Chapter 35
Chapter 35: Dare to Try Stealing Little Brat’s Dad’s Woman, I’ll Let You Learn What a Beating Feels Like
Chong Ming wore a black combat suit and black combat boots. He sat in the Chief Commander’s chair like he owned the place, facing thirty giant holo projection screens plus countless small holo projection screens.
On the holo projection screens, the surveillance system showed real-time scenes from thirty military academies. Students at all thirty academies were being woken up at the same time, having their heads blown up with paint, and being beaten.
He didn’t answer the First Army Corps commander. He only glanced at him and lifted a finger slightly.
The First Army Corps commander felt his skin tighten under that look. A chill ran down his back.
Deputy Officer Ai saw his own Your Highness lift a finger, so he stepped forward and enlarged one of the small screens. The many small screens showed all the fish who hadn’t been caught and beaten by the drill instructor groups yet.
Only the small screen that Deputy Officer Ai enlarged had the most people. There were eight of them weaving and running through the night.
Chong Ming stared at Jiang Tea Tea, who was holding a branch in one hand and rubbing the other hand along Huang Da Zhuang’s back while keeping pace with him without falling behind. His deep voice rang out, full of authority and power from someone at the top: “Commander Night, the more fish slip through the net while your First Army Corps is attacking the Imperial Academies’ students, the fewer points your First Army Corps will get.”
“If these eight fish don’t get their heads blown up and don’t take a single hit, and they reach the grand parade ground safely to assemble, you will have to give up your title as commander of the First Army Corps, and another Army Corps will get to raise the First Army Corps flag.”
“Reporting to the Commander in Chief, our First Army Corps flag is already prepared. We’re just waiting for Commander Night to get knocked down by us and give up his title, so we can become the First Army Corps.”
As soon as Chong Ming finished speaking, voices from other Army Corps commanders came through from the thirty Army Corps command ship surveillance feeds connected to the Chief Commander’s ship.
“That’s right, Commander in Chief. Under the fierce attack from our Third Army Corps, not a single fish slipped through the net at the National Stellar Defense Academy.”
“Commander in Chief, and our Fifth Army Corps just finished our attack on the National Air Defense Military Imperial Academy. The only fish that slipped through the net there just had his head blown up.”
“The First Army Corps flag hasn’t moved in a full year. Commander Night has gotten cocky and stopped being humble. It’s time to shake that flag loose, Commander in Chief!”
These thirty top Army Corps all belonged to the Royal Household of the Zhenlin Empire. They were directly under the Emperor’s control.
The Emperor and Empress had already passed away. The Crown Prince was not yet of age and hadn’t taken the throne. For now, the thirty top Army Corps were under Chong Ming’s temporary command.
Each Army Corps had about eighty thousand to a hundred and ten thousand people, spread across the Fifteen Major Planets and the space bases. Their equipment was far ahead of any other planet’s military district.
All of the Army Corps commanders had been trained and promoted by Chong Ming himself. They respected him, feared him, and also liked him a lot.
Commander Night rolled up his sleeves, full of hot-blooded energy: “Hey, hey, hey. It’s just eight fish. I just need to send my people to deal with them. Look at you all, acting like I’m really going to give up the title of First Army Corps.”
“Just wait. All of you wait. I’ll show you what the strength of the First Army Corps really means…”
“Commander Night, those eight fish have already engaged your people. From the way it looks now, your people are not their match.” Chong Ming reminded Commander Night and told him to look at the surveillance feed, then casually cut the video connection with the other Army Corps commanders.
The other twenty-nine Army Corps commanders: “????”
Hey, hey, hey, Commander in Chief, don’t cut the video!
They all really wanted to see what kind of eight fish could take on drill instructors sent by the First Army Corps and not lose.
Commander Night’s gaze snapped to the screen. In the video, they saw a bright red fox tribe beastman ignore the drill instructor’s gunfire. Using his Blink Step supernatural ability, he flashed behind the drill instructor and whipped him with his huge, fluffy, red tail, right across the drill instructor’s face covered in camouflage paint.
The confident drill instructor put his gun away, planning to fight bare-handed. But a strong wind suddenly rose behind him, followed by a column of water crashing down from the sky.
The drill instructor was wrapped in wind and water. His vision was blocked. His punch didn’t land on the red fox tribe beastman at all. Instead, a tree branch thinner than a pinky whipped him hard right in the chest.
Right after that, a strong yellow canine family beastman pounced on the drill instructor and bit toward his neck. The drill instructor clenched his hand into a fist and swung at the canine family beastman.
Jiang Tea Tea flicked her twig, and it twined nimbly around the drill instructor’s wrist. She yanked upward.
Before the drill instructor’s fist could hit Huang Da Zhuang, his arm was pulled straight. He couldn’t move it at all.
Huang Da Zhuang’s fangs sank into the drill instructor’s neck. His sharp claws raked across the drill instructor’s face.
Two bloody holes opened on the drill instructor’s neck. His face was scratched up by dog claws. He tried to call up his supernatural abilities and found that his powers seemed to have vanished. He couldn’t activate them.
The drill instructor’s eyes filled with shock. Right at that moment, Sui Xuan Chu swung Zhang Ting Zhou in his beast form, the eight-clawed octopus Zhang Yu, straight at him.
Zhang Ting Zhou landed, his octopus beast form transforming into human form. His hands moved fast as he stripped the light-brain wrist terminal and the space knob storage device from the drill instructor’s wrist.
Jiang Tea Tea shouted: “Big Dog Huang, move!”
Huang Da Zhuang didn’t hesitate at all. He dodged away as fast as he could, afraid he might get hit by accident.
Jiang Tea Tea let the branch slip from the drill instructor’s wrist and, as flexible as a snake, it wrapped around the drill instructor’s neck instead.
She gave a hard tug, lifting the drill instructor off the ground and flinging him toward Sui Xuan Chu.
Sui Xuan Chu’s fist slammed into the drill instructor’s stomach.
The drill instructor’s body curled up like a shrimp. He spat out a mouthful of blood with a harsh sound.
Cheng Xiao Ting took a restraint zip-tie, made especially to deal with beastmen, from Cheng Lin Yue’s hand. He strode forward and tossed one restraint zip-tie to Sui Xuan Chu.
Jiang Tea Tea swung her branch again, throwing the drill instructor down flat on the ground. Huang Da Zhuang pounced hard and pinned the drill instructor’s back.
Cheng Xiao Ting and Sui Xuan Chu worked together. One used a restraint zip-tie to bind the drill instructor’s wrists. The other used another restraint zip-tie to bind his ankles.
A strong Level S rank 3 adult male drill instructor was beaten into serious injury and captured by Jiang Tea Tea and the others working together.
To keep the drill instructor from making any noise, Cheng Lin Yue pulled out a medical bandage and wrapped it around his mouth, tying it behind his head.
“How many kilometers left to the grand parade ground?” Jiang Tea Tea asked Cheng Xiao Ting.
Cheng Xiao Ting answered: “Less than five kilometers. About four point two!”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded: “Okay. We keep the same formation as before. Yan Yu leads. If she runs into any other drill instructors, she calls out, and we’ll back her up and take them down together.”
No one had any objections.
Jiang Tea Tea pointed at the drill instructor lying on the ground: “Who’s carrying this one?”
Sui Xuan Chu reached out, grabbed the drill instructor, and tossed him over his shoulder: “I’m strong, I’ll carry him.”
Jiang Tea Tea said: “Okay, let’s go.”
But just as the words left her mouth, Yan Yu had only turned into her beast form and hadn’t even darted off yet when voices from the drill instructor group rang out from all directions and from overhead.
“Congratulations to the Imperial Academies’ ‘Squad That Killed the Other Twenty-Nine Military Academies’ eight schoolmates for capturing one drill instructor. Your squad gets 10 extra points.”
“Other schoolmates, little darlings, please learn from the members of the ‘Squad That Killed the Other Twenty-Nine Military Academies’. Don’t let your heads get blown up. Keep your clothes only a little dirty. Take down drill instructors to earn points and praise!”
“Holy crap.” Cheng Xiao Ting cursed. “We just took down one drill instructor and the drill instructor group already knows?”
Sui Xuan Chu looked up at the sky: “Yeah. The drill instructor group command center is watching us with a live surveillance system. They’re watching our every move.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s ears twitched: “Run. From the southwest, two directions, eleven drill instructors are closing in on us.”
Everyone trusted Jiang Tea Tea completely. As soon as she finished speaking, they all quickly changed from human form to beast form and took off running.
Chong Ming watched them running on the screen. The corner of his mouth curled up slightly as he said: “Deputy Officer Ai, send the video of the Imperial Academies’ ‘Squad That Killed the Other Twenty-Nine Military Academies’ beating up and kidnapping a First Army Corps drill instructor to the other twenty-nine Army Corps so they can all watch.”
“And remind the other twenty-nine Army Corps that the Supremacy Tournament has just started. Do not copy Commander Night. Don’t start asking me for people before you’ve even done anything.”