The black-haired butler's smile was sincere.
But Sheng Cheng's heart was scared when he saw Ya Xiao's face now. He always felt that the other party was going to assign him a task in the next second: "Is... is that so?"
"It's good that you didn't do anything outside the door, haha."
As soon as the words left his mouth, Sheng Cheng immediately wanted to punch himself in the mouth. What the hell was he talking about?
The smile on Ya Xiao's face remained unchanged.
Sheng Cheng moved his eyes away inexplicably with a little bit of guilt. He moved to the side to make room for Ya Xiao, "Ya Xiao, you go ahead. We have to leave first."
With that said, Sheng Cheng's other hand tugged at Wittin, wanting to leave this place of trouble as soon as possible.
However, he didn't pull Wittin behind him.
Hurry up and go, what are you waiting for?
Sheng Cheng cursed in his heart and glanced behind him with a forced smile on his face.
He saw that Wittin, who was following behind him, had a friendly smile on his face and took the initiative to talk to that devilish superior: "Ya Xiao, you've been busy all morning. There's the newest juice in the pantry today, you should like it very much."
After quickly determining that Ya Xiao did not hear their conversation in the pantry, the middle-aged man who has always had an eye on him pulled away from Sheng Cheng's hand to get closer to Ya Xiao and talked about the topic that his boss was interested in.
"Yeah?"
Ya Xiao's attention was instantly taken away. He curved his eyes, excitedly saying, "What's the number of the juice?"
"I'll take you in."
Wittin said as he brought Ya Xiao along toward the inner room of the pantry.
Sheng Cheng stood outside the door alone, instantly realizing Wittin's thoughts. His heart burst with displeasure. Wittin looked kind on the surface, but in reality, he had a belly full of little intentions.
He flattered Ya Xiao so much that he wanted to go to the central city with the other party during the spring meeting.
Sheng Cheng hesitated for a moment, suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and also followed. Even if he didn't want to communicate with that hateful butler, he still had to go to the spring meeting.
His plans with that person could not allow any slip-ups.
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Ya Xiao received the juice handed over by Wittin, turned his head to look at Sheng Cheng when he heard the footsteps, and curiously said, "Sheng Cheng, are you waiting for Wittin?"
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The smile on Sheng Cheng's face was nearly impossible to maintain. He looked at Ya Xiao's thoughtful expression and smiled defensively, "It's fine, those materials are all very simple."
Now, you're tripping me up. If I leave in a while, are you going to complain to Ya Xiao behind my back and make yourself look like a good person?
Mind you, with Emily already determined to go to the central city, every additional chance Wittin gets to go there decreases my own chances of going!
The cunning Wittin must be thinking the same thing, and Sheng Cheng hated it in his heart.
Ya Xiao blinked, outwardly acting as if he didn't understand their exchange, but inwardly observing the two with interest.
Wittin, the future member of the protagonist group, knew how to judge the situation very well and was a very ambitious person. As long as the villain's camp didn't fall, he would remain loyal to the villain, and it was normal for him to want to go to the central city.
Similarly, Sheng Cheng's reason for going to the central city was not hard to guess.
In the original plot, both of them went to the central city.
If Sheng Cheng were to be stopped from causing trouble in the central city, the best way would be to not bring him to the spring meeting.
However, after thinking about it for a while, Ya Xiao dismissed this option.
Sheng Cheng was an odd person.
As Ya Xiao recalled the plot, he originally thought that Sheng Cheng was just an assassin who wanted to kill the marshal but never succeeded and followed the protagonist group at a later stage.
But as he analyzed the plot over and over again, Ya Xiao gradually realized that Sheng Cheng was not simple.
After Sheng Cheng killed Soren by chance, he was always being hunted by the Sixth Base, but until the marshal died and the story moved towards the grand finale, he was still alive and well.
You have to know that Sheng Cheng, this peripheral character floating on the sidelines of the protagonist group, doesn't have high force value. He was just an inconspicuous minor character in the storyline. How could he escape repeated assassination attempts? Even many important characters in the protagonist group have died later in the story.
This forced Ya Xiao to raise Sheng Cheng's importance upwards.
It was better to take him.
Ya Xiao patted the board and decided that since Sheng Cheng wanted to follow him to the spring meeting so much, it would be better to just put him under his nose.
In case he didn't bring Sheng Cheng, the other party would secretly follow him and might bring more changes.
Thinking of this, Ya Xiao looked at Sheng Cheng, who was sarcastically looking at Wittin in front of him, and took a sip of the juice. The sweet and sour flavor exploded on his taste buds, and Ya Xiao's eyes couldn't help but let out a smile.
Anyway, in the original plot, what Sheng Cheng had done was to join an underground organization and kill Adjutant Soren.
At that time, he would only need to expend a little bit of energy to stop Sheng Cheng without wasting too much magic power, which was still very cost-effective.
And he might even be able to use Sheng Cheng to know why the marshal destroyed the Seventh Base.
Of course, Ya Xiao could actually directly control Sheng Cheng to know more things, but he had a premonition that it would consume a lot of his demon value, and this period's efforts might be all for naught.
Ya Xiao instantly ruled out this option. Anyway, he could take his time to observe and find the truth.
No amount of interest was as important as his demon value!
"Let's go!"
Ya Xiao quickly finished his juice and tossed the box into the trash can, flashing a bright smile at the two in a very friendly manner.
Did he really not get his hint?
Wittin watched Ya Xiao's reaction, and his kind smile stiffened a bit.
Sheng Cheng glanced at Wittin, suppressed the mockery in his heart, and smiled at Ya Xiao, "Okay, let's go."
When he passed by Wittin, he deliberately bumped Wittin with his shoulder, just like treating a close friend of his, and smirked, "What is Wittin frozen for? Hurry up, don't make Ya Xiao wait in a hurry."
Wittin's face stiffened as he watched Sheng Cheng leave after Ya Xiao, and he hurriedly followed.
It seemed that this demon boss wasn't useless sometimes, at least he was too stupid to understand what was said.
Sheng Cheng looked at Ya Xiao who was walking in front of him. Before he could be happy for long, the young butler looked as if he had thought of something. He stopped his steps, his blue eyes looked at Sheng Cheng, and he suddenly spoke out.
"Sheng Cheng, after this you don't need to look up information for me anymore."
Sheng Cheng: ????
Why? Could it be that Ya Xiao had actually heard Wittin's hints, so he wasn't going to delegate tasks to him anymore?
Sheng Cheng's heart thumped. If it was in the past, he might have been happy and wouldn't have cared much about it at all, but now, it was the critical juncture of the spring meeting. Ya Xiao's failure to delegate a task to him, on the contrary, gave Sheng Cheng an ominous premonition.
"For...... why?"
"Because the spring meeting is just around the corner ah."
Ya Xiao looked at him sincerely, "So you don't need to check the information for me anymore lately."
Recently, as the butler representative, he was super busy and had no time to look at the information Sheng Cheng looked up, so he simply didn't let the other party look it up and saved himself the time of checking it out.
When Sheng Cheng heard this, he felt even more bad. Was Ya Xiao really not prepared to bring him to the meeting in the spring?
The smile on Wittin's face, which had been superficial, finally showed a hint of sincerity. With a kindly expression, he patted Sheng Cheng on the shoulder as if genuinely happy for him, "That's great, Sheng Cheng. Now, you can have plenty of time to rest."
Sheng Cheng: Alright, you big-headed bastard.
The system watched as the two people, Wittin and Sheng Cheng, had various changes in their emotions because of the host's few words. The system was silent for a moment: [Host, are you doing this on purpose?]
[Fourth Uncle, I don't understand what you're saying.]
Ya Xiao's blue eyes curved into a crescent moon, while the tail behind him flicked a few times.
Seeing this expression of the host, what else could the system not know? It raised its old glasses and coughed a few times. Well, it was normal, the host was still a 400-year-old little demon that liked to play.
After Ya Xiao had a pleasant conversation with his two assistants, he pinpointed the time and went to the villain's office with light steps.
The butler came in from outside just a few minutes after Qin Qi had taken a break from his work. Qin Qi lifted his eyes and glanced at Ya Xiao. He realized that the young man seemed a bit happier than usual and withdrew his gaze.
There was nothing to ask about that.
Because in a few moments, the butler, who couldn't hide his secrets, would shake out the interesting stories around him, one by one.
This time, however, instead of chatting about all sorts of gossip as he would have liked, Ya Xiao leaned over and reminded him:
"Marshal, we can go downstairs now. Adjutant Mist has the hovercar ready to take us to the agency to have our identities checked."
Ya Xiao curved his blue eyes and looked down at Qin Qi.
Hearing this, Qin Qi realized that it had come to what it was now. He hmmed, got up, and left the office with the butler.
The high-risk taboo people who were headed to the central city had to be accompanied by a butler who had been with them for three months before they were allowed to enter. The inspection agency existed precisely to verify this step.
The verification step, while not troublesome, needed to be uploaded to the central city for verification, and the time that this took was not short.
By the time the verification was successful, Ya Xiao had already followed the marshal onto the airship, and they traveled to the central city together.