Cheat Awakening

Chapter 259: Chapter 259. End of The Illusion And Beginning of Real Horror

*DING!!*

*DINGGG!!*

*DINGGGGGG!!!*

"Are those the sounds of bells ringing?" Myne asked with a frown, but the response to his question was Velvet vomiting all the food she had just eaten.

"Hey, are you okay? What's wrong with you?" Myne asked with an ugly expression, lifting Velvet up while attempting not to look at her vomit. He didn't want his stomach to start having trouble as well.

"Can't you smell this disgusting smell?" Velvet asked, burying her face in Myne's chest, more specifically trying to cover her nose. Explore more stories with ???

"What sme... F*ck, where is this foul smell suddenly coming from, even though our entire house is completely sealed?" Myne asked while covering his nose with his shirt sleeves.

"You are still fine, but because my sense of smell is many times stronger than yours, I can smell this foul odor every time I breathe deeply before. Still, it wasn't as noticeable as it is now. I think this has something to do with the bell sound. We should go out and take a look quickly.

I have a bad feeling about this bell ringing," Velvet said while taking out Myne's handkerchief from his pants pocket and tightly wrapping it around her nose.

"Then what are you waiting for? Let's go. But remember, this time, no matter what happens, don't let go of my hand. Otherwise don't complain later if you find me in someone else's honey trap," Myne said jokingly to lighten his own mood, so he could stop his shaking legs.

He wrapped a scarf around his nose before putting all the things in front of the window in his Inventory and opened it slowly to look out.

"Huh? Look, it seems like this bell ringing indicates that the three-day-long festival has finally come to an end. All the lights in the festival area have also gone off, but that damn fog still isn't showing any sign of getting away," Myne remarked as he poked his head out of the window to assess the situation. Velvet followed suit, sticking her head out the window as well.

"Um, Myne! Don't you think those houses around us look a little weird? I mean, I don't think they looked so creepy before, right?"

"Hmm? What do you mean?... What the hell? How did those newly-looking houses suddenly become creepy haunted houses? And there's even a decoration of lifelike naked human dead bodies with blood dripping from their entire bodies hanging everywhere?

Two days ago, there was none of those things; I remember clearly," Myne said with a dumbfounded expression, staring at the gruesome scene in front of him that looked like a nightmare.

"If what you said is true, then is it possible that someone is playing a prank on us?" Velvet, who herself didn't believe in what she spoke, asked nervously while holding Myne's hand tightly.

"But who would be so free to go through so much trouble to play this kind of grand prank on us? Do you even have an idea of just how much resources and money would be needed to do this?

Amm, Velvet, do you think that dead body is staring at us?" Myne, while rubbing his eyes, spoke starring a dead body hanging from its neck in front of their neighbour's house, whose both legs and one eye were missing, as well as a lot of flesh on its body, clearly indicating its death wasn't peaceful.

"What! Myne, don't try to scare me. At least see the situation before making jokes. Although everything around is very scary, how can a body in that condition be able to move... Ahhh..." Velvet, who was paying attention to the festival area, before she could finish speaking, suddenly noticed Myne's trembling hands.

She looked at him, who was pointing his index finger at the dead body about which he was talking.

Seeing in such a terrible scared condition, which didn't look fake, Velvet followed his finger direction and saw the dead body, whose both legs and an eye were missing for an unknown amount of time, had its head raised up and was now staring at them with its only white lifeless eye, half-eaten by insects, and occasionally moving its hands a bit.

Velvet, although scared out of her wits by such a horrific scene, before her brain could accept such a weird thing, Myne pulled her into the room, slammed the window shut, and quickly sealed it with various heavy objects.

"F*ck, f*ck, f*ck, not again, not this damn shit again. Why do I always encounter these ghostly things? Mommy, I want to go home..."

After closing the window, Myne held his head, sat down on the spot, and hid his face in his knees while muttering nonsense like a madman.

Velvet, who also managed to calm down after a moment of thinking, took a deep breath and walked toward Myne, who was clearly freaked out after seeing a living ghost. Although Velvet was also quite scared seeing such a horrific sight, it was evident that she wasn't as scared as Myne.

"Myne, get up. We have to get out of this damn place. If those weird things find out us, in such close quarters, we might not be able to escape without paying a heavy price. So stop behaving like a little child, and quickly get up," Velvet said anxiously. She always felt that if they didn't leave this area quickly, something very bad would happen to them, and they might not be able to handle it.

Though Myne didn't want to move, he considered that what Velvet said made sense. Remember that in most horror novels, the one who stays in a place tends to die first. Quickly, he grabbed Velvet's arm tightly, and they walked toward the main door.

But to both of their surprise, as soon as they walked out of the bedroom, they saw that the house, which had been in good condition before, had now become a haunted house. Everything looked old and tattered, with spiderwebs and heavy dust spread everywhere.

Only areas where they had sat or walked previously showed signs of cleanliness, but everywhere else indicated that no one had been in this house for years.

Myne and Velvet gulped in horror. They both robotically turned their heads around and looked back at the bedroom. What they saw sent chills down their spines.

The once well-made, clean, and bright bedroom now looked extremely creepy. The walls were painted with dried blood, the floor was a complete mess with signs of someone being heavily tortured for many days, and the killer had left the dead body of their victim there to feed insects, along with his various tools.

Among the tools were knives of various sizes, from small to large, a hand saw for cutting bones, pliers for plucking nails or teeth, etc. In addition to those tools, there were remnants of a dead body, such as tattered pieces of clothes and heavily damaged bones.

But the most shocking revelation, which has given both of them literal heart attacks, was yet to come. Last but not least, the once seemingly well-maintained bed on which they had spent the most time until now—eating, having sex, and sleeping soundlessly—now appeared as a canvas of torment, soaked in a nightmarish tableau of dried blood.

The bloodstains told a story of unspeakable horror, as if someone had been mercilessly bound to the bed and subjected to unspeakable torture before meeting a gruesome demise. Amongst the grotesque stains of blood, the bed harboured the remains of various insect carcasses and the chilling remnants of one or perhaps multiple souls who had met their gruesome end on that very spot.

Myne and Velvet recoiled in terror, their eyes widening at the sight of the bed they had unwittingly rested upon, especially Velvet, who had literally spent two and a half days on this bed.

The air grew colder as both of them realized that what they had been seeing till now was actually an illusion.

"Velvet, tell me that what we are seeing is not true and it is just our nightmare," Myne spoke, taking deep breaths to calm down his rapidly beating heart, which felt as if it were about to burst from his chest.

"If it is true, then how could we both have such similar dreams? And normally, we shouldn't be able to communicate with each other so thoughtfully, let alone give our dreams such detailed creations.

F*ck, and I even buried my face in that blood-soaked pillow, rubbed my body all over the bed during sex, in various poses," Velvet said with an ugly expression, imagining the intimate acts on such a creepy bed.

The hair on her entire body stood up, and she quickly pulled Myne, running toward the main door before they encountered any other surprises that would give their already verge-of-collapsing brains another shock.

"Myne! Myne! Myne!!! Are you awake? Listen, I know you are scared of all those things, and so am I, but we can't stay here, waiting for our death, right? So stop daydreaming and help me move those objects," Velvet, who was removing the heavy furniture Myne had placed in front of the main door, noticed that she was the only one working.

She looked back at Myne, frozen in place, giving her goosebumps. Velvet nervously called him out, thinking he might be possessed by a ghost. After calling him for some time and confirming that he was only daydreaming, she quickly spoke while shaking him to wake him up.

"Sigh, I hope we won't get any more wonderful surprises after getting out of this door," Myne said, unwillingly moving all the objects in front of the door aside.

Knowing Myne's fear, Velvet took the lead, holding his hand tightly. After taking a deep breath, she opened the door, which made a classic creaking sound, as if it hadn't been opened for decades.