Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 620 - 160: The Boundary Between Reality and Illusion

"It's not an illusion, you know." A melodious voice sounded from behind, making Sun Hang startle and immediately turn around to look back.

A slender girl stood on the emerald green lawn, wearing a pure white knee-length robe. Her hair, more dazzlingly white than the robe, lay smoothly on her shoulders and back. Her long legs were straight and taut.

The burning ruins vanished, the charred corpses scattered everywhere disappeared, even the smell of smoke in the air was gone.

Everything around reverted to its original state—how it was before the eternal night set in.

A brand new villa stood less than ten meters from Sun Hang. The maroon tiles and the snow-white flawless plaster on the walls made it seem as if the building had just been completed yesterday. The trash can at the gate was filled with takeout packages printed with "Guochao Beautiful Girl," and a stray cat was perched by the rim, trying to reach a chicken bone inside.

On the other side of the street was a high-rise residential building Sun Hang was very familiar with, seeing it every day when he went out. Two young women pushed strollers along the shaded sidewalk, and not far away a white-collar worker at the bus stop waiting impatiently kept raising his wrist to glance at his watch. In contrast, an old man sitting on a bench reading a newspaper appeared calm and unhurried.

Two sparrows flew over Sun Hang's head, prompting him to look up. The glaring sunlight made him squint instinctively.

This was what Tianfu City originally looked like, but sadly, after Sun Hang woke up, such days didn't last long.

"What are you up to again?" Sun Hang drew back his gaze and focused his attention on the white-haired girl in front of him, "Anna."

"Mom, don't you like this world?" Anna placed her hands behind her back, leaned forward slightly, and tilted her head to ask.

"If you could truly return Tianfu City to what it was, I wouldn't mind," Sun Hang said, "but this is just an illusion."

"Is the line between illusion and reality that clear?"

Anna suddenly rose onto her toes, her slender waist quivering slightly. As her ankle joints exerted force, her smooth instep immediately tightened, and against her fair skin, her little feet seemed like a crescent moon. In the next moment, her body soared lightly into the air.

Everything around froze, and Sun Hang and Anna were the only ones left who could move in the entire world.

The latter seemed to be lifted by the solidified sunlight, and then she quietly floated down to the lawn like a white petal. The hem of her knee-length robe swirled like a dancing skirt, resembling a flower in full bloom, mesmerizing at its moment of expansion, even causing the sunlight to lose its brilliance.

The girl elegantly arched her slender neck back, and her outstretched arm was like a perfect work of art... inducing in Sun Hang an impulse to cut off these arms with an axe.

Just like the armless goddess Venus... Things too perfect always stir a savage impulse within to destroy them.

"Did you like it?" Anna sprang lightly close to Sun Hang, and the intoxicating scent of a young girl suddenly invaded Sun Hang's nostrils without warning.

"Looks like you've had quite some free time lately to learn ballet," Sun Hang remarked.

"I've always known ballet." Anna smiled, "It's something you taught me hand in hand, Mom. How could I forget?"

Taught her hand in hand?

Sun Hang tried to imagine what he looked like doing ballet.

He couldn't imagine it.

It was too abstract.

"Back to the point, what did you mean earlier by 'it's not an illusion'?" Sun Hang didn't continue the conversation about ballet with Anna but immediately returned to the main topic.

"The thing you are looking for did appear momentarily," Anna stood less than twenty centimeters from Sun Hang, her face displaying an obedient expression, "It was a decoy signal, and its target is you, my dear Mom."

"Who is it? The one who took the videotape... the anomaly?"

"I don't know either," Anna shook her head with regret, "But I can vaguely sense its emotions... It doesn't seem to harbor hostility."

"No hostility?"

"How should I put it..." It's worth mentioning that good-looking people look good regardless of the expression they show. Even Anna's frowning was filled with a fatal charm, "I feel... it might have a prankster attitude..."

"A prank?"

"Not all anomalies with self-awareness harbor malice toward humans, Mom, you should know that, right?" Anna continued, "For example, I am quite curious about humans. I prefer interacting with them and learning about the interesting things in their society... rather than destroying humanity."

"And your way of interacting with humans is to kill a bunch of them and then devour their emotions and memories?" Sun Hang gave her a sidelong glance, "Well, I really should thank you on behalf of humankind."

"Isn't that the most efficient way to integrate into human society?" Anna smiled, "More importantly, recalling what humans did to us in the past... I feel like what I've done isn't excessive at all."

"In the past? What did humans do to 'us' back then?"

"Can't say." Anna put a jade-like finger to her lips, "The reason... you know it."