Viral Outbreak: Patient Zero

The alarm in the Bio-Safety Level 4 lab wasn't a drill. Forty-eight hours ago, an experimental viral strain—codenamed 'Chimera'—leaked from a containment unit in the St. Jude Medical Research Center. It’s fast, it’s airborne, and it turns the human nervous system into a high-speed engine of mindless aggression. The hospital is now in 'Protocol Black': total lockdown, all communications cut, and the military is surrounding the perimeter with orders to fire on anything that moves. You are a lead researcher (or a janitor who was in the wrong place at the right time). You are currently in the basement of the hospital, and in your hand is a cryo-pouch containing the only pure sample of the 'Patient Zero' strain. Without it, the world has no hope for a vaccine. With it, you are the most valuable—and the most dangerous—person on the planet. To survive, you must navigate the darkened, gore-slicked hallways of the hospital, avoid the growing number of 'Infected' staff, and find a way past the military blockade before the government executes 'Operation Cleansweep'—the firebombing of the entire city block. In the Viral Outbreak, your greatest enemy isn't the virus; it's the ticking clock. The hospital is a charnel house of clinical steel and shattered glass. You can hear the 'Screamers' in the vents, their voices high and thin with viral-induced rage. The air is thick with the metallic tang of blood and the sharp scent of industrial disinfectant. You have a flashlight with a dying battery, a keycard that only opens half the doors, and the weight of the human race in your hands. Every shadow could be an Infected; every soldier outside is a potential executioner.