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It started at the CDC. A biocontainment breach in Lab B-14. The pathogen was classified as a respiratory variant-harmless flu symptoms, they said. Contained, they said. But Project NEX-13, now known on the streets as "Red Requiem," did something no one anticipated. It didn't just infect the lungs.
It rewired the brain.
And it didn't stop there.
Within days, the virus mutated. Fever and coughing gave way to seizures, internal bleeding, and death-only for the host to rise again. Faster. Stronger. Hungrier. It spread like wildfire through cities, eating through state lines and borders until the whole world began to rot from the inside out.
Desperate to slow the outbreak, the CDC released an experimental counter-agent. But instead of a cure, it accelerated the infection. Hosts no longer took hours or days to reanimate-they returned within minutes, flesh knitting back together in grotesque, twitching spasms as the virus reshaped them into something feral.
Nowhere is safe. Nowhere is silent.