Chapter 190

Chapter 190: Can you believe even the Insectoid Race has bugs who don’t play by the rules?

Jiang Tea Tea asked doubtfully: “You all talked about sending me to the Insectoid Race. With me dressed like this from head to toe, showing only a unit number, how would they know who I am?”

Chong Ming countered: “Jiang Tea Tea, schoolmate, you haven’t even seen Aceras. How do you know Aceras has arrived?”

“I can tell from the fluctuations of supernatural abiliti…”

Jiang Tea Tea cut herself off halfway, then suddenly changed her words: “Okay, what you said makes sense. Last question, is the Insectoid Race fun?”

The little ones in her belly were already seven and a half months along. According to the Dragon Clan’s pregnancy cycle for little brats, it ran anywhere from ten to fifteen months.

She was not a native female here, so she decided to count by the longest, fifteen months. That meant the dragon cubs still had another seven and a half months before they would be born.

There were five dragon cubs. Chong Ming had no idea there were that many. If he found out later, who knew what kind of storm he would kick up, and she might not get even a single cub.

With her current strength, she could not stand up to all the hot weapons in his subordinates’ hands. If it really turned into a live-fire fight over the babies, she would not be able to beat him at all.

Besides, she was planning to finish the contract with the fake young miss, find the way home, and take the dragon little brats back to the Demon Clan.

She was just a tea tree spirit, and yet she had actually given birth to dragon cubs. That was such an awesome feat that she had to go back and show off properly, to make the other demons die of envy.

So she needed to find a safe place to give birth to the little brats. She wanted to ask about the Insectoid Race. If it sounded like a good place, she was willing to let them “capture” her on purpose so she could go ahead of time and scout it out.

Chong Ming’s low voice cooled: “The Insectoid Race is not fun. Every adult female has thirty to fifty male husbands.”

Jiang Tea Tea was stunned: “Really? That many?”

Even a seductress would have her legs shaking!

Chong Ming answered: “It’s true. If you don’t believe me, search it online. Thirty to fifty is already on the low side. Some females don’t want to work to earn money but still want a refined life. They’ll marry seventy to eighty, even one to two hundred.”

“The laws of the Insectoid Race say that once a male marries a female, except for the primary husband, who only has to hand over fifty percent of his income, the other secondary husbands all have to hand over between seventy and eighty percent of their income.”

“Some females, just to keep up their quality of life, often marry new male husbands whenever they feel like it.”

“The Insectoid Race has a social structure where females are few and males are many. Females are respected and males are low. Reproduction is an instinct. For the sake of continuing their bloodline, male bugs are very willing to marry female bugs.”

“Why? You asked me whether the Insectoid Race is fun. Are you thinking of going to the Insectoid Race…”

Jiang Tea Tea cut him off at once: “No, no, I don’t want to go to the Insectoid Race. I was just curious and asked.”

Everything in the world was her food. Getting pregnant with dragon cubs had already gone far beyond what she ever imagined or planned for. If she then had to marry bugs on top of that, it would be going against the order of heaven. She would get struck by lightning.

Chong Ming said with deep meaning: “I thought you asked me whether the Insectoid Race is fun because you wanted to go there.”

“But with your level of supernatural abilities, as a pure human, if you went, I think the queen of the Insectoid Race would do one of two things to keep you. She might give you one to two hundred bug husbands so you’d be too happy to think of going home and could be used by her. Or she might eat you and use you as a tonic.”

Jiang Tea Tea let out a sound: “Eat me as a tonic?”

Chong Ming’s low voice shifted: “Jiang Tea Tea, schoolmate, you’re still young. You don’t really know some of the inside things about the Insectoid Race.”

“For example, not every bug in the Insectoid Race is plant-eating. Many bugs are bloodthirsty carnivores.”

“Those bloodthirsty carnivores don’t just eat any animal meat in nature. They also eat higher-intelligence beastmen and pure humans.”

“In the last thousand years or so, the spiritual power and supernatural abilities of the insectoid clan members have become more and more violent. They have offered all kinds of generous terms to bring in beastman healing masters and pure human healing masters.”

“Before they were brought in, everyone knew about it. It shook all of Interstellar Space. After they were brought in, everything went silent. No news at all. No one knew if they were alive or dead.”

“Guess where those people went?”

Jiang Tea Tea’s scalp tightened: “They were eaten by bugs?”

[Good grief, she hated bugs the most.]

She especially hated some of the meat-eating, root-boring bugs.

Those bugs would chew her leaves, burrow into her roots, and even gnaw on her bark.

Back when she had not yet cultivated into a human form but already had consciousness, she could not drive away the bugs clinging to her body. She could only endure them chewing and drilling into her body over and over!

Chong Ming asked in return: “Where else do you think they went?”

Jiang Tea Tea let out a dry little laugh: “All right, the Insectoid Race is too barbaric. Um, I won’t talk to you anymore. You keep working overtime. You keep busy.”

Chong Ming reminded her: “Remember to eat.”

Jiang Tea Tea had been about to hang up. His reminder made her say: “I only have nutrient injections and nutrient solution. There’s nothing to eat.”

Chong Ming reminded her: “In your space knob storage device, there is a red box. The red box has food inside.”

Jiang Tea Tea let out a small sound: “Okay, I know. Thank you. Bye-bye, mwah!”

Before she even finished talking, the call hung up.

Chong Ming looked at the now dark screen of the light-brain wrist terminal and gave a helpless laugh and shake of his head. But as he turned around, his smile vanished. He turned up the sound of the video conference, looked at the people in charge of the major planets on the screen, and his voice turned ice cold.

“Everyone, the White Wolf Tribe’s Hope Gene Research Institute has existed for more than a thousand years. Sixty percent of their customers come from the various planets of the Zhen Lin Empire. The other forty percent come from nations in the rest of the M31 Star System.”

“I’ve already had the lists of people in your respective jurisdictions sent to you. Before you start checking by name, I hope each of you will do a complete self-inspection of your own planet and not let a single illegal experimental site slip through.”

“Most importantly, I hope you will crack down on the old, unfair idea that people with supernatural abilities are better and higher than everyone else.”

“In my Zhen Lin Empire, whether it is someone with supernatural abilities or an ordinary beastman or pure human who has not awakened, everyone is equal.”

“For ordinary people who have not awakened supernatural abilities, please reserve more positions for them. Do not let any person with supernatural abilities stand above them.”

The people in charge of the major planets answered together: “Yes, Commander in Chief!”

Chong Ming’s sharp gaze swept over them through the screen: “We’ll use four months as one cycle. In these four months, special people will supervise your work. After four months, I’ll send people to conduct a public opinion survey on each planet.”

The people in charge of the major planets repeated loudly: “Yes, Commander in Chief!”

Chong Ming spoke a little more before he finally ended the video conference. Then he turned straight into another meeting and more government work.

The busy work came one after another. He did not even have time to stop for a drink of water. The chief secretary Wen and the whole secretary team followed behind him, rushing around without stopping.

After hanging up the call, Jiang Tea Tea followed Chong Ming’s reminder and dug around in her space knob storage device until she pulled out a red food box.

This red food box was just like the previous white food box. It was also a food chest, weighing about fifty jin. Inside were all kinds of tasty food and drinks.

Even though Sui Xuan Chu and the other seven had already taken nutrient injections and drunk nutrient solution, when they saw all the delicious food, they still wolfed it down without mercy.

Of course, besides them, the other people on patrol who were on their lunch break also came over to eat when they saw it. In just a short time, the more than fifty jin of food was completely wiped out.

After they finished eating, the lunch break ended, and they went back on patrol. In the afternoon, the ordinary common citizens coming to see the space exhibition were even more than the common citizens in the morning.

Jiang Tea Tea and the others did not dare slack off. From 1:30 in the afternoon, they patrolled all the way until 6:30 in the evening, when the expo closed.

After the expo closed, they went back to their lodging encampment. The common citizens who had come to see the exhibition either returned to their hotels or went to stroll around the snack streets and specialty streets.

The people in charge of each nation had come to sell weapons and buy weapons. After common citizens finished visiting the exhibition, they went to walk around the snack stalls and specialties brought by nations from all over Interstellar Space.

They could not afford weapons, but they could afford snacks and special local products. The Zhen Lin Empire did things especially well in this area. In both the hotels and the various specialty streets, there were teleportation gates for goods.

Once you bought specialties and paid the teleportation fee, as long as there was a teleportation gate somewhere in the M31 Star System, your purchases could all be sent there. It was incredibly convenient.

The person in charge of Ri Pan Star was almost laughing himself rich. The space Weapons Expo only had one hundred thousand ordinary common citizen tickets per day, but people coming just to travel here had already reached five hundred thousand in the three days before opening. On opening day, the number reached two hundred thousand.

According to the booking numbers given by the Space Station, this number was still rising. Tomorrow, the number of people coming would reach two hundred and fifty thousand.

Every day, two to three million tourists of all races came and went. Their food, drinks, daily needs, and everything else were all money, all income for the planet. Of course the person in charge could not stop smiling.

As for Jiang Tea Tea and her group, aside from the space Weapons Expo area, even at their lodging encampment, they were not allowed to go out after 6:30 in the evening unless they had orders from above.

They had patrolled for a whole day, with only an hour and a half of rest in the middle. Jiang Tea Tea did not feel tired, and the little ones in her belly were still lively.

She took a good shower and changed clothes. Just like the night before, she spread out a blanket and slept on the floor. Her legs turned into tree roots, drilled into the ground, and spread out endlessly, reaching farther and sucking up more nutrients.

Aceras took off his disguise and went to Atuya’s room.

Atuya had been studying the first day’s order numbers from the space exhibition. When she saw him come in, she put away the light-brain wrist terminal tablet and stood up: “Your Highness…”

Aceras walked up to her and kissed her lips: “You keep working. I just came to see you.”

Atuya’s heart swayed. She grabbed his hand: “I’m almost done. Your supernatural abilities are restless. How is your spiritual sea? Do you need me to comb it for you?”

Aceras sat down with her and looked into her eyes: “Sure.”

Atuya intertwined her fingers with his and released spiritual power to comb his spiritual sea.

Her supernatural abilities and spiritual power were not plant-type, after all. When she combed his spiritual sea, it was a bit rough and could only treat the symptoms, not the root.

Aceras also released spiritual power, sending it back to her to comb her spiritual sea in return. Two bugs combing each other’s spiritual seas could pull their hearts closer.

After half an hour, Atuya withdrew her spiritual power and brought Aceras some drinks and snacks.

As Aceras ate, he asked her: “About Jiang Tea Tea, on your side…”

Atuya met his gaze: “I’ve already sent people to tail her and scout the place.”

Aceras brightened: “So the place is already scouted. Where is she staying? What are the chances we can kidnap her by force?”

Atuya answered: “Right now she is living in patrol camp number fifty-nine of the Zhen Lin Empire. We don’t know how many people are in that encampment, but one thing is certain. The chance of taking her by force is zero.”

Aceras frowned when he heard that: “Why is the chance of taking her by force zero? Among your subordinates, there are many bugs with invisibility supernatural abilities, teleportation supernatural abilities, and hypnosis supernatural abilities.”

“If you send them out, they can hypnotize her first, give her a set location, and make her walk there herself. Then the subordinates with teleportation and invisibility supernatural abilities can grab her and take her onto our ship. Wouldn’t that work?”

Atuya reached out and gently smoothed the crease between his brows: “That plan is worth trying in theory. But above every military encampment of the Zhen Lin Empire is a web of transparent beams. Below is full-coverage information monitoring against people with supernatural abilities.”

“In other words, if I send one subordinate with an invisibility supernatural ability carrying another subordinate with a hypnosis supernatural ability, if they go through the air, the transparent beams will cut them in half at the waist. If they go below, they will be blocked from every direction.”

Aceras grabbed her hand and moved it away from his brow: “So this won’t work, and that won’t work. When will anything work?”

Atuya’s voice softened even more: “Your Highness, you are too impatient.”

Aceras paused: “I’m impatient?”

Atuya nodded: “Yes. Today is only the first day of the space Weapons Expo. There are still twenty-nine days left. If you’re this eager now, even if we somehow manage to snatch Jiang Tea Tea, can you be sure our ship will be able to leave the Zhen Lin Empire star system?”

Aceras deflated like air leaking out of a balloon: “You’re right, Atuya. But I really want to take Jiang Tea Tea back to the Insectoid Race.”

“Your spiritual power and mine can only comb each other’s spiritual seas on the surface. We can’t smooth them out completely.”

“Now that Chong Ming has her, not only are his supernatural abilities no longer restless and his spiritual sea stable, his supernatural ability level is also slowly rising. It really makes me jealous and envious.”

“Empress Mother is already very dissatisfied with me and the crown princess heir. I’m afraid if my supernatural ability level still doesn’t rise, I won’t be able to help the crown princess heir or you. Empress Mother will treat me like a useless pawn and kick me away whenever she wants.”

Atuya lay against his chest and wrapped her arms around his waist: “I know, Your Highness. You’re doing this for the crown princess heir and for our future.”

“Don’t be anxious. What I promised you, I will try my best to help you achieve. Even if we can’t reach your wish, it’s okay. During this space Weapons Expo, sign more contracts with some nations. If you reach the Queen’s expectations, Her majesty will have nothing to say.”

Aceras held her close. His green eyes were full of hunger for Jiang Tea Tea’s plant-type supernatural abilities and for his own rise in power. He only opened his mouth and gave a soft: “Mm.”

The next morning, Jiang Tea Tea and her group got up as usual and trained. After the first day, they no longer needed to patrol for ten hours. Now they only had to patrol for six hours. The rest of the time was free activity.

But the face paint they wore was not for one day. Each design lasted for ten days. Going out while wearing it was too much trouble.

So Jiang Tea Tea and the others chose not to go out. Aside from patrolling the encampment, they stayed in the lodging encampment and worked on the homework assigned by their teacher.

In this way, ten days passed in a flash. The face paint on Jiang Tea Tea and the others faded away. Wearing their own clothes, they finally went out to have fun.

They went to the specialty street and bought and bought. Then they went to the snack street and ate and ate. The eight of them never stopped chewing, and their hands never stopped grabbing things.

After strolling for two hours, the bellies of Sui Xuan Chu and the other seven had grown noticeably rounder. Jiang Tea Tea’s small belly was only slightly swollen. If you didn’t look closely, you wouldn’t notice it at all. No one would imagine she had five little ones in her belly.

They were stuffed and overfull. Each of them still held a cup of pure fruit juice, sipping as they walked back toward the encampment.

They had not even walked a quarter of the way when Atuya, wearing an Insectoid Race military uniform and leading a group of people, stepped out to block them: “Miss Jiang Tea Tea, hello. It’s nice to meet you. I am Atuya, one of the ten high generals of the Insectoid Race, and also the person in charge of the Insectoid Race side for this space Weapons Expo.”

Sui Xuan Chu and the others instantly went on guard. They pulled out all kinds of weapons, held them in their hands, and stared at Atuya with full caution.

Seeing this, Atuya spoke politely: “Everyone, please don’t be nervous. I have no ill will toward you or Miss Jiang Tea Tea. I came here today and stopped you only because I want to say a few words to Miss Jiang Tea Tea. Please allow it.”

Most of the Insectoid Race were arrogant and rude, their noses pointing toward the sky. They thought they were the strongest race in Interstellar Space, the rulers of all.

Someone as polite and courteous as Atuya was the only one Sui Xuan Chu and the others had ever seen. But bugs were bugs, and not one of them was a good thing. No matter how polite she was, they could not let their guard down.

“Sorry, Miss Jiang Tea Tea is not free, and neither are we. Please leave, High General Atuya.”

Atuya acted as if she had not heard Sui Xuan Chu and the others. She turned her gaze to Jiang Tea Tea: “Miss Jiang Tea Tea, I’m wearing my uniform today, and we are under many watching eyes. There is no way I could do anything to you here.”

“Please believe me. I only want to speak with you alone for a few minutes, nothing more. Is that okay?”

The space Weapons Expo had already been going on for ten days. Aceras and Atuya had made no moves. Jiang Tea Tea did not believe they had forgotten about her.

Jiang Tea Tea answered: “Okay. But don’t go too far.”

“Sister Tea…”

“Roommate…”

Sui Xuan Chu and the others called out in protest.

Jiang Tea Tea looked at them and tried to soothe them: “Don’t worry. Look over there.”

Following the direction of her lifted chin, Sui Xuan Chu and the others looked over. They saw the Western Kingdom’s chief executive commander, Zhong Li He, with a man about the same height as him. The man wore casual clothes and carried all kinds of snacks. The two of them stood not far away, eating while watching them and waving in greeting.

When Sui Xuan Chu saw Zhong Li He, he relaxed a little. The Western Kingdom had good relations with the Zhen Lin Empire, and Zhong Li He had a private friendship with his uncle. If anything happened to them, Zhong Li He would definitely step in and ask his uncle for a favor.

Jiang Tea Tea and Atuya walked to the side. Jiang Tea Tea asked: “What do you want with me? Go ahead and say it.”

Atuya was very straightforward: “To be honest, my fiancé is the great imperial prince of the Insectoid Race, His Highness Aceras.”

“Before this, he was invited by Commander in Chief Chong Ming to stay for a while on the capital planet of the Zhen Lin Empire. His supernatural abilities and spiritual sea were in bad shape.”

“You are the only variant plant-type ability 3S healing master in the Zhen Lin Empire and even all of Interstellar Space. I sincerely ask you to calm my fiancé His Highness Aceras’s restless supernatural abilities and comb his spiritual sea.”

“Of course, I won’t let you work for nothing. I can pay five hundred million star credits. If you think that’s too little, I don’t have that much cash, but I can add some rare gem ores. What do you think?”