Chapter 189
Chapter 189: Go Ahead and Spoil Him, Ship Them Wildly, No One Dares Complain
Aceras tightened his grip on Atuya’s arm: “Atuya, you are willing to help me bring her back to the Insectoid Race?”
Atuya turned her hand over and clasped his, looking at him without hiding the feelings pouring from her eyes: “If she were on the Zhenlin Empire capital planet, she would be too far from us, and I might have to let it go.”
“But right now she is on Ri Pan Star, right under our eyes, within arm’s reach. Since Your Highness likes her, I am willing to try for Your Highness.”
Aceras loosened his hand on her arm, flipped it, and interlaced his fingers with hers: “Thank you, Atuya.”
Atuya shook her head: “You are my fiancé and I am your fiancee. There is no need to say thank you between us.”
“But this time you have to listen to me. You cannot act rashly. You cannot be stubborn. You cannot expect too much, and you cannot force things.”
Aceras’s soft expression froze: “Atuya, what do you mean?”
Atuya explained: “I mean that if Commander in Chief Chong Ming dares to put Jiang Tea Tea in the patrol team, then he is absolutely confident that he can guarantee her safety. He must have thought through all kinds of sudden situations, and he must have arranged security personnel around her that we cannot see.”
“Facing someone like that, if we want to take her away, we need to plan carefully. You cannot rush and you cannot act on impulse, alright?”
Aceras smiled after listening: “I will listen to you.”
Atuya nodded: “Thank you, Your Highness. Come on, let us go back to the exhibit area.”
Aceras held her hand and led her as they turned back toward the exhibit.
The bugs walking behind them had envy in their eyes. High General Atuya really spoiled His Highness Aceras.
His Highness Aceras also loved her. From the time these two bugs met until they got engaged, there had never been a third bug between them.
Among the Insectoid Race, females were honored and males were low. The higher a female’s status, the more males she had. Besides a primary husband, she would also have secondary husbands. Having three or five counted as few, ten or eight was normal, and dozens or even hundreds were still within the normal range.
Even though Aceras was a grand Imperial Prince of the Insectoid Race, if High General Atuya wanted to take other male bugs besides him, he would not be able to say a word.
But High General Atuya, even without officially registering her marriage with him yet, had only ever had him. She did not take any other males. She spoiled him, loved him, and backed him up in everything.
“Kong Que.” Zhong Li He folded his arms across his chest and nudged the Kong Que beside him with his elbow. His eyes stayed on Aceras and Atuya and did not move away. “Tell me, is that pure human little female, unit 59311, especially eye-catching?”
Kong Que glanced at his folded arms and reminded him: “Commander in Chief, please pay attention to your mighty and imposing image.”
Zhong Li He did not feel that there was anything wrong with his image. Besides, there was no one around and no one filming him to upload to StarNet: “Do not worry about my image. Just answer my question. Is that pure human female 59311 especially eye-catching?”
Kong Que saw that he was still standing with his arms folded and ignoring his words. Getting stubborn, he simply grabbed Zhong Li He’s arms and pulled them down, changing him from a wild, rebellious pose into a proper Commander in Chief.
“Yes, that pure human female 59311 is very eye-catching,” Kong Que said. “You should spend more time thinking about how to sell more of our space weapons and less time thinking about poaching people.”
Zhong Li He frowned, not agreeing with Kong Que’s words: “I am such a smart and capable beastman. Why can I not sell more weapons and poach people at the same time?”
“I will grab both. We get the weapon orders, and we poach the people too. That is perfect, right?”
Kong Que pulled out a light-brain wrist terminal, opened it, and held it up in front of him: “Commander in Chief, I do not know when you will feel that things are perfect, but I know that Commander in Chief Chong Ming feels pretty perfect right now.”
“Look. The space weapons expo has just started, and Zhenlin Empire’s orders already add up to hundreds of billions of star credits. Our Western Kingdom orders are not even ten billion. The gap is already ten times. Look at this…”
Zhong Li He summed it up in three short words: “Inside dealing.”
Kong Que put the light-brain wrist terminal away with a helpless look: “Alright then. Covering your ears so you cannot hear and lying to yourself. You really understand those eight big words.”
“You stay here and play. Keep watching. I am going back to the exhibit area to stroll around and greet people, and I will try my best so our Western Kingdom does not fall too far behind Zhenlin Empire. That way your face as Commander in Chief will look a little better.”
Zhong Li He waved his hand: “Go, go. I believe in you, Kong Que. You will definitely beat that jerk Chong Ming and leave his orders 18 star systems behind.”
Kong Que had already turned to leave, but when he heard what his Commander in Chief said, he reached back in a rebellious way and hooked his fingers into the back collar of Zhong Li He’s uniform: “Commander in Chief, after thinking it over, you should come to the exhibit with me. Your face works better than mine.”
Zhong Li He had no chance to refuse. He was dragged backward by the collar. He even felt a bit lucky that no one saw it, or else the face of the Western Kingdom’s Commander in Chief would be completely ruined.
However, just like Jiang Tea Tea, Zhong Li He did not know that someone had filmed Jiang Tea Tea beating the three scorpion clan members and posted the video online. He also did not know that someone had filmed him being dragged by Kong Que and posted that online too.
The two of them, one after the other, only ten minutes apart, charged their way onto StarNet’s trending list one after another.
StarNet users of the M31 Star System forwarded and commented one after another: “Just earlier, a blogger at the space weapons expo posted a picture of Zhenlin Empire Personal Guard unit 59311, that pure human female. I did not expect that in less than two hours we would see her beating up the scorpion clan members.”
“Beast God above, the moment she swung that electric swing baton, she was so A she hit me right in the heart. I urgently need all of her info. I am going to chase her.”
“You up there saying you want to chase her, do you hear yourself? She is a member of Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s Personal Guard. Someone like you would get knocked flat in one hit, ten at a time.”
“Exactly. Look at her face covered in paint, those sunglasses, that high ponytail. Even though we cannot see her real face, she still looks so beautiful. Being with her would feel so safe.”
“Wuwuwu, all the good looking, capable, strong ones have all been turned over to the nation. The people left around me are all weird ugly ones. Just looking at them makes me so mad.”
“Wait, wait, have you all missed the main point? She is beating the Insectoid Race. She is beating our Insectoid Race. Is nobody going to speak up for us?”
“If she is beating you Insectoid Race people, it must be you bugs who picked a fight first. Why else would she beat you for no reason?”
“Right, right. Who would be so bored that they would beat up bugs for no reason? If she hit you, it is because you deserved it. What else?”
“Hitting you just means you deserve a beating. Stop shouting here. Nobody will feel sorry for you.”
“You beastmen and pure humans are biased against our Insectoid Race. Maybe that pure human female just beat bugs for no reason.”
“So what if we are biased? So what if she beat you for no reason? It just shows you deserve it, what else?”
Insectoid Race StarNet users were so angry they were about to explode. They began calling other bugs online, getting ready to launch indiscriminate attacks on other StarNet users.
What they did not expect was that before their attack even began, the video of Zhong Li He being dragged by Kong Que was also uploaded and quickly rushed onto the trending list.
StarNet users across the M31 Star System burst out laughing: “So the Commander in Chief also has times when someone drags him by the back of his collar. That is so unexpected.”
“Look at the Commander in Chief’s sassy little expression and that mad, helpless look in his eyes. It looks like he is about to stab Lieutenant General Kong Que in the next second.”
“No, no, no. Based on the Commander in Chief’s supernatural ability level, if he really wanted to stab Lieutenant General Kong Que, it would take just a moment. But look at the footage. He did not make a move. He just let himself be dragged along and walked backward.”
“Mm, I get it now. He is acting spoiled. He is doting on him. These two are such a good ship. Do not ask. If you ask, I am an omnivore. I ship everything.”
“Hahaha, that line about being an omnivore who ships everything is amazing. Respect. Be careful your account does not get banned.”
“Hurry and look, you noisy bugs, hurry and look. Zhenlin Empire space weapons expo imperial authorities just posted an announcement. They restored the whole process of why those three bugs were beaten and fully support the Zhenlin Empire Patrol Corps at the expo. They even gave a verbal commendation to unit 59311, the pure human female who beat the bugs.”
Large numbers of StarNet users flooded into the comment section under the Zhenlin Empire space weapons expo imperial authorities’ post. They opened the video and, after watching it, all -mentioned the Insectoid Race imperial authorities and started asking soul-searching questions.
“Hey, Insectoid Race, did you not say we are biased against you? Come look. Look at what your scorpion Insectoid Race males are like.”
“Show me your chat logs. You beastman females dressed this short and this slutty are just trying to seduce our males. Just for that line alone, I fully support unit 59311 from Zhenlin Empire for breaking their tails, knocking out their teeth, cracking their heads open, expelling them, and blacklisting them forever. She is not wrong at all. If anyone says she is wrong, I will curse them to death.”
“Look again. Look. Zhenlin Empire has already more than once sent messages to everyone entering the exhibit, and they have also put announcements on StarNet saying that people inside the exhibit must value peace, must not use violence, and must not cause other conflicts. If they do, they will be expelled and blacklisted forever.”
“These Insectoid Race bugs knowingly broke the rules. You cannot blame others. Getting beaten, cursed, and kicked is what they deserve.”
“We Insectoid Race are the rulers of interstellar space, the strongest race in interstellar space. My goodness, it is already the age of interstellar technology. How can you still say such childish lines out loud? My toes are curling from secondhand embarrassment.”
Once again, because of their own subjects, the Insectoid Race’s reputation took a huge hit. On StarNet, the other races of interstellar space joined together to attack them.
The Insectoid Race imperial authorities did not say anything at all. They chose to coldly ignore it, with a “let them do what they want, we do not care” attitude.
Jiang Tea Tea had no idea about the raging storm online. She did not know people were praising her to the sky or that countless people were thinking about her.
She led Huang Da Zhuang and the others on patrol. In just one morning, they handled two violent incidents and one that almost turned violent.
At noon, during the lunch break, she made a call to Chong Ming.
The call rang twice and was picked up.
Chong Ming’s deep voice came into her ear: “You are calling me during lunch break. Is something wrong?”
As the Empire’s top leader, he knew she would not call for no reason. He went straight to the core of the issue, making it hard for the little demon to lie.
Jiang Tea Tea felt guilty about lying, but the words that came out of her mouth were still a lie: “Did you not tell me to call you sometimes even if there is nothing wrong? What, now I am calling you during lunch break and you do not allow it?”
Chong Ming paused: “I allow it. I am very happy, but this is not your usual way of handling things.”
He really could not be fooled at all.
Jiang Tea Tea sighed: “Alright, here is the truth. From the exhibitor information I have seen, the bug in charge of the space weapons expo for the Insectoid Race is High General Atuya, one of their top ten High Generals.”
“This morning I came into contact with Atuya and sensed Imperial Prince Aceras’s supernatural ability fluctuations beside her.”
“I did not see Aceras himself, so I think he must be disguised near her. Do you want to have people pay special attention to them?”
Chong Ming answered her: “Alright, I will arrange for people to watch them closely. You also need to be careful. Aceras has always had his eye on you, and High General Atuya loves him very much. They will definitely plan to take you back to the Insectoid Race.”