Chapter 84
Chapter 84: Little Brat Almost Got Exposed, And Little Brat’s Mom Wants To Keep It Buried
Chong Ming’s golden eyes darkened: “You want to raise it?”
[Raising a dragon would look so cool.]
[When it grows up, I can ride it, and I can drink its hot blood. That would feel so great and exciting!]
Jiang Tea Tea hurriedly nodded: “I want to…”
“Commander in Chief, she does not want to!”
“Commander in Chief, she does not want to!”
Cheng Lin Yue and Sui Xuan Chu spoke in unison, cutting Jiang Tea Tea off. One grabbed her arm, the other pressed down on her neck and dragged her to the side, scolding her like they hated iron that refused to turn into steel.
“Roommate, you not having basic common sense about the Empire or interstellar space is one thing, but how can you not even have normal life common sense? Even if a Dragon Clan youngling has no parents, the bloodline will be tested, and they will find its direct relatives. The Empire will give them a subsidy so those relatives can hatch it and raise it.”
“If they cannot find any direct relatives, or the relatives do not want to hatch and raise it, the Empire has a Dragon-Rearing Institute that specially raises those orphan Dragon Clan younglings. After that, they are trained together, brought into society, and then enter an army corps.”
“What were you just saying, that you would raise it yourself if you found it? Dragon Clan younglings without parents are not allowed to be adopted. No matter how skilled you are, no matter how much money you have, it is useless.”
Sui Xuan Chu chimed in: “Exactly, exactly, Sister Tea, stop talking. Your body has not recovered yet. Listen to me and behave yourself. Do not force me to kneel and beg you.”
“From now on, anything about that youngling has nothing to do with you. Stop thinking about someone else’s youngling. Stop wanting someone else’s youngling, understand?”
As she spoke, Cheng Lin Yue felt a little scared and a little weak. [Sister Tea’s baby in her belly is not really a Dragon Clan youngling, right?]
She was not a Dragon Clan member, so she could not smell the distress scent a Dragon Clan youngling sent out for help. Chong Ming was a golden dragon of the Imperial Clan, the highest level in the entire Dragon Clan. For him, even if other dragons did not smell it, he would smell a youngling’s distress scent first.
Based on the time Chong Ming had mentioned, it should match the time Sister Tea’s belly got hit. Her belly was struck, the youngling inside felt the heavy blow and let out a distress scent. The timing matched perfectly.
Then a question came up. Other than Sui Xuan Chu, she had never seen Sister Tea get close to any other Dragon Clan male. So was the baby in her belly his?
Fear flashed in Cheng Lin Yue’s eyes. She felt like she had touched the truth and found the youngling’s dad.
Jiang Tea Tea broke free from the two of them: “You two are too much. I was only asking. If I cannot raise it, then I will not. If I pick one up later, I will just not keep it.”
Sui Xuan Chu nodded hard: “Roommate, you are someone who can kill Insectoid Race, someone who can kill a corps commander. You are someone who will achieve big things in the future. Do not ever make such a low level mistake again.”
“!!!!” Cheng Lin Yue almost exploded.
[Scummy male, and he still dares to lecture Sister Tea.]
[Too much.]
Jiang Tea Tea answered carelessly: “Got it, got it.”
When they went back, Minister Lu came down from the super battleship Chong Ming was on, carrying a medical kit, along with a special cleanup scout squad.
The special cleanup scout squad took away the Insectoid Race corpses and the unconscious Jiang Yi Cheng, then left a few people behind to start cleaning and scouting the area.
Minister Lu walked up to his own Commander in Chief: “Commander in Chief, who is hurt?”
Chong Ming pointed at Jiang Tea Tea: “Her belly was kicked twice and punched twice. Check her and see if it is serious.”
[Is he sick in the head?]
They had clearly agreed she would not use his healers.
Yet he had called his own minister of the Healing Department down.
When she had been a tree, this minister had stood there with scissors, measuring against her belly and her neck, wanting to cut her belly and her neck.
What kind of good healer cuts a tree’s belly and neck? She was going to remember him for life.
“No need…”
“No need.” Cheng Lin Yue’s voice covered Jiang Tea Tea’s. She moved her body in front of Jiang Tea Tea, her small frame standing straight as she firmly refused: “Commander in Chief, I am the healer of our squad. Sister Tea’s body is my responsibility. She does not need any other healer to treat her.”
Cheng Xiao Ting was very confused: “Little rabbit, what are you doing? A healer called down by the Commander in Chief is not more skilled than you?”
“Hurry up and move. Let the healer check Sister Tea’s body. Did you forget what she looked like when we came over? She was sitting on the ground, holding her belly, and she could not even get up.”
To protect the Little Brat in Sister Tea’s belly and not let anyone notice anything, Cheng Lin Yue argued back, facing Cheng Xiao Ting: “It is none of your business, and it is none of any other healer’s business. I am responsible for Sister Tea, and I have to take full responsibility for her.”
“During the Supremacy Tournament, besides me, I will not allow anyone else to heal Sister Tea. I can handle it myself. I believe in myself.”
“Little rabbit…”
“All of you stop arguing.” Jiang Tea Tea also did not want a healer under Chong Ming to examine her. She was not human. If they checked and found she was a tree, she would be done for. “Listen to Cheng Lin Yue. She is responsible for me. I trust her.”
Chong Ming’s gaze suddenly deepened as he looked her up and down: “Jiang Tea Tea schoolmate, you are sure you are fine? You really do not need my healer to treat you?”
Jiang Tea Tea slapped her own belly twice: “My teammate has already healed me. My body is super strong now. Even if ten more Insectoid Races come, I can handle them.”
Chong Ming frowned when he saw her action. He was just about to speak when Sui Xuan Chu sensed the pressure drop. He rushed forward, grabbed Cheng Lin Yue with one hand and Jiang Tea Tea with the other: “Commander in Chief, we will go hunt other military academy students. You are busy, you are busy…”
“Come back.” Chong Ming stopped them: “Sui Xuan Chu schoolmate, you are Dragon Clan. I have questions to ask you about the Dragon Clan youngling’s scent just now.”
Sui Xuan Chu sucked in a cold breath and turned his head to give Jiang Tea Tea a blaming look. [Why did you have to provoke him for no reason? In the end, I am the unlucky one.]
Jiang Tea Tea blinked innocently. With a twist of her hand, she pulled free from his grip and also freed Cheng Lin Yue. She took Cheng Lin Yue and walked off, calling back: “Huang Da Zhuang, let’s go. Wait for us up ahead.”
Huang Da Zhuang, this little flunky, no matter how much he worshiped his heartthrob idol, once his Sister Tea called him, he threw that heartthrob idol to the side.
When Cheng Xiao Ting saw Huang Da Zhuang and the others leave, he hesitated for a moment, then followed Jiang Tea Tea and quickly left too.
After Sui Xuan Chu saw them get far away, he turned back to his own uncle: “I did not smell any youngling scent. You asked the wrong person. Maybe you should ask some other Dragon Clan?”
Chong Ming’s frown did not relax: “The youngling’s unease and distress scent was very strong, and you did not smell it. What were you doing during that time?”
His uncle’s brows were tightly knit. It made Sui Xuan Chu afraid.
Sui Xuan Chu’s heart was thumping: “Based on the time you said you smelled the youngling’s scent, we were tracking my roommate.”
“My roommate was caught by Insectoid Race. Huang Da Zhuang used his beast form to follow the smell and lead the way. The rest of us ran behind him. We only wanted to find my roommate, so we did not pay much attention to other scents.”
Chong Ming was silent for a moment, his voice low: “The youngling’s scent was very dangerous and carried fluctuations of oppressive aura from a supernatural ability. From what I judged, it was either less than three months inside the mother body, or it had already left the mother body and been in the egg for less than three months.”
“You are a golden dragon of the Imperial Clan. Your perception ability is stronger than other Dragon Clan. Pay attention. If anything happens, call out right away.”
Sui Xuan Chu snapped to attention and gave him a military salute: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
“Go.”
Sui Xuan Chu turned and ran off, faster than a rabbit.
Not long after he left, members of the special cleanup scout squad came up to Chong Ming: “Commander in Chief, from our cleanup and scouting, there was indeed a battle here, but it was one sided.”
Chong Ming’s gaze swept over the ground: “Explain.”
The special cleanup scout reported respectfully: “From our investigation, there were seven insect clan members and one pure human male.”
“The seven insect clan members are all dead. The pure human male was knocked unconscious. There are no traces of fighting here, only traces of running. Also, there are signs that some kind of plant drilled up from the ground.”
“We do not know exactly what plant came up from the ground and tied up the legs of the seven insect clan members. But we are sure of one thing. After the seven Insectoid Race were bound by their legs, they had no power to fight back and were all killed.”
Chong Ming nodded: “Continue to investigate and collect evidence.”
The special cleanup scout members answered: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Chong Ming took Minister Lu back up onto the battleship.
Minister Lu went straight to the Healing Department and began dissecting the Insectoid Race corpses.
Chong Ming walked to the door of the room where Jiang Yi Cheng was locked up.
Jiang Yi Cheng had already been woken. He was tied to a chair in an empty, white room. He kept looking around, face full of fear. He struggled and trembled.
“Commander in Chief.” Cai Xi Chao stood behind her Commander in Chief, holding a light-brain wrist terminal, and reported: “We could only trace seven insect clan members. Some of them can teleport, some of them have fire element abilities. We cannot see what happened after they took Jiang Tea Tea schoolmate away.”
Through the one way door, Chong Ming stared at Jiang Yi Cheng in the room: “So you are saying seven insect clan members held devices that could block all satellite equipment outside Planet M31_1137, and all of your surveillance system equipment.”
Cai Xi Chao lowered her head: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Chong Ming turned his head to the guards outside the room and gave his order: “Watch Jiang Yi Cheng. Do not let him close his eyes. Do not let him sleep.”
“And do not hit him. Let him break down on his own. Let him beg for mercy on his own. Let him write down his crimes on his own.”
The guards answered: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
As Chong Ming walked away, he asked Cai Xi Chao: “How is the tracking of the youngling’s scent going?”
Cai Xi Chao followed beside him: “The youngling’s scent appeared too suddenly and lasted too short a time. We could not catch it or locate a position.”
Chong Ming said: “Stay alert and keep tracking. Once the youngling’s scent appears again, you must lock onto its location.”
Cai Xi Chao answered: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
The mountains all around were covered in dull yellow. There was not a hint of green anywhere.
As Jiang Tea Tea ran, she wanted to give back some spiritual power to rescue the land all around. But she found that all the life force over the mountains had already been eaten up by her as fertilizer. No matter how much spiritual power she gave back, it did nothing.
She simply pulled back her spiritual power and kept running.
As she ran, Cheng Lin Yue called out: “Sister Tea, wait, wait.”
Jiang Tea Tea stopped at once: “What is it?”
The others also stopped and looked over at Cheng Lin Yue.
Cheng Lin Yue was worrying for her, worrying about Little Brat. She wanted to tell her about it: “I want to go to the bathroom. Come with me. I also want to tell you what I did not finish saying today.”
She was going to tell her she had found out that she was not human?
Jiang Tea Tea paused: “Okay, I will go to the bathroom with you. The rest of you stay here and wait.”
Huang Da Zhuang could not help reminding them: “Do not go too far. If anything happens, shout. Who knows if there are more Insectoid Race around?”
Sui Xuan Chu agreed: “Right, right, roommate, do not go too far. If Insectoid Race came once and came twice, there might be a third time.”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded: “Got it.”
Once again, Cheng Lin Yue hugged her arm tightly and took her away. They walked far, far away from the others before they finally stopped.
Just like before, she checked all around to see if anyone was nearby, then took out a signal shielding device.
Jiang Tea Tea pressed her hand on the signal shielding device and poured spiritual power into it, blocking the area around them: “Little rabbit, within ten li of this place, besides Sui Xuan Chu and the others, there is no one else. You do not need to go to so much trouble.”
She was stronger, so her words carried authority.
Cheng Lin Yue believed her, but still lowered her voice: “Sister Tea, I took your pulse. I checked both your left and right hands. I am sure, definitely sure that you…”
Jiang Tea Tea cut her off: “I know. You do not need to say it.”
She was sure that Cheng Lin Yue had found out she was not human. There was no need to say it. She already knew.
Cheng Lin Yue’s eyes went wide: “You know? You already knew?”
[She already knew she had a baby?]
[She came to the Supremacy Tournament even with that danger just to get a good future for herself and the baby?]
Jiang Tea Tea answered in a steady voice: “Yes. Whatever you want to say, I already know. You do not need to tell me. Just keep it buried in your stomach. Do not tell anyone else.”