“Alex, you can’t do this! The people of Alexandria need you!” Dr. Lucy called after Alex, but he walked out the door without turning back.Desperate and helpless, she gathered her trembling nerves and called Raziya.“Alex just left. He is headed for Valentino Harbor all alone. Please, you can’t let him do this on his own. He may be the most powerful soldier alive, but he is still human. He can still get infected. He can…still die!”“I promise I won’t let anything happen to the Commander. You have my word, Dr. Lucy.”***Taking his private chopper, Alex arrived in Glenmonte and headed straight to his secret mansion, where he’d built a whole armory.Alex grabbed a crossbow and a suppressed M9A11 as his sidearm and put on his tactical gear, consisting of a full-bodied Kevlar, cushioned boots, a pair of night vision goggles, and special anti-scrambling ear pods.Geared and ready, he headed to his private hangar on the outskirts of the city.He had already called in a transport aircraft to

The infected freak armed with the sledgehammer barely looked completely unrecognizable with barely any semblance of humanity left in his grotesque, disfigured face.Raziya had already dumped two whole magazines into the freakshow, but he kept coming.“Get away from the damn door!” she yelled as the freakish brute raised his sledgehammer and swung it with full force.The heavy blow shattered the lock, breaking the door from its hinges.“What the hell is that?”“It’s a damn monster!”“It’s going to kill us all!”“They just left us here to die!”Terrified screams and cries of desperation erupted from the hospital as the freak stepped back and swung his hammer again.“Barricade the door!”“If it gets in, we’re all as good as dead!”The nurses and doctors rushed to barricade the broken door with tables, stretchers and wheelchairs.Anything that was currently not being used by the patients was piled against the door in a desperate attempt to stop the freak from breaching the hospital.The r

Alex returned to the Northern Mountains alone, carrying the live infected specimen Dr. Lucy had requested.As the chopper touched down on the open courtyard outside the medical center, Dr. Lucy rushed out with other medical personnel in hazmat suits.They carefully strapped the infected guy to a stretcher and carried him to the secret underground lab.Captain Williams joined them in the courtyard, his eyes scanning the chopper for that familiar face.“Where’s Raziya?” he asked, his voice shaky and low.Alex didn’t meet his gaze but turned away and replied, “She didn’t make it.”“What? How?” Captain Williams couldn’t believe his ears. “I heard her last message on the comms channel. She said she had tagged the target. What happened, Commander?”“She got bit.”“So you left her out there?” Dr. Lucy asked with widened eyes. “Please tell me you didn’t leave her in Valentino. We could have helped her. We even have a live specimen now!”“She was already beginning to turn. It was too late for

Major Monroe’s sudden, unnatural death stirred panic in his household.Those who went into his conference room to retrieve his body were all infected by the same Ebola virus.Before noon, all the Major’s attendants, maids, and guards succumbed to the same disease.The news of the mysterious deaths immediately put the authorities on high-alert.Every measure was taken to ensure the public wouldn’t get to know anything about this shocking tragedy.By evening, the medical personnel from the center for infectious diseases locked the whole street down and sealed off the mansion.The area was immediately put under lockdown, and every last person who had recently interacted with Major Monroe was tracked down and placed in quarantine.The Minister of External Affairs, Sergei Zharkov, looked at grim pictures from the comfort of his air-conditioned office and knit his eyebrows together.He had already summoned an infectious disease expert to get a professional perspective on the matter.“Dr. Ola

Governor Du Monte had already done everything in his power to help Cobalt Cove contain the outbreak without asking any questions.However, expecting him to keep cooperating unconditionally was just pushing one’s luck.Alex had the option of exposing the dirty truth and pinning the blame on Valheim. But by doing so, he’d have to accept responsibility for all the recent assassinations.And that was only going to cause more trouble.Alex knew he couldn’t afford to reveal his true identity without controlling the 3 major states.The best course of action for now was to lie low and focus entirely on covert operations.With the Governor’s ultimatum hanging over his head like the Sword of Damocles, Alex returned to the medical research facility in the Northern Mountains, accompanied by Captain Williams.Dr. Lucy met him in the underground lab, still in her lab coat and gloves.“How much longer do you need to develop the cure?” Alex asked with a frantic sense of urgency.But Dr. Lucy’s face f