[Host, why did the villain come back in the middle of the night? ]
The system pondered for a while, but still didn't know the reason why Qin Qi appeared outside. It couldn't be that he discovered that Yaxiao was missing in the middle of the night and ran out to find its host, right
In fact, the system has been paying attention to Yaxiao's room to prevent anyone from breaking in. It can guarantee that no one will notice that the host is not in the room.
As the handsome young man stepped on the bedroom floor, the effect of the Great Devil Experience Voucher instantly dissipated, and instead, a black-haired boy in a tuxedo appeared.
Yaxiao raised his hand to unbutton his shirt, thought for a moment, and shook his head truthfully: "I don't know."
Qin Qi has many secrets.
As a marshal, he could have handed over everything to his subordinates, but Qin Qi chose to go out in the middle of the night. Obviously, this matter was of great importance.
Yaxiao became more and more interested in Qin Qi.
However, he did not dwell on this matter too much. His tail, which was glowing with a faint blue light, swayed left and right in the air. He would know all this sooner or later anyway.
Whatever the devil wants to know, he will know.
After the Spring Meeting began, Yaxiao was much busier than before. In addition to attending the Housekeepers' Representative Conference, he would knock on Qin Qi's door at six o'clock every morning to accompany him to the Marshal's Joint Meeting.
Today is no exception.
Yaxiao took Qin Qi's military jacket, slowly helped him put it on, buttoned it, and straightened the wrinkles on his clothes: "How did you rest last night, Marshal?"
"Ah, very good."
Qin Qi remained calm and composed as usual, as if he had not gone out alone in the middle of the night yesterday.
"Why do you ask?" Qin Qi noticed Yaxiao's thoughtful expression and paused before asking back.
Yaxiao blinked and shook his head. "It's okay. I didn't record the Marshal's TH value last night. I was just a little worried."
When the young butler stood up with a smile on his face and retreated behind him, Qin Qi withdrew his gaze, hummed calmly, turned around and walked out the door.
Yaxiao followed him slowly, just like before.
When it was evening, he left Qin Qi's room on time.
"Fourth Uncle, do you think the Marshal will go out tonight?" Yaxiao curled his eyes after returning to the room.
[Does the host need me to monitor him? ]
The system was eager to try. Its current daily tasks were not heavy, mostly just monitoring Sheng Cheng. The system felt that it could help the host share some of the worries.
Yaxiao was somewhat tempted, but then he shook his head and refused. His fourth uncle was a retired system, and some of the data could no longer maintain high-intensity operation. Although he was curious about what Qin Qi was doing, he also knew what was more important.
Compared to Qin Qi, who may be carrying out a secret mission, Sheng Cheng is more important.
As for Qin Qi, Yaxiao decided to wait until the issues between the club and Sheng Cheng were resolved.
Although the host did not say it explicitly.
The system can also tell from the host's interested expression that everything that has happened recently has made him very happy, just like enjoying a delicious snack. No matter which thing is solved first, the host will not feel disappointed.
[good.]
The system nodded indulgently, wiped its reading glasses, and continued to monitor Sheng Cheng.
Yaxiao browsed around the system mall, stayed in his bedroom for a while, and went to the club again at almost dawn.
But this time, Sheldon did not appear on the third floor.
According to the news passed on by Fourth Uncle yesterday, Sheldon seemed to have ordered his men to approach him
Yaxiao raised his hand to touch his ear, but did not feel the familiar ear bone clip. He put his hand down, and the smile in his eyes deepened.
He did not hesitate, and according to his usual habit in the club, he stood on the observatory naturally and adjusted the data of the public telescope.
He would chat with the astronomy enthusiasts next to him from time to time and act like an ordinary member of the club.
It was at this time that Sheldon's subordinate, Kunge, reached the third level.
He had seen the young man with scorpion braids walking into the club early on in the surveillance video. He secretly observed him for a long time before he put out his cigarette and came out of the surveillance room.
According to the information, this young man named Crowstep is a freelancer. He has been alone since he came to the central city. He came to the club by chance to find inspiration for writing.
This is not surprising.
Since the destruction of the Seventh Base, the surviving residents have dispersed to various bases.
However, the rules, customs and practices of each base are very different, and coupled with limited resources, ordinary people in each base are very hostile to outsiders.
This also makes it very difficult for people at the bottom of the Seventh Base to fully integrate into other bases.
They were lucky enough to survive the disaster, but like the ghosts of the Seventh Base, they could only wander alone in a foreign land.
Kunge is also a survivor of the Seventh Base.
He understood very well his compatriots who had the same experience as him. Yabu, a young man who also lived away from the crowd, must be just like them before, lonely and helpless, not knowing the direction and path for the future.
With this thought in mind, Kunge approached Crowstep unnoticed and started chatting with him.
The young man with the scorpion braid hanging behind his waist looked very quiet, but he was not a taciturn person. At first, he seemed not used to chatting with Kunge, but the two soon became familiar with each other.
As the conversation deepened, when Kunge secretly revealed his identity as the Seventh Base, "Crow Step" was stunned for a moment.
"Are you also a survivor of the Seventh Base?"
"also?"
Kunge pretended to be confused, then raised his eyebrows, looking a little surprised and complicated: "Are you too?"
"Crowstep" seemed to have not met anyone from the Seventh Base for a long time, and his expression was a little excited. After a while, he seemed to realize that something was wrong with him. He covered his eyes with his hands to hide his emotions, and blocked Kunge with his other hand. His voice was a little trembling:
"I'm sorry, I haven't seen many people from the Seventh Base since I left."
"fine."
Kunge couldn't help but feel sad when he saw the young man's expression. The Seventh Base disappeared too suddenly. Almost overnight, their home disappeared from the human territory.
It has to be said that Yaxiao's action instantly made Kunge fall into heavy memories, and made him subconsciously classify the other party as one of his companions.
Yashao is a king-level demon.
The devil's power makes him disdain to disguise, but every devil is born to be the best actor, and whenever he wants to act, he will never let anyone see the flaws.
After noticing that Kunge's mood had softened, Yaxiao took the opportunity to talk to him about the past of the Seventh Base. Of course, since Yaxiao had never been to the Seventh Base, most of the time, he was just the initiator of the topic, letting the other party take over without leaving any trace.
Because the timing of Yaxiao's message was so natural, Kunge didn't notice anything wrong.
One of them had a natural liking for his companion, and the other was willing to build a good relationship with the other, so the atmosphere was very harmonious for a while.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Kunge paused, found an excuse, and took the young man to a lounge on the third floor.
“So there’s a lounge here?”
Crowstep glanced around, his blue eyes tinged with smile. He did not ask the other party why he was brought here, as if he had deep trust in his compatriots in the Seventh Base.
Upon seeing this, Kunge's already high favorability towards Crowstep doubled again.
He used to be a pharmacist working in a pharmaceutical bureau. Now he is nearly middle-aged. At first glance, he looks like a depressed office worker with no energy. He is a purely negative person.
However, Kunge has not lived in vain for all these years. He knows very well that the organization can do without him, but it cannot do without new forces.
The more Crowstep misses the Seventh Foundation, the more loyal he will be to the organization when he learns the truth.
In the silence, Kunge spoke up: "Raven Step, do you know how the Seventh Base was destroyed?"
Yaxiao was stunned for a moment, and instantly realized that it was time for him to act again. The smile on his face faded a little, his eyes dimmed, and his voice was low and hoarse: "I don't know. The marshals of each base are investigating this matter, but there has been no result, right? They all said that it should be the magic insects that destroyed the barrier."
"Don't listen to their nonsense!"
Kunge suddenly interrupted Yaxiao, raised his drooping eyelids, and his depressed eyes seemed to have sparks bursting out of them. In the dimly lit room, he inexplicably looked a little crazy:
"They are all lying to you! The Seventh Base was destroyed by Qin Qi. He destroyed our barrier! Qin Qi is a hypocrite! He is a villain!"
Yaxiao seemed to be stunned by what he said. He didn't react for a while, acting like an ordinary person who suddenly learned about this matter. He shook his head and said in disbelief: "What are you talking about? That is a marshal of a border base. The marshals are the guardians who risk their lives to stand on the front line. How could they destroy our barrier?"
"There's no reason for him to do this, right?"
"There is a reason."
Kunge's hatred leaked out from between his teeth, "He did this to protect the Sixth Base. Our base is destroyed because of him!"
"Protect the Sixth Base? Why do you say that?"
Yaxiao wanted him to say more.
Why would the members of this organization actually acquiesce to Qin Qi destroying the base? You know, even the protagonists only had such a guess at the end.
However, Kunge and his organization seemed to have already reached this conclusion.
However, Kunge didn't mean to say more. He stopped in time and invited the other party to join their organization: "You will know these things naturally after you join us."
"'We'?" Crowstep was somewhat shocked by the news one after another: "Do many people know about this?"
Kunge exhaled slowly, "Well, our organization is made up of survivors of the Seventh Base."
He held Yaxiao's shoulders, his eyes filled with inexplicable emotions, and said in a deep voice: "It is precisely because I know such a painful truth that I choose to avenge the Seventh Base. Everything we have was destroyed in that catastrophe."
"If it weren't for Qin Qi, if it weren't for him, we should have been living in the Seventh Base with our friends and relatives, instead of rotting and stinking in other bases like we are now!"
"You'll join us, won't you?"
Kunge spoke earnestly, staring closely at the young man in front of him who seemed to have fallen into confusion.
It would be best if Crowstep just agreed to join the organization.
The organization cannot be exposed now.
Kunge didn't want to kill his compatriots with his own hands, but only the dead would not reveal secrets. He gave Crowstep enough time to think.
After a while, Crowstep, who was in confusion, slowly raised his head and asked only one question:
"Was the Seventh Base really destroyed by Qin Qi?"
Kunge looked at the other person who seemed to only care about this one thing. He curled his lips, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it. The strong tobacco gradually drove away those painful memories: "He is the culprit of everything."
The lounge fell silent.
Gray smoke filled the air.
After a while, the young man said hoarsely: "I understand, I want to join the organization."
Kunge looked at the young man whose mood had become gloomy and depressed, patted his shoulder as if to comfort him, his eyes also revealing a bit of unspeakable sadness. What the young man was experiencing now was all his past.
The only thing to be thankful for is that he doesn't have to deal with them again like he did before when he killed those innocent compatriots who were unwilling to join the organization.
"Well, take your time, you will know everything." Kunge added Crowstep's optical brain number, "Our only enemy is Qin Qi, we must defeat him even if we die."
"Crow Step" hummed, his mood still low.
Kunge didn't say anything else. Compared to other members of the organization, Crowstep was relatively calm. He continued, "Go home and have a good rest today. Tomorrow night, I will take you to meet other members of the organization."
"good."
Yaxiao did not refuse. He forced a smile at Kunge and then left the club in a trance.
After making sure that no one was monitoring him, Yaxiao put away his disguise and a smile appeared in his eyes.
[Fourth Uncle, how is Sheng Cheng doing? ]
[Xie Erduo did not show up, and Sheng Cheng left the club after staying for a while. However, according to the individual emotional data, Sheng Cheng was not disappointed, and it seemed more like it was expected. ]
Not feeling disappointed even though I didn’t see Sheldon
Yaxiao found Sheng Cheng's performance interesting. The corners of his mouth curled up and he walked briskly back to his room.
[Host.] Although the system has been monitoring the generation, it is also secretly paying attention to the host's situation. It is a little confused: [This organization allows you to join so easily, will it continue to test you in the future?]
After all, revenge is a lifelong obsession for those survivors, and experience tells the system that they will have a backup plan.
"Of course I will try."
After changing his clothes, Yaxiao sat cross-legged on the bed. "But even if it's a test, it won't be too much. They just treat me as a small follower. In the early stage, they won't let me go deep into the organization."
Yaxiao knew very well that they let him join largely because he was from the Seventh Base, but it was impossible to say that they valued him that much.
Maybe, if he ever wanted to reveal the organization's affairs to the outside world or wanted to quit the organization, they would ruthlessly get rid of him.
“Humans are actually pretty scary, too.”
Yaxiao commented.
Although the system did not understand why the host suddenly expressed such emotion, it nodded in agreement.
Even after living for thousands of years, it still does not understand the human thinking pattern. In comparison, demons are simpler.
"Host, do you want to continue?"
The system means that tomorrow night, Kunge invites the host to meet other people in the organization.
"of course!"
Yaxiao nodded as a matter of course, his eyes shining: "This is getting more and more interesting, isn't it?"
This was within the system's expectations. After reminding the host to be careful, it didn't say anything else.
The next night, when the screen of Crowstep's light computer lit up, Yaxiao glanced at it, continued to use the Great Demon Experience Voucher to transform into an adult, and set off for the agreed location.
At this time, Kunge had already notified the members of the organization in advance, of course only some of them. For the sake of the organization's safety, in the early stage he would only let Yaxiao meet some peripheral members of the club.
When Yaxiao arrived at the entrance of the club, he walked up to Kunge.
Kunge observed Crowstep's demeanor. After a day of transition, Crowstep seemed to have accepted the reality. Although his face was still a little pale, he was smiling and no longer as depressed as yesterday.
"What's wrong?"
After Kunge entered the elevator, he pressed the fingerprint to unlock it, then noticed that Crow Step looked at the elevator button and asked in confusion.
Yaxiao shook his head.
He had visited the club alone before, but when he got on the elevator, there was no button to go to the basement, and there were not even stairs leading to the basement. It turned out that a specific person had to unlock it before he could go in.
Of course, these words could not be said to others, so Yaxiao said casually: "It's okay, I just suddenly thought of Xie Erduo, who I met on the third floor before."
Yaxiao's blue eyes looked at Kunge: "You and he both work in the club. Is he also our companion?"
"Um."
Kunge did not deny it. He could not hide the fact that Sheldon was their companion, so he just confessed it directly.
Yaxiao nodded without surprise, as if he suddenly remembered something, and he was a little worried: "I have a friend I met in the club, his name is Sheng Cheng, and we meet on the third floor every day."
"I'm going to go to the third floor later, so that he won't worry if we don't meet."
Kunge knew that Yabu had a good relationship with Sheng Cheng.
But now that Crow Step is their companion, Kunge naturally has to remind him: "Sheng Cheng is an officer of the Sixth Base, you'd better not get close to him."
Yaxiao looked at Kunge's vigilance towards Sheng Cheng, and deliberately showed a surprised expression: "Sheng Cheng is an officer of the Sixth Base?"
After hesitating for a moment, he couldn't help but "defend" his friend:
"Sheng Cheng will definitely have no problem. He loves astronomy very much. Every time he comes to the club, he immediately consults everyone about astronomy. Xie Erduo has helped Sheng Cheng a lot."
Kunge was about to nod perfunctorily, but after thinking about it, he found something inconsistent. Sheng Cheng was not as passionate about astronomy as Crowbu said.
At least he could notice it by watching the surveillance every day. Unlike Crow Bu who would stand on the observatory and fiddle with the astronomical telescope every time he came, Sheng Cheng would just look at the telescope and then turn around and wander around the club looking for someone to talk to.
No, to be precise, I want to talk to Sheldon.
If Sheldon is not in the club one day, Sheng Cheng will definitely not stay any longer.
Kunge's heart skipped a beat, because there was no problem with Sheng Cheng's information, and the other party was just an inconspicuous civilian official in the Sixth Base, so they were just vigilant and did not pay attention to Sheng Cheng all the time.
Now the more Kunge recalled, the more he felt something was wrong, and a thought gradually arose in his mind that Sheng Cheng was actually not interested in stargazing.
His purpose was to get close to Sheldon.
What exactly does Sheng Cheng want to do to Xie Erduo? Does he suspect that Xie Erduo will do something bad to Qin Qi
"Don't bother yourself with this matter."
Kunge suppressed his doubts and patted Crowstep on the shoulder, "I told you not to get close, so just don't get close."
He has put Sheng Cheng on the high alert list.
"good."
Seeing Kunge's serious look, Yaxiao pursed his lips and said nothing more, but the tail hidden in his trouser leg shook slightly.
If the system was here, it would be able to see that this was clearly an expression of the host's joy after the prank was successful.
Because he was worried about Sheng Cheng, Kunge no longer had the energy to introduce his companions. He took Yaxiao into the basement, walked through the corridor, and entered room B102, where there were only four or five companions.
For the safety of the organization and individuals, companions do not need to know each other very well, just know each other's names.
Kunge felt relieved temporarily when he saw Yaxiao took the initiative to come forward and greet them.
Yaxiao added several people’s computer accounts in a row and was in a very good mood.
He was a newcomer and the organization would not assign him any tasks. There was nothing interesting in the room. After staying there for a while, Yaxiao simply said goodbye to his "companions" and left the basement.
The elevator moves slowly.
Yaxiao did not leave the club directly, but stepped into the third floor of the club.
Sheldon was not in the basement before, so he should be on the third floor. Now that Yashao has become a member of the organization, he is happy to observe Sheldon's reaction after he knows that he has joined.
But when I came up, Sheldon was not on the third floor.
"Is Sheldon not here?"
Yaxiao asked the person next to him.
"Well, it seems he went to talk to his girlfriend." The man wearing glasses next to him remembered that Yaxiao was a frequent visitor here recently, and he answered in a good manner, "Xie Erduo has a good relationship with his girlfriend."
"So that's how it is."
Yaxiao nodded, not feeling any lost feeling. He glanced at Sheng Cheng not far away and gave a friendly smile.
Suddenly seeing the smiling face of the black-haired young man, Sheng felt a chill and inexplicably had a premonition that he was going to be unlucky again.
He tried his best to force a smile, but he always felt that something was odd. Why did he have the illusion that someone was staring at him since just now
Also, where did that guy Sheldon go
At the same time, Sheldon, who was rumored to be video chatting with his girlfriend, was staying in the monitoring room with Kunge, observing Sheng Cheng's actions on the third floor.
“It’s true.”
Kunge's teeth were creaking, clearly showing his anger. "This Sheng Cheng definitely approached you on purpose. He might be an undercover sent by Qin Qi to get information."
"Should we finish him off now?"
If it wasn't for Crowstep's accidental discovery, it might have taken them some time to discover it.
Sheldon, wrapped in white gauze, clenched his cane tightly with his fingers. "Well, do it in a nice way so that they don't suspect the Dark Night Club."
If Sheng Cheng was really sent by Qin Qi, it means that the other party should have become suspicious. In order to protect the organization and his sister, it would be better to do something drastic to confuse the public.
"good."
Kunge's dejected face was full of solemnity, and he nodded.
(End of this chapter)