Chapter 66
Chapter 66: Little Brat’s mom stayed undercover, the Crown Prince’s cover got blown, pretty awesome
Jiang Tea Tea grinned wide, showing her big teeth, and jerked her thumb backward: “We two nobodies don’t count as anything. How could he possibly show off for us? He was obviously showing off for Aceras!”
Da Ma Zi and the others were escorting Aceras down from the ship. Caught right on the spot by Jiang Tea Tea’s words, he looked in confusion at the Commander in Chief, then at Jiang Tea Tea.
Sui Xuan Chu’s mouth twitched. He snuck a glance at that man, his voice shaking: “Roommate, your angle is not only sharp, it’s vicious. Just tell me, okay? Don’t ever say that outside. Otherwise his little fanboys and little fangirls will drown you eight hundred times over in spit.”
Jiang Tea Tea was amused by her own nonsense and laughed: “Of course, I’m only telling you.”
“Are you done talking?” Chong Ming’s deep voice was flat as he asked. His golden eyes were fixed on Jiang Tea Tea’s hand: “If you are, I’ll take you to the Healing Department to have your hand checked.”
Jiang Tea Tea spread her hand. There were only bloodstains on her palm, no wound at all: “The injury on my hand is already healed. I don’t need to go to the Healing Department.”
Chong Ming stared at her hand: “It’s still a gunshot wound. You need to go to the Healing Department. Only their instruments can show whether the bone is damaged.”
Jiang Tea Tea raised her hand right in front of Chong Ming’s eyes: “Darling, Commander in Chief, lord, this is my own hand. I know perfectly well whether the bone is hurt or not…”
Before she could finish, Chong Ming grabbed her wrist. Her expression changed. She yanked her hand back and hid it behind her: “What are you doing?”
Chong Ming frowned slightly: “Looking at your hand.”
There was a faint scent on her hand that felt very familiar to him. It smelled just like the Twig Branch he had picked up at the First Hotel.
Jiang Tea Tea kept a cold face: “The way you grabbed my hand doesn’t look like you just want to check it. It looks like you want to chop it off. Chong Ming, Commander in Chief, I just brought your arch-enemy back for you. Isn’t it a bit much for you to treat me like this?”
Chong Ming slowly lowered his hand and changed the subject: “If you won’t go to the Healing Department, then you two can go to the school cafeteria. In two hours the ship will return to the Tropical Primitive Planet. We’ll drop you off then.”
Of course Jiang Tea Tea heard that he was deliberately changing the topic. She couldn’t beat him and she didn’t have his power. She snorted to show she agreed, then turned her head and shouted: “Roommate, let’s empty out the school cafeteria!”
Sui Xuan Chu’s heart had been stuck in his throat. Seeing that nothing bad happened, he finally relaxed. He darted in front of Jiang Tea Tea and urged her: “Go, go, go, let’s hurry.”
Chong Ming glanced over at Deputy Officer Ai.
Deputy Officer Ai took a quick step forward and led the two of them away.
Only when they were out of sight did Chong Ming pull his gaze back and look at Aceras. Pretending to be caring while clearly knowing everything, he asked: “Your Highness Aceras, you fell? Why were you so careless? That fall was really heavy.”
Aceras spat: “That Chong guy, stop pretending here. Nobody knows better than you why I ended up like this!”
On Chong Ming’s stern face it was clear that he understood, but his mouth still played dumb: “I really don’t know. After I finished talking to you, I was busy thinking about how to blow up your main Warship. I didn’t have time to watch anything else, much less imagine you’d fall like this.”
Aceras looked at him with disgust: “Hypocrite!”
“Hypocrite? Me?” Chong Ming calmly repeated his words, not angry at all, then called: “Secretary Wen!”
Secretary Wen answered: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Chong Ming stepped back and gave Aceras a sideways look as he said: “Take a nine-grid photo of His Highness Aceras. Then add some pictures of his main Warship and their star system being bombed. Post it on StarNet and issue a strong denunciation.”
He continued: “The text of the denunciation is: His Highness Aceras of the Insectoid Race tore up the Bilateral Armistice Treaty and drove his fleet into the area of our Empire’s Eighth Star System without authorization, attempting to murder more than 1.8 million students from our Empire’s thirty great Military Academies.
“Moreover, Aceras privately sent bugs to infiltrate the ranks of students from our thirty great Military Academies, attempting to kidnap our Crown Prince during their field training.
“Our country was forced to launch a counterattack, shelling the Insectoid Race’s long-range fleet, space stations, and other targets, and capturing alive their great Imperial Prince Aceras. We hope the Insectoid Race will reflect on themselves!”
Secretary Wen operated the panel on his Light-Brain Wrist Terminal. Less than ten seconds after his Commander in Chief finished speaking, he reported respectfully: “Commander in Chief, the denunciation message from the Imperial Authorities aimed at the Insectoid Race has been sent.”
Aceras hadn’t expected him to be this shameless. He was furious and cursed: “That Chong guy, you bombarded my Insectoid Race’s long-range fleet, space stations, planets, the border frontier star region, captured me and seriously injured me, and you still dare to play the thief crying ‘Stop, thief’?”
Chong Ming waved his hand. Da Ma Zi clamped a hand over Aceras’s mouth and led people over to drag him away.
Aceras’s blood left a trail all the way from the small ship to the room where he was locked up.
On StarNet, Secretary Wen used the Zhenlin Empire’s Military Authorities account to post a strongly worded denunciation of the Insectoid Race, attaching thirty-six photos.
Across the Zhenlin Empire, all the Imperial Authorities’ accounts reposted it and added their own condemnations. It shot straight onto the hot search, shocking the entire M31 Star System.
Star-Net Friends from every nation in the M31 Star System commented one after another: “Oh my Beast God, I’m shocked for eight hundred years. The Insectoid Race is way too shameless. Back then, when they couldn’t beat the Zhenlin Empire, they were the ones who suggested signing a truce and even paid two star systems as compensation. Now they’ve run over to pick a fight again. I’ve really seen it all now.”
“What do you mean ‘seen it all’? What I don’t get is why my heartthrob idol, Chong Ming, signed a truce with them in the first place. He clearly had the upper hand. Wouldn’t it have been better to just wipe out the Insectoid Race?”
“I agree with the one upstairs. I hate the Insectoid Race the most. They’re a race that eats everything, bloody and greedy, selfish and cold, violent and cruel. I don’t know why the Beast God ever created a race like that. Wiping them out would be a blessing to all of Interstellar Space.”
“Aceras got himself captured alive and his Warship bombed. He asked for it. Don’t blame my husband, Commander in Chief Chong Ming.”
“Hahaha, exactly. This is what you call trying to steal a chicken and losing the rice, or lifting a rock just to smash your own foot. My husband Chong Ming did a beautiful job.”
“Long live the Commander in Chief, long live His Highness. That’s exactly how you deal with bugs. Beat them to death and see if they dare provoke our Empire again.”
“Stinking bugs, rotten bugs, shameless bugs. Do they really think that just because they slunk back to the Insectoid Race after losing and spent a few years recovering, they’re now invincible and can come after our Crown Prince?”
“Go on then, keep attacking. You hit a steel wall this time, didn’t you? I told you Aceras isn’t a match for our Commander in Chief. Look at his bruised and swollen face, covered in blood, looking so pathetic. It’s disgusting and satisfying at the same time.”
The Star-Net Friends of the Insectoid Race were not happy and struck back: “You beastmen, humans, and merfolk, can you open your dog eyes and take a good look? It was obviously that bastard Chong Ming who hit our great Imperial Prince first. Just because he posted a denunciation first doesn’t make him the victim.”
“The Zhenlin Empire didn’t lose a single ship, a single star system, a single space station, or a single planet. Who’s the victim and who’s the aggressor is obvious at a glance, isn’t it?”
“Chong Ming, that stinking dragon, has always been super cunning. Now he’s turning black into white with his mouth. How can you not have any judgment at all?”
“Look at our great Imperial Prince. See what they’ve beaten him into. How did it turn into them being in the right?”
“Queen, Queen, I request that our Insectoid Race go hit that Zhenlin Empire and snatch back the prosperous star territories and rich planets that belong to us.”
“Aceras has no shame, and the bugs of the Insectoid Race are even more shameless. All along, it’s been your Insectoid Race invading our Zhenlin Empire and eyeing our star territories and planets. Yet you dare say our prosperous star territories are yours? How thick is your face?”
“They were ours to begin with. The Zhenlin Empire has dozens of star systems. Why are they so rich while we’re so poor? We won’t accept that. We’re going to grab and snatch them. We support our great Imperial Prince!”
“Roommate, look, look, they’re fighting on StarNet.”
While Sui Xuan Chu was waiting for food in the ship’s school cafeteria, a piece of hot news was pushed to his terminal. He tapped it open and saw Star-Net Friends of all races and nations arguing fiercely. He instantly shared it with Jiang Tea Tea.
Jiang Tea Tea leaned close and finished reading, then clicked her tongue: “I have to say, that old mud loach Chong Ming really took advantage and is still acting pitiful.”
Sui Xuan Chu’s eyes went wide: “Roommate, you’re a resident of the Zhenlin Empire. How can you talk about Commander in Chief Chong Ming like that?”
“What did he say that was wrong? It really was the Insectoid Race that started the trouble and almost grabbed innocent little me and killed me.”
“Wait, roommate!” Jiang Tea Tea was suddenly reminded by what he said, and her voice lifted: “That old mud loach Chong Ming is denouncing the Insectoid Race for sending bugs to try to catch the Crown Prince. Those bugs caught you. Are you the Crown Prince?”