Is it Wrong to Copy Abilities in Apocalypse?

20:51, 13 July 20XY.

??, Uttarakhand.

'Argh!'

With a stinging pain in his head, Alex groaned inwardly. He felt like his head was being pierced by a nail and a hammer.

But just as he was about to open his eyes, he frowned inwardly, his body going on full alert.

He could feel a cloth over his eyes and a rope binding his arms.

He could also feel the cold surface his back was resting on, indicating that it was metallic, and the same for the ground he was sitting on.

As he focused his senses, he slowly started to imagine the surroundings even with his eyes closed.

He could feel the air brushing against his skin and ruffling his hair, but only on his face; he couldn't feel much wind on his body, which means that there was probably some air vent or something like that placed in front of his head or slightly above it.

*Inhale**Exhale*...

He could hear the sound of a person breathing next to him, and from the calm rhythm, they were probably asleep.

But as he focused more on his surroundings, he could feel slight tremors on the ground he was sitting on; it was as if he were traveling on a cart or something like that.

An iron or steel cart or carriage with one air vent.

From the still atmosphere in the carriage, it didn't seem like anyone was awake or moving, but one can never be sure.

So, with a slight tilt of his fist, he brought his dagger out of his inventory.

*Snip*

The moment he did so, the rope binding his wrists got cut with a snap.

He had positioned his hand in a way that the blade would directly cut the two or three centimeters wide rope.

Alex, however, didn't move.

The AI, as if understanding what Alex wanted, started to scan the area for the heart rate of the people.

As soon as Alex heard the analysis, he moved his arms and removed the blindfold on his eyes, finally taking in the view of his surroundings.

He did it while being as stealthy as possible, though; not a single sound was heard.

Alex's golden eyes squinted as he seriously surveyed the surroundings, and he found 4 more humans, 3 women and one man sleeping with their backs resting on the wall of the old-fashioned caged carriage.

There was a single window that was supposed to work as a vent so that the prisoners would not die of suffocation, and right now, Alex and the group were prisoners.

Alex could see that it was already night, it was clear from the dimly lit surroundings, so instead of peeking out of the vent, he opened his system interface.

'8: 53 pm...'

Alex frowned as he saw the time.

The last events were still vivid in his mind, so much so that his body would still tremble, recalling that pain once in a while.

It was a surprise that he was still sane after all that; a normal human would've died way before him--they would've died the moment they felt that agonizing pain.

Alex had almost died as well; his heart had stopped beating for a second, and his brain was going blank every second.

*Inhale**Exhale*

Alex took a deep breath and closed his eyes, wanting to not think of the previous events before he suddenly noticed something.

'Huh...'

He sighed in amazement as he felt his body's movements.

His body didn't seem to be aching anywhere anymore; it was as if he hadn't even gone through all that he had before.

His body's flexibility and mobility were still the same.

'Ghh!'

But just as he stretched his arms up, he felt a tearing pain on his chest and his back, causing him to frown before he noticed what it was.

His clothes were still the same, torn apart due to the smilodons' claws.

Through its tears, Alex could see the claw marks, still not completely healed, leaving long marks of clotted blood.

The stretching he did caused the blood clots to rupture, and now Alex had fresh blood staining his clothes once again.

The AI commented as it saw all this.

'It's fine. My body is better than I expected it to be.'

Alex, however, was fine with what he had.

When all of that was happening Alex wasn't in the right mind to think of what would happen later, now, however, he could see that he wouldn't have survived long with that broken body.

There was still a problem, though...

'I need a change of clothes...'

He muttered as he looked at his torn shirt and pants.

*Clang*

He then sighed before he used his knife to create a sharp ringing noise on the carriage.

The carriage stopped right after that, and even the people who were sound asleep woke up.

It was an irritating sound, after all, much more so for the people who had their bodies close to the wall of the carriage.

*Step**Step*...

Alex could hear the steps of two people walking toward the gate of the carriage with slow and cautious steps.

They were trying to not make any sound, but Alex's expert hearing could hear them fine.

*Grip*

Alex, however, just gripped his dagger hard.

*Temble*

The bodies of the people in the carriage jerked in fright as they couldn't see anything, but the sound of the dagger being clenched was heard.

They didn't utter a word, though.

Not like they didn't want to, but because they couldn't.

'Killing intent.'

Alex had them under his killing intent; they were weak--around levels 2 and 3--an easy target for him.

He didn't want to take risks, so he muted them.

With everything set, he stared at the gate of the carriage as he heard a sound.

*Click**Clang*

The sound of the metal knob could be heard and Alex, who heard it, took a deep breath.

He had already seen the guys from the vent when they were moving toward the door of the carriage, and he knew that they weren't very strong, making him drop the idea of pretending to be still bound by rope.

He just waited for them to open the door so that he could go out.

The ones on the outside, although cautious, still weren't tense, as they were sure that no human could wake up so soon after the dose of Temazepam they injected in them.

How would they have known that this would be the last time they even saw each other's faces?

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