Chapter 153
Chapter 153: Blowing Each Other Up To See Who Dies First
Jiang Tea Tea turned her head in the direction of his hand and saw Chong Ming flying a device alongside hers. She clicked her tongue at Sui Xuan Chu: “Why is your voice shaking?”
Why was he shaking?
What could he do but shake?
This roommate who relied on being spoiled actually asked him why he was shaking. It stabbed him right in the lungs.
Sui Xuan Chu forced a stiff smile: “My uncle is angry.”
Jiang Tea Tea switched the flying device to auto pilot, freed her hands, opened her light-brain wrist terminal, and sent Chong Ming a message: “You don’t have to drive us. We can go to the academy ourselves. We’re going to take a mission in a few days, so we won’t go back these two days. You don’t need to pick us up at night.”
Chong Ming got the message, also set his flying device to auto pilot, and replied to Jiang Tea Tea: “Open the window of your flying device. You didn’t eat breakfast.”
Jiang Tea Tea saw the message and turned to look at him. He had chased all the way over just to tell her she had not eaten breakfast. [What is with this sudden husband feeling?]
Sui Xuan Chu, on the other side, was scared out of his mind. He was the crown prince of a whole empire and the future emperor, His Majesty. But facing these two, he could not beat them, could not scold them, could not be fierce. All he could do was cower and cower some more.
Jiang Tea Tea opened the window of the flying device.
Chong Ming handed over the breakfast he had packed.
Jiang Tea Tea took it: “Thanks. No need to drive us. We’re not going back tonight, so you don’t have to pick us up.”
Chong Ming’s eyes deepened: “Okay. If anything happens, call my communicator. If I don’t pick up, call Secretary Wen and Deputy Officer Ai.”
“I know,” Jiang Tea Tea said.
The window of the flying device shut without mercy.
Chong Ming slowed the speed-type ability of his flying device and followed behind theirs.
Inside the flying device, Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu scarfed down breakfast. One of them ate happily, because it was all her favorite food. The other ate unhappily, because not a single thing was what he liked.
After sending them to the royal military Imperial Academies and watching them go inside, Chong Ming lifted his flying device into the air again and entered an invisible warship.
On the invisible warship, Chong Ming got out of the flying device and took a file from Deputy Officer Ai’s hands. He read as he walked: “Crown princess heir Asais and First Imperial Prince Aceras met up and were attacked, badly injured, and have to stay here for two more days?”
Deputy Officer Ai walked respectfully at his side: “Yes. But according to our investigation, there was no attack. It was all self directed and self acted. They do not want to leave and still have not given up on the crown prince and your rumored partner and youngling.”
“They claimed they were attacked here, and their spiritual power was damaged, and they requested Classmate Jiang Tea Tea to help them smooth out their injured spiritual power.”
“If Minister Cai had not intercepted their messages in time, they would have spread news of being attacked here on StarNet, so that everyone in the M31 Star System would spit on Zhenlin Empire.”
Chong Ming closed the file: “Tell Minister Cai not to block their signal. Let them post. And don’t control the comments. Let public opinion ferment.”
“Have Secretary Wen go there again and tell them this: they have one hour to leave Zhenlin Empire’s capital planet and three days to leave the Zhenlin Empire star system. If they do not leave, our country’s live-fire military exercises may not have eyes.”
“Notify all star system space stations, long-range corps, Zhenlin Empire cruiser warships, and all border star units to enter wartime state. Have them post some videos and write-ups on their respective imperial authorities accounts to tell the public they have entered wartime state. If some sparks get rubbed out by accident or someone presses the wrong button, that is normal.”
Deputy Officer Ai answered: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Chong Ming reminded him again: “Tell the Police Bureau and Special Affairs Bureau to increase patrols around the royal military Imperial Academies. Make sure that once any alarm is received, they appear anywhere on the royal military Imperial Academies grounds within three minutes.”
Deputy Officer Ai: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Cai Xi Chao, after receiving the orders passed down by Deputy Officer Ai from their Commander in Chief, immediately removed the signal blockade on Aceras and Asais.
With the blockade gone, Asais and her people posted on StarNet about how, during their visit to Zhenlin Empire to escort First Imperial Prince Aceras back to the Insectoid Race, they were attacked by unknown people from Zhenlin Empire.
Crown princess heir Asais’s spiritual power was damaged, First Imperial Prince Aceras was severely injured and on the verge of death. They hoped Commander in Chief Chong Ming of Zhenlin Empire would give them an explanation and have someone soothe their spiritual power.
As soon as this accusation came out, Asais and Aceras got to see what real malice and physical disgust looked like.
Countless star-net friends of the M31 Star System started typing without mercy: “Excuse me, crown princess heir of the Insectoid Race and First Imperial Prince, just what is this tone of yours, trying to get us to condemn my husband, Commander in Chief Chong Ming?”
“Exactly. That is what they mean. They want to use public opinion to damage the reputation of Zhenlin Empire, using this kind of low trick so I’ll condemn our husband, Commander in Chief Chong Ming. I have no idea what those bug brains of theirs are thinking.”
“Asais is still the crown princess heir? With this level, the bugs of the Insectoid Race just get worse with every generation. Can’t they send someone smart for once if they want to insult our intelligence?”
“Right? How does she not think about why she came here to pick up First Imperial Prince Aceras, and why he was a guest in Zhenlin Empire? Because he invaded someone else’s star system for no reason and got caught in the act. He was a prisoner.”
“They were in the wrong to begin with. And now they try to turn around and bite us back. I keep watching and rewatching the so-called attack on Asais and Aceras, and it looks like a staged performance to me. They did it on purpose. Because according to their schedule, they should have left Zhenlin Empire’s capital planet yesterday or the day before.”
“But they still haven’t left today, and now this happened. It’s obvious they want that level 3S variant plant-type ability healing master from Zhenlin Empire to fix their spiritual power and, while they’re at it, kidnap that level 3S healer.”
“Upstairs, your analysis makes a lot of sense, so much sense. Repost, repost, like, like.”
“No need to like me. With how tough and decisive Commander in Chief Chong Ming is, if Asais dares to confront him head on like this, she’ll be the one who ends up unlucky. She might even lose her position as crown princess heir.”
“Upstairs, upstairs, hurry and analyze more.”
“Ahem. According to reliable information, Asais is only good at having a long female body and a decent supernatural abilities rank. Her beast form is not very impressive. Her younger sisters are all better than her and have more perfect beast forms.”
“In the Insectoid Race royal household, which female doesn’t want to be queen? Which female doesn’t want to get rid of her elder and younger sisters?”
“So when Asais came to fetch First Imperial Prince Aceras, the condition she offered was to give a star system to Zhenlin Empire. This time she risked everything and put on this self-directed show because she wanted to catch Zhenlin Empire’s 3S level healing master Jiang Tea Tea and bring her back to give to her empress mother, so she could stabilize her status.”
“If I can see through her little schemes, what do you think, can Commander in Chief Chong Ming and his advisory council see through them?”
“Yes, yes, yes, of course they can. Everyone, look. Several Zhenlin Empire space stations have already gone into wartime state. A lot of star system defense corps and cruiser warships have entered war-ready state.”
“From the information these units and warship imperial authorities accounts are posting, wow, you can tell everyone is itching for a big fight, ready to make great achievements and go down in history.”
“To die in battle for the Empire and wipe out the Insectoid Race is our highest honor!”
“Those vicious, crafty bugs should not exist in this world.”
“The Beast God should not have gone soft back then. When guiding all beasts to become people, it should have left them out. It should have let them never grow any wisdom and stay lowly bugs forever.”
“The Beast God loves all beasts, and bugs are one type of beastkind too. The Beast God loved us, and we loved it. Long ago, our Insectoid Race ancestors were also the Beast God’s most trusted helpers.”
“You races all look down on the Insectoid Race, but you never think about it. For tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of years, our ancestors and your ancestors were all the Beast God’s beloved children. We all received the same protection and the same love from the Beast God.”
“We all got the same love from the Beast God. It’s a pity your kind grew too greedy. You don’t know how to create, only how to destroy. You don’t know how to reform, only how to invade.”
“We built beautiful homes and beautiful planets, and all you know how to do is rob and seize. Because your original forms are disgusting and big enough, before high tech came around, you could rampage without fear.”
“Now we should thank high tech, and thank the Beast God for being fair. Debts have to be paid back sooner or later, right?”
Asais and Aceras watched the tide of comments. Not a single post was on their side, and their little schemes were analyzed in painful detail, hitting right between the eyes.
They were so furious they almost shifted into bug form. Their eyes were full of raging hatred, wishing they could tear Chong Ming to pieces.
But… they had not even had ten minutes to soak in their hatred when Secretary Wen arrived. With a blank face, he informed them: “Crown princess heir Asais, First Imperial Prince Aceras, I am sorry. The hotel where you are staying has been listed as a dangerous building and will be blown up within one hour.”
Asais and Aceras both paled: “What do you mean, Secretary Wen? What does that old dragon Chong Ming mean, is he trying to blow us up?”
“Has he forgotten who we are? If he dares blow us up, that means openly declaring war on the Insectoid Race.”
Secretary Wen stepped back: “Crown princess heir Asais, First Imperial Prince Aceras, my Commander in Chief understands your identities better than anyone.”
“Right now, you have at most fifty minutes. If you do not leave within fifty minutes, you will go boom with this building and your bodies will be blown into pieces so small that even the best funeral master won’t be able to put you back together.”
“Bold…” Asais shouted.
Secretary Wen ignored her: “Goodbye.”
He turned and left.
The people behind him walked straight into Asais’s room and started placing timed explosives. The meaning was very clear. If they did not leave, they would die here.
Asais and Aceras did not dare to gamble and had no choice but to go. Not a single high official from Zhenlin Empire came to see them off.
Instead, ten small warships that had gone into wartime state escorted them. The ten small warships followed them all the way out of Zhenlin Empire’s capital planet and into space.
Only when Asais and Aceras saw on the giant screen that no warships were following them anymore did they grit their teeth and speak.
“Big Imperial Elder Brother, are we just going to let it go after Chong Ming that old dragon stepped all over our faces like this?” Asais asked furiously.
Ever since Aceras had been captured, he had been tortured for months. Every time they were done torturing him, they threw him into a healing pod.
He suffered not only physical pain but also psychological torment. Luckily, as the First Imperial Prince of the Insectoid Race, his mental strength was strong.
But this grudge would not go unpaid.
Aceras looked at Asais: “Asais, start the wormhole space jump in ten minutes.”
Asais frowned, shocked: “Big Imperial Elder Brother, you’re really going to let it go?”
Aceras licked his dry lips and gave a gloomy smile: “How could I let it go? I buried quite a few bugs on Zhenlin Empire’s capital planet.”
“The bugs I planted there have a lot of weapons in their hands. I’m going to order them to blow up Zhenlin Empire’s royal military Imperial Academies and kill Zhenlin Empire’s crown prince and that 3S level variant plant-type ability healer, Jiang Tea Tea.”