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Microbial Sovereign: Ashes of the Living Plague

Unlucky_Blobfish
“If this recording survives, and if anyone is left to hear it… I have failed. Or perhaps I’ve succeeded, just too late to save anyone that mattered. “This strain was never natural. Someone made it. And now the world is dying because we never imagined someone would. “I’ve synthesized what might be a viable counteragent. But I’m not going to live long enough to test it. Someone else will have to finish what I started. “This is my only legacy. This and… whatever comes next.”* He stopped. For a moment, he just stared into the empty air of the lab, as if searching for something beyond the walls. “I don’t want to die,” he whispered, finally. “Not like this.” But death did not ask for permission. The last thing he saw was the vial slipping from his hand and shattering on the floor. Then darkness.
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