……Huh?
“Um… sorry…?”
Seeing Lin Xiaoyou’s face flushed with anger, her lips trembling, Fang Qi instinctively wanted to apologize.
She… she really did look angry?
And this was the first time he had ever seen her this furious…
But then he suddenly realized!
…What the hell?!
He widened his eyes as well, glaring at the puffy little round face in front of him!
What she meant was…
During those entire hundred days he had spent with Liguang in the research institute’s labyrinth…
She had been trapped in that pitch-black place for at least five years?!
And then…
When they had fallen into that void at the foot of the mountain, he had only felt his consciousness being swallowed up for an instant.
When he opened his eyes again, time had already rolled back.
But she was saying…
That she had spent several hours in there?
“…Impossible!”
Fang Qi shouted on the spot!
“Absolutely impossible!”
He immediately denied it, glaring at her!
He knew exactly what the rollback felt like!
That feeling of his consciousness being swallowed up—he was far too familiar with it! There was no way he could have mistaken it!
He had remained conscious right up until the rollback happened!
At the time, it had taken no more than two minutes before he was sent straight back!
“What kind of joke is this? At most, it was only two—!”
The words caught in his throat.
He stared blankly at the little round face before him.
Lin Xiaoyou was currently glaring at him through clenched teeth!
The bun in her hand had already been squeezed out of shape, with its filling oozing between her fingers!
Her eyes were slightly red, and she looked both aggrieved and furious!
She didn’t look…
like she was lying.
“You…”
Fang Qi asked instinctively:
“You really spent that long in the void…?”
“If I’m lying, then may I never find Sister Xiaoqing again in this lifetime!”
Lin Xiaoyou swore viciously through clenched teeth!
Her almond-shaped eyes blazed with fury!
Then she slammed the mangled bun in her hand onto the plate!
The filling flew all over Fang Qi!
Fang Qi: “…”
She picked up a new one and took a fierce bite.
As she chewed angrily, she muttered under her breath:
“If I hadn’t been too scared to do it, I really would’ve fought Liguang to the death…!”
“If I hadn’t accidentally found something at a certain fundamental—”
She suddenly stopped halfway through her sentence.
Fang Qi: “?!”
His pupils contracted as he stared at her!
Something fundamental?
What did she mean by that?
But Lin Xiaoyou did not continue. She simply chewed her bun with even greater force!
“…I really would’ve gone insane!”
She mumbled incoherently.
“That place really isn’t somewhere humans are meant to stay…!”
“Even if Liguang came over and hit me a few times every day, that would’ve been fine…!”
“But she just left me there all by myself…!”
“Bastard…!”
Fang Qi: “…”
What the hell are you talking about?!
Another one’s gone crazy…
No, wait. She was already crazy to begin with.
Still…
Fang Qi’s mind had completely stalled.
…How could something like this happen?
He couldn’t figure it out.
So…
“Why did this happen?”
He asked outright.
He had given up thinking for himself!
Wasn’t there a genius right in front of him?
He didn’t need to be the one doing the thinking!
Lin Xiaoyou glared at him, her chest heaving violently for quite a while…
Only after finally calming down did she—
“Hmph!!”
She gave a forceful snort, took another vicious bite of her bun, and held up two fingers.
“Senior, there are two possibilities!”
The fingers she raised were greasy with oil.
“The first possibility is—”
“During the ‘hundred days’ that Senior thought had passed, every night after Senior went to sleep…”
She stared at Fang Qi, her almond-shaped eyes narrowing slightly.
“Your Liguang did indescribable things to you!”
Fang Qi: “…?”
What?
What did “indescribable things” mean…?
…That couldn’t be right, could it?
He instinctively protested:
“No, no, that’s not right. We didn’t need to wait until bedtime. We did it every day before bed too—”
“Pfft—!!!”
Lin Xiaoyou choked on the spot!
“Cough, cough, cough!!”
She suddenly coughed several times!
Then she grabbed the soy milk on the table and gulped down a large mouthful!
Afterward, she raised her head and glared at Fang Qi, her face bright red!
“Senior, you shameless pervert!!!”
Fang Qi: “…”
What had he done?
He was only telling the truth!
He and Liguang really did it every day…
Ahem!
Fang Qi blinked, looking at Lin Xiaoyou’s flushed face.
Come to think of it, was Lin Xiaoyou really that innocent?
Lin Xiaoyou was still glaring at him…
But her gaze gradually began to go slightly blank.
“E… every day?”
She murmured in disbelief.
“Seriously…?”
Fang Qi: “…”
Hey!
What the hell…?!
“Ahem!”
She coughed again, then suddenly shook her head hard!
She lifted her head once more and glared at Fang Qi!
“I-I… that’s not what I meant!”
She gritted her teeth.
“I meant… ahem!”
She took another gulp of soy milk before glaring at Fang Qi again. Even her voice had gone up several pitches!
“It’s possible that Senior has an incredibly deep sleep!”
“So perhaps every time, you had to sleep for a very, very long time before waking up!”
Fang Qi: “…”
“…Huh?”
Looking at Lin Xiaoyou, who was glaring at him…
he finally understood what she meant.
Ah…
She was saying that although he had thought he’d been awake for a hundred days, in reality…
he had slept for a very long time every night?
So, adding it all together, five years had actually passed?
The corner of his eye twitched.
…What kind of bizarre theory was this?!
What would be the point of something like that?
He instinctively wanted to refute her!
But then he suddenly froze.
Liguang’s lovely face flashed through his mind!
Every night, she would kneel on the yoga mat and quietly watch him all night with that amber-colored single eye…
Every morning when he woke up, she would still be in that exact same position.
She had said it herself…
In the past, when her master slept, she had been reluctant to massage him.
Because massaging him would make him wake up too early, and then she wouldn’t be able to watch him for as long.
She liked watching him sleep.
Even an entire night wasn’t enough.
Fang Qi slowly raised a hand and rubbed his chin.
Hmm?
Tsk…
His eyes gradually widened.
No, wait.
It really did make sense!
This…
This really was something Liguang would do…!
Because once he fell asleep, his eyes would close, and the “Eye of the World” could no longer observe through him.
During that period of time…
he belonged entirely to her.
If she could make him sleep longer, wouldn’t that allow her to monopolize him for more time?
Fang Qi rubbed his chin, staring fixedly at the soy milk in his cup.
…It actually sounded plausible!
Could it be that every time he fell asleep, Liguang had deliberately extended his sleeping time?
Liguang, darling, you couldn’t really have…
Wait…!
Fang Qi suddenly narrowed his eyes.
No!
That was wrong, wrong, wrong!
He immediately shook his head and looked up at Lin Xiaoyou.
“No! That explanation can only account for what happened during those hundred days!”
“It can’t explain the two minutes after we went up the mountain!”
Fang Qi was very confident about what he had felt at the time!
“I wasn’t asleep during those two minutes!”
He clearly remembered that before he was swallowed by the power of the “rollback,” he had been conscious the entire time!
“And then I was sent straight back!”
He no longer tried to hide it and directly said the words “rollback.”
The nearby tables had overheard that word, and the curious looks they had been casting over immediately turned to understanding.
They all turned back around and continued eating their breakfasts.
They probably thought the two of them were talking about some kind of game.
Lin Xiaoyou’s almond-shaped eyes narrowed slightly…
She pursed her lips.
She stuffed the last bite of her steamed bun into her mouth and slowly chewed it up.
Then she picked up a tissue and wiped her fingers before raising her head again.
“Then… it’s the second possibility, Senior.”
Her voice suddenly grew softer.
“You and I…”
She pointed at Fang Qi, then at herself.
“Our perception of time in that void—or rather, the speed at which time passed for us…”
Her almond-shaped eyes narrowed again.
“…might have been just a tiny bit different?”
Fang Qi fell silent.
Hmm…
That thought had flashed through his mind just now too, but…
He had instinctively dismissed it.
Different time flows?
How could something so absurd possibly happen?
So…
“What’s the reason?” he asked instinctively.
“How should I know!” Lin Xiaoyou glared at Fang Qi as well!
“It was definitely your Liguang’s doing!”
She gave a soft snort through gritted teeth.
“She was the only one with that kind of authority at the time!”
Fang Qi frowned.
Liguang did it…?
That didn’t make any sense. Why would she…?
Lin Xiaoyou’s expression suddenly became slightly hesitant. Then she muttered,
“Maybe it was because I cursed her out back then…?”
Fang Qi: “?”
Lin Xiaoyou pursed her lips, her eyes beginning to dart around.
“It’s not my fault…”
“It was obviously Liguang’s problem…”
She muttered on, her voice growing quieter and quieter.
“I’d already taught Liguang how to block out the World’s Eyes. I just wanted her to let me out…”
“But she actually went back on her word…!”
“I was angry at the time, okay? So I called her…”
She paused, her voice dropping even lower.
“A yandere maid who breaks her master’s legs, a crazy AI who keeps her master all to herself, and stuff like that…”
“Anyway, I cursed her out for an entire day…”
Fang Qi blinked.
Oh… he seemed to remember that.
Hadn’t Liguang said something about it at the time?
Something like…
“Master, Lin Xiaoyou cursed at me again.”
“Lin Xiaoyou is so mean. Can we not rescue her so soon, Master?”
“Let her wait a few more years~”
“Agreed, which means… add another five years!”
…
Ah.
His eyes widened!
…Add another five years?
Huh?
Fang Qi stared at the steamed bun on his plate.
No way…
It really was five years!
At the time, he’d thought she was just making it up to extend the amount of time he had to stay in that world!
He’d assumed she was going to keep adding years until the end of time!
But in the end…
He’d left after a hundred days.
And Lin Xiaoyou…
Had really stayed there for five years?!
Holy crap!
Wife!
You really added five years to Lin Xiaoyou’s sentence?!
And in a place that was pitch-black all over?
This, this, this…
Fang Qi avoided Lin Xiaoyou’s accusing glare.
Wife, isn’t that…
Maybe a little too much?
She only cursed at you once…
Hmm…?
Fang Qi tilted his head.
Wait a second.
What had Lin Xiaoyou called Liguang again?
…“A yandere maid who breaks her master’s legs”?
…Huh?
Hold on.
Fang Qi: “?”
He slowly turned his head and looked at the aggrieved yet furious little round face in front of him.
“How did you know…”
His voice suddenly softened.
“That Liguang was… a yandere maid who breaks her master’s legs?”
Liguang had indeed broken his legs before.
But…
That had happened during the first few weeks after he arrived in this world!
Even Liguang herself had forgotten about it!
Back then, in that space where the rules were in chaos, she had only barely managed to recall fragments of it through her memories!
How could Lin Xiaoyou possibly know?!
Lin Xiaoyou blinked…
“Hehe…”
She hunched her neck slightly and gave an awkward little laugh.
“Senior, um…”
Her voice had become a little guilty as well.
“Back then, Liguang had fused with the rules, and I…”
She lowered her head and explained in a small voice,
“Wasn’t I exploring the rules?”
“So I happened to see some…”
“Some of the things deep inside Liguang… hehe…”
Then she suddenly covered her face with both hands!
“Oh my, I’m terribly sorry!”
Her body twisted from side to side!
Fang Qi: “…………?”
He slowly set down the soy milk in his hand.
…What had she seen?
…Whose depths?
Whose…?
???
He stared straight at Lin Xiaoyou.
Deep within his mind, something seemed to be slowly surfacing!
“You damn…”
Fang Qi felt that his voice was unnaturally calm.
“What did you see?”
The hand covering Lin Xiaoyou’s face froze slightly.
Through the gaps between her fingers, Fang Qi saw one of her almond-shaped eyes secretly peeking at him.
He had no idea what kind of expression he was wearing right now, but…
Lin Xiaoyou shuddered!
“Oh, Senior!”
She hurriedly laughed ingratiatingly and waved her hands.
“T-this! It’s not important! Really, it’s not important! I-I-I…”
Her expression was practically dripping with fawning.
“I only happened to catch a glimpse, just one glance! I didn’t see anything clearly!”
Fang Qi: “…”
The smile on Lin Xiaoyou’s little round face stiffened!
After her eyes darted about a few times…
She suddenly pulled her phone out of her pocket!
Her fingers flew across the screen!
Then she thrust the screen right in front of Fang Qi’s face!
“Senior, Senior! I have a new discovery to tell you about!”
Her tone was obsequious.
“Senior definitely hasn’t checked the trending searches again, right?”
Fang Qi instinctively glanced at the screen.
The trending list was once again packed with disaster reports…
Global disasters.
Earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis, torrential rain…
Red alerts were flooding the screen.
One after another, they rolled by in a constant stream.
“Senior, look!”
Lin Xiaoyou poked the screen with her finger.
“Natural disasters have started breaking out all over the world again!”
“Just like last time—they’re happening everywhere!”
She cautiously glanced at Fang Qi.
“Senior, the weather around you today… hasn’t changed, has it?”
Fang Qi stared at the screen.
…That was true.
The weather today had remained sunny the entire time.
So…
His wife was losing control again.
Disasters were breaking out all over the world once more.
What a crazy, jealous woman.
Lin Xiaoyou quickly pressed her advantage.
“What does this prove? It proves that Liguang’s power is being depleted!”
“Her ‘descent to the mortal world’ must consume her power!”
“That’s why she’s turned back into the way she was yesterday!”
Hmm.
That made sense too.
Liguang’s “descent to the mortal world” wasn’t without a cost.
She had reverted to the version of herself from the previous day?
Hmm.
“So…”
Fang Qi expressionlessly fixed his gaze on Lin Xiaoyou once more.
“What. Did. You. See?”
He felt as if…
Something else was about to emerge from his eyes.
“…Senior, I was wrong!!!!! I’ll take you to find Liguang right now!!!!!!”
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