Cheat Awakening

After passing the bandage guy, the tentacle uncle lowered his voice and whispered nervously, 'Be careful, don't mess with other people in the building. They are very scary... And I am not talking about their appearance.'"

Myne simply nodded at the tentacle uncle silently, not saying much. Even a blind man could see these people were not normal.

There were a total of seven guests, including Myne. He learned from the tentacle uncle that only the two of them lived on the second floor, while the rest resided on the first floor.

After coming to the ground floor, Myne looked around but didn't see anything particularly worth paying attention to. So, he simply followed the tentacle uncle to the kitchen, which was quite large with a long wooden dining table in the middle. The other tenants were already sitting there, staring at Myne with weird expressions.

Myne, though feeling nervous inside from being stared at by three creepy-looking people who were giving him unfriendly glances, forced a friendly smile and sat down opposite the only woman who had a normal body like his. She wore a beautiful red dress.

She seemed like a silent type with long, messy hair tied behind her. She had a cold face, red lips, a good figure with D-cup-sized breasts, long slender legs, and dark brownish eyes. If there was anything out of the ordinary about her, it would surely be the five long knives before her, which were covered in blood and had a weird aura surrounding them. Every time Myne looked at those knives, he felt like he heard the sound of people screaming in pain.

But still, as a pervert at heart, after seeing a beautiful flower amidst a pile of shit, Myne's poor eyes were obviously more interested in the woman in red. Sadly, she didn't seem interested in him at all. From beginning to end, she sat silently, wiping her knives with a bloody rag, trying to clean the blood off them, which showed no sign of getting clean.

However, although the woman in red wasn't interested in Myne, the slit-faced woman with grey eyes and all kinds of stitches all over her body seemed to have fallen in love with him at first sight. She wore thick clothes that covered her body very well, and except for her face, nothing could be seen clearly.

The way she looked at Myne was no different from a starving person looking at food. Myne could say with full confidence that if there were no rules set by the landlord, he might have already started getting harassed.

Another resident was a man with a lump of strange, abscess-like tissue on his back. Myne believed he saw those tissues moving as if they were alive, especially when that creepy man looked at him and licked his lips.

The last person arrived the latest, wearing a robe that covered its entire body except for its lifeless eyes. One could vaguely see that its body was rotten and there was a foul odour, just like a corpse.

The most common point among these people was the moment when Myne appeared. All eyes were focused on him. Surprise appeared in their eyes, and then greedy desire emerged. It was as if they all wanted to eat him, which was indeed the case.

Okay, everyone's purpose is the same, except for this lady in red. I don't think it is a good idea for them to stare at my body in such a perverted way, Myne thought, but the gentle smile on his face didn't disappear, and he stared at the woman in red, cleaning her knives with great interest.

Of course, it wasn't because he was in love with her and greedy for her body... well, he was, but the main reason was that there were question marks on top of those knives in her hand, which showed that they were far from being normal. Like the broken watch, they were also magical items, and for him, without skills, those knives were must-have items. After all, compared to a watch with unknown effects and limited use time, a weapon was undoubtedly more useful.

The tentacle uncle, living up to his reputation as a loser, lowered his head and sat down tremblingly, not daring to speak in front of these monsters.

Facing the greedy, ant-like gazes, Myne felt it impolite not to greet them back. The awkward silence in the kitchen was also driving him crazy. So, he smiled and said cheerfully, "Everyone, look at me. I have something to announce."

"I'm a new tenant, Myne Fortuna. I'm very happy to be your neighbour. I have many hobbies and hope to get along well with you all. You might have heard that harmonious neighbours can make life easier."

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Myne's words made these weirdos chuckle a little, and the expressions on their faces seemed to be mocking. Even the woman in red paused, giving him a look as if she saw a rare animal.

"It's very nice to be neighbours and communicate with each other, hehe," The slit-faced woman spoke in a creepy, high-pitched voice. While nodding her head, she seemed eager to invite Myne to her house and have further discussions about this matter.

The others didn't speak, but they also seemed very interested in this matter. Private communication was indeed a good way to get to know each other.

Finally, seeing that everyone was enjoying themselves, the corpse lowered his head and uttered a hoarse voice: "Let's eat first, or it will get cold."

The food in front of each person on the table was covered with a dinner lid, with a knife and fork next to it, creating a mysterious vibe, making people wonder what kind of wonderful meal the landlord had prepared for them.

Myne, who had been secretly following Waffle and his group for hours and hadn't felt safe since entering this strange place, had long ago felt his stomach rumble, he had a habit of eating something when he was nervous. He wasn't in the mood to eat anything before, but now, looking at the dinner lid before him, he felt a flicker of expectation in his heart.

Although he knew it couldn't be as good as Aisha's cooking (after all, the chef was a psychopath, how could he make anything normal?), as long as it was edible, he didn't mind eating. He was a very realistic person.

So, Myne opened the lid, and the food inside the plate was beyond his expectations.

The aroma of red wine diffused in the sauce, and when poured on half a steak, it actually seemed quite delicious. He looked around and found that there were no weird-looking dishes as he had imagined, and everything seemed perfectly normal as if he were in a restaurant.

"The landlord indeed knows how to surprise people," Myne commented confusedly as he sniffed the aroma of the steak, unable to help but salivate.

The others seemed to be starving and started eating first in a hurry without saying anything.

The bandaged man held a knife and fork and cut the steak on the plate with great force, making a crunching sound, while his eyes were fixed on Myne. It was as if what was being cut was not the piece of meat, but Myne himself.

The slit-mouthed woman opened her mouth wide, revealing rows of sharp teeth. She picked up the steak with her hands and bit into it, making chewing sounds as if she were chewing wax. She was also staring at Myne with a creepy smile as if she were trying to make fun of him. When he looked at her, she didn't forget to give him a flying kiss and started giggling, sending chills down his spine.

The lump man and the corpse man didn't look at Myne but just ate voraciously.

The tentacle man was a little transparent and didn't even dare to make a sound when eating. All his actions were as careful as a bomb squad in the middle of a mission to defuse the bomb, unable to afford any mistakes.

But what surprised Myne the most was the woman in red. She had a disgusted look on her face as she looked at the steak before her, which she kindly passed to the lump man, who was a bit surprised by her behaviour and happily accepted it.

Then, under Myne's confused gaze, the woman in red took out a bag from under the table and started taking out various small tiffin boxes. There were a total of three. She placed them on the table and opened them, but what was inside was something that shattered Myne's fantasies of increasing his favorability with the woman in red.

Those were dishes made from all kinds of weird insects, organs, and other strange things. They were soaked in blood. There was also a black, thick liquid with some strange objects floating in it, which Myne supposed was the soup. And for dessert, she had a greenish jelly-like substance.

After that, without caring about her ladylike image, she lowered her head and started eating those creepy things crazily like a pig, making a complete mess in front of her. The lump man and corpse man were used to it and didn't care, but they honestly moved their food aside to avoid getting dirty.

Myne, although he felt like vomiting watching the only good-looking character before him turn into a living pig, playing with blood and eating like a hungry ghost, he still had a lot of work to do. And now, without his inventory, he had nothing else to eat, and obviously, he couldn't do anything on an empty stomach. So he took a deep breath and honestly picked up the knife and fork and cut the steak.

This was a normal piece of meat, at least it looked like that to Myne. Because the surrounding atmosphere had made a bit too deep an impression, Myne, who couldn't make up his mind to put this normal-looking steak in his mouth, finally used appraisal on it for his inner peace.

But to his surprise, appraisal didn't show anything unexpected from the steak. However, Myne, whose trust in the appraisal's blue interface had fallen quite low, waited for a bit. When he saw it start glitching and turn into a golden interface, and the information about the steak disappeared through an earth-shattering change, he breathed a sigh of relief.