Loss of control and future plans
[DAY 9]
"What the hell did I just say? Eat more people...
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...Wow so this is what it feels like to lose control of your own actions... what a shitty feeling. Even during the fight against the 9 idiots I found it very difficult to hold myself back, only when I concentrated very hard was I able to grab the three corpses and flee. If I had lost control there, I would have slaughtered all the people there myself, and in the end, I would have had no meat at all. I had this feeling before when I met the red ball in this world of darkness... I can understand it better
now, the feeling... it's not a feeling, it's an instinct... do animals feel like that when they are fighting? Or if they eat something?"... Will I lose control every time I'm in a fight now?
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"Sigh"
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"Well, I shouldn't deny it, I wanted to eat them from the start to make me stronger...this isn't the safe world I used to live in... it's kill or be killed here. I need strength so I can protect myself and save my mother... I have to do this!" Neo said with a cold glare while looking at the corpses of one of the three he ate not long ago.
'Mhm … I just ate their organs and some blood, basically anything I thought was tasty. But the skin and bones are just gross, I can't eat them. However, by far the tastiest was their brains, even though there wasn't very much in them while they were alive, they were still tasty. The taste was indescribably sweet and once I started, I didn't want to stop.'
'The liver I fried was also very tasty, although it was supposed to contain toxins, wasn't it? Well anyway, in the future I should maybe not eat the organs raw but come up with different recipes to make it even better ... wait, this is getting kind of weird right now, I shouldn't think about it anymore.' Neo thought to himself while taking his eyes off the corpses and taking his knife from the table in his right hand.
'I think I should now proceed with a little test of my own bodily functions.' Neo decided in his mind and slashed his left palm with his knife.
Neo now has a long cut on his left hand. But no blood came out of the wound and you can see with the naked eye that the wound is slowly closing.
'Mhm... as I thought, no blood and no pain and the wound is slowly regenerating.' observed Neo
Neo's wound closed after 2 minutes.
'Yes, now I'm sure, I don't feel any pain and my wounds heal faster when I'm full.' concluded Neo
"Well that's not quite true, I still feel pain, at least when I think about what happened when I ate the purple brain crystal, I mean at the time it felt like someone was making stew out of my brain." Neo said as a chill ran down his spine.
'Oh and you've probably noticed, but I don't seem to need to sleep either... that's a skill I wish I had had earlier, it makes days feel a lot longer and I can just use my time better. It seems like all the other undead don't need sleep either, especially since they're always wandering around, I guess we're all tireless.' thought Neo as he took off his bloody clothes and put on new clean clothes.
"All right then, let's get to work" Neo said and left the room.
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[DAY 10]
'I have a question for you, what would you do now if you were in my shoes? Well, you can't really answer me, but I can tell you what I'm going to do.'
'I've been watching for 8 hours now the three I had as prey at the beginning, but then changed my mind and attacked the 9 idiots...
...and one thing I have to admit, the three aren't as stupid as the 9 I trapped before.'
They avoid areas with a lot of undead and try to be as quiet as possible when looking for supplies. In addition, the three together can even kill a Stage 1.
Yes, you read that right, the three had a fight with a Stage 1, I'm not sure, but it should be a type: Strength, especially since he can create a huge crater on the ground with one hit. Apparently its only downside is that it's incredibly slow. The three lured him from one person to another and shot him down with bows, which for whatever reason each of the three had. After about 13 arrows in the head, they finally killed the Stage 1 undead.
'I'm still impressed by how well the three of them can work together as a team. If I had chosen those three as my first meal, I probably would have had a tough fight.' concludes Neo
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'Back to my future plans. I just can't avoid long-term contact with people, I just need their technology, scientific knowledge about the virus and weapons.' thought Neo
'I need their technology so that in the future I can change my human DNA, only with this I can control my mutation that I will have in the future, otherwise I'll turn into some monster that can't even walk anymore.' thought Neo, feeling sick at the thought.
'Then I need their insights and experiences with the virus, I need to confirm my theories I've set up about how the virus works, otherwise I could go in the wrong direction and end up causing more damage to my body. I want to get stronger but I don't want to lose control of myself!' Neo thought determinedly.
'Why I need weapons is relatively clear, isn't it? Although my claws and sharp teeth are deadly in melee combat, just a bullet from a firearm or a laser beam from a laser gun and I'm more than dead. Also, a combat suit would be fine too, with that I'd have an ultimate defence against any types of bullets and only powerful laser weapons would then still be dangerous. Though I doubt I'll get such a combat suit any time soon.'
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'Well, never mind I guess it should be pretty clear by now why human contact is a must.' thought Neo
'And the key to that is these three sneaking around on the street right now. You have to know the three are in contact with a survival base that is supposed to be in this part of the city.'
'Well, can you already see my plan?'
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'NO, I will not eat them!' screamed Neo in his mind
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'Yes, I will set a trap for the three of them and lure some undead to them, if they are in a hopeless situation then I will come to their rescue. Then when they bring me to the base, I am not an unknown survivor, but as a selfless hero who is by no means an undead. I can then request information and equipment without them being able to object.' thought Neo shamelessly while he smiled maliciously and continued to follow and watch the three of them from the rooftops.
The thought that he talks to himself all the time never crossed his mind. However, the Ai that can hear Neo's thoughts is beginning to worry about her host's mental state.
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*** change of scene
Ninette, Donatien and Meram, on the other hand, have completely different problems. The fight with the Stage 1 type: Strength was more difficult than expected and they urgently need water because on the 8th day after the apocalypse the water systems stopped working. That means no more water for the three who otherwise have no other water sources.
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The three only survived two days of persecution by the criminals because they still had a few water bottles, but now they've run out too.
They could of course try to go to a shop to get water bottles from there, the only problem is that most of the shops have been overrun by undead, apparently, they were lured by the meat there and have stayed there ever since, even though they had already eaten everything.
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Their situation is getting more and more critical and they start to despair, they decided to look for water more radically and ran from one house to the next, dodging all undead attacks and looting everything that was useful.
And while they were doing that, they met other survivors in one of the apartments, an old man in his 60s who is pointing a shotgun at them and a woman in his 30s who is threatening...
"... Put all the weapons you have with you on the ground IMMEDIATELY!"
'Oh, what do we have here, isn't that interesting, I guess I have to change my plans' thought Neo with a smile as he observed the situation from the roof across the street.