The information about the military academy's side was still somewhat unclear, so Qin Qi would need to have Mist recount it later.
Ya Xiao watched as the marshal seemed to be thinking about something. He thoughtfully stopped saying anything so as not to disturb the marshal's thinking.
After getting off the hovercar, Ya Xiao saw Mist, who had come to the military school in advance, from afar. The other party was standing at the door, but his energy seemed to be a bit lower than usual.
Adjusting his glasses, Mist felt a pang of sorrow. The marshal had assigned him a pile of work in the morning, and he had been busy almost non-stop until now, feeling like a spinning top. It was only now that he had some time to rest.
Seeing the marshal and Ya Xiao who came out from the hovercar, Mist went forward to greet them.
"No need."
Qin Qi was as calm as usual as he nodded his head and said, "I've sent all the tasks for the past few days to your optical brain, so go and do them now."
"Yes!"
Mist nodded immediately without the slightest hesitation. It wasn't the first time that the marshal had participated in a military intensive training program, so only one adjutant, Soren, was needed.
During this period, he himself would be in charge of other matters. This was also the usual practice in previous years.
Mist added, "Soren is waiting for you inside the lounge."
Qin Qi nodded his head and lifted his steps to lead the butler towards the inside of the military academy.
Mist watched the two men's backs disappear before he lowered his head and opened the chat box with the marshal. Looking at the screen full of work, Mist's body stiffened.
No way? So many?
Had he pissed off the marshal somewhere? Mist couldn't help but be a little skeptical.
Meanwhile, Qin Qi, who had burdened the too-idle adjutant with additional work guiltlessly, had already successfully met up with Soren with his butler.
Along the way, Ya Xiao hardly saw any students from the military academy, but he did faintly hear chanting in unison from the distance.
The intensive training should have started by now.
Ya Xiao pondered and followed Qin Qi's lead to the marshals' meeting room.
As for his and the marshals' luggage, it was left to Emily and Wittin to put it into the room.
The meeting was not formal, it was mainly the four border bases' marshals agreeing to get together and prepare to discuss their next plans.
When they arrived at the meeting room, the marshal of the Fifth Base, Wista, had not yet arrived. The marshals of the Fourth Base and the Eighth Base, Wenbor and Lu Chuanxi, were already seated inside.
The two men's butlers, Gabe and Bolton, accompanied them.
"Why hasn't that guy Wista come over yet?"
Wenbor complained about Wista while spraying his newly replaced mechanical arm with special machine oil.
It took a long time for the new mechanical arm to completely adapt to the body, and maintenance was crucial during this period.
"He should be here soon."
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Lu Chuanxi waved the optical brain on his hand. He had just asked Wista himself.
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Ya Xiao refilled his marshal's cup of coffee while listening to Wenbor rambling on next to him.
"Who can believe that guy when he says he'll be right over?"
Wenbor raised his chin slightly and said mockingly, "Maybe it won't be until nightfall before that abrasive fool gets here."
"Is that how you treat your savior?" Wista's voice suddenly came from outside the door.
Wenbor's body stiffened for a moment. He grunted and said no more.
Wista walked in through the door with his butler Yan Chi, not forgetting to carefully place his knitted scarf into a bag in his hand.
The four border base marshals met, and the butlers accompanying them naturally retreated.
The meeting was expected to last two hours.
Ya Xiao and his butler friends discussed the situation and planned to go ahead and clean up the rooms of their respective marshals.
"The accommodations at the military academy are not good."
Bolton explained to Ya Xiao, who had come to the military academy for the first time, "In order to enable the cadets to adapt to the military career as soon as possible, the dormitories here are not good. We have to disinfect and sanitize them comprehensively every day to ensure that the marshals can live here with peace of mind."
"No need for that. Whether we disinfect or not doesn't matter."
Yan Chi, the Fifth Base's marshal's butler, sneered at Bolton's statement. "The marshals often mingle on the front lines and have all graduated from military academies. They don't care about those things at all. Besides, the dormitories were already disinfected yesterday, okay?"
"No need to listen to him."
Bolton calmly retorted. Living a very exquisite life, he naturally couldn't afford to see a little bit of sloppiness.
"How come you don't need to listen to my advice?"
Yan Chi was instantly offended.
Gabe, who was walking at the very side, looked at Ya Xiao being caught in the middle and took the initiative to speak out, "You don't need to mind them, just make your own arrangements."
"Okay."
Ya Xiao nodded obediently and decided to see what the situation was when they got to the dormitory before making plans.
Just as they were about to walk to the dormitory building where the marshals were staying, Ya Xiao suddenly heard someone calling his name.
When he turned his head at the sound, Ya Xiao then saw a brown-haired young man in a trench coat, the protagonist, Wei Shi.
"You familiar?"
Bolton asked in a low voice beside him.
"Right." Ya Xiao thought for a moment and motioned for his butler friends to go up first.
"Alright, you contact us if anything happens."
Yan Chi looked at Ya Xiao, who didn't seem to have encountered anyone unpleasant, nodded, and left them some space to chat. He walked upstairs alongside the other two butlers.
"Wei Shi, you've come to the military academy as well?"
Ya Xiao curled his eyes at him.
The military academy was a very important point in the full story. With Qin Chen being an instructor at the military academy and Wei Shi being his nominal assistant, it wasn't surprising that the two had come to the military academy.
However, Ya Xiao didn't expect that Wei Shi would take the initiative to come to himself on the first day he arrived at the military school.
After all, this was the marshal's dormitory building. It couldn't be a coincidence that Wei Shi suddenly met up with himself.
Wei Shi smiled and explained, "Qin Chen is an instructor. I came to help him out."
He looked at Ya Xiao's look of understanding and nodding. Thinking about the purpose of this trip, his mood became more and more complicated.
The reason they had come to the military academy was to investigate the matter of the Seventh Base, but Qin Chen was the instructor of the Second Battalion, and currently, the Second Battalion belonged to the jurisdiction of the border bases, which meant that if Marshal Qin wanted to find trouble with Qin Chen, it could be said that it would be easy to do so.
Wei Shi couldn't help but be a little worried that Marshal Qin had ill feelings towards Qin Chen and would be unfavorable to him, so even though he knew that he wouldn't be able to get any words out of him, he still came to find Ya Xiao once again.
This time, instead of beating around the bush and inquiring about the marshal's news like the previous times, Wei Shi asked his question directly and sincerely.
"Qin Chen is the instructor of the second battalion, and there was a disagreement between the two brothers in the beginning. I'm always worried that the two of them will not get along." Wei Shi said politely.
Ya Xiao blinked when he heard Wei Shi's words, realizing what the protagonist had suddenly come to see him for, perhaps to seek... peace of mind?
If it were any other question, Ya Xiao probably wouldn't have answered it directly, but this question, there was no need to hide it. He simply voiced out, "No, as long as Qin Chen doesn't do something stupid to piss off the marshal, the marshal won't intentionally ostracize him."
Ya Xiao knew that the marshal didn't hate Qin Chen.
In the plot, although the villain took the initiative to attack the protagonist group because of their repeated pestering, he never laid his hands on them.
As a matter of fact, Wei Shi also had such a speculation.
Marshal Qin might be related to the destruction of the Seventh Base, but judging by his explicit style of acting, he shouldn't be unfavorable to Qin Chen.
But when it came to Qin Chen and the fact that the two brothers had a previous argument, Wei Shi couldn't help but feel a little worried.
Hearing Ya Xiao's affirmative tone, Wei Shi finally breathed a sigh of relief and gratefully said, "Thank you."
"It's nothing."
Ya Xiao shook his head, he really didn't do anything.
"I'll leave first."
Seeing that there was nothing more for Wei Shi to do, Ya Xiao was mindful of packing up the dormitory for the marshal in the meeting and pointed inside the building.
"Okay." Wei Shi answered, looking at Ya Xiao's back as he left. He thought of something and spoke out, "Qin Chen and I live in C106. If you don't have anything to do, you can come and find us."
As Ya Xiao heard this, he remembered that in the original plot, the protagonist group had found out that the culprit who destroyed the building, Geping, was the person in charge of that very same building as the protagonist group.
According to the clues that the protagonist group had found out, Geping supposedly took orders from the villain. Ya Xiao was curious about the accuracy of the protagonist group's findings and... the villain's position in this matter.
"Alright, I'll be there when I have time."
Ya Xiao's blue eyes brightened a bit, and he immediately answered.
Meanwhile, the four marshals in the room were discussing the four military battalions. They needed to internally assign the belonging of these battalions first.
"The border bases' current battalions are two, four, six, and eight, which one do you guys want?"
Wista crossed his legs and said, "First things first, I'll take whichever one I want."
"Me too."
Wenbor thought carefully and found that there wasn't much difference in the overall strength of these four battalions, and their numbers were all similar, so there was no need to struggle with these.
"Let's draw lots then."
Qin Qi calmly said.
"No comment." Lu Chuanxi, who was examining the data, looked up and returned.
It was rare for a meeting of the four marshals to be this harmonious.
Perhaps it was also because the spring meeting's meetings were repeatedly unsuccessful that made the friendship of the border base marshals even stronger.
"The military academy intensive training side has to be resolved as soon as possible. The black bone insects have started breeding again over there." Lu Chuanxi handed the research report summarized by his subordinates to the three marshals.
"So soon?!"
Wista was a bit surprised.
Qin Qi looked at the black bone insects' reproduction report for a few moments, and his eyes deepened slightly.
The optical brain vibrated.
Qin Qi would almost never open the optical brain during a meeting, but this time, as if he knew who had sent the message, he raised his hand and tapped the optical brain screen on his wrist.
[Mist: Marshal, the results of the inspection of the special uniform are out. No abnormalities have been found.]
When Qin Qi saw this, there was no surprise in his eyes and his expression remained calm.
The clothes without any abnormalities, the dramatically fluctuating data on the black bone insects' reproduction report, the list of true and false supporters....
The situation was getting more and more tense.
In his ears were the three marshals arguing about the plan to exterminate the black bone insects. Qin Qi rubbed the black eyeball in his hands, his eyes were obscure. After a long time, as if he had made a good decision, he found the chat box on the optical brain and typed down a line.
At the same moment, Ya Xiao was tidying up his dormitory when he heard the system suddenly speak out:
[Host! Ya Bu's optical brain received a new message.]
Ya Xiao was a bit surprised when he heard this.
Taking advantage of the fact that no one was there right now, he directly took out Ya Bu's optical brain from his space. It was labeled with an unread message from Qin Qi.
[Want to cooperate?]