Chapter 181
Chapter 181: Nobody Gets To Run, If You Do Wrong You Will Be Beaten
As soon as Jiang Tea Tea finished speaking, her words were like a pouring rain that drenched all the guests. They were chilled through, shocked, and panicked.
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun looked at each other and quickly moved from the corner toward Jiang Tea Tea and the others.
[Good. These eight kids held back such a big move.] As family members, they had to stand with them, share hatred with them, advance and retreat together, and protect them.
Wolf Yin Feng and Wolf Luo Feng’s proud smiles froze on their faces. They stared at the arrest warrant in Jiang Tea Tea’s hand. With tough words but weak hearts, Wolf Yin Feng scolded loudly: “Tea Tea, Jiang Tea Tea, you are not a child anymore. You are an adult. Do not make such willful, unreasonable jokes. This is not funny at all.”
Wolf Luo Feng hurried to smooth things over and laughed stiffly at the guests: “Yes, yes, sorry, everyone. This daughter we just acknowledged likes to joke the most. This is a joke she is playing with everyone. Please do not take it seriously, really do not take it seriously.”
The people present came back to their senses. They forced down the shock and panic in their eyes. Their hands holding plates and glasses trembled. Someone tried to joke: “A joke, so it is a joke. Miss Tea Tea is really cute, but do not play this kind of joke next time.”
Another person said: “Yes, you can make any joke, but you cannot play a joke that forges an arrest warrant and might touch the Empire’s Law Code.”
Someone else added: “Right, Miss Tea Tea, everyone in the Zhenlin Empire knows that Commander in Chief Chong Ming is the supporter and reviser of the Empire’s Law Code. He hates it the most when people break the Law Code. Even though he values you, listen to our advice and do not do this kind of thing again.”
Another guest lifted his chin, putting on the air of a teacher: “We are your dad and mother’s business partners and clients. For your dad and mother’s sake, we will keep quiet and not tell anyone about you forging an arrest warrant. But you must understand how serious this is. Do not make this mistake again, or if someone reports it, you will suffer.”
Everyone put on a lordly attitude and kept lecturing, saying more and more, getting more and more excited, and speaking louder and louder.
Jiang Tea Tea held up the arrest warrant and slowly turned, sweeping her gaze over the people around: “Open your eyes and look. The arrest warrant in my hand was personally signed by Commander in Chief Chong Ming.”
She said coldly: “Everyone who just spoke to me, every single one of you, will be treated as resisting during arrest. In other words, no matter what crimes you have committed, because you just raised your voices at me, your crimes will all be one level heavier.”
The ones who had spoken earlier stared wide-eyed at the paper arrest warrant in her hand. It had Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s personal signature and his bright red seal.
The arrest warrant was real, not fake. The crowd stepped back two more steps, hurriedly putting down their wine glasses and tableware: “We did not break the law. The Lang Family Estate and we only do proper business and associate with proper friends.”
Another person protested: “Right, we are their proper relatives. They invited us here just to attend a family banquet. We did not break the law. Even if you have an arrest warrant personally signed by Commander in Chief Chong Ming, you cannot arrest us.”
Someone turned on Wolf Yin Feng and Wolf Luo Feng: “Wolf Yin Feng, Wolf Luo Feng, we treated you as friends, as business partners, and you are going to harm us like this?”
“Fine, fine,” someone muttered. “We cannot afford to offend you, but we can avoid you. We will leave now, we are leaving now…”
“Wait.” Wolf Yin Feng grit his teeth and steeled himself. He stepped forward in one big stride, snatched the arrest warrant from Jiang Tea Tea’s hand, and tore it up without even looking, making one last struggle: “Everyone, there is no arrest warrant. It was just a joke my daughter played on you. Please calm down and do not leave.”
The people who were about to leave stopped and looked at Jiang Tea Tea.
Jiang Tea Tea shook her now empty hand: “Wolf Yin Feng, you destroyed official documents of the nation at will, breaking the Empire’s Law Code. Your crime is one level heavier. Sui Xuan Chu, Cheng Xiao Ting, break his legs.”
Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Xiao Ting answered and rushed forward. Wolf Yin Feng fought back. Afraid of being hit, the crowd quickly backed away. Someone wanted to flee and took out a flying device from their space knob storage device, climbed in, and took off toward the sky.
They did not expect that with a boom, the tail of the flying device shooting up into the sky was hit by a bullet. It fell from the sky and crashed onto the lawn.
The person inside kicked open the door of the flying device and crawled out on hands and feet, blood running from their forehead, staggering away from the flying device.
The crowd looked up and saw countless invisible warships, fighter craft, and mecha armor with the Barley Star Garrison Troops emblem appearing in the sky. Every living thing within a few hundred kilometers around them was locked in their firing range.
Apart from warships, fighter craft, and flying devices, there were red beams crisscrossing, forming a net. Even if someone piloted a flying device and broke through the block of the fighter craft, the crisscrossing beams would cut them in half at the waist and make them die in two pieces.
None of the people below dared to take out a flying device and try to escape anymore. Everyone was in a panic yet did not dare to move from their spots.
There was a sharp cracking sound.
“Ah!” Wolf Yin Feng’s painful scream rang out at the same time.
The sound of Wolf Yin Feng’s leg breaking and his scream was deafening, making the people who had been looking at the sky turn their gaze toward him.
Sui Xuan Chu stepped on his broken leg, and Cheng Xiao Ting twisted his arm, pinning him down.
“Tea Tea, Tea Tea…” Wolf Luo Feng staggered, her voice shaking as she cried: “My daughter, what are you doing, what are you doing?”
Jiang Tea Tea blinked: “Who is your daughter? Me? What kind of joke are you telling? Do you deserve that?”
Wolf Luo Feng’s whole body tensed and fear flashed in her eyes. She turned and rushed toward the Wolf Xin siblings: “Xin Yi, Xin Wei, Tea Tea listens to you the most, she likes you the most. Hurry and help Mom talk to her.”
“We are a family, a family whose blood is thicker than water,” she pleaded. “Making a joke is fine, but it cannot go too far and let others see our joke in such an important setting today.”
Before Wolf Xin Yi could shake off her hand, they heard Jiang Tea Tea say: “Who has blood ties with you? Wolf Xin Yi, Wolf Xin Wei, or Wolf Xin Rui?”
She said clearly: “No. None of the 17 children have any blood connection with you. For money, fame, gains, and abilities, you and Wolf Yin Feng ruined your bodies a long time ago and do not have any fertility ability at all.”
“All 17 children, including me, were born from youngling embryos you stole from others, using fake artificial wombs.”
“After the children were born, you changed their gene profiles to make them become your children, but you did not love them.”
“You had no love for them. You only thought about taming them, hitting and scolding them, without any mental burden. You never treated them as people.”
Of the Lang Family Estate children present, all 16, including Wolf Xin Rui and Wolf Xin Ping, who had been called back by Wolf Xin Yi, felt their heads buzz and go blank as they heard Jiang Tea Tea’s words. Their hands and feet went cold.
Like machines, they used great effort just to turn their heads to look at Jiang Tea Tea and then at their dad and mother.
Their dad and mother had placed high hopes on them and were very strict. If they were not excellent, it was either beating or scolding or taking away their pocket money.
Yet even so, they still relied on them and wanted to be close to them. Now Jiang Tea Tea was telling them they were not their children?
“You are talking nonsense.” When Wolf Luo Feng saw the children of the family looking at her with strange, hateful eyes, she anxiously scolded Jiang Tea Tea while also looking at Wolf Xin Yi and the others, trying to throw dirty water onto Jiang Yi Cheng: “Xin Yi, Xin Wei, you are Mother’s son and daughter. Mother likes you the most.”
“Do not listen to her nonsense. She is just taking revenge on Dad and Mother for not finding her in time, so she is spouting nonsense here, trying to break up the family feelings between us!”
Wolf Xin Yi’s hand was tightly grabbed by Wolf Luo Feng. In her impatience, her fingernails dug into his arm and broke the skin, drawing blood.
His arm hurt, but she seemed to feel nothing. She only wanted him to believe her words and listen to her again.
Looking over, Cheng Xiao Ting’s parents had already quietly moved to their child’s side like a gentle drizzle, staying alert against anyone sneaking up on their child and protecting their child.
Wolf Xin Yi did not pull her hand off his arm but instead asked: “Mother, are we your children?”
Wolf Luo Feng nodded in panic: “Yes, yes, you are my children. I gave birth to you all. Do not listen to Jiang Tea Tea’s nonsense.”
“She just hates me and your dad and wants to make us lose face in front of so many guests. You must not believe her, do not believe her.”
Wolf Xin Yi slowly lifted his hand and tore her hand off his arm. He looked at her, hatred in his eyes surging like a vast sea: “I just kept wondering how there could be parents who did not love their own children. So it turns out, turns out none of us are your children.”
“I kept thinking, we brothers and sisters are more than ten people, and every one of us has an ability level not lower than S-level. There are even those at level S3 and S4. We did so well in study and work, but you were still not satisfied. You still scolded us as trash and said we wasted your training.”
“So it turns out we are not your children. You stole us and gave birth to us, but you did not love us.”
Another sibling spoke with a shaking voice: “Right. We are not your biological children, so you had no mental burden when you hit and scolded us, not at all. How could you ever love us?”
“No, no.” Wolf Luo Feng tried her best to deny it and refused to admit it, treating the sixteen children as her last life-saving straw: “You are all my children. I gave birth to you.”
“When I hit you and scolded you, it was all for your own good, so that you would be better and have a better future.”
“Really? Then look at this.” Jiang Tea Tea spoke coolly on the side and tapped her light-brain wrist terminal, projecting a large holo projection screen.
On the big holo screen, a video played of Wolf Luo Feng lying on an experiment table as someone implanted youngling embryos in her, along with her talking with the person doing the implantation.
For the seventeen children, some were single births, some twins, some triplets. There were not only video images, but also her chat records with Wolf Yin Feng and the archived files for every implantation.
Wolf Luo Feng tried every way to deny it and not admit it, but in front of this video, chat records, and archived files, her denial looked very pale and weak.
Wolf Xin Wei strode forward, raised her trembling hand, and slapped Wolf Luo Feng across the face, knocking her to the ground.
She straddled her like a madwoman, grabbed her hair, and slapped her face hard again and again, hysterically questioning: “Wolf Luo Feng, you bastard, you vicious woman, how dare you steal other people’s youngling embryos and make them your own children?”
“From childhood until now, from the time we became sensible, you trained us, suppressed us, controlled us. We never complained. We only wanted to do better, hoping you would be happy.”
“But you? You, as long as we made one small mistake, you locked us in a tiny dark room with no light at all.”
“You made us fight for food with low-level, mindless wild beasts. You made us slap our own brothers and sisters, and only whoever slapped harder could get a bite to eat. Why did you not treat us as people, why?”