“We are running out of power here.” The next day, when the two little robots were giving a routine massage to Rong Gui’s body, Xiao Mei suddenly said.
“Ah, so that’s the reason. I was wondering why you suddenly wanted to leave~” Gently brushing his not-yet-quite-long hair with a comb, Rong Gui nodded. But he quickly thought of something else: “Eh? I just thought of a question. Xiao Mei, your people had all left. How come there’s still electricity here?”
You have never thought of this question until just now?
Looking at the yellow-headed robot who was looking back at him earnestly, Xiao Mei paused for a moment, and then said: “The universal power supply transmitted inside the charger was purchased from the energy provider. In fact, the energy bill for the next whole year is due this month. Yet everyone else has left, and no one is paying the bill. When the previously purchased power is used up, there will be no more new energy to use.”
“Oh, so our electricity bills are in arrears.” Nodding his head, Rong Gui understood immediately.
Xiao Mei: ……
“Then how long can the remaining power last?” Rong Gui suddenly became worried, “Our freezing cabin needs to be recharged every day. What if the power goes out? We spent so much effort plumping up my skin a little, and my body won’t turn into a mummy again, right?”
Xiao Mei glanced at him: “Compared to the body in the freezing cabin, shouldn’t you be more worried about the body you are using now? After all, it’s your current body that is truly powered entirely by energy.”
Hearing Xiao Mei’s words, Rong Gui raised his head instantly. If he could have an expression on his robotic face now, it would definitely be a very frightened one.
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What should we do? I never thought about it! This is a serious problem – no need to hear him speak, Xiao Mei felt that he could already read Rong Gui’s mind.
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Compared to Rong Gui who was only starting to freak out now, he looked extremely calm.
“Wait – didn’t it mean that it’s always been very dangerous when we were previously on our way here? With a single accident, and I could have run out of power and broken down midway on the road! And I was still carrying my freezing cabin!”
“Wait, wait – this isn’t even the most terrible thing. My goodness! Xiao Mei, I just realized: What if we had both run out of power at the same time? Oh my god my god MY GOD!”
Rong Gui the entire robot jumped up in anxiety.
Until he began to feel a little dizzy: “What’s going on? I suddenly feel a little dizzy. Xiao Mei, am I running out of power? That’s strange, I clearly recharged myself for eight full hours yesterday…”
“Xiao Mei, I’m going to die, hurry, put me on the charger socket… Ah…remember to put me in a better pose…”
Seeing that Rong Gui looked ready to automatically shut down, Xiao Mei raised his head:
“Take it easy. First, there are two energy storage areas in your body. After the electricity in the first energy storage area is exhausted, if it’s not recharged for a certain period of time, the second energy storage area will automatically start to supply energy.
Second, since you still have power now, your body has an automatic display of its remaining power. Haven’t you noticed it in your usual time? Also -”
“You felt dizzy probably because your were just thinking about too many things simultaneously, and your brain capacity couldn’t accommodate such multi-threaded operations.”
“Eh? Is that so?” Hastily ceasing shutting down himself, Rong Gui tried to empty his brain for a while. Sure enough, his head didn’t feel dizzy anymore. After looking for a moment at the dial where various health indicators were displayed, he finally relaxed when he saw the words “remaining power: 79%” on it.
While he was looking for the place where the data for the remaining power was displayed, he also stumbled upon the current value of the CPU temperature. The current temperature in the CPU area was shown to be 50°C, whereas the record high temperature was 70°C. He checked when such historical high was reached, and it was obviously around the time when he felt dizzy.
These indices were really convenient~ It’s a mistake for him not to check them before just for fear of too much trouble!
Thinking to himself, Rong Gui planned to take a look at other data as well. However, he did not expect that, just after reading for two minutes those various words on the dial which he could clearly recognize separately but couldn’t understand when put together, his head started to spin. No matter how he looked at those various indices, he couldn’t understand any of them. And while he was reading, he felt dizzy again. Hurriedly, he went back to check the place where the temperature of CPU area was displayed – the large “67°C” shown on it gave him a great shock!
Rong Gui quickly abandoned his research and exploration.
As confirmed, his brain capacity was limited and really not suitable for complex thinking process.
“Xiao Mei, you may study what to do to cope with the situation. Call me when you need someone to do manual works!” After patting Xiao Mei’s shoulder very assuredly, Rong Gui picked up his small comb and continued to brush his hair.
While Rong Gui was combing his hair, his mind began to drift again. He thought about ways to take care of his skin, the distribution of acupoints for head massage, and things that they had to pack and take with them from home…
Huh? That’s strange. He’s thinking about a lot of things simultaneously just now as well, but how come his CPU area didn’t get overheated?
Shall we say “everyone indeed has his own specialized field”?
Not thinking too much, Rong Gui continued to do his own business.
Yet, starting from that evening, he voluntarily reduced his recharging time per day by two hours, during which he began to organize various items in his home. Although they did not live here for a very long time, only until he started sorting things out did he find out that so many things had actually been added to their house at his request! What to take, and how to take them – all of these were questions which Rong Gui had to consider.
Because Xiao Mei obviously didn’t have time to consider such questions.
With a large section of metal pipe that Rong Gui dug out from the ground, plus various other metals collected during this period of time, Xiao Mei laid everything on the ground to launch a huge project.
Oh please not Ah Gui overthinking. It really feels and sounds like me when I’m overthinking too much.
Lmao Ah Gui really thought of their prev bodies first after knowing about the electricity thing. I found it cute tho.
LMFAO Xiao Mei and Ah Gui’s small brain capacity
New project! Omg, they’re really about to leave. I’m excited!!!
Thank you very much for this chapter! I hope you’re doing well~
I’m excitedly scared! Let’s hope they’ll be fine (⋟﹏⋞)