Chapter 18
Chapter 18: What the heck, can a dragon and a dog have a monkey?
Jiang Tea Tea’s ears rang from Huang Da Zhuang’s roar as she quickly moved the hand wearing her light-brain wrist terminal away from herself: “Big Dog Huang, keep your voice down, don’t get so worked up. I’m already on my way, I’ll be there soon.”
Huang Da Zhuang snorted a cold reminder at her: “Jiang Tea Tea, you lie without even blushing. You’re not on the way at all. You’re clearly still in the dorm.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out an awkward “uh” but refused to admit it: “No, no, I really am on the way. I’ll be there soon, really soon.”
Huang Da Zhuang said gloomily: “We’re on a video call, not a voice call. I can see your dorm.”
Jiang Tea Tea gasped and quickly lifted her hand to look, only to find that they were on a voice call, not a video call at all. He was bluffing her.
She answered Huang Da Zhuang: “Too much, you’ve actually learned how to bluff me.”
Huang Da Zhuang ground his teeth: “Bluff you, my foot. His Highness Chong Ming gets here at eight. It’s already seven thirty, and you’re still not rushing over.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “…”
[So irritable, really irritable.]
Chong Ming was his heartthrob idol, not hers.
It was just a bouquet of flowers. Who gave it didn’t make any difference!
Jiang Tea Tea cut off the light-brain wrist terminal, glanced at the time, and saw that it wasn’t seven thirty at all. It was only seven ten. She really didn’t know what Big Dog Huang was in such a hurry about.
She slowly washed her face, took a shower, and changed into a clean school uniform. It was only seven twenty-five. She opened the door to go out and happened to bump into Sui Xuan Chu.
Today he was still in the blue and black training suit of the First Year Combat Department. His black hair was tied in a high ponytail with a red cord. He looked cool and wild.
Jiang Tea Tea waved at him in greeting: “Good morning, roommate.”
Sui Xuan Chu frowned a little and spat out one word: “Morning.”
After greeting him, Jiang Tea Tea walked out.
Sui Xuan Chu followed behind her. They got into the elevator together, left the dorm, got onto a hovercar, and headed toward the school gate.
To welcome the commander in chief of the Three Armies and prince regent of the Zhenlin Empire, His Highness Chong Ming, the Royal Military Imperial Academy had cleaned all its buildings several days in advance. There wasn’t even trash inside the trash cans.
Besides the students the academy had nominated to welcome His Highness Chong Ming, other students without class had already rushed over ahead of time. The ones who did have class sat in their classrooms with no mind to read or listen to lectures. Their heads were full of their heartthrob idol.
It wasn’t until the hovercar stopped not far from the school gate that Jiang Tea Tea suddenly came back to herself and asked Sui Xuan Chu: “Sui Xuan Chu, you’re also here to welcome His Highness Chong Ming?”
Sui Xuan Chu rolled his eyes at her: “What else would I be doing?”
Jiang Tea Tea laughed: “His Highness Chong Ming’s airs really are huge.”
Sui Xuan Chu’s gaze flashed with something strange, but he agreed: “You’re right. His airs are pretty big.”
Jiang Tea Tea kept complaining as she got off the hovercar with Sui Xuan Chu: “Big shots are all like that. If they don’t show off, how can people see how awesome they are.”
Sui Xuan Chu asked: “And how many big shots have you even met?”
Jiang Tea Tea waved her hand: “Tons.”
Sui Xuan Chu said with amusement: “Really?”
“Of course…”
“Ancestor, ancestor, why are you only just getting here?”
Before Jiang Tea Tea could finish, Huang Da Zhuang rushed over and cut her off. He grabbed her and dragged her toward the gate.
“The headmaster, the vice headmaster, the dean of students and a whole crowd of big shots are all waiting at the gate, and you’re the only one still dawdling.”
Jiang Tea Tea was pulled along and refused to take the blame for dawdling: “Isn’t His Highness Chong Ming only arriving at eight? It’s only seven fifty right now. It’s still early!”
Huang Da Zhuang was about to be angered to death by her: “Early, what early? Not early at all. I got here before seven.”
Jiang Tea Tea stabbed straight into his heart: “If you’re dumb, who can you blame?”
Huang Da Zhuang: “…”
[This Sister Tea is hopeless. I really ought to throw her away.]
Huang Da Zhuang dragged Jiang Tea Tea to the front and shoved a bouquet of flowers into her arms.
Right after that, several people started instructing her that when she faced His Highness Chong Ming, she had to smile, and no matter what His Highness asked, she should pick nice-sounding answers.
Jiang Tea Tea didn’t hear a single thing they were saying to her. She hurried to move the bouquet away from her body.
Good grief, this bouquet was made of several plants’ mating organs, all poking nakedly right in front of her. It was truly insane and was challenging her bottom line.
“Here he comes, here he comes, His Highness Chong Ming’s aircraft is here!”
Someone shouted, and in an instant the whole place went silent. All eyes snapped up to the sky.
Jiang Tea Tea squinted up and saw a golden aircraft with eight fighter craft flying alongside it. Three aircraft opened the way in front and three more followed behind. The formation made it look like the whole sky belonged to him.
Jiang Tea Tea lowered her gaze. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Sui Xuan Chu standing beside her. Everyone else was looking at the sky. Only he was staring at his own combat boots. She couldn’t help nudging him with her elbow.
Sui Xuan Chu lifted his eyelids and looked at her: “What?”
Jiang Tea Tea lifted her chin slightly and motioned toward the sky: “His Highness Chong Ming really puts on a show. Fighter craft escorting, aircraft opening the way and guarding the rear. How afraid of dying do you think he is!”
Sui Xuan Chu’s mouth twitched twice: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, you really have zero basic common sense.”
“As the commander in chief of the Three Armies of the Zhenlin Empire and its prince regent, he isn’t under just one person. He’s above countless people. What you’re seeing is only what he lets you see. What you can’t see are countless invisible satellites, invisible warships, and invisible super protection teams.”
“As long as he wants, even us two whispering about him here, he can have satellites lock onto us and see us clearly and hear us clearly.”
Jiang Tea Tea was like a Great Demon Stage country bumpkin who had never seen the world: “Wow, really? That amazing? I have to take a good look.”
[In the Interstellar Era, stealth and high tech like this are already catching up to thousand-mile voice transmissions and ten-thousand-mile dashes, right?]
[Here, a Great Demon Stage demon like her was basically just a little cabbage. She had no privacy at all. As long as someone wanted to, they could have her completely in their grasp?]
Sui Xuan Chu reminded her from the side: “High tech like that is invisible to the naked eye, invisible to radar, and invisible to heat detection.”
“Don’t waste your time. Even if your eyeballs pop, you still won’t see a thing.”
Jiang Tea Tea chuckled twice: “Thanks for the reminder!”
Right now she only had twenty percent of her spiritual power left. She admitted she couldn’t see anything.
Once her spiritual power recovered, there would be nothing that could escape her eyes.
The aircraft in front of the golden one landed first. The people who got off were all fully armed, strong, and full of killing intent.
Right after that, the golden aircraft landed. The door of the aircraft opened. The first thing to appear was a pair of black combat boots, then black uniform pants, long legs, a belt, a shirt, a long military coat, golden long hair, golden dragon horns, golden eyes, and a face with sharp lines that was tough and handsome.
The headmaster, the vice headmaster, and a whole group of academy big shots hurried forward to greet him.
Jiang Tea Tea’s arm suddenly felt heavy as Huang Da Zhuang grabbed her. He was as excited as a kitten kneading and a puppy hopping: “Sister Tea, Sister Tea, oh my god, my idol, my heartthrob idol. I’ve never seen him from this close before.”
“He’s really too handsome, too cool, too alpha. I want to give him flowers, I want to marry him, I want to give him monkey babies!”
Hearing what Huang Da Zhuang said, Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes went wide like eggs in shock and surprise: “Big Dog Huang, you’re a dog, he’s a dragon, and you’re both male. Has high-speed tech in the Interstellar Era already broken reproductive isolation? Can a dragon and a dog have a monkey now?”