Chapter 2

- Hmm, the lights went out? Could it be a nuclear strike? I don't think so, I'm quite alive...- various thoughts were spinning in my head, but I couldn't confirm anything, because I just wasn't able to leave here. The room was dark without lights... Stop... If the power went out, then...

I looked at the door and smiled and crawled towards it, it was a bit difficult, but I didn't have much choice. This may be my only chance.

I crawled to the door, and with my fingers on the lower ledge of the door, I began to pull slowly.

- Opens.- I whispered. The door slowly opened, as expected, the locks were electric. I've already seen staff use key cards to unlock locks. Normally, the backup power would have worked and no one would have been able to open the doors, but for some reason the backup power didn't work, which means the doors were fully unlocked.

Opening the door a little, I began to hear various sounds, screams and sobs. Looking through the crack, I saw a real carnage. Many patients attacked doctors and staff, there was real chaos, there was a lot of blood and several bodies were already lying on the floor. I didn't leave the room, it wasn't time yet, so I closed the door and waited.

After waiting about five minutes, I opened the door again and listened.

- All seems quiet.- I muttered. He opened the door a little more and looked out into the corridor. There was a terrible sight, several bodies lying down and a lot of blood, but there didn't seem to be any patients.

I sighed and started to crawl out of the room.

"Oh, shit...- I got my hand in the blood. These violent patients have done a lot of things... In the wing I was in, there were wards for special patients, either very violent or completely moved out. In short, it was a place for scum. They even kept psychotic maniacs here, so it's no wonder they started a massacre.

I crawled up to the doctor's corpse and took the key card, you never know, suddenly turn on the electricity, I would not like to get stuck in this place.

As I crawled, I kept trying to remember where the kitchen was, because I wouldn't last long without food, I needed something to eat, or I just wouldn't get out of here. As soon as I thought about food,I saw a bloodied body with a torn arm. It looks like it was cut open with a saw or something. But when I turned my gaze to the hand that was showing chunks of meat...

"What is this..." Flashed through my mind. I felt as if my whole body wanted this meat, as if it could help me survive. The thought made me feel sick, but I couldn't help it. I could not disagree with my thoughts, who knows where this dining room is, and it's not a fact that I will find food there. And even if I do, I might not be able to eat enough, but it's meat... It's like I feel a little bit of life in it, like it's what I need, and I was a little scared of it. I don't remember ever wanting to eat human flesh. But if I don't, I'll definitely stay here and then go crazy like the last hunter, which I really don't want to do...

- Argh, sorry kid, but you're already dead, nothing personal.- I crawled closer to my bloody hand and swallowed. I had no appetite for eating my hand, and even more than that, I was sick of it. I wasn't much of a moralist in the past, so eating a person is not something special for me, but it's still a bit unpleasant, the person himself, sort of... I'm not sure now... Okay, it wasn't.

I bit into the meat and tried to tear it off...

- GRR..- The piece gave and came off, then I chewed slowly, suppressing my gag reflex. The taste was terrible, just raw meat with a nasty metallic taste, salt would be...

- BHA.. What a mess...- I swallowed a mouthful and began to tear off another. And so piece by piece, I gradually chewed off half of the poor doctor's forearm. But with each bite, I felt alive, as if I was getting younger and more alert. Gradually, I began to feel that the hunger began to disappear, and then completely disappeared. This was the first time I'd ever done this, or rather with this body, as far as I can remember, hunter had never been able to overcome the hunger that he didn't eat. But who could have known that he needed raw meat... Am I some kind of mutant? Terrible shit...

I stood up and looked at myself in shock. I stood without any problems, my whole body was light and young, as if I was really 25 years old, and I used to feel like a dried-up old man. In addition, my hands were smooth as a normal young man's, and before they were bony as a skeleton. Amazing... I'm definitely an unusual person, it's impossible for people to recover so quickly just by eating meat.

Hmm, but the hunger will return, what then? Oh, I'll think about it later, we should get out of here now. Now I'm fully recovered, and with the skills from my previous life, it's not going to be easy to escape.

As soon as I was ready to leave...

*Ding*

Lights started coming on all over the building, all the doors were immediately locked, and the siren went off.

* VIU* *VIU* * VIU*

Cbms... More is not better...