Qin Qi wasn't aware of the concerns coming from the adjutant, but he wasn't surprised when Ya Xiao's voice came through the door. After all, the new butler had been very clingy.
Ya Xiao's blue eyes curved when he saw the man sitting on the chair. He walked briskly on his feet to stand next to Qin Qi, his tail flicking in a small way.
Oooh, finally I can absorb the demon value.
Ya Xiao was in a very excited mood as he heard the beeping in his ears.
The meeting has ended, and they will soon arrive at the Fifth Base. Qin Qi had long since put away the information and did not continue to work, but just sat on the chair and closed his eyes to rest his mind.
Ya Xiao turned his head slightly sideways to look at Qin Qi. The other party's expression was calm, and nothing changed from usual, but Ya Xiao's intuition told him that Qin Qi's mood was not very high.
"Marshal."
The young man's voice was lowered as if he was worried about disturbing him. Qin Qi hmmed and opened his eyes to look at Ya Xiao, waiting for his next words.
Ya Xiao lowered his head and pointed to the door with the man sitting in the chair, "I'll go out for a while."
At Qin Qi's nod, the young man stepped back out.
The door creaked shut and Qin Qi was the only one left in the empty conference room, The sound of breathing in the room was faintly audible. What Ya Xiao had gone off to do, Qin Qi didn't know or care, there were more important things for him to think about than guessing what was in the minds of the people around him.
Qin Qi looked towards the pile of information that fell on the table, his black eyes were full of darkness. After a long time, he closed his eyes, and his eyebrows were tightly wrinkled because of what he was concerned about.
Three minutes later, the sound of knocking on the door resumed. When Ya Xiao's voice came again, Qin Qi's eyes opened, "Enter."
The dark-haired young man walked straight to the marshal's side.
"Marshal, here's this for you."
The white fingers opened, and a familiar red eye met Qin Qi's eyes as if he were dead. Ya Xiao curved his eyes and shoved this soft sphere directly to the marshal.
The mall product was buy one get one free. He had his own left eye and gave his right eye to the villain who was not too happy to play at the time, but fortunately, he saw the eyeball on the master bedroom cabinet before he left and deliberately helped the marshal bring it when he packed his luggage.
Qin Qi clutched the eyeball and squeezed it, "This was what you went to fetch just now?"
Ya Xiao nodded. It was the butler's responsibility to address his employer's moods. While he didn't know why Qin Qi's expression was so gloomy, he did know that the very discerning villain had always kinda liked the stress-relieving eyeball he'd given him.
"The marshal can squeeze it if he's in a bad mood."
Ya Xiao's blue eyes smiled pleasantly for a few moments.
The villain seemed to be in a low mood a lot.
Ya Xiao was quite emotional inside. In the future, he would remember to remind Qin Qi to keep a stress-relieving toy with him at all times.
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"Hmm."
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"Yes, Emily also sent a message alert that there are still ten minutes to go before we reach our destination."
Arriving at the Fifth Base, Ya Xiao was a little bit bitter, not knowing if he could still keep following the villain around smoothly.
Seeing Qin Qi put the toy on the table and stand up, Ya Xiao temporarily suppressed his inner thoughts. He picked up Qin Qi's black coat that was previously resting on the chair and helped the other party put it on, earnestly fulfilling the duties of a butler.
Qin Qi hadn't let the butler help him button up before and had planned to refuse at first, but the next day they met, Ya Xiao helped him button it up once, and then there wasn't much rejection. By now, Qin Qi had gotten completely used to it.
He looked down at the hair swirls on top of Ya Xiao's head. The slightly curled and fluffy hair looked like a cat's soft fur and looked good to the touch. Qin Qi glanced at it, withdrew his eyes, and spoke out, "Are all the matters related to the border meeting clear?"
"Clear."
After Ya Xiao fastened the buttons, he took a slight step back and observed the villain's clothes. He was satisfied in his mind and a wide smile appeared on his face, "Adjutant Mist had already told me about it in advance."
The border meeting, referring to the seven-day meeting held jointly by the four bases located at the border, was essentially to prepare motions for the spring meeting in two months.
"It's not just the marshal who will be attending the meeting. As a butler, I will also be attending another meeting organized by the border butlers."
Qin Qi looked at the young man with arched eyebrows and hmmed in a low voice, "Those butler-organized meetings are not important, so if you don't like it at that time, it's fine if you don't attend."
The group of people who could participate in the butler's meeting were not good people. With his own butler's simple character, Qin Qi felt that he might come back crying.
"Okay."
Ya Xiao nodded seriously. He didn't have much of an insistence on this. It didn't matter if he participated in the butler's meeting or not.
Taking out the assassin who intended to assassinate the villain and protecting the villain was his top priority on this visit to the Fifth Base.
Ya Xiao's tail was tense, and his purpose was very clear.
No one could hinder him from absorbing demon values!
The airship slowly landed at the borderline of the Fifth Base. Just like the Sixth Base, aircraft were likewise not allowed inside the Fifth Base. To enter the interior, they needed to change their means of transportation.
A group of men and women wearing black military uniforms followed behind Qin Qi in a neat and orderly pace. Their ruthless temperament was as sharp as a sheathed sword as if they were wolves following their master, with a strict organizational discipline, loyal and indifferent.
When Grange, the head of Fifth Base's information department, came over with his staff, his heart thumped at the sight.
The seven-day border meeting was a big deal.
The information department needed to interview the marshal of each border base, and he was unfortunately assigned to the Sixth Base.
Facing the Sixth Base's soldiers with such a strong aura, Grange was so nervous that he was about to die, okay? He covered his heart and hesitantly didn't dare to move forward. There was no way, which one in journalism hadn't heard of the Sixth Base rumors? Of course, he would be scared as an ordinary person to interview that kind of character.
Although they were all heroes, it was one thing to admire them and it was another to be too afraid to approach them.
"Grange, what's wrong with you?"
Grange took a deep breath and held on to his superior's dignity, revealing an expression that looked like he was crying, "Nothing, Xiao Chen, I'll go and say hello to the Sixth Base's adjutant first."
Xiao Chen, who was conversing with Grange, was a quiet and sensible-looking woman. She had a short shoulder-length haircut, and a slender figure, and spoke gently and thoughtfully.
"I'll follow you. I'll be the main interviewer for the border meeting in seven days, it seems polite to say hello to them in advance."
Someone took the initiative to be his companion so, of course, he couldn't possibly refuse. Grange was overjoyed and hastily nodded his head, "Fine, it's good that you can follow me. We'll go now."
Saying that, he pulled Xiao Chen and ran warily towards the vicinity of the Sixth Base forces that were already standing, and soon found Adjutant Mist.
The content of tomorrow's interview had already been discussed by both sides on the optical brain before. This time, they met only to finalize it again to avoid any mistakes.
Xiao Chen had been standing next to the person in charge, Grange, with a gentle smile on her white face, passing topics to Grange from time to time, so that the conversation between her superior and the Sixth Base adjutant could proceed smoothly.
It was also at this time that she unintentionally realized that there was a black-haired young man in the Sixth Base who had been standing not too far away and staring at her.
The young man was dressed in an exquisite black tuxedo with three ear bone studs adorning his ears, his blue eyes were shining with pure light and his skin was soft and fair. When their eyes collided, the young man gave her a bright smile, which was not offensive in any way, and which made people feel good about him.
"Are you guys coming to interview the marshal tomorrow?"
Ya Xiao asked, lifting his foot and coming forward in a light tone of voice.
Xiao Chen nodded, her amber-colored eyes carrying a gentle smile, "Yes, my superior Grange will be in charge of the interview tomorrow. I'm Xiao Chen, the reporter in charge of the interview after the meeting. Are you Marshal Qin's new butler?"
Ya Xiao didn't deny it and directly answered. After briefly introducing himself, he took the initiative to chat with Xiao Chen for a few moments.
During this time, Xiao Chen patiently answered one by one, with a smile on her gentle face and a soft, slow tone that easily gained the favor of others.
After chatting for a few moments, the two added each other as optical brain friends. Only when Mist and Grange finally negotiated a specific time to leave, did Ya Xiao and Xiao Chen, who had been chatting happily, end their conversation.
[Host, is she?]
As Ya Xiao lifted his feet to walk back to Qin Qi's side, the system carefully asked.
[Hm, almost the same.]
Ya Xiao replied in his heart.
The plot's perspectives all centered around the protagonist group and their party. The assassination at the border base wasn't detailed, and the protagonist, Wei Shi, and his younger brother, Qin Chen, only knew the outcome of what happened.
The only information about the assassin was that when the protagonist Wei Shi saw the newspaper, he realized that the woman lying in a pool of blood was none other than his and Qin Chen's friend who had been with them as children in the slums of the Seventh Base.
The main protagonist group, on the one hand, couldn't believe that their friend would assassinate the villain for no reason, while on the other hand, they were heartbroken by the tragic death of their friend, and their hatred for the villain was deepening.
Ya Xiao also targeted the other party when he just overheard the woman's name.
The protagonist's friend in the original article. The name was Xiao Chen, and according to Wei Shi's description, the other party happened to have short hair and also dreamed of becoming a base reporter since she was a child.
Moreover, if one wanted to assassinate the villain in the Fifth Base, the press conference was obviously a very good time to do so. This reporter Xiao Chen could very well be one of the assassins.
[Okay, host, I'll go spy on her now!]
[Fourth Uncle is working hard!]
Ya Xiao dutifully thanked Fourth Uncle in his heart. Then, he stood by the villain's side, accompanying the other as they waited for the hovercar to pull out of the garage.
"Finished chatting?"
Qin Qi glanced at Ya Xiao.
From such a long distance away, he saw Ya Xiao take the initiative to chat with a female in a short skirt and even added her as a friend.
"Right."
Ya Xiao nodded his head up and down, his blue eyes shining brightly, "I asked her for a lot of notes for the interview. The marshal can take a look at it later. When the news comes out, the marshal will definitely be the brightest one amongst the many base marshals!"
This was all important information that Ya Xiao had deliberately approached the assassin to extract!
Qin Qi was silent for a moment. He hadn't thought that Ya Xiao had talked to that female for such a long time just because of this.
"Got it."
It wasn't the first time he'd been interviewed, but Qin Qi didn't feel the need to refuse Ya Xiao's kind offer.
Ya Xiao's eyebrows were curved.
The questions he asked were super useful. He would summarize them for the marshal when he got back in a while!
It was at this time that Soren and Mist had already finished handling things and drove their hovercar out of the garage. Qin Qi and Ya Xiao were sitting in the back row as usual.
Qin Qi looked out the window as if contemplating something, unconsciously rubbing the blood-red eyeball in his hands, making an odd sound.
Ya Xiao liked to hear this sound.
He didn't say anything. There was pleasure in his eyes as the tip of his tail bobbed up and down in time with the background sounds. He listened to the music and quietly analyzed the rest of the trip, intending to take the earliest possible time to get ahead of the assassins before they did anything.
For a while, the only sound that could be heard in the hovercar was the baring and gurgling.
Soren: ......
Mist: ......
They really didn't realize that the marshal liked this taste and that he had to bring it with him all the way to the Fifth Base for a meeting.