Chapter 240
Chapter 240: Little Brat’s dad is so charming, even a zombie is drawn to him
Chong Ming took the hypodermic syringe that Jiang Tea Tea handed him. The syringe was filled all the way with liquid. It was a shady “three-no” product, with no instructions, no label, and no official approval number at all.
He was still looking at the syringe without speaking when the nine researchers heard Jiang Tea Tea say they had been hypnotized by an infected host. Every one of them felt insulted.
One researcher spoke up, his tone stiff: “Healer Jiang, it is true that you are the only variant Level S healer in the whole interstellar space. But for us to be able to work in the Imperial Military Headquarters laboratory, none of us are idiots. We are all real talent. For you to say we were turned by hypnosis is pure slander!”
Another researcher followed at once: “Yes, Commander in Chief, every word we said, every sentence, and every step of the tests we ran on Chong Qi, we take full responsibility for. For Healer Jiang to frame us like this, we refuse to accept it!”
A third researcher said with righteous anger: “Chong Qi was dragged onto an operating table by illegal researchers. She is an innocent victim. What we should do is help her recover as much as possible, free her from the status of a super virus infected host, and let her live like a normal person.”
Someone echoed him: “Healer Cheng Yuan is right. The virus in Chong Qi’s body spreads through saliva, blood, and mating.”
Another researcher added: “During the healing process, we can simply avoid those routes of infection.”
“So she is not the biggest or most dangerous infected host,” one of them insisted. “She is an innocent infected host who is waiting for us to save her.”
“She also doesn’t have any hypnosis-type supernatural ability,” another said. “Her body just holds three kinds of virus. Other than that, there is nothing else.”
“Chong Qi is a victim,” one of them summed up. “We cannot look at a victim with colored glasses. We have to do everything we can to help the victim recover as soon as possible.”
Jiang Tea Tea curled her lips and watched the nine of them. Every sentence circled back to Chong Qi. Every word painted her as innocent. [This hypnosis-type control ability of hers is pretty interesting.]
Chong Ming handed the potion syringe back to Cheng Yuan. He did not answer the nine researchers. Instead, he turned to Cheng Yuan and asked: “Healer Cheng, for this clear-headed shot that can block a Level S hypnosis-type supernatural ability, is all the data extraction complete?”
Cheng Yuan took the potion syringe from him and answered respectfully: “Reporting to Your Highness, the data is complete. If Your Highness needs it, I can provide the data for free so that Your Highness can mass-produce it.”
Chong Ming liked smart people, and he also handled official business without taking advantage of others. He said: “I’ll have Secretary Wen contact you later. Once it passes testing and goes into production, every bit of the patent fee you deserve will be paid to you in full.”
Cheng Yuan was overjoyed and hurried to thank him: “Thank you, Your Highness!”
Chong Ming nodded: “You’re welcome. If someone is already under hypnosis control, will this clear-headed shot still work on them?”
Cheng Yuan answered honestly: “It won’t work anymore.”
Chong Ming turned his gaze to Jiang Tea Tea: “Do you have any way to wake them up?”
Jiang Tea Tea reached back and slipped off the flame staff ring from her wrist. It turned into a stick about one meter and twenty centimeters long. She passed it to Chong Ming and spat out one word: “Hit.”
The nine researchers were completely ignored. You look at me, I look at you. None of them believed they were hypnotized or controlled, yet now they heard they were going to be beaten. They quickly called out: “Commander in Chief…”
They had just spoken when they saw the Commander in Chief reach out to take the staff from Jiang Tea Tea. The staff acted like it had a temper. It bumped against his hand, then shrank back into a ring and clasped itself around Jiang Tea Tea’s wrist again, playing dead.
Jiang Tea Tea had not expected her staff to have such a personality. She reached out to check Chong Ming’s hand and saw that the skin on the back of his hand had been knocked open and was oozing blood.
She drew on her spiritual power and brushed her fingers over his wound. The burn-like injury caused by the flame vanished without a trace.
Chong Ming’s golden eyes grew even deeper. He said: “Your staff doesn’t seem to like me. I can’t use it. You go hit them.”
Jiang Tea Tea let go of his hand: “I don’t want to hit them either. Let it hit them by itself. Flame Staff, hit them for me.”
As soon as Jiang Tea Tea finished speaking, the flame staff ring on her wrist dropped its act and switched into beating mode. It shot straight at the nine researchers’ foreheads.
Its speed-type ability was so fast that the nine researchers tried to dodge, but all they felt was a flash of heat and a sharp pain on their foreheads. They hadn’t dodged past it at all. They had been struck head-on.
Each researcher who was hit felt their head buzzing with pain. Their vision exploded with golden stars, and their whole body felt dizzy and light.
After about thirty seconds, the nine researchers’ eyes cleared. They looked around. When they saw Chong Ming, they hurried to salute in unison: “Greetings, Commander in Chief!”
Jiang Tea Tea noticed Chong Ming looking at her. She pointed at her own forehead to signal to him that they were awake now.
Chong Ming shifted his gaze slightly and asked the nine researchers: “Do you have any insights from examining the infected host Chong Qi?”
The nine researchers froze for a moment, then answered: “Reporting to the Commander in Chief, we just arrived here. We haven’t examined the infected host yet.”
“Please give us some time, Commander in Chief,” one of them said. “After we finish examining the infected host, we will present you with a complete set of data.”
“You told us she is intelligent and not an ordinary zombie,” another added. “We will adjust our full-body examination according to her intelligence and the virus groups she carries.”
They had been under the control of Chong Qi’s hypnosis-type supernatural ability. Now that the control was broken, they had completely forgotten everything that had happened since they first came into contact with Chong Qi and examined her. Their memories had returned to the moment before they had ever met her.
Chong Ming gave them a new order: “She still needs to be observed for a while. You go to the other laboratories. Each of you will examine one zombie.”
The nine researchers answered “Yes” together and left this laboratory.
Chong Ming asked again: “Healer Cheng, for your clear-headed shot, how long does its effect last, and how many doses do you have on hand?”
Cheng Yuan answered respectfully: “Reporting to Your Highness, the clear-headed shot works for seven days. I only have eighteen doses on me right now.”
Chong Ming asked: “If I give you one of the Imperial Military Headquarters laboratories to use, how many clear-headed shots can you produce at your fastest speed?”
Cheng Yuan replied: “Reporting to Your Highness, in one full day and night, I can produce about one hundred and fifty to two hundred doses.”
Chong Ming nodded and called out: “Deputy Officer Ai, take him to a laboratory. First make one thousand doses for backup.”
Deputy Officer Ai answered at once: “Yes. Healer Cheng, this way, please.”
Cheng Yuan followed Deputy Officer Ai out.
The rest of the entourage and attendants in the laboratory also left with them.
Soon, in the whole laboratory, besides Chong Qi in the glass inner chamber, only Jiang Tea Tea and Cheng Lin Yue remained. Cheng Lin Yue was the only female here who had already been injected with a clear-headed shot.
Jiang Tea Tea looked again at Chong Qi inside the glass room and let out a soft “wow”: “Chong Ming, this little girl has grown up.”
Chong Ming stood at her side, looking at the figure in the glass room, and agreed with Jiang Tea Tea: “She has indeed grown a bit.”
Cheng Lin Yue: “…”
[That super virus infected host has not just grown a bit. She has clearly grown a lot.] She had gone from looking like a little girl of eleven or twelve to looking like a girl of seventeen or eighteen.
Her height, which had been around one meter twenty to one meter forty, had become about one meter sixty. Her face had fully matured. There was a hint of temptation and a hint of sultriness to her now.
Jiang Tea Tea glanced sideways at Chong Ming and lifted the corner of her lips: “For her, this glass wall might as well not exist. Her eyes have been locked on where you are standing the whole time. She keeps changing how she sits, on purpose lifting her little skirt to show her thighs. It looks like she’s trying to seduce you, Your Highness.”