Chapter 227
Chapter 227: You Dare Play Tricks Before Our Demon Clan? Do You Think The Two Of Us Demons Are Dead?
When Deputy Officer Ai heard Jiang Tea Tea call his name, he secretly glanced at his own Commander in Chief. Even though his commander was giving off a low, icy pressure, he did not seem unhappy with their schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea’s suggestion.
Gritting his teeth and gathering his courage, Ai took out a chair from his space knob storage device. It was a little smaller than the one in the Commander in Chief’s office, and he placed it behind the Commander in Chief.
Chong Ming tilted his head slightly and glanced at the chair behind him. He stepped back half a step and sat down, then looked at Jiang Tea Tea and said in a steady voice: “Jiang Tea Tea, every case must go through the proper steps, with both witness testimony and physical evidence.”
“The doubts of the Yellow Dragon clan members are reasonable. If your friend wants the Yellow Dragon clan members to pay with their lives and repay the suffering he has endured for these three hundred years, he must bring out the strongest evidence.”
“As long as the evidence is presented, I will handle this matter here today as a special case. But if you cannot bring out the evidence, you and your friend will also face the punishment you deserve.”
Chong Ming was the neutral third party in the middle, and his role was extremely important. Jiang Tea Tea knew it, and so did the people of the Yellow Dragon Clan.
Jiang Tea Tea raised her eyebrows and answered: “We have no problem on our side. I do not know if the Yellow Dragon Clan has any.”
Chong Ming called out to the Yellow Dragon Clan’s clan leader: “Chong Ling Lan, do you have any objections?”
Chong Ling Lan was still rolling on the ground, wanting to die from the pain of feeling the three hundred years of torture Jin Lin had suffered, and he could not answer Chong Ming at all.
Jin Lin stepped forward and kicked him once, temporarily sealing the Shared Suffering Talisman on him.
Chong Ling Lan looked a mess, sweat pouring down his body.
Chong Ming repeated his question.
He hurried to answer: “No problem. We have no problem on our side.”
Chong Ming looked at him and reminded him again: “Make sure you truly have no problem. Once the evidence is clear, all Yellow Dragon clan members involved will be handed over to His Excellency Jin Lin to deal with as he wishes. Do you understand?”
Chong Ling Lan felt like he was being roasted over a fire, his skin splitting open and oil sizzling out, yet he still did not die. He gasped: “I understand, Commander in Chief, I understand…”
They had called Jin Lin, who was neither snake nor dragon, a beastman, yet he had still fought his way alone into the Yellow Dragon Clan and destroyed all of their basic facilities. Not a single person in the Yellow Dragon Clan could really suppress him. If they did not settle this today, he would come again tomorrow and the day after.
On top of that, he had Jiang Tea Tea, a Level S variant plant type healing ability user, as his helper, and Jiang Tea Tea was someone Commander in Chief Chong Ming valued highly.
No matter which angle they considered, there was no other way to deal with him, except to fix the problem at its root.
If not, the more than one hundred thousand dragons of the Yellow Dragon Clan, young and old, would all be dragged into this disaster of revenge.
Jiang Tea Tea stepped back to Jin Lin’s side, then asked Chong Ling Lan: “Clan leader Chong, how many dragons does your Yellow Dragon Clan have?”
Chong Ling Lan’s whole body shook. He did not know what she wanted to do and stammered: “Our Yellow Dragon Clan has ninety…”
“The number of dragons of the Yellow Dragon Clan recorded in the files is 107,856.”
After Cai Xi Chao finished notifying all Yellow Dragon Clan members who were away, she cut off Chong Ling Lan’s stammering half truth and answered Jiang Tea Tea instead.
“Among them, 835 female dragons are carrying dragon eggs, with pregnancy terms ranging from two to eight months.”
“There are also ninety eight dragon eggs that are being incubated. Their shells have not broken yet, so their gender is still unknown.”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded to Cai Xi Chao, then swung her Flame Staff backhand at Chong Ling Lan, whose swollen cheeks already looked like a pig’s head: “We agreed that both sides would calmly settle this matter, but when I ask you a question you start lying.”
“What, when you said ninety just now, were you trying to tell me you only had a little over ninety thousand dragons, so you could cover up more than ten thousand dragons?”
The Flame Staff burned Chong Ling Lan, and the smell of scorched flesh rose from his skin. In pain, he covered his wound and backed away again and again, trying to explain: “I meant the clan members inside the empire. I did not count the ones outside the empire.”
Jiang Tea Tea sneered: “You know in your own heart whether you counted them or not.”
Chong Ling Lan’s lips trembled, but he could not say another word.
Jiang Tea Tea’s expression turned serious as she looked at Cai Xi Chao: “Minister Cai, please help me do a full search on everything about researcher Chong Luo Han.”
“I suspect that besides imprisoning and abusing Jin Lin, he also colluded with the former director of the Supernatural Abilities Research Institute, Li Ao, and is suspected of illegal research.”
“I suspect that besides what I just said, he is also suspected of treason, collecting the coordinates of facilities around Imperial Military Headquarters and selling them to other countries.”
“The evidence I can give is this: at coordinates -830_65 on Capital Planet, there was a large laboratory, which was destroyed three months ago.”
“But this lab had the closest, most direct connection to the former director of the Supernatural Abilities Research Institute, Li Ao.”
“On the seventh and eighth basement levels of the lab, there is a bottomless pool of water that connects to an underground river. The underground river has two ends. One leads to the Yellow Dragon Clan, and the other leads to the He Tan Mountain Range about sixty kilometers from Imperial Military Headquarters.”
Seeing how much thought his fellow countryman had put into making sure he could take revenge openly and with reason, Jin Lin added: “After I was rescued, I swam along the underground river from the lab to the Yellow Dragon Clan. The largest waterfall on the Yellow Dragon Clan’s mountain is one of the sources of that underground river.”
After hearing this, Cai Xi Chao subconsciously turned to look at her own Commander in Chief. She could investigate these things, but only if the Commander in Chief ordered her to.
Chong Ming nodded to her.
After getting her Commander in Chief’s approval, Cai Xi Chao stepped back two steps, opened a virtual keyboard, and projected several light brain wrist terminal holo screens in a row. Her fingers flew over the virtual keyboard.
Da Ma Zi, after receiving his Commander in Chief’s order, took the personal guard team to search the largest waterfall on the Yellow Dragon Clan’s mountain.
Jiang Tea Tea struck her magical artifact, the Flame Staff, on the ground again, sealing the shared suffering once more and stopping the thirty plus dragons from rolling on the ground in agony.
She looked at Jin Lin: “Come, let Chong Luo Han tell his grandson and his clan members how he has treated you for these three hundred years.”
Jin Lin kicked Chong Luo Han over to his grandson Chong Xing Qi’s side: “Chong Luo Han, come on. Tell your grandson whether you are really a researcher who serves the nation, focuses only on research, and never hurts anyone.”
Chong Xing Qi was Chong Luo Han’s most beloved, most cherished, and most outstanding grandson. In front of his grandson, he had always been a loving, gentle, cultured grandfather with no ugly side at all.
To have his image crumble in front of his grandson now would hurt him more than death.
So he could not let his image fall apart in front of his grandson.
He opened his mouth and said: “Jin Lin, I do not want to explain or argue about past rights and wrongs. If you say I locked you up, imprisoned you, drew your blood, cut your flesh, and pulled out your scales, then let it be me.”
“One dragon does something and that same dragon should bear it. I will give you my life and hope you will spare my grandson and my clan members.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he grabbed the hypodermic syringe he had already taken from his space knob storage device and stabbed it toward his own neck.
Right as the hypodermic syringe was about to pierce his skin, Jiang Tea Tea flashed forward and kicked his hand, knocking the syringe out of his grip.
Then Jiang Tea Tea lifted her foot again and stepped on his head, driving his head straight into the ground and grinding down hard: “You bastard. Jin Lin is injured and his speed type ability is not fast, so he cannot stop you from killing yourself. You say a few vague, self pitying words, and then you want to use your death to throw dirty water on him?”
“Oh, is it because Jin Lin and I have backed off again and again and used open, fair methods to deal with you that you mistake us for being too kind, think we only shout with our mouths, and that you can stand on our heads and shit and piss on us as you please?”