Chapter 212
Chapter 212: The Scheming Dragon Is Always Trying To Seduce
Zhong Li He’s sapphire blue eyes turned sharp like blades and locked onto Chong Ming. He opened his mouth and went at him with a fierce barrage of words: “That Chong guy, look at how smug you are. She is the strong mother body, her land is rich and fertile. What does that have to do with you? You’re here feeling great about yourself, all proud and pleased, like you can’t wait to wag your tail up into the sky.”
“No wonder she doesn’t want to register for marriage with you. If it were me, I wouldn’t like you either. I also wouldn’t want to register for marriage with you.”
“You’re acting all proud in front of me now. I think the bite marks on your neck are from you poking yourself. For all I know, you haven’t even touched your youngling.”
Good friends know exactly where to stab when they fall out. Even though Zhong Li He didn’t actually know that Chong Ming had never touched his youngling, his casual words still hit right in the center of the target.
In front of a good friend, even if someone stabbed him right in the heart, as long as Chong Ming didn’t say anything or show anything, and stayed calm, no one would know.
Chong Ming’s tone didn’t change. He still said lazily: “I was just telling the truth. You get all anxious and unhappy. If I had known, I wouldn’t have said anything.”
Zhong Li He let out a cold snort: “Am I unhappy? I’m very happy. Kong Que, he says I’m unhappy. Do you think I’m unhappy?”
Kong Que looked over at Commander in Chief Chong Ming…
Zhong Li He got upset again: “Kong Que, I’m talking to you. Why are you looking at him? Whose person are you? You’re mine. You look at him, are you trying to betray me from the inside and rebel?”
Kong Que pulled his gaze back, lowered his head, and answered respectfully: “Reporting to Executive Commander, you are not unhappy. You are not upset. It is Commander in Chief Chong Ming whose eyes are bad. He saw wrong.”
“See? See?” Zhong Li He instantly turned into a proud tsundere and shouted at Chong Ming: “I told you I’m not angry. I told you I’m happy. How could I possibly get angry or unhappy over a few things you said?”
“Who do you think you are, that you can make me angry or unhappy? Relax, in my heart you don’t have any place at all.”
Chong Ming gave Kong Que a side glance and said with deep meaning: “Fine. I thought we were good friends, that we held a place in each other’s hearts. Turns out we don’t. Good. Then I can happily beat you up. In half an hour, see you on the simulation battlefield. It’s you die or I live.”
Zhong Li He lifted his chin and snorted: “On the simulation battlefield, it’ll be you die and I live. I’ll beat you till you run away with your tail between your legs.”
“Hey, hey, hey, where are you going? Didn’t we say we’d meet on the simulation battlefield?”
Chong Ming didn’t even turn his head. He just lifted a hand and waved behind him, and still didn’t forget to provoke him: “You said I haven’t even touched my youngling. I’m angry now. I’m going to go touch them for fifteen minutes first, then I’ll come find you.”
Zhong Li He’s sapphire eyes almost popped out. He was angry for half a day before he finally found his voice again. He asked Kong Que: “Tell me, is there something wrong with him?”
Kong Que curled his hand into a fist, pressed it to his lips, and coughed twice: “Executive Commander, Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s hearing is very sharp. If you badmouth him like this, he can hear you.”
Zhong Li He acted like a willful, lawless brat: “I want him to hear. He really is sick, and not just a little sick, seriously sick.”
“He’s making me so mad. He falls in love, he has a youngling, and suddenly he’s amazing? He pokes right at my sore spot every single day.”
“My heart is already full of holes from handling government affairs every day, and he still pokes it. That won’t do. Kong Que, go notify all the unmarried females of the phoenix clan. When I get back to the Western Kingdom, I’m going to go on blind dates too. I don’t believe I can’t find a partner. I’ll work overtime every day and stay up late every night. I don’t believe I can’t make a little brat.”
Kong Que’s eyes darkened. He suddenly changed the topic: “Executive Commander, in half an hour Commander in Chief Chong Ming is going to meet you on the simulation battlefield.”
“In supernatural abilities and physical ability, you are already a bit weaker than him. On the simulation battlefield, when it comes to command, you cannot be weaker than him again. Otherwise, he will take the chance to tease you whenever he wants.”
“People who know what’s going on will know you are friends and just sparring. It doesn’t matter who wins or loses. But people who don’t know will definitely say you are not as good as he is.”
“So…”
“So I must crush him.” Zhong Li He was directly led off track and forgot about finding a partner and having a youngling: “Come on, let’s go to the Simulation Room now and wait for him. We’ll beat him until he runs away crying.”
Kong Que answered: “All right. I just happen to have some battle analyses on Commander in Chief Chong Ming here. You can look at them and prepare.”
Zhong Li He didn’t take the files he handed over. Instead, he hooked an arm around Kong Que’s neck and pressed down on his shoulder: “I’m not reading them. You read them. Today you’ll be the Chief Commander. I’ll be your assistant. We’re going to beat that bastard Chong Ming to death.”
Kong Que pressed down the smile tugging at his lips: “Yes, Executive Commander.”
Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Xiao Ting and their seven-person group also got the notice to go to the Simulation Room. Other than Sui Xuan Chu, the other six ran faster than rabbits.
For them, no matter if it was at the academy, in the city, or at home, none of the simulated training fields or battle command fields could compare to Commander in Chief Chong Ming’s Simulated Training field.
His Simulated Training field was the best and top level in the whole Interstellar Space. It not only restored the reality of the scene, it also restored the realism of the simulated campaign itself.
For them, being able to train there, or even just to look at it, was already a huge honor, like their ancestral graves were smoking with green luck and the Beast God was blessing them.
When they arrived at the Simulated Training field, they saw that the Western Kingdom’s Executive Commander had also come, along with some other fierce-looking, very high ranking people.
But when they looked around the whole place, they did not see their Sister Tea.
Without Sister Tea, they felt like they had no backbone. In front of all these lords, they felt like their spines couldn’t straighten and they were a whole level lower.
They secretly huddled together and sent messages to Jiang Tea Tea, calling out to her, telling her to hurry over, hurry over.
Jiang Tea Tea was inside a single stall in the women’s restroom in the public area of the warship. Her whole body was wrapped in Spiritual Power so she was sure no one would disturb her. Then she tapped on her light-brain wrist terminal and logged onto the net.
On her StarNet account, she already had tens of billions of fans from all over the whole M31 Star System, and the fan count was still rising.
She looked through her account. Under her posts were tens of billions of comments, more than ten billion likes and shares. The comments with the most likes and the highest heat were:
“1: I look forward to Healer Jiang Tea Tea opening healing permission to ordinary common citizens in the whole M31 Star System.”
“2: Healer Jiang Tea Tea will definitely become the best healer in the whole M31 Star System. She will lead the healing field, so that each of us ordinary common citizens will no longer suffer from the rampage of supernatural abilities and riots in the Spiritual Sea.”
“3: I want to make a wish. I hope to be the first StarNet friend in the M31 Star System that Healer Jiang Tea Tea chooses to heal.”
Under these top comments, many StarNet friends followed and replied, agreeing and looking forward to it.
Some StarNet friends had even formed the habit of checking in and clocking in every day, trying to make Jiang Tea Tea remember them.
When Jiang Tea Tea saw all this, she understood. She understood where the karmic merit light came from. It came from the StarNet friends of the M31 Star System who followed her. Because there were people who liked her firmly, believed in her, and worshiped her, karmic merit light appeared.
To gain more karmic merit light, to make more people firmly like her, worship her, and believe in her, and also to thank them for their affection and faith, she made a post:
“I temporarily cannot become the best healer in all Interstellar Space, but I will work hard. To thank all the StarNet friends in the M31 Star System who follow me, like me, and firmly believe that I can become the best healer in all Interstellar Space…”
“Next, I will randomly choose 20 StarNet friends from those who have followed me for less than three months and send each of them 20 grams of Green Tea Girl leaves, which are rich in natural plant healing power. They can ease the restlessness of supernatural abilities and the riots of the Spiritual Sea. For at least S-level and below beastmen, half-beastmen, and pure humans, they can last for three months, during which you will not suffer from the restlessness of supernatural abilities and the riots of the Spiritual Sea!”
As soon as Jiang Tea Tea posted this, it instantly swept through the whole M31 Star System. People who had not followed her beat their chests and stomped their feet, then hurried to follow. People who had followed her for more than three months were very happy and quickly shared and commented.
“Ahhh, wishing really works. Wishing really, really works. Look, my favorite healer, even though she can’t heal me personally, she has given me hope. Real hope.”
“Yes, yes. I’ve been following her for exactly three months and ten days. That means I also have a chance in hundreds of billions.”
“In these times, having hope is better than having no hope. A chance of one in hundreds of billions is still a chance. Maybe I will be one of those 20 lucky ones.”
“Our beast lives must be filled with expectation. We must stay firm toward the things we like. Just like there is an old saying from the Human Race: if you keep something in mind and never forget, you will get a response one day.”
“Look, look. After my persistent hard work, checking in for 100 days straight, I finally moved Healer Jiang Tea Tea.”
“Everyone who follows gets a chance. Everyone who follows gets a chance. We all follow. We all check in. We all have a chance.”
“Waah waah, is it too late to follow her now? If I follow for three months, will I still have a chance later?”
“Ahhh, I wanted to follow her earlier. But the people around me said that since we are not people of the Zhenlin Empire, following her is useless.”
“I’m not a very firm person, and together with those troublemaking idiots tricking me, I didn’t follow. Now I feel like I just lost ten billion at once, ahhh!”
“I really like Healer Jiang Tea Tea’s attitude toward ordinary common citizens in the whole M31 Star System. It really feels like a kind of equal kindness, no matter who we are.”
“Wow, you beastmen can say such fake, shameless flattery for just 20 grams of some tea leaves. You guys really have no shame.”
“We of the Insectoid Race are better. We would never do disgusting, fawning things for a little gain.”
“Insectoid Race person, just stay jealous then. Be as jealous as you want, to your death.”
Jiang Tea Tea looked at the lively comment section and at how her post had rushed up the hot search. She added another condition for winning. Besides following her for less than three months, she also left a few spots for fans who had persisted in checking in for more than 100 days.
Once the prize rules were set, in less than five seconds, 20 winners were chosen. They came from different planets all over the M31 Star System. There were beastmen, half-beastmen, and also pure humans.
All 20 lucky winners received a message: “Congratulations, you have won. Please fill in your address and communication number through the link. The prize will be sent out within 10 days. If you do not fill in the information, it will be treated as giving up the prize. Thank you!”
The 20 lucky winners cheered loudly when they got the message. They all posted screenshots of the prize notice, happy like they were celebrating Beast God Festival.
In the restroom, because of their joy, their affection, and their firm faith in her, Jiang Tea Tea once again saw karmic merit light pass through her Spiritual Power barrier and fall into her body, becoming part of her cultivation practice.
After finding the source of the karmic merit light, Jiang Tea Tea put away her Spiritual Power barrier and happily left the restroom. She didn’t expect that the moment she stepped out, she would see Chong Ming.
She froze for a moment. Then, like a thief, she looked all around: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, if someone sees you standing here waiting for me, how will you keep your mighty and domineering image?”
Seeing how sneaky she looked, Chong Ming opened his mouth and teased her: “If someone sees it, then to fix my mighty image, I’ll just tell them I’m openly waiting for the mother of my youngling.”
Jiang Tea Tea pointed at him right away and warned: “Shut up. The youngling has nothing to do with you. Don’t test me here. Even if you test me, I won’t give the youngling to you.”
Chong Ming let out a long, quiet sigh: “Fine, I won’t test you. Right, because Executive Commander Zhong Li He and Lieutenant General Kong Que joined the simulation field, the length changed from two days to a full, continuous two days. That means during these two days, even when you eat or go to the restroom, you can’t leave the simulation field.”
“Are you really sure you don’t want to bite me once, drink some dragon blood, and go in full of energy, so you can kill them when they are not ready and leave them with no chance to fight back?”