Ya Xiao listened with interest to the two bases bickering when suddenly, his ears twitched slightly and his gaze was attracted to a figure.
That man with an inch-shaved head stood behind the four people from the Fifth Base who were arguing. He appeared unassuming compared to the others from the Fifth Base in terms of appearance and demeanor. However, his expression was filled with righteous indignation, as if he, like his companions, was also angered by the insults from the Fourth Base.
"Emily, do you recognize that butler?"
Emily heard Ya Xiao's question, followed the direction of his gaze, and shook her head, "I don't know him, but since he followed those four people from the Fifth Base, he should be the butler of the Fifth Base as well. Why, are you interested in him?"
Ya Xiao nodded obediently, not even blinking when he lied, "I think he looks a lot like a friend I used to know."
"Well, after all, all of you butlers are uniformly trained by the Butler Academy in the central city." The two looked about the same age as well, Emily felt that there was a high possibility that they knew each other, "Why don't you go over and ask?"
Ya Xiao agreed with Emily's suggestion.
He told Emily to wait here for a moment, while he lifted his feet and walked merrily to the man's side.
Xiao Chen hadn't turned on the video when she had communicated with her companion, but he had sent a voice message. According to Fourth Uncle's description, her companion's voice was rather peculiar, as dry and hoarse as if it had been burned by a fire.
When the cursing had died down a bit, Ya Xiao took it upon himself to smile with the other man, before pulling out the same excuse he had just given Emily.
"Sorry, I don't think we've met."
The man's voice was raspy and very recognizable.
The moment the other party's voice sounded, Ya Xiao instantly called Fourth Uncle over.
[Ding, according to the analysis of the recorded audio by the system, Similarity: 100%]
As soon as this data came out, Ya Xiao's heart was certain, his face revealed a few points of loss, and he said, "I really misrecognized. My optical brain coincidentally broke down at the time, and I didn't even have the time to add him as a friend."
Ya Xiao originally had a look that made people's hearts feel good. Coupled with the demon's deliberate disguise, it was almost impossible to see any loopholes in his performance.
Chen Kui didn't know that his identity had been exposed. They did set up an organization to assassinate Qin Qi, but so far, they hadn't made any moves, and the members of the organization had their own jobs during regular days.
Under such circumstances, he would never have imagined that there would be a butler who knew about the plot in advance, had specially come over to gather information to mix with him, and was also prepared to wipe out their lair in one fell swoop.
"I am the Sixth Base Marshal's butler, Ya Xiao." The young man extended his hand and introduced himself to Chen Kui.
The Sixth Base Marshal's butler?
Chen Kui had no reaction on his face and smiled as he shook Ya Xiao's hand, "I'm the butler of the Fifth Base Adjutant Zhuang De, Chen Kui."
What a great opportunity.
Qin Qi barely had any cracks as the marshal of the Sixth Base. Ya Xiao was the closest butler to him, so even if the other party was not valued, he definitely knew a lot of things they didn't know.
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Especially at this critical juncture, if they could pry any information out of the other party's mouth, perhaps it would be of great help to their assassination.
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Chen Kui's performance was perfect, the sadness of losing his homeland and the teasing of pretending to be strong would make people involuntarily feel good about him.
However, Ya Xiao didn't have as delicate a mind as a human. Almost as soon as he heard that the other party was a resident of the Seventh Base, he thought of the original plot.
In the original plot, Lieutenant General Qin Qi, who was sent to the Seventh Base to provide assistance, secretly destroyed the base's barrier, causing the Seventh Base to be breached and destroyed by the insects.
A few years later, the protagonist group looked for clues to the destruction of the Seventh Base and stumbled upon the fact that the destruction of the Seventh Base barrier actually had something to do with Qin Qi....
They treated the Seventh Base as their hometown, while Qin Qi single-handedly destroyed their Seventh Base, which was the root cause of the antagonism between the two sides.
Ya Xiao raised his hand and touched his ear bone clip.
Chen Kui seemed to have accepted the fact that the Seventh Base had been destroyed on the surface, but a butler with a stable life actually thought of assassinating the marshal. There seemed to be no reason other than to avenge his homeland.
Perhaps all the members of that organization were former residents of the Seventh Base, and they were organizing this assassination because they wanted to avenge the Seventh Base?
That was possible.
But how did Chen Kui and the others know about this? Even the protagonist group that had been investigating the cause of the destruction of the Seventh Base had only gotten a clue a short while ago and chose to break with the villain.
One link after another, this matter was unexpectedly troublesome.
Ya Xiao wagged his tail, instantly putting these unimportant things aside. Ya Xiao didn't care about how they knew about the Seventh Base. He only knew that he had to stop them from assassinating the villain.
Ya Xiao smiled brightly at Chen Kui, thoughtfully not mentioning this matter that might upset him again. Instead, he brought up the Fifth Base's butlers who were arguing.
"How long do they usually argue for?"
Chen Kui smoothly picked up, "Today is the first day of the meeting. The two most competitive butler representatives at the moment are the two at the very front, the Fourth Base marshal's butler Bolton and our base's Yan Chi."
"The two of them will stop when the meeting begins."
Ya Xiao looked at the two groups of people in front of him who were facing and at odds with each other.
It looked like it would take a while for them to stop. It had to be said that although the purpose was to set up a conversation, the hilarity was still quite nice to watch.
At the same time, the marshals including Qin Qi had also arrived at the venue. Unlike the chicken-and-dog scene on the butler's side, their border meeting was going to be a bit more serious.
The security cameras flashed red lights without sparing any dead angle, and the four marshals seated around the round table knew exactly what they were going to discuss next.
"The breeding period of the black bone insects has been determined."
Qin Qi's eyes were slightly deeper, and his voice was cold with a meaning that could not be rejected, "Other than the black bone insects other insects hadn't been found to have any special movements for the time being."
However, the lack of movement was the most terrifying thing.
The relationship between the border bases was not good, but as it was a matter of humanity's survival, the marshals here were aware of the seriousness of the matter.
"Understood. Before the spring meeting, our bases must exterminate the black bone insects as much as possible." Wista was still wearing a pair of sunglasses and crossing his legs, but his expression was a far cry from yesterday's improper look.
Marshal Wenbor of the Fourth Base also raised his chin, his blonde hair somewhat dazzling under the light, "Leave this matter to our Fourth Base with confidence."
"Our base will provide you with weapons as much as possible." Eighth Base Marshal Lu Chuanxi didn't even raise his head and kept recording something on a piece of paper with a pen.
Qin Qi let out a hmmm, then looked at the Fourth Base Marshal Wenbor.
Upon being gazed at by those oozing black eyes, even Wenbor, who had gone through great storms, instantly had his hair stand up in coldness. He seemed to know what Qin Qi was going to say and took the lead in holding back his anger as he opened his mouth and said, "Our base's taboo person, Runico, has already developed mental problems... What kind of punishment did you use on my people?"
"Following the rules."
Qin Qi calmly said.
When Wenbor saw this attitude, his anger immediately rose, he slapped the table and stood up, "Qin Qi!"
The hard table was slapped with a vibrating sound. Wenbor was annoyed and wanted to rush up to punch the person, but was stopped by Wista next to him.
"Don't be angry, who let your people get out of control in the Sixth Base?" Wista pulled on a smile, his tone improper but with a bit of warning, "Even if it's Qin Qi himself who lost control in the Sixth Base, once he triggered chaos, he still has to face absolute punishment, doesn't he?"
No one could break the rules of the Sixth Base, not even Qin Qi himself.
Wenbor was furious but could only clench his fists. In fact, it was precisely because of Qin Qi's absolute fairness and equal treatment that caused him such a headache, otherwise he would have long since gotten into a fight with the other party.
"Wenbor."
"What?" Wenbor looked up, displeased, and replied.
"I need to send my subordinates to search the Fourth Base."
A cold voice rang out.
Wenbor was directly exasperated and laughed, "What makes you think I would agree to that?"
The two marshals on the sidelines, Wista and Lu Chuanxi, both of whom were also staring curiously at the black-haired man's response. Logically speaking, it was just the taboo that had gone out of control, so why did they suddenly need to search the Fourth Base?
Under the gaze of the people, Qin Qi took out a number plate, as well as a test report of a special substance attached to it.
He raised his dark and sharp eyes, which made it impossible to read his thoughts:
"Runico's loss of control was maliciously guided by someone, and the clues are currently tied off at the Fourth Base."
On the other side, the meeting finally started. Ya Xiao looked at Bolton on the stage who was giving a passionate speech about running for the butler representative, and withdrew his eyes.
The tip of his tail drooped in boredom.
It was more interesting to watch the butlers of the two bases bicker than something like this.
Fortunately, although the meeting would be held for three days in a row, it would only be held for two hours a day in order not to affect the butlers' ability to serve their employers.
So by the time Ya Xiao crossed his optical brain, the session was already at its end.
"Chen Kui, let's add friends."
Ya Xiao waved his optical brain at Chen Kui.
Because he wasn't too familiar yet, Ya Xiao didn't chat with Chen Kui for too long, lest he cause the other party to be wary.
Chen Kui obviously had the same idea as Ya Xiao.
He didn't know if it was his illusion, but the cheerful and lively black-haired young man in front of him would raise another topic every time he brought up the marshal without any trace, making it so that he couldn't get any information.
But the other party changed the topic too naturally, which in turn made Chen Kui couldn't help but feel that he was overthinking it.
"Of course, I'll scan you."
Chen Kui raised his optical brain. As long as he added as friends, there was always a chance to gather news.
The atmosphere was very cordial as the two people who had their hearts in the right place smiled at each other.
On the way back, Emily flew the hovercar. The scene outside the window kept receding. Ya Xiao admired the flickering scenery outside, enjoying the speed very much.
Just when he wanted to propose to Emily to go faster, the system suddenly spoke out:
[Host! I seem to have found their nest!]
Ya Xiao's eyes brightened slightly at his words: [Great, Fourth Uncle!]
[It's just not very likely.]
The system wasn't sure if it was right.
[It's fine.]
Ya Xiao boldly said in his heart, [I can use the Great Demon Experience Voucher to explore and check if it's their organization's den!]