TOP SECRET: Adventures in the Dark Continent

Zzzzzzz... zzzzzzzz...

The tree continued to make strange sounds after absorbing the wooden box.

The wood used to make the box looks like the wood on the tree.

The embraced pair looked at the tree inquisitively. They don't know what was going on.

Zzzzz ... zzzzzz ...

The strange sounds last for some time before a new branch is born from the tree trunk. On the trunk it was possible to see a small fruit the size of a fist, its color was white with red stripes like blood.

The stripes pulsate as if they were alive, but there was something strange about the fruit.

tumpt… tum… tum… tum…

This sound was of a heart beating.

The interior of the fruit was pulsing as if it were alive.

"!!!!!!!!" This scene scared the duo because they don't know what was going on and why it happened.

Was the box a special item? Or was it a tree?

"Liu Yang, what is that box that you took out? The tree seems to have absorbed that wooden box" Zilyana asked curiously. She came out of Liu Yang's embrace and walked to the tree to see the fruit.

A sense of familiarity was felt by her.

Zilyana felt as if the thing inside the fruit was somehow related to her. The sensation was quite strange.

"The box is something I found inside a den of bandits after my group killed them all. This box was among the items stored in the treasure room. This box is a little strange, I fed the box with my blood for several years, but it was never opened. I didn't think this box would have anything to do with this tree." Liu Yang answered honestly. He had no reason to lie in the current situation.

"I see ... It looks like the wood used to make the box came from a tree that looks like this or is that same tree" Zilyana commented.

It would be very difficult for the tree to absorb the box if the wood used in the construction was from another tree unless that tree was one of the same branches.

"Yes. I think that too. Or it is possible to have two trees connected, but one has been uprooted and used to make the wooden box. If one of them was uprooted, why doesn't there seem to be any signs of another tree here?" Liu Yang analyzed the situation and came to that conclusion, but he still had several doubts in mind.

"I think that originally, this tree was inside the giant creature, but in another location. Someone must have brought this tree here and the second tree was used to make the box." Zilyana showed her thoughts.

"I see… Zilyana, do you also feel a strange sensation when you feel that heartbeat? I feel like I have a relationship with this fruit" Liu Yang asked curiously.

"Yes. I also feel it, this is very strange" The pair stood side by side looking at the white and red fruit with calm looks.

Zzzzz ... zzzzz ... zzzz ...

Strange sounds suddenly echo and two tree branches impale each of their arms.

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" This event was a great shock for both of them.

"What is happening??!!" Liu Yang shouted in surprise. He felt like his blood was being sucked through his arm.

"Liu Yang, you need to calm down. This is nothing wrong" Zilyana understood what was going on, so she calmed down. But internally, her heart was beating very fast and hard. She knows what was going on.

(This cannot be happening, right? This is not possible ... Me and him ... We just met ...) Her mind was in great chaos because of the tree.

"Zilyana, could you explain to me what's going on?" Liu Yang was a little confused. He only had a vague idea of ​​what was going on, but he didn't dare take it seriously. This possibility is very insane.

(It can't be real ... Or can it be ??) His mind was also in chaos for the things that will happen when this is over.

"Liu Yang, you already seem to know what's going on, right?" Zilyana was a little strange asking that. She wanted to befriend and had connections with Liu Yang, but what was happening is too insane for her to deal with.

"Yes. But I'm not daring to believe it. "Liu Yang has seen many similar scenes in anime and novels. So he already knew what was coming next.

But being able to handle the situation was difficult for him.

"This is really hard to believe, but it is happening. Liu Yang, what are you going to do when this is over?" Ziyana was already accepting the things that will happen in the future.

"Well ... I can only accept that" Liu Yang commented casually.

If nothing can be done, he just needs to accept.

"Is that so easy to say?"

"For me to say this is easy, but to be able to fulfill it. I know it will be difficult, but I will endeavor to care. Besides, having someone like you to accompany me during this time will not be bad" Liu Yang commented and hugged Zilyana's delicate waist.

After finding out what was going on, the pair got closer to each other. They would no longer be unknown and could no longer act as such.

"Liu Yang, do you really think this is enough to win me over? I am a difficult woman who has high standards" Zilyana commented as she was hugged.

The two were close to each other, but because of the impaled arm, they did not make any sudden movements.

"I know that. I heard the wedding story of the famous and powerful empress of Pheria Kingdom." Liu Yang replied.

The story of Zilyana's wedding was very famous on the Xinia Continent.

To choose her suitor, Zilyana organized a great fight tournament. The man who wins the tournament would be chosen as her husband.

The result surprised everyone on the continent, a commoner won the tournament and married the empress. The two had three daughters over the course of the marriage.

During one night, her husband mysteriously died. This happened a few months after the birth of the couple's third daughter. But the smile of satisfaction on his face could not be hidden.

Rumors say that the empress drained her husband's energy until the end and that he died in bed. But those were just rumors and no one knew what really happened.

"So you also know the story of my husband's death, right?" Zilyana used her fingers and slid over Liu Yang's body.

"Of course, I know. Everyone knows about it, but it is a pity that it does not happen to me. Zilyana, I am a very tough man, did you know?" His hand stopped hugging her waist and went down to her round buttocks. 

"Ohh… I see… Liu Yang, you have over one hundred and thirty points in the vitality attribute, which should make you an almost tireless man, but you still have several dozen more points to use. If you put at least twenty more points on the vitality attribute, I will be broken in bed by you"