Chapter 88
Chapter 88: Little Brat cheers, careless mom finally knows I exist, Little Brat is in tears
Cheng Lin Yue’s eyes lit up: “Got it, Sister Tea.”
The twelve Army Corps commanders hurriedly complained: “Jiang Tea Tea, schoolmate, stripping us completely, not leaving a single thing, not even our underwear, that’s going too far!”
One of them shouted: “Right, we’re already so old, we also have dignity. At least leave us one pair of underwear. When we meet again in the third round, I’ll go easy on you.”
Another said: “Jiang Tea Tea, leave us some room. We might all become coworkers in the future. If you do this, it’ll be so awkward when we meet later, won’t it?”
Someone else begged: “Jiang Tea Tea, let’s talk this out. The Commander in Chief is watching. Give him some face and don’t strip us so clean. This is humiliating.”
Jiang Tea Tea lifted her chin and curled her lips in a smirk: “I know you came down to hit me and gang up on me, with your Commander in Chief watching. So I stripped you on purpose, not leaving a single piece, so your Commander in Chief can take a good look at his soldiers and see just how weak they are.”
She added: “Also, twelve of you came to surround me, and the other eighteen have definitely gone to attack my teammates.”
She went on calmly: “My teammates still haven’t come to save us. That means either your other eighteen comrades slit their throats and eliminated them, or they’re being beaten until they’re covered in blood and fighting back with everything they have, with no time to rescue us.”
“Right now I’m only stripping your clothes and taking your space knob storage devices. I’m not lighting a fire to burn your hair off. You should be thanking me.”
She snapped: “Strip. Hurry up and take them off.”
The twelve Army Corps commanders looked at each other. Shame burned in their chests. After being Army Corps commanders for so many years, this was the most humiliating moment of their lives.
Humiliated or not, they still had to strip. They were already “dead”. The dead could only let the enemy trample them. They could not fight back.
Cheng Lin Yue searched each of their space knob storage devices and light-brain wrist terminals one by one, stuffing everything into her own space knob storage device.
Then the twelve commanders took off their combat suits and underwear themselves, stripping until they were completely naked. They grabbed handfuls of green grass and leaves to cover themselves.
Cheng Lin Yue turned around, her whole face bright red. She worshiped Jiang Tea Tea, felt excited, and was too embarrassed to look at them at the same time.
Jiang Tea Tea raised her brows high. Her face was not red, she was not out of breath, and her eyes were clear and steady. She looked at the twelve Army Corps commanders, whistled like a rogue, and started judging them out loud.
She clicked her tongue: “Oh wow, Commander Ye, you’ve got a six-pack. That’s a bit lacking. Next time try for eight.”
She turned to another: “Commander of the Thirteenth Army, you’ve got an eight-pack. Not very good-looking though, too bulky. Take it easy next time you train.”
She pointed at another man: “Eighth Army Corps commander, look at you. The muscles on your arms are bulging in lumps and not even. Zero symmetry. Bad review.”
The twelve Army Corps commanders: “…”
They wished they could dig a hole and crawl into it. Their old faces were completely lost.
Jiang Tea Tea waved lazily: “All right, we’ll leave this place to you. We’re going now.” After speaking to them, she called out to Cheng Lin Yue: “Cheng Lin Yue, take out a flying device. Let’s go find Sui Xuan Chu and the others.”
Cheng Lin Yue answered, quickly took out a flying device, opened the pilot seat, and made an inviting gesture: “Sister Tea, please get on the flying device.”
Jiang Tea Tea blew the twelve commanders a flying kiss and waved: “See you in the third match of the Supremacy Tournament. Mwah!”
The twelve Army Corps commanders: “…”
They were already dead. The dead did not speak.
Seeing her act all cutesy after taking advantage of them made them feel even worse.
Now they were embarrassed to even think about recruiting her into their own Army Corps.
With a bang, Jiang Tea Tea closed the door of the flying device. After Cheng Lin Yue got in, she started the flying device and lifted off. She confirmed Sui Xuan Chu and the others’ coordinates and flew toward them.
Seeing that Jiang Tea Tea kept one hand pressed to her stomach, Cheng Lin Yue asked with concern: “Sister Tea, are you okay? Is your stomach all right?”
Jiang Tea Tea moved her hand away from her belly: “I’m fine.”
Cheng Lin Yue still looked worried: “If you’re fine, why do you keep holding your stomach? Is it uncomfortable?”
Jiang Tea Tea, who was very good at shifting blame, said calmly: “Nothing’s wrong. It’s just back at the Royal Military Imperial Academy, I thought that if I sneak attacked Commander in Chief Chong Ming, I could get into an Army Corps easily. I didn’t think he’d kick me. It never fully healed.”
Cheng Lin Yue’s eyes widened. She stared fixedly at Jiang Tea Tea’s belly, unable to believe that Commander in Chief Chong Ming had kicked that stomach.
Jiang Tea Tea glanced at her from the corner of her eye: “Why are you staring at me? Are you regretting that he didn’t kick my organs to pieces?”
“That’s not it, that’s not it.” Cheng Lin Yue shook her head like a rattle. She counted on her fingers. It had been a little over two months since Commander in Chief Chong Ming went to the Royal Military Imperial Academy. The baby in Sister Tea’s belly, based on the pulse reading she had taken, was less than three months along.
That meant that when Commander in Chief Chong Ming kicked her belly, she might already have been pregnant.
Commander in Chief Chong Ming was the strongest beastman in the Empire of Zhenlin, with the highest level of supernatural abilities. One kick from him had not knocked out Sister Tea’s baby. That meant the baby in her stomach was very hard to kill… cough, very strong.
The stronger a baby was in the womb, the higher its awakened supernatural abilities would be after birth, especially for the Dragon Clan.
Jiang Tea Tea comforted her: “Don’t overthink it. It’s my body, I know my own limits. If I feel bad, I’ll tell you.”
Hearing that, Cheng Lin Yue quickly nodded: “Okay, okay. If you don’t feel well, you must say so.”
Jiang Tea Tea smiled and sped up the flying device. In less than half an hour, they reached the location marked for Sui Xuan Chu and the others.
Sure enough, eighteen Army Corps commanders were viciously beating them, torturing them, forcing them to slash their own throats and say they were forfeiting.
The six boys had been beaten until their noses and faces were swollen and bruised. Blood streamed from their noses and mouths. People stepped on their faces, on their stomachs, on their hands. They were as miserable and pitiful as they could be.
Jiang Tea Tea pressed the horn of the flying device, stuck her head out, and greeted the eighteen Army Corps commanders: “Hey, I thought I was already shameless enough, stripping your colleagues naked and confiscating all their space knob storage devices and light-brain wrist terminals. I didn’t think you’d be even worse, bullying the few with the many and beating my teammates this badly.”
The eighteen commanders had noticed her flying device when it came over. They hadn’t expected her first words to say she had stripped the other twelve who attacked her completely naked.
They asked skeptically: “Is that for real? You stripped their clothes off and didn’t even leave them their shorts?”
Another jeered: “You’re just a little girl and you’re this wild? I don’t really believe it. If you have pictures, show us. If you show me photos, I’ll let one of your teammates go.”
“Yeah, yeah, do you have photos? Video?” someone else called. “Show them and we’ll believe you. Otherwise we’ll just assume you’re bragging.”
Jiang Tea Tea stopped the flying device and jumped down to face them: “My teammates and I are standing here safe and sound in front of you. That alone should tell you your colleagues have been completely wiped out.”
She rubbed her stomach: “Right now I’m pretty hungry. How about letting my teammates roast some donkey meat for me first? Once I’m full, I’ll fight you.”
The eighteen commanders said: “You’re bargaining with us?”
Jiang Tea Tea spread her hands: “This isn’t bargaining. This is halftime. What decent person fights nonstop on the battlefield all day long?”
“And besides, eighteen of you fighting me alone is unfair. Even if you win, it’s not honorable. Let me eat my fill. Tomorrow at ten in the morning, we fight. How about that?”
The eighteen Army Corps commanders looked at each other. That seemed acceptable. After all, she had taken down twelve other Army Corps commanders all by herself.
They really wanted to fight her one-on-one to see where her limits were. They also wanted to know what rotten schemes and crooked tricks she had waiting for them.
When Jiang Tea Tea saw them fall silent, she drew her Red Soft Blade and pressed it against her own neck: “If you don’t agree, I’ll cut my throat and end it myself. You know my score. From this moment on, even if I just lie there until the third round of the Supremacy Tournament, I can still take the individual championship.”
The eighteen commanders were really afraid she might actually slash her own throat and get eliminated. Everyone wanted to fight a good seedling like her and see just how strong she really was.
“Fine, we’ll call a temporary truce and eat together with you,” one of them said at last.
“Whoever cheats is a little dog,” another added.
“Deal.” Jiang Tea Tea answered, then shouted: “Cheng Lin Yue, go check on them. Heal whatever needs to be healed. I’ll start skinning and making a fire with these eighteen commanders.”
Cheng Lin Yue answered and quickly ran to the six boys. She began checking their bodies, took out a simple healing device, healed their injuries, gave them injections, and fed them medicine.
Jiang Tea Tea propped up a pole, hung the wild donkey on it, and began skinning it. Her knife flashed up and down, incredibly fast.
The eighteen commanders were no pushovers either. Someone used instantaneous supernatural abilities, and in less than fifteen minutes they had hunted a wild horse and a wild antelope.
Their wilderness survival skills were amazing. They could even find mushrooms and edible wild vegetables on the pitch-black grassland.
Their gear was complete too: pots, bowls, plates, chopsticks, oil, salt, sauces, iron racks, tables, chairs, everything was ready.
They stewed mutton soup, roasted mutton, roasted horse meat, stir fried wild vegetables, and cooked delicious mushroom slices. At midnight, the vast grassland was filled with the smell of meat.
Jiang Tea Tea ate a slice of fresh mushroom, washed it down with a mouthful of mutton soup, and gave the eighteen commanders a thumbs up: “Your cooking is really good. If it weren’t for this damned Supremacy Tournament, I’d definitely hang out with you guys.”
Gnawing on meat, Cheng Lin Yue nodded and echoed: “Right, right, this is even better than the 580-credit buffet at our academy. Your Army Corps must need healers, right? After I graduate, I’ll apply to your Army Corps.”
Sui Xuan Chu and the other boys ate without tasting anything. They stared at the commanders who had beaten them. As they gnawed on their meat, it was like they were biting into those men instead.
Sitting on stools, the eighteen commanders started recruiting: “Jiang Tea Tea, schoolmate, I cook really well. After the Supremacy Tournament ends, I’ll apply to the Commander in Chief to have you come to my Army Corps. You just have to agree.”
Another commander cut in: “Jiang Tea Tea, schoolmate, don’t listen to him, listen to me. Come to my Army Corps. We’re all women. It’ll be easier to talk about things.”
Someone else scoffed: “What nonsense, they’re no good. Jiang Tea Tea, schoolmate, come to my side. I promise…”
Another commander hurried to add: “Jiang Tea Tea, schoolmate, as long as you agree to join our Army Corps, I’ll bend the rules and bring all your little partners in. All eight of you can join my Army Corps together and look after each other…”
“Eat, eat, come on, don’t be polite. We’ll talk about this after we finish eating.” Jiang Tea Tea cut them off and ladled more mutton soup and meat into each of their bowls.
She herself also wolfed food down like crazy, eating so carefree that the eighteen commanders completely relaxed their guard and felt that the truce was real.
What they never expected was that the mutton soup they served themselves had no problem. The meat they cut themselves had no problem. The donkey meat they ate on their own was fine too.
But the problem was in the mutton soup and meat that Jiang Tea Tea added to their bowls. As soon as they drank that soup and ate that meat, they all dropped to the ground in a flash, foaming at the mouth, with their eyes rolling back.
Sui Xuan Chu, Huang Da Zhuang, Cheng Xiao Ting and the other boys were shocked: “Sister Tea, Sister Tea, what happened to them? Are they poisoned?”
“Poison, my foot.” Cheng Lin Yue snapped at them. She pulled out her Red Blades and drew them across the commanders’ throats.
The six boys stared, eyes wide. In just a little while, Cheng Lin Yue had become as decisive and clean-handed as their Sister Tea?
After wiping the throats of all eighteen Army Corps commanders, Cheng Lin Yue walked over to Jiang Tea Tea: “Sister Tea, I’ve finished them off and looted their space knob storage devices and their light-brain wrist terminals.”
Jiang Tea Tea did not hold back her praise: “Beautifully done.”
Cheng Lin Yue grinned brightly: “It was your idea, Sister Tea. You know how to use poisons.”
As a tree spirit who had also stayed for a month on a primitive tropical planet, Jiang Tea Tea knew better than anyone which plants were poisonous and which were not. In her free time she collected them, knowing they would come in handy.
Sure enough, they came in handy now. Her drugged food knocked out all eighteen. There was no danger to their lives. They would just sleep for seven or eight hours.
Jiang Tea Tea waved humbly: “It’s nothing. Sui Xuan Chu, Huang Da Zhuang, Yan Yu, they beat you all like that. Aren’t you going to take revenge?”
Sui Xuan Chu, Huang Da Zhuang and the others were hit by a huge surprise. In a flash, they rushed at the eighteen unconscious commanders and gave them a savage beating.
Jiang Tea Tea went on eating and drinking as she liked, while also quietly absorbing the nutrients from the vast grassland beneath her. Her spiritual power had not even recovered twenty percent yet, but it was almost enough.
By the time they had beaten the commanders until their faces were swollen and their noses and mouths were bleeding, stripped off all their clothes, and tossed them into the grass, Jiang Tea Tea had finished eating.
They took all the ready-made pots, bowls, plates, tables, and chairs with them. The eight of them flew straight into the sky in three flying devices, leaving the grassland far behind.
In the command room, Chong Ming watched the thirty Army Corps commanders he had personally trained be wiped out. He was so angry he laughed.
For the first twelve who had been taken down by Jiang Tea Tea, he posted their photos and videos, where they were holding grass to cover their lower halves, onto the Imperial Military Headquarters intranet for everyone to admire and mock.
As for the other eighteen commanders, he had ice water poured directly over them. If ten minutes of ice water was not enough, then half an hour.
When the eighteen woke up, before they had time to cry out about how much their bodies hurt, they discovered they had no clothes at all, not even their underwear.
In that situation, what else could they not understand? They had been played by Jiang Tea Tea so badly that they didn’t even have their shorts left.
And that was not all. They knew they were about to face the Commander in Chief’s storm of fury, and a bloody storm over their future careers.
Sharing a flying device with Jiang Tea Tea, Cheng Lin Yue glanced at her several times. Jiang Tea Tea’s hand was once again pressed to her stomach, and Cheng Lin Yue could not help overthinking. Sister Tea had fought those twelve commanders fiercely. Maybe she had pulled something in her belly. Or maybe the baby in her belly needed Little Brat’s dad’s supernatural abilities and spiritual power to soothe it.
The scummy male Sui Xuan Chu was right behind them. For Little Brat’s health, he should probably release some spiritual power to comfort the baby.
But Sister Tea looked like nothing was wrong. How was she supposed to persuade her? For Little Brat’s sake, Sui Xuan Chu could totally be used as a tool dragon.
Jiang Tea Tea knew Cheng Lin Yue kept peeking at her. She didn’t stop the flying device until they were two hundred li away from all the military academy students, in another mountain forest full of red flowers.
In the flying device she was piloting, there were only the two of them. Sui Xuan Chu and Huang Da Zhuang were in the other two flying devices behind them. They would sleep inside those at night.
Jiang Tea Tea unfastened her seat belt, turned her head to look at Cheng Lin Yue, and asked: “I’ve already told you I’m fine. Why do you keep staring at my stomach?”
Cheng Lin Yue reached back, took out a signal shielding device, set it on the console, and closed the windows of the flying device: “Sister Tea, I’ve thought it over. Sui Xuan Chu is right by your side. Even though he’s scum, you can bear with him a little and treat him as a tool dragon. Let him provide supernatural abilities and spiritual power to soothe you. That works too.”
Jiang Tea Tea was completely confused: “What are you talking about? Why would I need Sui Xuan Chu to give me supernatural abilities and spiritual power to soothe me?”
Cheng Lin Yue looked at her very seriously: “I already know everything, Sister Tea. Don’t worry. It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t want to take responsibility. With your ability, plus me, and my parents and my uncle, we can definitely help you get through this, deliver the baby, and raise the big hatchling!”
Jiang Tea Tea felt like she had just heard a fairy tale, her voice suddenly rising: “What baby delivery, raising babies? Who has a baby? Where did a baby come from?”