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Cheat Awakening-Chapter 697 - . The Third Option
"Next, everyone will enter the church, and if I am not wrong, they will pray for 20 minutes. At the end, the bell will ring, signifying the beginning of their hunt."
"In other words, within these 20 or so minutes, I have to choose whether to flee madly or hide."
The conditions for completing the task are to escape from the town or survive for one day. Fleeing madly is the best choice. Even if he can't escape, he can hide in the woods; after all, the town is too small, with only a handful of houses. If he hides here, they will be able to dig him out in a matter of minutes.
But in fact, running away is undoubtedly a nightmare of difficulty. It was dark, and all kinds of iron spikes and traps were in the jungle, which had vaguely appeared in the CG video. People unfamiliar with the terrain would probably die miserably if they rashly entered.
Moreover, people were guarding the jungle at the town's exit. Although they were very well hidden, Myne still saw the question mark floating outside at a glance. Obviously, those people had no intention of letting him pass under any circumstances.
No matter which option you choose, it's an extremely dangerous situation, and the odds of survival are not very high. And time is also very tight; the entire town, which seems filled with killers, will start hunting the moment the bell rings.
But.
Myne slowly opened the door a bit and looked at the town outside the wooden house. The streets were filled with a terrifying atmosphere.
"Maybe we can try the third option."
The next moment, Myne did not hesitate at all and directly pushed open the door of the house, stepping onto the empty street. Now, most people had already walked to the church. If anyone was left behind, it would be the maid Zeina, who seemed to be changing her clothes, as Myne could see the candlelight at the window and a moving shadow inside.
After all, it had only been a minute at most since she dropped him. How could she have changed out of her sexy maid outfit and rushed to the church in her former clothes?
"She seemed to be the one who wanted to kill me the most... It would be a shame if I let her go so easily."
Muttering this, he quickly went to her house and kicked the old wooden door, which broke apart under his fourfold strength.
Inside, Zeina, who was putting on a completely dark hooded robe like a cultist, was caught off guard. Before she could react, an eye-blinding light hit her, followed by a heavy punch to her stomach, which made her body bend over. She threw up a mouthful of saliva before passing out.
"It was easier than expected. Maybe they are not as powerful as their attributes show."
Myne picked up the unconscious Zeina and put her on the bed. Then, he used his Paste skill to stick her entire body to the bed, pasting her mouth and eyelids as well as the bed to the ground, so even if she woke up, she couldn't make any commotion. He then quickly started searching the house. Right now, he didn't have time to waste on a woman; he had more important matters to solve.
Because both Zeina and her mother were maids, and there were only a handful of people in the town with an almost equal ratio of men and women, they didn't have much private work to do, and no one had bad intentions towards them. Therefore, there wasn't anything useful in their house, not even a single protection tool. They were definitely the poorest family Myne had ever robbed in his life.
Then, Myne started to break into houses one by one according to the information he had gathered today.
Soon, he found an axe in the woodcutter's house and put it on his back. He also found a hunting rifle in the hunter's house, and the other party loaded it with bullets for him. Myne had seen similar things to rifles before. Although the design and working principle were completely different, Myne knew its general use, which didn't hinder him from using it.
He did not plan to escape or hide. He was using the enemy's resources to arm himself. Anyway, he had fought with demons, ghosts, and dragons. He might as well dig a hole and bury himself if he couldn't handle a bunch of random town folks and be bullied by them.
Finally, he was at the butcher's house. Myne's footsteps suddenly stopped, and his eyes were slightly startled because he not only saw the bloody butcher knife but also a { ! } on it.
"There is an unexpected gain? This is quite a surprise," Myne raised his eyebrow in surprise, which quickly turned into excitement.
After he stared at the { ! } for 3 seconds, the information also appeared.
{ If you can use it to peel apples and keep the apple peels, you may find something unexpected. }
"Sure enough. It's still this style."
Although Myne shook his head helplessly, the expression on his face was not surprised. After all, he had seen { ! } twice before: once when he summoned the tentacle uncle's dead daughter's soul, and the second time when it showed him a way to return to his home. Although the various pre-actions were slightly abstract and confusing, there were rewards after completion, so he quite enjoyed this puzzle game.
After a short half minute, he completed this precondition. This thing is indeed really useful for peeling apples, but it's a bit disgusting.
The exclamation mark flickered slightly and then slowly disappeared.
The next moment, the butcher knife seemed to have incorporated some special aura, becoming a little different, and a panel popped up at the same time. Unlike the previous time when he had to rely on his unreliable appraisal skill to check the properties of items, this time, the system directly threw the information in his face without him asking.
[ Name: Hundred-Man Killer Knife
Type: Equipment
Quality: Ordinary
[ Note: (Inferior, Ordinary, Excellent, Perfect, Immortal, Legendary) ]
Function: When swinging, it can increase body movement and strength by +10, but also consume more physical strength.
Can it be taken out of the dungeon? Yes.
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Remarks: A knife that has killed too many people is filled with terrible evil spirits. ]
This was the first piece of equipment Myne had found; the previous axe and gun didn't have attributes, obviously, the system didn't recognise garbage.
When he opened the equipment column on his status, he found that the knife icon appeared in his right-hand slot. He could put it in his item bar and take it out with a single thought, eliminating the need to carry it around all day.
"Hmm, so this knife can be taken out of this game world?" He wondered confusedly. "How is that going to happen? By the way, this knife suited me very well, but it reminded me of the cursed knife of my dear girlfriend."
"Hehehe, how ironic that we had sex for days, transform our lust into love, and cared for each other, but in the end, I didn't even know her name..." Now he felt like a hooligan who only wanted to mess around. Myne shook his head with a chuckle and strode to the warehouse door, sniffing a weird smell inside.
[ Name: Gasoline
Type: Fire
Quality: Ordinary
Function: Highly flammable liquid, very useful for burning things. ]
Myne looked at the dozen or so barrels piled up before him, used Appraisal on them, and finally found out what the gasoline was.
"This is what I am looking for... Time for a killing spree," Myne muttered with an evil smile while rubbing his hands.
...
At that moment, the church in the town was very lively, and the door was tightly closed.
The space inside wasn't large. Although it could accommodate nearly fifty people, they were all crowded together. A pillar was erected in the middle of the open space, and on it was enshrined a statue of a sheep's head demon, surrounded by patterns drawn in blood.
Obviously, this was an evil ceremony. Nearly fifty residents of the town, wearing black clothes, were sitting shoulder to shoulder in a circle on top of a huge hexagram array.
The old priest's voice echoed as he bowed his head and recited the prayer, his tone extremely loud and pious.
"Great God, in this world, we are the only ones who know your power. Please accept our extremely loyal faith."
"When the bell rings, we will offer you a sacrifice and complete the ritual with the flesh and blood of the desperate man."
Torches burned fiercely around the pillars. Against the shadows, the silhouette of a sheep's head stretched out on the front wall of the church, all the way to the hanging bell.
All the residents of the town, their eyes red, looked extremely excited as they watched this scene, because they already knew what was going to happen.
The great Ardlen would ring the bell to answer their prayers, and then there would be a night of revelry.
"Ding!"
The bell was rung by a shadow!
The old priest looked at all this, opened his arms, and his eyes were bloodshot. His pious expression looked terrifying in the firelight.
He spoke in an excited tone, "Everyone, our Lord Ardlen's response has come. Today's prey is very arrogant. That bastard not only dared to sexually harass our women but also disrespected me. I hope you can bring him back in good condition; your regular torture would be too cheap for a sinner like him."
The hunters, butchers, and woodcutters raised their heads, their red eyes almost spitting fire in anger upon hearing the old priest's words.
The maid, Mary, Zeina's mother, her eyes full of madness, couldn't wait to catch that bastard who dared to touch her innocent daughter.
She had already thought of a hundred ways to deal with that guy, but she just hoped that this pervert could hold on until she caught him and didn't fall into other people's hands.
Before this, some guests would just stay stupidly in the wooden house despite all the strangeness in the town, thinking they were worrying too much. They didn't know what was going on when the ceremony started. When they were dragged to the church and tied to the pillars, they were still begging to be let go. In the end, they were chopped into pieces by each person with a knife amidst desperate screams.
Some guests were smart and found something wrong in advance, and then tried to escape, but most of them were injured by the jungle traps. Even if they barely escaped into the jungle, it would only be the beginning of their hunt.
The prey that lasted the longest before was a soldier on duty. He had excellent physical fitness and rich experience. He discovered something wrong earlier than the others, escaped to the jungle, found no way out, and fought back, killing quite a few of their people.
But in the end, two hands couldn't beat hundreds, and he was also stupid enough to fall into the honey trap set by the maid, mother and daughter, and turned into a corpse under the wooden house. After all, it is a universal truth that beautiful women are often the weakness of men.
"It's time to see if this guest is still stupidly staying in the wooden house, or if he is smart and has already started to run away."
Everyone stood up, and each person's figure was very long in the light of the fire in the middle.
They walked towards the door of the church, every word that came out of their mouths was full of viciousness and evil, and all of them had their own unique way to hunt people.
The maid Mary, couldn't wait to stand in front. She pushed aside everyone and came to the front of the door. She was already thinking about the look of fear and despair on the damned bastard's face, who would keep begging for mercy, but she would torture him until his last breath. As for the priest's request? Hehe, she is a mother first, then the other party's plaything.
She couldn't stop laughing wildly, her hideous face contorted, and then she stretched out her hand and pushed the door hard.
"Click!"
Suddenly, the smile on the maid Mary's face froze.