As it turned out, Mu Yiran truly needed no one's concern. Amidst a loud thud and gasps of surprise, the arena fell silent. After the silence, another burst of exclamations erupted, mixed with cheers. Someone shouted, "Leader! You're our new leader! Long live the leader!"
Ke Xun released Wei Dong and Zhu Haowen, and before turning away, winked at Wei Dong.
Seeing a giant bull charging towards them from afar, Ke Xun glanced at Mo Mou lying at Mu Yiran's feet, took a few steps back, and stepped into the crowd.
The giant bull reached them, looked at Mu Yiran and Mo Mou, extended its massive hoof, and lifted Mo Mou.
However, it didn't miss Ke Xun, whose face was covered in blood, and extended its other massive hoof, clamping down on him.
"Ke'er—Ke'er—" Wei Dong felt he was calling out like Dong Dong from last night, his voice filled with a heart-wrenching, blood-curdling shriek. He looked helplessly and desperately at his childhood friend, his good friend, his brother, being lifted high into the air by the giant bull.
"Dongzi," Ke Xun called down, a smile on his face, "If you see they're going to have hotpot later, stay away from the window. If you really can't, have Mu Yiran knock you out. Don't look out!"
"Ke'er—" Wei Dong cried his heart out, his legs giving way as he knelt on the ground. "You fucking idiot—why did you do this—you idiot—you fucking courting death—Ke'er—Ke'er—"
Ke Xun didn't even have time to wave goodbye to Mu Yiran before being carried by the giant bull towards the row of farmhouses.
He wondered what these bulls would eat for lunch, Ke Xun thought. Unfortunately, in the painting "Faith," he could at least hide a stone shard for suicide, but here, completely naked, he couldn't even hide a stone shard.
The giant bull carried him and Mo Mou into a huge room next to the farmhouse. Ke Xun guessed this was probably the caretaker's room. Sure enough, several bulls were sitting inside, seemingly the same ones he'd had hot pot with the night before. One was reading a newspaper, another was sleeping on the table, and yet another was knitting.
The giant bull lifted the two men up to show them to the other bulls, mooing for a while, which made the other bulls burst into laughter—Ke Xun guessed they were laughing, though the sounds were still mooing.
He didn't know what the bulls were exchanging, but the bull carrying the two men turned and left the room, heading towards the back of the farmhouse.
Ke Xun remembered that behind the farmhouses was another lawn and farmhouses, and on that lawn...
one after another, naked women resembling little white lambs slowly appeared in Ke Xun's field of vision, making him feel a chill rise from his tailbone.
He glanced sideways at Mo Mou, who was being held on the giant bull's other hoof. The man had completely shed his dejected state after being defeated by Mu Yiran and was now as excited as if he'd been injected with adrenaline. His lower body, in particular, was inflating and throbbing like a boar in heat.
No…maybe it wasn't just a boar…Ke Xun realized something; it might be…a boar…
The giant bull walked to the lawn where the women were, put Ke Xun and Mo Mou down, and then made several gestures around the women, gesturing for them to blast the two men. The women jumped to their feet and stumbled towards the two.
Holy crap…Ke Xun was so shocked by reality that he immediately went limp. Of course, he hadn't gotten an erection when Mu Yiran wasn't in sight.
He was a pure gay man, utterly devoid of sexual interest in women, even if these women were naked and pounced on him… For him, this feeling brought not the blissful sensation of soft, warm embraces, but rather a humiliating sense of being forced into a situation.
Mo Mou, on the other hand, was like a wolf among sheep, chasing and flirting with the women.
In fact, these women weren't as reserved as they appeared; while playing a game of chase, they would subtly hint and tease Mo Mou with their bodies. And when Mo Mou finally managed to pounce on one, the woman would slap him away sharply. This repeated itself, both seemingly enjoying it, like a pre-arranged flirting activity.
Actually, when Ke Xun was very young, out of curiosity, he secretly watched a pornographic film at his neighbor's house. He
was horrified by what he saw.
At that time, he was too young to understand anything about relationships; he simply found the scene disgusting and terrifying, feeling utterly repulsed.
Sometimes, Ke Xun felt that perhaps it was that unpleasant visual experience that made him averse to heterosexual contact—thus, a new generation of gay giants rose in the world—even after growing up and understanding what was going on, it was difficult to return to that conventional sexual orientation.
The current situation reminded him of that uncomfortable experience once again. He tried hard to suppress his urge to vomit, avoiding this horrible circle and heading towards a secluded spot.
The giant bull, who hadn't yet left, noticed his escape, stretched out its hoof, pulled him back to the center of the circle, and shoved the women closer to him. Ke Xun was practically in tears.
Several women in their early thirties tentatively approached him, occasionally swaying their bodies seductively, and some even boldly rubbed against his chest and back.
Ke Xun's scalp tingled, recalling that famous saying that could make any man impotent: "Thirty like a wolf, forty like a tiger, fifty able to suck up dirt from the ground, sixty able to suck up rats through a wall... "
He was being surrounded by wolves!
"Ladies, please let me go," Ke Xun pleaded pitifully while trying to dodge the harassment from the opposite sex, "I'm gay, gay, even if you sit on me, I won't get hard, please let me go and let yourselves go, okay?"
"Come on, young man," a woman smiled and beckoned to him, "Let's have some fun together, come on!"
"I'm gay! Gay! Understand?" Ke Xun cried out in despair, "This is hell on earth... Mu Yiran! I'm being bullied by heterosexuals! Do you know how wronged I am!"
"Are you really gay?" A slightly familiar voice suddenly rang out not far away.
Ke Xun pushed aside several women who were trying to cling to him and looked around. He saw a tall, muscular man slowly emerging from the group of women.
It was Dong Dong.
"Holy crap, you're not dead?" Ke Xun asked, then realized what was happening.
This guy was strong and healthy, practically a top-quality breeding boar... a breeding man, probably thrown in here before him for mating. Ke Xun couldn't help but look down at a certain part of Dong Dong's body and then nodded meaningfully.
Dong Dong's ears turned slightly red, and he said in a hoarse voice, "I can't help it... it's a male instinct..." "
Understood. Take care of yourself, don't do it too often in one day," Ke Xun said.
Dong Dong became even more embarrassed and quickly changed the subject: "Are you really gay?"
"What, are you homophobic?" Ke Xun brushed away the hand of a woman who was trying to groin him.
"Uh, it's alright... I just never thought that a homosexual would appear in my life," Dong Dong said hesitantly.
"I remember an expert saying something good," Ke Xun said, "Every man is a potential bisexual. Reflect on yourself, have you been blinded by the opposite sex?"
"You… which bullshit expert are you listening to?" Dong Dong had been distracted by the women around him, and only when he heard Ke Xun's words did he regain his focus.
"How can an expert stand out if they don't spout nonsense?" Ke Xun finally escaped the women's encirclement and walked over to Dong Dong. "What are you planning? To take advantage of the situation and enjoy yourself, or to hide with me?"
"I..." Dong Dong only managed half a sentence before he was surrounded by the women who had swarmed around him.
"Okay, I understand." Ke Xun waved his hand. "I'm going to hide. Take it easy, come find me later."
For a big guy like Dong Dong, shaking off a few frail women wouldn't be difficult. The fact that he was still surrounded by women clearly showed his true feelings.
Ke Xun noticed that the giant bull was no longer staring at the breeding man, turned around, and quickly ran to a spot further away from the lawn, intending to hide behind a grassy slope.
But as soon as he rounded the grassy slope, he saw four or five women scream in terror and scramble away.
Ke Xun was startled and was about to run away in the opposite direction when, after a couple of steps, a thought struck him. He turned around, covered his brow with one hand, and called out, "Did you come in from outside the painting?"
The women called out for a while before stopping, their faces a mixture of surprise, joy, astonishment, and fear as they looked at him. "How did you know—you—you also came in from outside the painting?"
"Yes, some of you know Bi Jing, right? He's with us." To make his story more believable, Ke Xun mentioned Bi Jing's name. Sure enough,
two girls around eighteen or nineteen years old nodded repeatedly. "Yes, yes! We're classmates!"
As the women spoke, they all squatted down, using the weeds and their long hair gathered in front of them to cover their bodies.
Ke Xun squatted down and turned away from the group, saying, "Gentlemen, what I'm about to say may seem unbelievable, but it's the reality before us, and it's very important. I hope you listen carefully, and you'll have to force yourselves to believe it—"
He then explained the rules and situation of the world in the painting in detail, concluding, "Gentlemen, the only way to leave the painting is to find the seal or the artist's signature. I hope you'll use your brains more often, go to as many places as possible, and look for anything suspicious. Don't just hide and wait to die like you did before. No one can save you; only you can save yourselves."
The women started crying, mumbling something, which Ke Xun couldn't understand at all.
After the group finally quieted down and calmed down, Ke Xun asked about the situation at their farmhouse. It seemed no different from the men's farmhouse, except that no giant bull had eaten there last night, so no one had been chosen to die.
Ke Xun deduced that the same group of bulls managed both farmhouses, and since they had eaten at the men's farmhouse last night, they naturally wouldn't have eaten at the women's farmhouse.
Ke Xun told the group to try not to eat too much of the food here, and if they really couldn't, to just eat dried fruit. He stressed that they absolutely mustn't get fat.
Before dinner, Ke Xun, along with Dong Dong and Mo Mou, were carried back to the men's dormitory by Ju Niu.