Chapter 70
Chapter 70: Little Brat’s mom does not have my scent on her, she is not the woman I am looking for
Jiang Tea Tea met his golden eyes in the swirling snow, not guilty at all, looking straight at him with full confidence and even a bit of contempt as she said: “You still have not gotten to the bottom of something that old and trivial?”
She tilted her chin and kept stabbing at him with words: “As the Empire’s top leader, is it that you yourself are not capable enough, or that your authority and methods are useless, and all your subordinates are just trash who pay lip service, take a salary, and do nothing?”
[So much for Sui Xuan Chu saying they could not let his uncle know his cover had been blown. In the blink of an eye this old loach already knew. He must be monitoring them in real time even more closely than she had thought.]
Thinking about it, it made sense. The golden dragon imperial clan only had the two of them left. His nephew was the hope of the nation. Only by monitoring him in real time could they stop the insectoid race from killing him.
[After this Supremacy Tournament ended, as long as she stayed far away from his good nephew, she would not have to worry about being monitored in real time!]
Chong Ming was neither angry nor annoyed. His expression did not change, and his thin lips hooked up slightly as he said: “It is not that my subordinates are useless. It seems that besides your dual S level plant spiritual power, you also have other abilities, Jiang Tea Tea.”
Jiang Tea Tea followed his words and asked: “Oh? What ability?”
Chong Ming slowly said two words: “Invisibility.”
Jiang Tea Tea lifted the corner of her lips in a bright smile and admitted boldly: “Right, I also have the ability of invisibility.”
She leaned on the railing and went on in a lazy tone: “So when you find out that I tricked my ex fiance, and that my foster parents’ family did not hold any obscene orgies, you are going to release them, give them back their freedom, and then arrest me instead?”
She shrugged and added: “Alright, you are the Empire’s highest official, commander in chief of the Three Armies, what you say goes in the Empire. Whatever you want to do, you do. If you want to arrest me, just give me a heads up and I will go with you.”
She admitted she had the ability of invisibility, but that only made Chong Ming even more sure she was lying. He frowned slightly and asked: “You do not have invisibility. But do you know anyone who does?”
Jiang Tea Tea’s smile faded as she asked coldly: “Are you interrogating me?”
Chong Ming returned her look with a smile and said: “No. I only want to know where the twig in your hand came from, and where the green tea girl you gave your roommate came from.”
He had wondered whether she was the woman who had spent a night with him during the supernatural power riot at the First Hotel.
But from the first time he saw her until now, he had never smelled his own scent on her.
The dragon clan was a very domineering race. The first scent they left on a partner would not fade for at least three to six months.
The scent only faded on one condition: during those three to six months, he could not touch his partner. If he touched her day and night and kept having intimate contact, the scent would stay on her forever.
The higher a dragon’s level of power and spiritual strength, the heavier the scent he left on a partner. It would be so obvious that any other dragon, just by smelling it, would know whose partner she was.
Jiang Tea Tea shook the twig in her hand at him and said: “So this is what you wanted to ask? You could have just asked directly. Why go around in circles like that, is it not tiring?”
[So it turned out he was aiming at her green tea girl twig all along. She had thought he was testing her and had found out she was a demon tree!]
Chong Ming had not expected her to be so straightforward. He asked: “Can you tell me who gave it to you?”
Jiang Tea Tea lied with squinted, smiling eyes: “This twig in my hand, I yanked it from the primeval forest. The green tea girl I gave my roommate is just a leaf I picked from this same twig.”
She went on: “You are definitely going to ask how I knew the leaves on this twig can wake someone up and refresh the mind. It is because someone told me that this kind of tree is called a tea tree. It is rich in tea polyphenols, caffeine, and catechins, and carries natural plant spiritual power.”
After Jiang Tea Tea finished speaking, she drew back the tea twig in her hand, braced it against her knee, snapped off a section, and handed it to Chong Ming.
Chong Ming reached out to take it. The fresh break in the tea tree twig gave off a faint fragrance, exactly the same as the tiny piece he had picked up at the First Hotel.
Holding that fresh piece of tea tree twig, he looked straight at Jiang Tea Tea and asked: “You said someone told you. Who told you that?”
Jiang Tea Tea tilted her head and pretended to think, then said in a very serious tone: “A pretty older sister. A pretty older sister told me.”
She added calmly: “But she also said that in the interstellar age, with technology developing so fast, tea trees have mutated like some wild beasts and no longer look like tea trees.”
“Only the ones that have not mutated still have a clear fragrance and are rich in those components I just mentioned, as well as natural plant spiritual power.”
“To tell you the truth, the one in your hand was also a mutated one before. To get tea leaves, I secretly purified it with my dual S level plant ability and spiritual power.”
“As for whether it can raise someone else’s ability level, I really do not know. When I gave it to my roommate, it was only to keep him awake so he would not get sleepy and could finish the task you gave him.”
Chong Ming never stopped watching every tiny change in her expression, but he did not see the slightest sign of a lie. His eyelids lowered and his gaze fell on the tea twig in his hand.
After a moment, he lifted his eyes and looked at Jiang Tea Tea: “That pretty older woman you mentioned, what is her name and where is she now?”
Jiang Tea Tea let out a little “ah” and said in feigned surprise: “We only met once a few years ago. She just thought I was pitiful doing odd jobs and talked to me for a bit. I was so self conscious and sensitive back then, how could I have the nerve to ask her name or where she lived?”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes narrowed slightly as he asked: “It was years ago?”
Jiang Tea Tea’s lies came more and more smoothly: “Yes, about three years ago, when the Jiang family had just found their real young lady. In their eyes there was only the real one. They did not want to be the bad guys who kicked me out, so they thought they could just stop giving me money and make me leave on my own.”
“Back then I still had some pride. When they stopped giving me money, I supported myself by working part time. That pretty older sister was someone I met while doing those jobs. The reason I remember her so clearly is because she was just too beautiful.”
If he did not believe her, he could go investigate. In the past three years, the fake young miss had worked countless odd jobs in all sorts of places and met more people than anyone could count.
Even if he used his power to trace all of the fake young miss’s movements in the past three years, he would never be able to find a person she had only met once and exchanged a few words with.
Chong Ming tightened his grip on the twig and asked: “What does a mutated tea tree look like, and what does a normal tea tree look like?”
Jiang Tea Tea pushed the tea tree branch in her hand deeper into the ice, tapped open her light brain wrist terminal, and projected a holographic screen: “Look, this is what a mutated tea tree looks like, and this is a normal one.”
In the primeval forest she had seen a mutated tea tree, then turned her own hand into a tea tree branch and taken a photo of each for comparison.
[She had not expected they would come in handy now. Clearly the Heavenly Dao really favored her. Anyone who wanted to probe her bottom line would be fooled and brushed off by her in seconds.]
Chong Ming looked at the two pictures and noticed that the normal tea tree looked exactly like the little sapling he had picked up on the corpse of the three headed giant python.
The only difference was that one tree was big and the other was small. That meant the woman who had told Jiang Tea Tea about tea trees was a plant ability user with a very high level, and maybe… she was not just a dual ability user.
A concealment technique that turned bugs into tea trees, invisibility, plant abilities, and she had even boarded his warship. She might be one of the one point eight million military academy students, or one of the more than two hundred thousand drill instructors.
Chong Ming opened his own light brain wrist terminal and said: “Here, add my contact. Send me those photos. I will have people search for both the mutated tea tree and the normal tea tree to study the natural plant spiritual power contained in the tea leaves.”
[Research. Research, what total bullshit.]
[What natural plant spiritual power in the tea leaves. Bullshit, that was her spiritual power.]
It was like a thousand year old ginseng that had cultivated into a person. Even its hand washing water and foot washing water would be a great tonic for people.
To keep her disguise tight, Jiang Tea Tea added his contact and sent him the photos, then asked directly: “If I add you, you are not going to monitor my light brain wrist terminal in real time, are you?”
[It was bad enough that he monitored her in real time. If he monitored her light brain wrist terminal too, then…]
[How was that any different from stripping her naked right there?]
Chong Ming’s voice turned serious as he said: “Classmate Jiang Tea Tea, the minister of my Information Department is the most outstanding female information engineer in the whole M31 Star System.”
“As long as I want to, never mind just your light brain wrist terminal, I can have any one of them copied one to one for surveillance. I can monitor and check the light brain wrist terminal of anyone in the whole M31 Star System, anytime, anywhere.”
“If you have any secrets you did not want me to know before and did not tell me, you can tell me now. For the sake of you being my future successor as commander in chief of the Three Armies, as long as you do not betray the country, I can overlook them and keep treating you as my successor.”