The border meeting will officially begin tomorrow. According to regulations, they would now need to register at the military headquarters at the Fifth Base.
Ya Xiao looked out the window with a slight sideways glance.
Both being border bases, the infrastructures of the two bases didn't differ much. Silver-colored shelled scavenger robots crouched in front of the charging columns. In case a taboo person got out of control, they would quickly activate their rescue to protect the masses.
The taboo persons wearing navy blue military uniforms came and went. When they encountered ordinary people passing by, they would greet them warmly, and the people were not afraid that the taboo persons would suddenly lose control. They all smiled, and the relationship was harmonious and cordial.
This was different from the Sixth Base. In the Sixth Base, ordinary people and taboos were like two parallel lines that did not intersect, neither side would take the initiative to talk to each other.
Obviously, this represented the different styles of the two base leaders.
Qin Qi emphasized rules and regulations. In order to protect the people, he would intentionally keep the taboo people away from the public.
On the other hand, the marshal of the Fifth Base, Wista, cared more about the happiness of the people in the base. He did not have so many rules, and the usual style of Wista's base management was to be loose and free.
These two leaders had very different styles.
In theory, they should not see eye to eye with each other, but Ya Xiao, who knew the plot, knew clearly that the two people have a good relationship.
The hovercar stopped at the headquarters of the Fifth Base.
Ya Xiao followed Qin Qi up to the top floor. If the outside was considered normal, then the inside of the headquarters building completely revealed that the marshal and Qin Qi's style of dealing with things was completely different.
Turning the corner, they walked into an office with the door wide open and saw several officers sitting on the floor with a big grin, playing poker in a crowd, beer bottles poured all over the place. The scene was chaotic and reckless, some officers also had a bunch of white notes pasted on their faces. They were not as good as others who were playing poker and were losing badly.
"F*ck off, I will win this time!"
"Alright, let's make a deal. If you lose this time, you'll have to go down and buy a drink later!"
"Ok, ok, ok, I don't believe it!"
Laughter and noise were mixed together. The serious office was like a game room, chaotic, without any rules. It was the first time Ya Xiao had seen such a scene, and his tail hidden inside his pants tapped a few times with interest.
"Is this the norm in the Fifth Base?"
Ya Xiao inquired in a low voice to Mist, who was standing next to him.
Mist saw the curiosity in Ya Xiao's eyes and nodded somewhat helplessly, "Officers under Marshal Wista are indeed more free-spirited."
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 bouncing on his minefield.
At the same time, the officers who were scrambling to deal out the cards all noticed that there was someone at the door of the office. They originally thought about which bastard was standing at the door as a doormat for so long without coming in, but when they looked over, they were instantly startled.
F*ck, why was Marshal Qin here?
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Didn't Marshal Wista say that Marshal Qin wouldn't come over until tomorrow? The officers present inwardly wanted to cry, but their bodies subconsciously quickly rose to attention, their loose temperament instantly disappeared, and their expressions became serious and earnest.
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"Good day, Marshal Qin!"
The head of the office, Jobe, stepped forward. His eyes were straight and his stout body looked like a trustworthy officer who had fought in many battles, provided that his face, which was covered with white paper, was ignored.
Qin Qi hmmed, his eyes swept behind the officers covering the "evidence of guilt", and faintly said: "The participants will go down to receive their punishment."
"Yes!"
The officers present quickly answered.
"Where's Wista?"
The person in charge, Jobe, didn't hesitate to sell his own marshal: "Marshal Wista is right next door."
"Hm."
Qin Qi nodded, then glanced at Mist.
"Marshal, I will see to it that they are punished."
Mist smirked as he led this order, and the officers involved in the card game were thunderstruck, nearly unable to control their expressions as they wailed out.
"Go."
Qin Qi withdrew his gaze and lifted his foot to step next door.
Knowing that these two words were being spoken to himself, Ya Xiao's eyes were pleasant and he followed with light feet.
The Fifth Base was really interesting.
Ya Xiao watched Qin Qi's back and curved his eyes. According to his understanding of the villain, the other party must not have been in a good mood when he saw the scene of the officers gathering to have fun.
If this incident happened in the Sixth Base, Qin Qi would not be as "light" as he was just now.
The Fifth Base must have a lot of things that Qin Qi does not like, so thinking about it, Ya Xiao felt more and more that helping Qin Qi to take the stress-relieving toy was the right thing to do.
Qin Qi's pace was steady, each step seemed to have been measured, not too slow, but the sound seemed to be heavier than before.
The two stood in front of the door of the next office and knocked lightly. When they got a response from the person inside, Qin Qi directly pushed open the door.
Inside the room was a man wearing sunglasses with his legs crossed, humming a song while writing something with his head down. A large bouquet of dainty roses was placed on his left hand.
Hearing someone come in, Wista didn't even raise his head. He unhurriedly drew a love heart at the end of the letter, put away his pen, and put the love letter he had just written into the roses, and only then did he have time to raise his head to look at the door.
Outside the door, Qin Qi's expression was as cold and serious as ever.
When Wista saw the visitor, his expression was not the slightest bit surprised. Instead, he grinned with a large white tooth grin, "It's not a good time for you to come."
He straightened his hair and carefully held the roses he bought in the morning to his chest, "I'm going to find my goddess to confess my love now, I won't be back today."
"Brother, wait for my good news!"
With that said, Wista raised his sunglasses in a handsome manner and ran out holding the flowers.
Qin Qi didn't stop him, but sat down on the sofa and said to Ya Xiao, "You sit down too, he'll be back soon."
"Okay oh."
Ya Xiao nodded at his words and sat down next to him.
The door to the office room was wide open, enough to see how eager the man had been to run out and not even close it.
In the plot, Wista was one of the villain's few close friends. In the eyes of the protagonist group, Wista was a shady guy who knew the villain had done a lot of wrong things but didn't stop him. Instead, he acted as a tiger's accomplice, and after the villain's death, he met a tragic end.
During a certain insect eradication operation, Wista was eaten by the insects and died. In the end, there wasn't even an ash left.
Ya Xiao's tail involuntarily wagged a bit as he recalled these things.
When you looked at it that way, everyone around the villain seemed to have died cleanly one by one; Wista, Soren, Emily, and Mist, with Wista still being the one who lived the longest.
"What's wrong?"
Qin Qi was pinching his red eyeball in boredom when he was suddenly asked out loud.
Ya Xiao blinked and asked curiously, "Marshal Wista said he won't be back today, so how do you know he'll be back soon?"
"Because of habit."
Qin Qi's tone was flat and did not hide anything from Ya Xiao, it was just that this answer did make Ya Xiao a bit puzzled.
But soon, Ya Xiao realized why Qin Qi said that.
About two minutes later, Wista reentered with roses, two lines of tears flowing out from under his sunglasses, his left hand still clutching the love letter he had just written.
"My proposal failed, the goddess rejected me outright." Wista muddledly lay on his back on his table and cried bitterly, "How can she be so heartless? I've liked her for a whole 259,200 seconds ah."
Qin Qi ignored it.
Ya Xiao, on the other hand, kept staring curiously at Wista.
"But she's so beautiful and graceful even when she rejected me." As he cried, Wista laughed foolishly a few more times, living up to the look of a pathetic licking dog.
After a long time, Wista the licking dog sat up, choked with sadness, and tore the love letter clean off with tears in his eyes.
"Farewell, my goddess. I will always be not far away to watch over you. I wish you happiness."
After the sorrowful mourning, the tears on Wista's face instantly disappeared. He instead took out a pile of origami paper, and said to Qin Qi, "What are you going to say? Hurry up and say it. I'm just about to make paper cranes for my sweetie right now."
It was the first time that Ya Xiao had seen that human drama could be so much, and he couldn't help but look at it a few more times.
It was at this point that Wista, who was obsessed with folding paper cranes, realized that there was actually a dark-haired young man 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, and the cleaned brown lenses allowed him to see the tuxedo-clad youth across from him more clearly.
"Qin Qi, you have a new butler?"
The paper cranes in Wista's hands were dropped in shock, his tone full of disbelief.
Qin Qi gave a hmmm, not bothering to pay attention to Wista.
Wista didn't expect Qin Qi to introduce himself either. He surveyed the young new butler in amazement, and his gaze precisely noted the distance between the two of them. Qin Qi and Ya Xiao, the two of them were actually sitting side by side.
What did that mean! It meant that the two were getting along well now!
To be able to get along well with Qin Qi, this beautiful-looking butler should have expended a lot of energy.
Looking at the boy who was a head shorter than Qin Qi and looked very thin beside him, Wista's eyes sympathized, "It's really hard for you."
"It wasn't very hard."
Ya Xiao replied truthfully. He was quite happy collecting demon values.
Was this sincere? Or was it simply being polite?
Wista doubted it for a moment. After all, this close friend of his, although he was a decent person, his character was extremely stubborn. He had a ridiculous number of rules and habits, and his taboos were even more troublesome tenfold.
It could be said that Qin Qi's popularity among the pile of butlers was nothing short of a disaster.
Even he, who had a face thicker than a city wall, couldn't spit out a good word with a clear conscience.
The young man didn't make another sound even after saying this.
Wista couldn't guess what the other party was really thinking for a moment. He turned his head to look at Qin Qi, who was sitting on the sofa, lost in thought, playing with something in his hands.
He was just about to open his mouth to say something when he fixed his eyes on what Qin Qi was playing with â a blood-red eyeball. As his fingers kneaded it, the blood in the eyeball rippled, looking extremely cruel.
Wista: ......
F*ck, my eyes are starting to hurt.
When did Qin Qi develop this creepy interest?