Cheat Awakening-Chapter 660 . Following the Giants

The woman was clearly not someone who liked venturing outside her house. Before this, most outdoor activities had been handled by her husband. So, although she knew there were all kinds of weird and powerful monsters out there, seeing a zombie-like hyena, 1.5 meters tall, staring at her with its tongue lolling out, she was frightened to death. She quickly hid behind Myne, hugging him tightly.

"Hey, if you cling to me like a koala, how am I supposed to deal with them? Do you want us all to die? Get off!"

Bang!

Myne showed no mercy for his new slave and delivered a powerful blow. While he wanted some cannon fodder in his team for emergency purposes, he wouldn't tolerate a useless pig teammate who only caused trouble.

After receiving Myne's "love," the woman regained her senses and quickly moved away from him, tears in her eyes, clutching her head, which throbbed painfully.

"Ted, don't touch them or let them touch you. They're poisonous."

"Woof!"

Hearing Myne's instructions, Ted, who could still use his skills, nodded and flew into the sky under the woman's dumbfounded gaze. He attacked one of the hyenas from the side, bombarding it with his Lesser Eyes skill.

Meanwhile, the remaining hyena rushed towards Myne. Although the monster was extremely fast, it lacked any semblance of intelligence.

Myne gripped the cursed knife tightly and turned his wrist as the hyena lunged. The sharp blade chopped quickly and accurately, and with his four times strength, it sliced through the monster's neck like tofu, easily decapitating it with almost no resistance.

"My strength and speed are much higher than that of an average person, the monsters in this city, except for the level one, don't seem easy to deal with," Myne muttered, watching Ted finish off the other hyena.

He kicked the severed head away and continued walking down the street with Ted and his new slave, who was completely dumbfounded by the strength displayed by Myne and Ted. She suddenly found the idea of following them not so bad.

Although some monsters appeared along the way, each encounter became progressively weirder and scarier, but their levels remained similar to the hyenas at the beginning, posing little danger. Most of the time, Myne didn't have to do anything; Ted handled everything effortlessly.

As they walked to the next block, they finally encountered level-two pollution anomalies.

[ Name: Level 2 Pollution Anomaly

Ability: Sonic Wave, Rush

San Value: 0 ]

"Thankfully, the strength and agility of the level two monsters weren't much higher than the first ones, and their abilities were physical and easy to counter," Myne breathed a sigh of relief. Otherwise, after seeing their creepy appearances, he would have thought someone had suddenly switched the difficulty from normal to nightmare.

Another important point was that Ted provided aerial support. Because most monsters couldn't fly, Ted could fully utilize his flying ability and Lesser Eyes skill, preventing most monsters from even getting close before their heads exploded. This was also why Myne was so eager to find Waffle and Ocea. If they could also use their skills and abilities like Ted, his chances of survival would increase significantly.

"This is the third block. The pollution is noticeably stronger."

"That means our direction is correct. The closer we get to the source of the pollution, the more serious the pollution will be."

Myne could already clearly hear all kinds of hissing sounds. It was like they were resonating with his head, making it hard not to be affected.

"Ahem, Master...?" Just as Myne was wondering whether he should continue moving forward towards the city centre, his slave brought him out of his thoughts.

"What?" Myne turned his head and looked at the woman, who had been silent since they left her house.

"I... I can't take it anymore. Those voices... they're driving me crazy."

To Myne's surprise, his slave, who had been fine just moments ago, was now lying on the ground, clutching her head. Her eyes had turned completely black, devoid of pupils. Occasionally, she would fall into a trance-like state for a few seconds and begin muttering some kind of strange prayer, which sounded very creepy.

Myne had noticed her weird movements before, but he thought they might be a personal quirk, and since she hadn't complained, he hadn't thought much of it. Now, he finally understood it was definitely not normal.

He also noticed that not only could he hear those creepy hissing voices in his mind, but his vision was also slowly but steadily darkening. Unlike before, when it darkened slightly with each point of San value lost, he was now losing San value points at a rapid pace.

"Are you sure they're not there?" Myne turned to Ted, who, for some reason, seemed completely unaffected by the weird phenomenon around them.

"Woof-woof-woof!"

"All right, I know..."

Boom!

"What was that?"

Myne quickly looked in the direction of the explosion and saw a giant monster, about 50 meters tall, with an eight-legged, spider-like structure, but the upper body of a crab. It had burst out of a massive building, blasting it apart, and was rushing toward the city centre.

Just as Myne wondered if he was hallucinating—how could such a large monster exist here?—Another figure appeared from the opposite side. This time, it was a humanoid monster holding a giant stone pillar. It let out a loud roar, seemingly angered that the spider creature was fleeing instead of fighting, and gave chase.

"Motherf*cker! What the hell was that? Two big bosses fighting in the street?" Myne cursed, his eyes wide. He suddenly noticed that all the polluted monsters, which had previously wandered outside and occasionally harassed them, had disappeared. There was no one else around.

Not wanting to waste such a golden opportunity, he quickly retrieved the golden, broken watch from inside his shirt and pressed the button on top twice.

{ Name: Clock

Type: Polluted Item

Quality: Poor

Function: After winding the spring, you will be immune to 90% of pollution for the next five minutes. Can slightly recover lost Sanity Value.

Usage limit: Three times per day. }

As the clock's needle began to move, Myne felt his mind clear. The roaring noises around him were reduced to an extremely low level, and his vision, which had darkened to one-tenth of its normal clarity, brightened, showing signs of recovery.

Knowing his time was limited, Myne ordered his slave to hide in a corner and asked Ted to carry him toward the centre. The path was obstructed by debris from the destroyed buildings, making it difficult to move on foot.

As they flowed high in the sky between the building and approached the centre, Myne looked towards the end of the block. He could see huge shadows looming in the fog, some carrying objects as large as buses on their backs. Their footsteps were heavy on the ground.

"What kind of place is this that can give birth to so many giant and creepy monsters?"

Myne, who had come out to gather essential information, never returned empty-handed. He had already confirmed with Ted that neither Waffle nor Ocea was in the city centre, making his task easier. He could now be bolder and attempt to see what was being guarded by so many giant monsters.

As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is also the safest. Myne instructed Ted to follow the giant humanoid monster, which was wreaking havoc in the city because the spider monster had escaped its grasp and was now venting its frustration.

The huge, strange creature moved slowly, unaware of the mosquito-like Myne and Ted trailing behind it, allowing them to quickly reach the end of the street.

At the dilapidated intersection, Ted slowed down and carefully positioned them so they could peek around the corner of a building. Now much closer to the centre, Myne felt the roaring sound, like the howling of thousands of evil ghosts, assault his brain.

But under the clock's immunity, he instantly became clear-headed.

Finally, he saw the street a thousand meters away, where the city centre was located.

All the buildings had been razed to the ground, and astonishingly huge monsters were slowly moving around, acting as guards.

A jellyfish-like tentacle monster covered the sky like a dark shadow. It had a strange humanoid shape with disproportionate limbs, and its head looked like it had two sirens attached. It was walking slowly.

There was also a mountain of flesh covered with pus, each piece covered in eyes.

Just seeing this monster caused Myne's vision to darken, clearly indicating a loss of another point of sanity.

He understood that the remaining 10% of the clock's effect was being overwhelmed by high-level pollution, which was beyond the clock's immunity range.

And in the centre, there seemed to be something, but he couldn't see it clearly because of the monsters blocking his view. Thankfully, something resolved Myne's doubts.

"Is that the source of the contamination?"

Although Myne couldn't see the centre, he could see { ? } and { ! }, but they were too far away to gather more information. However, their giant size and dark, bloody colour made their nature clear.

Myne ordered Ted to return the way they came. He now knew the source of the trouble, and the information he had was sufficient.

The next step was to return and make long-term plans. Each of those terrifying giant monsters was extremely dangerous, and he couldn't contend with them now.

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Relying solely on the clock and Ted's support, the probability of bypassing the monsters and reaching the centre was probably no more than 1%.

Ten minutes later, Myne returned to the apartment, carrying two level 2 monster corpses that looked somewhat edible, along with the cheerful Ted and his tired slave, who seemed to have endured too much pollution by going to the centre with him and was now in poor spirits, looking in bad condition.

He placed one of the monsters in the freezer in the kitchen, which was filled with all kinds of strange parts, including eyeballs, tentacles, and ears filled with rusty nails, among other things. It seemed these were leftovers from the landlord's cooking.

Just as he was about to return to his room to settle Ted and the woman before fulfilling his promise to the woman in red, the heavy sound of footsteps echoed slowly, and a terrifying low voice rang out.