Chapter 55
Chapter 55: Feeding Little Brat’s Mom; After Feeding Her Full, She Still Wants to Eat Little Brat’s Dad
Warning bells rang in Jiang Tea Tea’s mind. She wanted to slap herself. How had she let those words slip out and made it sound like she knew this place very well?
“Jiang Tea Tea, schoolmate, please answer my question.” Chong Ming took a step closer to her, his posture strong, his voice icy.
Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes spun. She lifted her hand, pointed at her own two eyes, then pointed behind Chong Ming, grinning carelessly as she said, “My two eyes are not decorations. I can see.”
Chong Ming tilted his head a little and followed the direction of her finger with his golden eyes. The sign and arrow for the Healing Department were clearly shown on the ship wall.
Jiang Tea Tea had saved her secret identity from being exposed, and after gaining this advantage, she could not help but act smug. She even teased Chong Ming: “Chong Ming, Commander in Chief, as the Ruler of the Nation, your heart should be bigger. Do not hold a grudge and test me just because I ambushed you once at the Royal Military Imperial Academies.”
She added, “I am just a small Military Academies student. I am a bit strange and have unusual innate talent. That is very normal. No need to make a fuss.”
[Little guy, she was a grand big Tree Spirit. She had only lost eighty percent of her spiritual power, not eighty percent of her brains. She had lived longer than he had by several lifetimes, and yet he still wanted to play mind games in front of her. Did he really think a tea tree was not a tree?]
Chong Ming’s expression did not change. His tone stayed steady as he said, “Jiang Tea Tea, schoolmate, you misunderstand. I was only testing your alertness and flexibility as a Military Academies student. Very good. You did not let me down.”
“Thank you for thinking so highly of me and for testing me.” Jiang Tea Tea’s grin shrank away. She asked, “Can you give me a room so I can wash up? If not, just let me go back down.”
[She had thought only dead ducks had hard mouths. She never thought loaches had hard mouths too.]
Chong Ming shook the wrapped dragon body of Sui Xuan Chu in Beast Form, only the tail showing outside the cloth, and said, “I think you need a checkup, just like your roommate.”
Jiang Tea Tea laughed in anger and threw out two words: “Goodbye!”
She turned around and walked off without giving him any face.
She had already been starving. When she went into the sea to save Sui Xuan Chu, she had only eaten a few fish.
She had finally gotten her hands on 10 Sea Spiders, and before she could eat them, he appeared.
[He really did have a grudge against her. Every time she was about to eat, he would always show up on time for no reason, disturb her, and make her go hungry.]
“Come back!” Chong Ming saw how fast she walked away and called out to her.
Hunger made a demon’s mood violent. Jiang Tea Tea ignored him completely. With her back to him, she waved her hand and walked faster toward the hatch she had come from.
When Chong Ming saw that she did not stop, he gave an order: “Block her.”
The Guards and Guards on Duty answered the order and stopped Jiang Tea Tea.
Jiang Tea Tea stopped walking, then in a flash rushed right up to Chong Ming. Anger burst out of her as she said, “Chong Ming, Commander in Chief, right now I am covered in annoying, salty, bitter seawater. What I need is to wash off the seawater, not to go to a healing room.”
“And I am very, very, very hungry. You have never gone hungry, so you do not know how awful it feels to be so hungry and craving meat but not be able to eat any!”
Chong Ming’s gaze moved from her face down to her stomach. All of a sudden, he could clearly feel that strange Unknown Energy coming from inside her body.
Inside that energy, there was also a faint trace of a familiar aura, one he could not place for the moment. He could not remember where he had felt it before.
Jiang Tea Tea saw him staring at her stomach and snapped at him in a cute but fierce way: “What are you looking at? Never seen anyone go hungry before?”
[What was going on? Her spiritual power had not recovered yet. Normally, in front of someone as strong as him, she should act like a grandson. Why was she butting heads with him directly? Could hunger really make a demon fearless of power?]
Compared to Jiang Tea Tea’s bad temper, Chong Ming’s emotions stayed flat and calm. He only said, “You are right. I have never seen anyone hungry in the way you are. Come with me.”
Jiang Tea Tea saw that he was not walking in the direction of the Healing Department. Only then did she rub her stomach and lift her feet to follow him, walking side by side.
The Guards who had stopped Jiang Tea Tea earlier were shocked again and again. They could not believe what they were seeing. They rubbed their eyes, then rubbed them again.
A pure Humans little female had gone head to head with their Commander in Chief, snorting and glaring at him, and he had not gotten angry. He was even taking her toward the living quarters?
Was this earth-shattering news, or had they just not seen enough of the world?
Jiang Tea Tea walked beside him like a country bumpkin, looking all around, left and right, glancing here and there.
They walked for about half an hour, turning again and again, even taking a lift down two levels, before coming to a room.
Jiang Tea Tea looked at the layout of the room. It had one bedroom, one living room, and a washroom. The room was neat, clean, and spotless, all in white.
She wandered around once, rubbing her hungry stomach, then went into the washroom. She took off her clothes, turned on the water, and washed off all the seawater left on her body.
Sui Xuan Chu was thrown into a Healing Pod. He was still unconscious and was being examined by Minister Lu of the Healing Department.
Chong Ming stood outside the Healing Pod, his eyes fixed on Sui Xuan Chu’s beast body in Dragon Form. The black scales slowly faded away and gradually returned to golden scales.
When all of his scales had turned golden again, Chong Ming used the Shared Frequency Link to give orders to the Water Wave Battalion and the North Wind Battalion: “Water Wave Battalion, scan every corner of the deep ocean of the Extreme North. Look for any trace of the Insectoid Race. If you find them, kill them on the spot.”
“North Wind Battalion, take a few people to the sea floor at coordinate NB637. Check whether there are any corpses or body parts of the Insectoid Race there.”
“No matter what you pick up on the sea floor, keep it complete and bring it back.”
The commanders of the Water Wave Battalion and the North Wind Battalion answered, “Yes, Commander in Chief!”
Chong Ming cut off the Shared Frequency Link with them and switched to speak to Cai Xi Chao, the director of the Information Department on the command deck. He ordered, “Minister Cai, pull a few people from your subordinates and have them focus on tracking the Insectoid Race.”
“Tell them that once they find any Insectoid Race group, they are to join with the members of the drill instructor team from the thirty Army Corps below. Leave no survivors. Kill them on the spot.”
Cai Xi Chao replied, “Yes, Commander in Chief!”
In the next moment, Chong Ming used the Shared Frequency Link again and contacted Deputy Officer Ai: “Deputy Officer Ai, tell the remaining six members of the ‘Kill the Other Twenty-Nine Military Academies’ squad that Sui Xuan Chu and Jiang Tea Tea, schoolmate, are fine. They are now on the command Flagship and are in no danger of death.”
Deputy Officer Ai answered, “Yes, Commander in Chief. Minister Yan Lan Shen of the Security Department has already come up. He is waiting for you.”
Chong Ming said, “Let him wait.”
Deputy Officer Ai replied, “Yes!”
Chong Ming cut off the Shared Frequency Link with everyone. In the Healing Pod, the Healing Fluid had just been replaced. Sui Xuan Chu’s dragon body in Beast Form was soaking in the Healing Fluid.
Minister Lu came out wearing a white coat. He saluted Chong Ming and said respectfully, “Commander in Chief, His Highness the Crown Prince is not in danger. He is unconscious because he was struck by a very powerful supernatural ability and lost most of the scales on his body.”
Chong Ming pulled back his gaze from Sui Xuan Chu and asked, “When will he wake up?”
Minister Lu replied, “Within 24 hours.”
Chong Ming asked again, “When will his scales grow back?”
Minister Lu said, “At the fastest, three months. At the slowest, half a year.”
Chong Ming nodded slowly. “The Disguise Potion you developed is losing color a bit. Strengthen and improve it, so his Camouflage Scales do not fade and raise suspicion.”
Minister Lu’s heart gave a jolt. “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Chong Ming reminded him, “Watch over him. Tell me when he wakes up. Do not let anyone else in the Healing Department, besides you, know his true identity.”
Minister Lu answered, “Yes, Commander in Chief!”
Jiang Tea Tea scrubbed herself over and over, using cold water to rub and wash. After 45 minutes, she finally cleaned all the seawater off her body.
She took clean clothes from her Space Knob Storage Device, put them on, and walked out of the washroom. Her stomach growled loudly from hunger.
[She could not understand it. As a tree that could eat anything, she had always believed that no matter what she lacked, she must never wrong her stomach. Only what she ate into her belly was truly hers. But after she crossed into this world, in less than a month, especially these past few days, her belly had turned into a bottomless pit. Hungry, hungry, hungry. Never full, never full.]
Holding her aching, hungry stomach, Jiang Tea Tea had just opened the door when she saw Chong Ming standing there with his hand raised, about to knock.
She froze for a moment and asked, “What are you doing?”
Chong Ming lowered his hand and said, “Taking you to eat.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes lit up. “Really? Is there meat?”
Chong Ming nodded. “As much as you want.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s expression was as joyful as if she had seen her maternal grandmother. She said eagerly, “Then what are we waiting for? Hurry up!”
The corner of Chong Ming’s mouth lifted as he led her to the School Cafeteria.
The School Cafeteria was so large it was almost as big as the largest cafeteria at the Royal Imperial Academies.
Many people were eating there. When they saw the Commander in Chief walk in with a Humans little female, their mouths fell open. They held their chopsticks in the air and forgot to put food into their mouths.
The dishes in the School Cafeteria were not as many or as fancy as those at the Royal Imperial Academies, but the setup was still six meat dishes and six vegetable dishes, in a buffet style. You could take whatever you wanted and as much as you wanted.
Jiang Tea Tea followed behind Chong Ming. [She felt that a Big Loach with a dragon body two to three hundred meters long should eat about as much as she did, even if not more.]
But to her surprise, he took a balanced mix of meat and vegetables, and the amount on his tray was not much at all. Jiang Tea Tea could not help asking, “Chong Ming, Commander in Chief, with that little bit you took, is that your appetizer before the meal or your snack after?”
Chong Ming was speechless for a second, then said, “It is my meal.”
Jiang Tea Tea looked him up and down, then held out her hand to show the amount of food. “You only eat this little? How did that long body of yours grow?”
Chong Ming explained, “Besides regular food, there is also special Nutrient Solution, Nutrient Injections, and Nutrient Fruit. All of those help me grow.”
[Nutrient Injections and Nutrient Solution, are those even food? She could not eat even a bit of that stuff.]
[And what was Nutrient Fruit? She had never heard of it or seen it.]
Jiang Tea Tea made a small sound of understanding, then pointed at the six meat dishes. “Can you ask your cooks to make six more large trays of each of these?”
Chong Ming followed her finger with his eyes and glanced over. “You go take some first and eat. I will have them make more and send them out for you.”
Jiang Tea Tea politely rolled up her sleeves, carried all six meat dishes to a table, sat down, and started wolfing them down.
Chong Ming carried his food over and sat across from her. He also brought her a drink. Watching this small girl sit there and eat meat, fierce and focused, he felt she looked both obedient and wild, rough but in a way that was not truly uncouth.
She looked like she was starving. If he had not been watching their squad in real time through the Surveillance System these days, he would have suspected that her squad members were not giving her enough food.
Jiang Tea Tea quickly cleared one full tray of meat. Only then did her hungry stomach feel a little better. She took a sip of the drink Chong Ming had brought her. It was cool, sour, and sweet. She liked it at once.
She finished the drink in two gulps, stood up, put the cup in front of Chong Ming, and said very naturally, “Please get me another cup. This tastes good.”
Everyone eating in the School Cafeteria sucked in a cold breath.
So bold.
A pure Humans little female was really bold, actually asking the Commander in Chief to get her more Nutrient Fruit juice.
Chong Ming looked at the cup, then looked at Jiang Tea Tea.
She had already sat back down and started on the second tray of braised goat meat.
Chong Ming stood up, picked up the cup, and not only went to refill it with Nutrient Fruit juice, but also brought back a steaming large dish of black tiger shrimp.
Each black tiger shrimp weighed over a jin and was more than 30 centimeters long. They were stir fried in oil, and just the smell of them made them look and smell perfect.
Jiang Tea Tea swallowed the goat meat in her mouth and said to Chong Ming, “Please help me peel the shrimp. I do not have a free hand right now.”
The people eating almost popped their eyes out.
This little female ordering the Commander in Chief around looked way too natural.
First she had him pour Nutrient Fruit juice, and now she was having him peel shrimp for her.
What they never expected was that their Commander in Chief really rolled up his sleeves, wiped his hands, and started peeling shrimp.
Everyone: “…”
If the Commander in Chief was this easy to order around, then what did that make all their daily training from him?
Jiang Tea Tea’s mouth did not stop moving. She ate 7 trays of stewed goat meat, 7 trays of steak, 7 trays of braised pork, 7 trays of chicken legs, 7 trays of stir fried sliced meat, 7 trays of braised fish chunks, 7 trays of oil fried big shrimp, and drank 10 cups of Nutrient Fruit juice before she finally stopped.
She wiped her mouth, wiped her hands, leaned back in the chair, let out a burp, and rested her hand on her stomach, squinting her eyes in pure comfort.
Sitting across from her, Chong Ming could clearly see her hand rubbing her stomach. He also saw that even after eating so much, her belly did not bulge at all.
His golden eyes deepened as he asked, “Are you full? Are you satisfied? If there is anything else you want to eat, I will have them make it for you.”
Jiang Tea Tea had finally eaten a full meal. Her eyes were half closed. She felt a little dizzy and sleepy. When she heard Chong Ming’s question, her mouth slipped, and she spoke the thought in her heart: “I want to eat you. Will you let me?”