Cheat Awakening

"AHHHH!!!"

"I know it..." Myne nodded as he watched the husband and wife duo screaming and crying. They had fallen to the ground, staring at the heads of their children, who moments ago were playing happily; now only their bloody heads remained.

Like sand falling from the sky, everything around Myne suddenly turned to sand and crumbled away. He was once again returned to the dark, creepy, and old children's playroom; the memory clip had finished.

Turning around, Myne walked out of the room and continued moving forward with a torch in his hand, which was his only source of light. Without it, he would surely become blind. If that happened, that would be the truly scary part for Myne, enough to make him pee in his pants. There was no way his little heart could handle the fear of the unknown while being locked into a creepy, dark building.

After exploring two more rooms, which were destroyed beyond recognition and taken over by spiders, he finally reached the fourth floor. A communal kitchen, like a crypt, greeted him.

Before Myne could properly look at the kitchen, the cabinets slammed open. Plates fell and shattered, leaving trails that led him like breadcrumbs to the freezer room. He followed the trails and walked into the dark freezer room.

Inside, he saw frost-lined shapes, too human to be a coincidence. While he was pondering what could have possibly happened here, a newspaper came flying toward him and hit him on the back.

Picking up the paper, he read the headline and understood the whole incident. A fire had once gutted this building. Some families locked themselves inside the freezers to escape it, but sadly, who would have thought that despite the entire building burning, the power supply mysteriously didn't get cut off, and they froze to death until the rescue team found them?

While Myne was busy reading the paper, a shadow suddenly rose behind him, emerging from a puddle of rainwater on the cracked tiles. It loomed taller than before, faceless, but somehow grinning.

It had waited long enough. Although it still had many cool memories, it hadn't shown Myne that it was no longer in the mood to play with someone who showed no reaction at all.

It liked people who screamed and ran for their lives while peeing their pants out of terror, not someone who wandered inside an old haunted building as if he were in a park, experiencing its memories without any reaction, and making jokes.

"Roar!"

Feeling someone standing behind him, Myne turned around just as the shadow jumped on him, ready to tear him apart.

Out of a subconscious reaction, Myne, with wide eyes and without realising it, hit the shadow's face with the torch he was holding.

Just as he was thinking how foolish he was for trying to hit a ghost or whatever this thing was with a torch, he saw something that shocked him to the point of disbelief.

His simple, casual attack actually sent the shadow flying away from him, and it fell to the ground like a weak woman covering its cheek.

There was a momentary silence in the atmosphere; both parties looked at each other dumbfounded, not realising what had just happened.

The black shadow, who was slapped, covering its face, looked at Myne in shock. This was the first time it had seen anyone touch it, let alone slap it away. The roar just now turned into a confused word:

"Huh?"

"Huh, bullshit." Myne strode forward with a devilish grin on his face. "You bastard, dare to play with me."

The black shadow growled and thought it was an accident. It had just tragically killed a group of murderers with its power not long ago! How could this ordinary person possibly hurt it...

"Bang!"

The black shadow's inner turmoil hadn't even had time to calm down before Myne kicked it directly into the wall five meters away. Its expression was dull, and its evil aura almost collapsed.

"So weak? You also want to scare me?" Myne felt he was being cheated and couldn't help but curse. "You should ask your mother!"

If not for fear that hitting too hard might kill the other party, he wanted to teach it what it felt like messing with someone it shouldn't.

Hearing Myne's arrogant words, the black shadow wanted to cry, but had no tears. Things didn't usually develop like this; it usually scared people and then killed them. A weirdo like Myne, it had never been seen before.

"Since you dare to trouble me, what's the point of keeping you alive? Just die," Myne said in a threatening voice, moving forward.

The black shadow trembled.

Seeing the other party behaving like a coward, Myne suddenly lost his mood to bully it too much. Anyway, except for showing him cliché horror clips and making him walk into this dirty apartment, it hadn't done anything for which it deserved to pay with its life.

He looked at the closed house and muttered, rubbing his chin: "But... it seems that you can keep me awake while I sleep, which is quite useful."

Yes, after wandering around in this apartment for so long, he had already guessed that he was in his nightmare. Otherwise, there was no explanation for why he suddenly appeared in this place, and all his skills and system failed to work. Don't forget his mysterious ability to see { ? }, which gave him all kinds of clues and could even work in the Abyss. He didn't believe there could be a more mysterious place than the Abyss itself.

"Well, I'll give you a chance."

The shadow looked at Myne tremblingly, as if begging for a chance.

"Let's play hide-and-seek," Myne displayed a smile even creepier than the one the shadow had used to scare him. "I'll give you one minute to hide. If I find you, I'll break off one-fifth of your shadowy body. And if you survive tonight, I'll keep you as my servant. Any questions?"

The shadow quickly shook its head, its non-existent face appearing teary. Of course, it didn't have a proper face.

Isn't this its usual project? Before, it was ordinary people running around like headless chickens, desperate to leave the building. After it finished playing with them and killed them, finally freeing them from their nightmare, its favourite game was, of course, hide-and-seek.

It couldn't understand why the roles were reversed now!

"What are you waiting for? The countdown has already begun."

Myne's voice was like a devil's whisper, and the shadow trembled all over, turning and drifting to other places! It wanted to survive!

Later, within a completely enclosed residential apartment in a nightmare, Myne, singing loudly all sorts of things that came to mind, chased the terrified black shadow all night.

When he woke up, it was already morning.

Myne opened his eyes, feeling refreshed, with no sign of having worked all night inside the nightmare, playing with his new toy.

"This new ability, or whatever it is, is really interesting."

Myne would not eliminate the dark shadow even if he were told to do so. It was rare to have fun during sleep at night. Instead of wasting time sleeping, wasn't it interesting to do all sorts of things in a dream with full consciousness? It was no different than having all the sleeping time back.

Of course, Myne wasn't truly just playing in the nightmare. He had already made a rough guess. This black shadow is a spiritual monster, one that wanders outside its 'lobby box' in the game. Players seem to be affected in reality after playing the game for long enough. It's as if when they return from the game, there's some loophole in the process, and accidentally, these monsters come back with them. But because their main body is somewhere else, they can only affect players in their dreams.

However, because Myne's spirit attribute is frighteningly high, he can not only directly touch these monsters but also easily beat them up.

"Have the girls already left for work? They seem to have really made up their minds to run the clan. It's hard for me to understand why they want to work; isn't it wonderful to be lazy and enjoy all your time as you like?"

While complaining, Myne got out of bed and walked into the bathroom to take a bath.

After that, he went downstairs and saw everyone busy with their own work, paying no attention to him.

"Is today's mission so important? They are behaving as if anything going wrong with this mission would shut down the clan," Myne rubbed the back of his head in confusion and walked toward the kitchen, where he found Aisha busy preparing breakfast for everyone.

"Good morning," He greeted her while walking behind her, giving her a light hug and a gentle kiss.

"Oh, thank god, you're awake! Go and get some eggs; we've run out of them."

Aisha, like a typical wife, didn't care about his greeting or any other formalities. She directly sent him to the market to work, leaving him dumbfounded. But sadly, he wasn't the one who ran the family with an iron fist and could only nod his head with a bitter smile and open a portal to the market.