Inside the dimly lit room, the two men stared at each other.
The moonlight shone through the window, making the bedroom even quieter.
"I'll record the marshal's TH value."
Ya Xiao obediently answered Qin Qi's earlier question and then asked, "Is the marshal suffering from insomnia?"
Qin Qi watched the young butler standing in the doorway. The young man's attitude wasn't much different from usual except for the brief surprise he showed at first.
"Hmm, didn't fall asleep."
Qin Qi returned lightly.
Ya Xiao nodded and walked to Qin Qi's side to take the wristwatch. The history of the wristwatch marked the TH value fluctuating every hour, but in general, the value seemed to be stabilizing.
In other words, Qin Qi's current mood was still quite calm. As for why he can't sleep, this was probably only clear to himself.
"You can go back."
Waiting for Ya Xiao to record the TH value, Qin Qi lowered his head and put the wristwatch back on, his tone was calm.
Ya Xiao had planned before entering the door that if Qin Qi's TH value was fine, he would go straight back to his room. Hearing the other party hurrying him so much, Ya Xiao's gaze lingered on Qin Qi for two more seconds.
"Tomorrow, the marshal needs to meet with the marshals from other bases. Even if you can't sleep, you can still lie on the bed to relieve your fatigue."
"Hmm."
Qin Qi did not reject the butler's concern, but still sat on the chair without any intention to move.
Ya Xiao also stood in the same place without moving.
Dark clouds blocked the moonlight, and the room gradually darkened a lot. The two people stood face to face, and the air followed the stalemate.
"Not going?"
Qin Qi raised his eyes and looked over.
Ya Xiao shook his head, "I'm leaving, but I'd like to perform some healing for the marshal before I go."
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"Yes, I can see that."
Ya Xiao curved his eyes and smiled brightly, "But just in case, I still need to heal."
Being a demon himself, he could be energized without sleep for days, but not a human.
Even for the strongest humans, their emotions and bodies would be affected to some degree if they didn't sleep for a night.
This would likely cause Qin Qi to lose control.
If he wanted to absorb demon value, he had to eliminate the potential for danger from every aspect.
There was an investment before there was a return. This was something that Ya Xiao had calculated very well.
Qin Qi was a bit silent. Looking at Ya Xiao's unchanged smiling face, he compromised and agreed, "Hmm."
The young man's beautiful blue eyes instantly brightened a lot.
Qin Qi was somewhat puzzled by Ya Xiao's reason for being happy. It was clear that this matter would not bring benefits to Ya Xiao, but would instead add a lot of trouble.
If it were usual, Qin Qi might have raised his voice to inquire, but he was not in that mood now.
Ya Xiao put his fingers on Qin Qi's temples, leaning on the recliner. The man closed his eyes, his heart seemed to be pressed with a lot of things, and the frowning eyebrows vaguely revealed a few points of imperceptible fatigue.
"Thinking about what?"
A low voice suddenly rang out in the quiet room. Qin Qi's voice was a bit hoarse. Even with his eyes closed, he could still feel that Ya Xiao was staring at him as if he wanted to stare himself out of a big hole.
Originally, Qin Qi did not intend to pay any attention to it, but the other party's presence was too strong. He opened his eyes and looked at Ya Xiao.
Ya Xiao slowly channeled his spiritual power, not surprised that Qin Qi found his gaze, and asked honestly, "Is the marshal losing sleep because he saw Qin Chen not too long ago?"
Come to think of it, the villain usually doesn't lose sleep as long as he goes to bed on time before eleven o'clock most of the time, but today, he hasn't fallen asleep until now. There didn't seem to be any other reason other than meeting Qin Chen at night.
The dimly lit room suddenly quieted down.
Qin Qi stared at Ya Xiao's blue eyes which were exceptionally dazzling in the moonlight. After a long time, he moved his eyes away, and his voice was slightly cold: "If I say yes, what will you do?"
"Of course, it is to eliminate the possibility of him appearing in front of the marshal!" Ya Xiao answered without hesitation.
"Hm, I did lose sleep because of him."
Qin Qi didn't deny it, his tone was so smooth as if it was perfunctory, and it was impossible to feel what was going on inside him.
Ya Xiao felt something strange somewhere, and his tail hanging inside his pants slightly wiggled.
So was it or wasn't it?
While Ya Xiao was healing Qin Qi, he pondered about the relationship between the villain and Qin Chen in the original story.
In the original, the villain and Qin Chen didn't live together even though they were blood brothers. Qin Qi followed his grandfather to stay in the Sixth Base, while Qin Chen lived with his parents in another base.
At that time, the state of humans and insects was not as "stable" as it was now, and the passages between bases were not safe.
When the two brothers' parents died unexpectedly, the eleven-year-old Qin Qi and his grandfather were fighting on the front line. By the time they learned the news, his three-year-old brother Qin Chen had already disappeared.
You can imagine how difficult it was to find a young child in the middle of a war.
It wasn't until the year Qin Qi destroyed the Seventh Base that he found his younger brother who had been missing for many years in the Seventh Base and took the other back to live in the Sixth Base.
Although the twelve-year-old Qin Chen had only stayed in the Sixth Base for less than a year before making a fuss about going to other bases to look for Wei Shi, there was no doubt that the relationship between the two brothers was quite good.
When Qin Chen left back then, Qin Qi had sent quite a few of his own soldiers to escort him and had even left behind a trusted aide to protect Qin Chen until he reached adulthood.
It could be said that until the truth of the destruction of the Seventh Base was revealed, Qin Qi valued his wandering younger brother, and his younger brother also admired Qin Qi, who had saved the Seventh Base.
It was highly likely that Qin Qi would lose sleep over Qin Chen.
So was this the reason for the insomnia?
Ya Xiao looked at Qin Qi who didn't have much of an expression. After a long time, he withdrew his sight and didn't dwell on it much, and said in a rather light tone, "Then in the future, I will try my best to keep Qin Chen out of your presence."
[Fourth Uncle, remember to remind me when you bump into Qin Chen in the future]. Ya Xiao made a decision in his heart.
[Okay.]
The system answered quickly.
Qin Qi gave a hmm at his words.
The room fell into a long silence. The butler's healing took more than an hour. Ya Xiao pinched the time to finish it and moved away the fingers placed at Qin Qi's temples.
"Go rest."
"Okay."
After Ya Xiao did the healing, he felt that the villain wouldn't have any more accidents so he didn't object and left the room.
Qin Qi was the only one left in the room.
After the healing, every cell of the body seemed as if it had been washed by the morning dew, and the exhaustion of staying up all night was gone.
It was now 5:00 a.m. Qin Qi's eyes were a little dark, and his gaze fell on the door of the room that was shrouded in darkness.
The butler had just gone out.
The thin and slender young man was an extremely kind and responsible person. He even ran to his room in the middle of the night because he was overly worried. Such a character could easily suffer, and it seemed that he did not seem to realize this at all.
Qin Qi was not good at dealing with such an existence.
This could be one of the reasons why he indulged the other party to stay in his room.
The red eyeball was placed on the bed.
Qin Qi got up and walked over to the bedside to clutch it in his hand.
The butler was just an ordinary person and shouldn't know those things, or to be exact, no one should know those things until he found out the truth.
It was enough for the butler to think that his insomnia was influenced by Qin Chen.
As for Qin Chen who he saw yesterday.
Qin Qi exerted force under his hands. The eyeball instantly propped up as if it was going to rupture in the next second. His eyes darkened slightly, and he finally closed his eyes.
The slightly cool sunlight vaguely passed through the curtains. Qin Qi stood in the shadows. After a long time, he put the eyeball away and turned to leave the room.