Chapter 263
Chapter 263: Someone Wants To Send Little Cub’s Dad A Female And Share The Old Mud Eel With Little Brat’s Mom
Jiang Tea Tea, as a Great Demon Stage tree demon, went bright red under Chong Ming’s serious invitation. She even stuttered when she opened her mouth: “Y-you… you have no shame!”
Who sits here early in the morning watching this kind of stuff, and even invites someone else to watch with him? Even as a Great Demon Stage tree demon, she was not as wild as he was.
Chong Ming looked at her without blushing or losing his breath: “Chasing a partner, pleasing a partner, serving a partner is not called shameless. It is normal.”
“As a male, if I don’t serve my partner well, then that is my own fault. When I know I am wrong, I should fix it, work hard to change, and do better.”
“When my partner is happy, the family is peaceful, and the mood is good, it makes everything else go smoother, easier, and without worries.”
Jiang Tea Tea was so angry at his twisted but confident words that she had to laugh. She had thought that as demons, as long as they obeyed the laws of heaven and earth, they were already bad enough, already far from the usual path!
She had not expected that the M31 Star System beastman world would be even more off the usual path, more like monsters than actual demons, more wild than they were.
Chong Ming slid the light-brain wrist terminal board a little closer to himself, took out a clear earpiece, and handed it to her: “Let’s study together. After we finish studying, we can discuss it.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “!!!!”
[Who the hell wants to study with him and discuss anything!]
She was a Great Demon Stage being who had lived for a few thousand years.
[Does he have no shame at all?]
With her face still burning red, Jiang Tea Tea ground her teeth and squeezed out one word: “Get lost!”
Looking at her face, Chong Ming felt his mouth go dry, his throat bobbing. He suddenly smiled and leaned his body toward her: “Jiang Tea Tea, why is your face red?”
Jiang Tea Tea exploded: “Who is blushing? Why don’t you say the flying device is small and you refuse to turn on the air? I’m hot!”
Chong Ming dragged out his tone with a long “oh”: “So you are hot. It is not because I invited you to explore and study together. Then I can relax.”
[Relax, my ass.]
[That damned old mud eel is doing this on purpose.]
Jiang Tea Tea glared at him: “Stay away from me.”
Chong Ming did not move farther away. Instead, he reached out and touched her face: “Jiang Tea Tea, your face is not only red, it is also dry and hot.”
Being touched by him made her whole body shiver. She suddenly twisted to the side, got up, and knelt on the seat with her knees. She reached out and grabbed the two big golden horns on Chong Ming’s forehead: “Are you looking for a fight?”
Dragon horns were more private than a dragon’s back. As for the dragon’s back, if it was not on the battlefield while saving a comrade in arms, only a partner, a youngling, or parents could ride it.
As for dragon horns, only a partner could touch them. It meant a mating invitation.
Chong Ming put the light-brain wrist terminal board aside, grabbed her waist with his hand, and pulled hard. Taking advantage of Jiang Tea Tea’s posture of trying to break his dragon horns, he directly pulled her down to straddle his lap.
He raised his head and looked at her. His eyes were deep and burning, not hiding at all that he wanted her, that he had a possessive desire for her: “Today’s work schedule is already full. In this short time on the road, fighting with me will not be satisfying for you.”
“In the evening, after I finish work, you are welcome to come look for me to fight. However you want to fight, I will cooperate.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “!!!!”
She did not know if he was being dirty, or if she was thinking too much.
[Why does it feel like his head is full of trash, like a car driving on the highway without brakes?]
[Wait, has he been body seized or something?]
Jiang Tea Tea kept trying to twist his dragon horns, making his head sway from side to side: “That Chong guy, who wants to fight you? Who wants to fight you at night? Are you crazy? Take your claws off my waist.”
Chong Ming’s head was being shaken from side to side by her, but the hand on her waist did not loosen. Instead, he held her even tighter. His low voice sounded all wronged: “You are the one who wanted to fight me. I am only telling you the time.”
“And also, it is not that my claws wanted to grab your waist. You grabbed my dragon horns first, and invited me, so I put my hands on you.”
Jiang Tea Tea was furious: “Who invited you? I wanted to break your dragon horns!”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes lit up: “Oh. For the dragon clan, when a female reaches out to touch his dragon horns, grabs his dragon horns, that is a mating invitation.”
“You are inviting me to mate, Jiang Tea Tea schoolmate…”
Jiang Tea Tea’s hands jerked away like she had touched a hot iron. She let go at once, slid her hands down to his neck, and grabbed him, pressing him back against the seat. She was furious, full of killing intent: “I am not inviting you to mate. I am trying to choke you to death.”
Chong Ming followed her pressure and leaned back just like that. His hand stayed on her waist like nothing was wrong: “All right. Go ahead. I won’t fight back.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “!!!!”
[Is there something wrong with his head?]
[Does he really think that if he keeps giving way like this, she will start dating him, and even marry him?]
Jiang Tea Tea did not know if he was doing it to make it easier for her to strangle him or just to annoy her. Chong Ming slightly lifted his jaw and stretched his neck out for her to choke…
“Knock, knock, knock!”
Just as Jiang Tea Tea was putting all her strength into choking him, someone knocked on the door of the flying device.
Chong Ming lightly patted the hand holding her waist and spoke in a tone that was both doting and indulgent: “We are at the infection quarantine zone. Save your strength to choke me tonight. I definitely will not fight back.”
That pat made Jiang Tea Tea feel even more stifled and angry. She had no choice but to let go of his neck, but she still dug her nails hard into his skin and scratched a bloody line across his throat.
Acting as if he did not feel any pain, Chong Ming lifted her off his legs, took out a hypodermic syringe, jabbed it into his own neck, and pushed the medicine in.
Watching his very familiar, smooth movements with the needle, Jiang Tea Tea could not help asking out of curiosity: “What are you doing now?”
[He really is sick, and it is not a mild illness either. He keeps jabbing himself with needles at every turn!]
After pushing all the medicine in, Chong Ming pulled out the needle and answered: “You stirred up my mating heat cycle. I am giving myself a shot to press it down.”
Jiang Tea Tea: “!!!!”
[What, is she some kind of rare treat now?]
[She did not do anything at all, and yet she somehow stirred up his mating heat cycle?]
[He is way too easy to trigger!]
[Spit, this is slander. Pure slander!]
From inside, Chong Ming opened the door of the flying device and stepped out first. He straightened his uniform, then knocked on the roof of the flying device to remind Jiang Tea Tea.
Jiang Tea Tea took a deep breath and pressed it down, telling herself not to stoop to the level of this old mud eel. He was not worth it.
After setting up her mental defenses, Jiang Tea Tea got out of the flying device. Today she was wearing the duty uniform of the Imperial Military Headquarters staff. If she walked behind Chong Ming, she would look like his bodyguard. Too bad she walked side by side with him. Her aura did not lose to his at all. In fact, she even looked more arrogant than he did.
Jiang Tea Tea followed him to see the infected hosts in the infection quarantine zone. Now, none of the infected hosts, whether male, female, or pure human, had a healthy body. All of their bodies were rotting, and there was not a single patch of good skin to be found.
They had lost all reason. They roared and howled at one another, biting and tearing. When they were starving, they ate rotten flesh and even killed and ate their own kind. They had no dignity at all.
Some of the infected hosts’ family members applied to come say goodbye. But when they saw how their loved ones had no reason and no dignity, they cried and signed the agreement as guardians, giving consent for them to be hunted and burned.
Some family members had thought of letting their infected relatives regain a little reason so they could say goodbye. After seeing this scene, they gave up the idea.
They were afraid that if their child did regain awareness, they would see their own body rotting, with no good skin left, and feel that life was worse than death. It might be better to just hunt and burn them like this, so at least there would be no more pain.
Chong Ming had given three days as a buffer. The families of more than twenty thousand infected hosts took only one day to sign all the voluntary agreements to give up healing and to accept the hunt-and-cremate consent.
For this, Chong Ming even met them in person, expressed his apologies, and signed compensation documents. Every infected host’s family would receive three years of basic salary at the Capital Planet. The infected hosts’ immediate relatives would also have free permission for three years to go to healing institutes for any illness and to have their spiritual power combed and treated.
All the compensation that Chong Ming granted was put out as an official notice on the government’s website, informing the public of the Zhenlin Empire. People on all the other planets in the M31 Star System also learned of it, which stirred up wide discussion.
“Super virus infection counts as a natural disaster. I have nothing bad to say about this compensation from Commander in Chief Chong Ming. I just want to see who has the nerve to stand here and accuse him of doing wrong and running the nation badly.”
“Our own people will not blame him. The ones who blame him are aliens from other planets who cannot stand to see Zhenlin Empire doing well.”
“People who know, know. Two thousand years ago, even the Western Kingdom was helpless in the face of this virus. Two thousand years later, this virus has been modified to be more fierce and more vicious. It cannot be cured at all. Yet some people do not condemn the ones who modified the virus, who spread the virus. Instead they come to condemn and make things hard for Commander in Chief Chong Ming. They are so shameless it is bubbling over.”
“Right. Luckily Commander in Chief Chong Ming has absolute authority. If not, his common citizens might be fooled and stirred up to speak badly of him.”
“Exactly. Some people just have no brain. Whatever others say, they follow. All they do is go with the flow, with no thoughts of their own!”
“The basic wage on Zhenlin Capital Planet is 8,910 a month. Three years of basic wages is more than 300,000 star credits. Add in three years of free healing at healing institutes for each infected person’s immediate family, which includes all treatments and spiritual power combing, and the compensation for each family is worth over a million star credits.”
“There are more than twenty thousand infected hosts. Each infected person has at least three immediate relatives. This is a huge expense.”
“Mm. All I want to say is that Commander in Chief Chong Ming is generous. He is much, much better than our nation’s Emperor, His Majesty, and the heir apparent.”
“Hey, even though your IP is hidden, I suspect we are from the same nation. Our old Majesty, for the sake of his love affairs and his illegitimate sons, even transferred our nation’s money to other planets. It was disgusting.”
“Hahaha, so you are talking about Sky Vault Star’s old Emperor, His Majesty. I remember your current Emperor, His Majesty, in order to shut people up and punish the old Majesty, had him chemically castrated, right, right?”
“Yes. The old Majesty was too lustful. According to incomplete counts, he had more than 170 lovers and more than 200 illegitimate sons. The money he secretly transferred out of the nation reached more than a hundred billion.”
“The current Majesty is the Empress’s son, the true heir apparent. The first thing he did after taking the throne was to have the old Majesty chemically castrated and locked up. Then he passed laws that did not recognize any illegitimate sons and would not give any of them financial support. Only then did the Royal Household save a tiny bit of face.”
“Compared to Zhenlin Empire’s Royal Household, Sky Vault Star’s Royal Household is like heaven and earth. One side stinks, and the other smells fragrant.”
“Hey, hey, hey, don’t say it like that. I heard the current Emperor, His Majesty of Sky Vault Star has a twenty-year-old eldest daughter. She is a very beautiful and excellent female. There is gossip that our Emperor, His Majesty wants to cooperate with Zhenlin Empire and plans to marry his eldest daughter to Commander in Chief Chong Ming!”
“What, the current Emperor, His Majesty of Sky Vault Star wants to marry his daughter to our Commander in Chief? You people are really taking this thread way off topic. It is completely crooked now.”
“I am telling you, no way. Our Commander in Chief Chong Ming already has a youngling and already has a partner. Our nation is a one-male-one-female system, not like Sky Vault Star, which allows two males and one female or two females and one male. Stop trying to mooch off us!”
“I can confirm it. I am from Sky Vault Star. We are not trying to mooch. Our Emperor, His Majesty really has this idea. Who told your Commander in Chief Chong Ming to only say with his mouth that he has a partner and a youngling, when no one has seen them?”
“If no one has seen them, you can send a female over? Then we can also say we have no money. Why don’t you send us money?”
“Females are meant to be cherished, not used for trade or as gifts. No wonder your old Majesty was so lecherous. Turns out you people do not respect females at all.”
“There is no point arguing with you. Just look at where this whole thread has gone.”
The online discussion had gone eight thousand miles off topic. People were talking about all kinds of things. Not everyone was focused only on Zhenlin Empire’s super virus infected hosts.
Three days passed in a flash. For the hunting, burning, and clearing of more than twenty thousand infected hosts, Jiang Tea Tea and Zhong Li He were the main force.
The Phoenix clan’s phoenix fire could burn away all unclean things and stop any filth from spreading.
Zhong Li He was in charge of burning. Jiang Tea Tea controlled the fire. The two worked together, burning all more than twenty thousand infected hosts to ashes. They also swept a great fire across every place the infected had stayed.
After that, the cleaning departments came in for a thorough deep clean. After cleaning, the area entered a resting period, left empty while some staff stayed to collect data.
Every inhabited planet of the Zhenlin Empire was scanned globally and checked in many ways. All illegal research institutes were shut down, and all related people were sentenced using the highest penalties.
All registered research institutes, whether national-level, private, or academy-level, had every person in charge of research, every project, and all materials rechecked and re-examined. If any contraband items or materials with unknown origins were found, they were to be traced to the very end.
More than one hundred thousand dragons of the Yellow Dragon clan, whether younglings, eggs, adults, or old dragons, were split into five groups and exiled to different planets on the Zhenlin Empire’s Border Stars. All their honor and wealth were stripped away.
The law clearly marked that for the next five hundred years, their younglings were not allowed to sit for exams for any academy in the inner star systems of the Zhenlin Empire. They could only live and study on their own planet and were not allowed to leave it.
The Yellow Dragon Lineage hated their former clan leader’s whole family. They carved their names onto a Pillar of Shame and spat on it three times a day, morning, noon, and night. They also threw stones at it to vent their endless hatred.
Zhong Li He and Kong Que also brought up their schedule to return to the Western Kingdom. It would be on the same day Jiang Tea Tea started school, which was four days away.
Jiang Tea Tea agreed to comb their spiritual power and calm their spiritual sea. In order to help Jin Lin, her own spiritual power had been used up until less than twenty percent was left. To restore her spiritual power a bit, she stayed for three of the four days in her own Mountain Estate, changing into her tree form, absorbing the essence and nutrients of heaven and earth, and doing cultivation practice.
After three days of urgent cultivation practice, her spiritual power still did not move. It was still under twenty percent. To get her spiritual power a bit higher, she rushed straight to the Imperial Military Headquarters and into Chong Ming’s office. She stood in front of his desk and spoke with full confidence: “Chong Ming, give me your neck. I want to take a bite!”
Her flying device and she herself both had access to the Imperial Military Headquarters. She could come and go freely, entering through the large window of Chong Ming’s office.
Chong Ming lifted his gaze from the holo projection screen in front of him and looked at Jiang Tea Tea: “Come here and bite.”
Jiang Tea Tea went around his desk and walked over.
Chong Ming slid his chair back a little and reached a hand out toward her.
Ignoring his hand, Jiang Tea Tea stood in front of his knees. Just as she was about to bend down and bite him, he pulled his hand back, scooped her up, and pulled her down to straddle his lap. He tilted his head slightly: “Come on. Bite.”
Jiang Tea Tea had not planned to sit on his lap, but with his sudden move she had no chance to refuse. So she did not fuss over it. She simply opened her mouth and bit his neck.
Chong Ming held one hand firmly on her waist and put his other hand on the back of her neck. He lifted his eyelids and looked sharply at the holo projection screen in front of him: “Emperor, Your Majesty Cong Yan, you are welcome to visit my Zhenlin Empire and learn from us. But as for sending your daughter, Princess Cong Bei, Your Highness, to the Royal Household of my Zhenlin Empire, forget it.”
“This is my partner. She has my youngling in her belly. Our relationship is very good. I will not change our marriage laws for your daughter and copy your Sky Vault Star’s system of one male with two females or one female with two males.”