Chapter 224
Chapter 224: If You Eat My Flesh, Drink My Blood, And Boil My Scales For Soup, You Have To Pay It Back
Chong Ming withdrew his gaze from the distance and turned to Jiang Tea Tea, his voice low: “How do you know?”
[How did she know?]
With that completely unhidden Demonic Aura, even across a thousand miles, as a Great Demon Stage demon, she could not help but notice it even if she did not want to.
Jiang Tea Tea answered in a vague way: “Oh, the one who went to take revenge on them, I happened to cross paths with him once. I can sense the fluctuation of his supernatural abilities.”
Chong Ming frowned slightly and thought for a moment: “You met him once, and you only just met him tonight at the mission site?”
Jiang Tea Tea tilted her head and glanced sideways at Chong Ming: “Your twenty-four-hour surveillance on me is really strict. Why don’t you just turn into a tapeworm in my stomach already?”
Chong Ming suddenly smiled: “Strictly speaking, my twenty-four-hour surveillance on you is almost useless. For example, when you come to my Imperial Military Headquarters, even if I have already notified every department and they are fully on guard, they still can’t stop you.”
Jiang Tea Tea swept her gaze over the various department heads of the Imperial Military Headquarters standing not far away. Each one was standing straight, head slightly lowered, eyes fixed on their feet, bodies tense. They did not even dare to breathe loudly.
She answered Chong Ming: “Your subordinates are all top tier. Top people are confident. But when it comes to those four words ‘fully on guard’, they still have room to improve.”
Before coming to Chong Ming’s office, she had strolled through several departments in the Imperial Military Headquarters. Confident in the Headquarters’ defenses, they had not taken the initiative to attack, nor had they added any extra defenses.
They were full of confidence that no one could break through their defenses and enter the Imperial Military Headquarters. They only sat there waiting for an intruder to be caught, so they could prove that their defenses were solid as stone.
Chong Ming’s smile faded. His golden eyes swept over everyone: “I understand. All of you, go. Reflect carefully on the parts that, according to schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, still need work, and write a report for me.”
Everyone answered in unison: “Yes, Commander in Chief!”
After they left, Jiang Tea Tea said to Chong Ming: “I’m going to the Yellow Dragon Clan. I’ll be back within three hours.”
“Wait.” Chong Ming stopped Jiang Tea Tea: “Whoever is hunting the Yellow Dragon Clan, no matter who it is, has already broken the law of the empire’s Law Code.”
Jiang Tea Tea narrowed her eyes: “You are going to send people to arrest him?”
Chong Ming corrected her: “The Police Bureau has already set out.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out a short laugh: “Your speed-type ability is pretty fast.”
Chong Ming replied: “It’s not that my speed-type ability is fast. Every Dragon Clan settlement has a life-alert monitoring system connected to the local Police Bureau.
“The person you met, the one who wants to wipe out the Yellow Dragon Clan, will not act quietly. He will definitely trigger the life-alert monitoring system.
“Once the life-alert monitoring system is triggered, the local Police Bureau will step in to protect the Yellow Dragon Clan, fight the criminal, and arrest the criminal.”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded: “Thanks for telling me. I still need to go take a look.”
They were both from the Demon Clan, out in the world. Right now it just happened that there were only the two of them. He was going out to take revenge, and he had reason on his side. If needed, she would also step in to help.
“Jiang Tea Tea…”
Chong Ming had just called her name when Jiang Tea Tea disappeared right in front of him.
Staring at the now empty space, Chong Ming gave a few orders, then boarded his warship with his people and headed toward the Yellow Dragon Clan settlement.
Sui Xuan Chu and the other six people came back from their mission. They followed their leader, who was bringing the living dead, down from the warship and into the laboratory. When they saw the living dead they had brought back tied onto the lab table, they suddenly snapped out of it.
One of them blurted out: “Where is Sister Tea? Didn’t they say Sister Tea already arrived at the Imperial Military Headquarters? Did any of you see her?”
Another person added: “Yeah, didn’t they say she had already reached the Imperial Military Headquarters? Where is she?”
“I didn’t see her. From the moment I got off the ship, besides the guards of the Imperial Military Headquarters, I didn’t see anyone else.”
“Ah, ah, ah, did something happen to Sister Tea?”
“Something happen to your head. This is the Imperial Military Headquarters. If something happened here at the Imperial Military Headquarters, the entire Zhenlin Empire would be shaken and overturned, got it?”
“Oh… okay, I was overthinking it, my mouth is just rotten.”
“Don’t worry. Maybe she was called over by the Commander in Chief to be questioned while she was waiting for us, or she went to the Healing Department to study something with them.”
“Yeah, yeah, that’s probably it. Let’s be patient and stop scaring ourselves.”
Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Lin Yue, the only two who knew the truth, exchanged a look and took turns comforting the others, afraid that Cheng Xiao Ting, Huang Da Zhuang, and the rest would let their imaginations run wild and start guessing things they should not guess.
After they finally calmed them down, Sui Xuan Chu secretly sent messages to his uncle and to Jiang Tea Tea, three messages each. All of them sank like stones in the sea. Not one person replied.
With forty percent of her spiritual power restored, and with the help of the Flame Staff, Jiang Tea Tea used the Shrinking Ground to Inches Technique. A distance of five hundred kilometers was crossed in the blink of an eye.
The huge Yellow Dragon Clan settlement was in ruins. Mountains had collapsed. Rocks rolled down. Houses had fallen. Underground river water had flowed back and flooded everything. The place was a complete mess.
Dragon roars echoed again and again, filled with pain. Many Yellow Dragon Clan younglings and old dragons were already injured. They were being trampled under Jin Lin’s golden scales, their breaths weak.
Jin Lin’s long hair was in a wild tangle. His upper body was bare, covered in wounds. Below the waist he wore only a piece of cloth for cover. His legs and feet were bare. One of his eyes was gold and the other was black. There was no fear in them, only wild killing intent.
All the power-monitoring systems in the Yellow Dragon Clan settlement had been destroyed. In order to catch Jin Lin and save more Yellow Dragon Clan people, the Police Bureau had even launched the Artificial Moon to light up the entire Yellow Dragon Clan settlement.
Countless police personnel, cannons on their shoulders and guns in their hands, had Jin Lin surrounded and aimed at every part of his body.
But Jin Lin was not only stepping on Yellow Dragon clansmen beneath his feet. He was still holding a Yellow Dragon Clan youngling in his hand. The police personnel who were surrounding him did not dare to shoot.
They were afraid that once they fired, he would snap the neck of the Yellow Dragon clansman in his hand, and that would cause many Yellow Dragon Clan deaths.
Jiang Tea Tea landed invisibly at a spot not far from Jin Lin, in a position where she could both attack and defend. She gripped the Flame Staff and watched everything in front of her.
“Your Excellency, I am the Yellow Dragon Clan leader, Chong Ling Lan. May I ask what grudge my Yellow Dragon Clan has with you, that you would come to our door in the middle of the night?”
Chong Ling Lan, the Yellow Dragon Clan leader, had injuries on his face. Behind him stood countless Yellow Dragon clansmen, taking one corner of the encirclement. For the sake of his clansmen, he asked in a polite tone.
Jin Lin held the Yellow Dragon Clan youngling in his hand. The small dragon twisted, lashed its tail, and pushed with its claws, but it was useless.
He spoke to Chong Ling Lan, his voice cold enough to pierce bone: “You ask who I am. You ate my flesh and drank my blood, yet you still ask who I am. Truly shameless.”
Chong Ling Lan’s face darkened: “My Yellow Dragon Clan acts with a clear conscience and sits upright. We have never even met you. How could we have eaten your flesh and drunk your blood?”
“There may be some misunderstanding. We can go to the Police Bureau. With a third party watching, we can clear things up.”
“If it is my Yellow Dragon Clan’s fault, we will definitely apologize to you. If it is not our fault, then you destroying my Yellow Dragon Clan settlement today must be explained to us!”
Jin Lin suddenly squeezed the Yellow Dragon Clan little hatchling in his hand.
The little hatchling went limp at once. Its tail, claws, and head all drooped, as if it were dead.
“Hey, hey, hey, let’s talk this out, don’t do anything rash.” The Police Bureau personnel quickly tried to calm him down when they saw this: “If the Yellow Dragon Clan has hurt you, once we investigate and confirm it, we will definitely get you justice.”
“Please believe that the laws of the empire will not protect any criminal, and will not let any innocent person suffer a second time.”
What was the point of talking about the empire’s laws with a demon like him?
Demons only believed in taking revenge for a grudge and shouting out their resentment.
Whoever had eaten his flesh, drunk his blood, and pulled off his scales to boil soup had to pay it back.
Jin Lin lifted up the Yellow Dragon Clan youngling in his hand, several meters long but no thicker than his wrist: “You talk better than you sing. This young dragon cub in my hand has drunk my blood. He has my scent on him.”
Chong Ling Lan shouted in anger: “Nonsense. That youngling in your hand is only eight years old. The wild beasts he has hunted so far weigh less than a hundred jin. How could he have drunk the blood of a full-grown beastman like you?”
Jin Lin acted as if he had not heard Chong Ling Lan’s words. He took a deep sniff and said: “It is not just this little hatchling in my hand that has the scent of my blood. Even you, Yellow Dragon Clan leader Chong Ling Lan, have my scent on you. You have eaten my flesh.”
“The dragons under my feet, and the ones behind you. Among the Yellow Dragon Clan who are here, there are thirty-eight dragons whose bodies contain my flesh and my scales.”
“Today, all thirty-eight Yellow Dragon Clan dragons who drank my blood, ate my flesh, and used my scales to make soup must die. They must all be buried in my belly. No one will get away!”
Chong Ling Lan and several dragons behind him shouted in anger and pointed at Jin Lin, accusing him: “You are talking nonsense and slandering us. We do not even know you. How could we have drunk your blood and eaten your flesh, or used your scales to make soup?”
“You are a Serpent Clan beastman. We are Yellow Dragon Clan beastmen. According to the ranks, we are nobles and you are a commoner.”
“As nobles, what kind of prey can we not hunt? What kind of food can we not buy? Why would we stoop so low as to drink your blood and eat your flesh?”
“Besides, the laws of the empire clearly state that you cannot eat high-intelligence beastmen who can transform into human form.”
“We are the Yellow Dragon Clan, the top Dragon Clan of the Zhenlin Empire. How could we knowingly break the law? Don’t come here picking a fight for no reason and spewing slander just because your upper lip can touch your lower lip!”
“You say I am slandering you, fine. Then I will let you see what the dragons who drank my blood, ate my flesh, and swallowed my scales look like.”
Jin Lin threw down his words, then raised his head and let out a roar at the sky. He bit his middle finger and used his blood to draw Talisman Script in midair. When he was finished, he slapped his palm and shattered it.
The blood-beaded spell scattered, and the pieces flew out as if they had grown eyes, falling onto the bodies of the Yellow Dragon clansmen.
No more and no less, the spell fell onto thirty-eight Yellow Dragon clansmen, including the Yellow Dragon Clan leader.
After the spell sank into their bodies, it entered their skin and showed up between their brows as a long vertical red mark.
The Yellow Dragon clansmen who had not been hit by the spell were shocked: “What is that? Clan leader, what is that thing that appeared on your foreheads…”
The Yellow Dragon clansman who was speaking did not finish his sentence. Every Yellow Dragon clansman who had been struck by the spell felt their heads split with pain, as if their bodies were being cut by knives. The pain was so bad they wished they were dead. They fell to the ground and started screaming.
“Ah… it hurts so much. My head hurts so much. Someone is pounding my skull. Someone is going to smash my head open…”
“Ah… my body hurts so much. Someone is pulling out my scales. Someone is cutting my flesh, drawing my blood. It hurts, it hurts, it hurts so much!”