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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

'That's the way of our world, I'm afraid,' Hewitt slurred, waving an empty glass around. 'It's the Professor's way, or the highway,' he finished in a crass American accent.


   We were sitting in a secluded corner of the lavish lounge bar adjoining the main banqueting suite. Tinkling piano notes rose and fell. For three consecutive nights, I had been subjected to the most heinous sexual assaults, violated in the most unspeakable ways, milked of my seminal fluid like a cow on a factory farm. This evening, for a little while, anyway, I was offered what Hewitt called "compassionate respite".


   'But surely you could talk to the Professor,' I appealed. 'Surely you could tell him that I have seen the error of my ways, that I am now fully prepared to comply.'


Chapter Twenty-Six