Chapter 63
Chapter 63: Doomed, A Gun At My Forehead, About To Blow My Head Off
Chong Ming’s voice turned hard as he asked: “Ai, Deputy Officer, what did you just say?”
[The Commander in Chief was not angry. There was hope!]
Ai the deputy officer quickly repeated: “Reporting to the Commander in Chief, this subordinate said that little Your Highness and schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea are similar in age, have similar interests, and get along well. The Commander in Chief can completely match them and guide them to be together.”
“When little Your Highness ascends the throne at thirty years old, by that time, schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea will also have been trained by you, Commander in Chief, to become a successor. After more than ten years of being together and building feelings, little Your Highness’s ascension ceremony, the empress’s investiture, and the Three Armies Commander in Chief inauguration could all be held together.”
“If schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea is both empress and Commander in Chief of the Three Armies, she will certainly help little Your Highness with even more care and serve the Empire with complete loyalty!”
Chong Ming’s brows knitted together, and his voice turned colder as he said: “There is no spark between them. I cannot play matchmaker.”
[There is no spark between them? Little Your Highness is so stubborn for schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea that he has learned how to openly talk back and shade the Commander in Chief. He even stood up for her and said he was going to catch the insectoid race great imperial prince. Is that not a spark? Is that not love?]
Ai the deputy officer paused and said: “Commander in Chief, feelings can be cultivated. There are countless males and females who fall in love over time.”
Chong Ming suddenly remembered when Jiang Tea Tea had moved close to him today, snorting and glaring at him. Besides a faint, almost impossible to smell fragrance, there had also been the aura of a same-kind dragon clan on her body. [Could it be that Jiang Tea Tea has already gotten together with his little Your Highness, and after getting a bit close she picked up his aura?]
“Commander in Chief…”
Chong Ming raised his hand to stop Ai the deputy officer and said: “We will talk about this matter later. Aceras has already opened a path. He is welcoming them.”
Ai the deputy officer shut his mouth at once and looked at the giant screen in front of the Commander in Chief. The insectoid race great imperial prince Aceras’s bodyguard ships, patrol fighters, and drone armor swarms had already opened up a path.
The two main warships already had their artillery in place. Each side’s main ship was on the other side’s real-time surveillance system giant screen, within firepower saturation range.
No matter which side fired first, the other would defend and counterattack at lightning speed. It would be you die and I live, mutual destruction.
“Sister Tea, are you really not afraid?” Sui Xuan Chu sat in the small ship flying toward Aceras’s main warship and asked Jiang Tea Tea with worry.
Jiang Tea Tea answered lazily: “Afraid of what? Didn’t you say that old mud loach Chong Ming would not let anything happen to us? You trust him, so I’ll trust him too.”
After she drank the dragon blood, her spiritual power had started to rise. She felt that she would recover at least ten to thirty percent. But in just a short moment, that part that was about to recover lost all strength and vanished, as if some ghost had stolen it.
[They say demons and ghosts are one family. What ghost dares to mess with this demon’s head? After this Supremacy Tournament is over, I have to find a good, hidden place, turn back into my true form, let my soul leave my body, and check this carefully.]
Sui Xuan Chu was pulled off topic by Jiang Tea Tea and asked: “Old mud loach? Roommate, you call Commander in Chief Chong Ming an old mud loach?”
[As expected of my roommate. She is really brave and really not afraid of death. She even made up a nickname for that one. Awesome.]
Jiang Tea Tea said with full confidence: “Doesn’t he look like a slippery, golden old mud loach with eight hundred schemes, so bad that wickedness is bubbling out of him?”
Sui Xuan Chu thought for a moment, then quickly stood on the same side as Jiang Tea Tea and joined the complaining as he said: “You are not wrong. He really is an old mud loach with eight hundred schemes, just as bad as my uncle.”
Jiang Tea Tea followed the thread and asked: “Your uncle is bad too?”
Sui Xuan Chu nodded heavily and said: “Bad. He is really bad, and he fights very fiercely. He has high hopes for me and wants me to be like him. When I was still in the egg, he put me in his pocket and took me with him everywhere he went.”
“I was hatched by him. After I hatched, I still could not turn into human form, but when he went out to fight, he still took me along. And once he started fighting, he easily forgot about time and would not eat or drink, so I got starved out of eight meals a day.”
“He did not even remember to feed me the milk that is specially made for little dragon cubs. When he finally remembered, he fed me the nutrient injection and nutrient solution that adult dragon clan members take. He almost fed me to death and sent me to see my parents. I ask you, is an uncle like that bad or not?”
Jiang Tea Tea agreed: “He is really not a good thing, about the same as that golden old mud loach.”
“But you are from the red-black dragon clan, and that old mud loach is from the golden dragon clan. Your uncle is not his soldier subordinate, is he? The fighting you mentioned is war, right?”
Sui Xuan Chu coughed twice, neither admitting nor denying it, and said: “Keep a low profile, keep a low profile. As long as you and I know, that is enough.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out a playful cry and said: “So this means that as long as that old mud loach wants to, he can drag your uncle out?”
Sui Xuan Chu said: “More or less.”
Jiang Tea Tea sighed: “Then you should be careful later. Don’t let him drag your uncle out and have your uncle beat you eighteen times a day.”
Sui Xuan Chu made a sound and said: “That should not happen, right? I am almost at adulthood.”
Jiang Tea Tea slapped her leg and said: “You know a face but not a heart!”
Sui Xuan Chu thought about it and said: “Oh, that is true.”
Da Ma Zi and the pilot sitting in front were silent. [Being young really is nice. They treat no one as important, are arrogant and wild and bright like the sun, and they do not even bother to talk bad about people behind their backs now.]
[They really wanted to tell the two kids that as long as the Commander in Chief wanted, every single word they said here, even their micro expressions, would be passed on to him.]
When Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu were complaining with great energy, Da Ma Zi reminded them: “Two schoolmates, we have already reached the insectoid race drone armor swarm. You can look outside through the windows and get ready ahead of time.”
As soon as they heard that, Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu each went to a window and looked out. The insectoid race’s drone armor swarm was made in the shapes of insect bodies. Each one was weird, tall, and eerie.
They circled the outermost layer of the insectoid race main warship like a huge swarm of bees, flying patrol around it.
Behind the drone armor swarm was the patrol battle fleet. The last ring was formed by the bodyguard small ships. All the bullets were already loaded in the guns, ready to fire at any second.
The main warship was wrapped in the middle of all these layers of defense and had opened a docking link with the small ship that Jiang Tea Tea and the others were on.
The insectoid race main warship had extended a docking port about ten meters long, a special glass walkway that was as bright as broad daylight.
Da Ma Zi gave Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu two transparent oxygen patches each. One was stuck behind the ear as backup, and one was stuck under the nose.
After they finished sticking them on, Da Ma Zi also gave each of them a transparent earplug, and they pushed them into their ears.
After they were done with all this, the small ship opened its door. Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu went down the ship together and stepped onto the docking walkway that the insectoid race had extended.
Walking on the special glass docking walkway, beneath their feet was a bottomless abyss. Meteorites and planets were lit by the light and seemed so close they were almost within reach.
Aceras had not expected that Chong Ming would send a pure human little female with no supernatural abilities waves, someone he could strangle with a single hand, and a red-black dragon clan little male.
The little female and little male were wearing the most standard combat suits. Their hands were empty and bare.
They did look heroic and beautiful, as bright as the morning sun and as fresh as flowers. They did not know their own limits and did not know fear.
Aceras inspected Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu. Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu also inspected him. The only difference was that he was judging them inside his heart.
After Jiang Tea Tea finished looking him over, she tilted her head and asked Sui Xuan Chu in a voice that was not too loud or too soft: “Roommate, what kind of bug is he? Why does he still have two antenna poles on his forehead?”
Sui Xuan Chu turned his head toward her and replied: “Roommate, I have found that it is not that you lack common sense about the Empire. You lack common sense about the whole star system.”
Jiang Tea Tea blinked and said: “Didn’t you already figure that out long ago?”
Sui Xuan Chu said: “Fine, yes. Now I am sure you are not a spy. After all, you don’t even have star system common sense.”
Jiang Tea Tea urged him: “Stop talking crap and hurry up. What is going on with those two antenna poles on his forehead?”
Sui Xuan Chu cleared his throat and said: “Those two are not called antenna poles. They are called feelers. The insectoid race great imperial prince’s insect form is a flying centipede. His bloodline is pretty mixed. He has one-sixteenth Flying Bull bloodline, so he grew two feel…”
Aceras cut off their open discussion of his bloodline and said: “Little male, little female, your Commander in Chief told you to bring me a gift, not to stand here chatting.”
Jiang Tea Tea lifted her eyelids and looked at him. In human form, he really was quite handsome. Sadly, he was also a giant centipede, a big bug. As a tree, what she hated most was bugs.
Bugs in the soil bit at her roots. Bugs flying in the sky landed on her branches, gnawed her trunk, and bit her leaves.
So as long as it was a bug, she hated it, and she did not hide that hatred at all.
Jiang Tea Tea answered Aceras lightly: “Why are you in such a rush? All good things take time. Don’t be anxious.”
Aceras narrowed his eyes and said: “You little female are very bold. It seems you were personally trained by Chong Ming. You are just like him, very arrogant.”
Sui Xuan Chu froze. [What kind of look is this from the insectoid race great imperial prince? He says my roommate is like that guy. Then who am I like?]
Jiang Tea Tea clicked her tongue and said: “Looks like you suffered quite a lot under his hands. Whenever you see someone arrogant, you immediately think of him.”
Aceras looked surprised and said: “Even the way you talk sounds the same. Little female, he is not training you as his successor, is he?”
No wonder people said that the one who understood you the most was not yourself but your mortal enemy, your foe. With just a few lines of talk, Aceras had already figured out who Chong Ming wanted to train as his successor.
Jiang Tea Tea raised a brow and asked: “Are you scared?”
Aceras smiled with confidence and said: “Chong Ming is my old friend. That he can find a successor to train, I am happy for him. Why would I be scared?”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded in agreement and said: “Oh, right. You are the insectoid race great imperial prince, the future heir apparent, so you would not be afra…”
Sui Xuan Chu tugged on Jiang Tea Tea and quietly explained to her: “In the insectoid race, the one who becomes king is female. No male can be king.”
Jiang Tea Tea asked in surprise: “He has no right to inherit the imperial throne, so what is he jumping around for every day?”
Sui Xuan Chu gave her a thumbs up and said: “Good question. The angle is very tricky. You should ask him.”
[Ask then. Who is afraid of who?]
Jiang Tea Tea was just about to ask when Chong Ming’s voice came through the invisibility earpiece. The words about to leave her mouth suddenly changed, and she took a step forward and said: “Your Highness Aceras, the gift that our Commander in Chief Chong Ming prepared for you is ready. Should I open it now and show you?”
When Sui Xuan Chu heard what she said, he instantly entered a state of alert and attack. He guarded the area around them and weighed in his heart the odds of fighting all the guards around them.
Aceras noticed that Sui Xuan Chu had entered an emergency state, but in his own main warship, he did not take the two of them seriously at all.
He said: “Fine. Open it and let me see.”
Jiang Tea Tea walked forward until she was only one step away from Aceras. She turned on the holo projection screen of her light-brain wrist terminal and cast it out.
Aceras looked up and saw that the image on the holo projection screen in front of him was full of stars, but mixed in with it were booming explosion sounds.
Each explosion was louder than the last, and the sound grew stronger and stronger, but the holo projection screen always showed only the star-filled sky.
He frowned and said: “My old friend is giving me explosion sounds to listen to?”
Jiang Tea Tea quietly took another half-step forward and said: “Your Highness Aceras, as bugs you have to have patience. The good part is always at the back.”
Aceras raised his hand, and a gun appeared in it. He pointed the muzzle at Jiang Tea Tea’s forehead and said: “Little female, you have been stepping closer to me one step at a time, wanting to capture me alive. Are you not being a bit too impatient?”