Chapter 61: First Kill
Alexandre said, "Okay, open the door!" With one savage motion, he then gouged his fingers into his thigh, ripping apart the flesh to get at the femur.
Alexandre shredded away all the muscle and connective tissue, ripping the femur completely out of his leg, leaving his ankle dangling from an empty sack of muscle, skin, and blood. Then he snapped one end, leaving a savagely jagged edge.
Despite the horror he'd just inflicted upon himself, Alexandre had braced himself and felt none of the pain. It was as simple a process as snapping a chicken bone. Now he had a powerful tool—after all, the femur was not only incredibly strong, but also the longest bone in the human body.
Alexandre studied the reinforced glass in front of him. Even though his bones were unnaturally tough, his femur wouldn't be enough to break through the glass, at least not without pulverizing itself in the process... and Alexandre needed the bone for something else. So, with no better option, he clenched his left fist and slammed a savage punch into the center of the glass.
As Alexandre had expected, the glass didn't shatter. However, a faint spider web of cracks appeared at the point of impact. But Alexandre hadn't come away unscathed: Every bone in his left hand had shattered. This would've completely crippled a normal human's ability to fight.
Of course, Alexandre wasn't an ordinary human.
He rammed the shattered ball of meat and bone back into the window over and over and over, ignoring the pain. Eventually, he was just smearing the window with skin and bone, not widening the cracks any further. He hoped it would be enough.
The next step was to rip off his left hand completely and to shove the base of the femur weapon into his arm, giving him a spear jutting out of the stump of his left hand.
One last attack.
The glass didn't quite shatter at the tip of the spear, but enough chunks of broken glass flew into the hallway that the bone spear was able to jut through. "Now!" Alexandre shouted. "Open the door and let the infected through!"