With my basic necessities met and a somewhat safe place to hide I opened one of the windows of the flat the kid was living in and went to the roof. I disabled my arm guard and instead turned it into a mask. I absorbed my hair to not leave any DNA evidence behind. I even smoothed out my fingerprints to make a job of tracking me even harder.

My mask was similar to that one the Frey was wearing during his hacks although without text about being free. The mask extended into a semi helmet around my skull. My body was covered in plain clothes. I looked suspicious but ultimately forgettable since cosplaying was somewhat accepted around here.

During my pondering about my humanity I was also skimming through recent news and it looks like people will soon go to the streets to loot everyone because of the rising prices that were a result of Belarus slowly shutting down the gas pipes to the country I’m in.

I jumped from the roof to a nearby alley which was a mistake because I immediately broke my legs. The pain was unbearable and if I didn’t disconnect nerves from my legs I would’ve passed out. Thankfully there was some organic waste around I was able to regenerate my broken limbs in half an hour during which I made some small changes to my brain there were but not limited too:

1. Pain optimisation

Normally for some reason after for example losing a limb your brain will be floded with pain signals which could make us pass out this is stupid because our body abbandons reason and logic and just traps us in a shitty situation because it said so. Now After breaking/losing a limb or similarly painful experience the pain will go to a certain level and then turn into a low and annoying hum in the back of my head.

2. Blood flow correction

In most cases after receiving damage and with it pain our blood pressure rises like “Yeah dude we are losing blood so let me increase blood pressure to lose it quicker, No problem man I hate being alive too.” It feels like the body tries to kill you more than the enemy. Now the majority blood will go around the affected area, the minority on the other hand will go slowly and make an elastic clot.

3. Hormonal debugging

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I’m basically making adrenaline no longer raise blood pressure and make the body go into overdrive because it’s basically a hard drug that destroys the body in the long run for short gain power. Without mana I wouldn’t do it but now I can heal pretty quickly and damaging myself for short term power can be done more efficiently.

With my legs healed I went to a city for some hunting. I was looking for a homeless person. While they won’t be the most healthy, no one will look too hard at missing hobos. They would probably think that the army conscripted them to strengthen the border. After going to bad neighbourhood after hours of unsuccessful hunt I was greeted by a big tough looking guy.

-”Do you know what time is it?” He asked with a hint that he was trying to rob me.

-”Yes, It’s your last one on this plane.: I said with a smile that prey went to me.

He pulled out a knife and swung at me with a surprising amount of dexterity.

-”Huh, Nice knife you got there bro, do you mind if I take it?” I said as I catched the arm with a weapon with my hand and tore his flesh apart with my other one. I looked at him with pity in my eyes as I forcefully pulled out my arm from his torso with his heart in my hand.

I moved him to a nearby alley to feed on his corpse. My meal was like a dumpster. All of his muscle mass was a result of abusing testosterone and other hormones that only grew muscles. Sadly abusing such substances often leads to empty muscles where they grow in random places while consuming calories and being useless weight.

All of his body was devastated by various substances he used. It looked like for the last decade the guy had never eaten a vegetable. Even so his useless muscles were finally useful for once, the total useful biomass was about 30 kg the guy weighed about 70kg. Over half of his biomass was too polluted to be worth extracting.

I split his corpse in small chunks and spread them through the valley for rats to consume, the bones were dumped to the sewers and blood was used as paint to cover the ground, making, passersby ignore it. I spread it so evenly it looked like it was painted in such a color for some reason.

Before leaving I killed some rats to get their voice strings and basic understanding about their squeeks. I did this to be able to call on nearby rats to get them to eat the evidence.

With the first lights of dawn falling upon a sleepy city I began my journey back to the kids flat.