Chapter 25
Chapter 25: Wants to Kill the Little Brat’s Dad and Bury Him Under Her Roots
Chong Ming glanced at the bloody back of his hand. As if he did not feel any pain, he lifted his hand and flicked off the drops of blood: “Congratulations, schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea. Your sneak attack worked. I am injured.”
Jiang Tea Tea hopped to her feet and took a step back, staring at the bloody back of his hand. His hair was golden, his eyes were golden, and she had never expected his blood to be golden too.
His flesh and blood were full of huge energy. Her nails had only scratched a little bit of flesh from the back of his hand, but that tiny bit worked better at easing the pain in her stomach than when she stuck her branches into the ground for ten or twenty minutes.
[Sure enough, no matter where, a dragon, this kind of pure yang creature, was a little darling from head to toe. If she could somehow kill him and bury him under her tree roots as fertilizer, she did not dare imagine how rich and nourishing he would be, and she did not dare imagine how happy a demon tree she herself would become.]
With all that in her heart, thinking and planning how to quietly get him killed without anyone knowing, her mouth answered back: “I did not mean to sneak attack you. Your hand was stretched out so far. I thought you were going to sneak attack me, so that was just a normal counterattack.”
Seeing her staring at his own hand, Chong Ming stood up and put his injured hand behind his back. He sounded a bit helpless, like he was indulging a child: “All right, you are right. Now can you tell me what supernatural abilities you have awakened?”
He could not feel any spiritual power fluctuations from supernatural abilities on her body at all, yet she could treat his oppressive aura like it was nothing. That was not normal.
Jiang Tea Tea curled her lips into a smile: “If I say I have not awakened any supernatural abilities, would you believe me?”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes flashed as he examined her and he answered honestly: “I do not believe you.”
Jiang Tea Tea opened her mouth and went straight to accusing him: “You dragon, you are really strange. You ask, I answer, and then you do not believe me. What, do you want to drag me into a laboratory and dissect me?”
This child not only loved to hold grudges, she was also sharp-tongued and full of spikes all over, like a firecracker that exploded before anyone even lit it.
Chong Ming gave a small smile: “Of course not. The Empire’s laws clearly forbid any laboratory from dissecting humans, beastmen, or half-beastmen.”
“You are a citizen of the Empire. While you follow the Empire’s laws, the Empire’s laws also protect you. Including me, no one has the right to send you into a laboratory.”
“If you are ever worried and see signs of something like that, you can contact the Central Public Security Bureau. The people from the Central Public Security Bureau will arrive and save you within ten minutes.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out an “oh” and replied in a very perfunctory way: “Thank you for the reminder. Thank you for giving me a dose of comfort. But no matter what you say, you cannot wash away the fact that you sneak attacked me and almost made me die in a tiger’s mouth.”
Chong Ming: “…”
This child loved to hold grudges, was petty, and very hard to coax.
Even harder to deal with than his nephew.
“Oww, Sister Tea, my leg, my old waist is about to break. Come save me, save me,” Huang Da Zhuang groaned in pain.
“Oww, by the Beast God, roommate, take me to the academy’s Healing Department. My whole body has been burnt to a crisp by lightning,” Sui Xuan Chu wailed.
Chong Ming was just about to speak when the painful cries of Huang Da Zhuang and Sui Xuan Chu came over, both of them calling for Jiang Tea Tea.
Jiang Tea Tea left Chong Ming behind without a second thought. First she walked over to Huang Da Zhuang, then dragged the half-dead Huang Da Zhuang over to the side of Sui Xuan Chu, who still had smoke curling up from the top of his head and looked like he had only one breath left.
Covered in blood from head to toe, Jiang Yi Zhu rushed out from some unknown corner and suddenly stepped in front of Jiang Tea Tea and the other two. She pointed at the three of them and started scolding from above, her tone full of harsh questions.
“Sui Xuan Chu, you are the first year Combat Department’s top student. The Royal Military Academy spends a lot of money to train you. How can you, when aberrant beasts and mutated insects are attacking, still go and attack His Highness Chong Ming? What are you thinking? Are you worthy of the academy’s training? Are you worthy of the oath you made under the military flag to be loyal to the Empire?”
“And you, first year Pacification Division beastman with no supernatural abilities, Huang Da Zhuang. You usually seem honest. How could you, at such a crucial moment, still follow along with Sui Xuan Chu and do something as foolish as attacking His Highness?”
“Do not look away, you too, Jiang Tea Tea. Are you hiding awakened supernatural abilities and just waiting for His Highness Chong Ming to come close so you can attack him?”
“His Highness Chong Ming is the Commander in Chief of the Three Armies. If anything happens to him, it is the Empire’s loss and a misfortune for all the people.”
“You three are all people trained by the Royal Military Academy. How could you do something like this that lets down the nation, the common citizens, and your parents? You have gone too far.”
After being scolded like that, Sui Xuan Chu and Huang Da Zhuang stopped groaning in pain. The two of them used Jiang Tea Tea’s arms for support and stood up. They were in a sorry state, blood stench rushing straight to people’s noses.
After the school leaders on this side finished taking care of the aberrant beasts and mutated insects, all their eyes landed on Jiang Yi Zhu, and each of their expressions changed.
They had been busy killing aberrant beasts and mutated insects and had not seen Sui Xuan Chu and Jiang Tea Tea attack His Highness Chong Ming.
His Highness Chong Ming had come to inspect the school and had run into an outbreak of aberrant beasts and mutated insects. That alone was already the school’s fault. If he was then attacked by students on campus on top of that, this could rise all the way to a charge of endangering security and treason.
Chong Ming’s golden eyes showed no emotion as he looked at Jiang Yi Zhu. Deputy Officer Ai leaned in close to his ear and whispered a few words.
Supporting one injured person with each arm, Jiang Tea Tea looked at Jiang Yi Zhu and spoke in a lazy, drifting tone: “His Highness Chong Ming is not only the Commander in Chief of the Three Armies, he is also the acting Prince of the Blood. If he could be easily attacked by us and even killed by us, that would mean he deserved to die. What would that have to do with us?”
Sui Xuan Chu’s eyes widened. He had never found his roommate this adorable before. Her words were so sharp and refreshing.
He followed up, full of swagger: “Yeah. Commander in Chief Chong Ming once said that at any time, in any place, as long as a student in the military academy can kick him or sneak attack him successfully, they can enter any of the Empire’s top thirty Army Corps.”
“As a military academy student at the Royal Military Academy, my dream is to kick over the Commander in Chief, defeat the Commander in Chief, surpass the Commander in Chief, and become the Commander in Chief of the Three Armies.”
“So what, who do you think you are that you can tell me I am not allowed to have a dream, not allowed to defeat my dream and move toward it?”
Huang Da Zhuang nodded quickly: “Right, right, right. Even if I do not have supernatural abilities, I still want to get into one of the Empire’s top thirty Army Corps.”
“With such a great chance to sneak attack His Highness and attack His Highness, I have to follow my Sister Tea and Sui Xuan Chu, the top student. This is just like on the battlefield where things change in a blink. If you get a chance to take down the enemy, you have to grab it tightly.”
“We did nothing wrong. Jiang Yi Zhu, stop trying to sow discord here and throw dirty water on us. We have a clear conscience about what we did.”
Jiang Yi Zhu had not expected that when she jumped out in front of His Highness Chong Ming to stir up trouble for the three of them, they would still talk back to her with such sharp tongues, not knowing what was good for them and not kneeling to beg for mercy.
She quickly turned around, lowered her head respectfully to face Chong Ming, pointed at Jiang Tea Tea, and said: “Your Highness Chong Ming, I want to report her. Jiang Tea Tea was dumped and hurt in love, secretly took a forbidden drug, awakened supernatural abilities, and developed a violent, bloodthirsty, anti-human personality. She is trying to murder you.”