Chapter 61
Chapter 61: Spit All Over Your Face And You Still Think It Smells Good, You Dog
There was a loud smack.
“That Chong guy, don’t go too far. I’m not one of your soldiers. Why are you treating me like I’m one of the Insectoid Race?”
After Jiang Tea Tea heard what Chong Ming said, it wasn’t the Insectoid Race’s great imperial prince who would be jumping up and losing his mind while she waited. It was her who jumped up first and lost it, slapping the table as she stood.
So after all that, it wasn’t him digging a pit for her. It was him making her dig the pit herself, jump into it herself, swing the shovel herself, bury herself, and even tamp the dirt down tight herself.
All so he could look good!
Sui Xuan Chu: “!!!!”
It was over, it was over. His roommate was a newborn calf not afraid of tigers. She really didn’t even want her life anymore, talking back to him like that.
The last person who talked back to him like this had long since been buried in the starry sea.
Well, he had already thought about where his roommate would be buried.
In the huge command room, there had still been breathing, footsteps, and low voices before. Now it was like someone had hit a pause button. It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop and feel it shake the sky.
None of the staff members dared to breathe too loudly, and none of them dared to turn their heads to look. They just stuck their ears up like thieves, listening for any movement.
Chong Ming’s sitting posture did not change at all. His face was as calm as before. His golden eyes moved from Jiang Tea Tea’s face down to the cracked table: “A single palm split blue crystal. Your hand strength is quite good. Taking down the Insectoid Race’s great imperial prince Aceras shouldn’t be a big problem.”
As Jiang Tea Tea’s roommate, Sui Xuan Chu felt he couldn’t just watch her die. He had to at least try to save her: “Um, Commander in Chief, sir, my roommate is still young and doesn’t understand things. Please be generous and don’t lower yourself to her level.”
Talking was one thing, but why was this man letting his oppressive aura spread like this? It was almost pressing the air out of people’s lungs. He wouldn’t really be arguing seriously with a kid, would he?
Chong Ming lifted his eyelids and looked at Sui Xuan Chu: “If she doesn’t go, you’ll go?”
Sui Xuan Chu let out a startled “ah.” He really hadn’t expected that he would also be going. Fine, fine, if he was going, he was going. Who was scared of who, huh.
He answered cleanly and crisply: “I’ll go. Just don’t make my roommate go…”
“Move aside, you.”
Before Sui Xuan Chu could finish, Jiang Tea Tea yanked him away, pulled him behind her, then took two quick steps forward and stood directly in front of Chong Ming.
“That Chong guy, people who know what’s going on know I just ate two meals at your place and one of them I didn’t even get to finish. People who don’t know might think I dug up your ancestors’ graves, the way you’re setting me up.”
“I’m telling you, I’m not going. Find whoever you want, but it has nothing to do with me. I’m not a hero, I’m a coward. I’m timid, I’m afraid of dying. Asking me to go die, no way.”
In the interstellar era with such advanced high tech firepower, she was a demon with only two tenths of her spiritual power left. If he got really serious fighting with the Insectoid Race’s great imperial prince and gave the order to fully cover the area with fire, she would be blasted into slag.
She was the pride of her tea tree family. Out of so many green tea girl varieties, she was the only one who had cultivated into a human form. She was not going to go die for nothing!
Chong Ming tilted his head back a little. After Jiang Tea Tea finished speaking, he raised his hand and wiped once between his eyebrows, then flicked his fingers: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, if you don’t want to go, then don’t go. Everything can be discussed. I’m not a dictator. There’s no need for you to spray a faceful of saliva on me.”
The many staff members in the command room: “!!!!”
Wait, was this still their steady, serious Commander in Chief who almost never smiled, no matter how young he was?
Was he really this lively?
Could it be he was possessed by an Insectoid pretending to be him?
Sui Xuan Chu: “????”
Who was he? Who was he again? Where was he?
Did he just have an auditory hallucination?
Jiang Tea Tea hadn’t actually sprayed a faceful of saliva on him at first, but once he said it, she decided to fulfill his wish. She planted one hand on the table and one hand on the arm of his command chair. Leaning over the man sitting there, steady as a rock, she said: “There’s nothing to discuss. I’m not going. You can find whoever you want. Ptooey!”
Chong Ming froze for a moment. There really was spit on his face, and he even smelled a faint, almost unnoticeable fragrance, along with another trace mixed into her emotional fluctuations… a same kind Dragon Clan aura?
Without showing any hint of it on his face, he straightened his body and leaned in closer to Jiang Tea Tea: “You don’t want to go because you’re afraid of dying. I promise you I won’t let you lose even a single strand of hair. How about that?”
Jiang Tea Tea showed her teeth in a grin and laughed: “There’s an old saying. It’s better to believe an old sow can climb a tree than to believe what comes out of a man’s mouth.”
Her grandma, who had lovers all over the three realms, had told her that men, male demons, male immortals, male devils, and male ghosts were all the same. When they talked, their words should go in one ear and out the other. Don’t take them seriously. If you take them seriously, you lose.
Chong Ming smiled slowly: “Since I was ten years old, I have always kept my word. You are the first person who doesn’t believe me.”
That faint, almost unnoticeable scent was gone, and that trace of Dragon Clan aura was gone too.
Jiang Tea Tea said with disdain: “Even if you had been keeping your word since you were one, it still has nothing to do with me. I’m not going anyway…”
“Name your terms.” Chong Ming leaned back in his command chair again, not even putting the bent over Jiang Tea Tea in his eyes: “As long as you are willing to go once, whatever you want, I’ll give you.”
Jiang Tea Tea snorted: “Whatever I want, you’ll give? If I want your life, will you give that to me?”
She really wanted to kill him and bury him under her tree roots as fertilizer.
Would he be willing to die?
Of course he wouldn’t.
And she couldn’t beat him either.
Chong Ming spread his hands: “Sure. Beat me, take my place, kill me.”
Jiang Tea Tea was choked by that. She realized that her good temper was completely worthless in front of him.
“That Chong guy…”
“Hold on, hold on.” Sui Xuan Chu grabbed Jiang Tea Tea and pulled her to the side: “Commander in Chief, if I go with my roommate to find the Insectoid Race’s great imperial prince and drink tea and chat with him, is it also ‘whatever we want, you’ll give’?”
Chong Ming raised his brows slightly: “Of course. As long as you can persuade your roommate to go with you, whatever conditions I promise her, I’ll promise you too.”
“Please wait a moment, I’ll talk with my roommate.” Sui Xuan Chu tossed down those words and dragged Jiang Tea Tea toward the outside of the command room.
Jiang Tea Tea struggled all the way: “What are you doing, what are you doing, let go, let go. If you don’t let go, I’ll hit you.”
Sui Xuan Chu had no choice but to let go, but he didn’t even leave the command room. He just opened his mouth and, like a thief covering his ears while stealing a bell, whispered: “Roommate, don’t be stupid. Don’t be stubborn, okay? Why do we study and train? Isn’t it to serve the Empire, win great merits, and leave our names in history?”
“Now there’s a once in a lifetime chance right in front of us. We can’t miss it. Just agree to him. We’re only going to meet the Insectoid Race’s great imperial prince and drink tea and chat with him. Is that really such a big deal? I’m not scared. What are you scared of?”
The Commander in Chief wouldn’t let him die. If he was letting them go, he definitely had a way to protect them, so there was no need to wimp out. They should just charge.
Jiang Tea Tea took two steps back and looked Sui Xuan Chu up and down: “Are you on his side or on my side? Why do I feel like your elbow’s pointing outward, eating the inside and helping the outside?”
Yes, he really was eating inside and helping the outside.
His elbow had completely turned toward his roommate.
Sui Xuan Chu didn’t feel guilty at all. He met Jiang Tea Tea’s gaze directly: “Of course I’m on your side. This really is a rare chance. He almost never promises anyone anything.”
“We’ll just make one trip. I swear on my own head that he won’t let the two of us die. When we get back, we’ll ask him for the most advanced flying devices and mecha armor in the whole Empire, and then ask him for a few billion on top of that.”
Jiang Tea Tea thought for a moment. She wasn’t interested in flying devices, mecha armor, or a few billion. Her most urgent problem right now was restoring her spiritual power.
The fastest way to restore spiritual power was to replenish it. Meat and seafood were just small time supplements. What could really help her recover fast was dragon blood and dragon meat.
Jiang Tea Tea took a cup out of her space knob storage device, marched back to stand in front of Chong Ming, and held the cup out toward him: “You said it. If I go, you’ll give me whatever I want. Come on then, bleed into it until it’s full.”