I've decided, I'll go to la bagh woods. Going out of the city, isn't possible if I don't risk my life, 24/7. La bagh, I've never been there but I've seen pictures of it and it seems pretty isolated.

There is a whole neighbourhood nearby if I need supplies, even though it isn't free from zombies. It would surely have less zombies than the city. Anyway, after I was done with Jake, I went away for a bit to focus on the rat situation.

In total, I now had six slots. I decided to empty up my latest one, the empty chips bag appears in my hand and now to see if I'm capable of producing clones. I began focusing to make the rat appear in the bag.

Just in case, my powers could only duplicate the body but not the soul. After a moment, my suspicions were confirmed and the rat appeared in perfect condition but it wasn't living.

It seems, I only have the ability to duplicate only the bodies of living creatures but not the souls.

Anyway, now for the next test, the fact that I can literally observe every single thing about the rat, from outside and inside. Wait, does that mean I can see it's memories? Let me try, I sat down on a nearby chair and focused on its brain, I tried to WILL it to see it's memories.

All of a sudden, I saw the sky and the ground while also seeing left and right but everything that was too far was a bit blurry, wait I recognise where this is, this is the alleyway where I absorbed it and this must be how a rat would see I somehow don't feel dizzy, probably because it's in my mind, this is amazing.

The possibilities are endless with this, I seem to have become the rat but only for this particular moment and I can't just decide to change the direction of anything, as if I'm trapped in the rat. I feel comfortable with how it moves, like I was just supposed to know how to.

In the distance, a blurry figure kept on walking closer to me, it laid down something in front of me. It's me! This must be the rat's latest memory. Oh that means, I'm gonna experience dying, wait I technically shouldn't.

I felt excited but why? Because I was seeing a rat's p.o.v, a little bit but mostly because of the rat! The chip is making the rat happy and therefore me.

This is nice but can I fast forward a bit? This is very nice! I can control it's memories, Like a video! But even better! Wait, I wanna see if it used to have an owner.

A pale face with a bushy beard appeared in front of me, he was whispering something.

"Grow up big and strong, okay? And always stick with your family! Hehe ..Also, never listen to people, they will only bring you down but animals ..animals aren't like that, they're much more simple and KIND!", he stressed the last word heavily and then proceeded to ramble something under his breath all while his voice quivered.

I was being shaken a little, and I-the rat was squeaking loudly in fear. The old man is a poor soul, I understand what he's going through but the world was always just like that. No matter how much they preach about kindness, only some of them will adopt it and those that do are, mocked because of it.

Anyway, That's enough for now, I opened my eyes and I found the rat's corpse in the chips bag now I have to throw it outside and somewhere far or it'll attract zombies. I was on the upper floor, in the storage room, so I could get a good throw in.

I opened the window all the way and chucked it outside and closed it right away. Now, I wanted to see another thing-"Aiden, are you alright in there?!"

Ohh, I forgot about what I was doing,

I opened the door and Jake was outside with a slightly worried expression.

"Yeah, I'm alright. What can I help you with?", "N-nothing, you were gone for a while", "..how long?", "about half an hour", "I'm sorry, I didn't realise",

That's a problem, I need to be careful next time for when and where I choose to do my powers. I seem to lose track of time, completely.

Jake, like he told me was about thirteen years old and he seemed to suffer from stuttering, now exactly when that started is unknown and the poor kid is definitely traumatized. He must've been worried, because of me.

"Jake, if you need anything. Don't hesitate to ask, okay?",

"Okay, can I umm, hang out with you?",

"Of course!", 'hang out', huh? He seems to be a bit shy too.

"Although, I'll be happy to hang out. I got some work that's a bit unfinished. So I want you to do something as well, Firstly, come after a half an hour has passed, okay? And if there is something really important, you can come at that very moment. So I'll give you a payment of chips, okay?", I went downstairs to get some chips from my bag.

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It was alright, I didn't really care about the chips but because I duplicated so many, I had to do something with them so I carried them with me, it wasn't much weight so I wasn't burdened.

After I was done with Jake, I wanted to test out some theories I had. The amount of control, I had on the rat was astonishing, I'm sure if I tried to zoom in on the rat. I could and for the limit of how far I could zoom is definitely large.

but I wondered if I could analyze myself? I mean, the basis of my powers comes from the fact that I have to view the outline of things, I wanna absorb so I sat down on a large cardboard box and began focusing on trying to think of an outline of myself.

I took a big breath in and focused on my body. Eventually, after a long time, I got something from my efforts. Which was nothing, unfortunately. I only managed to just imagine an outline but wasn't able to do much with it.

So I tried to focus in my mind. In the mind you can do basically anything and with my power I have been just willing things to be. So why can't I do the same with my body, I tried to focus on a random part of my body like my left lung.

I focused and something appeared,

It was pinkish-red it was moving constantly, it appears to have two indentations at its upper and lower part, those must be my lungs lobes, I actually managed to perceive it and it's also pretty lit up that too without a visible light source.

This is amazing, there are a lot of different ways of how I can take advantage of this, just gotta figure them out in detail. Now, my last theory, because of unknowingly absorbing the rat, I gained some extra room and now I know this power even allows me to perceive the inner working of my own body.

Would it not make sense, that I should be able to improve or modify my body? Firstly, I wanted to see if I could duplicate one specific thing out of an individual item. I focused on the food crates and a carrot appeared in my hand.

This means less burden with more carrying capability now, back to my other point. My logic says that, this ability allows me to absorb and then duplicate those things so why give me the ability to perceive my own inner working? The ability also allows me to control the items I absorb completely and duplicate them wherever I want. I have tested the limit yet but my own body clearly comes under it.

If I'm smart enough, I can potentially change my body for better or worse. Which reminds me of something because I can see the rat's memories and even experience them first hand, doesn't it mean, I practically have photographic memory.

Although, not yet typical photographic memory but still, I don't have to worry about forgetting things, if I can just write it down on a piece of paper and absorb it. The issue of item slots is a lot less concerning now,

Wait ..I focused on the carrot and willed it to appear in the package. I didn't want it to be absorbed but rather returned to its original place but this is a duplicate so would that work?

The carrot stayed there, I focused on the package itself. I'm able to discard things so can I discard one individual thing from an item? I tried and another carrot appeared in my other hand, identical to the other one.

I checked the package and exactly one carrot was gone. Thank goodness, I can continue to formulate my ideas, and now the other thing, the experiment material. The zombies would have to suffice

I just have to do it. I can't obviously get the zombies in such a still state required for the absorption ..through conventional means but maybe if I could paralyze their bodies then maybe.. either through injecting them with something or aiming for their spines.

I decided, that tonight. I'm gonna go outside to catch a zombie, I also have another theory I wanna test out but first I must have some easily disposable clothes, which are conveniently already taken care of in my back pack.

I must get myself to become a master at medical work or else I'll screw myself over if I decide to mess around. The medical experience isn't just useful in my case but far more and I wanna see how far I can take it.