Chapter 1076: Master of the "Knock-Knock," Lantian Zhu / Chapter 1077: Lantian Zhu's Forbidden Fruit Theory

Cong Yu was also a god. Logically, his body should not have felt tired. So that so-called "fatigue" was not exhaustion, but something else.

It was a kind of phantom fatigue, similar to "phantom pain."

This phantom fatigue affected Cong Yu's heart.

As Moerae pondered this, she realized that Cong Yu, who had not been a "god" for long, still retained a human heart.

She herself would never feel tired... probably.

With that thought, Moerae quickly realized that she, too, had a "heart," and it was even the same heart as the person before her.

"..." After hesitating for a moment, Moerae placed a hand over her chest and felt a rhythm she had never experienced before.

Although she had only obtained this body after descending, she truly had never studied this flesh-and-blood body that was no different from a human's.

Nor had she realized before this moment that she, too, had a heart.

Feeling the thump-thump of her heartbeat, Moerae unconsciously leaned her head against Cong Yu's chest.

[Thump—thump—]

Their heartbeats were perfectly, completely synchronized.

Having reached that conclusion, Moerae placed Cong Yu's hand over her own heart, then placed her hand over his.

Within those perfectly synchronized, intertwining rhythms...

Never before had Moerae understood so clearly as she did now that her heart was saying the same thing as Cong Yu's.

Humanity truly should not be destroyed.

After certainty flashed through her eyes, Moerae tilted her head in confusion... because she felt that Cong Yu's hand was warm.

Cong Yu's hand, held against her chest by her, conveyed a warm and comfortable temperature.

It was probably the temperature of a human being.

Yet for Moerae, who was feeling such genuine warmth for the first time, it was unexpectedly novel.

Wanting to feel more of that pleasant sensation without