Soren stayed at the club all night.
On the one hand, he wanted to take the opportunity to investigate the club and complete his mission. On the other hand, he also wanted to find that mysterious person.
However, until the club closed in the early morning, he had not seen the figure of that young man.
"Are you sure that the young man you saw last night was the mysterious person?"
The next morning, Mist placed the file on the desktop, his tone carrying a bit of doubt and gravity.
In order to prevent being detected by the club, Soren didn't carry a miniature camera last night. A mistaken identity would cause a lot of trouble for their next plan.
Qin Qi sat in his seat, raising his gaze to look at Soren who was reporting in front of him. His calm eyes made it impossible to see what was going on in his mind.
"Certain."
Soren's muffled voice came out from the gas mask.
The Sixth Base, from marshals down to ordinary soldiers, were ridiculously strict with themselves. As an adjutant, Soren's training in the area of recognizing people did not fall behind for a single day.
Not to mention, on the day of Wei Duo's birthday, Soren had witnessed the mysterious man's back at the base. The other party had left a very deep impression on him, and it was absolutely impossible to make a mistake.
Mist heard that, and his face sank a little. Until now, they and the mysterious person only had two encounters. Although the other party's behavior seemed to be beneficial to their side, the identity and purpose of the mysterious person were unknown. Whether he was an enemy or a friend was still unknown, so it really made people worry in their hearts.
Now that the mysterious person had appeared in a club with ill intentions, it was even more difficult for them to guess what the other party was thinking.
Could he have infiltrated the club to scout the situation?
It was also impossible to think about it.
"What's the situation at the club?"
The two adjutants were still immersed in complicated thoughts, while Qin Qi spoke out to break the silence in the air.
A hand-drawn simple drawing of the club was placed on the table.
Soren stood up straight and nodded at the three red marks on the drawing, "It has been determined that there is something odd about the club's layout. These three places are equipped with mechanisms. The initial suspicion is that there is a stronghold of theirs underneath the club. Further investigation needs to be done to verify this."
"Hmm."
Qin Qi's expression was somewhat faint.
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Sheng Cheng from their base had inadvertently joined the club with a colleague.
Mist had no intention of suspecting Sheng Cheng. He was only worried that Soren's disguise would be recognized by Sheng Cheng.
"No."
Soren had been checking out the first and second floors of the club for the past few days to avoid arousing suspicion and had not met Sheng Cheng from the same base.
"Well, that's good." Mist's tone carried a few hints of teasing, "Since you haven't encountered him, we don't need to seal Sheng Cheng's mouth for the time being."
The matter of the hidden killers under the club was classified, and the fewer people who knew about it, the better.
Speaking of Sheng Cheng, Mist remembered again that he hadn't seen Sheng Cheng's boss early this morning, so now that the official business chat was pretty much over, he looked to Qin Qi:
"Marshal, has Ya Xiao left already?"
Mist remembered that the butler seemed to have taken the morning off today.
"Hmm."
"Marshal hasn't seen Ya Xiao in the morning, don't you feel lonely?" Mist smiled, after all, the marshal was very close to Ya Xiao.
"You're idle?"
Qin Qi's expression didn't change as he calmly asked a question.
Seeing that the marshal didn't want to answer, Mist shut his mouth resentfully, ready to wait for Ya Xiao to come back before teasing with this matter. He packed up the documents on his desktop and got into a working state, "Not idle. Marshal, I'm going to deliver the documents now."
"Marshal, we should get going."
Soren, who had been quietly acting as a backdrop while Mist and the marshal conversed, spoke up as a reminder when the meeting was about to begin.
"Let's go."
Qin Qi hmmed and took his jacket from one side.
He didn't care why Mist had suddenly mentioned Ya Xiao just now, after all, Mist had been out of tune in private for quite some time.
As for the loneliness mentioned, Qin Qi felt it was even more nonsense.
The butler had only taken a few hours off in the morning, it wasn't like he couldn't be seen for a day.
Moreover, the black-haired young man had made a point of meeting him to say goodbye before he left. Qin Qi wasn't like the two adjutants who hadn't seen Ya Xiao all morning.
It was Mist who should feel lonely, not himself.
On the other hand, Ya Xiao wasn't aware that the villain had even mentioned himself during his meeting with the two adjutants. He glanced down at the address on his optical brain before looking up at the relatively dilapidated office building in front of him.
Hm, yes, this was the place.
Ya Xiao looked down and sent a message to Wei Shi. Soon, there was a response on the opposite side of the screen.
[Okay, I'll have someone come down and pick you up right away.]
Ya Xiao curved the corners of his mouth and put the optical brain away. After waiting for almost five minutes, he saw a figure walk out of the office building's doorway.
The man's face was plastered with band-aids, and his muscles were booming and gigantic, like a debt-collecting hitman hired specifically by loan sharks.
Ya Xiao watched the other person walking towards him. Comparing the features of the other person and the members of the protagonist group, if he wasn't wrong, he was the protagonist Wei Shi's number one little brother, Ah Xing, who specialized in doing odd jobs regularly.
Ah Xing smiled at him and introduced himself briefly before leading Ya Xiao up.
"Our office is a bit more remote. It's hard to find, isn't it?"
Ya Xiao shook his head, "It's not hard, the map that Wei Shi sent me was very detailed."
Ah Xing grinned as he nodded and gestured for Ya Xiao to take the stairs with him. The old stairs creaked as he stepped on them as if they were going to collapse the next second.
"The elevator in this building is broken. The company doesn't have much funding to fix it yet, so I'll have to let you and I climb the stairs."
"That's okay."
Ya Xiao had already known about this. In the original book plot, the protagonist group often moved between several bases. To save money, they often rented broken houses in remote places to use as studios. Not having the money to repair them was a common occurrence.
Stepping on the last staircase, Ya Xiao had just walked to their office when a richly dressed woman wiped the corners of her eyes and walked out from inside.
Ya Xiao slightly sidestepped, giving way to the other woman.
The protagonist, Wei Shi, followed the woman. When he saw Ya Xiao, he flashed a smile and welcomed the other party in, then closed the door and explained, "I just had a client and couldn't make it downstairs to pick you up."
While the firm building was shabby on the outside, the décor on the inside was still new. Of course, the new appliances and tiles in the plot were gifts from the previous clients of the protagonist group.
As an all-around helpful firm, the protagonist group was never very wealthy, facing the constant threat of not being able to afford to eat, but the network of relationships spread up and down the seven bases, making them very well-connected.
Ya Xiao's gaze fell on Qin Chen who was sitting in his boss' chair reading a book, a ring of gauze was still wrapped around his arm, and the rest of his wounds seemed to have healed.
"He is Qin Chen, you should know."
Wei Shi introduced at the sight.
Ya Xiao nodded his head.
Qin Chen had been sitting in the chair and hadn't moved much. Wei Shi had a gentle smile on his face. When he saw him in this behavior, he softly said to Ya Xiao to wait for a moment, and then gloomily rushed next to Qin Chen and tugged him to the cubicle.
When he came out again, Qin Chen's expression was a bit stiff. He glanced at Wei Shi who had a smile on his face revealing a threatening meaning, and his attitude when he looked at Ya Xiao again was very different from earlier.
"Hello, my name is Qin Chen."
Ya Xiao watched in fascination, not commenting on their behavior earlier, and politely introduced himself, "I'm Ya Xiao."
Only then did Wei Shi put his heart down with satisfaction. He invited Ya Xiao to come here because he also wanted to take the opportunity to connect and set up a conversation.
Trying it out on the optical brain was always less convenient than communicating face-to-face, and Wei Shi wasn't stupid. After a few days of communication, he could feel that Ya Xiao just looked like he didn't have much thoughts, but he wouldn't easily disclose Marshal Qin's information at all.
But even so, they couldn't easily give up on Ya Xiao this way.
Thinking of this, Wei Shi gathered enough energy, smiled, and chimed in with Ya Xiao, "Ya Xiao, what would you like to eat for lunch? My skills are very good, I can make you whatever you want to eat. Even if I don't know how to do it, there's still the optical brain that I can learn from."
"Feel free to mention it, don't be polite."
"No need." Ya Xiao was still thinking about absorbing the demon value. His time was very limited, "I only took the morning off. I have to return to the marshal's side in the afternoon."
"Didn't Marshal Qin grant you the afternoon off?"
Wei Shi originally thought that he had a long time to communicate with Ya Xiao, but he didn't expect that there were only two or three hours left. He instantly realized that time was running out, but he also knew that this was a good opportunity. He didn't panic and followed this topic to inquire about Marshal Qin's movements.
"No oh, I want to stay by the marshal's side."
Ya Xiao truthfully said.
Wei Shi froze for a moment, seemingly not expecting that someone would actually love their work so much that they wouldn't even take a break just to stay by their boss's side. He suppressed the thoughts in his mind and tried to continue to guide Ya Xiao to say more.
However, just like chatting on the optical brain, every time Qin Qi was mentioned, the topic would always unconsciously veer off to something else. Every time Wei Shi reviewed the conversation, he froze and couldn't find out which step had made a mistake.