Chapter 201
Chapter 201: Trying to Kidnap Jiang Tea Tea When You Cannot Even Find Her, Kidnap What
On the warship, Sui Xuan Chu and the other seven did not get to wait for Jiang Tea Tea. Together with the three to five hundred people from the 59th encampment, they were all going to be sent back to the encampment.
Huang Da Zhuang and Cheng Xiao Ting were worried: “Why is Sister Tea not going back with us? Why is she staying on Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s warship?”
“Yeah. Earlier the alarm suddenly went off on the warship and ordered us all to evacuate. Then the Commander in Chief canceled the evacuation. After that, we heard a dragon roar, saw the Commander in Chief’s dragon body, and also saw a huge Fireball.”
“That huge red Fireball rolled over the Commander in Chief’s body and then smashed from his body into the ground. Do you guys think something happened?”
“I think something happened too, and I think it happened to Sister Tea. No, we have to go with Sister Tea onto Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s warship. We want to leave with her. If she does not go, we are not leaving!”
“Right. Sister Tea is our schoolmate and our comrade-in-arms. We cannot leave her behind. We have to find her and leave together.”
“Go find the leader of the 59th encampment. Let the leader report layer by layer. We have to make sure we find Sister Tea and leave with her.”
Cheng Lin Yue had not said a word this whole time. She kept looking at Sui Xuan Chu, urging him with her eyes to hurry up and think of something to say.
Sui Xuan Chu could not say that his roommate was with his uncle right now. He also could not say that his uncle was the Commander in Chief of Zhenlin Empire’s Three Armies, the prince regent, and that he himself was the crown prince.
“Everyone, calm down, calm down.” Sui Xuan Chu quickly stopped Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Xiao Ting, and the other five: “I will go ask. You guys wait here.”
Huang Da Zhuang asked with doubt: “Where are you going to ask?”
Sui Xuan Chu answered: “I will find Deputy Officer Ai, who works by Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s side, and ask him.”
Huang Da Zhuang: “You have his contact number?”
Sui Xuan Chu: “No.”
Huang Da Zhuang lowered his voice: “Then who are you going to ask?”
Sui Xuan Chu: “Do not worry about it. Just watch.”
Fine, they would just watch and see what he could do.
What Huang Da Zhuang never expected was that the “do not worry, just watch” Sui Xuan Chu talked about, meant he stood in front of the warship’s surveillance and monitoring system, raised his voice, and shouted: “Deputy Officer Ai, Deputy Officer Ai, I am a member of the 59th encampment, unit number 59310. I want to ask you something. If you hear me, please reply. If you hear me, please reply, Deputy Officer Ai.”
“Deputy Officer Ai, Deputy Officer Ai, I am from the 59th encampment, unit number 59310. I want to ask you something…”
When Sui Xuan Chu shouted for the eighth time, Deputy Officer Ai’s voice came through the surveillance system: “Unit number 59310, what do you need? Please speak.”
Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Xiao Ting, and Orange Sparrow’s eyes almost popped out. They could not believe that such a plain and simple shout really got Deputy Officer Ai to answer.
Sui Xuan Chu looked at the surveillance system: “Deputy Officer Ai, we are about to leave the warship with the people from the 59th encampment, but we do not know where our teammate Jiang Tea Tea is. We want to know where she is and whether she is leaving with us.”
Deputy Officer Ai replied: “Please wait a moment. I will check.”
Sui Xuan Chu: “Okay, thank you.”
Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Xiao Ting, and the other five men all gave him a thumbs up, almost pressing their thumbs to Sui Xuan Chu’s forehead to praise him.
About two minutes later, Deputy Officer Ai’s voice sounded again: “Unit number 59310, I checked. Your teammate Jiang Tea Tea needs to assist the Healing department on the warship to tackle some cases of restless supernatural abilities. For now, she cannot leave the warship with you and return to the 59th encampment.”
“But you do not need to worry. She was personally kept here by Commander in Chief Chong Ming. Her personal safety will be fully protected by the Commander in Chief.”
Sui Xuan Chu saluted the surveillance system: “Okay, thank you, Deputy Officer Ai.”
Deputy Officer Ai replied: “You are welcome. I wish you all the best.”
After listening to Deputy Officer Ai, Sui Xuan Chu turned to Huang Da Zhuang and the others: “Now you can relax. Your Sister Tea, my roommate, is perfectly safe.”
Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Xiao Ting, and the others nodded again and again: “We are relieved. As long as we know Sister Tea is okay, we are relieved.”
“Come on, let us go back to the 59th encampment with everyone. We still have to patrol tomorrow and keep a close eye on the Insectoid Race.”
“Exactly. I took a quick look online just now. There were two more incidents where the Insectoid Race caused trouble at the space Weapons Expo, but luckily they were driven out.”
The bugs of the Insectoid Race were causing trouble again at the space weapons show. Other common citizens who came to visit posted it online, and once more it stirred up a storm on StarNet.
The imperial authorities of the Insectoid Race were almost being torn apart by common citizens of the M31 Star System. Their imperial authorities’ account looked like a dead account. They did not make any statements, did not reply to comments, did not block any accounts, and still used cold silence to deal with it.
Far away in the Insectoid Race’s territory, the crown princess heir Asais had gotten more than one message from Atuya, asking her to submit a request to the Queen, Her Majesty, and ask her to order the Insectoid Race’s common citizens to behave.
Asais also wanted to change the reputation of the Insectoid Race in the M31 Star System. But twice in a row, when she submitted to the Queen, Her Majesty’s reply was that they must keep their own personality and their own bloodlust.
The hidden meaning was that there was no need to change the Insectoid Race’s reputation in the M31 Star System. The Insectoid Race was a naturally warlike and bloody race. If you changed their bloodlust and their warlike nature, it would no longer be the Insectoid Race. It might as well be called just bugs.
Asais passed the Queen’s meaning on to Atuya. Aceras happened to hear it and agreed with the Queen. He told Atuya: “We of the Insectoid Race are the strongest race in the M31 Star System. We do not need to please anyone.”
“The common citizens of the Insectoid Race who came to the Weapons Expo watched the show and made a few comments. If others did not agree with their opinion and started hitting them, they just hit back. Then they were misunderstood and sent off the planet. That has nothing to do with them. It is the others’ fault.”
“Atuya, you and the crown princess heir do not need to care about others’ opinions or others’ judgment. Just doing your own part well is enough.”
Atuya looked at Aceras: “There are too many bugs in the Insectoid Race. Because of unbalanced systems, there are internal problems too. We need reforms.”
“Reform is not for the sake of what others think. It is not to weaken our bloodlust. It is to help our Insectoid Race go further and develop more steadily.”
“Now is not like hundreds of years ago, when we relied on savage methods and sheer numbers. Now we have to focus on quality, on high technology, on…”
Aceras cut her off and put his arm around her: “Atuya, you and Asais are too nervous.”
“Look at the whole M31 Star System. There are hundreds or thousands of nations, countless planets, and endless races. Which race can reproduce like us Insectoid Race? Which race is not afraid of death like us?”
“Our Insectoid Race is not behind in technology either. We rank near the top in the M31 Star System. If we fight any race, we can launch full firepower saturation.”
“What you and Asais should do is not reform, not blow up others’ spirits and dampen our own. What you should do is think about how to get Jiang Tea Tea to join the Insectoid Race, raise the level of our supernatural abilities, and gain more power and voice.”
“We are the leaders. Leaders should stand high above and drive the bugs below to fight for them. There is no need for us to stand at the front and charge in, thinking about reforms.”
Atuya’s whole body shook. She stared at Aceras in a daze. Shock and unfamiliarity flashed deep in her eyes, as if this was the first time she truly knew him.
Aceras did not notice the change in her eyes. He tightened the arm around her: “Jiang Tea Tea is a patrol personnel at this space Weapons Expo. It is actually very easy to grab her. We just need to find an excuse to call her into our Insectoid Race’s space Weapons Expo area and keep her there. Then we find someone built like her to walk out on camera. As long as she walks through the surveillance system, even if Chong Ming suspects us, he will have no proof.”
“Atuya, tell me, is this method good or not? Is it simple? Is it easy to use?”
Atuya stepped out of his embrace and looked at him: “Your Highness, I will not consider doing that.”
Aceras’s face sank, all warmth gone: “Why?”
Atuya said: “This time we came to the Weapons Expo to seek cooperation with many nations and sell weapons.”
“Jiang Tea Tea is the only mutated Level S Healing master in all interstellar space and is the treasure of Zhenlin Empire. You are really underestimating the security of Zhenlin Empire and underestimating Commander in Chief Chong Ming.”
Aceras frowned: “Who is underestimating him? I am not. My method would let us leave without Commander in Chief Chong Ming finding out.”
Atuya shook her head: “No. The moment Jiang Tea Tea disappears, Commander in Chief Chong Ming will notice right away.”
“You are underestimating how important Jiang Tea Tea is, underestimating how much Commander in Chief Chong Ming values her. You… you are born with the arrogance of the Insectoid Race. You think the Insectoid Race is the strongest race in the M31 Star System. You think all other races must give way to the Insectoid Race. You do not even know that the M31 Star System has already changed.”
Aceras’s brows knitted into the shape of the character for river. In his green eyes, disbelief flashed that Atuya would say such things to him.
She loved him, wanted to be with him, wanted to register and marry him. All this time she had gone along with him and never went against him.
Now she not only opposed him, she even called him arrogant.
He was arrogant?
He was a grand imperial prince of the Insectoid Race. So what if he was a little arrogant?
Seeing that he did not speak, Atuya softened her tone a little: “I am sorry, Your Highness. I cannot agree to your request to kidnap Jiang Tea Tea.”
“Please rest here. I am going to check the orders at the space Weapons Expo. If you need anything, you can call me.”
She took three steps back, then turned and walked quickly away under Aceras’s gaze.
The moment the door closed, Aceras kicked the sofa beside him. Atuya had gone against him, did not agree with his idea, and would not help him.
She could not really think that just because she would not help him, he could not think of other ways and could not get Jiang Tea Tea, right?
The more she stopped him and refused to help, the more he wanted to prove it to her. He wanted her to see that anything he wanted, he could get.
Aceras opened his light-brain wrist terminal and gave an order to the subordinate bugs under him. At any cost, they were to lure the troop members of Zhenlin Empire, unit number 59311, into the Insectoid Race’s space Weapons Expo area…
The subordinate bugs who received his order used their fastest speed-type abilities to look for the person with unit number 59311. Not only could they not find her, they could not even find a single patrol personnel whose number started with 59.
They did not dare report this to Aceras, afraid he would blame them, so they kept searching. On the second day, they finally saw patrol personnel whose numbers started with 59.
They combed through every patrol personnel whose number began with 59, looking for 59311. They found 59310, 59312, and 59313, but they never found 59311.
It was as if 59311 had vanished into thin air. They searched for several days and still did not find her. With no other choice, they reported it to Aceras.
Aceras had not expected that after several days, his subordinates still could not even find Jiang Tea Tea herself.
He gave them a death order in anger: “Search. Keep searching. Turn Ri Pan Star upside down if you have to, but find her for me.”
“If you cannot find her, do not come to see me. Dig your own hole, chop off your own heads, and bury yourselves.”
In less than a week, the deep pit where Jiang Tea Tea was had already stretched to a straight length of a hundred meters. The green Flame Sphere inside had turned blue, then completely white.
The Flame Sphere was as big as a planet in the universe. The white fire patterns flowed like layers of ripples on water.
The Flame Sphere looked white and almost transparent, but the inside could still not be seen clearly. Other than when he was handling government affairs, Chong Ming spent all his time outside this deep pit.
In a flash, four more days passed. The white flames slowly began to turn black. Zhong Li He, who came once a day to check, happened to see it. He quickly shouted in excitement: “Chong Ming, Chong Ming, it is turning black, the flames are turning black!”
Hearing his shout, Chong Ming rushed over from not far away. Right then, the white flames in the pit, streaked with black, suddenly shot up high.
Zhong Li He jumped in fright and grabbed Chong Ming’s arm, dragging him back: “Hurry, go. The Flame Sphere is about to lose control.”
Chong Ming jerked his arm free: “I can bear the heat of a Flame Sphere out of control. You go first…”
“Bang!”
As soon as Chong Ming finished speaking, the huge black and white Flame Sphere exploded in the deep pit like a bomb.
Countless tiny fragments of flame scattered in all directions like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers. They hit the dry dead grass, and with a roar, everything burst into flames…