Cheat Awakening

[ Polluted Steak: After eating, your mental strength (San Value) will decrease by 1, and your body will be slightly polluted, but you will gain a random special ability.

Note: As your mental power decreases, your body will start mutating due to pollution. Once it reaches zero, you will turn into a mindless monster. (You can recover #%@*&#$...? ) ]

Thankfully, this time it didn't disappoint me. So there is indeed a problem with this meat, huh? But what are those strange symbols? Myne looked at the symbols, which seemed to want to tell him something, but someone didn't want him to know about them, so it was concealed.

"I hope it wasn't something too important," He muttered softly before forcing himself to finish the steak in front of him.

So after eating this, I lose one point of mental strength, which is also called San Value, and gain a special ability?

As Myne thought about the ability, his eyes couldn't help but fall on his dear neighbours, who all seemed to have different abilities. Now he understand how they turned into these kinds of monsters and developed such weird tempers.

But how do I know what my mental strength is? And how much does losing one point affect me? He thought confusedly while scratching his head. Sadly, dining time was limited, and seeing that he couldn't do anything about it, he sighed heavily, prayed for good luck, and slowly started eating the steak.

Although it was a gamble to eat something that could turn him into a monster, dying of hunger and becoming someone else's food was worse. He preferred to fight with a full stomach, and also since he didn't have any skills, having a special ability could increase his chances of survival.

As he finished the steak, Myne observed his body, but he didn't feel anything until he suddenly noticed his surroundings seemed to get a bit darker.

If he wasn't paying special attention to his surroundings, he might have missed this change. He was relying on his night vision to see things around him, after all, the landlord seemed to favour darkness a bit too much, and the light in the entire building was extremely dim. So, from his eyes, everything that was bright as day thanks to his skill now became a bit dark, naturally, he noticed such an obvious change.

Just as Myne wondered if something else happened besides his vision getting dark, he suddenly felt a strange and special power being activated.

He felt an itch in the middle of his right palm, and when he looked at it, he saw a strange eye slowly appearing.

Because Myne had grown a lot of body parts on his body to have different levels of fun with Maya, he wasn't surprised to suddenly have an additional eye on his palm. Instead, he felt a pang of nostalgia and suddenly missed Maya.

But he soon regained his senses and used appraisal on it, waiting for a few seconds before it updated and saw some information about his new ability.

[ Palm Eye: When activated, it will emit a dazzling light.]

There wasn't much information about his new ability, which is probably because it wasn't anything worth mentioning. After all, in the end, it can only shoot light at people, what else was there to describe?

"What a useless ability," Myne complained disappointedly. Although he didn't have high expectations from the beginning, after all, this steak was clearly just a random, cheapest thing the landlord found for them. How good of an ability could he gain from it? But alas, if he could have a combat-type ability, along with his huge amount of mana, his rest journey could be more safe and fast.

When the others saw the eyeball appear in Myne's palm and heard his disappointed voice, no one showed any strange expression. Instead, their eyes were cold, as if they were mocking him.

Myne noticed this too, and he had a guess.

At this time, everyone finished their meal and sat on their chairs silently while looking at each other. Finally, the corpse man spoke hoarsely, "Who's on duty today?"

Everyone looked at each other, and the tentacle uncle trembled and raised his tentacles in fear: "I."

"Then we'll leave it to you. Good luck..." The corpse man showed an ugly, knowing smile, which was terrifying. "I hope you won't be the next person to disappear. There are only so few people, if we lose one more, this building will feel even more desolate."

The corpse man stood up, and under Myne's somewhat strange gaze, he walked up the stairs and returned to his room on the first floor.

The others also left one after another, but they all turned back to look at Myne, without concealing the greed in their eyes.

Finally, just as the woman in red washed her tiffin, picked up her knife and was about to return as well, Myne blocked her way with his trademark smile on his face.

"Can I have a few words with you, miss? Of course, if you don't mind," He spoke in a gentle voice.

"You wanted to talk with me? Quite new I have to say, but since you are so polite, let's hear what you want to say," The woman in red, although she looked cold and her eating manners were no different than a pig, turned out to be an easy person to talk to. After finishing speaking, she sat down on her chair again and looked at Myne with curiosity.

Myne, seeing that the other party showed interest in listening to his proposal, breathed a sigh of relief. He was really that she ignored him and walked away.

Thankfully, everything was going according to plan, and he quickly looked at the { ? } on top of her, which was also the reason why he dared to approach her. He had been reading everyone's inner thoughts for the past 10 minutes and found that expect her hobbies of cooking all kinds of weird things to calm down her introverted sister who seemed to be a very picky eater, she was the most normal among all the people in this building, even the Tentacle Uncle who liked to play with pink dolls was weirder than her.

{ She is wondering what she should cook today. }

{ She suddenly remembered that she had almost run out of cooking materials and urgently needed to restock. }

{ She wants to torture everyone in the building and eat them alive bit by bit. }

{ She thinks you are cute. She likes your smile. }

{ She wants to invite you to her room for dinner, but she fears you might be scared to death seeing her room decoration and run away in fright. }

{ She is dying to pick up her knife, cut someone, and listen to their soul-shaking screams. }

Myne wasn't surprised by the weird pattern of her thinking. He had been observing the text on top of her for some time and realized that after every two normal sentences, the third one would always be something that would make people's hair stand on end.

It was as if a psychopath was hidden within her, and couldn't wait to come out and cut everything. Although he didn't understand the reason behind it, he thought that she looked normal but had weird abilities and her mental strength wasn't high because of eating those polluted foods for a long time and had already become slightly crazy. He didn't take it to heart. Anyway, there were no normal people in this building; he had already accepted this fact.

"By the way, before coming directly to the point, can you tell me something about that green jelly-like sweet you bought? It looked quite tasty. I wanted to eat it, only if you don't mind," Myne wasn't foolish enough to bluntly come to the point, especially as he wanted to ask something from her for free. He, of course, had to first brush up her favorability before he could strike the hammer while the iron was hot.

"You wanted to eat something made by me?" The woman in red asked confusedly, while pointing her finger, soaked with blood, at her chest.

{ She is shocked by your bold statement and can't believe her ears. }

"Yes, I think it looks great, and it seems very tempting. Only a fool would miss something like that," Myne spoke with a face as if it were a matter of fact, and to make his words credible, he looked at Tentacle Uncle who was cleaning the dining table.

"I am right?" He gave Tentacle Uncle a hard look, and this poor guy, who didn't know what to say, forced an ugly smile, which was uglier than crying, and gave him a thumbs up.

"See, even Tentacle Uncle knows about it. He is just too shy to ask it from you. You know he is a bit cowardly," Myne leaned forward and spoke in a low voice, pretending as if he was afraid to hurt Tentacle Uncle's feelings by saying the cruel facts right on his face.

{ Although she knows you are talking nonsense and trying to flirt with her, she is very happy! }

{ She decides to invite you to her room and let you eat her best work. }

"Well, since you want, then you can come to my room. It is No. 5. I have a lot of jelly stored. You can eat as much as you want," The woman in red replied with a smile, which, to Myne's surprise, was quite beautiful, especially with her red lips and pale white face, making her even more tempting.

"By the way, can I ask you a small favour?" Myne, reading her inner thoughts and seeing that she was in a good mood, instantly came to the main point.

"And what can it be? By the way, let me warn you, this favour is not going to be easy to return," The woman in red spoke with a playful smile, while habitually taking out one of her knives from her bag and playing with it.

"It wasn't much of a big deal, Miss. I just wanted to ask if I can borrow one of your knives..."

Clatter!

While Myne was speaking, Tentacle Uncle, who was eavesdropping on their conversation with great interest, hearing Myne wanted to ask the woman in red for her knife, almost dropped the plates in his hand. Read new chapters at My Virtual Library Empire

"Ignore him, so where I was... Ohh, yes, you see, our dear neighbours seem to be a bit too interested in me. I do not feel safe around them, especially with empty hands, and your knife seems quite sharp and strong. If you can lend it to me until I find something better, I will be very grateful," Myne, while speaking, didn't notice the horrific look on Tentacle Uncle's face, neither the way the woman in red looked at him, even the { ? } on her stopped refreshing. Her mind had gone blank, and she was just simply staring at him without any thoughts in her mind.