Chapter 226
Chapter 226: I Gave You Face, And You Question Me? You Want To Die, I’ll Grant Your Wish
Cai Xi Chao, Xia Wei Yi, and Deputy Officer Ai answered the order at once. One went to search for people, one to arrest people, and one to handle the deployment.
Everyone from the Yellow Dragon Clan present did not even dare to breathe loudly. Even the injured Yellow Dragon Clan leader, Chong Ling Lan, who was in so much pain he was about to pass out, still clenched his teeth and forced himself to stay conscious.
The police personnel who had already taken back their guns kept their eyes lowered and their discipline tight, focusing only on obeying Commander in Chief Chong Ming.
After Chong Ming finished giving his orders, he looked at Jiang Tea Tea again, his cold voice easing a little: “Jiang Tea Tea, tell your friend not to be nervous. The debt he came to collect today will be settled within twenty four hours.”
Since Chong Ming had said this, Jiang Tea Tea decided to give him face and turned her head to look at Jin Lin.
When Jin Lin met Jiang Tea Tea’s gaze, he flung away the Yellow Dragon clan members hanging from his hands and kicked away the ones clinging to his legs.
After he shook them off and kicked them away, he warned: “Yellow Dragon clan members who ate my blood, flesh, and scales, do not think that just because I take my foot off you are free and can run away.”
“None of you can escape. If you have last words, you can go and say them to your families now, so you will not regret leaving things unsaid when you die.”
Many young dragons rushed to their parents, then burst into loud wails of fear. Their crying echoed with terror.
Among the dragons Jin Lin had kicked away, Jiang Tea Tea saw Chong Xing Qi, the top ranked first year student in the combat department of the Royal Military Imperial Academy.
He was a mess from head to toe, and when he looked at Jiang Tea Tea, his eyes were full of blame.
He blamed Jiang Tea Tea for not standing on their side, for going straight against Commander in Chief Chong Ming and choosing to stand with the killer who had brought disaster to their Yellow Dragon Clan.
Jiang Tea Tea met his gaze, a flash of contempt in her eyes. She held her Flame Staff sideways behind her, leaned her back against it, and folded her arms across her chest, like both a bystander and someone overlooking the whole scene.
Jin Lin walked to her side and also folded his arms across his chest, his cold gaze locking with Chong Ming’s.
The dragon aura that filled the air around his fellow countryman was very similar to the dragon aura on this so called ruler of the empire.
Deputy Officer Ai led people to the Yellow Dragon Clan’s laboratory. They surrounded the lab, and all thirty seven lab staff inside, including Yellow Dragon clan members, were captured.
Jin Lin’s sharp, murderous gaze fell on one Yellow Dragon clan member in a white lab coat.
Jiang Tea Tea followed his gaze. From the outside, that Yellow Dragon clan member looked like a gentle, harmless man in his forties or fifties.
But when that middle aged Yellow Dragon clan member walked over with the other lab staff, the first person he saw was not Commander in Chief Chong Ming, but Jin Lin.
The moment he saw Jin Lin, his whole body shook hard, and the gentle, confident look on his face collapsed at once.
He froze on the spot. His yellow eyes filled with fear, guilt, and panic, and all the calm he had shown while walking over vanished.
Jin Lin flashed forward like a trailing shadow and stopped right in front of the middle aged Yellow Dragon clan member: “Chong Luo Han, long time no see. How have you been?”
Chong Luo Han was so scared that he kept backing away: “You, you, you…”
Jin Lin’s mouth lifted in a smile: “How did I manage to escape? How could I appear here? Shouldn’t I still be locked at the bottom of the pool by you?”
As Chong Luo Han backed away, his foot slipped and he fell to the ground. The fear in his eyes burst out like a dam breaking, flooding out in waves he could not hold back.
Seeing how cowardly he looked, Jin Lin lifted his bare foot and stomped down on Chong Luo Han’s hand bone. With a crack, he broke the bones in his wrist.
“Ah!”
The snapping of his wrist bones made Chong Luo Han let out a terrible scream.
His scream echoed across the whole Yellow Dragon Clan settlement, making everyone from the Yellow Dragon Clan present tremble with fear.
After breaking his wrist, Jin Lin moved his foot up, crushing and breaking Chong Luo Han’s forearm, then his upper arm.
His miserable screams and cries of pain rose one after another, echoing through the Yellow Dragon Clan settlement.
Finally, Jin Lin’s foot reached his chest. He lifted it, ready to stomp down…
All of a sudden, something changed. A pillar of ice shot straight toward Jin Lin.
Along with the ice pillar came an angry shout: “You are not allowed to hurt my grandfather. Let go of my grandfather!”
Jin Lin flipped his hand, and a huge surge of water rose up to meet the ice pillar.
After three hundred years of torment, his spiritual power had grown weak. The water could only thin the ice pillar but could not stop it.
The weakened ice pillar became like a thin sword, piercing through the water and stabbing straight toward his heart.
At the last second, when the ice pillar was only two finger widths away from his heart, it stopped.
Jiang Tea Tea’s hand blocked the ice pillar before it could touch Jin Lin. She turned her head to look at the one who had sent it out, first year student Chong Xing Qi: “Chong Xing Qi, you have some nerve. Chong Ming already said that those who owe money must pay it back, killers must pay with their lives, and the ones who abuse others should be handed over to their victims. Yet you still dared to attack?”
Supernatural power gathered in Chong Xing Qi’s hands as he said: “My grandfather did not commit any crime. He is only a lab staff member who is devoted to research.”
“This thing that is neither snake nor dragon came here to destroy our Yellow Dragon Clan settlement, injured my clan members and my dad, and now wants to torture my grandfather to death. I will not agree to that!”
Jiang Tea Tea held the ice pillar in her hand and turned it aside, then spoke in a mocking voice: “A newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. A young man is like the rising sun. Your courage is admirable. But you claim your grandfather did not commit a crime. Looking at how your grandfather is acting right now, do you not think your questioning is too forced, just twisting words, doing things but not daring to admit them?”
Chong Xing Qi’s face and body were both injured, but he did not fear death or pain. He ignored Jiang Tea Tea and did not answer a single word.
He looked at Chong Ming: “Commander in Chief, I do not believe my grandfather would lock up some creature that is neither snake nor dragon, or cut his flesh and scales to feed us. All of this is only an excuse for this person to come and kill in my Yellow Dragon Clan.”
“Please, Commander in Chief, stand up for my Yellow Dragon Clan. Do not listen to his wild lies and let him casually smear the reputation our Yellow Dragon Clan has held for thousands of years.”
“And Jiang Tea Tea, as a student of the Royal Military Imperial Academy and an active duty soldier, is not protecting ordinary common citizens. Instead, she is following a madman to do evil and hurt innocent people. Please, Commander in Chief, investigate and punish her crimes as well!”
He clearly wanted Chong Ming to put pressure on them.
His little scheme was already rattling away in his head.
Jiang Tea Tea turned around and moved to stand in front of Chong Ming, then asked Chong Xing Qi: “Are you in pain?”
Chong Xing Qi frowned: “What?”
Jiang Tea Tea stepped forward toward him: “I am asking you, more than half an hour ago, when a red vertical mark appeared between your eyebrows, did you feel the pain of having your flesh cut, blood drawn, and scales pulled out?”
Chong Xing Qi’s whole body shivered, as if the pain from half an hour ago was attacking him again.
Jiang Tea Tea saw every change in his expression. She raised her hand and snapped her fingers, and an invisible wave of spiritual power spread out in all directions.
The Shared Suffering Talisman on Jin Lin, which she had sealed, responded to her spiritual power and was unlocked again.
The thirty eight dragons present who had eaten Jin Lin’s blood, flesh, and scales once again fell into the shared pain that Jin Lin had suffered. It was as if someone was cutting their flesh, drawing their blood, pulling out their scales, shocking them, and whipping them, and they rolled on the ground in agony, begging for mercy.
Just moments ago, Chong Xing Qi had sworn that he did not believe his grandfather could be the killer. Now he was rolling on the ground like a worm, unable to bear the pain.
Jiang Tea Tea turned her head and smiled at Chong Ming, then called out: “Deputy Officer Ai, bring your Commander in Chief a chair and some good tea. I will have Jin Lin bring out the evidence so that every Yellow Dragon clan member who ate his flesh and scales will die convinced.”