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Well, that's it, the day has come, or rather the evening. The city was undergoing a massive attack by masked men. I was hungry, and I had not yet satisfied my hunger, and now I noticed a problem with it. The feeling of hunger started coming a little earlier, about three or four hours earlier, but it's already making me nervous, so an hour ago I was really hungry. And it was very sudden, I thought I'd be able to hold out for another three hours and get to work just as soon as I'd eaten. But it looks like I'll have to eat a little earlier...
I looked at the next strapped black guy with an indifferent stare. Then I took a syringe of coagulant and injected it into his artery. While the drug spread, I laid out the tools for the job. After waiting a few minutes, I began.
I had to eat first, so I cut off his arm at the elbow and put a tourniquet around the wound. I quickly cut the meat off his arm and chopped it into small pieces. Got pepper, salt, a few spices mixed together and sprinkled everything well. It did a pretty good job of overpowering the unpleasant flavor of the meat.
Then I shoveled the meat into my mouth and swallowed without chewing, the taste of blood was palpable, but it was interrupted by the spices, so it was tolerable. Unfortunately, this time I didn't have enough to eat, which bothered me, because that time in the asylum I'd had enough of what I'd eaten now for a week. Yeah, I guess my appetite's growing...
I did the same procedure with his other hand and only then was I able to satisfy my appetite.
Of course I could have just eaten his brain and then I would have easily gotten full in just a few bites, but then I could forget about the bone marrow, because the man would have died and I would have been left with my nose.
Next in line were the simpler things. Self-enhancement by eating eyes and bone marrow. The hands that I cut off were of little value, the marrow in those bones was too little. But I could make bone meal and mixed it with spices and swallowed it quickly. But it didn't have much effect, the bones mostly stopped affecting me about two weeks ago, when I fully devoted myself to eating human bones.
It was very unpleasant, I was covered in white bone meal from head to toe and the horrible taste of bones still lingers in my throat. But it had its effect, now my bones must have reached the limit of their human potential, because bone meal doesn't strengthen me any more. So the fact that I ate some flour was just to test it out. I don't think next time I won't even have to check it, it's clear enough, there's no point in eating more bones.
Then we had to eat the most important things, the eyes and the bone marrow. Of course, it was better to start with the eyes, because there was only one way to get the marrow.... So I forged the guy's brown eyes, cut each one into two halves, and quickly swallowed them. The eyes had no particular flavor other than a faint salty aftertaste, so pepper and spices were optional. As I swallowed the eye, I felt a slight tingling sensation in my retinas, which disappeared very quickly. The effect wasn't particularly noticeable, but I could feel that it was there. I was starting to see pretty far away lately, unlike last time. At a distance of almost a kilometer, I could see a person's face, which was something I'd never dreamed of before.
Okay, now the bone marrow... The procedure was pretty simple, open up the tubular bones and eat the entire contents. But the problem was that the taste of the brain was very unpleasant, and there was no time to add spices. Because after I started the procedure, the victim would die very quickly. So I had to be patient. Most marrow is found in the pelvic bones, sternum and spine. Each of these bones is terribly difficult to dissect, so the most I can do is eat the marrow from the sternum and some from the spine. The spine doesn't have much marrow compared to the pelvic bone, but it's awfully hard to cut open, and I've tried, it's not very profitable.
So I applied my already tried-and-true autopsy method and took the bone marrow out of the sternum and promptly ate it.
«Ghaa, disgusting as always.... - I wrinkled my nose and went on with my work. The spine was next, and there wasn't much time left.....
Time was up, but I had done my part. Now I felt much better than before, even though my brain didn't affect me so much, but I had some effect. All right, I've had enough...
I opened the news and saw exactly what I was waiting for. The ARGUS army had arrived and blockaded the city, which meant I had to move out. So I quickly stuffed the corpse into a barrel of acid and put the cellophane and supplies I usually use for autopsies in it. I put the rest of the tools in the decontamination room and quickly cleaned myself up.
I put on my black suit, mask and hood. Then I checked all my gear.
«Well, it's done. - I said in a rough, metallic voice. The voice-altering system worked without a problem. Well, it's time to move...
I walked over to my brand new truck, which I had recently confiscated from another "food". It was a shame it wasn't armored, but it would do, I just needed to move money in it and nothing else. I'd already changed my mind about taking the machine he'd stolen from Slade at Star Labs to make super-soldiers out of Roy's blood. Money's the most important thing right now, and the rest can be bought.
Laundering the money won't be a problem, I'll make up some inheritance and enter that information into the database. So now I have two goals: first, to get the key Slade took from Arrow, and then to use it to steal the money from the secure vaults of the local banks. That's the most sensible method, since most banks have probably locked down all their vaults. Therefore, most people will not be able to rob them, and they don't care about it, now most people are running around like headless flies and only a small part of people will get rich from the chaos.
Well, I'll be one of them, but it'll be hard without the key, even though I've made explosives, I hope I don't have to use them. I don't have much experience with explosives, though.
I jumped into the van and drove out of the workshop, toward Queen Consolidated. It was going to be a mess pretty soon, and the building would be completely vacant, just what I needed.
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