The butler representatives of the central city, second-tier bases, and border bases would report in turn, before finally voting on the third day to divide the number of butler slots to be recruited for each base.
Chen Chen, the butler representative of the central city, was a serious and elegant butler and was very decent in his speech.
Of course, there were very few taboo people in the central city, and most of them were low-risk taboo people who didn't need a butler, so even if there were more rich people in the central city, the number of butler slots couldn't be particularly high on the surface.
The real threat to the border bases was the second-tier bases.
Ya Xiao slightly looked sideways at Ariel, the representative of the second-tier bases' butlers.
At this moment, Ariel's face was no longer as bad as it had been earlier, and she was listening intently to Chen Chen's speech.
Ya Xiao withdrew his sight. He suddenly remembered that Ariel's employer seemed to be the adjutant of the First Base Marshal, Delbo.
It was involved with Delbo again.
This was really a coincidence.
On the other side, Qin Qi, who had finished giving Sheng Cheng a craniotomy, stepped into the council hall at the time the meeting started.
Qin Qi's expression was calm. It was impossible to tell that a few minutes ago, he had opened his former subordinate's head with gloves.
"Why did you step over here today?"
Wista asked casually while knitting a scarf, "Another new clue from Sheng Cheng's side?"
The moment these words came out, the marshals seated in the room all moved their eyes over.
"No."
Qin Qi said indifferently.
"You guys are really enough!"
Wenbor waited for Qin Qi to finish answering. He first felt disappointed that no clues were found and then angrily slammed the table. "Can I make a proposal today?!"
"Don't you guys care about your fellow border base members and what you're going to say at today's meeting?!"
"Just spare us your concern. What do you want to say?"
"Of course, it's the proposal for the military academy selection to be conducted soon!" Wenbor had a smug look on his face.
The border base fellows were bickering. Qin Qi didn't participate in it but lifted his gaze to look at Delbo across the room.
Delbo was still as interested as ever in teasing the jittery Cheng Di beside him as if he wasn't paying attention to the movements at the border base. When he noticed Qin Qi's line of sight, his peach blossom eyes looked over fondly.
"Marshal Qin, is there a problem? Is it that I'm even more handsome today?"
Qin Qi didn't have any emotional fluctuations in his eyes, kneading the eyeball toy in his hands as he returned, "No."
Delbo shrugged his shoulders, seeming to be very helpless to these fellow officers who don't speak straight when they have something to say. His eyes fell on the red eyeball in Qin Qi's hands, and Delbo said with quite an interest, "What you have in your hands is really interesting, where did you buy it?"
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"Not sure."
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"That's for sure."
Delbo rightfully said, "Everything I have, I know where it came from!"
Qin Qi seldom reacted to Delbo's words. Only when he heard this sentence did he stop squeezing the eyeball and calmly swept a glance at Delbo.
"Arguing again, how can you guys argue over an eyeball?" The pale Marshal Cheng Di covered his face helplessly again and repeated nervously, "That eyeball is horrible, why would anyone be interested in such a thing?"
"Such an interest is too horrible. The way this is going, sooner or later, Qin Qi, you will become a homicidal maniac one day and upgrade your hobby to skinning and cranializing, right?!" Cheng Di spoke faster and faster, and his face became more and more pale. In the end, he almost screamed out.
"How annoying."
Wenbor was already tired of saying this to Cheng Di.
Delbo beside Cheng Di also laughed softly a few times to comfort him, "Cheng Di, baby, you are too cute. It's just a toy eyeball, how could you think of opening the skull?"
"I did take Sheng Cheng's skull apart this morning."
Delbo: ......
Cheng Di: ......
All the marshals present: ......
What?
"Initial suspicion indicates that there should be someone behind Sheng Cheng and that a special method of communication exists within his body."
"Within his brain?"
Wista gulped and asked.
"No."
Qin Qi's eyes traced over Delbo and Cheng Di's body, his tone calm, "The brain has been ruled out for the time being."
The marshals present all had ugly expressions. Delbo's behavior was not abnormal, and Cheng Di was as disoriented as usual.
"Since there are no results, you can skip this matter for now and continue the meeting." Marshal Guwen of the Third Base coughed. He was one of the more senior among them.
Just as soon as the words were out of his mouth, he realized that the oldest but with little presence, Will, was still sitting in the first place, and politely said, "Would you say so? Marshal Will."
The central city's marshal, Will, who was too old to speak anymore, nodded his head tremblingly and revealed a toothless smile, "It's fine if you arrange it."
The marshals present naturally had no opinion.
On the other hand, after Ya Xiao finished the meeting and set up a meeting with those two student representatives for tomorrow afternoon, he took Emily's hovercar and headed to the council hall where the marshals were located.
Bolton and Yan Chi, as well as Gabe were waiting outside the door for the marshals to come out.
Seeing Ya Xiao, the three border base butler friends came over and surrounded him, asking about the two student representatives. Ya Xiao exchanged smiles with them with his eyes.
When the specific arrangements for tomorrow were finalized, the door of the council hall also opened, and the marshals in military uniforms, either calmly or laughingly, walked out from the council hall. Without exception, they all had a sharp temperament, the kind of power that could only be cultivated by experiencing the battlefield.
Ya Xiao stood with his companions. After seeing Qin Qi come out from inside, his eyes lit up and he raised his steps to the side of Qin Qi.
"Is this your butler?"
Ya Xiao was just about to speak to Qin Qi when a slightly flirty male voice suddenly sounded beside him. He was just about to look over sideways but he didn't realize that Qin Qi had sidestepped to cover his vision.
Ya Xiao then heard Qin Qi faintly say, "No need to pay attention to him."
"You're overdoing it, aren't you?"
Delbo raised his eyebrows and smiled with anger, "I didn't want to do anything. I just wanted to ask where he bought the eyeball from, can't I do that?"
Eyeball?
Ya Xiao heard this and was proud of himself. Sure enough, what he saw was a sought-after item.
Because the other party took a step forward, revealing the left half of his face, Ya Xiao quickly recognized that this was the marshal named Delbo.
It was only that Ya Xiao was keenly aware of the other party's eyes falling on Qin Qi, his eyebrows flirting in a way that didn't even look like he liked the eyeball. It was more like he was testing for something.
So angry, there's someone lying to the demon again!
Ya Xiao instantly sided with the villain. He nodded his head with the same hatred and said obediently, "Okay, Marshal. I won't say anything."
Qin Qi let out a hmm and glanced at Delbo, his eyes slightly deep, making it impossible to see what he was thinking.
When Delbo heard this, the corners of his mouth maintained the same look with a smile as if he was just joking from start to finish.
Ya Xiao stood behind Qin Qi, his eyes shifted, feeling that there seemed to be something strange between Delbo and the marshal. There was some tension between the two.
Such strangeness was only momentary, and soon, Delbo gave up and shrugged his shoulders, "Well, if you don't say it, don't say it. I'd better go and properly comfort my little Cheng Di, who was scared by your craniotomy in the morning."
Craniotomy?
Ya Xiao's blue eyes widened slightly. When did this happen and how did he not know?
Similarly, Wista and the other marshals who were not far away heard that Delbo actually revealed this matter with a big grin, and their faces darkened.
Qin Qi had a bad reputation. A large part of the reason was because of Delbo and Cheng Di's loose lips. Didn't they see those ordinary butlers around them turn pale when they heard this?
"Gave the criminal a little craniotomy."
Qin Qi gave a simple explanation to the puzzled butler.
"Oh."
Ya Xiao nodded obediently and politely hinted, "I heard that craniotomy is very exhausting. The marshal should take a good rest. Next time, I can be next to you to help you pass the knife and wipe the sweat."
Ya Xiao had a billion points of curiosity.
He hadn't seen a craniotomy yet. After all, demons usually just smashed their enemies' heads.
Do you need to smash the head first for a craniotomy?
Ya Xiao was a little bit lost in thought.
"Hmm."
Qin Qi knew the butler was thoughtful.
Next to him, Marshal Wista's expression was a little twisted when he heard this. No, the employer who was supposed to come to a military meeting suddenly opened a skull in the morning, why was this butler's reaction so flat when hearing about this matter, you!
And to pass the knife and wipe the sweat?
Why don't you just say you want to help open it?!
For a moment, Wista wondered if he wasn't keeping up with the times. Glancing around as he knitted his scarf, he saw that his fellow officers were looking a little complicated, which made him relax.
Well, it surely wasn't himself who had the problem.
Ya Xiao, who was already sitting on the hovercar, was pondering the confrontation between Qin Qi and Delbo in one moment and then regretting that he didn't assist the marshal in opening the skull from the sidelines in the next moment. His expression didn't change all the time.
His eyes noticed the eyeball in the marshal's hand.
Ya Xiao thought for a moment and asked out loud, "Does the marshal need a new stress-relieving toy?"
Demons were stingy.
But they were generous with the humans they liked. Unlike Delbo, who had just used the eyeball to try something, Qin Qi genuinely liked that eyeball.
A demon would be happy to have something he gifted being loved like that.
"No need, just have this."
Qin Qi's tone was flat. He was already used to squeezing it.
Despite being rejected, Ya Xiao was even happier to hear this.
Not even wanting a new toy, the villain really liked that eyeball!
He made up his mind to keep picking out toys for Qin Qi!
[The villain is so nice.]
Ya Xiao gleefully said in his heart to Fourth Uncle:
[It turns out that giving someone a gift can actually be so joyful!]
The system looked at the host and villain sitting in the back of the hovercar and sipped a mouthful of data tea.
It's all good as long as the host is happy.