Chapter 223
Chapter 223: Whichever dragon clan offends a demon will be wiped out
Jiang Tea Tea waved a hand and blocked the spray of spit Jin Lin was spraying at her. She said in disgust: “Jin Lin, talk if you want, be angry if you want, but control yourself. Do not spit all over my face. It smells like rotten corpses.”
Jin Lin was so angry that his scales were about to stand up. He had thought this was a small world where humans and demons lived together. He had not expected there to be no demons here at all.
This was an era that had broken through into interstellar space after rapid development of technology, the era of beastmen. The adult beastmen here were not called demons. They were called beastmen.
They did not believe in the Heavenly Dao or all kinds of immortal gods. They believed in only one god, the Beast God.
The so-called supernatural abilities here, if you used Demon Clan magic spells to analyze them, all had matching spells.
But Demon Clan magic spells relied on cultivation and innate talent. The supernatural abilities here were based on awakening. Whatever you awakened was what you had, and outside interference did not help much.
He had thought the Dragon God he met was just another race here, one with a population in the hundreds of millions.
“Fellow countryman, I will remember the life you saved. We will meet again.”
Jin Lin tossed down those words, pushed off the stone platform with his feet, and shot upward. He broke through the spiritual power barrier around the platform that Jiang Tea Tea had set up.
Jiang Tea Tea reached out to stop him and grabbed the leg of his spiritual-power-made pants, pulling them right off him.
The pants vanished in her hand. When she looked up again, his two legs had already turned back into a snake tail.
She shouted after him: “You idiot snake demon, if you want revenge, can you at least use your brain? You are in the middle of nowhere. Who are you going to go after first? Be careful you do not get caught again and turned into a lab rat.”
“Idiot, in this entire world it is just the two of us demons, and you have already been locked up and tortured for 300 years. Have you not learned your lesson yet?”
“Hey, hey, hey, idiot…”
Jin Lin’s head was full of only one thought. He just wanted to kill that dragon who had locked him up, eat him, and swallow him to vent these 300 years of rage.
Jiang Tea Tea’s shouts did not reach him at all. He ran so fast that anyone who knew he had a lifesaving benefactor would understand, and anyone who did not would think she was a demon hunter chasing him.
Jiang Tea Tea could not call him back. She watched with her own eyes as he rushed off along the underground river and disappeared in a blink.
She snorted on the huge stone platform. She was just about to leave when she heard a sharp cracking sound.
Her movement to go halted. She looked down at her feet and saw that the platform where she was standing, the place where she had thrust the flame staff earlier, had split open.
That cracking sound had come from exactly that spot.
[Is there something under this platform?]
Jiang Tea Tea tapped the tip of her foot, lifted herself into the air, and sent the flame staff on her wrist down into the crack.
The flame-wreathed flame staff drove into the crack and began to grow bigger. As the staff grew, the sound of the platform splitting grew louder.
With a loud bang, the huge sacrificial platform was forced apart by the flame staff. It split into two pieces, and both massive slabs fell into the water.
Under the broken high platform, a place was revealed. It was a deep pool, a bottomless pool that kept bubbling up icy cold water.
Jiang Tea Tea pulled back her flame staff and dropped down into the deep pool. The spiritual power flowing through the staff lit up the water, making the pool look like it had no bottom.
She sank down quickly through the pool. With the Water-Avoiding Art and her spiritual power, her clothes stayed dry, and she did not feel cold at all.
Time passed bit by bit. The deep pool was sometimes wide, sometimes narrow.
In the wide parts, a small submarine could have passed through.
In the narrow parts, only one diver-sized person could squeeze through.
Even with spiritual power boosting her speed-type ability, Jiang Tea Tea still spent two hours swimming from this deep pool all the way to where the water finally came out.
She broke through the water surface and saw the bright moon in the sky and countless stars. She had no idea where she had ended up.
She had just raised her hand with the light-brain wrist terminal, ready to check her location, when a video call from Chong Ming came in.
She accepted the call and cast the screen into the air. Chong Ming’s face appeared on the screen as he looked at her: “Where are you?”
Jiang Tea Tea lifted the flame staff to light up her surroundings, pointed at the deep pool she had just climbed out of, and answered Chong Ming: “I came up from this water less than a minute ago. I was just about to check where I am, and you called.”
Chong Ming glanced at the pool under the moonlight and the flame staff’s light: “You are in the He Tan Mountain Range, about 60 kilometers away from the Imperial Military Headquarters.”
Jiang Tea Tea was surprised: “I swam through underground rivers for two hours and actually popped up almost right next to you. I really did not expect that.”
Chong Ming smiled: “Not only you, I did not expect it either. I have already marked your position and sent people to survey the entire He Tan Mountain Range.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out an “oh”: “Right. Once we went down past about the seventh level of the mission site, there was no signal. Sui Xuan Chu and the others are still at the mission site. Can you reach them from your side?”
Chong Ming replied: “I have already contacted them. They are escorting that rotting corpse living dead back along the original route. They have already boarded the ship and are on their way to the laboratory at the Imperial Military Headquarters.”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded: “Good. The mission is done. I am going back to the Academy to sleep.”
Chong Ming’s smile faded: “The flying device picking you up will arrive in ten minutes. Come to the Imperial Military Headquarters first. You will stay at the Imperial Palace tonight.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out a sound: “That is not necessary, right?”
Chong Ming asked: “Do you want me to come pick you up myself?”
Jiang Tea Tea waved her hand: “No need. I will help you test the security monitoring system of your Imperial Military Headquarters. I can get there in five minutes.”
Chong Ming said: “If you can come here yourself and appear in front of me without alerting the security monitoring system of the Imperial Military Headquarters, this year’s entire safety bonus of the Imperial Military Headquarters will go to you.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes lit up: “How much is it?”
Chong Ming: “Over one hundred million.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “Deal. I will give you three minutes to notify your Security Department to get ready.”
Chong Ming: “All right. I will be waiting for you.”
The call ended.
The Security Department of the Imperial Military Headquarters received a notification from their own commander in chief that in three minutes, someone would invade the Imperial Military Headquarters.
Everyone in the Security Department was stunned. Someone actually dared to invade the Imperial Military Headquarters of the Zhenlin Empire, and their commander in chief even knew about it. That intruder must have a death wish. Just wait until they captured the intruder and let him learn that the Imperial Military Headquarters of the Zhenlin Empire was not a place you could just walk into.
Jiang Tea Tea had given them three minutes to prepare. With one Shrinking Ground to Inches technique, she appeared inside the Security Department of the Imperial Military Headquarters in the blink of an eye.
Invisible, she watched as the people in the Security Department not only busied themselves with security inside the Headquarters, but also monitored everything within fifty kilometers around it.
“Ahem.”
Three minutes later, Jiang Tea Tea deliberately let her soft cough echo through the whole Security Department.
At first, the busy people in the Security Department did not care. They thought it was just someone coughing. But when a second cough and then a third cough sounded, someone finally realized something was wrong.
The person who noticed stood up and asked: “Who just coughed?”
In the huge Security Department, all the staff raised their hands to show it was not them. Their eyes stayed glued to the areas they were responsible for.
Jiang Tea Tea knocked over the water cup next to the man who had sensed something was wrong.
The hard cup hit the floor with a loud crash.
“Close the door, close the door, hurry and close the door, the intruder is in the Security Department!”
“Quick, quick, quick, Security Department scan, full Security Department scan!”
“Catch them, catch them, we have to catch them…”
The moment the Security Department doors shut, Jiang Tea Tea tapped the door with her flame staff, leaving two small flames burning on it.
The eyes of everyone inside the Security Department showed fear and disbelief. Their proud security monitoring system was completely useless.
Someone had entered their department and, right when the doors closed, left again.
Their leader gave the order to open the door.
Once the door opened, the two flames still burning on the outside of the door were like two red handprints, slapping everyone in the face.
Then they saw more flames burning not far away. Without any hesitation, they sounded the alarm for the entire Imperial Military Headquarters.
When the alarm blared, every department in the Imperial Military Headquarters went on full alert, searching for the owner of the flames, the intruder.
As they followed the trail of flames, they realized that the intruder was heading toward the commander in chief’s office.
Everyone rushed toward the commander in chief’s office. When they arrived, they found the office door wide open and Level S variant plant-type ability healer Jiang Tea Tea leaning against the doorframe, eating fruit. She smiled and waved at them.
“Wow, your reaction speed-type ability is pretty good. Did you come to collect your commander in chief’s corpse?”
Jiang Tea Tea’s words stunned everyone. She was mocking their reaction speed. Wait, if she was already here, then when had she come?
Minister Cai Xi Chao of the Information Department stepped forward: “Jiang Tea Tea schoolmate, who did you come here with? Is the commander in chief in his office?”
Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes rolled as her gaze slid toward her: “He is here, but you are too late. I already finished him off.”
As soon as Jiang Tea Tea finished speaking, countless guns pointed at her.
Cai Xi Chao’s voice grew stern: “Jiang Tea Tea schoolmate, please do not joke like that. The commander in chief is the foundation of the Empire. The foundation cannot be shaken or treated lightly.”
Jiang Tea Tea shrugged, gave the crowd a light glance, then straightened up. Still munching her fruit, she walked into Chong Ming’s office.
The leaders of all departments in the Imperial Military Headquarters quickly followed her in. They saw the commander in chief at his desk, looking up at them with sharp eyes.
Jiang Tea Tea ate the last bites of her fruit, tossed the pit onto Chong Ming’s desk, and pulled up the payment code on her light-brain wrist terminal: “Chong Ming, Your Highness, I told you your Imperial Military Headquarters is not ironclad. You did not believe me.”
“See? If I had not exposed myself on purpose and left those flames to lure them here, I could have blown up your whole Imperial Military Headquarters and they still would not have found me. Now, pay my appearance fee. If it is less than five hundred million, I am going to be mad.”
Whether it was the leaders inside the commander in chief’s office or everyone outside, all of them felt like they had been publicly slapped and stripped naked.
Chong Ming picked up the fruit pit and tossed it into the trash can. He looked at Jiang Tea Tea and said: “You have tested the security monitoring system of the Imperial Military Headquarters. The appearance fee will be paid by all departments of the Imperial Military Headquarters.”
“Within five days, the Imperial Military Headquarters will issue a detailed responsibility report for each department. According to their share of responsibility, we will deduct their bonuses and fines and then transfer the money to you.”
Jiang Tea Tea closed her payment code and smiled: “Good. You go on scolding your subordinates. Give me a late-night snack. I want to eat.”
Chong Ming reached into his space knob storage device and pulled out a food box.
Jiang Tea Tea took the food box, glanced at the leaders of all the departments of the Imperial Military Headquarters, who wished they could slam their heads into the floor or dig a crack to hide in, then walked over to the sofa. She put the food box on the coffee table, opened it like nothing had happened, took out the food inside, and started eating with chopsticks.
Once Chong Ming saw that Jiang Tea Tea had started eating, his sharp gaze finally moved to the leaders and people in charge of all the departments: “Fifteen minutes ago, I warned you that someone would invade the Imperial Military Headquarters. You…”
Bang.
Jiang Tea Tea slammed her bowl and chopsticks onto the coffee table, cutting off Chong Ming’s scolding. She sprang up and rushed to the window, pressing herself against it as she looked out.
Chong Ming frowned, stopped talking, and quickly joined her at the window: “What happened?”
Jiang Tea Tea raised her hand and pointed into the distance: “Five hundred kilometers from here, what color dragon settlement is that?”
Chong Ming followed the direction of her finger and shouted: “Minister Cai, check which dragon clan settlements there are within five hundred kilometers of the Imperial Military Headquarters!”
“Yes!” Cai Xi Chao answered, opened her light-brain wrist terminal, pulled up a virtual keyboard, and began to search. In just a moment, she reported: “Commander in chief, within five hundred kilometers of the Imperial Military Headquarters, there is a green dragon clan settlement and a yellow dragon clan settlement.”
“The yellow dragon clan settlement.” Jiang Tea Tea’s voice went cold: “Chong Ming, the yellow dragon clan has offended a demon and is being attacked right now. Even if they are not wiped out tonight, within ten days, every yellow dragon clan member on the capital planet will be dead.”