Chapter 86
Chapter 86: Surrounding Jiang Tea Tea With Clubs To Beat Her Up
Li Ao did not understand why the Commander in Chief suddenly told him to leave, but he was extremely interested in this never-seen-before rare devouring mutation supernatural ability.
He asked carefully: “Commander in Chief, is there some other news?”
Chong Ming’s voice sank: “This is not something you should be asking about.”
Li Ao answered through the screen: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Chong Ming cut the call, turned his head, and said to Deputy Officer Ai: “Send someone to pick up Li Ao and take him away from Planet M31_1137. Tell him that what I had him do ends here.”
Deputy Officer Ai said: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Deputy Officer Ai used his fastest speed-type ability to arrange Li Ao’s departure.
Li Ao had finally run into such a rare supernatural ability and had not found out anything. He was not willing to leave. He dragged Deputy Officer Ai to the side and said: “Deputy Officer Ai, did the Commander in Chief already find the person with this devouring mutation supernatural ability?”
Deputy Officer Ai stood straight in his combat suit: “Director Li, according to the military secrecy agreement, the way you are questioning me right now is breaking the law.”
Li Ao’s expression tightened: “Sorry, you know that I specialize in researching supernatural abilities. The Commander in Chief asked me to come here…”
Deputy Officer Ai cut him off: “Director Li, you don’t need to test me in such a roundabout way. If you want to know something, you can call the Commander in Chief directly.”
“I have no duty here to tell you any situation at all, so please do not knowingly break the law.”
Li Ao’s little scheme in his heart was poked through by Deputy Officer Ai. He had no choice but to lower his head: “Sorry to trouble you. I will leave now.”
Deputy Officer Ai made a “please” gesture: “Please.”
Li Ao took his subordinate, got onto a flying device, then transferred to a battleship and left Planet M31_1137.
Chong Ming put the seven insectoid race dissection reports in his space knob storage device, stood up, and walked toward the door of the command room as he said: “Minister Lu, I am going to see Aceras now. Send those seven insectoid race corpses over.”
Minister Lu said: “Yes, Commander in Chief.”
Aceras had freedom, but his freedom was limited to a 15-square-meter room. He had food and drink, but all the food was cooked and did not suit his taste. It was not like the raw food he used to eat in the insectoid race.
All the walls around him were white. There was no sense of time, no entertainment. The lights that were bright as daytime stayed on 24 hours a day. His supernatural abilities were suppressed and could not be used at all.
In less than a month, Aceras changed from high-spirited, full of unwillingness, shouting and roaring, to silent. Other than staring at the door, he still just stared at the door.
He saw the door open and saw Chong Ming walk in. Sitting on the bed, he leaned his body back, braced both hands on the bed, and put on a lazy, casual pose: “Old friend, you have not come to see me for more than twenty days. Today you suddenly came. Do you miss me, or are you planning to let me go?”
Chong Ming pulled over the chair next to him and sat down in front of him: “Aceras, Your Highness, the way you pretend to be lazy and calm is very funny.”
Aceras suddenly sat up straight. His eyes turned into compound eyes, and he stared at him with a gloomy gaze: “What are you so proud of? I only got caught by you because I slipped up for a second. You don’t dare kill me. You can only lock me up.”
Chong Ming raised his eyebrow: “So, the insect clan members you planted in the royal military academies are as confident as you too?”
Aceras’s eyes tightened: “What are you talking about? I don’t really understand.”
Chong Ming laughed: “Aceras, Your Highness, should I record a video of you acting dumb and send it to your fiancee Atuya to watch?”
Aceras spread his hands: “Record it, go on, record it. She knows exactly what I am like. I never hide anything from her.”
Chong Ming really opened his light-brain wrist terminal and aimed it at him to take a picture. Aceras quickly raised his hand to cover his face: “Okay, you win.”
Chong Ming lowered the hand with the light-brain wrist terminal: “Only a dead duck keeps its mouth hard. I did not expect a bug like you to be this stubborn.”
Aceras slammed his hands down, eyes full of annoyance and unwillingness. He wanted to use his supernatural abilities to attack him, but his powers sank like a stone into the sea. He could not move a bit of them: “Why did you come?”
Chong Ming’s smile faded: “To bring you a gift.”
Aceras frowned: “You are this kind-hearted?”
Chong Ming nodded: “Of course.”
The door opened again.
Minister Lu and the others dragged seven insectoid race corpses into the room. The room that had only a bit more than ten square meters was suddenly packed full.
Aceras stared at the seven insectoid race corpses. After a long time, he finally moved his eyes away: “How did you find them?”
Chong Ming replied: “I didn’t find them. It was your fiancee, High General Atuya. She wanted to rescue you too much. She gave them the order to run around like headless flies. When they saw a little male of the dragon clan, they took him for the crown prince. They thought if they caught him, they could trade him for you.”
“Unexpectedly, they did not catch the crown prince of our Zhenlin Empire, and instead lost their lives. They also helped me learn exactly what traits you insectoid race have when you sneak into the military academies.”
“These seven insect clan members are just appetizers for you. From now on, at different times, you will see your different subordinates laid out on your table.”
Aceras pulled up the corner of his mouth: “Is that so? I am really looking forward to seeing you actually dig out all the insect clan members I planted in the Zhenlin Empire.”
Chong Ming did not answer him again. He stood up and walked toward the door as he said: “Secretary Wen, Minister Lu, from now on, do not give His Highness Aceras any food. Let him eat his own kind.”
Aceras suddenly stood up and rushed at Chong Ming: “That Chong guy, you bastard…”
Chong Ming did not turn around. He raised his hand and waved it. A powerful surge of supernatural ability spiritual power blasted directly toward Aceras.
Aceras was blown into the air and fell hard onto the pile of seven insect clan corpses, looking both miserable and pitiful.
By the time he climbed back up, the door had been slammed shut. Inside the room, other than him, there were only the seven insectoid race corpses. All the water and stored food were gone.
Jiang Tea Tea and the others flew the flying device as they looked for a place to land, and at the same time hunted students from other military academies.
They used the flying device as a shield, first firing colored artillery shells to kill the other military academy students. Then they landed the flying device and used red blades to cut their throats.
In one day, they wiped out five squads, a total of thirty-eight people. They drove the flying device into the grasslands. The green grass up to their knees was so thick that whether the flying device was parked inside it or people were lying inside it, it was hard for others to see.
They chose a place where, within fifty kilometers, there were no other military academy students. They rested for a while, built a fire, and took out the prey they had hunted before. They skinned it, marinated it, cleaned it, pushed it through with wooden sticks, and roasted it over the fire.
Rabbits and antelope sizzled and dripped oil over the fire, sending out a mouth-watering smell. Jiang Tea Tea stared at the meat, swallowing again and again. She was so hungry, and it smelled so good.
When the meat was done, the always low-presence Cheng Lin Yue took a quick step forward, took down a huge roast antelope, and put the whole thing in front of Jiang Tea Tea: “Sister Tea, you eat. This whole one is just for you.”
She said eating too much was not a sickness, and she took care of her this well. It was too nice.
Jiang Tea Tea rolled up her sleeves, ready to grab the roast antelope and tear off meat. Sui Xuan Chu reached out his hand: “Sister Tea, instead of you enjoying it alone, why don’t we all enjoy it? Let us taste…”
Cheng Lin Yue did not let Sui Xuan Chu finish. She cut him off and blocked him, not letting him touch the roast antelope at all: “You are such a big man, and you still fight a woman for meat. Do you have no shame?”
Sui Xuan Chu put his hands on his hips and glared: “How am I shameless for wanting to taste one bite?”
For the baby in Sister Tea’s belly, and for Sister Tea herself, Cheng Lin Yue felt like she was invincible and feared no one. Even her social anxiety felt cured: “If you only get one bite, it is better not to eat. Every extra bite you eat is one less bite for Sister Tea.”
“If you want to eat, go hunt for yourself. Don’t snatch Sister Tea’s food.”
[Stinking man, scum man.]
Sister Tea was only close to this one dragon clan man. The baby in her belly was definitely his. This irresponsible thing had to be scolded.
Cheng Xiao Ting reached out to feel Cheng Lin Yue’s forehead: “Little rabbit, do you have a fever? Is the fever cooking your brain so much that your social anxiety is gone?”
Cheng Lin Yue slapped his hand away: “Shut up. Hurry up and go hunt bison, wild horses, and wild donkeys with Sui Xuan Chu the top student.”
“Sister Tea has to eat until she is full to have the strength to lead us to win the Supremacy Tournament championship. You men might not be good at fighting, but can’t you at least hunt beasts?”
Because Sister Tea was fierce, the people who followed Sister Tea were also affected by her. They too became fierce and less socially anxious.
That was a good thing. The fact that Cheng Lin Yue was no longer socially anxious and could be so fierce was something truly worth celebrating.
Cheng Xiao Ting looked at Sui Xuan Chu: “Should we go hunt wild donkeys?”
Sui Xuan Chu said: “Sure. I think we saw a herd of wild donkeys on our way here. Now that it’s dark, they’re easier to hunt.”
Cheng Xiao Ting pointed at the flying device: “Let’s go.”
Sui Xuan Chu and the other five men, six men in total, drove two flying devices to find the herd of wild donkeys and went off to hunt them.
The thirty army corps commanders sat inside their command ship, watching them. Some were hunting wild donkeys, some were squatting by the fire gnawing meat. They could not help sighing in the shared channel: “It is nice to be young. Back then, when we were being trained, we also found ways to enjoy ourselves in the middle of hardship.”
“Yes, young men don’t know what hardship is. They shine like the morning sun, act as they please, tight and loose in just the right way. From those eight of them, I see cohesion. I see unity. I see how we used to be.”
“If we were not army corps commanders, I would really want to go and gnaw meat with them. Meat eaten on a field training ground tastes better than meat anywhere else.”
“Exactly. I still remember, the commander of the Twelfth Army Corps and I were thrown into a crowd by the Commander in Chief for training. We had no money, could not hunt, and could not use supernatural abilities. We had no choice but to sit by the road and cry like beggars, and only then did some kind-hearted people give us nutrient injections and nutrient solution so we could get through the training.”
“Thinking about it now, I really want to stand where the Commander in Chief stands and make the new recruits go through all the suffering I went through, but even worse.”
“Hey hey hey, don’t say that. It’s not just you. I have the same thought. How about we blow up Jiang Tea Tea and her schoolmates and take her roast lamb for ourselves?”
“That can work. I like snatching other people’s food the most. Before, they teamed up with other military academy students and instructor groups and killed me, an army corps commander. Now we will go counter-kill them and steal their food.”
The thirty army corps commanders said they would do it and did it. They went all out, completely copying the way Chong Ming had trained them back then.
Jiang Tea Tea was eating roast antelope, taking big bites.
Cheng Lin Yue was holding a roast antelope leg and nibbling in small bites.
All of a sudden, Jiang Tea Tea flung the roast antelope out of her hand. She put her hand on the back of Cheng Lin Yue’s head, pushed down, and pulled her to the ground to lie flat.
With a loud boom, the fire they were using to roast meat was blown apart, sending sparks flying.
Jiang Tea Tea rolled her body to block the sparks.
The sparks did not fall on Cheng Lin Yue.
Cheng Lin Yue got a huge fright. She quickly struggled free and activated her supernatural abilities. A jet of water shot out and washed away the sparks burning on Jiang Tea Tea’s back.
Jiang Tea Tea pulled her up. She had just gotten ready to run when the lights above their heads suddenly turned on. The beams shone around them and made everything as bright as daytime.
Right after that, the twelve army corps commanders she had wiped out in the first round jumped down from the ship. They surrounded the two of them. Each one was holding a club and grinning like a big villain: “Jiang Tea Tea, schoolmate, your team of eight people only has two left. Will you two cut your own throats to forfeit and get eliminated, or shall we beat you until you cut your throats and get eliminated?”