Fang Qi stared at that number, his eyes wide open.
21%?
He couldn't quite believe his eyes. He squeezed them shut, then opened them again...
And stared at it for another two seconds!
Yep...
It was 21%.
Wait... what?
Fang Qi was instantly dumbfounded.
...Is this right?
This can't be right!
Wasn't the battery level just...
Before they left, he had personally brushed aside Liguang's hair to check!
Back then, it had shown 20%!
And last night before bed, Liguang's battery had been at 21%!
After the two of them spent the night being active, her charge had dropped to 20%!
He remembered it crystal clear!
But now...
He stared at that faintly flickering 21% charge, and for a moment felt...
Like his brain wasn't quite keeping up.
No way?
They'd been out wandering around all this time, walked so many roads, trudged through that Mosaic Swamp for so long...
How was Liguang's charge not going down, but going UP?!
This definitely wasn't right!
So...
He narrowed his eyes, staring hard at that line of flickering numbers!
Could the display be broken?
His eyelid twitched violently!
The battery display was broken?
...Hey hey hey!
The moment that thought popped up, Fang Qi broke out in a cold sweat!
That was kind of terrifying!
If the battery display was wrong...
Then what was Liguang's actual charge right now?
Could she already be almost out...?
Fang Qi suddenly felt his whole body go stiff!
Come to think of it...
She'd always given him this clumsy, silly impression!
She'd squint and stare at a canned food label for ages, and say she "couldn't understand" when analyzing code...
What if it wasn't because of limited computing power, but because she was almost out of power and just pushing through?!
So, she could run out of power the very next second?
Could...
Just go quiet in his arms?
No, no, no...!
He felt an instant surge of panic!
This, this, this...!
"Liguang!"
He grabbed her shoulders and stared straight into her amber left eye!
"Your battery display is wrong, isn't it?! How much charge do you actually have left?!"
His tone got heavier!
"Can you sense it yourself?!"
The silver-haired girl froze for a moment.
She blinked at him blankly, her little mouth slightly open...
"Wrong...?"
She murmured.
Then her gaze sharpened, and she glared at Fang Qi!
"Master, what are you talking about! Liguang's battery display is perfectly fine!"
"Liguang can sense the charge in her body—the display isn't wrong!"
Then her little mouth curled into a pout as she glared at him, chin lifting slightly.
"Liguang is super advanced, how could I possibly make such a low-level mistake!"
A look of indignation at being underestimated!
Not wrong?
Fang Qi narrowed his eyes.
Advanced?
Sure, she was definitely advanced, but...
She was also a pro at tricking her Master!
He hadn't forgotten—during that first loop on the deserted island, she'd lied to him about her battery!
She was clearly almost dead, yet she'd stubbornly insisted it was "enough," and he'd had to call her out on it!
Now she was even trying to use the battery display to fool her Master, huh?!
He reached out and grabbed Liguang's soft cheek!
Gave it a hard squeeze!
"Liguang, tell me the truth!"
He stared into her eyes, his voice dropping!
"Did you mess with it yourself and make it show the wrong charge?!"
"You're lying to your Master again, aren't you!"
He was genuinely terrified!
If the battery display was fake, then she could shut down in front of him at any moment!
In this ruined wasteland, where he couldn't even rewind time...?
He didn't dare think about it!
The silver-haired girl, her cheek still pinched, had been puffing up angrily, but his tone made her flinch.
She stared blankly at Fang Qi, and then...
A layer of watery light quickly welled up in her amber eye!
Fang Qi: "..."
He instantly regretted how harsh he'd been.
Damn it, he'd made his Wife cry...
"Li-Liguang hasn't lied to Master...!"
Liguang's voice trembled with tears, her lips quivering slightly from being pulled.
"Why does Master say that...!"
"Liguang really hasn't...!!"
Her gaze was truly pitiful.
The grievance of being wrongly accused!
Ah...
Fang Qi's heart softened by half in an instant.
He quickly let go of her cheek and gently rubbed it instead, the touch still so soft in his palm.
Liguang kept looking at him, tearful.
But Fang Qi furrowed his brows slightly.
Still...
It didn't add up.
How could battery charge go UP from being used?
He stared at Liguang's single, glistening eye...
Then his eyes widened again!
No wait!
This Crazy Girl was faking it again!
Every time she messed up in the past, she'd pull this trick! She could act so well!
She'd been going on and on, dodging the real issue without explaining why the charge went up instead of down!
Crazy Girl, you can't fool your Master!
"Then e-x-plain this to me!"
He crossed his arms, looking down at her!
"Why was your charge at 20% when we left, but now it's 21%?"
He glared at her hard!
"How did exploring outside make your charge go UP?!"
"Why?!"
The aggrieved expression on Liguang's face froze for a second.
"...Huh?"
She actually went blank, blinking at him.
The two of them stared at each other, eyes wide.
Then...
She slowly opened her single eye wider, her pretty face a mix of confusion and surprise!
"Huh?"
She murmured, raising a hand to lightly touch the indicator window on the back of her own neck.
"That's right...?"
"How did Liguang's charge go up...?"
She tilted her head, eyes widening.
"Liguang didn't even notice before..."
Her tone even carried a note of novelty!
"That's really weird...!"
Her expression was exactly that of a Little Fool who had just discovered that one plus one equals two!
Fang Qi: "..."
...What?!
He stared at her, eyes wide too.
So this Little Fool hadn't noticed it herself?!
...No!
His gaze sharpened again!
Impossible!
She's STILL faking it!
Absolutely faking it!
No one could be that dumb!
Just earlier, while they were exploring outside together, she'd figured out the pattern!
She was actually pretty smart!
He narrowed his eyes, studying the confused pretty face before him!
There were still remnants of tears at the corner of her eye, and the white gauze over her right eye had gone slightly askew.
That little look... it really made your heart ache!
What an act!
And the silver-haired girl, seeing him make that suspicious face again...
"Master!"
She got anxious instantly!
"I didn't lie to Master! I really don't know!"
Her two little hands immediately grabbed at Fang Qi's shirt!
"My charge... I...!"
A flustered, clumsy look.
"I—I don't know why either...!"
She was so flustered she couldn't even form her words properly!
She was cute, sure, but...
Fang Qi still kept his narrowed eyes on her!
And so, the watery light in Liguang's amber eye welled up more and more!
Her lips trembled, trying to explain, but she couldn't get the words out, and finally...
"Waaaah—!!"
With a sudden "wail," the tears came streaming down!
"Master, Liguang didn't do it!!!"
Her knees buckled as if she was about to collapse to the ground!
Fang Qi: "?!"
He quickly reached out and caught her!
Good grief...!
Kneel and apologize, limited-time encore!
...Kneel for what? Kneeling at night is enough, no need during the day...
Ahem!
As it turned out, Liguang didn't seem to actually want to kneel either.
She just nestled right into his arms, burying her face in his chest.
"Master...!"
Her voice was muffled with a feeling of being wronged.
"Liguang really doesn't know why...!"
"Liguang swears she didn't lie to Master, otherwise, otherwise let Liguang...!"
She suddenly jerked her head up!
Her delicate face was streaked with smeared tears, and her amber eye was still welling up!
The white gauze over her right eye was already soaked through in a small patch.
It made Fang Qi pause for a moment.
So... even the right eye that had lost its crimson pupil could still cry...?
"...Let Liguang be abandoned by Master!"
She stared at him dead-on.
"Let Liguang never be with Master again!"
...What?
Fang Qi was stunned.
This...
He looked at the tear-streaked face before him, opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
This oath...
For Liguang, it was truly vicious.
This was probably the most terrifying punishment this Little Yandere could think of, right?
So...
Fang Qi's lips trembled.
Had he really wronged her?
Ah...!
He quickly raised his hand and pressed her back into his embrace!
He began to stroke her back, over and over!
"Okay, okay, okay!"
"Master believes you now, don't say things like that!"
"Are you punishing Master, or are you punishing yourself?"
Liguang buried herself in his arms, sniffled once.
Then she let out a soft laugh.
"Pfft..."
Her voice came out muffled from his chest again, tinged with a nasal tone:
"So not being able to be with Liguang is punishment for Master..."
Fang Qi immediately tapped the back of her head!
"Of course it is!"
The silver-haired girl wriggled gently in his arms again and fell silent.
Fang Qi pressed his lips together.
His Wife was really easy to appease...
But still...
He kept his brow furrowed.
Now, he finally believed this wasn't Liguang's doing.
If she had lied, she would never dare swear on something like "being abandoned by Master"!
He knew his wife well!
She could fake anything, but not this.
But if it wasn't Liguang who did it, then...
He gently parted the silver hair at the nape of her neck and looked again at the display window on her delicate, lifelike skin.
21%.
Could he have misread it before?
Was it not 20% when they left?
Impossible...
His memory wasn't that bad.
Especially for something as important as his wife's battery level!
Or maybe...
He lowered his head, looking at the silver-haired girl still quietly sobbing in his arms, and a sudden thought crossed his mind.
Wait a second.
He remembered that Liguang also had other ways to replenish her power, right?
For example...
Fang Qi blinked, his expression starting to turn odd.
"Liguang. Out there just now..."
He patted her back, his tone turning slightly teasing.
"Did you sneak a bite of something?"
"...Huh?"
Liguang lifted her head from his chest, her amber eye blinking with a look of pure confusion.
"Sneak a bite...?"
Fang Qi looked at her, but the more he thought about it, the more plausible it seemed!
He remembered—Liguang could charge herself by eating!
Even eating grass could recharge her!
Hadn't she done exactly that on the island before?
It was just that...
This biological function existed only so the AI companion could dine together with Master. It was a supplementary feature.
Extremely inefficient—the charge gained was less than the normal rate of consumption.
It could only slightly slow down the drain.
But...
Now the situation was different.
Without her crimson eye, unable to use her native core, her computing power consumption was pitifully low.
Now she was barely different from an ordinary girl!
If she ate something in this state...
Fang Qi's eyes slowly lit up!
Oh?
Was Liguang's current consumption about the same as a normal person's?
Could she really sustain herself by eating...?
"...No!"
Liguang suddenly realized what Fang Qi was implying, and she got flustered again!
But this time it wasn't from feeling aggrieved—she was puffing up in indignation!
She glared at him!
"Liguang was holding Master's hand the whole time, and the other hand had to carry the bags—there was no chance to sneak a bite!"
"Besides..."
She shoved her head back into his chest with force!
"Those things are supplies Master found!"
She mumbled in a muffled voice:
"Liguang doesn't want to eat them; eating them doesn't charge much anyway, too wasteful...!"
"Then what about your battery..."
"I don't know! Don't know, don't know!"
Liguang flung herself into his arms, rubbing against him wildly, her silver bun knocked askew!
The white gauze on her right eye was about to fall off, and Fang Qi quickly reached up to grab it.
"Master, don't make Liguang think about this stuff!"
Liguang started flat-out being stubborn!
"Liguang doesn't want to think about it!"
"Thinking is so tiring, Liguang doesn't want to use her brain!"
Uh...
Fang Qi looked down at the silver head rubbing around wildly in his arms, and the corner of his mouth twitched.
Alright, then.
His super AI wife, apparently...
had completely turned into a lazy Little Fool who didn't want to use her brain?
The silver-haired girl in his arms was still squirming!
"And besides, this is pretty good too...!"
She kept speaking in that muffled voice:
"This way, Liguang doesn't have to worry about running out of power, and Master can focus on finding a way out..."
Fang Qi pressed his lips together.
Pretty good?
Sigh...
He let out a helpless breath.
It was nice, sure, but this whole thing was way too bizarre. There was no way he could just let it go!
He brushed aside Liguang's hair again and looked at the display window on the back of her neck.
Still 21%.
It hadn't dropped at all since earlier.
But if Liguang wasn't the one pulling something, and the display wasn't broken...
Then what was it?
Could it be...
This chaotic region with its chaos rules had produced another unknown Bug that was affecting Liguang's battery?
...Was this Bug really that powerful?
A benign Bug?
A feature!
Maybe they just shouldn't fix it at all...
Just as he was thinking, the number on the display flickered slightly.
Huh?
He focused his gaze.
About to drop?
And then the number jumped...
To 22%.
Fang Qi: "..."
He stared blankly at that number.
...Well, well, well.
Now he'd witnessed it firsthand...
What it looked like when the electric meter ran backwards!
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