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The global population has been decimated by a deadly synthetic virus. At the last known survivalist outpost, Dillon comes across a hideously disfigured mutant child. By its side is a journal, documenting Agent Ransome's journey to meet controversial scientist Professor Zaragoza at his research facility. When the mutant regenerates, attacking their colleagues, infecting them with a deadlier strain of the virus, Dillon and Grainger are forced out into the exclusion zones in search of Zaragoza's facility.

The Zykill Seed Game

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Once inside the compound, I was taken to a squat prefabricated building with brilliant-white walls. 


   'You can take off your mask now,' said Hewitt.  'Don't worry. The air in and around the Facility is clean, filtered and regulated.'


   While dubious, I did as he said, removing my breathing apparatus, encountering no respiratory problems whatsoever.   


   'If you could strip down to your underwear now,' he asked, 'we can then weigh and measure you.'


   After doing so, he checked my heart rate and blood pressure, applied calipers to my skull and measured the circumference of my cranium. 


   'What's this all about?' I asked, feeling increasingly discomforted by the whole situation, how I was reliving experiences Ransome had set out in his journal.


Chapter Twenty