By the time Soren arrived in the second-floor hallway, Emily had tied the two butlers together.
The two had come to their senses, their backs were leaning against each other and their heads drooped helplessly. Their tuxedos were disheveled, their bodies were dirty, and their moods were low. Their eyes were numb as if they had already resigned themselves to their fate.
Soren's gaze traced over the bound pair, his tensed nerves relaxing a bit, "Good thing you took care of them in time."
If Ya Xiao had been attacked, he dared not imagine what decisions the marshal would face.
"No."
No what?
Soren looked at Emily.
Emily's expression was a bit complicated, "It was Ya Xiao who solved them."
Soren originally had no expression, but when he heard what Emily said, his eyes widened slightly, "Ya Xiao?"
As he was talking, Ya Xiao came out of the restroom. Seeing his friend, a happy smile appeared on his face, "Soren, you also came to the butler meeting?"
The black-haired young man was still as lively as ever with a slender figure. It was hard to see that the other party could tackle two strong and powerful adult men.
Soren hmmed, signaling with his eyes for Emily to continue explaining what had happened.
Emily wanted to smoke a cigarette to ease her emotions, but in the end, she just took out the cigarette and played with it in her hand. She raised her chin towards the two tied-up butlers and said in a complicated tone, "They were put down by Ya Xiao's stun gun. I didn't do anything. Things were already over when I went in."
Hearing the words "stun gun". Soren's eyebrows twitched. He glanced at the fair and well-behaved-looking young man, obviously not expecting the marshal's butler to have this thing on him.
Chen Kui and Ert who were tied up and sitting on the ground were originally quiet, but after hearing the stun gun, they seemed to be stabbed by needles, wriggling frantically. Chen Kui's eyes stared at Ya Xiao with hatred.
"What's with the stun gun?!"
"Why did you know we were going to kill you?!"
"I should have done it sooner!"
Chen Kui and Ert howled in hatred, their movements wild and frantic, as if rabid dogs, venting their hatred towards Ya Xiao. The ropes tightly bound them. If it weren't for that cursed stun gun, Ya Xiao would likely have been killed by them with their knives.
"The stun gun is something I bought recently."
Ya Xiao looked at the two men who had fallen into a frenzy and dutifully answered their first question, "There are no side effects, it will only knock you out for a few minutes."
Chen Kui and Ert didn't expect the other party to actually start answering them, and the hatred in their eyes intensified. They were about to continue cursing when Emily tsked in annoyance. With a flick of her hand, the sharp dagger grazed Chen Kui's cheek and plunged onto the floor.
"Be quiet."
Her eyes narrowed slightly, and her cold voice carried a warning tone, instantly causing the two butlers to shut up.
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This time, it was her negligence. If Ya Xiao hadn't brought the stun gun, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Ya Xiao seems not to be affected by what just happened at all. With a look of trusting Emily, he nodded his head seriously, "Okay."
Emily's face loosened up a little. She would always follow Ya Xiao around and would never let such a thing happen again to scare this fragile youth.
In fact, compared to Ya Xiao, the victim of the incident, the faces of the butlers below were a bit more ugly. They all saw the guards taking away their two fellow butlers.
Bolton and Yan Chi, the butlers of the marshals of the Fourth and Fifth Bases, also knew about Ya Xiao's assassination under the short explanation given by the guards. The two of them temporarily put aside their animosity and gathered around to comfort him.
"Are you injured?"
Bolton's tone was restrained and reserved. Ya Xiao was his rival, but truly speaking, he couldn't afford to rise with ill feelings towards Ya Xiao.
"I'm sorry about Chen Kui."
Yan Chi stood at Bolton's side with a grimace, his eyes filled with sadness as he did not expect Chen Kui to actually try to assassinate Ya Xiao.
The base military had blocked the news very well. So far, apart from the few marshals, uninvolved people simply did not know that Qin Qi had terminated a nest of assassins in the morning.
Yet even if nothing was clear, as the marshal's butler, he knew after a little thought that Chen Kui's purpose in assassinating Ya Xiao must have been to try to disadvantage Marshal Qin.
Why would Chen Kui and Ert be against Qin Qi?
Yan Chi was puzzled in his heart, but the moment they turned against Ya Xiao, the two of them were enemies of the border bases.
The other butlers of the Fifth Base also temporarily suppressed their low moods and followed behind Yan Chi to care for Ya Xiao. They were all close friends with Chen Kui. Chen Kui had come to the base for eight years and had long since become a part of the base. No one expected the other party to do such a thing.
"I'm fine."
Ya Xiao looked at the crowd gathering around, feeling slightly uncomfortable. He replied with a slight curve of his eyes.
The demon was a little unused to receiving concern from humans.
Meanwhile, the Eighth Base marshal's butler, Gabe, looked at Ya Xiao, who was surrounded by many butlers, from a distance. After hesitating for a moment, he still didn't go forward.
"Gabe, we need to apologize to him for what happened to Ert." Next to him, Kunard, who was also a butler of the Eighth Base, had a somewhat downcast expression, "I heard that Ert tried to stab Ya Xiao with a dagger at that time."
"It's a good thing Emily followed or Ya Xiao might have really met an untimely end."
"I know."
Gabe nodded, his eyes somewhat guilty.
He had never known that Ert actually had such dangerous thoughts. He didn't even know when Ert had contacted Chen Kui.
He had been under the impression that the butlers of the Eighth Base were all as close as family.
"Of course, we have to apologize."
The officers of the Eighth Base were mostly a group of researchers who were not good at expressing themselves. The butlers who serve them also tend to be quiet and introverted, with more delicate thoughts.
Gabe looked at Ya Xiao, "As I recall, Ya Xiao wanted to compete for butler representative, correct?"
"It should be."
Kunard nodded. Their base had always cast their votes for the Fourth Base.
After all, the Fifth Base's butler, Yan Chi, was really out of tune like his employer. They still favored the proper and reserved Bolton over Yan Chi.
"You go check out Ya Xiao's information."
Gabe whispered, "If he doesn't overwhelm us like Yan Chi, our butlers' votes will all go to him."
Kunard was about to say something but then nodded his head in deep thought after thinking about Bolton's mediocre performance as a butler representative over the past few years.
Ya Xiao was not aware of the impending wave of votes that would fall on his head. He looked around at the group of concerned butlers and was a bit uncomfortable at first.
But when more people greeted him, he gradually returned to normal, the corner of his mouth unconsciously hooked up a smile, and the tip of his tail slapped his calf in small increments.
[Fourth Uncle, it feels good to be cared for by humans.] Ya Xiao commented in his heart with a light tone.
It was different from being in the demon world.
Weakness was the original sin in the demon realm, being attacked by one's own kind was the norm. If they weren't injured, they were fine. If they were injured, they would either be slaves or eaten. No demon would give their own kind any extra warmth.
Ya Xiao was new to human concern.
Once he got used to it, he accepted it well and smiled as he chatted with each butler who came up to him. The demon's memory was good. There were nearly seventeen or eighteen butlers in the venue, and Ya Xiao remembered all of them by name in a single chat.
"We'll go back together later?"
Li Chao, who was the same Sixth Base butler as Ya Xiao, asked with a smile.
Ya Xiao was the youngest among the Sixth Base butlers, but ever since he had served as Marshal Qin's butler, the Sixth Base butlers had looked at Ya Xiao as their leader.
"Yeah."
In a good mood, Ya Xiao now had a strong tolerance for humans.
He looked down at the time, the meeting had totaled two hours and was about to end in ten minutes.
That's not okay. Ya Xiao also prepared a special speech today. He spoke to Emily and planned to go up to the stage to make his declaration of running for the position of butler representative.
"You're still going up there today?"
Emily froze for a moment. Ya Xiao had suffered an assassination only a few minutes ago, and now he was going up on stage?
"Yeah."
Ya Xiao had long forgotten about the assassination just now. He nodded at Emily, then quizzically said, "Can't I go up on stage anymore?"
Then what about his speech?
It was specially written for him by his Fourth Uncle.
"No." Emily denied it, realizing once again how strong the young man's heart was in front of her. She gave a little smile at the corner of her mouth, "Go for it."
"Uh-huh."
Ya Xiao curved his eyes.
Each of the participating butlers had ten minutes for their speeches. Ya Xiao had previously undergone professional speech training in virtual space, so naturally at this time, he did not suffer from stage fright and smoothly finished his speech.
The dozen or so butlers below were also a bit surprised that Ya Xiao would directly give a speech today, after all, he had just experienced a thrilling assassination.
However, it had to be said that such a calm and collected Ya Xiao who was able to quickly return to his previous state in the event of an incident had indeed gained their goodwill.
[The host has performed well.]
The system wiped its tears. The speech written by itself was read out by the host, making the system particularly moved ah.
Ya Xiao was aware that the task had been completed, and his mood was more relaxed. He bent his eyes and said in his heart: [Fourth Uncle, did you record the video of my speech?]
[Of course!]
The system, as an elder, preserved all the memorable moments from Ya Xiao's childhood to adulthood.
Ya Xiao was instantly relieved when he heard this: [That's great! Fourth Uncle, please help me send the video to the villain!]
[Why send it to the villain?]
The system was a bit puzzled.
[Of course, it's so he can watch it.]
Ya Xiao said as a matter of fact.
System: ......
So, why should the villain see it?