Ya Xiao was energetic as always. He didn't complain about Fourth Uncle's efficiency in doing things, as if it didn't matter even if Fourth Uncle didn't find out anything, Ya Xiao would always cover for Fourth Uncle.
The system was touched for a while. It held up its glasses, masked its emotions, and talked about its speculations:
[The first day of the border meeting has just ended. Xiao Chen, as a newspaper reporter, is responsible for interviewing the feelings of the people of the base. After the interview, instead of going home, she immediately went to the bar not far from the butler meeting hall].
[Inside the bar, Xiao Chen didn't do anything strange other than order two drinks. She has now left the bar to go home.]
[In fact, at the end of a long day of work, it would make sense for Xiao Chen to go to a bar to relax and rest.]
Therefore, the system was hesitant to determine if there was anything strange about the bar, but Xiao Chen's behavior of going to the bar in such a hurry and ordering two drinks when she was clearly alone was a bit suspicious.
Ya Xiao appeared to be admiring the scenery outside the window, but inwardly pondered over the words of Fourth Uncle. After a few seconds, he made a decision: [Fourth Uncle, I will go to the bar tonight to investigate. Please continue to monitor Xiao Chen for me.]
[Yes, host!]
The system nodded, instructing the host to pay attention to safety, and then cut off the connection with the host.
Emily in the driver's seat noticed that Ya Xiao was looking out of the car window without saying anything. She thought that the other party was feeling that she was driving too fast but was too embarrassed to say anything.
If it was any other butler, Emily wouldn't have cared, but the thin butler beside her wasn't the same as those wimps. Remembering Ya Xiao's usual bright smile towards her, Emily hesitated and slowed down the car without any trace.
The dark-haired butler next to her sensed something and turned his head, asking curiously, "Emily, is the hovercar broken?"
The puzzled eyes still carried a slight loss.
Obviously not disliking the speed just now.
Emily was silent for a moment, and with a turn of her hand, the hovercar suddenly rushed out like a silver lightning bolt.
"So it's not broken."
Satisfied, Ya Xiao turned his head and continued to enjoy the receding scenery outside the car's window.
After hearing this, Emily's good feelings towards the butler continued to climb. If the other party said so, she didn't have to worry about anything anymore. She stepped down, directly raising the speed to the highest speed limit on this road.
On the way, Emily drove like the wind, enjoying the thrill of speed. Sitting beside her, Ya Xiao was also extremely happy. The twenty-minute journey was squeezed into just ten minutes.
After returning to the temporary residence, Ya Xiao let Emily go back to rest. He smiled and said, "I just sent a message to the marshal, he will be back soon, I'll wait for him here."
Emily didn't refuse. The whole building was filled with people from the Sixth Base. It was impossible for Ya Xiao to have an accident.
On the other side, the four marshals who had finished their meeting were sitting in the same hovercar.
They didn't have a good relationship, but as marshals of the border bases, even if they were no longer in harmony, all four of them had to stand in the same front in front of the camera, maintaining a superficial friendship.
Of course, in private, they wouldn't care about anything else.
Wenbor's character was proud and arrogant, extremely concerned about face. Before, because his side was not in the right, he had to agree to Qin Qi's search of his Fourth Base, which made him suffocated, and his heart was filled with displeasure and resentment.
Such emotions still could not be dissipated after the meeting ended. Wenbor held his chin high, looking at everything with annoyance, his eyes staring unhappily at Qin Qi across the room.
The man's eyes were closed, his back upright as he leaned against the back of his chair. He closed his eyes, refusing any conversation, without a single break in his entire body.
Wenbor searched for a long time but couldn't find a place to attack. He reluctantly shifted his focus to his companion, Wista, who was sitting next to the man and had a very good relationship with him.
Unlike the meticulous Qin Qi, Wista, as the marshal of the Fifth Base, could be said to be full of flaws from head to toe. Not only did he hum a song with his legs crossed, but he also folded pink origami cranes in his hand like a young girl's heart.
Wenbor saw the situation with contempt in his eyes and sneered:
"Marshal Wista, who are you planning to propose to this time?"
Wista's hands remained unchanged, his sunglasses-clad face not even lifting as he casually said, "My beautiful, beautiful sweetheart, of course."
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Qin Qi, who was sitting next to him, also opened his eyes.
Marshal Lu Chuanxi of the Eighth Base, who was sitting next to Wenbor, was originally studying the new type of weapon information on his optical brain.
Hearing these words, he glanced at Wenbor, who was seeking death, and moved his butt outward, not wanting to be caught up in this storm in the slightest.
Sure enough, the next second, Wista's mocking voice rang out, "It's normal that you don't understand, our adult world is impossible for you, a brat who has to go home and look for his dad when he loses a bet, to comprehend."
"Who's looking for dad?!"
Wenbor's face reddened upon hearing this, his eyes filled with flames of anger. His left hand which was replaced with a mechanical arm opened, and with a click, a coin-sized mechanical black hole appeared in his palm, aiming at Wista, holding back his anger, "Are you looking for death?!"
Wista grunted lightly, not even half-afraid, as he delicately placed his folded paper cranes into the bag beside him, and a piercing grin spread across his face:
"Then you're going to have to kill me in one shot."
"If I don't die, I would definitely bleed. And if my sunglasses happened to be broken by you, the out-of-control me would not show any mercy."
Wista was a taboo person numbered BFE07. Once he sees human blood, he will lose control. He wears sunglasses at all times to avoid losing control.
Provoked like this, Wenbor's anger surged, wishing he could just kill the other party, but reason kept reminding him not to do so. Seeing the other party's confident smile, Wenbor could only retract his arm resentfully.
"I'm not afraid of you. If we weren't in a hovercar, I would definitely do it directly."
Seeing this, Wista curled his lips and wanted to say something, but then he heard a cold voice with a slight warning coming from the side:
"Wista."
"Okay, okay, I know."
Wista understood that Qin Qi was hinting for him not to sour their relationship. He nodded absentmindedly and took out a piece of pink paper from his pocket to continue folding his paper cranes.
After the farce just now, the hovercar was quiet for a long time until it stopped and Qin Qi stepped out of it.
The other marshals did not get out of the car, their residence was not in the same place as the Sixth Base.
Just as the hovercar was about to start, the Fourth Base Marshal Wenbor turned his head and saw through the car window that a black-haired young man with a delicate face jogged to Qin Qi's side. The two of them stood in one place and spoke about something, and then walked into the building together.
The atmosphere looked quite cordial.
"Was that Qin Qi's butler?"
Wenbor looked towards Wista with arrogance in his face.
Just a short while ago, he had argued with Wista, but now, when asking the question, his attitude remained as if it were a matter of course as if the other party must answer him.
Wista was most displeased with Wenbor for this.
The Fourth Base from top to bottom was really quite a style, full of arrogance. However, thinking about having to maintain surface relations in front of the camera tomorrow, Wista didn't argue back, just nodded while folding paper.
"That butler looks quite young."
Wenbor retracted his gaze. It could be an unfortunate thing that a butler that scrawny had to serve Qin Qi.
However, it was an honor and duty for ordinary people to serve the taboo people. They should be happy, even if the person they were serving was Qin Qi.
Across from him, Wista looked up to see the ever-present condescension in Wenbor's frown. He tsked, continuing to cross his legs and fold his paper cranes with his head down, intending to hurry up by dropping this debt collector off at his place.
Tomorrow, he'd take an extra car, so he wouldn't have to sit with Wenbor again.
Meanwhile, Ya Xiao finally waited for Qin Qi who came back from the meeting and joyfully followed the other party's side to go upstairs together.
"What happened with the butler meeting?"
While the two were on the elevator, Qin Qi lowered his head to look at the dark-haired young man who seemed to be in a good mood.
"It was interesting."
Ya Xiao curled his eyes, "The butlers have great personalities."
"Is that so?"
Qin Qi's eyes swept over Ya Xiao's smiling blue eyes. It really didn't seem like he was forcing it.
Among his first three butlers, only two of them had participated in the butler meeting to run for the butler representative, but both of them came back emotionally exhausted and disheveled every day. Ya Xiao was the opposite of them.
"As long as you like it."
Qin Qi would not force the butler to run for the position of butler representative. As long as the other party did not intend to resign before the spring meeting, he would not attach unnecessary requirements.
So far, Ya Xiao was doing everything perfectly.
The smile in Ya Xiao's eyes deepened once he remembered the scene at the meeting where the two bases were bickering as if they were going to fight next. He nodded seriously and looked up in curiosity, "Marshal, did everything go well at the border meeting?"
Qin Qi hmmed, his expression calm.
The mood seemed normal, things should still be considered smooth. Ya Xiao thought about it, and after the other party's consent, he held the sensor on Qin Qi's wrist to record the other party's current TH value.
In the low part of the high-risk zone, the curve was stable.
This represented that the marshal was temporarily in a stable state in all aspects, and only then did Ya Xiao completely relax his heart.
Qin Qi's line of sight paused for a moment on Ya Xiao's blue eyes with pure delight before he moved away as if he didn't mean to, lifting his hand to turn the sensor he wore on his wrist, moving it into position.
The elevator opened its doors.
The two entered the room together. Ya Xiao was still planning in his mind to head to the bar to check it out.
But there was no hurry in this matter, it could only be carried out in the evening. For now, he would do what he had to do to fulfill his duties as a butler and absorb the demon value along the way.
"Marshal, is there anything you would like to enjoy for dinner?"
Ya Xiao added a cup of coffee to Qin Qi and inquired.
"Feel free."
Qin Qi kneaded the eyeball in his hand, seemingly a bit bored, killing time.
There was a restaurant in the building. Ya Xiao knew that if Qin Qi said to be free, then he was really free. He only needed to choose food that didn't step on the other party's thunderpoints.
After finishing his meal, Ya Xiao continued to stay by Qin Qi's side for two or three hours, waiting until nine o'clock when the other party was planning to go to bed, before he obediently proposed to leave.
"I'll see you tomorrow, Marshal."
Ya Xiao's blue eyes curved.
"See you tomorrow."
Qin Qi watched his back as he left. In fact, the butler was always quiet when he was in the room, rarely disturbing him, but perhaps because the other party was always happy, his presence was never low.
It couldn't help but give the feeling that he wasn't alone.
Qin Qi's eyes sank slightly, but before he could say anything, the butler who was about to push the door open and go out just now turned around again, his expression hesitant as he looked at Qin Qi:
"Marshal?"
Qin Qi raised his eyes and looked over.
"Do you want to listen to a bedtime story or a lullaby today?" Ya Xiao's eyes were sincere: "I can serve you anytime."
He had only accumulated four demon values for the entire day today, and Ya Xiao felt that he should earn some more.
Qin Qi was silent for a moment.
"No, no need."
"Okay."
Ya Xiao was a little sad, but after all, he still had a task to do next so he would not dwell on it with the marshal. When he returned to his room, he unlocked the door and bought the Great Demon Experience Voucher directly from the system mall, as planned.
His blue eyes closed sensing the fluctuations around him. At this time, the villain has already fallen asleep. Although the eight floors of the entire building where his subordinates lived were still bustling, they wouldn't come looking for him at this time unless there were special circumstances.
Now was a good opportunity to leave.
Ya Xiao thought and directly tapped on the system panel.
[Ding, the 'Great Demon Experience Voucher' has been successfully used x1]
Light clusters coalesced in the room, and flickering points of light lingered around the young man. A few moments later, the light clusters gradually dissipated, and the boy standing in place disappeared to be replaced by a fair-skinned youth.
The young man with the scorpion braid hanging behind his waist slowly opened his eyes. Fine light and shadow were surging in his blue eyes, revealing a quiet and mysterious beauty.
Ya Xiao glanced down at his slender fingers, then made a special trip to the restroom to make sure that he had put his tail and wings away before nodding reassuringly.
The place he was heading to this time was a bar. Since there were too many ordinary people coming and going, he definitely couldn't reveal his tail and wings as he wished if he had to covertly investigate, which was a bit uncomfortable, but barely tolerable.
Ya Xiao changed into convenient clothes for action. He turned around and directly pushed open the window. His feet stepped on the window sill, and he leaped down, the sound of the wind lingering in his ears. At the moment he was about to land on the ground, he slightly pointed his toes and leaped onto the tree branch as if he were a dexterous cat.
According to what Fourth Uncle said, the bar was in the vicinity of the butler meeting hall. Ya Xiao pulled up the map. His body operated his magic power and disappeared from the spot in the blink of an eye.
The demon's teleportation was far faster than the hovercar. Almost just in the blink of an eye, Ya Xiao had already appeared in front of the bar.
The Fifth Base was famous for its freedom, unlike the Sixth Base which was known only for its well-equipped infrastructure. Here, entertainment and leisure venues were plentiful, and the bar in front of him was the most famous one in the Fifth Base. Just standing at the entrance, one could hear the booming music and feel the lively atmosphere inside.
His eyes curved, and he raised his steps to walk in.
The bar was dimly lit, many of them were members of the Fifth Base wearing sky-blue uniforms, both men and women, laughing with curses mixed in, while the other part were ordinary people within the Fifth Base, who weren't the least bit afraid that the taboo might hurt them, joking and laughing with them.
Ya Xiao's appearance was so good-looking that it should have gotten a lot of attention in this lively and noisy bar, but the people around him acted as if they couldn't see him, and didn't react at all.
The dark-haired young man's blue eyes curved slightly as he breezed through the crowd. Hearing something, the tips of his ears twitched and he paused slightly, looking sideways at the employee lounge behind the bar.
To be precise, it should be the entrance to the basement within the lounge.
Inside the basement of the bar, a middle-aged man dressed in bartender's clothes was talking to his companion across the room.
"I'm so sick of this!"
The middle-aged man had red eyes, "When the hell can we act? Qin Qi is in that building. As long as I detonate the bomb now, I can die with him right? Why are you stopping me?"
The man's questioning voice was hoarse and dry. He seemed to have been dissuaded by the person on the opposite side, but he still choked unwillingly, "I'm not afraid of death. It's fine even if I go alone. Anyway, my wife and child are all dead, there's nothing left to hold on to now. To be able to avenge their deaths at the end, it's worth it."
"The central communicator is with me. As long as I give the command to engage immediately, you can't stop me either."
With that said, Eld whispered a few times with a nervous laugh, then cut off the optical brain.
His woman, his child.
Eld took out his pocket watch and looked at the photo in the compartment. His mind was in a bit of a trance. The memory of the woman holding his child standing in the sunflower bushes and waving her hand for him to take a picture of her was still fresh in his mind. In the blink of an eye, he was the only one left.
Eld's eyes were sore, his throat rolled up and down. He was about to get up when he suddenly noticed a tap on his shoulder. Eld's body instantly stiffened and when he turned his head in panic, a young dark-haired man with a scorpion braid nodded politely at him, his tone tinged with a bit of curiosity:
"Can you tell me what the central communicator you mentioned is?"