Chapter 560

[Warning: The affinity of the bound target has exceeded the system’s carrying capacity!]

[Warning……]

Uh……

What percent…… what?

Fang Qi slowly lowered his head and looked at the black-haired girl lying on the ground.

She was still unconscious.

She was even mumbling, “I’m sorry, Aqi,” curled up into a ball like a drenched kitten.

He blinked.

Did this mean that this Crazy Girl……

No, wait—his wife, Liguang, had maxed out her affinity?

She had directly overloaded his system and made it crash?

Fang Qi stared at her with his mouth hanging open.

He knew that Liguang loved him deeply. He knew that her love for him had never fallen within the normal range.

But only now did he realize that her affinity had actually reached the ridiculous level of……

Being able to overload the affinity system!

He was silent for three seconds.

Then he raised his hand and vigorously rubbed his face!

Oh no, the corners of his mouth were starting to creep upward again……

Well, how should he put it? He suddenly felt that……

Maybe everything really had been his fault before!

He knew exactly what kind of person Liguang was. He knew how much she cared about him, yet he had still joked about breaking up with her!

How could he joke about something like that?!

If Liguang had stabbed him to death, it would have been completely understan—!

Huh?!

His brows furrowed slightly!

He suddenly felt a faint warmth spread through his body!

A warm, tingling sensation extended from his chest to his limbs, then from his limbs all the way to his fingertips……

And then……

The feeling of the sea breeze seemed to change.

The warm sea wind had originally blown against his face, arms, and neck. But now, every inch of skin touched by the wind suddenly became extraordinarily sensitive!

He could even clearly feel the tiny droplets of water carried in the breeze striking his skin!

It even hurt a little!

Fang Qi: “……!”

This was……!

His heart leaped with joy!

Could this be the reward from his cute, pretty, gentle, beautiful darling Liguang for reaching maximum affinity with him?!

The system had said it just now: the higher the affinity, the more generous the reward!

Now that Liguang’s affinity had directly blown the system apart, he, as the host, should at least receive some tangible benefits, right?!

Enhanced perception!

That was a great thing!

Out here on this endless sea, heightened perception……

What did it mean?

More accurate judgment of weather changes?

Being able to sense the movements of schools of fish while fishing?

Who knew?!

Whatever the case, it had to be useful!

It was practically a top-tier passive skill in a survival game!

Fang Qi grinned and was just about to laugh—

[System values corrupted. Attempting repairs…… Repair failed.]

[Due to the bound target’s excessive affinity, the system’s core data has overflowed. The host’s pain perception coefficient has been incorrectly adjusted to: 10.]

Fang Qi: “?”

His smile froze.

Huh?

[System values corrupted. Attempting repairs…… Repair failed.]

[Attempting repair again…… Failed.]

[Attempting again…… Failed.]

[Error Code 7456: Pain perception coefficient locked at 10.]

[This value will be affected by the bound target’s emotional fluctuations and cannot be reset by the system.]

Fang Qi: “……”

He went expressionless.

Slowly, he closed his mouth.

Then he suddenly jumped to his feet!

You fucking Crazy Girl……!!!

The raft rocked violently beneath the force of his step!

He couldn’t believe his ears!

What the hell?!

His perception really had been enhanced, and by ten times at that—but it was limited to pain perception?!

What did ten times even mean?!

If he bumped into something normally, wouldn’t it hurt so much that he’d roll around on the ground?!

And that wasn’t even the worst part! The worst part was……!

Fang Qi slowly lowered his head and looked at the girl lying on the ground once again.

His yandere girlfriend.

The super Crazy Girl whose affection for him was high enough to overload the system!

“Ha…… hahaha……!”

His eyelids twitched.

System, are you saying……

That I’m supposed to use ten-times pain perception to face my own yandere girlfriend on this inescapable raft?

Is that what you’re saying……?!

Fang Qi felt as though his eyeballs were about to pop out of their sockets!

I-I-I……!

I’m going to lose it!

What kind of hellish starting point is this?!

Not only did he have to struggle to survive in this oceanic world, where death could strike at any moment, he also had to look after a yandere girlfriend who might go berserk at any time……

And now his pain perception had been increased tenfold?!

Fuck me……!

[The system has detected that corrupted values have caused inconvenience to the host. The system sincerely apologizes.]

The mechanical female voice rang out again.

Fang Qi ground his teeth!

Apologizing?

What good is an apology?!

Change my pain perception back!

I don’t want to get beaten to tears by the Crazy Girl’s tiny little fists!

[As compensation for the inconvenience, the system will grant the host one lottery draw.]

Fang Qi: “?”

A lottery?

[Would you like to draw now?]

He was silent for several seconds.

Fine. At least there was some compensation.

He had no idea what he might draw, but it was better than getting nothing, right?

What if it turned out to be some god-tier item or a powerful starting artifact? Then he could consider this tenfold pain perception the price of admission!

“……Open!”

Standing on that pitiful little raft, which was only a few square meters in size, he forced the word out through clenched teeth.

“Open. It. Now!”

If you dare give me some useless piece of junk, I’ll jump into the sea right now! I mean it!

This damn starting point—whoever wants to play can go ahead and……!

The raft beneath his feet suddenly trembled slightly!

Immediately afterward, a ring of light appeared along the raft’s edges!

Tiny points of ghostly blue light seeped out through the gaps between the planks and slowly floated through the air.

The soft, dreamlike blue radiance resembled some kind of bioluminescent plankton from the depths of the sea, forming a faint halo around the raft.

Then the blue motes suddenly began to converge, gathering along the raft’s edges and condensing into glowing lines!

The lines began extending outward, and the raft……

Fang Qi’s eyes widened as he watched!

The raft was expanding along with them!

New planks began growing out from the old edges, taking shape little by little from thin air!

First came translucent, ghostly-blue outlines. Then the outlines gradually solidified……

The wood grain, growth rings, rope fibers, and every other detail were precisely “printed” into existence in less than half a second!

The raft continued expanding in every direction at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The cramped space, originally only a few square meters, expanded to more than ten square meters in the blink of an eye!

Then twenty……

Thirty……!

And it was still expanding!

Fang Qi was stunned!

Holy crap, a cheat!

And…… wasn’t this cheat a little too overpowered?!

It was creating things out of thin air!

But that wasn’t all!

As the raft expanded, another cluster of ghostly-blue motes began to gather less than two meters away from him and Liguang.

This time, they grew upward.

Layer upon layer of light piled up from the bottom, as though a pair of invisible hands were assembling building blocks!

A floor, walls, windows, doorframes, a roof…… Piece by piece, layer by layer, they were constructed out of thin air!

And then……

A wooden house appeared before his eyes.

A two-story wooden house with a terrace and railings, and a shell wind chime hanging by the door.

Fang Qi stared blankly at the wind chime as it slowly took shape amid the ghostly-blue motes of light.

The texture of the shells was painstakingly carved out, then strung together with a transparent thread. The instant the work was complete…

“Jingle-jingle…”

The wind chime rang out with a crisp, pleasant sound.

Its notes blended with the rhythm of the waves, like some ancient song of the sea.

Then the deep-blue motes of light gradually began to fade.

The raft stopped expanding, and the wooden house was finally complete.

The raft beneath his feet… No, it could no longer be called a raft.

This was an offshore platform! Nearly a hundred square meters in size, with a two-story wooden house on top…

“A home at sea?”

Those four words suddenly popped into Fang Qi’s mind.

It really could be called a home now!

And all of this had only cost him… one draw?

Fang Qi stood where he was, staring blankly up at the exquisite wooden house.

No, wait…

One draw, and he had actually gotten something like this?

What about everyone else?

They would have to start from scratch on this ocean, spending several days just to build a crude shelter that could barely keep out the wind and rain.

He had simply made one draw, and the system had conjured an entire seaside villa for him!

Fang Qi slowly lowered his head, then slowly raised it again.

Down, then up.

His gaze swept back and forth between the enormous sea platform beneath him and the two-story wooden house before him several times.

And then…

The corners of his mouth began to rise uncontrollably!

“Holy crap…”

He muttered to himself.

“This is way too awesome…”

The system was amazing.

Crazy Girl was amazing!

What tenfold pain sensitivity? What disastrous opening where he was being stalked by a yandere? What simp system?

In the face of “starting with an entire seaside villa,” none of that mattered anymore!

If every draw was like this, then…

I, Fang Qi, will immediately transform into the ultimate simp and lick Goddess Li Guang’s boots like there’s no tomorrow…!

“Mm…”

A faint moan came from behind him.

Fang Qi: “!”

The faint smile on his lips stiffened!

It looked like Goddess Li Guang was waking up…

He turned around stiffly.

On the wooden raft… or rather, on the deck of the wooden platform, the black-haired girl was slowly pushing herself upright.

Her black hair covered half her face. Her movements were still somewhat sluggish. One hand supported her against the wooden boards while the other rubbed her temple.

“Where… is this…?”

Her voice was soft and hoarse.

“I… didn’t die…?”

There were still traces of tears clinging to her eyelashes, and her eyes were clouded with confusion.

“A… Aqi…?”

Her gaze had yet to focus. She was simply searching for someone on instinct, the hand braced against the deck trembling faintly.

Then she saw him.

The two of them stared at each other from a few steps apart.

Fang Qi could see her pupils slowly coming into focus. Her slightly pale lips trembled…

They gazed at each other.

Beneath their feet, the waves gently lapped against the edge of the raft.

The sea breeze swept past, and the wind chime above them tinkled merrily.

Time seemed to freeze for about half a second.

Then—

“Aqi！！！！！”

A shriek!

She sprang directly to her feet and pounced at Fang Qi!

Her expression was filled with overwhelming joy, regret, and disbelief!

Fang Qi’s pupils contracted sharply!

An alarm instantly blared in his mind!

Wait—! It’s ten times now…!

But it was already too late!

The black-haired girl slammed into his arms!

Fang Qi’s eyes widened, and his entire body fell backward!

“Aqi, I’m sorry!!! I shouldn’t have refused to listen to your explanation and—!”

She hadn’t even finished the rest of her sentence when—

“Bang!!!”

Fang Qi heard the dull thud of his back smashing hard against the uneven deck.

…Oh.

Oh…!

The black-haired girl was sprawled on top of him, still crying.

Her tears dripped onto his face, warm against his skin.

Her lips were moving, saying something, but he could barely hear her.

At that moment, all he could feel was…

Damn!

So this was tenfold pain?

He felt as if his soul had already left his body.

As if his consciousness had briefly drifted away from his flesh.

He felt…

“Gaaaaah！！！！！！！！”

A scream that pierced the heavens!!!

This felt like he was about to die, aaaaaah!!!!!

“Aqi!!!”

Her voice seemed to come from very, very far away.

“What’s wrong, Aqi!!! Aqi! Aqi!!!”

Fang Qi’s eyes were already beginning to close again.

He was going to pass out…!

He might be the first person in the world to be knocked unconscious by his wife throwing herself into his arms…?

This was truly…

At the very last moment before his consciousness completely cut out…

A flash of color suddenly crossed his blurry vision.

His Crazy Girl—the black-haired girl currently lying on top of him and sobbing—seemed to have…

Changed in an instant?

That head of ink-black hair seemed to flash, in the space of a moment, into a color closer to moonlight…?

Then there were her tear-filled eyes. They seemed to have changed color too…?

Into two different colors…

But he couldn’t see clearly.

All he could see was that she was still crying, her tears continuing to splash onto his face, her lips trembling as she repeated over and over, “Aqi, I’m sorry…”

But the corners of her mouth—the very corners that were crying out apologies—

Seemed to be curling upward?

And curling very, very high.

Had he seen it wrong?

How was it that on the face of this Crazy Girl, who was frantically repenting, he could see a smile that was so… sick, blissful, and utterly satisfied?

That expression was so familiar…

“Aqi, this is…”

Before his consciousness sank completely into darkness, he seemed to hear her say—

“…the cheat ability…”

“…you wanted…”

“…Liguang will satisfy you…”

Hiss…

…I must be hallucinating from the pain…

What kind of disastrous opening was this…?

His consciousness was swallowed by darkness.