Chapter 23 The Man Who Isn't Me

• Sometimes the enemy doesn’t need to kill you. They just need to replace you.
• The Virex Compound sat like a tumor on the edge of the western ravine, once a medical testing facility buried beneath layers of ice and rock. It had been off the grid for years—officially decommissioned, unofficially forgotten. Until now.
• The emergency beacon triggered from within hadn’t broadcast distress. It had broadcast completion.