"Haaa, haa, haa, what the f*ck was that?"

    After coming out of the illusion, Myne panted heavily and noticed that the field of his vision had become a bit darker, and his depth perception had slightly reduced again. Clearly, that weird monster on the ceiling had eaten away another point of his SAN value.

    Myne had a strange expression and was a little speechless, regretting his decision to look down on the tentacle uncle''s advice.

    "Isn''t it too much? Now you can''t even look at those monsters directly? What kind of crazy place is this? Why is everything here so damn scary and unreasonable?" For a moment, Myne even had the desire to pick up the cursed bloody knife of the woman in red and cut that bastard on the ceiling into pieces.

    Sighing deeply, Myne put aside the dangerous thoughts of cutting an unknown monster that seemed good at illusions and was staring at him as if he were the world''s tastiest sweet. He went back to his work. After finishing cleaning, he started wandering around the ground floor and found that, as the tentacle uncle''s diary mentioned, dangers were indeed everywhere.

    There was a dark shadow in the mirror that seemed to be able to travel through every mirror in the building. At first, it only copied your movements but then gave unexpected jump scares when you were least prepared or moved your face close to the mirror to see clearly in the dark. It even managed to fool Myne.

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    In the bathroom, blood gushed from the toilet and taps instead of water. Thankfully, no one jumped out unexpectedly from the toilet; otherwise, Myne might not have been able to urinate peacefully.

    "Next, it was time to go out and buy groceries... and look for those three troublemakers. But first, how should I use it?" Myne sat down on the dining chair and looked at the cursed knife before him with an awkward expression. He had gone to great lengths to acquire this maybe powerful weapon from the woman in red, but now found he didn''t even dare to pick it up, let alone use it to hack enemies.

    Finally, after hesitating for a full minute, he gritted his teeth and touched the knife''s handle with his finger.

    "???"

    "That''s it? Have I been influenced by the tentacle uncle''s nonsense and become a coward like him?"

    Seeing that nothing had happened, Myne became more confident and casually grabbed the knife handle and lifted it. But then, he suddenly felt extreme pain in his palm, as if hundreds of tiny needles had pierced his skin and gone deep enough to touch his bone.

    "F*ck! AHHHHHH!!!"

    Although everything seemed fine, for some reason, the moment he stepped out of the apartment, he felt uncomfortable, a feeling of suffocation that wouldn''t leave him. He couldn''t pinpoint the source of this discomfort. But he had a feeling that if he stayed in this strange world openly, without any protection, he would definitely receive an unwanted surprise soon.

    "Looking for ingredients for dinner was only one reason for going out, and not even the most important one. Right now, the most urgent thing was to look for Waffle and the others," Muttering this to himself, Myne looked at the large, luxurious house next to his apartment building.

    This was the only place, besides his apartment, that had lights on, and he had a strange feeling that he would find something if he went inside. Even if he hadn''t had that feeling, Myne had to start his search somewhere, so why not make a grand start?

    Making up his mind, Myne decided to visit the luxurious house and turned his head toward a peculiar sight at the entrance of a random alley at the end of the street.

    There, Myne saw a hyena-like monster with an inky black body and red eyes, about half a person''s height, hanging atop a four-meter-tall iron pole like a flag.

    Its body was pierced by various iron pieces, and it had multiple holes in its head and stomach, its flesh and black blood exposed. But it still wasn''t completely dead and was growling at him, as if it couldn''t wait to jump on him and bite him to death.

    [ Level 1 Pollution Anomaly.

    Ability: Regeneration

    San Value: 0 ]

    "I''m really missing my ''Cut-and-Paste'' skill right now," Myne muttered enviously as he saw the golden appraisal result of the zombie-like hyena.

    Since it''s a level one monster, it should be the weakest in this city, but it still doesn''t look easy to deal with, He thought worriedly, knowing how difficult it was to kill something with a regeneration ability, it is the same as killing a cockroach, pain in the ass.

    "Also, the San Value is 0, meaning it has no intelligence and relies completely on instincts. That''s good news for me. But why didn''t the appraisal show anything when I used it on the tenants? Yet, it works perfectly fine on these monsters."

    "Is something interfering with the appraisal? It''s not the first time something like this has happened... Even my own data hasn''t changed much and is still showing the previous information without any update," Myne complained helplessly as he walked past the zombie hyena and entered the luxurious house.

    At the start of his career, Myne had done a lot of house exploration and was quite experienced in entering other people''s property without permission. Now, with monsters everywhere and no law and order, he had even less of a psychological burden invading someone''s house. As long as his fist was big enough, he didn''t care what other people thought of him.

    Anyway, it wasn''t like he had come here to steal their wealth or f*ck their wives and daughters. He just wanted to investigate the whereabouts of his pets, and nobody could stop him from doing that.