Chapter 47: The Real Gensokyo

Bai Wan stopped the vehicle upon seeing this, while Sun Qian’s expression turned grim.

The anomaly from the wooden house had chased them out?

Yet... its killing rule had already been deciphered by Bai Wan, hadn't it?

The anomaly would only target single individuals; it was a ruthless killer of the single.

As long as one pretended to be a couple, the anomaly wouldn't attack... Wait!

That wasn't right!

Sun Qian suddenly realized that Luo Ya and Xu Bing were already dead, which meant that both he and Wang Jian were single again!

They now fit the anomaly's killing rule once more.

The anomaly had its eyes on Wang Jian!

Sure enough, after arriving at this conclusion, Sun Qian saw the anomaly from the back of the truck approach Wang Jian, reaching out a pale hand toward him.

The air instantly grew chillingly cold, and the surrounding sunlight seemed to dim.

Wang Jian’s expression flickered repeatedly. When the anomaly walked up beside him, he already sensed that terrifying, bone-chilling cold, but he didn't dare to move. He had encountered an anomaly back in the forest, and his last black skull had already been used up.

After a brief thought, he arrived at the same conclusion as Sun Qian, realizing why the anomaly was now targeting him.

Suddenly, inspiration struck Wang Jian in his panic. Gritting his teeth and pushing aside the sorrow of losing his girlfriend, he tightly embraced the two metallic girlfriends in his arms, crying out in terror to the anomaly, "Stay away! I have girlfriends!"

After finishing, Wang Jian hesitated for a moment and added, "And I have two of them!"

With a hardened heart, he leaned forward to kiss his cold, heavy sisters-in-love, pressing his lips against their iron-hard mouths.

"Mwah! Smack—mwah!"

The anomaly: "???"

The anomaly was momentarily stunned. Do youngsters nowadays play things this bizarrely?

Gazing at the golden and silver dual girlfriends before it, the anomaly fell silent.

Was this some kind of cosplay?

The anomaly stood frozen in place as if its brain had crashed, hesitating for a long time.

In the end, it turned its head toward the other single soul, Sun Qian, its expression turning fierce.

Sun Qian: "???"

What the hell?! Wang Jian got away just like that?

You guys actually call that thing a girlfriend?! Are you kidding me?!

Wang Jian was one thing, but how could an anomaly judge things so casually?

Seeing the anomaly sprint toward him, Sun Qian hurriedly hopped out of the truck.

Swish! Swish!

Terrifying ghostly energy radiated from the anomaly.

Just as it was about to grab him, Sun Qian made a nimble pivot, leaped back into the truck bed, and shouted to Wang Jian, "Bro, lend me a girlfriend! Let me borrow the silver one."

Wang Jian: "???"

Next, Sun Qian grabbed the silver girlfriend into his arms and anxiously declared to the anomaly, "The silver one is my girlfriend! I only lent her to Wang Jian for a moment, the golden one is his."

"Watch closely!" Sun Qian affectionately cupped the back of the silver girlfriend's head and planted a deep French kiss on her.

The anomaly: "???"

Wang Jian: "...???"

The anomaly crashed and froze in place once again. Were humans nowadays this open-minded?

For a moment, the anomaly didn't know how to judge the situation.

It walked over to the two men, reached out its ghostly hands to pull over both the golden and silver girlfriends, tucked one under each arm, and first sniffed the golden girlfriend with its nose, then the silver one.

A few seconds later, it wore a fierce expression.

Although it didn't know what these two ghostly objects in front of it actually were, they were definitely not human!

The expressions of Wang Jian and Sun Qian changed drastically.

It was over; their cover was blown.

With his quick wits, Sun Qian patted Wang Jian's shoulder before the anomaly could strike, saying, "Jian, to tell you the truth, I've liked you for a long time. Be my boyfriend, mwah!"

Wang Jian: "???"

Wang Jian was stunned at first, but once it clicked, he hastily replied, "Oh, bro, why didn't you say so earlier? Actually, I've liked you too! I was just playing along with those previous girlfriends of mine, but I've been waiting for you to confess your feelings for so long. Finally, you've spoken up, bro!"

"Still calling me bro?"

"Old... hubby??"

"That's right! From now on, we're family!"

With that, the two men embraced each other in a mutual display of profound affection.

The anomaly: "..."

The anomaly was baffled once more, standing as dazed and blank as the giant nut summoned by Bai Wan.

After pondering for a bit, it ultimately failed to trigger the killing rule. By this point, it also understood why the two men had such a deep bond that they could share a girlfriend with each other.

So that was it. The anomaly had an epiphany and nodded.

Although the anomaly didn't kill anyone, it didn't leave either. It just stood blankly behind the truck, staring at Wang Jian and Sun Qian.

Bai Wan, sitting inside the cab, was momentarily speechless as well. He had no idea why things had escalated in such a bizarre direction.

Glancing at the sky, he decided to start driving anyway, since time was running out. Plus, with the two golden and silver girlfriends right beside them, they should still be considered safe.

With that thought, he started the truck and drove off.

The atmosphere on the rest of the journey grew even more peculiar.

Sun Qian only felt a bit awkward, his overall state remaining fairly normal.

Wang Jian, on the other hand, felt like his entire worldview was collapsing.

In the span of just a few short hours, his primary wife had died, he had acquired a second concubine in gold and a third concubine in silver, and now he had gained a male concubine. What a mind-boggling life this was.

After driving for another hour, they reached the neighboring county. The county wasn't very crowded, and Bai Wan had no time to sightsee, so he drove straight toward the Xinghai Art Museum.

Five minutes later, they arrived.

Bai Wan walked up to a staff member of the art museum and said, "Hello, I'd like to check if our museum has a painting called *Utopia*."

The staff member glanced at Bai Wan—who had a half-meter picture frame strapped to his back, looking precisely like a performance artist—and then looked at the two grown men behind him, giving them a peculiar look before saying, "Follow me."

Led by the staff, the group entered an exhibition hall filled with many exquisite traditional Chinese paintings.

Finally, the staff member brought them to the very back, pointed at a painting hanging on the wall, and said, "Is this the one you wanted to see?"

Upon seeing the painting, Sun Qian and the others were utterly dumbfounded.

A painting was mounted on the wall within a golden nanmu wood frame.

They looked at the painting: the sky within was gloomy, a blood-red moon hung in the air, and a cruise ship tossed upon a turbulent, stormy sea. A tiny man stood at the edge of the ship, reaching his hand downward as if trying to grab something, his expression obscure.

Following the direction of the painting man's hand downward, everyone gasped in unison. The thing he failed to grasp was a woman! A woman whose facial features were exceptionally clear!

On that woman's face, immense sorrow and despair were vividly apparent as she was on the verge of falling into the churning sea. The anguish in her eyes was captured with just a few strokes of extraordinary realism, making anyone who looked at it empathize with the woman's deep emotions.

What shocked Sun Qian and the others the most was that the painting on the wall was complete—entirely unlike what the female anomaly had claimed about it being an unfinished work.

*Utopia* had actually been completed long ago and delivered to the art museum. What on earth was going on?

Bai Wan couldn't help but smile upon seeing this.

As expected, huh?

This was the ultimate truth.