Chapter 253
Chapter 253: I Will Give You a Zombie Crystal Core and Bury Us Together. What Lightning Tribulation?
When Chong Qi had broken free from the ring of flames created by the Flame Staff, she had forced herself with all her might and had not cared about herself at all. Now her tender face had festered until it was unbearable to look at.
She did not care about her face. In her eyes there was only Chong Xing Qi. For the first time she rebelled and refused to carry out his order: “I cannot kill Dad. Chong Qi likes Dad. Chong Qi can go kill Chong Ming. I can die myself. I cannot kill Dad.”
“You can, you can kill Dad.” Chong Xing Qi’s hand pressed hard on her face. Blood-tears flowed from his eyes, filled with the last of his stubbornness and madness: “Chong Qi, be good. Kill Dad, then kill yourself and die with Dad. Hurry, hurry!”
His last bit of reason was about to disappear. The reason he had injected himself with three kinds of virus was to infect himself with the super virus so he would have the strength to find Chong Qi and kill her.
But somehow he had smelled something on Jiang Tea Tea and wanted to eat her, so he had not gone to look for Chong Qi and had come here to find Jiang Tea Tea instead.
Luckily, Chong Qi had heard his cries and had come to find him.
The yellow Dragon Clan genes in her body had been extracted from him. He had raised and studied her personally. She was basically his own child.
As Chong Qi’s researcher, he knew very well the painful process of being a test subject in the laboratory, sliced up and studied over and over.
Killing her, letting her die, letting her die together with him was the only way to spare her from more research and more cutting.
He and his family already owed too much to the Yellow Dragon lineage. He could not fail Chong Qi again, so he wanted to take her with him and let her die together with him.
“No, no, no…” Chong Qi shook her head and cried: “Dad, from when I was little until now, you never taught me to kill you. You never…”
Chong Xing Qi panted and cut her off, forcing out cruel words: “Chong Qi, if you don’t kill me, I will not like you anymore.”
The six words “I will not like you anymore” were the most deadly words for Chong Qi.
Chong Qi felt as if her heart had been stabbed. She froze for a second, then cried out: “No, no, no, Dad likes me the most. Dad cannot stop liking me. I will listen to Dad. I will kill Dad…”
When Chong Xing Qi heard her say that, he smiled.
Chong Qi let out a hysterical scream. Her broken hand, which had only a flap of skin left, turned into a sharp claw and stabbed toward Chong Xing Qi’s heart.
Even though Chong Xing Qi could no longer feel pain, at the moment she grabbed his heart, his body convulsed violently.
His head jerked and lifted. His gaze turned to Chong Ming. His lips moved, as if he were saying he was sorry, or as if he were thanking him for not stopping them.
Chong Qi pulled out Chong Xing Qi’s heart, crushed it in her hand, licked and ate it, then used her claws to tear his body apart.
In this repeated tearing, Chong Xing Qi, even though he had become a living dead zombie, finally died completely and had no breath left.
The lights were bright, the night was clear, and the evening wind was gentle.
But a stench of blood and rot filled the entire Imperial Military Headquarters.
After Chong Qi finished ripping Chong Xing Qi apart, she turned her head to look at Chong Ming: “Brother Chong Ming, you will never be as good as my dad. The only reason I cannot beat you, the only reason I cannot kill you, is because I have not grown up.”
“I will never grow up now. I am going to accompany my dad. I like my dad. My dad will always be the best.”
Chong Ming watched her without speaking and did not try to stop her.
Chong Qi pulled at the corner of her mouth. Her gaze shifted to Jiang Tea Tea.
She did not speak to Jiang Tea Tea. Instead, she used her sharp claws to tear through the last bit of skin and flesh connecting her neck.
Her head and body separated. Then her sharp claws dug into her own chest, pulled out a bloody crystal, and threw it in Jiang Tea Tea’s direction.
Jiang Tea Tea stepped forward and reached out to catch the bloody crystal. She spoke to Chong Qi: “I will burn you two together and bury you in the same place.”
It was as if Chong Qi had been waiting for that sentence. Her headless body, with a big hole left where her heart had been, fell into Chong Xing Qi’s shattered flesh and blood.
The yellow dragon genes in her body came from him. Falling into his broken flesh was her way of returning to him, giving them back, merging with him. They would never be separated. They would always be together.
Jiang Tea Tea opened her hand that was holding the zombie crystal core. Her palm was bloody, and a blood red zombie crystal core, about the size of a quail egg, lay quietly in it.
Chong Ming reached back and took out disinfectant from his space knob storage device: “Jiang Tea Tea, wash your hands!”
Jiang Tea Tea moved her hand toward him. The disinfectant poured over her hand, washing away the blood in her palm.
The blood red zombie crystal core resting in her palm looked even brighter and more translucent after being washed with the disinfectant.
Seeing that there was still some flesh stuck under her nails, Chong Ming wanted to reach out, but Jiang Tea Tea closed her fingers, wrapped her hand around the blood red zombie crystal core, and lowered it: “Don’t worry. The skin on my hand is not broken. I am not infected.”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes narrowed slightly: “It is better to be careful anyway.”
Jiang Tea Tea changed the subject and asked him: “Do you need to take some of Chong Xing Qi and Chong Qi’s flesh and blood for research?”
“If you do, hurry and find people to come take it. If not, I will burn it. I promised Chong Qi I would bury her together with her dad.”
As a demon who had taken another’s item and promise, she had to fulfill the other’s wish no matter what.
Chong Ming answered: “I do. I will have people come collect some.”
The staff in charge of taking samples for research came very quickly.
They were wrapped tightly in protective suits as they took some of Chong Xing Qi and Chong Qi’s flesh and put it into containers.
Jiang Tea Tea stood in the distance and watched. After they had taken as much flesh as they wanted, she spoke to Chong Ming again: “Give the order for everyone to leave the places where Chong Xing Qi and Chong Qi stayed. I am going to burn all the places they have been and where their bodies are now.”
Chong Ming gave the order again. On this shocking night, not a single person in the Imperial Military Headquarters rested. Everyone’s nerves were stretched tight, and they were fully on alert.
Using the Flame Staff in her hand, Jiang Tea Tea drew out streaks of fire and dropped them onto the shattered bodies of Chong Xing Qi and Chong Qi.
More flames followed the traces of where they had walked and began burning all the way along. The fire was fierce, but it burned only the paths they had taken, not any other places.
Such a strange sight shocked everyone present at the Imperial Military Headquarters. They all felt that Jiang Tea Tea was even stronger and more powerful than they had thought.
The places they had stayed and walked through burned quickly. In less than half an hour everything there had been burned over. But their bones burned more slowly. It took a full hour to turn them completely into ashes.
Huang Da Zhuang and the others handed Jiang Tea Tea a broom. They had wanted to help her sweep and collect the ashes, but she did not need their help.
So they only passed the broom to her. Under Chong Ming’s gaze, she slowly swept and gathered the ashes of the two of them into a box.
Jiang Tea Tea held the box and said to Chong Ming: “I am going to bury their ashes. As for things like detox agent, I will come back and study them tomorrow.”
“You… your Imperial Military Headquarters is supposed to be an unbreakable fortress, with all kinds of security monitoring systems, yet you cannot even stop me. Criminals can escape right under your noses, and the people in charge of the surveillance systems and security act as if they never notice anything. This is a major failure.”
Chong Ming nodded: “I know. I will strengthen it. I will have Sui Xuan Chu and the others go with you to bury them. That will make me feel a bit more at ease.”
Jiang Tea Tea refused: “No need…”
With a loud boom, a rumble of thunder sounded in the sky. Right after that, a bolt of lightning split the night sky.
In this night with the moon hanging high, moonlight spilling down and stars everywhere, thunder rumbled and lightning flashed again. It was no different from a thunderbolt on a clear day, like a sudden storm breaking out while the sun was shining.
Jiang Tea Tea’s voice stopped short. She looked up in the direction where the thunder and lightning had appeared. It was the direction of the mountain she had bought…
The direction of that mountain was where Jin Lin was cultivating and digesting the four members of the yellow Dragon Clan.
This was not ordinary thunder or ordinary lightning. This was a Lightning Tribulation. It was the Lightning Tribulation he had to pass, the Lightning Tribulation aimed at Jin Lin!
Jiang Tea Tea flipped her hand and put the ashes of Chong Xing Qi and Chong Qi into the space knob storage device. She said to Chong Ming: “I will first go find a place to bury them. You don’t have to worry about me…”
Before she even finished speaking, she had already disappeared.
Thunder sounded again in the distant sky, each clap louder than the one before. Each flash of lightning was brighter than the last. Dark clouds seemed to rise all at once and gather over the place where the lightning struck.
Not only Chong Ming, but everyone else also felt that the lightning and clouds were unusual and far too strange.
After thinking for a moment, Chong Ming boarded a warship. While working remotely, he ordered the warship to head toward the place filled with lightning and dark clouds.
Jiang Tea Tea gathered her spiritual power and used the Shrinking Ground to Inches technique. With the fastest speed-type ability, she arrived at the mountain estate where Jin Lin was digesting the four members of the yellow Dragon Clan.
Bolts of lightning, each one followed by thunder, fell from the sky. The booming was deafening, as if heaven and earth were being torn apart.
Standing in the lightning, Jin Lin saw Jiang Tea Tea arrive. Enduring the pain the lightning brought, he shouted to her: “Senior, thank you for taking care of me, for saving my life, and for buying this mountain estate for me. I have finished digesting the four dragons and have drawn down the Lightning Tribulation.”
“If I can survive this Lightning Tribulation and ascend, I will never forget your kindness and will definitely repay you. If I do not make it through the Lightning Tribulation and ascension but am lucky enough not to die, please save me again. If I am blasted by the lightning until my soul is scattered, then I will have let you down!”