Chapter 81
Chapter 81: The Little Brat’s Dangerous Cry for Help Is Caught by Her Dad
Facing the sudden punch, Jiang Tea Tea tried to dodge on instinct. But the bit of spiritual power she had just used to ease the pain in her waist slowed her down. She failed to dodge and took Jiang Yi Cheng’s heavy punch right in the belly.
Her face turned pale. A cramping pain like a knife twisting stabbed through her stomach. She could not bear the pain. With a thud, she dropped to her knees and leaned forward, one hand clutching her belly, the other hand pressed to the ground, drawing the rich nutrients from all over the mountain into herself.
Sitting in the command chair with his eyes closed, Chong Ming suddenly opened his eyes and sprang to his feet. He said sharply: “Minister Cai, disable the ship’s cloaking. Open the ship’s external circulation detection monitoring system!”
Cai Xi Chao answered at once: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Deputy Officer Ai quickly asked: “Commander in Chief, what happened?”
When the ship’s external circulation detection monitoring system opened, Chong Ming released his supernatural abilities and spiritual power in a rush. His face turned grim. He said: “The youngling’s aura. A Dragon Clan youngling’s uneasy aura.”
Deputy Officer Ai cried out: “Planet M31_1137 has no intelligent life that can transform into human form. How can there be a Dragon Clan youngling?”
The incident with the Insectoid Race on the Primitive Tropical Planet had sounded an alarm for them. Planet M31_1137 had gone through many surveys. They had confirmed again and again that it had no higher intelligent life that could transform into human shape. So where did this Dragon Clan youngling suddenly come from?
Chong Ming felt that the youngling was very uneasy and in great danger. Someone was hurting the youngling. His heartbeat sped up for no reason. He ordered: “Minister Cai, scan Planet M31_1137. Find out which Dragon Clan’s youngling it is. Find the person who is carrying the youngling.”
He turned and said: “Reconnaissance Battalion, come down with me.”
“What is going on? That is a youngling’s aura. No, that is a huge oppressive aura.”
“Do you smell it? Do you feel it? There is the scent of a youngling, and there is the scent of oppressive aura.”
Every Dragon Clan member inside Planet M31_1137 from the thirty Military Academies and thirty Army Corps in the Supremacy Tournament suddenly smelled the youngling’s aura and also felt a powerful oppressive aura.
Someone said: “I feel it. The oppressive aura is very strong. It does not feel like it is from a Dragon Clan youngling. It feels like… like it is from the Imperial Clan golden dragon. Did something happen to the Crown Prince?”
Another dragon said: “No way. This is a Supremacy Tournament, not a fight to the death. You can hit, you can curse, you can kick, but you cannot kill. That would be against the rules.”
“Exactly. Besides the more than two hundred thousand drill instructors down here with us, there are thirty command ships above our heads and one flagship of Commander in Chief Chong Ming. There is full time surveillance twenty four hours a day. How could they let the Crown Prince be beaten until he is half dead and his life is in danger?”
“Maybe it is not a Military Academies student. Maybe it is the Insectoid Race. Maybe an Insectoid came to hunt the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince could not beat it and released a strong oppressive aura to call for help.”
“It should not be that. Commander in Chief Chong Ming is right above us, watching us in real time twenty four hours a day. If any Insectoid Race came, there is no way he would not sense it.”
“So this powerful oppressive aura is not from the Crown Prince. If it is not from the Crown Prince, then who is it from? Commander in Chief Chong Ming?”
“Is it oppressive aura released by Commander in Chief Chong Ming? But if he is fine, why would he release such a huge oppressive aura, and why can only us Dragon Clan members sense it?”
“Ah, no, that is not right. It is not a strong oppressive aura. It is a Dragon Clan youngling’s aura calling the Dragon Clan for help after meeting danger.”
“This unique aura can only be sensed by Dragon Clan beastmen…”
“Rubbish. This is a field training Supremacy Tournament. Where would a youngling come from? Which Dragon Clan partner, when pregnant with a youngling, would not lie at home to rest and protect it? Who would let her come out here?”
“The smell is gone. The youngling’s cry for help is getting weaker. It is almost gone. Do you feel it? The aura is gone, right?”
“Wait, all the flowering trees on the mountain are dead. Before, only the flowers fell to the ground and the leaves turned yellow. Yesterday the leaves turned green again. Now all the flowering trees are dead and have turned into dead branches.”
“Look, the flowering trees on the mountain have all withered. The other plants are also quickly losing their life force. The bugs in the ground are all crawling out, and the wild beasts in the mountains are running like crazy.”
“Heavens, is there going to be an earthquake? I remember that before an earthquake, animals act strange.”
“Shut up, you illiterate. In the interstellar space age, with technology developing so fast, earthquakes can be predicted. There must be something under the ground that makes the bugs underground and the wild beasts on the ground feel danger. That is why they are crawling out and running wild.”
“Should we run too? If the thing underground is interested in bugs and wild beasts, will it also be interested in us?”
“Right, right. Strictly speaking, we are beastmen and also beasts. What if it gets hungry and does not care what it eats and eats us too?”
Jiang Yi Cheng had not expected that this time Jiang Tea Tea would fail to dodge his punch. She knelt in front of him, her face covered in cold sweat from the pain.
He could not help feeling proud. He said: “Jiang Tea Tea, you acted so capable before. You pretended you did not have supernatural abilities. But under the supernatural ability dispersant, you are this weak and useless.”
Jiang Tea Tea raised her head from where she was kneeling and leaning forward. She looked at him and said: “I am weak and useless, sure. But if you collude with the Insectoid Race and kill me, do you really think you can get away?”
Jiang Yi Cheng’s pupils shrank. He shouted: “What nonsense are you talking about? Who colluded with the Insectoid Race? I did not.”
He snorted: “I am only eliminating you in the second round of the Supremacy Tournament according to the rules. If you cannot handle the pressure and accidentally die, what does that have to do with me?”
Jiang Tea Tea curled her lips and looked at him with a smile: “Oh, so you have already thought of your way out. You plan to use forfeiting as an excuse, slit my throat to erase my points, then kill me, and wash your hands of it.”
She clicked her tongue softly: “Tsk tsk, my good older brother, should I say you are foolish, or should I say you are stupid? You colluded with the Insectoid Race and think that no one will notice and that nothing will leak out?”
She laughed lightly: “You are too naive. Chong Ming has already caught the Insectoid Race’s imperial prince. As for the Insectoid Race you brought from the Royal Military Imperial Academies, how long do you think they can stay hidden?”
The Insectoid Race on the Primitive Tropical Planet had already been wiped out. Chong Ming, that old mud eel, would not make the same mistake a second time.
On this planet they were on now, that old mud eel had definitely ordered people to clean and search it again and again, to check it over and over, making sure no Insectoid Race had slipped in ahead of time.
That meant the people around Jiang Yi Cheng who looked like beastman males but were actually Insectoid Race disguised as Royal Military Imperial Academies students were the ones who had come down with him at the very start of the Supremacy Tournament without being exposed.
This in turn clearly showed that, to save his parents and little sister and to kill her, Jiang Yi Cheng had long since gotten into bed with the Insectoid Race.
The Zhenlin Empire and the Insectoid Race had a blood feud that could not be shared under the same sky. Chong Ming, that old mud eel, was the one who had helped revise the law code and was its strict follower. For other crimes, you might be exiled and have your freedom taken away. But colluding with the Insectoid Race was a dead end with only one outcome.
Jiang Yi Cheng did not believe a word of what Jiang Tea Tea said. He shouted: “Stop trying to threaten me. The Insectoid Race’s imperial prince is brilliant and mighty, with outstanding supernatural abilities and a powerful beast form. How could he be easily captured…”
“Wait.”
The tall Insectoid clan member wearing a mask beside him stopped Jiang Yi Cheng from striking Jiang Tea Tea again. He stepped forward and came to stand in front of Jiang Tea Tea, then crouched down. He revealed his two Insectoid Race compound eyes, sticky and disgusting, and stared at Jiang Tea Tea.
“Little female, come on, tell me. How did you know that our Insectoid Race’s imperial prince was caught by that dragon Chong Ming?”
Jiang Tea Tea met his eyes, her gaze clear: “Little bug, put away your illusion technique and hypnosis. They do not work on me.”
The tall masked Insectoid clan member moved as fast as lightning and grabbed Jiang Tea Tea by the jaw. He smiled and said: “Little female, you are the first person to dodge my illusion and hypnosis supernatural abilities. I admire you and I like you very much. I will not kill you.”
“Come now, be good and tell me. How did you know that our Insectoid Race’s imperial prince was caught by that dragon Chong Ming? That red black Dragon Clan young man beside you, is he the Crown Prince?”