Chapter 82
Chapter 82: The Little Hatchling Has Finally Been Found, What a Joy
Jiang Tea Tea’s chin was pinched so hard it hurt, and killing intent rose in her eyes: “Little bug, anyone who dares pinch my chin will die a miserable death and become fertilizer.”
The tall Insectoid clan member in a mask tightened his grip, his tone playful: “Little female, has anyone ever told you that when you threaten someone, with killing intent in your eyes, you look very pretty?”
Jiang Tea Tea pulled back the hand braced on the ground and flipped it to grab the Insectoid clan member’s wrist: “I am already very pretty. I do not need anyone to tell me that.”
The tall masked Insectoid clan member let her grab his wrist and only thought she was struggling before death, not taking her seriously at all: “Little female, you are really confident. I like confident females. Come on, answer the question I asked just now, you…”
The tall masked Insectoid clan member’s voice cut off. His compound eyes widened in disbelief, his gaze dropping to stare at the wrist Jiang Tea Tea was holding.
Jiang Tea Tea’s lips curved: “Dead bugs do not need to know the answer to anything, so I refuse to answer your question.”
A branch from her true body drilled out of her palm into the Insectoid clan member’s wrist, feeding on his blood and flesh as fertilizer for herself.
No matter how strong the Insectoid clan member’s supernatural abilities and mighty body were, in this moment he was like a limp bug, unable to attack or break free, only able to be devoured as fertilizer by Jiang Tea Tea.
The other Insectoid clan members and Jiang Yi Cheng saw something was wrong and rushed forward, but they never expected countless branches to suddenly drill out of the ground and coil around their legs.
Jiang Yi Cheng’s face changed: “Plant-type supernatural ability? Jiang Tea Tea, you can control plants? You are a top tier plant-type ability user?”
The other Insectoid clan members were shocked and overjoyed: “A top tier plant-type ability user is a natural healer and soothing specialist. Whether it is the Insectoid Race or any other beastman race, any supernatural ability riot can be calmed and smoothed out.”
“Great, capture her, take her back to the Insectoid Race and offer her to Her Majesty the Queen.”
Jiang Tea Tea tipped her chin up at them: “If you want to capture me and take me back to the Insectoid Race, you will need to live long enough for that.”
As her voice fell, the branches binding their legs drilled into their flesh, like living things sucking their blood and gnawing their meat.
Several members of the Insectoid Race together with Jiang Yi Cheng showed fear in their eyes: “What is going on, why do I feel something sucking my blood?”
“What is it, what is sucking my blood, eating my flesh? Ah ah ah, I cannot use my supernatural abilities, I have no strength left.”
“Jiang Tea Tea, what are you, why do the branches wrapped around us suck blood and eat our flesh?”
Jiang Tea Tea gave a hard twist with her hand, tearing off the arm of the Insectoid clan member who had pinched her chin and throwing it down in front of Jiang Yi Cheng.
Jiang Yi Cheng shuddered all over in fright, his legs went weak and he fell to the ground with a thump. The branches wrapped around his legs instantly wound around his whole body.
Because she had transformed all the plants within five hundred li around into fertilizer, she had broken through the supernatural ability dispersant and recovered about a quarter of her spiritual power. The pain in her stomach eased and no longer felt like a knife twisting inside.
She slowly got up from the ground. In front of her, the tall masked Insectoid clan member crashed heavily to the ground, his disguise fading. He turned back into his insect body, a huge black beetle, motionless and dead as could be.
Jiang Yi Cheng was tightly bound by the branches. When he tried to struggle free, he could not move at all. Watching Jiang Tea Tea walk toward him step by step, he panicked and scrambled to explain and shift the blame.
“Cha Cha, little sister, it has nothing to do with me. I was forced. It was these Insectoid Race people hidden in the Imperial Academies. They wanted to find the Crown Prince, and they forced me to help them look for the Crown Prince.”
“I did not want to come, so they threatened me, said they would kill me. I had no choice but to follow them and look for the Crown Prince.”
“They kept searching and suspected that Sui Xuan Chu by your side was the Crown Prince. They had wanted to kidnap him, but he was too far away and there were too many people around him, so they grabbed you instead. It has nothing to do with me, little sister, nothing at all to do with me.”
Branches appeared in Jiang Tea Tea’s hand. She grabbed one and whipped it across his face, splitting it open so that blood flowed as he screamed.
As Jiang Yi Cheng screamed miserably, the Insectoid clan members next to him had all their blood sucked dry and their flesh eaten. Their bodies turned back into insect forms, leaving only empty shells.
Jiang Tea Tea swung the branch again across Jiang Yi Cheng’s face, crosshatching the earlier wound into a cross: “Stop explaining, stop screaming, Jiang Yi Cheng. I will not let you die.”
Jiang Yi Cheng’s heart leaped with sudden joy, but just as he opened his mouth, he heard Jiang Tea Tea continue: “I am going to hand you over to Commander in Chief Chong Ming. Colluding with the Insectoid Race is a major crime. You tell me, will you be shot in the head with a single bullet, or slowly tortured?”
The fake young miss’s lingering consciousness did not allow her to kill him and wanted her to hand him over to that old loach Chong Ming to be punished according to the Empire’s law code.
She had made a deal with the fake young miss. Anything the fake young miss’s remaining consciousness forbade her to do, she would not do.
Otherwise, with her personality, Jiang Yi Cheng would be just like those Insectoid Race members lying on the ground, drained of blood and dying with his eyes open.
Jiang Yi Cheng, not caring about the blood all over his face, begged like a dog: “Little sister, I was wrong, I was wrong. I should not have trusted the Insectoid Race, should not have yielded to their threats. Forgive me. Do not hand me over to Commander in Chief Chong Ming.”
“Let me go, little sister. I beg you, little sister, let me go, little sister, I am begging you…”
“Woof woof woof…”
Amid Jiang Yi Cheng’s pleas, a few dog barks came from nearby.
Jiang Tea Tea kicked Jiang Yi Cheng in the stomach, sending him flying to crash heavily to the ground, where he passed out.
With a wave of her hand, she withdrew the branches wrapped around them and sat down on the ground, one hand holding her stomach, the other waving toward the source of the familiar barking as she called: “Big Dog Huang, I am here, Big Dog Huang…”
Huang Da Zhuang heard her calls and barked even louder.
Cheng Xiao Ting spoke up as the translator: “Hurry, hurry, Sister Tea is just ahead, just ahead, hurry up, hurry up.”
Sui Xuan Chu and the others ran even faster.
After a short while, they ran over.
Huang Da Zhuang turned back into a human and darted to Jiang Tea Tea’s side: “Sister Tea, are you alright, are you hurt?”
Jiang Tea Tea sat on the ground, one hand over her belly, the other waving: “I got kicked twice. It is not a big problem. It is just that Jiang Yi Cheng colluded with the Insectoid Race.”
Huang Da Zhuang asked without thinking: “Jiang Yi Cheng colluded with the Insectoid Race? Why would he collude with the Insectoid Race?”
Jiang Tea Tea lifted her gaze to look at Sui Xuan Chu: “The Insectoid Race members hidden in the Imperial Academies suspected that our teammate Sui Xuan Chu is the Crown Prince.”
“At first they wanted to capture him, but today he was together with fifteen members of the Dragon Clan, so they could not grab him. They caught me instead, wanting to lure Sui Xuan Chu over.”
“Jiang Yi Cheng thought that Sui Xuan Chu was the Crown Prince. As long as he was captured by the Insectoid Race, he could in turn threaten Commander in Chief Chong Ming to release his parents and younger sister.”
“Damn, that turtle bastard.” Cheng Xiao Ting cursed the moment he opened his mouth, then kicked the unconscious Jiang Yi Cheng: “Traitor to the country. Good thing Sui Xuan Chu is not the Crown Prince, good thing they got the wrong person, or the consequences would be unimaginable.”
Sui Xuan Chu nodded to Jiang Tea Tea then responded to Cheng Xiao Ting: “Right, Jiang Yi Cheng is shameless. Hurry, tie them up and notify the drill instructor group, the army corps commander, and Commander in Chief Chong Ming.”
Huang Da Zhuang and the others answered at once, quickly taking ropes out of their space knob storage devices and binding the Insectoid Race members and Jiang Yi Cheng.
Cheng Lin Yue, the little healing-type girl, walked over to help Jiang Tea Tea up. As soon as her hand touched Jiang Tea Tea’s wrist, she suddenly froze, stunned.
Jiang Tea Tea had not yet been helped up. Seeing her dazing out while holding her wrist, she called: “Cheng Lin Yue, what is wrong with you?”
Cheng Lin Yue snapped back to herself and grabbed her wrist: “Sister Tea, my uncle is a rogue doctor who studies black medical arts and ancient medicine. I studied with him for a few days. Let me take your pulse.”
[No, that cannot be. It must be an illusion, it has to be an illusion. Sister Tea’s pulse is smooth, like round beads rolling with strength. This is a slippery pulse, the so-called pregnancy pulse.]
Cheng Lin Yue swallowed, thinking she had taken the pulse wrong, and switched to Jiang Tea Tea’s other wrist to take it again, refusing to admit to herself that Sister Tea was carrying a baby.
She refused to admit it, but after she had taken the pulses on both of Sister Tea’s wrists, she had no choice but to admit that her Sister Tea really was pregnant. Judging from the pulse, it was not just one baby…
Cheng Lin Yue’s heart sped up. Like a thief, she hugged Jiang Tea Tea’s arm tightly to her chest and turned to shout to the others: “You stay here and tie up the Insectoid clan members and Jiang Yi Cheng. I am going to find a hidden place to apply medicine for Sister Tea!”