Chapter 98
Chapter 98: To keep the babies from being taken away, she starts scheming and blows up her own cover
Jiang Tea Tea was a Great Demon Stage being and had already seen all kinds of storms. Faced with Sui Xuan Chu’s suspicion and questions, her face did not change at all. She shot back with a counterquestion: “Your uncle is such an amazing Beastman. After spending a night with someone, that person could get pregnant with dragon cubs, run off with the babies, and not want him?”
Sui Xuan Chu let out a sound of surprise. He thought he had touched on some truth, his eyes shining brightly. But with Jiang Tea Tea’s counterquestion, his guess was overturned, and he agreed with her.
He said: “Roommate, what you said makes sense. Someone like my uncle, with a very high supernatural ability level, surging spiritual power, and strong physical fitness, really does have a hard time reproducing.”
He continued: “If he really spent a night with someone, the chance of that person running away is zero. After all, wherever he goes, there are guards in three layers on the left and three layers on the right. There is no way he would let a woman sleep with him and then just run off.”
Jiang Tea Tea was confused and asked: “Why are you so sure the chance of her running away is zero? What if he meets an expert?”
Sui Xuan Chu felt she had asked a stupid question, but he still kindly explained: “My Sister Tea, you don’t like my uncle because you have no common sense. You have not noticed that my uncle’s face and his body are the type that are ruggedly handsome.”
He went on: “A man who is so rich, powerful, influential, good-looking, and unbelievably strong, he doesn’t just charm women, he also charms men. If a woman really spent a night with him, how could she bear to run away? How could she not ask him to give her a proper status?”
“I already told you, my uncle is too powerful, but he has trouble reproducing. If he really slept with someone and that person ended up pregnant, even if he didn’t love her, he would still take responsibility, marry her, give her the greatest respect, and raise the youngling properly.”
In this Interstellar Era, according to the Zhen Lin Empire’s aesthetic, that old mud loach Chong Ming was quite handsome. But by the standards of the Demon Realm, besides his Dragon Clan identity, he was not that ruggedly handsome.
Jiang Tea Tea cleared her throat and asked: “What if there really was a woman who slept with your uncle, then ran away and didn’t want any status?”
Sui Xuan Chu answered without even thinking: “Then she would just be playing hard to get, trying to make my uncle fall in love with her!”
[Play hard to get my foot.]
That old mud loach Chong Ming did not cherish soft fragrant beauties at all. Sleeping with her had been like taking her life. He was rough, wild, and way too strong.
Only someone whose brain was broken would ask him for status. She just had to finish her contract deal with that fake young miss, find a way back to the Demon Realm, and then take her babies back with her.
As a tree spirit bringing back a bunch of little dragon brats, she would become a legend in the Demon Realm. From then on, no matter what demon mentioned her or saw her, they would nod and bow in admiration, give her thumbs up, and praise her like crazy.
Sui Xuan Chu saw that Jiang Tea Tea did not answer. He shifted over, nudged her with his elbow, and said: “Roommate, you’ve asked me so much about my uncle maybe sleeping with someone, or someone sleeping with my uncle. Don’t tell me you really know some inside story?”
He added: “Our relationship is so good. Not to mention that we are going to be roommates for four years, you might also be my future Commander in Chief of the Three Armies. If you know something, tell me, so I can be mentally prepared.”
Jiang Tea Tea slapped the spot where he had nudged her and pulled away from him, saying: “Learn from your uncle. Males and females should keep a bit of distance.”
Sui Xuan Chu did not keep his distance. Instead, he leaned in even closer as he said: “I’m not an adult yet. What are you afraid of? You don’t like me, and I don’t like you.”
Jiang Tea Tea looked at his wild, confident, carefree face and suddenly wanted to tease him a little. She asked: “How do you know I don’t like you?”
Sui Xuan Chu’s brows drew together at once. He quickly moved away from her, reached into his invisibility space knob storage device, took out another crate of milk, and said: “You can have it all. I’ll go get more from my uncle. Is it worth wronging yourself for a mouthful of milk?”
Jiang Tea Tea blinked her dark eyes and asked: “Which of your eyes saw me wronging myself? What if I really end up liking you?”
Sui Xuan Chu pointed at both his eyes and said: “Both of my eyes can see that you don’t like me. Do you really think I’m some silly naive boy, or that my uncle didn’t teach me how to read people, and just let me out to be your roommate and team up with others casually?”
“You really have no common sense. I am the only child of the Golden Dragon Clan, the Crown Prince of the Zhen Lin Empire, the future emperor. Before I even hatched, I followed my uncle onto the battlefield. From the time I could understand things, I was given all kinds of royal household training. I may not be an adult in age, but my intelligence is already adult level, thank you.”
Jiang Tea Tea really did not understand all those royal processes, but from the sound of it, he had to study a lot of things, and it seemed very tiring.
She said: “Fine.” Then Jiang Tea Tea held out her hand to him and said: “Give me your invisibility space knob storage device too. When I go back to the Capital Planet and get the compensation from the Jiang Family, I’ll pay you back.”
Sui Xuan Chu had come to ask her how many times she had met with his uncle and what they had secretly discussed behind his back. He did not expect to lose two crates of milk and even a space knob storage device.
After Jiang Tea Tea got the invisibility space knob storage device, she downed another box of milk on the spot, then put the rest of the milk into the invisibility space knob storage device and stuffed the device into her pocket.
The two of them kept chatting about all kinds of things, taking turns complaining about Chong Ming, as if he was their common enemy.
About ten minutes later, someone knocked on Jiang Tea Tea’s door again. The knock was in a clear rhythm, two long and one short.
Jiang Tea Tea walked over, opened the door, and saw Cheng Lin Yue, who had changed into clean clothes. She asked: “Why are you here?”
Cheng Lin Yue smiled at her and started: “I came to check your bel…”
“Ahem!” Jiang Tea Tea coughed to cut her off and moved aside as she said: “Sui Xuan Chu is also here to see if I’m okay.”
Cheng Lin Yue got a huge scare and said in a hurry: “Sui Xuan Chu is here too? I was just saying, Cheng Xiao Ting was knocking at his door and no one opened it for a long time.”
Sui Xuan Chu stood up and asked: “Cheng Xiao Ting was looking for me?”
Cheng Lin Yue nodded and said: “Yes, he was looking for you.”
Sui Xuan Chu replied: “I’ll go take a look. You two talk.”
Once she saw him leave, Cheng Lin Yue shut the door. After confirming no one else was inside, she carefully asked: “Sister Tea, are you really okay? Sui Xuan Chu really isn’t the father of the babies?”
Jiang Tea Tea answered: “I’m fine. Sui Xuan Chu and I are really just roommates, teammates, and friends. Other than that, we have no other relationship.”
Cheng Lin Yue let out an “oh”, but the worry in her eyes could not be hidden. She said: “Sister Tea, there is something I still want to tell you.”
Jiang Tea Tea motioned for her to sit and said: “What is it? You can say it.”
Cheng Lin Yue sat down like an obedient kid, hands on her legs, back straight, body leaning slightly forward. The concern in her eyes was overflowing as she said: “Sister Tea, you don’t have any life common sense. I want to tell you, even within the Dragon Clan, every dragon’s supernatural ability energy fluctuation is different.”
She continued: “If a Dragon Clan youngling is forced to receive spiritual power comfort that doesn’t belong to its own dad, and is hit by the oppressive aura of another high level dragon’s spiritual power, even if it is lucky enough to be born, it will be very hard for it to awaken any supernatural ability, and it might not grow well.”
“Commander in Chief Chong Ming is a Golden Dragon, part of the Imperial Clan. He has a natural bloodline suppression over other dragons. I’m afraid that if he used his oppressive aura of spiritual power on you today, your babies may already have problems.”
“So… later on the training ground, when he uses his oppressive aura of supernatural ability to see how well we handle pressure, you absolutely must not go.”
Jiang Tea Tea was actually waiting for that old mud loach Chong Ming to comfort her babies today. Otherwise, when they went back to the Capital Planet, she would be busy with school, and he would be busy running the nation. Their chance to meet would be very small. Once a month or once every three months would already be amazing.
If he got too busy, he might just have his secretary or deputy officer send her that one bottle of dragon blood a month.
Jiang Tea Tea opened her mouth and tried to calm Cheng Lin Yue: “It’s fine. I know my own body. You don’t have to worry.”
Cheng Lin Yue was still worried and said: “But…”
Jiang Tea Tea reached out her hand and said: “Aren’t you good at feeling pulses? Take my pulse and check.”
Cheng Lin Yue immediately moved to sit next to her. One hand held Jiang Tea Tea’s hand, and the other pressed gently on her wrist. The strong, powerful pulse shocked her. She stammered: “They… they are so lively.”
Jiang Tea Tea raised her brows and said: “Yes, very lively. You don’t need to worry. I know what I’m doing.”
Cheng Lin Yue relaxed a little, but she was still puzzled. She asked: “Logically, it shouldn’t be like this. What is the reason?”
Jiang Tea Tea gave her a reason she would believe and said: “It’s the Beast God’s blessing.”
As Beastmen, whether male or female, their faith in the Beast God was even more loyal than their faith in their own parents.
Cheng Lin Yue was convinced and started to find excuses for Jiang Tea Tea by herself: “You’re right. People usually awaken their supernatural abilities at ten. You only awakened at eighteen and a half. Your body is already different from normal people, so we can’t judge your condition with normal standards.”
“On you, anything can happen. By the same logic, your babies won’t be the same as other people’s babies.”
Jiang Tea Tea suddenly had no room to use the big pile of words she had prepared to persuade her, so she simply agreed: “Right, you’re right.”
Cheng Lin Yue nodded and said: “We should still be careful. Later, if you feel uncomfortable at all, give me a look and I’ll protect you.”
“When we get back to the Capital Planet, the first thing we should do is go for a checkup, see how the little brats are doing, okay?”
Jiang Tea Tea had never thought about getting her body checked.
She was a tree. She was afraid if they really checked, they would be scared to death.
Jiang Tea Tea answered vaguely: “We’ll talk about it then. If I feel bad, I’ll go check. If I feel fine, then it’s fine.”
Cheng Lin Yue said very seriously: “No matter if you feel bad or not, you still have to go get checked. That is taking responsibility for your babies and for yourself.”
Jiang Tea Tea crooked her finger at her.
Cheng Lin Yue pricked up her ears and leaned forward.
Jiang Tea Tea spoke softly into her ear: “I awakened a plant-type supernatural ability, triple S level.”
Cheng Lin Yue’s eyes went round like copper bells. After a long moment, she finally spoke with surprise and joy: “You’re a triple S level plant-type ability user. Whether we check or not is up to you.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s lips curved into a bright smile as she said: “Later I’ll help you all comb your supernatural abilities and see if I can raise your ability levels.”
Cheng Lin Yue reacted like she had won the lottery. Her head bobbed like a pecking chick as she said: “Okay, okay, thank you, Sister Tea, thank you, Sister Tea.”
Sister Tea was a triple S level plant-type ability user. No wonder during the tournament she always used branches and sticks as her weapons. Turned out those were her innate weapons.
She really was too lucky, being able to be friends, schoolmates, and teammates with a triple S level plant-type ability user.
Ahhh, this was even more exciting, happier, and more thrilling than seeing Commander in Chief Chong Ming.
It also explained why Sister Tea had been so poor these days and still not worried at all. With her ability level, if she shouted once on the main street, countless high level ability users would line up with star credits in hand, begging her to comb their powers.
Jiang Tea Tea had spread the news on purpose that she was a triple S level plant-type spiritual power user. Her goal was to put a healer vest on herself.
Once she wore the healer vest, she could refuse anyone who wanted to check her body. She would carry the dragon cubs herself, raise them herself, and give birth to them herself.
After they were born, she would coat them in a layer of her own “color”. Then those babies would belong to her, a single demon, and no one would be able to take them away. The plan was perfect.
By the time Jiang Tea Tea came out again, Sui Xuan Chu and the other six boys all knew she had awakened a triple S level plant-type supernatural ability and spiritual power.
They were waiting for her at the door. When they saw her come out, each of them rubbed their hands together, their faces full of fawning smiles as they said: “Sister Tea, we were the ones who were blind. We thought you had awakened a speed-type ability. We never thought you awakened a plant-type ability, and it is triple S level. Later, when you have time, I’ll turn into a wolf so you can rub me.”
Another said: “What’s so good about rubbing a wolf? Sister Tea, rub me. I’m a Feline Family Beastman. Super soft, and I can lick. You can rub me however you want.”
Someone else said: “And me, Sister Tea. I only realized after the fact that when I turned into a dog and ran around at the Royal Military Imperial Academy and you rubbed me, you were actually using your spiritual power to comb me. It’s just that I have no supernatural ability, useless me.”
Another complained: “You all have fur. Brother Octopus and I don’t. Roommate, don’t play favorites. Don’t rub them and leave us out.”
Jiang Tea Tea swept her gaze over them and said: “I’ll rub all of you. After we go back to the Capital Planet, I’ll rub you.”
In the end, they were still just seventeen- and eighteen-year-old kids. Hearing her promise, all of them jumped with joy, shouting: “Thank you, Sister Tea, love you, mwah mwah.”
“Sister Tea, Sister Tea, I love you. I’m your most loyal flunky. Heart sign, heart sign, love you!”
“Sister Tea, I’ve decided. I won’t stan heartthrob idol Commander in Chief Chong Ming anymore. I’ll just focus on stanning you. I’ll be your little cutie. You must comb my supernatural ability well and comb my ability level and spiritual power up to ten S, okay?”
Deputy Officer Ai gave a small cough to remind them: “Everyone, please come this way with me to the training ground.”
Huang Da Zhuang and the others stopped their chatter at once, answered with a “okay”, and followed behind Deputy Officer Ai.
They had barely walked a few steps before they started chirping again, imagining their supernatural ability level and spiritual power rushing up to ten S, catching up to their heartthrob idol, beating their heartthrob idol, surpassing their heartthrob idol, and becoming heroes of the Empire themselves, invincible everywhere.
Jiang Tea Tea listened until her toes could dig out three acres of land. Little hatchlings were just little hatchlings. Even if you added these seven little hatchlings together, trained them another two hundred years, and sent them all up at once, they still wouldn’t be able to beat that old mud loach Chong Ming.
The training ground on the super warship was huge and wide, full of hormones.
Especially the beautiful woman standing next to that old mud loach Chong Ming. Her two long legs were set apart, her hands clasped behind her back, a high ponytail tied up. She was about 1.8 meters tall, her features bold and gorgeous. She was so beautiful, so pleasing to the eye.
Jiang Tea Tea stared at her without blinking. For a moment it was as if she saw her maternal grandmother. The big tree spirit maternal grandmother she had acknowledged had a face from the same “category” as this woman. She looked very close and familiar.
Chong Ming glanced at his capable deputy general from the corner of his eye, then opened his mouth to ask Jiang Tea Tea: “What are you looking at?”
Jiang Tea Tea’s eyes were stuck on the woman next to him. Faced with his question, she replied cheerfully: “I’m looking at the beautiful elder sister. Her supernatural ability and spiritual power are a bit blocked. She is stuck at about five and a half S and can’t go up. If I comb her, she can reach half-step six S. If she gets lucky, she might reach seven S.”
Chong Ming’s golden eyes narrowed as he asked: “You can see her spiritual power level clearly?”
Jiang Tea Tea didn’t even look at him as she answered: “Of course I can see it clearly.”
Chong Ming asked again: “If you can see hers, you can’t see mine?”
Jiang Tea Tea said crossly: “It’s not that I can’t see through you. I’m pretending. I just don’t want to deal with you.”