Soren sat in the driver's seat and glanced without a trace at the dark-haired young man sitting next to him.
The young man was very pretty, with slightly curly black hair and fair skin. His smooth and clean jawline could be seen from the side, and his raven-feather-like eyelashes were slightly drooping as if he was thinking about something.
Just by looking at the other party's appearance, he was more like a young master who had been pampered and raised in the central city, rather than an orphan who had been raised and taken in by the Butler Academy.
Perhaps noticing his line of sight, the new butler smiled at him with a slight sideways glance, his expression not the slightest bit forced in any way.
It looked as if there was no intention to break the contract.
Soren nodded to the new butler as a response.
The black gas mask vaguely transmitted the cold light of metal, covering the lower half of his face.
On the side, Ya Xiao had leaned back in his chair.
He turned his head as if he was admiring the scenery outside the window, but in reality, he was mentally knocking on the system: Fourth Uncle, this driver is one of the villain's right-hand men, Soren?]
In the villain's camp, only Soren, who was not good with words, wore a gas mask at every moment.
[Yes.]
System 401 wore old-fashioned glasses and recognized him in the sea of consciousness for a while, before nodding affirmatively.
Ya Xiao mentally gave an OK gesture to the system.
If he remembered correctly, Soren was the first unlucky adjutant to be screwed over by the protagonist group.
However, this matter had nothing to do with him.
Ya Xiao just had to make sure that he could successfully become the villain's butler, stay working by the villain's side, suck up the demon value, and successfully grow wings.
As for how many people died on the villain's side, it didn't really matter to him.
[Butoh is really a good person.]
Ya Xiao retracted his eyes and sighed at the system. Butoh saved them a lot of trouble.
The system was similarly filled with relief.
It was going smoother than planned. The host has finally become the villain's butler.
In the original book, Butoh was the Sixth Base Marshal aka the villain's fourth butler.
This time, the host was able to become the marshal's butler because of last night's deal.
[Ya Xiao] gave [Butoh] a brand new identity. In contrast to that, [Butoh]'s existence will be replaced by [Ya Xiao].
[Host, how are you feeling right now?]
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[It's still okay.]
Ya Xiao's spirit had recovered for the most part, only that the amount of magic power he could mobilize was still limited.
If he hadn't erased Butoh's memories after using the equivalent exchange, his magic power wouldn't have been so severely depleted.
It seemed that using two talents one after the other was still a bit overwhelming in this world, Ya Xiao mused.
[Must earn magic power sooner.]
The system was aware that the host shouldn't have much magic power, but in this world where there was no magic power, the only way to regain it was to draw demon value around the villain.
Ya Xiao hmmed in his heart. It was said that the villain was a very troublesome person. It would take a lot of effort to stay and work by his side.
[Fourth Uncle, go rest first!]
The system was an old system that should have retired a long time ago. The time that it could be turned on every day wasn't very long, and Ya Xiao didn't want it to work too hard.
[Okay, host. You have to pay more attention to safety.]
The system really couldn't hold out any longer. After turning the substitute AI and system mall on, it temporarily fell into deep sleep.
On the way after this, Ya Xiao didn't even talk to the system again. Occasionally, he would take the initiative to voice out and ask Soren about matters at the base.
Butoh had grown up in the safe central city since he was a child.
Truly speaking, he hadn't even been to a second-tier base, let alone a dangerous border base. After Ya Xiao replaced Butoh's existence, because of the rules' influence, Soren wasn't surprised by some of the questions posed by the other party.
Of course, what he was not clear about was that Ya Xiao was different from Butoh the butler. He had only been in this world for less than half a month. Not to mention the bases, he was not even very familiar with the central city.
The sun was setting in the west, and while it was still not cooling down extremely fast, the aircraft finally entered the Sixth Base's borders and slowly landed at the stop.
Within the boundaries of the Sixth Base, the use of aircraft was not permitted without special circumstances.
As the two walked out of the parking area, the villain's other adjutant, Mist, had been waiting outside for some time.
"It was really hard for you guys along the way!"
Unlike the quiet Soren, Mist, who was also an adjutant, was a very warm person.
He wore gold-rimmed glasses and had a smile on his face as he raised his hand to give Soren a hug. His expression didn't change much after he was rejected as he said kindly to Ya Xiao, "Let me take you to the marshal's residence next."
Ya Xiao followed suit with a smile, "Okay."
Seeing this, Mist froze for a slightly unnoticeable moment. Then, he quickly put on a smile and waved his hand at Soren, who had been standing next to him, "The documents over at the headquarters haven't been approved yet, so go over there."
Soren, who had been ordered, didn't say anything. He lifted his foot and was about to leave, but before he left, he seemed to remember something and turned his head to nod at Ya Xiao.
"See you later."
Ya Xiao responded back.
Mist felt a little surprised, Soren seemed to have quite good feelings about the new butler?
"Shall we go then?"
Mist smiled at Ya Xiao and took the initiative to lead the way in front.
"Okay."
Ya Xiao's eyes curved and he followed with his suitcase.
The hovercar parked on the side of the road had smooth lines, and the silver-white shell was as hard as iron. The hovercar was nearly one meter from the ground, but the speed was not very fast.
On the road, Ya Xiao didn't rush him. He sat in the hovercar and stared out the window curiously.
The Sixth Base was different from the central city.
Not only were there tighter security facilities around, but most of the people on the road wore black military uniforms, and some of them had very odd attire.
Some of them covered their entire faces, some wore shackles, others wore sound-proof ear muffs, and some even wrapped themselves up tightly. Compared to normal people, the atmosphere around these people was heavy, as if they were intentionally keeping a certain distance from the others.
Soren, whom Ya Xiao had met not long ago, was similarly wearing a gas mask.
According to the information in the book, they all belonged to the same type of sick group, a mental pollution type of disease caused by the dissonance of the sensory system due to the killing of demonic insects.
These people were called Taboos.
A certain kind of taboo would appear on those who were sick. Once the taboo was violated, they would lose their minds.
If not treated in time, those who lost control would eventually break through a certain threshold and turn into crazy monsters that could only be killed. But of course, even if they regained their sanity, the loss of control would cause irreversible damage to their bodies.
It was a curse inflicted on heroes.
Ya Xiao knew that the villain was also one of the Taboos, or rather, the villain was the most troublesome of them all, so troublesome that no one had yet documented all of his taboos.
It was hard to be the villain's butler.
At least in the original book, none of the four butlers, including Butoh, ended well.
Ya Xiao looked out the window at the pedestrians and corrected his earlier statement. It wasn't that the out-of-control villain killed those four, it was just that basically, any butler who had seen the villain out of control wouldn't have wanted to stay to work for him.
The villain wouldn't allow them to stay either.
In order to stay and work with the villain, it was necessary to stop him from losing control as much as possible and to do everything possible to avoid violating his taboos.
Just as Ya Xiao's mind was wandering, Mist on the side was quietly observing him.
The new butler looked younger and prettier than in the profile. Although he still looked like a young adult, the other party had a lot of experience as a butler.
Currently, there are not many treatment measures for taboos. Apart from medication, there were also a portion of taboos who would choose to hire professional butlers who would assist them to avoid breaking the taboos out of control.
Ever since the marshal's three butlers were killed by demonic insects one after another, no matter how much they suppressed the news on their side, there would always be some rumors spreading out.
This caused them to encounter quite a few obstacles when recruiting a butler for the marshal.
Especially since the new butler who was supposed to appear at the meeting yesterday didn't show up, Mist guessed that the other party might have heard that rumor.
But judging from the relaxed state of the other party right now, he didn't think Ya Xiao had any intention of terminating the contract?
Personally speaking, of course, Mist did not want to terminate the contract. After all, the spring meeting was coming up soon, and the marshal needed a butler who cooperated well with him instead of changing the butler frequently.
Mist thought for a moment and pretended as if it was natural to try and say to Ya Xiao, "The Sixth Base is the closest to the front line, and the conditions should be a bit worse compared to the central city."
"Is that so?"
Ya Xiao froze for a moment. He had little interest in these. They were all the same in his eyes, there was no difference. He dutifully replied, "I think they're all pretty much the same."
Unlike the reticent Soren, Mist was a man of spirit. After so many years of being an adjutant, he knew truth from falsehood at a glance. Ya Xiao obviously wasn't intentionally flattering, but genuinely thought so.
Mist smiled at his words. The other party should really not be prepared to terminate the contract. If he wanted to terminate the contract, when he heard the question just now, he would have shown some attitude.
The hovercar gradually picked up speed.
Ya Xiao didn't look out the window again. Except for those taboo people, the difference between the Sixth Base and the central city was really not that big for the demon, and he would get tired of looking at it after a long time.
Just when Ya Xiao felt bored, Mist got nervous, or rather, the closer he got to the marshal's villa, the more his heart was raised upwards by a few points.
The first three butlers were all excellent beings and had served a good number of Taboos. They had seen a lot of them and still feared the marshal. Perhaps from the first time they stepped into the marshal's residence, the end had already been predetermined.
The marshal's single-family house was located in the eastern suburbs by the mountain. The hovercar circled the mountain road before reaching its destination.
At that time, the sky was already dark, the mountain wind was cool, and the surrounding area was deserted. The villa that stood at the top of the mountain was inexplicably filled with an eerie feeling. There were many holes in the dead trees at the entrance as if they were monsters with their mouths open, twisted, and wailing. It was pitch-black inside the villa, and the mural patterns outside the wall illuminated by the hover car lights were absurd and inexplicably bizarre.
This was not like a villa where people live, but like a place where people often die in ghost movies. The silence was filled with darkness and strangeness.
When Mist saw this villa for the first time, his heart was also flustered.
He stopped the hovercar and turned his head to try to comfort Ya Xiao, "This is the personal interest of the marshal, don't...." be afraid.
Before his words fell, he met a pair of bright blue eyes.
Mist was blinded for a moment by these shining eyes.
Then, he saw the delicate-looking black-haired young man staring unblinkingly through the car window at the villa before him, excitedly speaking incoherently, "Can I really...can I really live here? This place is so beautiful. It's the first time I've seen such a heartwarming villa in this world!"
The young man's ears reddened with excitement.
Mist: ......???
Beautiful, heartwarming, here?