Will, the marshal of the central city, shaky and wobbly, leaned on his cane. Traces of time were scattered sporadically across his face, his skin sagging. As soon as he entered, he closed his eyes pretending to doze off.
Will's arrival signaled the beginning of the meeting.
The marshals of all the bases were gathered.
They were all seated around a round table, but there was an uncanny sense of separation.
It was very quiet in the meeting room.
The marshals of the second-tier bases and the border bases didn't say anything. Their gazes were not hidden at all as they looked at each other, and their auras vaguely collided with each other in a kind of tit-for-tat contest as if there was a very deep barrier between them.
The marshal who sat on the main seat representing the central city was intentionally or unintentionally ignored by them. After all, at the spring meeting, the central city was just a display.
"Huh, Wista, haven't you succeeded in your courtship yet?"
The meeting started. First Base Marshal Delbo looked at the neighboring seat with some surprise on his face. Those deep peach blossom eyes looked at Wista, and his tone was a bit flirtatious:
"If you don't mind the gender, you can propose to me, and I'll say yes."
After saying that, Delbo threw a wink at Wista and added under his breath, "But if we get married, you'll have to send a few hundred more taboos into our base, so that I can feel safe."
"F*ck off."
Wista's scarf-knitting hand paused for a moment. Then, a chill ran down his spine, "I wouldn't be with you even if I proposed to Wenbor, so get over it! And I only like women!"
Wenbor's forehead veins rippled as he was suddenly dragged into this, but he did not retort, which was rare.
The second-tier bases and border bases would compete for resources. In the end, Wista was in the same front of cooperation, which was still a bit different from Delbo.
"All right."
The lines on Guwen's face deepened a bit as he looked sharply at the allies next to him, "We're in the middle of a meeting right now, so even if you guys want to joke around, you should pay attention to the occasion."
The marshals who were still talking back to each other just now gave face to the old-timers and shut their mouths. The meeting hall instantly became much quieter.
Satisfied, Guwen turned his head to look at Qin Qi:
"I've heard all about the black bone insects at the border base, have the other demonic insects made any movements?"
"Not for the time being."
Qin Qi returned nonchalantly, "But for the safety of the bases and the central city, we need to be prepared to deal with crises at any time, so the resources for this spring meeting must be tilted towards the border bases."
Guwen frowned.
The border bases having more resources meant that their three second-tier bases would have fewer resources.
"This matter cannot be arbitrarily decided."
Delbo's peach blossom eyes slightly picked up as he took a sip of the green nutrient solution and slowly said, "After all, the second-tier bases also have to be responsible for the safety of the passageway. Our second-tier bases don't have a lot of taboo people themselves. If there are even fewer resources, what about the safety of the bases' people?"
"Don't use the people as a shield. Can those demonic insects in the passageway be as important as the ones outside the border bases?!"
Wista was exasperated and laughed. He wasn't even going to knit a scarf anymore, "The resources of the second-tier bases would have been enough for you guys to keep the passageway safe a long time ago!"
"What a bunch of cowards."
Wenbor rarely agreed with Wista's words, his eyes somewhat disdainful, his blonde hair even more brilliant in the light.
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However, when he heard the word coward in Wenbor's mouth, it was as if Cheng Di suddenly flipped a switch. His cowardly face was colored with a hint of madness. He bit his fingers like crazy, paranoid as if he had lost his mind, and his trembling voice kept asking himself questions:
"Coward? Who? Our base?"
The pale man hunched his back, his face gradually reddening and his body shivering, huffing and puffing as if he were very sick.
"Xiao Cheng Di's second personality is coming out?"
Delbo raised an eyebrow, "This is not the time to let him out, is it? Otherwise, we're not going to have this meeting."
"F*ck! Then why don't you stop it!"
Wenbor had a headache. This was why he wasn't good at dealing with these second-tier base marshals.
This Cheng Di guy was usually very timid and not suitable to be a marshal at all, but his second personality was a very powerful and crazy existence with a high force value. If he didn't control it well, the slightest mistake would destroy the entire meeting hall.
Come to think of it, his three companions in the border bases were not good, but would not give him such a headache. If Wenbor were to choose one, he would not hesitate to choose his ally.
Wenbor cursed and signaled Delbo to hurry up.
"Fine."
Delbo shrugged his shoulders and resignedly took on the task.
From the beginning of the talk about the black bone insects until now, the meeting hall was almost never quiet. It was noisy from beginning to end, and it was no wonder that outsiders were not allowed to participate in this meeting.
Qin Qi did not say a word throughout the whole process as if he was a bystander, not paying the slightest attention to what was going on in the meeting hall, lazily playing with the eyeball in his palm, apart from introducing the topic at the beginning.
But those black eyes swept over every marshal present without any trace, Delbo, Cheng Di, Guwen...
Each one's performance was taken in by him, and finally, Qin Qi lowered his eyelashes, his expression dark.
No one could guess what he was thinking.
A less formal meeting ended unhappily, which didn't seem too different from previous years.
The marshals seemed to be psychologically prepared and left with a somewhat unhappy look on their faces, but they didn't make a particularly unpleasant scene.
Everyone knew that the meetings in the following days would be tough battles for them, and today this was just a test.
When Qin Qi and Wista walked out side by side, Ya Xiao and the other butlers were already guarding outside the door.
"We'll talk about it tomorrow if there's something."
Wista waved his hand and brought his butler Yan Chi to say wearily, "I'm really tired after this meeting. I don't know when we'll be able to discuss the results."
Ya Xiao stood at Qin Qi's side, realizing that this meeting did not go well.
According to the description in the plot, the daily routine of the marshals at the spring meeting was to tug on resources for various matters. One matter would often be dragged on for a long time, so looking at it this way, it was indeed quite normal for the first day's meeting to be fruitless.
He looked slightly sideways at the villain's expression.
Hmm, can't see much.
Ya Xiao withdrew his gaze again.
After leaving, the group returned to their temporary residence, where Qin Qi called a few of his subordinates to take care of their work, while Ya Xiao had the presence of mind to leave the office.
He stood outside the door and thought for a moment. Then, he turned on his feet and headed to the office where Emily and the others were, intending to find her to hang out with.
The bad news was that Emily wasn't there.
The good news was that Sheng Cheng was present.
As soon as Sheng Cheng saw Ya Xiao, his whole body didn't look too good, as if he was once again back to the fear of being overwhelmed by the heavy tasks, but of course, he still put on a decent smile on the surface.
"Ya Xiao, why did you come over?"
Sheng Cheng said politely, "Emily and Wittin, the two of them took leave to go out shopping and will be back later."
"Okay."
Ya Xiao nodded. He looked at Sheng Cheng thoughtfully, then said in his heart, [Fourth Uncle, is there anything unusual about Sheng Cheng today?]
[No, Sheng Cheng behaved normally and did not contact anyone else.]
[Got it.]
After returning to the system, Ya Xiao looked at Sheng Cheng with a bright smile on his face, "I wanted to ask you if you have any time recently."
Sheng Cheng suddenly stiffened with a bad feeling. Sure enough, he heard the young man's polite voice drilling into his ears the next second:
"There are a few topics. Can I ask you to look up information for me?"
Sheng Cheng: ......
What could he do as the butler's assistant? Of course, he forced a professional smile and agreed.
Ya Xiao who got the agreement seemed much happier. He curved his eyes and said, "It's hard for you. I'll send the topic to your email later."
"It's fine, it's my duty."
Sheng Cheng responded through gritted teeth.
After setting up the task, Ya Xiao left the office in a relaxed state, intending to go back to the villain.
Since Sheng Cheng had the time to go to the Dark Night Club at night to execute his plan, he figured he should have plenty of time to help him come up with information as well.
The tail behind Ya Xiao wagged gently.
This must be a simple matter for him.
That night, Sheng Cheng's email had a bunch of extra information to look up. He roughly estimated that even if he didn't sleep to solve it, it would take seven days.
Sheng Cheng: ......
He had only rested for ten days or so, and he had accumulated so many problems?
Sheng Cheng was filled with depression that was difficult to dispel.
The only thing to be thankful for was that Ya Xiao, the outwardly soft but actually heartless butler, did not ask him to give him the result in one night, but left enough time for ten days.
Although the time was still tight, he was still barely able to find time to carry out the task given to him by his lord.
âNothing could be difficult for His Excellency's most loyal servant.
Sheng Cheng took a break from his busy schedule and had just arrived at the third floor of the Dark Night Club when he bumped into another black-haired, blue-eyed youth in the next instant.
Sheng Cheng: Am I under some kind of curse?
"You're here too?"
The youth with the braided scorpion braid seemed quite surprised by Sheng Cheng's arrival as he looked back, "Your colleague didn't follow you here?"
"Well, he had something to do."
Sheng Cheng's expression recovered quickly. In the beginning, following his colleague to the club was to have a reasonable reason. Now that he had joined the club, he did not need the presence of his colleague.
The astronomy enthusiasts on the third floor of the club were still chatting feverishly. The person in charge, Sheldor, knew that the two of them had come over and took the initiative to introduce himself after them.
Although he had bandages wrapped around his eyes, because of the advanced technology, even if he couldn't see for the time being, he could still generate images of external objects in his head directly through the instrument.
"You're both interested in astronomy?"
Sheldor acted like a pure astronomy enthusiast and showed some relief to see two members who had been here once yesterday were here once again today.
"Yes, the third floor is much more interesting than the other floors of the club." The smile in Ya Xiao's eyes deepened a bit, and the corners of his mouth curved out.
Sheng Cheng had come over to observe whether or not Sheldor had betrayed the organization. He was not interested in the stars or anything, but in front of Sheldor, Sheng Cheng naturally would not refute it.
Originally, Sheng Cheng had already thought of talking to Sheldor alone, but the young man with the scorpion braid next to him was just too sticky.
Until it was close to closing time, Sheng Cheng was unable to find a chance to be alone with Sheldor.
Sheng Cheng held back his killing intent. He was already sure that he had a grudge against all the blue-eyed people, but for the sake of his plan, Sheng Cheng had to hold back and leave this place for the time being.
There was still time, he couldn't rush and mess up.
Sheng Cheng internally cautioned himself and turned around to leave the place along with the crowd.
Once the time for the retreat was up, the roller shutter slowly fell and automatically locked tightly. Sheldor, who had been staying on the third floor, turned around and rode the elevator, entering the basement.
"Did you find out?"
Sheldor's tone was a little cold.
"All their information is here."
The man wearing glasses nodded as he stubbed out the cigarette in his hand, his face a bit ugly, "I wonder if the matter of our organization has been exposed."
They had all gathered in order to avenge the Seventh Base, but who would have thought that their comrades in the Fifth Base would actually cut off their contact before they could act, which had to make them wary?
Sheldor thought a little more than the men.
Everyone in the organization hated Qin Qi. Although he was also considered a senior member of the organization, Sheldor had always been suspicious of Qin Qi's destruction of the Seventh Base and had been investigating the clues lately, only that he still hadn't sorted out the clues.
"This one called Sheng Cheng is from the Sixth Base, focus on vigilance for now."
"The other man called Ya Bu....."
Sheldor "stared" at the file of the survivors from the Seventh Base on the top, "I'll do some more tests. If he's okay, I'll ask him to enter the organization."
On the other side, Ya Xiao had already returned to his room. He changed into his pajamas, sensed something, and turned out to ask, "Fourth Uncle, how is it?"
[Someone is indeed investigating the identity of the host.]
The system retrieved the data from the running detection and raised its hand to hold up its glasses, [As you instructed, I have long since set your Great Demon vest to be a survivor of the Seventh Base who is residing in the central city.]
"That's good."
Ya Xiao's tone was somewhat cheerful, his blue eyes curved into a crescent moon. He was becoming more and more interested in what was going to happen next.