Chapter 92
Chapter 92: The Target Is You; Cross the Line and We’ll Rip You Apart
Jiang Tea Tea lifted her chin and admitted without fear: “I just can’t beat you. I’m jealous that you’re stronger than me, and it ticks me off, that’s all.”
Chong Ming chuckled, his hard features softening at once, like spring snow melting and life returning: “Really? Then let me apologize to you for being so strong.”
[That dog of a man, that Stinky Loach, listen to what he is saying.]
[Is that an apology? No, that’s pure showing off. So what if he’s strong? When all of my spiritual power recovers, I’ll stomp him under my feet and crush him flat.]
Jiang Tea Tea took a deep breath: “Punch me one more time?”
Chong Ming raised a brow: “You mean you use your supernatural abilities and punch me once?”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded hard: “Yeah. Is that okay?”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes flashed: “Sure. But you have to tell me: the woman who saved you at First Hotel, the one with Invisibility, what is her name?”
Jiang Tea Tea’s face sank: “Goodbye.”
Chong Ming watched her back as she left without looking back. After he was sure she would not return, he gave an order toward the direction she had gone, telling the guards on the warship to guide her back to her flying device.
He himself went back to the command room. While he watched the drill instructor squads track and wipe out other military academy students, he flipped through the information on everyone Jiang Tea Tea had met in the past ten years.
Jiang Tea Tea went back to her flying device, started it up, glided through the huge warship, and flew out through the hatch at the bottom.
After more than an hour of fussing around, it was already past four in the morning. The sky was just starting to lighten, everything was quiet, mist curled in the air, and the air was fresh.
Jiang Tea Tea piloted the flying device to where the wild animals were the thickest, near a water source. She lured the beasts over and started hunting.
The hunted beasts soon piled up like a little hill. She left a few aside and stored all the rest into her space knob storage device.
She skinned and cleaned the carcasses, salted and marinated the meat, and at the same time gathered wild greens and dry firewood, set pots to stew, and put meat over the fire to roast.
When the sun rose, Cheng Lin Yue and the others received Jiang Tea Tea’s message and coordinates, and flew over in their flying devices.
As soon as they got off their flying devices, they smelled it: the rich smell of dishes, meat, and the smoky scent of roasted meat.
Huang Da Zhuang barked once and ran over, staring at the table full of food: “Sister Tea, you are my god forever. I love you, mwah!”
Jiang Tea Tea tore off a roasted duck leg and shoved it into his mouth: “Hurry up and eat. When we’re done, we’ll wander all over this planet.”
Huang Da Zhuang’s mouth was packed full. He bit down with his sharp teeth, and with a crack he snapped the duck bone in half.
Sui Xuan Chu and the others ran over and asked: “What do you mean by wandering all over the planet? Are we not hunting the drill instructor squads anymore?”
Jiang Tea Tea answered: “Right. We need to learn to slack off and save our strength. Eat well, drink well, sleep well, and have fun.”
Their personal points and squad points were already far ahead of everyone else. Why bother hunting more drill instructor squads? In the last half month or so, as long as they moved around on their own and did not get caught and have their throats slit, it was enough.
Sui Xuan Chu and the others felt she made a lot of sense. With their strength right there, not playing would be a waste, and playing was basically free.
So… the eight of them finished eating, then took their flying devices and played all over planet M31-1137.
Sometimes they purposely avoided the drill instructor squads and other military academy students. Sometimes they purposely flew their flying devices arrogantly right over their heads, enjoying the way those people glared at them but could not do anything.
When all their flying devices ran out of energy, they would go hunt a drill instructor squad and rob them. Once they finished robbing, they went right back to flying and playing.
In those more than twenty days, besides eating and drinking her fill every day, Jiang Tea Tea also put down roots into Mother Earth every night when she slept, drawing in the nutrients and fertilizer from the ground.
The little ones in her belly were wriggling around even more. Counting the days, it was just a little short of three months.
Sometimes she used her spiritual power to see through her belly and look at them. She saw that the babies were eating and drinking well and were very well behaved, not making trouble at all.
The only bad part was that they were all dragon cubs. There was not a single tree seed, not even a tiny sapling.
What she could not accept the most was that these babies were not even half as long as her little finger yet, and each one was shining gold, brighter than the last. It was enough to make a demon die from anger.
Jiang Tea Tea angrily pulled Sui Xuan Chu to the side: “Let me ask you something.”
Sui Xuan Chu was holding a string of wild fruit, with one between his teeth: “What is so mysterious that you have to drag me off to the side?”
Jiang Tea Tea looked at him and said: “Last time you said that the color of your true body, and even the color of your blood, was changed by dyeing and medicine, right?”
Sui Xuan Chu did not know why: “Yeah. What’s wrong?”
Jiang Tea Tea held out her hand: “Give me a little of that dye potion and the medicine you take. I want to study it.”
Sui Xuan Chu let out a little sound: “What are you studying that for? They are all specially made. One round of dye lasts three months, and one pill lasts half a year.”
[She had to guard against it now. Once the little cubs were born all shining gold, everyone would know at a glance that they were golden dragons of the Imperial Clan. If that old mud loach found out, he would use force to fight her for them, and she was sure she could not win.]
[She had to get her hands on that dye potion and the potion that could change dragon blood ahead of time. The moment those little brats were born, she would dye them and pour medicine down their throats. Then she would find a way to bring them back to the Demon Clan. Just thinking about a tree spirit like her giving birth to dragon brats and carrying them back to the Demon Clan made her sure that every demon would bow down and worship her. She would be the coolest thing around.]
Jiang Tea Tea held her open palm closer to him: “Give me a few tubes. I’m curious. Let me take a look.”
Sui Xuan Chu slapped her palm lightly: “I told you, they’re specially made. I don’t carry them on me. They’re on my uncle’s warship.”
“When my color is about to fade, I’ll go ask him for some. I’ll ask for a few extra tubes and give them to you.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s hand dropped after he slapped it: “You can’t ask for a few in advance?”
Sui Xuan Chu shook his head: “No. I don’t know what you want them for, but if my uncle found out, he would definitely investigate.”
“He is the kind of person who is stubborn about everything, super persistent, with scary focus and super fast action. The moment there is the tiniest sign from me, he knows.”
“To be honest with you, there is a tracking implanted chip in my blood, there is one in my flesh, and there is one in my brain. There are at least four implanted chips in my body.”
“Now look at the sky again. What do you see?”
Jiang Tea Tea looked up as he spoke: “Besides white clouds and blue sky, nothing.”
Sui Xuan Chu corrected her: “Wrong. It looks like there is nothing in the sky, but in fact there are at least three satellites pointed at me.”
“Three satellites is actually on the low side. If I went back to the Capital Planet, there would be at least five or eight satellites pointed at me, twenty four hours a day, without a break.”
Jiang Tea Tea instantly moved farther away from him: “So you have no secrets, and no one around you has secrets either?”
Sui Xuan Chu blinked his eyes and asked in disbelief: “Sister Tea, how could you ask such a stupid question? I thought that from the day you found out about my other identity, you already knew that there are no secrets on me or around me. So you really didn’t know?”
Jiang Tea Tea stepped back two more steps, pulling even farther away from him. [Oh my god, sometimes I’m as dumb as a pig.]
[If what Sui Xuan Chu said was true, if she kept dealing with him, who knew when the babies in her belly would be exposed and discovered by that old mud loach, Chong Ming.]
Sui Xuan Chu took two steps forward: “What do you mean, what are you afraid of? You live in the same dorm as me, you’re in the same squad as me. My uncle has already checked your ancestors for eighteen generations.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out a dry little laugh: “If he already checked my ancestors for eighteen generations, then can he find my birth parents?”
The contract she had signed with the fake young miss had a clause: she had to find the fake young miss’s birth parents.
[If Chong Ming could find the fake young miss’s birth parents, she could take a look and meet them. If they were suitable, she would get along with them and fulfill the fake young miss’s wish. If they were not, she would still beat, scold, and kick them as she pleased.]
Sui Xuan Chu paused for a moment: “You want to find your birth parents? After the Supremacy Tournament ends, I’ll go ask him.”
Jiang Tea Tea nodded in agreement and reminded him: “When you get the color-changing potion, you’re not allowed to say I’m the one who wants it. Your uncle doesn’t like me. I’m afraid he’ll come make trouble for me.”
Sui Xuan Chu walked up beside her and hooked an arm around her neck: “Roommate, you really underestimate my uncle. He’s one hundred and fifty years old. In his eyes, you’re just an excellent little hatchling. He has no time to look at you and decide he doesn’t like you.”
“Don’t be dramatic and don’t add scenes for yourself. He’s handling a mountain of work every day. For this half month he hasn’t even been above us.”
Jiang Tea Tea was stunned: “You mean he hasn’t been watching us for this half month?”
Sui Xuan Chu grunted: “He went back to the Capital Planet to deal with urgent state affairs.”
Jiang Tea Tea suddenly understood: “I knew the last twenty days or so were a bit too comfortable and did not really fit his personality. I didn’t think that…”
Sui Xuan Chu cut her off: “Okay, okay. Tomorrow is the third round of the Supremacy Tournament. We don’t know what the rules will be yet. Let’s hurry and have a big feast and sort through our spoils of war.”
Jiang Tea Tea answered: “Okay, let’s go.”
The eight of them worked with their own hands and fed themselves well, putting on a huge feast. Other people came to the wild training part of the Supremacy Tournament and lost a whole circle of weight, but among the eight of them, except for Jiang Tea Tea who did not gain weight, everyone else’s face had gotten rounder.
They did not even make it to the next day. That night, before midnight, a ship came and took them off Planet M31_1137.
On the ship, they had to hand in their light-brain wrist terminals, their space knob storage devices, and all of their spoils of war. Other than the combat suit on their bodies, they had no weapon on them at all.
At three in the morning, the ship stopped above a pitch black planet. When the hatch opened, a wave of hot air hit them in the face.
Just then, the drill instructor team’s broadcast sounded: “Darlings, schoolmates, little darlings, welcome to Hot Sand Star, where the temperature stays between twenty five and sixty degrees all year round.”
“Hot Sand Star is eighty percent desert and twenty percent ocean. The rules for the Third Round of the Supremacy Tournament are: with the soft red blades in your hands, hunt the other military academy students in units of squads.”
“Killing one military academy student will give you one point. Killing ten will let you apply to the drill instructor team to exchange for clean water and food.”
“Whichever squad holds out until the end with the fewest casualties will get ten thousand personal points and ten thousand squad points added.”
“In the Third Round there will be no drill instructor squads, only military academy students. But your area of activity is not the whole planet, only within a thousand kilometers around the place where you get off the ship.”
“Do not even think about going beyond this area. If you cross the line, what is waiting for you is not just self-elimination, but also a violent beating from the drill instructor team.”
“I forgot to tell you, in order to make sure you hunt inside the set area, the drill instructor team has added another one hundred thousand people. They are holding sticks and iron rods and are waiting outside your activity area for you to cross the line so they can beat you up!”