Chapter 108 - The Protection Provided by Males to Females (2/2)

She was about to tug by force when a cold hand grabbed her hand.

“Do you wish to faint again, like last time?” Cortis asked.

“What?” Bai Qingqing looked up at Cortis, dazed. She suddenly recalled that on the day Cortis arrived, she had experienced an explosion in strength, which allowed her to snap the tree branches easily. But very soon her body collapsed in an abnormal manner, and she had fainted for a good while after that.

At that time she had thought it was because her body hadn’t fully recovered, so she didn’t pay much heed to that. Could that have something to do with this?

“How did you know that?” Bai Qingqing was bewildered. She felt a tightening sensation at her ankle, and something suddenly struck her. “Does it have something to do with you?”

Cortis stroked Bai Qingqing’s head and said gently, “This is the protection I provide to you after we become mates so that you can save your own skin at critical moments. But I’m too strong, so you weren’t able to take it. That’s why you fainted.”

Bai Qingqing’s lips parted. No wonder. No wonder she kept feeling an urge to curl her arms around a tree branch and ferociously snap it. Just like how a snake behaved.

“Do all males bestow such a strength upon their females upon becoming mates with them?”

“Mm,” Cortis said. “The more loving the relationship between the mates, the more completely that power is unleashed.”

Bai Qingqing’s heart started pounding wildly. Did that mean she could become very strong?

However, Cortis immediately splashed cold water on her idea. “Try your best not to use such powers. It’s going to make you collapse from exhaustion. Only use it when you need to save your own life.”

Bai Qingqing was left feeling deflated. Yeah. The instant she finished using that, she had collapsed.

The two of them arranged the willow branches into clean rods, washed them, and left them aside to dry.

After Parker returned, Bai Qingqing asked Cortis to get some firewood, and also asked Parker to find her two rocks and shape them according to her instructions.

She wanted one long rock and one round rock.

A trough was cut in the middle of the long rock for the tree branches to be placed. As for the round rock, its side was polished such that its width fit nicely into the trough. There was a hole through the center, and a piece of wood was placed through that hole—this would act as a shaft.

Staring at the weird-looking stones, Parker asked, “Qingqing, why exactly did you ask me to make this?”