Huang Da Zhuang was the first to speak in a rush: “What do you mean, what is going on? You three left the Academy in the second half of the night, so you do not know. After you left, the Police Bureau, the Special Affairs Bureau, the guard unit, and the Imperial Military Headquarters all sent people over.”
“The four departments carried out joint law enforcement. They cleared out the Insectoid Race in the Academy and investigated all the teachers and students.”
“Five bug corpses were dragged in front of the Police Bureau officers by your fake young miss’s triplet older brother and older sister. They said they killed those bugs in the Jinyuan District.”
“The people from the Police Bureau gave them verbal praise last night and said that after everything has been fully investigated, they will give them real rewards.”
“On the Academy’s internal web forum, they were held up as examples alongside us. Their names were posted on the Academy’s internal site in praise, and each of them was given two hundred thousand Star Credits as a reward for their actions against the Insectoid Race.”
“You see…”
As soon as Huang Da Zhuang finished speaking, Cheng Xiao Ting opened his Light-Brain Wrist Terminal, logged into the Academy’s internal network, and looked. On the homepage, at the very top, hung the photos of the fake young miss’s real triplet siblings, Wolf Xin Rui, Wolf Xin Chong, and Wolf Xin Ping, along with a thrilling description of how they killed five bugs.
Jiang Tea Tea quickly skimmed through it. The leftover consciousness of the fake young miss inside her body suddenly burst out with huge anger and hatred.
They had stolen the credit. The fake young miss’s three older siblings had stolen Jiang Tea Tea’s credit.
After reading, Sui Xuan Chu was the first to shout: “Jinyuan District. Jinyuan District was clearly where Sister Tea and I were killing bugs. What does that have to do with Wolf Xin Rui, Wolf Xin Ping, and Wolf Xin Chong, those three from the Mecha Armor Manufacturing Department and the Mecha Maintenance Department of the Wolf Tribe?”
“With their level S2, level S3, level S supernatural abilities, they can kill five bugs in one go? Their tails would have grown up into the sky by now.”
Jiang Tea Tea pushed down the fake young miss’s violent consciousness and asked Huang Da Zhuang: “In that part of Jinyuan District, there is no surveillance system, right?”
Huang Da Zhuang nodded hard: “Right. The place where they dragged the Insectoid Race corpses, the surveillance system broke two days ago. It is a blind spot.”
“The Academy checked the nearby surveillance systems. They only saw your figure flash past and leap into the air. Nothing else.”
“But the cameras a bit farther away clearly recorded your real triplet siblings walking into that blind spot and staying there for a long time, then coming out covered in blood.”
“In order to use them to inspire other schoolmates, the Academy even put the video of them dragging the Insectoid Race corpses out while covered in blood on the internal network. It is there to encourage everyone. No matter who meets the Insectoid Race, they have to learn from them. Even if they get seriously hurt, they must kill them.”