For nearly a week, Sheng Cheng hadn't been given any more tasks by Ya Xiao. He originally thought that he was out of luck and planned to find another way to go to the central city, but who would have thought that when Ya Xiao reported the assistants who were going to the central city, he would take him with him as well?
Thinking back to his apprehensive mood this week, Sheng Cheng felt that he was played as a monkey by Ya Xiao.
"How nice, now we can all go to the central city."
Wittin, who had also followed him over, patted Sheng Cheng's shoulder and smiled in a friendly manner.
"Right."
Sheng Cheng forced a smile. Seeing Wittin now made him sick to his stomach, but who let himself still have to go undercover to execute a plan in the military department? He had to maintain the harmony on the surface.
When his plan with that adult succeeded, he would absolutely have to break the two people, Wittin and Ya Xiao, into pieces! Sheng Cheng suppressed the killing intent in his heart.
"Do you guys like the central city so much?"
A familiar voice suddenly came from behind him. Sheng Cheng's body subconsciously stiffened for a moment. Next to him, Wittin was acting happily as he laughed at Ya Xiao, who was standing behind him:
"The central city is the most prosperous base for humans at the moment. There shouldn't be anyone who wouldn't like the central city."
Regardless of whether it was an ordinary person or an officer of the base, as long as they wanted to have a better life, they were all trying to squeeze into the central city, but unfortunately, the review of the central city's occupancy was extremely strict. If an ordinary person wanted to have the status of the central city, they had to have an extremely high value in a certain aspect.
"But of course, I still prefer the Sixth Base." Wittin smiled innocently, but the words he uttered were very much against his will.
"Me too."
Ya Xiao responded with curved eyes. He had lived in the central city for a while, and it was still the Sixth Base with the villain that was more interesting in comparison.
He glanced to the left of the corridor. There was desert sand outside the window. The closer he got to the central city, the more he could see the green forests and shimmering lakes outside every now and then.
Hmm, a pretty ordinary view.
Ya Xiao withdrew his eyes. He just happened to pass by before he struck up a conversation with the two to see what was interesting. There was nothing interesting outside now. He spoke briefly to the two and returned to the villain's room.
At that moment, Qin Qi was talking to the border base marshals, and the upper bodies of three other marshals were projected in mid-air.
Ya Xiao quietly entered the room and took advantage of the gap to add a cup of coffee to Qin Qi, then quietly stood on his backside to keep himself out of the picture.
From time to time, the two marshals' back-and-forth came from the optical screen. Qin Qi didn't pay any attention to them as he took a sip of his coffee. As the two men, Wista and Wenbor, went head-to-head once again, Qin Qi put down his cup, his voice a little deeper:
"If there is no important matter, there is no need for us to continue the video communication."
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"Arriving today."
Wista rarely gave Wenbor face.
Lu Chuanxi of the Eighth Base looked sideways to the left, seemingly asking his subordinate for a specific time before saying, "I'll arrive tomorrow afternoon."
"Today."
Qin Qi returned indifferently.
Wenbor's expression was much better, his slightly curled blonde hair dazzling in the light.
"Got it."
Wenbor lifted his chin and nodded his head condescendingly, "There's nothing more to do/ See you tomorrow."
With that, he directly closed the communication, and only two of the three projections in mid-air were instantly left.
"What's wrong with him?"
Wista tsked as his fingers nimbly knitted a pink scarf, "Wasn't he the one who took the initiative to send a video communication over? Just asking that question and leaving?"
Lu Chuanxi lowered his head to calculate the weapon data and looked up when he heard this, "I heard him say before that he wasn't very good at dealing with the three marshals in the central city and the second-tier bases, so I guess he didn't want to be the first to arrive."
Ya Xiao was idly listening to them talk gossip on the sidelines, following their conversations and thinking about what was in the plot.
As a matter of fact, these four marshals of the border didn't have a good relationship with the marshals of the inner circle bases. More than once in the plot, the protagonist group had seen the two groups of marshals fight for real at the spring meeting.
On the worst occasion, Wenbor even had an arm chopped off.
As expected, after hearing Lu Chuanxi's explanation, Wista snorted. The target of his attack was not the always disliked Wenbor, but those few marshals from the inner circle:
"It's no wonder, those few marshals of theirs are all more eccentric than one another. That Wenbor guy doesn't have a good IQ, so how could he possibly be able to fight them."
Lu Chuanxi didn't say anything as he heard this. He turned to look at Qin Qi who was sitting on a chair, not knowing what he was kneading, and spoke out, "I'll try to arrive at the central city as early as I can. If there's anything going on in the central city side, remember to contact me."
"Hmm."
Qin Qi did not refuse. When Lu Chuanxi turned off the communication, only Wista was left with a projection.
"Anything else?"
Qin Qi lifted his gaze, and his line of sight landed on Wista, who was knitting a scarf.
Wista was wearing sunglasses as usual. He crossed his legs and knitted the scarf quickly.
"It's fine, I just wanted to ask what you plan to do about your brother? I heard that a few months ago, you beat your brother half to death and didn't allow him to take a step into the Sixth Base."
Qin Qi's face instantly sank.
Ya Xiao was still near him. As soon as he heard these words, he was instantly alert, the tip of his tail stood up in small increments. Mentioning the protagonist group at this time, Ya Xiao was really worried that Qin Qi's mood would be unstable, leading to a rise in his TH value.
The wristwatch did not issue a warning for the time being.
Ya Xiao also didn't walk up, just staring at Qin Qi's back from the rear.
"You know Qin Chen's movements?"
Qin Qi's tone was still considered calm, but his palm kept rubbing the eyeball with much heavier force.
Wista's movement of knitting the scarf remained unchanged. He grinned, "Don't joke, I don't believe that you don't know where your brother is."
Qin Qi said faintly, "Hmm, I don't know."
The arc of Wista's mouth became smaller. He knew that Qin Qi valued his long-lost brother.
Earlier, when the news that Qin Qi had severely injured his brother came out, Wista realized that Qin Chen must have done something to make Qin Qi so furious.
Now, it seemed that what Qin Chen had done was much more serious than he had imagined.
"Qin Chen is currently at the Third Base. I've heard that he'll be coming to the central city in a couple of days." Wista said as he stopped knitting his scarf, his tone much more serious:
"If you don't want to see him, I'll stop him for you."
There was a long silence in the room.
After a long while, a calm voice rang out.
"No need, I'm no longer related to him."
Wista observed Qin Qi's expression, there was no crack. He scratched the back of his head, crossed his legs, continued to knit the scarf, and said, "Alright, if you say so, then so be it. We'll see you later."
The projection disappeared and the room fell into complete silence.
Ya Xiao looked at the villain's upright and silent back. He thought about it and moved to the side.
Qin Qi was pondering the purpose of Qin Chen's trip to the central city when he heard the commotion. He hid the various emotions within him and slightly turned his head sideways, looking at the butler who had come to his side.
"Marshal, want to be comforted?"
The young butler opened his hand towards him, his beautiful blue eyes seemed like dazzling starlight in the night sky, and his eyebrows curved in a gentle manner.
Qin Qi instantly thought of the scene three months ago when he was held in Ya Xiao's arms and comforted. The knot in his throat rolled up and down a bit. He withdrew his eyes and his voice was as flat as usual: "No need."
"Okay."
Ya Xiao made sure that the villain's TH value wasn't affected and happily withdrew his hand, taking a step back.
Well, it seems that the younger brother will not affect the villain now. Ya Xiao pondered for a moment. When the protagonist group met with the villain in the central city, the villain was injected with an inhibitor and would not be out of control per se.
Now, the villain did not inject the inhibitor, but according to Qin Qi's reaction just now, it seems that he does not need to be too careful?
However, it was still necessary to observe a bit more.
Ya Xiao made a decision in his heart. After all, the villain's inhibitor was not clear at the moment. It was still necessary to keep an eye on the protagonist group, so as not to let anything happen to make Qin Qi lose control.
Meanwhile, inside the Third Base.
Wei Shi waved his hand for his junior to carry the office's luggage, while he himself walked over to Qin Chen's side.
"We should get going."
"Got it, is there anything else to move?" Qin Chen rolled up his sleeve, revealing the bandage wrapped around his arm, which was faintly bloodstained, the wound had been chipped open again.
Even after three months of recuperation, there were still a lot of unhealed wounds on his body, enough to see how badly he was beaten at that time.
Qin Chen's face darkened quite a bit as he gritted his teeth, seemingly thinking of the scene of being beaten up painfully at that time again.
When Wei Shi saw the bandages that were oozing blood, his gaze was a bit unforgiving. As soon as he raised his head, he saw the pain and sadness hidden in Qin Chen's eyes. He pursed his lips and patted Qin Chen's back, "We're now going to the central city to find out the truth about the Seventh Base."
"Perhaps Marshal Qin was wrongly accused and the destruction of the Seventh Base had nothing to do with him."
The corner of Qin Chen's mouth tugged with a bit of sarcasm and unnoticeable dismay, "Let's hope."
Even though the possibility was close to zero.