Chapter 233
Chapter 233: Missing His Wife Until His Heat Kicks In, He Refuses Treatment Just To See Who Cares
Zhong Li He was stunned, then reacted on instinct and jabbed at his heart again: “It’s late at night. If you can’t hug your partner or touch your youngling, you can always stay up working overtime. Why come here to find me for a fight?”
“Oh, people who know you will think you came here to spar. People who don’t will think your partner took your youngling and ran off with another male, and you’re raging helplessly, so you can only come to me to vent.”
He came in full of momentum and started a fight with words first, jabbing right at Chong Ming’s sore spot over and over. Maybe he wouldn’t stab him to death, but at least it might stop him from showing off to him every day.
Kong Que: “…”
It was his fault, for talking too slowly earlier. He hadn’t managed to finish explaining Miss Jiang Tea Tea’s mindset when she posted on StarNet to his own executive commander.
Now look. Judging by commander in chief Chong Ming’s face and the low pressure coming off his whole body, it was obvious his executive commander’s careless words, without any bad intent, had gone straight for the core and stabbed right into Chong Ming’s heart.
Miss Jiang Tea Tea might really be with that male whose injustice she stood up for now, and commander in chief Chong Ming had no standing to stop her, so he had come running here to find his executive commander to fight and vent.
Chong Ming rolled up his sleeves, his face as cold as water: “Let’s go. The training ground downstairs has already been cleared.”
Zhong Li He crossed his arms over his chest in a show of refusal and gave Chong Ming a third jab to the heart: “Your partner and youngling are not at home. You’re not working either. Meanwhile I still have things to do with Kong Que.”
“Kong Que, tell him. Am I not busy with countless government affairs, with many documents waiting for me to read and slam my hand on the desk for approval?”
Kong Que lightly cleared his throat, then sold him out without hesitation: “Executive commander, the urgent matters from yesterday and today have already been handled. The rest aren’t urgent. Whether you deal with them now or in two days is the same.”
“Kong Que… you…”
“Hey… that Chong guy, don’t drag me. Let me go…”
“I can walk by myself. Let go, let go. You wild dragon, I’m breaking off with you. We’re done…”
Kong Que watched with his own eyes as his executive commander was grabbed by the collar and forcibly dragged out of the room by commander in chief Chong Ming.
It wasn’t that he didn’t dare stop them or didn’t want to save his executive commander. It was that a male who was furious and jealous was hard to stop. If he tried, he would just get beaten too.
Besides, this was Chong Ming’s turf. As a friend, his executive commander taking some time off work to spar with him and train was very normal. Very normal.
Kong Que talked himself into not rushing to rescue his executive commander, but his feet didn’t slow at all. He followed them quickly, eyes glued to his executive commander, afraid he would suffer too much.
The mountain broker, in order to get closer to the only Level S variant healing specialist in the whole M31 Star System, Jiang Tea Tea, and to sell the mountain estates he represented, not only took out all the mountain estates under his own agency, he also called over colleagues who had mountain estates to sell.
On the huge capital planet, there were countless people selling mountains, land, manors, and farms. Each broker had endless resources in their hands.
Jiang Tea Tea took Jin Lin and viewed mountain estates from the south of the capital planet to the north, then from the north to the east, then from the east to the west. From seven in the evening all the way until seven in the morning.
After looking at countless mountain estates, she finally picked one where it was like spring all year round, with an average temperature between 19 and 25 degrees. It was about two thousand kilometers from the capital planet’s Imperial Palace and more than two thousand kilometers from the royal military Imperial Academies.
This mountain estate covered a very large area, stretching over three hundred kilometers. It was a warm temperate climate with abundant spiritual energy. Trees, fungi, and small wild beasts all grew very well there.
Once you crossed over this three-hundred-and-something-kilometer stretch of warm temperate mountains, you reached a tropical monsoon mountain range with only two seasons all year. That range stretched over a thousand kilometers. Half of it was still undeveloped primeval forest, and the other half had only had some edge areas developed before the work was shelved.
Jiang Tea Tea bought the three-hundred-and-something kilometers of mountain estate for Jin Lin, and over one thousand kilometers of mountain estate for herself. The two mountains were right next to each other.
Jin Lin’s three-hundred-plus-kilometer mountain estate could be freely developed for tourism or business.
Jiang Tea Tea’s more-than-one-thousand-kilometer mountain estate could only be used for personal residence and personal exploration. It could not be developed for tourism or commercial use.
But the two of them were demons. They were buying mountain estates mainly to cultivate. Whether they developed them or not was not something they even considered.
The two mountain estates cost many billions, and they paid in full at once. The mountain broker was grinning so wide his mouth was almost splitting to the back of his head. He immediately started talking about after-sales service: “Miss Jiang Tea Tea, Mister Jin Lin, there are already houses on these two mountains you bought, and not just one. While the basic facilities are fine, if you plan to move in, you’ll still need professionals to come in for maintenance and to install safety measures, so that aberrant beasts and small animals in the mountains won’t come out at night or knock on your door in the day and scare you.”
“This is my contact number. Let’s add each other. If you need anything, I know quite a lot of professional maintenance and safety experts. Call me once and I can get them over right away.”
Jiang Tea Tea opened her light-brain wrist terminal and added him: “Okay, thank you.”
The mountain broker quickly said politely: “You’re welcome. It’s my honor to serve you. Then… do you want me to call those professional teams over now?”
Jiang Tea Tea politely refused: “No need for now. When I need them, I’ll call you and ask for help. I’ll take my friend to look around first.”
The broker nodded: “Okay, okay. You two go ahead and look. I’ll head out first. If anything comes up, just contact me.”
Jiang Tea Tea watched the broker leave, then said to Jin Lin: “Come on, let’s go into your mountain estate and take a look.”
Jin Lin replied: “Great Demon Stage senior, before we go into the mountain, should I kneel and kowtow to you to show my thanks?”
Jiang Tea Tea burst out laughing: “No need for that. Let’s go.”
Jin Lin immediately changed into his demon form. His body was as thick as a water tank, over a hundred meters long. Together with Jiang Tea Tea, he rushed into the forest, brushing past the morning light and fresh dew.
“Hiss… it hurts so bad, it hurts so bad. I’m a beastman, not a sandbag. That bastard Chong Ming is not a bit like a real male.”
Zhong Li He sucked in a sharp breath and stared at his own face in the mirror. His handsome face, which used to be very good looking, was now all colors, and he didn’t even dare touch it. He could only open his mouth and curse Chong Ming.
“That old dragon Chong Ming is just unsatisfied. Jiang Tea Tea took the youngling in her belly and went out with another male and doesn’t want him now. He’s in a bad mood and can’t stand to see me doing well, so while ‘sparring’ he used my face as his punching bag.”
“What did I do to deserve this? I’m just a bit more handsome than him, a bit taller than him, a bit more capable than him. He gets jealous of me, wants to ruin my face, and is afraid I’ll really steal his wall.”
Kong Que stood in front of him with a bottle of disinfectant, gently cleaning the wounds on his face as he reminded him: “Executive commander, if you lie in a healing pod for half an hour, all the injuries on your body and face will be healed, and you won’t have any scars.”
“If you don’t like lying in a healing pod, just use the healing spray on your face. In at most fifteen minutes, the wounds on your face will also disappear. But you…”
“I won’t lie in a healing pod, and I won’t use the healing spray either.” Zhong Li He angrily cut him off: “I’m going to walk all over the Zhenlin Empire with all these injuries and this face, and let everyone in the M31 Star System know that Chong Ming hit me.”
He was really furious. What kind of normal person fights from eight or nine at night until after seven in the morning, and only stops when the account balance deduction broadcast comes on?
Anyone who didn’t know better would think he had spent some huge amount of Chong Ming’s money, and that Chong Ming was mad about the loss so he beat him.
No way. He had to parade this bruised face around and let everyone in the M31 Star System know that Chong Ming was not a good dragon.
Kong Que looked at his face, green and purple all over, and reminded him very seriously: “My executive commander lord, if you go out with this face, the people in the M31 Star System will not think commander in chief Chong Ming beat you. They will just think you can’t beat commander in chief Chong Ming.”
“Your heroic reputation will, along with the wounds on your face and body, become gossip for the common citizens of the M31 Star System over tea and meals.”
“Mm, they will say: the executive commander of the Western Kingdom is nothing much. He can’t beat the Zhenlin Empire’s commander in chief Chong Ming. He is a little weakling.”
“Hiss…”
“Lighter, lighter, that hurts.”
Zhong Li He felt that what he said made sense, but he still thought his own idea was pretty good. He could not just get beaten for nothing. After his wave of pain passed, his eyes moved and he said again: “Kong Que, use the healing spray on my face, but leave this one wound on my cheek. Just one. Then put a patch over it for me.”
Kong Que answered: “Executive commander lord, with how good healing is now, leaving one scar on your face will just make people think you’re pretending.”
Zhong Li He: “???”
Who is pretending? Who is pretending?
He just wanted to ruin Chong Ming’s reputation a little.
Who told Chong Ming to come invite him to fight and then fight for ten hours?
Kong Que understood him like a worm in his stomach. Seeing the fire-breathing look in his eyes and his angry face, Kong Que slowly added: “Executive commander lord, don’t be mad. If you want to throw mud on commander in chief Chong Ming and want to see him suffer, it’s easy. You don’t have to use your own body and your own face.”
Zhong Li He took a step closer. His sapphire blue eyes stared straight at Kong Que: “Tell me in detail.”
As he came closer, Kong Que had nowhere to retreat. The back of his thighs and his hips pressed tightly against the sink. His breathing tightened and his throat felt a little dry.
“Commander in chief Chong Ming still hasn’t won over Miss Jiang Tea Tea. Miss Jiang Tea Tea is now good friends with a three-hundred-and-something-year-old beastman. You and commander in chief Chong Ming have to talk about cooperation later today. When you’re chatting, you can just casually use Miss Jiang Tea Tea to poke at his heart.”
“If you feel that’s not enough, I can call Miss Jiang Tea Tea later and ask what she is doing, to get an update on her. Then when you stab at commander in chief Chong Ming’s heart, you’ll have even more to work with.”
Zhong Li He’s sapphire eyes lit up at once, bright like a gem catching fire: “Kong Que, you really are something. You can even think of such a bad idea. We’ll do exactly what you said. I’m going to anger that old dragon Chong Ming to death.”
It was like Kong Que was stabbed by those sapphire eyes. He broke eye contact, put away the disinfectant, and took out the healing spray: “Before you make him mad, we still need to heal the wounds on your face first.”
“Heal, heal, yes, yes, hurry up and use the healing spray.” Zhong Li He could not wait to go anger Chong Ming. He shut his eyes, leaned his face toward Kong Que, and urged him: “Hurry up and spray the healing spray so my face can heal and I can go scold that old golden dragon Chong Ming.”
Kong Que’s hand tightened a little around the healing spray. He looked deeply at the face leaning toward him. His throat moved, and even his breathing grew a little shallow.
Jiang Tea Tea and Jin Lin wandered around in the mountains all morning, looking around. Only when the noon sun was high did they stop.
Jin Lin took out the blood, flesh, and scales he had taken from the Huang Dragon Clan and laid them out in front of Jiang Tea Tea: “Great Demon Stage senior, I’ll give these to you as a tonic.”
Fresh chunks of flesh and scales were laid out in front of her, giving off a bloody smell mixed with rich energy.
Jiang Tea Tea took one step back and refused: “I am at Great Demon Stage. These are compensation for you being trapped for three hundred years. Why would I take things from a little demon like you? I don’t want them. Put them away.”
Jin Lin looked at her with eyes full of respect: “No, Great Demon Stage senior, without you, I would still be chained under that underground river, being tormented and abused by who knows how many young men, having my flesh cut, blood drawn, and scales plucked.”
“These pieces of flesh and scale are real dragon blood, dragon meat, and dragon scales. Even though this world is different from ours, dragon blood, dragon meat, and dragon scales are still good things for demons like us.”
“No. You should eat them yourself and use them for your cultivation…”
Jiang Tea Tea started to refuse again, but Jin Lin cut her off: “Great Demon Stage senior, to tell you the truth, I already ate those four dragons from Chong Luo Han’s family. Their energy is too strong, and I haven’t finished digesting it.”
“If I eat these pieces of flesh and scales too, with my current age and ability as a demon, I won’t be able to refine the energy in them. It might even make me explode and die.”
“When the outcome is such a clear death, why should I be greedy? I would rather give them to you, Great Demon Stage senior, as thanks for saving my life and for the kindness you’ve shown me.”
Jiang Tea Tea thought for a moment, gathered spiritual power in her hand, and struck the container holding the flesh and scales with it. Then she put it away: “Fine. I’ll use spiritual power to seal these flesh and scales and put them away for now. If you need them in the future, come ask me for them. I will definitely give them back to you.”
Jin Lin gave her a grand Demon Clan salute: “Thank you, Great Demon Stage senior. But there are still four to five hundred thousand portions of blood and flesh from people of other nations. When the time comes, please help me store those too.”
Jiang Tea Tea frowned, confused: “Why?”
Jin Lin suddenly changed into a half-snake, half-human form and pointed at his swollen belly: “Great Demon Stage senior, look. The four dragons I ate are all still in my belly. They haven’t changed at all. I have to cultivate in these mountains to digest them.”
“To digest them and take all the energy from their bodies for myself will take time. Maybe one or two years, maybe ten, maybe a hundred, maybe even a thousand. I don’t know, and you don’t know either.”
“So, thank you for buying this mountain estate for me. I like it very much. I’ve decided to stay in this mountain estate and continue my cultivation. As a snake demon, my biggest wish is to turn from snake to dragon, rush to the Ninefold Heaven, and become a Dragon God in the Ninefold Heaven, worshipped and respected by countless people.”
He didn’t want to go out. He didn’t want to experience this world.
He wanted to cultivate in the mountains.
No wonder he could, in just a thousand years, go from snake to python to flood dragon.
He had a loyal, sincere heart. Whatever he did, he could succeed.
Jiang Tea Tea couldn’t help laughing and praised him: “Good, good. If you have this kind of goal, I respect your choice.”
Jin Lin smiled back: “Thank you, Great Demon Stage senior. Then we’ll part ways here. I need to find a nice cave in this mountain.”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded: “Alright. You have my Sound-seeking Talisman. If you run into danger, you can come find me. If I am still in this world, I will definitely help you.”
“Thank you, Great Demon Stage senior. We’ll meet again.”
After he finished speaking, Jin Lin turned into his demon form again and darted into the forest, disappearing.
Jiang Tea Tea stood where she was and watched in the direction he disappeared. Then she leaped up onto the tallest tree in the mountain estate and looked down. All she saw was endless, lush green forest.
She formed a few Protective Barrier seals with her hands and placed them over the two mountain estates.
After she finished all that, she used a Shrinking Ground to Inches Technique to move to the mountain estate under her own name, then landed and turned into a tree. She sank her roots into the earth and grew into a towering tree, facing the sunlight and breeze, drawing in essence and nutrients.
Sui Xuan Chu, Cheng Lin Yue, Cheng Xiao Ting and the other seven had come to the Imperial Military Headquarters and had not left once. Early that morning, they were pulled into the daily training.
Everyone at the Imperial Military Headquarters was a big shot, with high-level supernatural abilities and strong beastman bodies. The seven of them were like little shrimp. Even the most basic daily training left them panting and almost dead.
That wasn’t even the main thing. The main thing was that when they were eating, they heard someone say that the commander in chief came back to the Imperial Military Headquarters early in the morning to work, and his chin was bruised.
Sui Xuan Chu was shocked when he heard that. With his uncle’s skills and supernatural ability level, who could bruise his chin? Could it be his roommate?
If it was his roommate, that was possible. After all, if his roommate hit him, his uncle definitely would not fight back. If she bruised him, then she bruised him. It wouldn’t really matter.
Sui Xuan Chu was dying of curiosity to know if it was his roommate, so he secretly sent her a message. After the message was sent, it was like a stone sinking into the ocean. There was no reply.
Jiang Tea Tea had stayed as a tree in the forest of the mountain estate for a night and half a day. Only at noon the next day did she transform into human form again. She touched her belly. It was a little swollen, like she had a small belly.
The little ones in her belly seemed to feel her hand. They all rushed to bump against her belly, wanting to rub against her hand through her skin.
Jiang Tea Tea rubbed her belly for a while, then took out the flying device. She opened the door, sat inside, started it up, and headed toward the Imperial Military Headquarters.
Her flying device had free access permission at the Imperial Military Headquarters, so she didn’t need to worry that flying into the Imperial Military Headquarters would get her shot down by its defense monitoring system.
The flying device flew straight into Chong Ming’s office.
He seemed to know she was coming and was already standing by the window with it open.
The flying device slid through the window into his office.
Jiang Tea Tea got out, put the flying device away, and looked at Chong Ming: “You’re hurt?”
Thinking about how Zhong Li He had sneak attacked him and bruised his chin, Chong Ming answered: “I’m not hurt.”
Jiang Tea Tea walked over and looked him over from head to toe: “What’s the point of acting tough? Your chin is so bruised, your spiritual power is restless, and you’re in your mating heat cycle again.”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes narrowed: “It’s nothing. That’s a small problem. I’ll take you to the Imperial Military Headquarters laboratory to look at the Living Dead that Sui Xuan Chu and the others brought back…”
Jiang Tea Tea reached out and blocked his way: “Wait.”
Chong Ming stopped and lowered his eyes to look at her: “What is it?”
Jiang Tea Tea pointed at him from head to toe: “Your mating heat cycle is coming too often and isn’t getting relieved. Your whole body is full of that smell. If you keep holding it in, you’ll easily end up with ‘problems down there’.”
“My advice is, either find a partner, or give yourself a few injections. Don’t hold out like this. You’ll really ruin yourself.”