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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

'And what if I refuse?' I said to Hewitt as he swabbed a cotton wool pad across the fresh needle mark on my forearm, '–refuse to participate further, I mean.'


   'That's not possible.' He placed the blood sample he'd just taken on the small aluminum table to his right. 'So, please, banish such foolish thoughts from your mind. A handful of weeks ago, you were facing a far from certain future. Now you are safe and secure. Why not simply enjoy the amenities, what life at the Facility affords, eh?'


   'Now, if you would like to follow me, young man. We will complete the final part of your basic medical examination.'


   Hewitt escorted me across the complex to Professor Howard's laboratory unit. Inside, the young scientist was busy inserting wires into a bulky piece of technical equipment, not unlike the monitors you see beside a patient's bed in any modern hospital


Chapter Twenty-Four