Chapter 9
Chapter 9: Crushed Until I Can’t Breathe, Crawling in the Dark
The operator at the Central Public Security Bureau heard the report and shot up from her seat. She could not hide the excitement in her voice.
“Hello, I am a live operator at the Central Public Security Bureau, employee number 95872. I am confirming the address you are reporting: room 1960 on the 196th floor of First Hotel, correct?”
“Group orgy” was such an old phrase. So many young people had never even heard it before. How exciting.
Jiang Tea Tea said: “Yes. When will you get here?”
“Alright, thank you for your report,” the Central Public Security Bureau operator replied. “I have already notified the nearest responding officers. At the latest they will be there in ten minutes, and at the soonest in two.”
Jiang Tea Tea said: “Okay, thank you. Goodbye.”
The Central Public Security Bureau operator said: “Goodbye!”
Not only the patrol officers in charge of the area around First Hotel, but all the patrol officers and case officers in the whole area received the notice.
They were even more excited and happy than the operator. The laws of the Empire were strict, and the crime rate on the capital planet was the lowest in the whole Empire, not even reaching two percent.
There were a total of one and a half million police and garrison troops on the capital planet. Everyone wanted to improve and wanted military merit.
Now someone had reported a group orgy. This was progress being delivered right to their door. They had to get to the scene in the shortest possible time and arrest everyone, in case colleagues from another area rushed over and stole their credit.
Jiang Tea Tea had expected the police to come quickly, but she had not expected that by the time she had just finished cleaning away the traces that showed she had been in the room, they would already be there.
To avoid running head-on into the police handling the case, she turned into a tree right as they broke down the door, slipped out of the room, and darted up to a room on the top floor with an open window.
That room was pitch-black, so dark you could not see your hand. Jiang Tea Tea was glad she was a demon and could see the night as clearly as day.
She turned back into human form and lifted her foot, ready to leave through the door.
Suddenly, a voice came from the inner room, heavy and oppressive like a bull or a tiger, like thunder rolling overhead.
Jiang Tea Tea’s heart skipped a beat. Such a strong oppressive aura and demonic aura. [Is there another monster spirit on the M31 Star System besides me, another of my kind at the Great Demon Stage?]
Then she thought it through. If she could travel through worlds, other Great Demon Stage demons could also travel. They were already at a fellow countryman’s door. There was no reason they would not exist.
She turned her raised foot and walked toward the room the voice had come from. When she reached the door, she was about to knock when the door was suddenly yanked open from inside.
A powerful oppressive aura and demonic aura rushed at her. It made Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes go black. Before she could react, one hand twisted her arm and another clamped around her neck, pressing her head against the wall.
“Who are you? Who sent you?”
A hoarse, low, domineering male voice exploded by Jiang Tea Tea’s ear. His hot breath sprayed against her ear, making the hairs on her body stand up.
Jiang Tea Tea tried to fight back, but found she was completely suppressed by him and could not use even a bit of her spiritual power: “Who am I? I am your fellow countryman!”
Didn’t the human race like to say that when fellow countrymen met, they would have tears in their eyes?
[Wasn’t it supposed to be full of tears like that?]
[Humans are all liars.]
“Such a fragrant scent?” The man pressed his weight harder onto her. He lowered his head to the place between her neck and shoulder and took a deep breath. “You really do smell good.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s face was pressed against the cold wall, so she could not see the face of the man pinning her. Knowing when to bow to circumstances, she played along with a smile: “Really? My maternal grandmother says I smell good too. Could you get off me first? We can talk this out.”
Her maternal grandmother also liked to pluck her leaves to brew tea, saying it cleared the mind, relieved fatigue, and would let a person go to heaven and earth and fight with their lover for three hundred rounds.
The man pressing Jiang Tea Tea down did not get off her. Instead, because of what she said, his body seemed to heat up even more.
The heat coming from him burned her skin through their clothes and weighed down on her spiritual power, making her feel like an ordinary person who had lost their night vision.
“You really do smell so good.” The man on top of Jiang Tea Tea started to breathe more roughly and quickly. His burning lips pressed against the back of her neck as he greedily sniffed her like a little dog.
Jiang Tea Tea shivered all over. Her spiritual power could not burst out, so she could only rely on brute strength to struggle with all her might.
But her resistance seemed to stimulate him. His body grew even hotter. The hot air he breathed out was as scalding as lava.
The heat made Jiang Tea Tea’s legs go weak, as if all her strength had been sucked out. Her body went soft.
Feeling the change in her, the man loosened the hand twisting her arm and used his strong arm to wrap around her waist.
Jiang Tea Tea felt the world spin. Her body left the ground and then fell onto a soft, big bed. The man followed, pressing down on top of her…
Before dawn the next day, Jiang Tea Tea woke up. Her whole body hurt like her branches were about to be snapped.
The oppressive aura and demonic aura in the room were still there, pressing down on her so she could not use her spiritual power at all and had no night vision.
For the sake of her own little life, Jiang Tea Tea endured the ache in her body and moved like a maggot. She did not even think about seeing who had slept with her. She wriggled off the bed and down to the floor.
She crawled across the floor, creeping along in the dark and twisting her way to the door. She opened the door without making a sound, slipped out, and closed it again, blocking some of the oppressive aura from the room. Only then could she breathe again, and she sucked in two deep breaths.
At first she had planned to leave through the door. But then she thought that there would definitely be a surveillance system in the corridor, and she might even run into someone. Then the fact that a dignified big tree spirit like her had been slept with for nothing would be exposed.
[People live on their face. Trees live on their bark.]
[How could something so shameless happen to her?]
Jiang Tea Tea decided to leave in the same way she had come. Luckily, once she got far enough from that room, some of her spiritual power came back.
By the time she reached the window, her spiritual power had recovered by a little over ten percent. She set both hands on the window frame. A gust of wind blew, and her spiritual power rose to twenty percent. She turned into a tree, flipped herself out of the window, and drifted down in style from the 199th floor.
Below the suspended First Hotel, all kinds of greenery and flowers were planted. As Jiang Tea Tea fell, the tall plants and flower bushes became her best natural cover.
She did not change back into human form. She stayed as a tree and took root in the ground, borrowing the power of Mother Earth and the nutrients in the soil to nurse the branches that that bastard had tormented until they almost broke.
“Old Jin is here. How is Your Highness’s spiritual power? Did his supernatural abilities riot?”
“It should be fine. The detector in my hand has not sounded any alarm.”
“Knock on the door. Hurry and knock. Let Old Jin go in and soothe Your Highness.”
“Deputy Officer Ai, you are the closest to Your Highness. You knock. I don’t dare.”
“Damn it, Da Ma Zi, you are His Highness’s personal attendant officer. You are even closer to Your Highness. Why aren’t you knocking?”
“Fine, fine, I’ll knock. Look at you, a deputy officer to Your Highness, and your courage is this small. You’ll be scared to death someday…”
Before Da Ma Zi could finish, the door opened. The Commander in Chief of the Three Armies of the Zhenlin Empire and Prince Regent, Chong Ming, appeared in the doorway. He wore a black shirt and black military pants with combat boots. His hair and eyes were gold, and his whole body gave off a powerful oppressive aura.
Deputy Officer Ai, Da Ma Zi, and all the guards outside snapped to attention and saluted him: “Commander in Chief!”
Chong Ming’s sharp gaze swept over them. His eyes fell on Old Jin, the Empire’s national treasure-level beastmen and half-beastmen Soothing Specialist. He nodded to the old man, then turned and went back into the room.
Old Jin followed him in. Deputy Officer Ai and Da Ma Zi quickly followed as well.
The room was full of pressure, but at the same time, they all smelled a faint, fresh fragrance inside.
That faint scent blended invisibly with Your Highness’s powerful presence and took away some of the oppressive feeling from his aura.
Old Jin finished checking Chong Ming with the instruments, then used his hands to check him again. A moment later, his whole face lit up with joy: “Congratulations, Your Highness, congratulations! You safely made it through your mating heat cycle. Your supernatural abilities did not riot, and your spiritual power has even risen.”