Cheat Awakening

Roar!

"F*ck! What's going on?" Myne jumped two steps back from the man who suddenly began behaving violently, struggling to break free from shackles.

"Is he under the control of the knife?" Myne realized that although the man was acting strangely as if possessed by a ghost eager to hack him to pieces, it didn't seem like he was doing this of his own volition. It was more like someone was controlling him, while his consciousness remained trapped in an illusion.

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"So, if someone can't break free from the illusion of the cursed knife, they become its puppet? Why did it seem like this knife was trying everything to keep me away from it?"

"Sigh, nowadays, even a knife shows gender discrimination. When that beautiful woman in red wielded it, it didn't affect her. But when any man tries to use it, it does everything to screw them over. Where's the equality and fairness? I want justice!"

Myne complained, feeling heartbroken, and watched the man struggle to break free from the shackles, continuously letting out screams like a woman in labour. Because of his useless struggle, he worsened his old injuries, and the rate of blood loss increased significantly.

This meaningless struggle lasted for about thirty seconds before all the man's blood was either spilt on the ground or squeezed out by the knife, which seemed to be a big fan of blood and didn't miss any chance to drain its victims. Myne had experienced it before and had to admit that the feeling wasn't great at all.

So, the poor guy died just like that, and even until his last moment, he couldn't break free from the illusion.

"No wonder Mother always warned me not to take free things from others. This is indeed too dangerous..." Myne let out a heavy breath and walked forward to retrieve the knife, but found that even in death, the man was gripping it so tightly that even with Myne's four times strength compared to a normal adult, he had to expend considerable effort to pry his fingers open.

"Wait... since I can't touch the knife directly, what if I do it another way?"

Myne suddenly paused his action and stared at the knife in the man's hand with bright eyes, a crazy idea forming in his mind, which sounded perfectly feasible to him.

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{ Password: 0764821. }

{ Insert a thin wire and rotate it three times clockwise, then up and down, left and right, to open it. }

Ohh, this lock is exactly the same as the previous one. These people don't take today's thief seriously at all. They have no creativity...

"Huh! Someone is coming!"

Just as Myne was removing the chains from the iron door at the end of the corridor, his last unexplored area in this large house he never wanted to return to, he suddenly heard a man's loud cursing and a woman's anxious, crying voice coming from the entrance of the basement. Clearly, the man's screams had disturbed the couple's intimate moment, and they had run down to investigate.

"Honey, be quick! I told you I saw someone roaming in our house, but you didn't listen to me. Now he's already entered our basement. What if he messes everything up? I warn you, if anything happens to my little angel because of you, I will never forgive you... Did you hear that..."

Slap!

"For God's sake, shut the hell up, you damn b*tch!"

The husband, who could no longer hold back because of his wife's continuous nagging and was also frustrated because he had to get out of bed without releasing his pent-up pressure, gave his wife a hard slap, making her white cheek swell, and she fell to the ground in a daze, she couldn't believe that her husband dares to hit her.

Not caring about his wife, the husband then picked up the axe he had brought with him and began breaking down the door that Myne had locked from the inside. After all, as a die-hard fan of horror novels, there is no way Myne would made such a low-level mistake of leaving the door unlocked for the enemy to enter silently and give him a surprise from behind.

As for the woman, after receiving her husband's "love," she sobbed a bit, pretending to be pitiful, but seeing that her husband showed no sign of apologizing and instead looked like the next axe blow would land on her, she honestly cursed him under her breath and angrily rushed back to her room, her cry gets louder with each of her steps.

"God damn b*tch, if not for the fact that I need her body and her powers, I would have cut her into pieces long ago."

Because pollution had eroded most people's sanity, and it was hard to find someone with a good temper, the husband was naturally not a gentle person who cared about his wife. He was merely tolerating her for the sake of his little brother and his stomach, as they had to rely on each other to feed themselves.

Otherwise, if they ate too much-contaminated meat from the monsters outside, they would become abnormal mutants with weird body shapes, like Myne's dear neighbour, and no longer be in their human shape with normal brain, still having desires for sex and looking for a way to heal their daughter.

Bang!

"Damn! Finally, let's see which motherf*cker dares to sneak into my house. Just today, I was thinking about going outside to find another experiment material, and one delivered himself to my laboratory. What more could I ask for?"

The husband tightened his grip on his axe and slowly entered the basement. Though he was very angry, he didn't lower his guard and was extremely cautious, each step taken with full vigilance, not wanting to give his enemy any chance to attack first.

"Damn it, how the hell did he unlock all my high-tech locks? All of them were modified by myself, and even a top-class hacker would need to spend at least half an hour to break each lock. How the f*ck did he do that, and where did he get the key to the physical lock?" The husband, seeing his main lab door open, cursed angrily and rushed towards it without caring about anything else. His lab held his life's work; if anything happened to it, he would lose everything, a pain greater than death.

However, as soon as he opened the door, a bright white light covered his eyes, as powerful as a flash bomb exploding in his face. The husband instinctively covered his eyes instead of dodging or creating distance from the unexpected attack. This was of course his natural reaction, after all, he is a researcher, not a warrior. No matter how vigilant he was, or how aware he was of an enemy waiting for him, he couldn't avoid the subconscious reaction at the critical moment.

But his mistake was an opportunity for someone else. As soon as he covered his eyes, Myne, who was ready to act, instantly inserted the cursed knife into the man's head and moved back, waiting for the woman's reaction.

With fourfold strength, he was confident he could deal with that cowardly woman with ease, and now he also has an additional tramp card with him, so he is more confident.

Thud!

The husband didn't even get a chance to see the enemy. Before Myne's right eye stopped releasing the super-powerful light, the man's body fell to the ground with a thud, his life extinguished just like that—a cheap death for a great scientist who didn't abandon his profession even in such a hellish world with almost no help or resources.

"Well, their relationship doesn't seem as harmonious as I thought," Myne looked at the empty corridor and the dead body of the thin husband before him and chuckled jokingly.

"Woof! Woof!"

"Yes, yes, I know, I know. You're angry that they fooled you, but he's already dead. What's the point of venting your anger on him? Also, why the hell are your skills still working fine while mine are sealed?" Myne watched Ted shoot lasers at the dead man's body to vent his anger and shook his head helplessly. He hadn't expected the random house he chose would turn out to be blind arrow-hitting bull eyes, and he indeed found one of the trio here.

When he entered the lab, he saw Ted tightly locked onto an iron table, his head covered with a metal helmet, and machines continuously but slowly extracting his blood into bottles. He understood immediately that this couple was using Ted's blood to maintain their sanity, just as the tentacle uncle had told him: every normal person or animal in this world was abnormal in the eyes of everyone else.

"Hmm, but this knife is really greedy. Even the corpse didn't spread," Myne sighed helplessly as he watched the cursed knife, like a greedy beast, quickly suck up all the blood from the husband's body, leaving only a dry corpse behind.

Shaking his head, Myne grabbed the man's hand, which still tightly held the handle of the cursed knife despite being severed from the body, and pulled it out of the husband's head.

This was the idea he had come up with to use the cursed knife. Since he couldn't directly touch the knife, he decided to touch something else, like someone else's hand holding the knife. Although the idea was childish, it worked, so he didn't mind using it. He was very open-minded in this regard. But to avoid unnecessary recognition from others and earning the title of a pervert or psychopath, he wrapped duct tape around the hand on the knife handle to cover it up.

"All right, there's nothing useful for us here. Let's go deal with that woman before looking for others. I hope you're telling the truth and can indeed sense them; otherwise, things are going to be complicated." He grabbed Ted's fluffy, hairy neck, lifted him, and walked out of the laboratory, which wasn't a place a human could stay for more than three seconds.

Only crazy scientists or madmen wouldn't mind this kind of gloomy, humid, scary atmosphere, full of negative aura and dead bodies everywhere, staring at you, sending chills down your spine.

"Woof-woof!"

"What!? You want to eat something? Right now?" Myne, hearing Ted's request, gave him a puzzled look. He had already told him about their situation, and this bastard, despite being easily caught, still dared to ask for food? If not for the fact that he was a victim and had already suffered enough, Myne would have given him a "love fist" to check whether the crazy scientist had messed up his brain.

"Woof-woof-woof!"

"Well, that's also true. Fine, let's go find something for you. I think I saw some fresh meat in the kitchen," Myne, hearing the other party's reasonable excuse, nodded and brought him out. After taking meat from the freezer, he gave everything to Ted. While leaving him alone to eat, he himself came to the couple's bedroom and slowly peeked inside, wanting to see why the woman had returned to her room midway for no reason, instead of helping her husband to deal with him."