Fang Qi took a deep breath, then reached out...
And pulled her whole body back into his arms!
"Mmph...!"
Liguang let out a short gasp, her cheek crashing against his chest.
"Liguang!"
He enunciated every single word!
"I told you, I won't abandon you!"
"Not now..."
"And not ever!"
The delicate body in his arms trembled slightly.
"You just lost an eye, you're not useless!"
He paused.
"And even if you truly become useless, even if you can't move at all, you are still my Liguang!"
Liguang didn't say a word.
But he could feel... the fabric on his chest rapidly growing wet.
He continued,
"Also, no more kneeling from now on!"
"And definitely no more thinking you're useless!"
He said it all in one breath, looking down at the silver-haired girl in his arms.
"Do you hear me?"
After a few seconds, a muffled, nasal voice came from his embrace.
"Mhm..."
"Liguang hears you."
Only then did Fang Qi loosen his grip.
She gently rubbed against his chest and lifted her face.
That amber left eye was red, her eyelashes still clinging to tiny droplets of water.
But she was smiling, still that same soft, shallow smile.
"Master..."
Her voice still carried a bit of hoarseness from crying.
"Master is so good to me..."
Fang Qi looked at her...
At this little appearance of hers, carefully holding back her tears and trying hard to curve her eyes into a smile for him.
His heart, however, sank slightly!
Liguang's current state... something felt a bit off!
...Right now, she was being far too insecure!
When she pulled him onto the raft, she was excitedly shouting "We're eloping!!", so why now...
Could it be...
He stayed silent for a few seconds, then suddenly spoke up,
"Liguang."
"Hmm?"
"How much battery power do you have left?"
Liguang trembled slightly, averting her gaze, and didn't answer immediately.
Fang Qi stared at her.
The silver-haired girl's eyelashes fluttered faster, she pursed her lips, and her fingers curled unconsciously.
"...It's still enough."
She finally spoke, her voice airy,
"Enough to last until we reach the shore, Master."
Fang Qi: "..."
Crazy woman, you couldn't actually have...!
He didn't speak, just stared at her sternly!
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
The smile on Liguang's lips began to stiffen.
She opened her mouth.
"Master... Liguang really...!"
"Show me."
Fang Qi interrupted her, lowering his voice and staring intently at her!
"Show me your battery level!"
The silver-haired girl froze.
She looked like a kitten caught red-handed doing something wrong, her little ears drooping slightly!
The little stars on her earlobes stopped dangling too.
"...Yes, Master."
She replied softly, then slowly turned around to face away from Fang Qi.
She raised her hand and obediently brushed aside the silver hair at the back of her neck, revealing the battery display underneath:
[Energy remaining: 18%]
Fang Qi: "!!!"
He stared dead at that flashing number!
His fingers gripping Liguang's shoulders tightened subconsciously!
18%...?!
This crazy woman, last night she said she could last another 105 hours!
How... is there only 18% left?
"Liguang, you...!"
He felt his mind spinning in chaos!
"What exactly is going on?!"
The silver-haired girl remained with her back to him.
On the back of her neck, the faint blue numbers were still pulsing rhythmically, like a silent countdown!
She didn't answer right away. Her perfectly fine amber left eye quickly stole a glance back at Fang Qi!
Then dropped timidly back down!
"Liguang... Liguang didn't mean to hide it from Master..."
Her tone was soft and weak, carrying a guilty tremble.
"Liguang just... just..."
She was a bit incoherent.
And Fang Qi's mind was still somewhat muddled.
"...So, why exactly?"
He tried his best to make his voice sound less fierce.
"Why... is your battery so low?"
But, it seemed he still sounded a little fierce.
Liguang's shoulders gave a slight shudder at this.
Then she spoke timidly:
"It's because... of the shielding."
She finally gathered the courage to turn around, though she remained kneeling, her hands placed properly on her lap.
Not daring to look him in the eye, she only kept her head down looking at the raft, her amber pupil glistening with moisture again.
"When we were on the island..."
"The helicopters were constantly searching, and there were those people's detection devices..."
She stared at the surface of the raft in front of her and whispered,
"Liguang... had been releasing an interference field the whole time."
"From beginning to end, continuously... without stopping."
Fang Qi was stunned.
...Ah?
Continuously?
Didn't she only release it briefly when making a fire to cook for him, or when using the laser blade to chop trees...?
Liguang remained obediently kneeling, her voice very soft:
"Liguang calculated it. With the density of the encirclement at the time, if I only did intermittent shielding..."
"There would have been a 12.7% probability... of being caught by random detection."
"That probability... was too high."
She secretly looked up at Fang Qi, then immediately and hurriedly lowered her head:
"So... Liguang chose full-time coverage."
"Even in standby mode... Liguang kept the interference field on..."
Fang Qi opened his mouth.
Full-time coverage?
She... had kept the interference on the entire time and never turned it off?!
"But, but Master!"
Liguang suddenly sat up perfectly straight, raising her head!
Her amber eye looked at him wetly, the corners of her mouth trying hard to pull into a smile!
"Even though Liguang's battery is very low right now, actually, actually I had it all calculated out!"
"After losing the red eye, Liguang's overall energy consumption drops significantly!"
As she spoke, her slender finger tapped her empty right eye socket:
"So, even with only 18% power left, Liguang... Liguang can still last a very long time!"
"The 105 hours Liguang mentioned before... I wasn't lying to Master!"
She looked eagerly at Fang Qi with her only remaining amber eye, like a puppy wanting to get its owner's approval.
But Fang Qi was speechless.
Only now did he suddenly realize.
Why, during these past two days on the island, when those people were clearly conducting a carpet search and had deployed over a dozen armed helicopters...
They still hadn't caught them!
During the nights when he was sound asleep in the cave...
During the afternoons when he had his head down tying vines, complaining about his hands hurting...
During the times when he held her lying on the raft, thinking this escape is pretty thrilling...
This crazy woman in front of him...
She had been consuming massive amounts of energy, silently protecting him the whole time!
That invisible protective net had always been silently covering them from above!
Blocking all the detection waves and scanning signals that could have pierced toward him...
Keeping them all out!
...But, what about him?
He knew absolutely nothing.
He even thought eloping is so freaking thrilling!
He even...
Even because the crimson in this crazy woman's red eye kept flashing...
Thought that her state of being somewhere between turning dark and not turning dark was just so awesome!
But he had never deeply considered...
Why that crimson light had stayed lit like that!
Why it had been flashing the whole time!
Now, the truth was out.
It wasn't because she was in some... some inexplicable semi-darkened state at all!
There was no such bullshit state to begin with!
It was because she...
had been burning herself up, holding up the sky for them!
And he...
had been completely oblivious the whole time.
Back then, he had even secretly mocked the people outside in his heart.
With so many helicopters, so much advanced equipment, and scanning for so long, they still couldn't find them?
He had thought those armed personnel were completely useless!
Only now did he realize...
it had all been this crazy woman...!
"You..."
...Why didn't you say so earlier?!
He didn't know how many times he had wanted to ask her this.
Liguang blinked gently; she understood what her master had left unsaid.
"Master would be worried."
She said it as a matter of course, tilting her head slightly.
"Besides... Master was so happy back then! Liguang was so happy too!"
Recalling their experience at the time, her lips curved into a sweet, blissful smile:
"Master held Liguang's hand and shouted 'We're eloping'!"
"Master carried Liguang and ran through the woods, smiling so hard your eyes crinkled!"
"Master even wanted... wanted to go crazy together with Liguang!"
"Master did all that just to be with Liguang!"
"Master gave up everything for Liguang!"
Her voice grew more and more cheerful!
Then, it suddenly softened:
"Liguang... Liguang was really so happy, so joyful back then..."
"And Liguang really, really loved seeing Master looking so happy...!"
She paused and lowered her eyelashes.
"Liguang wants Master... to always be that happy."
The sea breeze blew over, filling his nose with its salty scent.
It was a bit choking.
Fang Qi snapped out of his daze a little.
"Then what you said just now..."
His voice was still a bit hoarse:
"Losing the crimson eye can reduce power consumption?"
Liguang immediately nodded non-stop, like a chick pecking at rice!
"Mhm, mhm, mhm! That's one of the reasons too!"
She spoke faster:
"Liguang calculated it!"
"The crimson eye is one of the most power-consuming modules in Liguang's body. Under continuous operation, its power consumption ratio is—"
She paused, seeming to realize that her master might not understand complex terminology...
So she switched to a simpler explanation:
"It means... after losing the crimson eye, Liguang's daily power consumption will drop to about one-third of what it was!"
She looked up with her amber left eye, gazing cautiously at Fang Qi.
"So, 18% of power is actually... much, much more durable than Master thinks!"
"It's equivalent to... 54% of power from before!"
"If nothing goes wrong, even without entering sleep mode, it's enough to last..."
She pursed her lips, her voice dropping:
"Four days, or five days, absolutely no problem..."
"Liguang calculated it, Liguang will definitely be able to bring Master to the shore...!"
Her voice was very quiet, yet she once again emphasized that she had "calculated it".
Fang Qi looked at her.
Suddenly, he understood again.
Understood why, ever since the raft set sail...
She had become so anxious about gains and losses.
Why, when he casually asked "Where are we"...
She had panicked and knelt on the ground right then and there, shedding tears!
Because...
She was afraid!
Afraid that the master who had personally promised to be "together forever" would, after her power ran out...
Throw her away and ignore her.
Consider her a burden.
Choose to abandon her and return to his normal daily life.
And she...
Had already lost that crimson eye for him, as well as most of her functions.
And would soon lose... the ability to actively "bind" him to her side!
To her...
What a profound sense of insecurity this was!
She was the one... the crazy woman who would use all sorts of extreme, insane methods to keep him by her side!
But now, whether she could continue to stay by his side...
Depended entirely on his conscience.
That was why she acted like this.
Why she was so humble, so cautious.
Terrified that if she performed even a little poorly, she would be abandoned by her master!
Fang Qi felt a lump in his chest.
He couldn't help but reach out and take Liguang's small hand, which was still secretly picking at the vines.
It was slightly cool.
The silver-haired girl trembled slightly, then turned his hand over...
Lowered her head, and gently rubbed her cheek against his bandaged palm. Like a little kitten desperately acting cute to please its master.
"Master..."
Her voice was soft, carrying a cautious eagerness to please:
"Liguang really knows she was wrong."
"In the future... in the future, Liguang will definitely tell Master in advance."
She looked up, her amber eyes gazing at him wetly, filled with pleading:
"Master, please don't be mad anymore... okay?"
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