Chapter 206
Chapter 206: You Kidnapped Me But You Still Fear Me, Something’s Wrong With You
The Bugs who got Aceras’s order all answered at once in fear, rushing to promise and show their loyalty: “Your Highness, please rest easy, we will think of every possible way to lure Zhenlin Empire army unit 59311 into the Insectoid Race Weapons Expo.”
“We do not care about the hundred million star credits. We only want to share Your Highness’s burdens and help Your Highness raise your supernatural abilities level to the highest in all interstellar space, above Commander in Chief Chong Ming and Chief Executive Commander Zhong Li He!”
Aceras laughed. He had not even seen Jiang Tea Tea yet, but he was already imagining a happy celebration and started drawing a big pie for the Bugs below him: “Once we take down unit 59311, my supernatural abilities level will be the highest in all interstellar space. When that time comes, I will not forget your credit. I will make sure you have money if you want money, and power if you want power.”
The Bugs below him all shouted in unison: “Thank you, Your Highness.”
All of Aceras’s Insectoid Race subordinates on Ri Pan Star moved out, for themselves and for their families.
They only had one goal. No matter what method they used, they had to lure 59311 into the Insectoid Race space Weapons Expo.
Only if they got 59311 into the Insectoid Race space Weapons Expo would their mission be counted as complete, and their families would not be dragged down because of their task.
“It’s here, it’s here, they are here again.” Huang Da Zhuang called quietly to Cheng Lin Yue, Zhang Ting Zhou, and Jiang Tea Tea: “The people following and watching us are back again. This time, there are 9 of them.”
Cheng Lin Yue gasped in a low voice: “Nine? Before, I heard Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Xiao Ting say that there were people following and watching them too.”
“We compared numbers. The ones following them plus the ones following us were only 9 in total. You mean these 9 are all following us now and watching us?”
Zhang Ting Zhou joined the talk: “These past Top Ten days, the people following and watching us were either 5 or 4.”
“Now Sister Tea is back. The ones watching us went from four or five to 9. So they are here for Sister Tea?”
As soon as Zhang Ting Zhou finished speaking, his gaze, together with Huang Da Zhuang and Cheng Lin Yue, all turned toward Jiang Tea Tea, as if she was some kind of prehistoric monster.
Jiang Tea Tea met their eyes through her sunglasses: “Obviously, your guess is right. They are here for me.”
“But, Big Dog Huang, use your nose and smell again. It feels like there are more than 9 people watching and following us. Two more came. Maybe you did not smell them before.”
Huang Da Zhuang: “!!!!”
There is something like that?
The supernatural ability he awakened was an enhanced sense of smell.
As long as he used his supernatural ability, he could smell things dozens of kilometers away.
Now she was telling him he smelled wrong.
[The enemy really looks down on dogs.]
Huang Da Zhuang activated his supernatural ability and used his enhanced sense of smell to sniff again.
After about half a minute, he said: “Sister Tea, other than those 9, I did not smell any other familiar scents. They are all strange scents.”
On the route they patrolled, there were normal tourist common citizens. The scent of those tourists was strange. It was the first time he had smelled them, and he could tell the difference.
He had smelled the scents of the people who followed and watched them no less than dozens of times in these 10 days. He knew them very well.
The only reason they had not taken those people down was because those 9 came from 9 different planets and different races. According to the data they checked, they were just ordinary tourists, nothing special.
Others from 59 Encampment had also questioned them to different degrees. All 9 of them answered smoothly.
Later, after everyone discussed it, they decided not to scare the snake by sweeping the grass. They would let them go for now and wait until their fox tails showed. Then they would grab those tails in one move.
Jiang Tea Tea reminded him: “At your six-thirty direction, there is a female who is pregnant with a youngling. She is walking toward us.”
Huang Da Zhuang turned his head to look. A female wearing a wide sun hat, a maternity dress, and flat shoes, with a big round belly, one hand pressing on her lower back and the other rubbing her belly, was walking toward them.
Huang Da Zhuang did not react at first: “She… is also one of the people who are following and watching us? With that big belly?”
If he were not wearing a hat that made it hard to smack the back of his head, Jiang Tea Tea’s hand would have gone up already: “The belly is fake.”
Huang Da Zhuang’s pupils shook. The belly was fake, yet she was walking toward them. She must be a partner of those 9 who followed and watched them, a new partner.
Cheng Lin Yue and Zhang Ting Zhou tensed up and moved in front of Jiang Tea Tea to guard her. Just as they were ready to go meet that fake pregnant female, the fake pregnant female was still several steps away from them when her foot twisted and she fell to the ground.
Her belly was fake, but her acting was real. When she fell, blood flowed out from between her legs, and that blood was real.
She held her belly and wailed as she cried out: “My belly hurts so much, someone please save me, save my youngling.”
“Ah, ah, I am bleeding, it hurts, it hurts so much, help, help.”
The other tourists, including the ones who had been following and watching Huang Da Zhuang and the others for the past 10 days, all stopped. Some ran over to the fake pregnant female. Some started to speak out to blame Jiang Tea Tea and her group.
“59310, 59311, 59313, can’t you see there is a pregnant female who fell over there?”
“You have a vehicle. Hurry, hurry, hurry, go save her and send her to the Healing Institute at once. Heaven, I hope nothing happens to her youngling.”
“Why are you not moving? You are Zhenlin Empire patrol personnel. The purpose of your patrol is to protect the safety of normal tourist common citizens.”
“Now… now a pregnant female has fallen and is bleeding, and the few of you are just standing there doing nothing. That is too much.”
“I want to expose you. I want everyone in the whole M31 Star System to see how you Zhenlin Empire inspection personnel watch someone die without helping.”
Huang Da Zhuang tilted his head and said to Jiang Tea Tea: “The ones shouting the loudest are the people who follow and watch us.”
Jiang Tea Tea understood at once and said to them: “Alright, go control that fake pregnant female. Then use the cameras to scan everyone here and send the images to the 59 Encampment command room. Bring every single one of them back and check them carefully.”
Huang Da Zhuang, Zhang Ting Zhou, and Cheng Lin Yue answered yes, but still asked in worry: “If you stay here alone, will it be dangerous? Should we call more people over?”
Jiang Tea Tea waved at the three of them: “They followed and watched you for 10 days because of me. I have to give them this chance.”
“The three of you hurry and take this fake pregnant female away. Over here I will link to the 59 Encampment command room and Major General Xia Wei Yi and stream everything to them.”
Only then did Huang Da Zhuang and Cheng Lin Yue relax. They took a stretcher out from a space knob storage device and quickly went forward to lift the fake pregnant female.
The three of them worked together. Two carried the stretcher, and one calmed her down. Even with hats, sunglasses, and paint all over their faces, the people nearby could still see that they were really worried.
After Jiang Tea Tea watched them leave, she sent a message to Xia Wei Yi and briefly explained the situation. She not only connected to her, but also to the 59 Encampment command room.
As Chong Ming’s personal guard major general, Xia Wei Yi held a place at his side as a female not only because her own skills were strong, but also because her mind was sharp.
Jiang Tea Tea connected to her, and she in turn connected to her own Commander in Chief. In the live video feed and recording, they could not see Jiang Tea Tea’s face, but everything in front of her could be seen clearly.
The chief of 59 Encampment had already called everyone to move. All members went into full readiness, ready to attack at any time and any place.
Jiang Tea Tea acted like nothing was wrong and kept patrolling with her stun baton.
The 9 who had been following and watching Sui Xuan Chu and the others saw that she was alone and were wild with joy. According to their plan, they sent over two more females.
The two females looked harmless. They were young and not pretty, the kind of faces you would forget after one glance in a crowd.
They ran over in a hurry. When they saw Jiang Tea Tea, it was like they had seen a life-saving straw. They rushed to ask: “Hello, hello, have you seen two younglings about ten years old, about this tall?”
Jiang Tea Tea watched them make hand signs and lifted her eyelids a little. She saw that in the direction of the Insectoid Race space Weapons Expo, two younglings about ten years old were running inside.
Jiang Tea Tea pointed with her hand: “Are you talking about those two?”
The two females followed her hand to look. There were no ten-year-old younglings there at all, only empty space.
The two little beastman younglings had already run into the Insectoid Race space Weapons Expo area. Their speed-type ability was so fast because they did not want the two females to see them.
The two females said in urgency: “No, there is nothing there. Did you see them? Please take me over there to look for them, okay?”
“My child is only ten, and his body is not in good shape. I am afraid something will happen to him. Please help us look for him…”
Jiang Tea Tea cut the two females off: “Okay, I will take you over there. Let’s go.”
The two females had thought they would have to beg her for a long time. They did not expect her to agree so easily.
They did not get to use any of the lines they had prepared. For a moment they were shocked, happy, scared, and uneasy all at the same time.
Jiang Tea Tea walked a few steps. When she saw that they were not moving, she turned her head to urge them, even more anxious than they were: “You two, why are you standing there? Aren’t you looking for your youngling? Hurry and go.”
The two females acted like this was their first time doing such a thing. They came back to themselves and answered in a rush: “Coming, coming, thank you, thank you, you are such a good person.”
Jiang Tea Tea comforted them: “This is what I should do. But you should know, Zhenlin Empire cracks down hard and forbids the trafficking of younglings. Even so, sometimes people from other nations still take the risk and do experiments, and they target younglings on purpose.”
“People who traffic younglings have many methods. For example, they use money to enchant the youngling’s parents. They give the parents money and tell them to let the youngling go out for a walk.”
“In truth, those people take the chance to carry the youngling away and lock them up in dark laboratories where no light ever reaches. Drawing blood, peeling skin, and cutting out tissue is just basic work.”
The two females shivered all over as they listened. Fear flashed in their eyes, and their steps sped up as if Jiang Tea Tea had scared them.
Through her sunglasses, Jiang Tea Tea took in their expressions. The two of them did not look like professionals. They looked like amateurs who had only been trained for a few days.
From their clothes, they looked very normal. After scanning their IDs, they did not seem like the kind of people who could cross interstellar space to come to Ri Pan Star for a week to watch the expo and tour around. That meant they were actors the Insectoid Race people had pulled in at the last minute for money.
The Insectoid Race space Weapons Expo area was very large. Besides the proud Bug staff members, there were also machine bugs.
There were very few tourists who came to visit. Most were people from other nations on other planets, who came to look at the weapons and place orders.
The two younglings were like they had eyes on the back of their heads. As soon as they saw Jiang Tea Tea and the others come in, they appeared at a distance in front of them.
Jiang Tea Tea had great patience. She walked behind them without hurrying or panicking. The two females behind her, though scared, did not dare to run ahead to chase the younglings when they saw them.
Like this, they walked and walked. The two younglings in front led Jiang Tea Tea into the most remote corner of the expo area, to a place that was built temporarily. It did not look like a room. It looked like a shipping container.
At the instant Jiang Tea Tea stepped inside, the two females rushed past her, grabbed their younglings, and thanked Jiang Tea Tea: “Thank you, thank you, we found our younglings, thank you, thank you.”
“We will take the younglings away now. We troubled you so much, we troubled you so much.”
Jiang Tea Tea waved the hand holding the stun baton: “You are welcome…”
Before she finished speaking, the two females ran out carrying the child.
At the same moment they ran out, there was a loud clang as the door of the container-like place slammed shut. Jiang Tea Tea was locked inside, and it was pitch black.
Xia Wei Yi’s heart tightened. She wanted to ask the Commander in Chief whether they should go save her, but the words reached her lips and she did not dare to ask.
Everyone in the 59 Encampment command post had their hearts jump into their throats at the sound of that heavy door closing.
Jiang Tea Tea felt the place she was in start to move. She took out her flame staff. The flame staff was wrapped with five kinds of fire. She wiped off the layer of spiritual power covering it, and at once white flame rose from the flame staff. The small space became as bright as daytime.
As long as she wanted, she only needed to wave the flame staff lightly and the walls of the space she was in would be chopped open by the fire.
She did not do that. She thought that since she was already here, she might as well see clearly whether Aceras had invited her, or High General Atuya had invited her.
When Aceras learned that they had captured Jiang Tea Tea, he quickly sent a fake disguised Jiang Tea Tea out of the Insectoid Race expo area.
He specially had the fake Jiang Tea Tea walk under the surveillance system so that there would be a full 360-degree view of her leaving with no blind spots.
After that, he secretly moved the large box holding Jiang Tea Tea into the warship’s cargo bay without telling his fiancée Atuya.
He thought that when he opened the confinement box, he would see a Jiang Tea Tea with a face full of terror and eyes full of fear.
Instead, he saw Jiang Tea Tea holding a flaming staff in one hand and waving the other hand at him in greeting: “Long time no see, Your Highness Aceras. With the relationship between us, I did not expect you to invite me this way.”
Aceras froze for only a second. Then he went back to normal and smiled at Jiang Tea Tea as he said: “I thought that we only met twice, so it did not really count as any relationship. I did not dare to invite you in an open way. Please do not blame me.”
Jiang Tea Tea flicked her hand holding the flame staff. The fire went out. She carried the flame staff and walked toward Aceras as calmly as if she were walking into her own home: “I do not blame you, I do not blame you. It is not a big deal. I forgive you.”
As she came closer, Aceras backed up again and again, like she was some kind of poisonous beast.
Jiang Tea Tea remembered that she had beaten him so badly before he was like a grandson being beaten by his elder. He was afraid she would get close and hit him again.
Jiang Tea Tea stopped her steps and said with a laugh: “Aceras, stop backing away. This is your turf. You are the one who invited me over. I should be the one afraid of you.”
The corner of Aceras’s mouth twitched. He thought about it and felt she was right. He had already brought her here. No matter what, his fiancée Atuya would stand on his side.
What was there to be afraid of her for? There was no need to be afraid.
He would settle new and old grudges together.
Aceras at once took out a pair of handcuffs from a space knob storage device. The handcuffs could suppress and block the use of supernatural abilities. He tossed them at Jiang Tea Tea: “I am not afraid of you. Here, cuff your hands by yourself.”