Chapter 60
Chapter 60: Never Seen Anyone Trick Little Brat’s Mom Like This, Little Brat’s Dad Is Really Ruthless
Sui Xuan Chu was scared by Jiang Tea Tea’s loud voice and gave a little shake. He quickly grabbed her and secretly peeked at the man walking in front of them: “Roommate, do you have to be this good at catching the point? Keep it down, I still don’t want to die.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out an “aiya”: “Keep what down? He’s only a few steps ahead of us. Even if we whisper, he can still hear us. What are you afraid of? He’s the leader of a whole country. His chest is broad. He won’t lower himself to our level.”
She leaned forward and said cheerfully: “Come on, tell me openly and honestly: how did the Insectoid Race’s Queen secretly fall for him, and if she liked him, why did she still kill more than a billion people in the Empire?”
In the fake young miss’s memories, the Insectoid Race slaughtering more than a billion common citizens of the Empire was something that happened more than a hundred years ago.
A hundred years ago or more, trying to dig out the real reason for what happened back then, even the fake young miss didn’t know. She, the real Tea Demon, knew even less.
Sui Xuan Chu saw that the man in front of them hadn’t stopped walking and lowered his voice: “The rumor out there goes like this…”
A cool voice suddenly cut in: “Speak louder. I also want to hear, besides the White Lion female confessing to me and the Insectoid Race’s Queen having a crush on me, what other girls like me?”
Sui Xuan Chu’s heart jolted. He quickly looked up. The Commander in Chief, Chong Ming, who had been walking ahead without stopping, was now standing not far away. No one knew when he had stopped. He spoke with no change in his expression, his cold gaze locked on Sui Xuan Chu.
Sui Xuan Chu shot to attention: “Reporting, Commander in Chief, I wasn’t talking about you. Please don’t misunderstand!”
A cold light flashed in Chong Ming’s eyes: “Oh really?”
Sui Xuan Chu gritted his teeth, heart hardening as he went all in like a dead duck with a stiff mouth: “Yes, Commander in Chief, I wasn’t talking about you. I was talking about my uncle.”
“My uncle is just like you, single, handsome, mighty and domineering. The girls who like him line up from the Empire all the way to the Insectoid Race.”
Chong Ming gave him a long, meaningful look: “Oh? Next time, introduce your uncle to me. I’ll have him recite your family motto to you properly.”
Sui Xuan Chu answered with full confidence: “He’s busy. Very busy.”
Jiang Tea Tea looked at Sui Xuan Chu, then at Chong Ming. She felt that the way the two of them got along was sometimes tense, sometimes relaxed.
Especially when Sui Xuan Chu faced Chong Ming. One moment he was scared and shrunk up like an egg, the next moment he looked like he had let himself go, like his life wasn’t worth much and he was ready to fight to the death at any second.
Chong Ming said slowly: “It’s fine. Your uncle is busy, but I have a little free time. After I deal with the Insectoid Race’s great imperial prince, I can train you myself.”
Sui Xuan Chu’s eyes went wide: “No no no…”
Chong Ming lifted his voice slightly: “No no, no what?”
Sui Xuan Chu stammered, then forced himself to change his words: “No no, that’s great. I look forward to your training, really look forward to it.”
Chong Ming nodded: “Very good. Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, come here and walk with me.”
Jiang Tea Tea answered with an “oh” and quickly walked to his side. She walked side by side with him, her aura and presence not losing out to his at all.
Sui Xuan Chu followed behind them like a little pitiful thing, secretly chanting in his heart that his good roommate absolutely must not be charmed by this man in front of her whose eyes only held war, law codes, and government affairs. She must not fall in love with him.
Falling in love with him was the same as jumping into a heavenly pit. It was doomed to have no ending, because there was no such thing as romance or “partner” in his life at all!
Jiang Tea Tea followed Chong Ming into the huge command room for the second time. There were even more staff members inside than before, about three to four hundred people. Everyone was at their station, busy and serious.
Chong Ming sat at the very front of the command table. Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu sat on his left and right.
In front of them was a huge holo projection screen linked to his light-brain wrist terminal. The holo projection showed the Insectoid Race’s large motherships, escort ships, patrol battlecraft, and swarms of drone armor.
There were so many that it did not look like they had come for military academy students to train on. It looked more like they had come to destroy a country and seize star system territory.
Jiang Tea Tea only took one look at the holo projection screen in front of her before her gaze was pulled away by the bucket full of mud sitting by Chong Ming’s hand.
If she wasn’t mistaken, that bucket was the very one he had delayed her meal for, shoved her into, and then hauled her out of.
Inside the bucket there was nothing but mud, yet he had left it sitting by his hand. He hadn’t even moved it. What kind of weird habit was that?
“Tok tok tok!”
Chong Ming tapped his fingers on the table: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, look at the holo projection screen and analyze from where we should attack so that we use the least amount of firepower and take the least losses to break through the enemy’s defenses and reach their main warship?”
Jiang Tea Tea dragged her gaze away from the bucket and looked at the giant holo screen in front of her: “I don’t know. I’ve never studied command or strategy. I only know to catch them off guard and charge in with my eyes closed.”
In her mind, you just fought and that was that. Having to talk about strategy and analyze tactics was really making things hard for a tree like her.
Chong Ming shifted his gaze to Sui Xuan Chu: “You analyze it then.”
Sui Xuan Chu: “!!!!”
His main major was in the Combat Department, and his minor was in the Command Faculty.
He was only in his first year and had only studied for a little more than half a year. How was he supposed to know any high level tactics?
Did this man really think everyone was like him, hatching on the battlefield, seeing blood as soon as he broke out of the shell, killing bugs as soon as he broke out of the shell, then staying on the battlefield for ten years?
At fifteen, in the holo simulations of all the famous battles of the M31 Star System, he turned every losing situation into a win. At eighteen, he led a battalion to charge straight into a whole division of the Insectoid Race.
Sui Xuan Chu sat up straight, staring at the giant holo screen in front of him: “My analysis is that we should strike while they are unprepared, focus our fire, and directly attack the enemy’s main warship, hitting them so fast they don’t know what happened.”
Chong Ming asked: “We have excellent information experts, and the Insectoid Race also has excellent information experts. Our side can use the surveillance system to cover all their movements. By the same logic, the Insectoid Race can also use their surveillance system to cover all our current movements.”
“Right now, both sides are under real time information coverage, both sides are in full wartime state. According to what you said, we focus all our fire and directly attack the enemy’s main warship. The moment you press the button, the enemy won’t press theirs? They won’t defend, they won’t counterattack, their ships will just hang there in space for you to shoot at?”
The chill of his questions climbed up Sui Xuan Chu’s back. He swallowed nervously: “If the first plan doesn’t work, then we use the second plan. First, send an unmanned fighter craft squadron to spearhead, then the second squad of mecha armor pushes forward, the third squad attacks the warships closely from behind, and the fourth invisibility squad sneaks around to attack from the rear, with the main warship providing cover.”
Chong Ming reminded him calmly: “My goal is to take the enemy’s main warship with the least amount of artillery and the fewest casualties.”
“The plan you are giving me sends out the first squad, second squad, third squad, and fourth squad, and my main warship still has to cover them. Back and forth like that, my losses might not only be warships and firepower. I might also lose my best soldiers.”
“In that case, I might as well start by using full firepower saturation and have my soldiers charge in with their lives.”
Cold sweat broke out on Sui Xuan Chu’s forehead. His innate talent for war really wasn’t great, and his command ability was way too weak.
Jiang Tea Tea yawned. She felt like her tree roots had developed some kind of sickness recently. Either she got hungry too fast, or she got sleepy too early. Once she ate her fill, she just wanted to sleep.
She decided to find a place later and carefully check her body to see if there were any aftereffects from losing eighty percent of her spiritual power.
To stop herself from falling asleep, Jiang Tea Tea took out a nutrient fruit, took a big bite, and before she could chew, she felt a sharp gaze nail itself to her.
She suddenly remembered that this was the command room of that gold shining big loach, a very serious place.
Under that sharp gaze, she chewed the fruit in her mouth and swallowed it, then turned her head to look at the owner of that gaze, Chong Ming: “You just said you want to use the least amount of artillery and the least amount of combat strength to attack the enemy’s main warship, right? I thought of a good idea while I was eating.”
The sharpness in Chong Ming’s golden eyes didn’t lessen, but deepened. He glanced at the half eaten nutrient fruit in her hand: “Go ahead. If I’m not satisfied, I’ll take off your space knob storage device, and schoolmate Sui Xuan Chu’s space knob storage device, and keep them all for myself.”
[Dead. I’m dead.]
This stinky loach knew very well that the two of them only had food in their space knob storage devices. Using food to threaten her, this dog.
Jiang Tea Tea gave him a fake smile, showing eight teeth. She couldn’t beat him and couldn’t outplay him, so she could only join him. What else could she do?
She finished the nutrient fruit in three or five bites, tossed the pit onto the table, stood up, and pointed at the projection screen in front of them: “What I’m seeing now, is this all of the enemy’s force deployment?”
Chong Ming replied: “What you see is roughly thirty percent of it. The important firepower is all inside the main warship.”
Jiang Tea Tea turned her head toward him: “What about our firepower deployment?”
Chong Ming said: “It’s about the same as theirs.”
Jiang Tea Tea made an acknowledging sound: “What about the star system closest to the defensive line against the Insectoid Race, how is its firepower deployment?”
The corner of Chong Ming’s lips hooked up slightly: “Heavy firepower. Once the Insectoid Race attacks our star system, they will fully cover them with fire. There are ten teleportation gates connected to the armory and they can transmit supplies for twenty four hours without stopping.”
Jiang Tea Tea asked again: “What about their defenses?”
Chong Ming said: “About the same.”
Jiang Tea Tea turned her gaze back to the holo projection screen in front of her: “With firepower about equal, them coming all the way to our Eighth Star System counts as provoking us. They’re guarding against us opening fire, so we just won’t open fire.”
“Let’s do a feint in the east, strike in the west. Tell the other star territories, Space Bureaus, and space stations on the defensive line against the Insectoid Race to launch attacks on the Insectoid Race.”
“Our Chief Commander, which is you, before our space station opens fire on the Insectoid Race, first go openly and have tea, eat, and chat with the Insectoid Race’s great imperial prince. While you’re at it, let him watch how our Space Bureaus and space stations attack the Insectoid Race. Make him panic and lose his composure first, get angry, and make a move on you.”
“I believe that in a one on one fight, the Insectoid Race’s great imperial prince is definitely not your match. When the time comes, you can take him by surprise and capture the ringleader first.”
“Capture the Insectoid Race’s great imperial prince alive, and you’ve got their field commander. Without their field commander, we already win. If you still feel uneasy, then you can follow Sui Xuan Chu’s plan and launch a sneak attack, and destroy their main fighting strength too.”
The cold, sharp edge in Chong Ming’s eyes faded: “According to your feint in the east, strike in the west method, our true goal isn’t the Insectoid Race’s great imperial prince, it’s the Insectoid Race’s star systems.”
Jiang Tea Tea smiled, pure and innocent: “If you want to think of it that way, that’s not wrong. After all, once the cannons fire, if we don’t haul something back, then the cannons fired for nothing.”
“Besides, the Insectoid Race’s great imperial prince has already come to your doorstep. His subordinates have already broken into your home and almost carried Sui Xuan Chu off.”
“If you don’t show him some real power, he’ll think you can’t swing a blade, can’t lift a gun, and can’t kill him.”
Chong Ming nodded: “What you’re saying makes a lot of sense, schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea. Then you can be the one to first go drink tea and chat with the Insectoid Race’s great imperial prince, and show him the footage of our other forces attacking the Insectoid Race.”
“When he jumps up and loses his mind, you can take him off guard and take him down.”