The border meeting will officially begin tomorrow, and according to regulations, they now need to go to the military headquarters of the Fifth Base to register.
Yaxiao tilted his head slightly and looked out the window.
As both are border bases, the infrastructure of the two bases is not much different. Silver-shelled scavenger robots are squatting in front of charging poles sporadically. Once a taboo person gets out of control, they will quickly initiate a rescue and protect the masses.
The taboo keepers in navy blue uniforms came and went, and when they met ordinary people passing by, they would greet them warmly. The people were not afraid that the taboo keepers would suddenly lose control, and they all smiled, creating a harmonious and friendly relationship.
This is different from the Sixth Base. In the Sixth Base, ordinary people and taboo people are like two parallel lines that do not intersect, and neither side will take the initiative to talk.
Obviously, this represents the different styles of doing things of the two base leaders.
Qin Qi attaches great importance to rules and has a tough style. In order to protect the people, he will deliberately keep those who violate the taboo away from the masses.
The fifth base's marshal, Westar, cares more about the happiness of the people in the base. He doesn't have so many rules. Laxity and freedom are Westar's usual style of governing the base.
These are two leaders with very different styles.
Logically speaking, they should dislike each other, but Yaxiao, who knows the plot, knows that the relationship between the two is very good.
The hovercraft stopped at the headquarters of the fifth base.
Yaxiao followed Qin Qi to the top floor. If it was normal outside, then the interior of the Fifth Base Headquarters building completely exposed the fact that the marshal and Qin Qi had completely different styles of doing things.
Turning the corner, they walked into an office with the door wide open, and saw several officers sitting on the floor playing cards in a carefree manner. Beer bottles were scattered all over the floor, and the scene was chaotic. Some officers had a bunch of white paper strips stuck on their faces. It was obvious that they were not as good as others in playing poker and had lost badly.
"Get lost, I will definitely win this time!"
"Okay, let's make a deal. If you lose this time, you have to go downstairs and buy some wine later!"
"Okay, okay, I don't believe it!"
Laughter and noise mixed together. The serious office was like a chess and card room, chaotic and without any rules. It was the first time that Yaxiao saw such a scene. His tail hidden in his trouser leg clapped a few times with interest.
"Is this the norm in the Fifth Foundation?"
Yaxiao whispered to Mist who was standing next to him.
Mist saw the curiosity in Yaxiao's eyes and nodded helplessly, "Marshal Wista's officers are indeed more free and easy."
Qin Qi, who was standing at the front, frowned slightly. For a marshal who attached great importance to rules, the scene before him was simply dancing in his minefield.
At the same time, the officers who were scrambling to deal the cards also noticed that there was someone at the door of the office. They were originally wondering which idiot was standing at the door as a door god and didn't come in for such a long time, but when they looked over, they were instantly scared.
Fuck, why is Marshal Qin here
Didn't Marshal Wista say that Marshal Qin would come tomorrow?! The officers present felt like crying but couldn't even cry, but they subconsciously stood up and stood at attention. Their carefree temperament disappeared instantly, and their expressions became serious and earnest.
The officers standing at the innermost part quietly kicked the wine bottles under the desk and tried to use their bodies to block the scattered playing cards on the small table. The level of fear they felt was more exciting than killing demon bugs on the battlefield.
"Hello, Marshal Qin!"
The office head, Job, stepped forward. With his upright eyes and burly figure, he looked like a battle-hardened officer who was trustworthy, provided one ignored his face that was covered with white paper.
Qin Qi hummed, and glanced at the "evidence" hidden behind the officers, and said calmly: "The participants should go downstairs to receive their punishment."
"yes!"
The officers present responded quickly.
"Where's Wista?"
The person in charge, Job, sold his own marshal without hesitation: "Marshal Wistar is next door."
"Um."
Qin Qi nodded, then glanced at Mist.
"Marshal, I will see to their punishment."
Mist accepted the order with a smile. The officers who were playing cards were shocked and almost couldn't control their expressions and wailed.
"Let's go."
Qin Qi withdrew his gaze and walked to the next room.
Yaxiao knew that these two words were spoken to him. His eyes were filled with joy and he followed briskly.
The Fifth Base is really interesting.
Yaxiao looked at Qin Qi's back and curled his eyes. According to his understanding of the villain, the other party must be in a bad mood when he saw the officers gathering together to play.
If this incident happened in the Sixth Base, Qin Qi would definitely not "handle it with care" as he did just now.
There must be many things in the Fifth Base that Qin Qi doesn't like. Thinking of this, Yaxiao felt more and more that it was the right thing to do to help Qin Qi get the decompression toys.
Qin Qi's pace was steady, each step seemed to have been measured, neither fast nor slow, but the sound seemed a little heavier than before.
The two of them stood in front of the door of the next office and knocked lightly. After receiving a response from the person inside, Qin Qi pushed the door open.
In the room, a man wearing sunglasses was sitting with his legs crossed, humming a song while writing something with his head down. There was a bunch of beautiful roses on his left hand.
Hearing someone coming in, Westa didn't even raise his head. He calmly drew a heart at the end of the letter, put away the pen and put the love letter he had just written into the roses. Only then did he have time to look up at the door.
Outside the door, Qin Qi's expression was as cold and serious as ever.
When Vesta saw the person coming, she didn't show any surprise at all. Instead, she grinned and said, "You came at a really bad time."
He tidied his hair, and carefully held the rose he bought in the morning to his chest: "I am going to confess my love to my goddess now, I will not be back today."
"Brother, wait for my good news!"
As he said this, Vesta raised his sunglasses to show off, then ran out with the flowers in his hands.
Qin Qi did not stop him, but sat on the sofa and said to Yaxiao: "You sit down too, he will be back soon."
"Okay."
Yaxiao nodded when he heard that and sat down next to him.
The office door was wide open, which showed how anxious the man was to get out. He didn't even have time to close the door.
In the plot, Westa is one of the few friends of the villain. In the eyes of the protagonists, Westa is a moody guy. He knew that the villain had done many wrong things but did not stop him. Instead, he became an accomplice. After the villain died, his ending was also miserable.
During an anti-insect operation, Wistar was eaten by the Zerg and died, leaving not even his ashes.
As Yaxiao recalled these things, his tail wagged unconsciously.
From this perspective, it seems that everyone around the villain died very cleanly, including Westa, Soren, Emily, and Mist. Among them, Westa was the one who lived the longest.
"What's wrong?"
Qin Qi was pinching his red eyeballs out of boredom when he suddenly asked.
Yaxiao blinked and asked curiously: "Marshal Wista said he would not be back today, how do you know he will be back soon?"
“Because I’m used to it.”
Qin Qi's tone was calm and he did not hide anything from Yaxiao, but this answer did make Yaxiao a little confused.
But soon, Yaxiao knew why Qin Qi said that.
About two minutes later, Westa came back holding a rose, two lines of tears streaming from under her sunglasses, and her left hand still clutched the love letter she had just written.
"My proposal failed. The goddess rejected me directly." Wista lay on her back on her desk in a daze and cried bitterly: "How could she be so heartless? I have liked her for 259,200 seconds."
Qin Qi ignored it.
Yaxiao kept staring at Wista with curiosity.
"But she was so beautiful and elegant even when she rejected me." While crying, Westa laughed foolishly a few times, looking like a pathetic bootlicker.
After a while, the dog Vesta sat up, choked with sadness, and tore the love letter into pieces with tears in his eyes.
"Goodbye, my goddess. I will always be there to protect you. I wish you happiness."
After mourning deeply, the tears on Westar's face disappeared instantly. She took out a stack of origami and said to Qin Qi, "What do you want to say? Hurry up and say it. I'm making a thousand paper cranes for my sweetheart now."
It was the first time that Yaxiao saw a human being perform so much, and he couldn't help but watch a few more times.
It was at this moment that Vesta, who was obsessed with origami cranes, discovered that there was a black-haired boy with a delicate face sitting next to Qin Qi!
He pressed the button on the side of his sunglasses, and cleaning spray instantly appeared on the frame. After the cleansing, the brown lenses allowed him to see the boy in a tuxedo opposite him more clearly.
"Qin Qi, do you have a new butler?"
The thousand paper cranes in Vista's hands fell off in shock, and her tone was full of disbelief.
Qin Qi hummed and was too lazy to pay attention to Westa.
Westard didn't expect Qin Qi to introduce him. He looked at the young new butler in surprise, and his eyes noticed the distance between Qin Qi and Yaxiao. They were actually sitting side by side.
What does this mean? It means that the two of them are getting along well now!
This beautiful housekeeper must have put a lot of effort into getting along well with Qin Qi.
Looking at the boy who was a head shorter than Qin Qi and looked very thin next to Qin Qi, Vesta looked at him with sympathy: "You have worked so hard."
“It wasn’t very hard.”
Yaxiao answered truthfully that he was quite happy collecting demon points.
Is this a sincere statement or just a polite one
Wista was skeptical for a moment. After all, although his friend was a very upright person, he was extremely stubborn, had so many rules and habits that they were outrageous, and his taboos were absolutely troublesome.
It can be said that Qin Qi’s reputation among the housekeepers is simply a disaster.
Even he, whose skin is thicker than a city wall, couldn't say a good word against his conscience.
The boy said this and didn't say anything else.
Westa couldn't guess the other person's true thoughts for a moment. He turned to look at Qin Qi, who was sitting on the sofa, distracted, playing with something in his hands.
He was about to say something when he took a closer look at what Qin Qi was playing with—a blood-red eyeball. As he rubbed it with his fingers, bloodshot appeared in the eyeball, making it look extremely cruel.
Wistar: …
Shit, my eyes are starting to hurt.
Wistar tactfully suggested: "Qin Qi, it's okay in my base, but if you are going to the central city or other bases, it's best not to take it out in public."
Wista is a person who values freedom the most, but being free doesn't mean being brainless. Qin Qi has a bad reputation, and if people see that the Marshal of the Sixth Base likes to pinch his eyeballs, another wave of rumors will probably spread.
Qin Qi raised his eyebrows: "Why?"
Yaxiao's eyes were also full of questions.
No, you two actually think there is nothing wrong with playing this kind of thing? !
Under the questioning gazes of the two people, Westa suddenly felt that perhaps he had not kept up with the world's aesthetic standards.
After a moment, he recovered: "Well... It's nothing, take it if you want, just don't crush other people's eyeballs on the spot and make blood flow to my face, I'm still a little behind the trend."
His cool gaze fell on Westa.
Westar, who was used to joking around with his subordinates, immediately tensed up and secretly cursed. He looked at Qin Qi who was sitting on the sofa through his sunglasses and admitted his mistake. "I said something wrong. Brother, calm down. How about I take off my glasses to vent my anger on you?"
"Use your brain before you speak."
The decompression toy in Qin Qi's hand was instantly squeezed to produce countless blood threads. In Yaxiao's opinion, if this eyeball was not produced in the mall, the blood eyeball would probably explode on the spot with such force.
Wista swallowed his saliva and said sincerely, "Okay, big brother."
So fierce! It seems this guy is destined to fail in getting a girlfriend. Don’t scare the housekeeper away again.
Westar turned around and was about to explain to Yaxiao with a smile that this was just Qin Qi's joke, don't be afraid.
The next second, when the thin butler looked at Qin Qi, his eyes seemed to be glowing, without any sign of fear.
Wistar: …
It turns out that the butler really didn't say anything polite to him just now.
"Have they arrived yet?"
When Qin Qi asked about the business, Westar came back to his senses. He nodded and picked up the origami on the table. A thousand paper cranes appeared with his hands flying. He said casually, "We're here. The information of the other two bases has been registered."
The other two bases are the fourth base and the eighth base.
This time they arrived quite early.
Qin Qi hummed.
Seeing Qin Qi's indifferent attitude, Westa remembered what he had heard from his subordinates before—the taboo person from the fourth base got out of control in the sixth base.
It is obvious that Qin Qi is holding back his anger.
Those idiots in the Fourth Base are really incapable of doing anything good, and always cause trouble. When Westal mentioned them, he gritted his teeth.
However, he was not planning to curse the Fourth Base in front of Qin Qi for the time being. It would be so cool to curse directly in front of the Fourth Base when he had gathered enough strength.
When the time comes, Qin Qi will be brought along. He will be responsible for speaking out, while Qin Qi will be responsible for intimidating with force. Oh, just thinking about it makes me excited.
Vista folded the paper cranes even faster.
Qin Qi and Ya Xiao did not stay in the military building for a long time. They left the building after about half an hour.
As the host, the Fifth Base prepared temporary accommodation for the participating bases, and considerately divided them into different floors not far from the conference venue.
Mist, Soran, Emily and other subordinates lived on the eighth floor, while Qin Qi and Yaxiao lived on the ninth floor.
"Marshal, please take some rest."
After helping Qin Qi pack his luggage, Yaxiao suggested leaving without staying overnight like he did at the base.
Thinking about not being able to accumulate demon points at night, Yaxiao felt a little reluctant for a moment, but there was no way, he still planned to deal with the assassin, and it would be troublesome if he was in the same room with the villain.
Hearing that Yaxiao was about to leave, Qin Qi was stunned for a moment, but soon returned to normal. It was indeed late, and there were no extra beds in the room, so it was not convenient for the housekeeper to stay.
He hummed and sent Yaxiao away.
I didn't notice it at first, but after Yaxiao left, the surroundings seemed to suddenly become a lot quieter. However, this discomfort only lasted for a moment. Thinking about tomorrow's meeting, Qin Qi's eyes darkened slightly.
He turned on the computer, took out the document he had prepared long ago, and added a few more strokes.
The black bone worm must be dealt with as soon as possible.
On the other side, after returning to the room, Yaxiao began to call his fourth uncle in his heart.
The system quickly sent back a message: [Host, I'm here.]
When Yaxiao heard his uncle's voice, he smiled. After letting the system block all surveillance in the room, Yaxiao asked with great interest, "How is it, uncle? Is there anything unusual with Xiaochen?"
[Yes, just as the host guessed, she is indeed one of the assassins.] The system said firmly while wearing its No. 4 reading glasses.
Unlike Sheng Cheng, who disguised himself as an officer of the Sixth Base and waited for an opportunity to assassinate the Marshal, Xiaochen seemed much more careless and revealed a lot of information when communicating with his companions using the light brain.
[They are a gang. I learned from Xiaochen that there are many people involved in this incident, and there is even a special den in the fifth base.]
Yaxiao was not surprised to hear this. After all, in the plot, there was more than one assassin who assassinated Qin Qi at the border meeting, and they were all in different industries. They must have a common organization to be able to act together at the border meeting.
"Uncle, have you found out where the den is?"
Yaxiao was very excited. If he could solve this matter tonight, he wouldn't have to worry about Qin Qi being assassinated at the border base!
[Not yet.] The system paused for a moment, [But I saw that the person who talked to Xiaochen will attend the housekeeper talk meeting tomorrow.]
"Yeah?"
Yaxiao crossed his legs and thought for a while. After a few seconds, he said seriously, "In this case, I have to go to the meeting tomorrow."
The conversation with the butler was actually meaningless to Yaxiao, but now it is different. He can take the opportunity to get close to Xiaochen's companions and extract information from them.
Although Fourth Uncle is very capable, Yaxiao is reluctant to leave all the work to him.
As for Qin Qi, Ya Xiao felt that the assassin would not be stupid enough to act on the first day when the security was the tightest. However, just in case, Ya Xiao still said, "Fourth Uncle, you have been staying by Xiao Chen's side to monitor her recently."
"Then we will split up and act separately!"
Yaxiao's blue eyes curved slightly, and the tip of his tail patted the bed behind him.
[Okay.] The system rarely helps the host, so once it can, it will definitely do its best.
After discussing with his fourth uncle, Yaxiao simply closed his eyes and rested. When he woke up naturally the next day due to his biological clock, he packed up and found the villain to tell him that he was planning to go to the talk meeting.
"Yes, I understand."
Qin Qi looked down at the housekeeper with blue eyes and a smile, and said calmly: "Let Emily follow you."
The butlers' talk session and the border meeting were both held on the same day. Qin Qi anticipated from the beginning that Yaxiao would want to go to the butlers' talk session.
Although he felt that the conversation was meaningless, it was said that in the eyes of the housekeeper, the conversation was a very sacred thing, so it was normal for Yaxiao to want to participate.
"OK."
The black-haired boy never seemed to oppose his decisions. Qin Qi looked at the well-behaved boy, and his fingers wrapped in black gloves moved unconsciously.
His throat rolled up and down, his eyelashes drooped slightly, and finally he reminded, "Those housekeepers may not be friendly to you, don't believe them for everything."
"OK, all right!"
Yaxiao looked up and gave Qin Qi a brilliant smile. Then he remembered something. He raised the light brain on his arm and sent a message to Qin Qi: "This is the precaution I asked the reporter for yesterday. Marshal, you can take a look."
The white notes filled the entire screen. Qin Qi took a look and knew that Yaxiao must have listed a lot of them. He hummed and said, "I'll take a look."
Because they were preparing to attend the border meeting, the two Mist brothers quickly came to greet Qin Qi.
After Emily came and knocked on the door, Yaxiao went in a different direction from Qin Qi and the others.
On the way, Emily asked Yaxiao casually while driving the hover car: "Do you need to speak on stage at the butler's meeting?"
"unnecessary."
Yaxiao shook his head.
The Butler Talk Meeting, also known as the Butler Representative Selection Meeting.
The purpose of this border meeting is to coordinate the border front before the spring meeting. When the meeting comes, everything will be based on the interests of the border bases.
The same is true for butler talks.
During the spring meeting, the stewards of several border bases will also elect a common steward representative to represent the stewards of the border bases and communicate with the steward representatives of the central city and second-tier bases.
However, the housekeeper representative will not be replaced for several years, which is why Qin Qi's evaluation is boring.
When Emily heard that Yaxiao was not going to go on stage, she knew that he had no intention of competing for the position of butler representative, which was a good thing.
Like Qin Qi, Emily also felt that Yaxiao was simple, innocent and too good-tempered, and might be bullied and cried by other housekeepers.
Their Sixth Base didn't have a very good reputation. Everyone from top to bottom was very protective of their base and would never let go of anyone who bullied their base. But since Yaxiao was not interested in selecting representatives, it meant that he would not experience the intrigues between the housekeepers.
"In that case, just eat and drink."
"I feel so too."
Yaxiao curled his eyes, thinking about how he would have to get close to Xiaochen's fellow assassins to get information, and he added, "I want to make more friends."
This is in line with Yaxiao's simple and lively personality.
Emily looked straight ahead and continued driving the hovercraft, not finding anything strange about what he said.
After saying this, Yaxiao suddenly thought of the two butlers he had met on the flying ship before.
Although they are the stewards of the Fourth Base, this exchange meeting is open to all border bases, so those two people should also participate.
Yaxiao thought about it, avoided Emily, and sent a message to the two of them.
[Have you arrived at the conversation meeting?]
At the same time, the housekeeper Zhao Ke and Ryan, who suddenly received the news they least wanted to receive, looked at each other and suddenly had an ominous premonition, but they could only knock truthfully: [Arrived. ]
[Great! I'll be there soon, and we can play together then! ]
Zhao Ke and Ryan: …
Thanks, but I guess not.
(End of this chapter)