Chapter 85
Chapter 85: She Endures Everything For The Baby In Her Belly
“!!!!” Cheng Lin Yue was completely shocked.
[Sister Tea is risking her life and swallowing all her anger so she and the baby in her belly can have a good future.]
[As her little fangirl, I have to support her with everything I have. Since she said no one can know, I will seal my mouth and never let anyone know.]
In her heart, Cheng Lin Yue made up her mind. She clenched her hand into a fist and nodded hard to Jiang Tea Tea: “Sister Tea, do not worry. As long as you do not tell anyone, I will never let anyone hear this from me.”
“I will let this matter rot in my stomach and keep your secret. In the Zhenlin Empire, besides you, me, and the Beast God, there will not be a fourth person who knows.”
Jiang Tea Tea was surprised. This little rabbit girl learned she was not human, yet she was not scared or afraid at all. She had only said one sentence and had not even gotten rough, and this girl was already rushing to help her keep the secret.
Seeing doubt flicker in Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes, Cheng Lin Yue quickly added: “Sister Tea, do not doubt my words. I swear on my own character, and on the character of my parents and my uncle. If I say I will keep your secret, I will keep your secret.”
“If I break my oath, let the Beast God punish me and make it so I can never be a healer in this life.”
Cheng Lin Yue used her most beloved career to swear. How could a demon not believe that?
Jiang Tea Tea nodded again and again: “I believe you, I really believe you. Even without the oath, I would still believe you.”
Only then did Cheng Lin Yue smile, pure and bright: “This matter is something only the two of us know. If you ever feel uncomfortable, just come to me.”
“Even though I do not have any potion for this right now, I know some methods that can ease your discomfort.”
“When the Supremacy Tournament ends and we return to the Capital Planet, I will take you home and let my uncle give you a full check up. His medical arts cover a lot.”
“Keeping the baby safe, delivering it, balancing nutrition and so on, all of that is easy for my uncle. Sister Tea, you do not have to worry about Little Brat lacking nutrition. Even without that scummy male Sui Xuan Chu and his spiritual power to nourish you, it is fine.”
“…”
After all this, Jiang Tea Tea realized that after taking her pulse and seeing her body structure was different from normal, Cheng Lin Yue had treated that difference as some strange illness.
All she wanted was to cure her illness. She had not thought in any other direction, so she did not think she was not human at all. She only thought her body was weak.
What Jiang Tea Tea had to do now was let this misunderstanding go on. Let Cheng Lin Yue keep misunderstanding. That way she could keep her identity as a Great Demon Stage tree demon tightly hidden.
Jiang Tea Tea put her hand on Cheng Lin Yue’s shoulder and spoke earnestly: “Thank you, Cheng Lin Yue. If you did not know, I would have had to carry this secret alone. I was almost at my limit.”
“So many people do not understand me. They think I eat too much and drink too much. Actually, all of that is because…”
She had not even finished saying the word “illness.”
Cheng Lin Yue cut her off: “Sister Tea, you are not sick. You should eat more and drink more. Keep your mood happy and raise your body well. Everything else will get better after that.”
Finally she had found someone who understood her. This little rabbit was not like Chong Ming, that old mud loach, who said that her eating and drinking too much meant she was sick.
Jiang Tea Tea was so moved her eyes almost filled with tears: “Little rabbit, you are right. What you eat into your belly and the happy mood you keep, those are the only things that are really yours.”
Cheng Lin Yue nodded hard again: “Right. It is great you can think this way. Come on, let us leave this place where the trees are dry and the flowers are withered. Let us find a big grassland, hunt wild cows, wild sheep, and wild horses to eat.”
Her words matched Jiang Tea Tea’s heart perfectly. Jiang Tea Tea reached into her space knob storage device and took out a flying device they had taken as spoils of war in the First Round of the Supremacy Tournament: “Get on the flying device. We will drive it out of here.”
“Okay, Sister Tea.” Cheng Lin Yue answered, pulled open the co pilot seat, and sat down.
Jiang Tea Tea sat in the main pilot seat, started the flying device, and flew toward where Sui Xuan Chu and the others were.
Sui Xuan Chu and the others were waiting and studying how to sneak up on the nearest squad of students from another military academy, discussing how to ambush them and hunt them. Then they saw Cheng Lin Yue leaning out of the flying device window and waving at them.
When the flying device reached them, they immediately asked: “Why are you suddenly flying a flying device? A flying device is such a big target.”
“Yeah, if it really does not work, we can use footboards to skim along beside the flying device. The target would be smaller and not so easy for others to notice.”
Jiang Tea Tea rested her elbow on the flying device window and stuck her head out: “What are you afraid of? We have so many points. We will just charge straight ahead and not be scared of anything. Hurry up and take out your own flying devices.”
Huang Da Zhuang did not have a flying device. He simply opened the back door and climbed into their flying device. He said to the others: “Listen to Sister Tea. We are going for the championship.”
Out of the eight of them, three agreed right away. The other five, including Sui Xuan Chu, had no objections at all. Those who could get on a flying device got on one, and those who had a flying device took out their own.
Eight people, two flying devices. The flying devices rose into the air and sped through the sky above the dead trees and grass. Down below, the drill instructor teams and the student squads from the military academies all raised their heads to look. They were envious and jealous and angry.
The spoils of war from the First Round being used in the Second Round looked incredibly flashy.
The mountains stretched for five hundred li, full of endless dead trees and dry grass. On the giant screen, everything could be seen clearly.
The two flying devices flew over the dead trees and grass. Not a single drill instructor team or student squad could shoot them down.
Chong Ming sat in the command chair and watched them. In his ear, he listened to Li Ao’s report: “Commander in Chief, that unknown energy has already disappeared. I boldly guess that this so called unknown energy is a mutated devouring type supernatural ability, a kind that can seize the bodies of all living things and use them for itself, a rare devouring type supernatural ability that has never appeared before.”
“In this one week, the owner of the supernatural ability might have been hurt and needed to replenish, so it devoured all plant life within five hundred li.”
“Of course, I still stand by my earlier guess. Besides devouring everything, it can also give back to everything, letting things raise the dead, dry wood meet spring, and life continue.”
Chong Ming pressed the invisibility ear mic on the armrest of his command chair: “All right, I know. Keep investigating. Be careful. Do not disturb any student from the military academies or any drill instructor team.”
Li Ao answered: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Chong Ming cut off the connection with Li Ao and looked at Minister Lu from the Healing Department, who had already been waiting for a while: “Are the dissection results out?”
Minister Lu handed him a sheet of paper with the report: “This time, the seven insect clan members all died from lack of blood. It is a bit different from the ones who kidnapped the Crown Prince in the deep sea of the Primitive Tropical Planet, but mostly similar.”
Chong Ming scanned the report with his golden eyes from top to bottom. “Died from lack of blood, with only a small amount of flesh missing?”
Minister Lu explained: “These seven insect clan members do not have a single drop of blood left in their bodies. From their ankles up, half the flesh is gone.”
After listening, Chong Ming narrowed his eyes and remembered what the special cleanup scout squad had said to him, about some unknown plant drilling out of the soil and binding the legs of the insect clan members so they had no power to fight back.
That meant Jiang Tea Tea did not just have double level S plant type supernatural abilities. Her supernatural ability level was higher than he had imagined. It was high enough to control plants, devour flesh and blood, and turn them into energy.
This was what she was trying so hard to hide and refused to reveal. She was afraid that if it came out, she would be locked up with no freedom, forced to comb other people’s supernatural abilities and spiritual power, and become a stepping stone for others to level up their supernatural abilities.
Chong Ming’s golden eyes snapped open, a sharp light flashing across his gaze. He reconnected to Li Ao and spoke in a deep voice, giving an order: “Director Li, pack up and take your people and leave Planet M31_1137.”