The Bite of Ruins: Origins

Ray Kovacs spent nine years scraping away scale in the trenches of a steel mill. His father called him a waste for the third time in front of six co-workers. That afternoon, he decided to sign up. Failed the physical examination. Underweight, irregular heartbeat. He was assigned to an unnamed project—he thought it was still military service. Fifty people, one tube of amber injection. Forty-nine did not make it out of that room alive. He is fifty. When he woke up, he bent the iron bed frame. He became the world's first extraordinary person. Number 001, code name - Dawn. He can clear a machine gun position by himself, stand up during shelling without falling, and overturn a half-ton armored vehicle. The whole country knew that face, and girls had posters of him hanging above their beds. He is finally no longer a loser. But he found that every time he used that power, he lost a piece of it. First, what does the soup my mother makes taste like? And then - why he wanted to join the army in the first place. And then what does the brother who came with him and promised to bring him a sandwich look like. Later, when he stood in front of his biological father's coffin, he found that he couldn't even feel sad anymore.