I Eat My Own Jealousy chapter 17

Chapter 17: Stirring up Trouble [Interstellar]

The tone was clearly provocative. Jian Ning looked up at them, suppressing his anger, and asked, “Is there something you need?”

Before any of the boys could respond, Teacher Sith turned back and said by the door, “Jian Ning, come with me to get your textbook.”

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Zong Ye bid farewell to the dean as they both came out of the library. Not far from downstairs, they noticed several scattered books on the ground, and Jian Ning was crouched down picking them up.

“What happened?” Zong Ye asked the assistant to the dean, who had escorted them.

The assistant looked up at the students leaning over the railing upstairs, enjoying the scene, and sighed, “They are bullying the new student. Most of those in Class B and above are either aristocrats or come from privileged families, and they aren’t very friendly to commoners.”

Zong Ye frowned and glanced upstairs, where he saw one of the boys opening a bottle of something and pouring it onto Jian Ning, who was unaware of what was happening.

His fingers quickly moved to a button on his wrist, and a blocking screen unfolded above Jian Ning’s head. With a loud “whoosh,” the dark-brown liquid splashed beside him.

Jian Ning heard the sound, glanced around first, and then looked up. The blocking screen had already retracted, and he was now facing the astonished expressions of his classmates upstairs.

Behind him came the steady sound of footsteps, and he turned around to see a long, powerful hand picking up his textbook and handing it to him.

Jian Ning took it and looked at the person, blinking his eyelashes and pursing his lips. It was Zong Ye.

Zong Ye coldly surveyed the students upstairs, and many of them quickly retracted their heads, frightened. The boy who had poured the liquid down before had turned pale, clutching the bottle in his hand, visibly trembling.

“Is this how your prestigious academy educates its students?” Zong Ye turned his gaze back and looked at the assistant who had come with him, his expression emotionless.

“I will make sure the teachers punish them severely,” the assistant hurriedly said. He also felt that these unruly kids needed to be disciplined.

“Go back to class,” Zong Ye gently patted Jian Ning’s shoulder. Jian Ning hugged his textbook and turned to enter the building.

On the hover car heading back to the military base, Zong Ye rested his fingers on the chair, lost in thought. From the interrogation of the kidnappers last time, he learned that there were people in the black market researching a method to enhance mental abilities using energy stones. Although the success rate was reportedly low, it was still ahead of the Academy of Sciences. That’s why those people repeatedly tried to steal energy stones.

Thinking about this, and considering that at this critical moment, the boy named Jian Ning suddenly gained stronger psychic abilities, Zong Ye became concerned. He ordered his adjutant, “Go and investigate this Jian Ning.”

“Yes, Marshal,” the adjutant responded promptly.

After finishing his classes and returning to his dorm, Jian Ning found that Terry had already come back and was playing with Tuantuan on the sofa. Seeing him return, Terry walked up and asked, “Ning, I heard you were bullied by the new classmates?”

Jian Ning paused while changing his shoes. “You knew so quickly?”

Terry grinned, “Not just that, I also know that the Marshal happened to be there and took care of those arrogant guys. The dean will punish those who look down on others.”

Jian Ning was amazed. The news spread so fast; he wondered if the whole academy knew about it.

“What should we do now?” Terry smiled worriedly, furrowing his brows. “Shelley and the others will know about this and might cause trouble for you again.”

Thinking about Shelley’s previous actions, Jian Ning made an unhappy face and said, “There’s no use worrying. I’ll go make dinner.”

The dean severely punished the new classmates, and when Jian Ning returned to class, although their gazes were still unfriendly, they no longer dared to provoke him.

Jian Ning had no intention of making friends with his new classmates. Besides attending classes, he only had one thing on his mind – his mental abilities.

His mental abilities had suddenly become stronger, and after thinking about it, he attributed it to the energy stone he found at the hotel. That type of energy stone was likely similar to the energy cores in the monsters’ brains from his previous life on Earth. After absorbing it, it could replenish and restore mental abilities. Unfortunately, the energy stone he found at the hotel was too small, and after absorbing it, only a portion of his abilities was restored.

Based on what happened at the hotel and when he was kidnapped after leaving the plantation, it seemed that this type of energy stone was quite precious and not easily accessible to ordinary people. This was troublesome. He wanted to recover his abilities quickly so he could put those arrogant nobles in the academy in their place.

Back at the headquarters, Zong Ye had just come out of the virtual combat room, removed his helmet, and his adjutant approached him quietly, saying, “Marshal, I’ve found information on that Jian Ning.”

Zong Ye returned to his office, and the adjutant closed the door before handing over a holographic computer. “According to the data, he came from Blue Star, his parents are deceased, and he grew up in an orphanage.”

Zong Ye’s eyebrows twitched. “Blue Star?”

The adjutant confirmed, “Yes, Blue Star. I found it a bit coincidental, so I delved deeper and discovered that all the information about this young man was forged. I contacted Blue Star, and they confirmed that there was no orphanage with a boy named Jian Ning as indicated in the data.”

“If it’s forged, how did he enter Saint’s Academy?” Zong Ye’s face darkened. Before admission, Saint’s Academy thoroughly verified students’ family backgrounds; there was no reason not to catch this discrepancy.

“He didn’t enter Saint’s Academy through the normal process; he was admitted temporarily with the introduction of Professor Lin Yang. I checked Lin Yang’s schedule, and he arrived on Blue Star over four months ago after leaving Saint’s Academy,” the adjutant explained. 

“Professor Lin Yang used to work at the Royal Plantation before joining Saint’s Academy, and he has a high reputation. With his introduction letter, Saint’s Academy wouldn’t have scrutinized the student’s data.”

The adjutant continued, “While investigating Jian Ning, I found that the family of Blue Star’s stationed commanding officer died, supposedly killed by a young man named Fang Ning. The Blue Star military searched for him for a month but couldn’t find him; he seemed to have disappeared.”

“Fang Ning…” Zong Ye’s brow furrowed tightly, and something clicked in his mind. “Could it be that he and Jian Ning are the same person?”

“I suspect so. Before the incident, Fang Ning’s house was next to Professor Lin Yang’s, and after the tragedy, his house caught fire and burned to ashes. The body of the stationed commanding officer’s family member was found inside the burnt house,” the adjutant nodded, reaching for Fang Ning’s data on the holographic computer. “Take a look at Fang Ning’s photo; he’s the same young man from the hotel on Snow Star.”

No wonder he felt a sense of familiarity. The eyes of these two young men were equally beautiful. Jian Ning killed someone on Blue Star, altered his appearance using some tool, forged his identity, and then left Blue Star. With Professor Lin Yang’s introduction letter, he entered Saint’s Academy.

It was hard to believe that such a well-behaved and handsome young man would dare to commit murder.

After glancing at the photo, Zong Ye immediately closed the holographic computer. The assistant asked in confusion, “Marshal, what’s wrong?”

“Nothing,” Zong Ye’s face didn’t look too good. After seeing him at the hotel, that night, the person inside him was barely contained, trying to come out. If he looked at the photo any longer, it would likely happen again tonight.

He never thought that Jian Ning would turn out to be that young man. No wonder his attitude towards him changed drastically after the incident at the hotel.

“Marshal,” the adjutant remembered the most important matter, “Jian Ning’s mental ability was only at D-level when he came of age, then it rose to C-level when he entered the academy, and now it’s at B-level. Although it’s normal for female psychic abilities to fluctuate around adulthood, the Empire’s history has never recorded frequent and continuous increases in psychic ability like this.”

“Indeed unusual. Such fluctuations can only be achieved with the energy stones found on Ryan’s Planet,” Zong Ye’s slender fingers tapped on the desk as he inquired, “Did you investigate his family background?”

“Yes, it’s an ordinary civilian family. His mother passed away early, and his father remarried, having another son. The younger brother recently showed C-level mental ability before he left home and started living alone,” the adjutant replied.

“Entering Saint’s Academy requires a hefty tuition fee. He must have been forced out; he’s a pitiful child,” the adjutant couldn’t help but sigh.

Zong Ye lowered his gaze, hiding his emotions, and asked, “What about the person he killed?”

“I looked into that as well,” the adjutant continued, “The man’s name was Weiss, a military officer in the Blue Star military. He belonged to the Layton family, and his sister was the wife of the stationed commanding officer on Blue Star. With his brother-in-law’s influence, being in a remote location, Weiss acted arrogantly on Blue Star. After marrying his wife, he kept several females outside the marriage. Jian Ning probably killed him in self-defense due to harassment.”

With a striking appearance like the young man’s and living alone outside, it was challenging not to attract others’ attention.

“The Empire’s law states that each person can only have one legal partner, but he ignored the law thanks to his connections,” Zong Ye’s expression darkened as he ordered, “Have the military investigate thoroughly into the Layton family and the stationed commanding officer on Blue Star. Also, check if they have any connections with the energy stones on Ryan’s Planet.”

Recently, there have been reports of stolen energy stones from the mining operations on Ryan’s Planet, and he suspected there might be internal collaborators dealing with the black market.

“Yes, Marshal,” the adjutant replied.

“Now that we know Jian Ning is the young man from the hotel, what are your plans?” the adjutant paused and asked.

Jian Ning obviously knew the Marshal and was aware of the incident on Blue Star. When they were at the hotel before, Jian Ning’s communicator was disposed of, and despite searching with many people in crowded places like the space station, they never found him. As it turned out, the person had been right under their noses all this time.

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