Chapter 24
Chapter 24: Always Aiming for His Wife’s Belly in a Fight, Then Feeling Weirdly Guilty
Huang Da Zhuang gritted his teeth, bearing the pain of the mutant tiger almost biting his leg off, and weakly raised his hand: “You two, you two! I’m not dead yet. You are saying right in front of me that you want to use me as bait to go beat up my heartthrob idol, my idol. Do you think that’s okay?”
Sui Xuan Chu turned his head and hit him with a soul-deep question: “We let you be bait and an inside agent, give you a chance to get close to Commander in Chief Chong Ming and kick him once. After you graduate, the Empire’s top thirty Army Corps let you pick where to go. You think that is not okay?”
Jiang Tea Tea added, full of dislike: “A man’s mouth is full of lies. I knew this dog can’t be trusted. You always say you will live for your heartthrob idol and die for your heartthrob idol, but when it comes to acting, you are not willing to sacrifice even a little bit for him.”
She waved her hand in disgust and said: “Forget it, we will go do it ourselves. You go play on the side…”
“Do it, do it, I will do it!” Huang Da Zhuang felt Jiang Tea Tea loosening the hand that was holding on to him, and he rushed to agree and show loyalty: “To get into one of the Empire’s top thirty Army Corps, to guard the country, to serve my heartthrob idol, my idol, whoever you tell me to go after, I will go after.”
[Sob sob sob. To get into a top Army Corps, he could only wrong his heartthrob idol for a while and go kick him once. He really hoped his heartthrob idol would not blame him. He was also doing it so he could serve him better in the future.]
Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu rolled their eyes at Huang Da Zhuang at the exact same time. He was really like taking off his pants just to fart, totally unnecessary.
Right after that, the two of them moved into action. Sui Xuan Chu used his Lightning Element Affinity supernatural ability, thunder crackling as he blasted the tea hornets flying in the sky and the Level Seven mutant rats running on the ground, clearing a path for Jiang Tea Tea and Huang Da Zhuang.
Jiang Tea Tea hauled the injured Huang Da Zhuang and ran fast toward the protective circle around Chong Ming.
When Chong Ming’s bodyguards saw Jiang Tea Tea and the other two rushing over, they opened a gap in the tight protective circle.
Jiang Tea Tea carried Huang Da Zhuang, nimbly dodged a mutant fox lunging at them, and slipped into the protective circle where Chong Ming was.
Sui Xuan Chu followed right behind and also entered the circle. Once the three of them got inside, they dropped to the ground like piles of mud, lying there limp.
The way the three of them collapsed was just right. They happened to lie around Chong Ming and surround him in the middle. From the outside, it looked very much like they were determined to protect him even if they were injured.
Chong Ming swept his gaze over the three of them. His voice was low as he went straight to the point: “You three lying all around me like this. Are you planning to attack me?”
The moment his words fell, Jiang Tea Tea, Sui Xuan Chu, and Huang Da Zhuang moved at the same time and attacked him. One lunged to grab his leg, one aimed a fierce kick at his waist and kidneys, and one used Call Lightning to blast him.
Chong Ming’s feet and hands moved even faster. His kick landed on Huang Da Zhuang, who was trying to hug his leg. At the same time he reached out, grabbed Sui Xuan Chu, who was calling lightning at him, then twisted his body to dodge and drove his knee straight into Jiang Tea Tea’s belly.
Deputy Officer Ai and Da Ma Zi widened the protective circle. While they used their guns to rattle off bullets at the aberrant beasts and mutated insects, they silently mourned for Jiang Tea Tea and the others in their hearts. Of all people to sneak attack, they chose His Highness?
When His Highness drilled them in training, they had already tried to sneak attack him eight hundred times and not a single time had worked. These kids still dared to try. It was like an egg hitting a rock.
Huang Da Zhuang flew through the air like a kite with its string cut and crashed down with a bang at Deputy Officer Ai’s feet. He spat out a big mouthful of blood, groaning and whining. Half his life seemed gone.
Sui Xuan Chu was struck by the lightning he himself had called down. One, two, three, three bolts fell in a row and split him from head to toe. His hair was burnt and sticking up, his Combat Suit was blasted into pieces, and he lay on the ground smoking, his life almost gone.
Jiang Tea Tea took the full force of his knee to her belly and hit the ground hard. Her face went pale from the pain. One hand pressed against her stomach, the other braced on the ground, her fingernails digging deep into the stone slab. For a long time she could not catch her breath.
Chong Ming’s gaze swept around and landed on Jiang Tea Tea’s bloodless face. When he saw the way she was holding her stomach, his heart suddenly gave a strange jump.
He called out: “Deputy Officer Ai, tell all the students of the Royal Military Academy: any student who hunts and kills more than five aberrant beasts or mutated insects today will get twenty extra credits.”
“Yes!” Deputy Officer Ai answered loudly. Then he took a metal broadcast sphere out of his space knob storage device and tossed it up into the air.
In the blink of an eye, a mechanical yet exciting voice came from the metal broadcast sphere: “All students of the Royal Military Academy, by order of the Commander in Chief, anyone who hunts and kills more than five aberrant beasts or mutated insects today will receive twenty extra credits.”
As soon as the many students heard that, they exploded with excitement. Twenty credits. Twenty credits personally promised by His Highness Chong Ming. That was sure to be a bright, bold line on their records.
For credits like that, what was there to wait for? They charged out and fought hard, determined to wipe out these mutated insects and aberrant beasts and step onto the road to glory.
The metal broadcast sphere did not only play in one place. It broadcast in a loop all over the whole Royal Military Academy. Its voice was so loud that you could hear it from any corner of the campus.
The academy had over seventy thousand people. Those with sticks grabbed sticks, those with clubs grabbed clubs. Not a single one backed down. For the sake of credits, they all went all out.
The tea hornets flying in the air, the Level Seven mutant rats, and even the four or five Level 6 mutant foxes, mutant tigers, and mutant leopards were simply not enough for the students to smash.
At one point, the scene turned into too many monks and not enough porridge. Some students almost fell out with their own good friends and started a fight just for the right to kill one mutant rat.
Jiang Tea Tea dug her fingers into the floor. Her fingertips turned into roots and drilled into the ground, drawing in the essence of Mother Earth to ease the pain in her belly from Chong Ming’s knee strike.
By right, no matter how heavy Chong Ming’s knee strike was, it should not be enough to make someone like her, who still had two layers of spiritual power left in the Great Demon Stage, hurt so much that she could not even straighten her back.
Right now her stomach was hurting in waves, as if Chong Ming had seriously damaged her roots and trunk.
[This had never happened before. It was really weird. That dog Chong Ming was definitely born to clash with her.]
Chong Ming flicked the hem of his military coat back and half crouched in front of Jiang Tea Tea. He reached out his hand to her and said: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, do you need help?”
Jiang Tea Tea looked at the big, well-shaped hand stretched out in front of her and pulled the corner of her mouth into a smile: “Thank you for your kindness. I’m just afraid you will sneak attack me.”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes narrowed slightly as he stared at her smile: “When you sneak attacked me, you were very brave. I did not see you being afraid.”
Jiang Tea Tea gave him a huge eye roll: “I’m just giving you a taste of your own medicine. Who told you to sneak attack me first?”
This kid really loved to hold a grudge.
Chong Ming did not mind her eye roll and took a step back: “All right. I will apologize to you once again for my earlier sneak attack and rashness.”
Jiang Tea Tea bared her teeth in a grin: “I don’t accept your apology. I am a petty person. However people treat me is how I treat them. I like to pay people back, double.”
Chong Ming looked at her like she was a little cat baring its teeth, and suddenly he wanted to know how far this little cat could go with that stubborn, never-say-die spirit of hers.
He spoke like a guide: “If you want to pay me back, you need to study hard. Tell me, what supernatural abilities have you awakened? Then I can have the academy make a training plan for you based on your abilities and help you defeat me sooner.”
Jiang Tea Tea finally eased the pain in her belly. Her smile faded. The hand she had dug into the floor suddenly pulled back, and she lunged toward the hand Chong Ming was holding out.
Her speed-type ability was as fast as a bullet. Chong Ming did not have time to pull his hand back and dodge. Her fingernails raked across the back of his hand and tore open four bloody lines.