Zhao Ke and Ryan stood at the door of the conference hall. Their excitement of meeting up with their fellow butlers from the Fourth Base had vanished.
The two of them were staring at the cute smile sent by the person on the screen. For a while, their hearts were chilled to the bone.
If they had known this, they shouldn't have retreated to the kitchen of the airship to say bad things about Marshal Qin in the beginning. If there was no such leverage, they wouldn't be so passive now.
"Tell me it's my eyesight."
Ryan looked at his companion in a trance.
Zhao Ke was older, but it was also the first time he encountered this, his voice trembled: "No, he said he would be here soon."
Ryan's heart dropped, the news was devastating.
The two men stood still, not daring to go anywhere, like prisoners about to be guillotined, waiting anxiously and desperately for the moment of execution. Soon, the figure of the executioner gradually appeared in the field of vision.
Ya Xiao, the executioner, smiled brightly as if seeing his best friends. He greeted them warmly, and Zhao Ke and Ryan forced a smile.
However, when they saw the high ponytailed woman behind Ya Xiao, who had a lip stud and an unfriendly look in her eyes as if she wanted to kill them with a single shot, Zhao Ke and Ryan's expressions finally became a little bit unstable.
Why was Emily here?
Was this the executioner coming with his knife?
Alarmed, the two noticed Emily tsked in disgust and moved her eyes away, seemingly unwilling to see them at all.
Such a disdainful attitude made Zhao Ke and Ryan feel strangely relieved, as long as Emily didn't want to kill them.
Standing in front of them, Ya Xiao still looked as good-tempered as before, his smiling blue eyes shining with pure light, "I've kept you two waiting."
Zhao Ke and Ryan didn't dare to agree to this and quickly shook their heads, "Not long, not long, we've only just arrived as well."
"That's good."
Ya Xiao's eyes curved and said to the two butlers, "Emily will follow me in."
"Okay." Zhao Ke and Ryan nodded, thinking, as long as you don't tell Qin Qi about what we whispered in the kitchen, we won't say anything even if you bring a bomb.
Emily once again glanced at the two butlers talking to Ya Xiao.
Zhao Ke and Ryan were the butlers from the Fourth Base and were not at all on the same page as the Sixth Base. Emily didn't know why Ya Xiao was treating these two wimps as friends, but Ya Xiao was her superior. As long as the other did anything that didn't jeopardize the base or the marshal, she would comply with all orders.
That included walking with the Fourth Base wimps.
Zhao Ke and Ryan felt Emily's dislike and instantly jolted with a heartbeat, silently intending to stay away from her so as not to upset her.
"Is this your first time attending?"
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"No, we've attended twice before."
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As butlers serving the taboo people, the ability to detect words was the most basic ability. After a few simple exchanges, Zhao Ke and Ryan were able to determine that Ya Xiao was a very good person to get along with.
If what hadn't happened before hadn't happened, they really wouldn't have been so afraid of the other.
But that incident had made the two of them feel weak in their hearts.
For a short time, neither Zhao Ke nor Ryan knew what to do with Ya Xiao.
Ya Xiao didn't know exactly what the two butlers were thinking.
When he walked into the meeting hall, there were already seven or eight butlers standing inside.
The number of butlers who participated in the meeting every year was small, most of them came after their employers who were attending the border meeting. Counting the number, there would be five or six butlers from each border base who would join the meeting.
In the Sixth Base, in addition to Ya Xiao, there are actually three butlers who are going to participate in the meeting. However, because of some matters, they came over late, so Ya Xiao and Emily didn't wait for them and arrived at the meeting place first.
Just as soon as he entered the venue, Ya Xiao noticed that Zhao Ke and Ryan's bodies slightly moved and their expressions became a little nervous. Looking along the line of sight of the two men, he saw three young butlers wearing black tuxedos.
With arrogance in their eyes and their chins raised, they stared at Zhao Ke and Ryan with dissatisfaction, seemingly displeased that the two were standing over there.
Bolton, the leader of the three, was a young butler with an elegant demeanor and silver hair combed back. He frowned and took a step forward.
"Zhao Ke, Ryan what's wrong with you two? He's not our base's butler, is he?"
Zhao Ke and Ryan stiffened, fearing that the other party would say something unpleasant, and hurriedly scrambled to explain:
"Bolton, this is Ya Xiao, the new butler of the Sixth Base marshal, we're friends with him."
"Right, right, he's very much valued by Marshal Qin."
Zhao Ke and Ryan purposely emphasized their tone when they said the words, Marshal Qin, intentionally reminding the other party not to say the wrong thing.
Bolton was the butler of the Fourth Base marshal.
To be able to serve a base master, his mind was naturally not stupid, and the reprimand that reached his mouth was swallowed back. Bolton turned to Ya Xiao and introduced himself, saying in a seemingly friendly manner:
"You are Marshal Qin's newly hired butler, would you like to come up to the stage to say a few words when the meeting begins?"
"No need."
Ya Xiao curled his eyes, "I'll just watch from below."
Not being on stage meant there was no intention to compete for the representative.
The false smile on Bolton's face instantly became a lot more real.
"Okay."
He nodded his head and looked at Zhao Ke and Ryan with eyes that became a bit sharper, ordering condescendingly, "Since you guys are Ya Xiao's friends, get along well and take care of him."
Compared to other bases, the Fourth Base had a very strict class division. To the current Zhao Ke and Ryan, Bolton's orders were everything.
The two immediately nodded their heads in response.
Ya Xiao looked at Bolton's back and asked Emily quietly, "Does Bolton want to be the butler representative very much?"
Emily didn't have any good feelings toward the Fourth Base at all. When she heard Ya Xiao ask this question, she nodded her head and replied, "Well, Bolton has been the butler representative for the past few years. I guess he would like to continue to run this year as well."
"I see."
Ya Xiao's blue eyes curved slightly. When he got the answer to satisfy his curiosity, he put the matter at the back of his mind and turned to look around.
"Have none of the butlers from the Fifth Base arrived yet?"
According to the information that Fourth Uncle had found out, Xiao Chen's assassin accomplice was one of the Fifth Base's butlers.
"Should be here soon."
Zhao Ke cautiously replied, "The butlers of the Fifth Base, like their employers, don't have a strong sense of time and act recklessly, so they'll probably come on point."
"Oh."
Ya Xiao looked at the dissatisfaction that flowed from Zhao Ke's tone when he spoke of the Fifth Base and asked with a smile, "Do you dislike the Fifth Base a lot?"
Zhao Ke stiffened for a moment.
Emily beside him snorted, her eyes seemed to be mocking. He was obviously just a butler of the Fourth Base, but still looked down on the Fifth Base.
Zhao Ke blushed when he heard the mockery, but knew that Emily would definitely not teach them a lesson because of this, so he strained his neck to explain, "Of course, the Fifth Base is free-spirited and loose. It's not a problem if the employer is like that, but their butlers follow suit. It's not in line with the butler's professionalism at all!"
Ya Xiao thought of yesterday when he went to the headquarters building, the group of officers were still playing cards. He blinked his eyes and nodded in understanding. The Fifth Base did indeed advocate freedom.
Zhao Ke grinned at the sight and was about to continue saying something when he was interrupted in the next second by a couple of butlers who had just entered the meeting hall:
"F*ck, you still have the face to talk about our base?!"
"Yo, your Fourth Base's butlers are great? I haven't even seen where your excellence is yet, but your nose is up in the air."
"The status of the taboo people of the Fourth Base is just high haha. The butlers who can serve the superior people, each and every one of them are also much greater than us ordinary butlers, isn't it?"
"Clap clap clap, let me applaud you. It is worthy of being the Fourth Base with the most taboos. If things don't work out, I might as well just vote for your Fourth Base directly."
Two men and two women just came in with a look of not to be messed with. The slim black tuxedo clearly outlined the strong muscle lines on their bodies. Each of them did not look like a butler but instead looked like a warrior who could go into battle to kill insects.
The four butlers just stood together and spoke one sentence after another, but it somehow gave people the feeling that they were holding cigarettes in their mouths, and the left and right hands were holding machine guns and shooting madly with a burst of bullets.
Zhao Ke's face was suffocating red. He opened his mouth, and for a moment, he didn't know what to say. He couldn't even interject a rebuttal.
Not far away, the Fourth Base's butler, Bolton, discovered that their base's butler was being bullied by the Fifth Base's hooligans. He quickly walked over with his companions.
"Did our butler say something wrong?"
"Aren't the few of you just loose and undisciplined, without any sense of time?"
"It's understandable for an employer to be of such a nature, but don't you butlers feel a bit ashamed to follow suit?"
"If it's a battlefield, can such a loose team of butlers help their employer?"
Bolton's eyes and words were sharp as he countered.
However, the group of butlers from the Fifth Base refused to concede defeat. The two men and two women continued to blurt out:
"Coming late is just because we don't want to see your face. Going to the battlefield? Each of us is the backbone behind our employers. Have you, someone from the city, ever been on the battlefield?"
"Oh, now you're brave enough to criticize us. But where was that bravery last year when you represented the border base to negotiate with the central city butler representative?"
"Truly worthy of being the strongest loudmouth Bolton."
"The number of butlers serving in the border base is so low this year. We really can't thank you enough for your efforts in negotiating!"
"What do you guys know!"
Bolton's face reddened and his body tensed, obviously suppressing his anger, only to receive a snort of laughter from the opposite four in the next second.
With this laugh, the Fourth Base side couldn't help but tense up again. The butlers led by Bolton quickly began to counterattack. Zhao Ke and Ryan, the two members of the Fourth Base, naturally joined in the argument as well.
For a while, the venue was so lively that it was similar to a combination of a debate and a food market.
This was much for the demon's liking.
The two sides exchanged words. Ya Xiao followed suit with a few glances this way and that, his tail wagging inside his pants, his eyes shining brightly as he couldn't wait for them to get a little more rowdy.
The attention of the entire room was almost exclusively on the two bases, and so was Emily, but compared to Ya Xiao's excitement, Emily appeared to be a bit bored.
The butlers of the Fourth and Fifth Bases have been at odds with each other for quite some time now. Almost every year, the butlers of the two bases would have a fight.
Their Sixth Base also disliked the Fourth Base's arrogant style, but on the one hand, as long as the Fourth Base didn't provoke them, they wouldn't take the initiative to attack each other.
On the other hand, the Sixth Base didn't pay much attention to the butler meeting, which was why the arrival of their base's butlers was delayed. There was little need for it.
Emily felt that Ya Xiao was still young and curious about everything, which was why he was excited to come to the meeting early in the morning.
That wasn't a bad thing.
After all, if it weren't for such a lively and optimistic personality, Ya Xiao wouldn't have been willing to be the marshal's butler, much less be so close to the marshal and the Sixth Base.