
by Ivanych
Thirty years ago, a Soviet drilling team fractured a millennial seal beneath the Antarctic ice, awakening a dormant biological algorithm. Today, containment has collapsed, and a silicate-based ecosystem is aerosolizing across Moscow, rewriting human cellular structure into an immortal, unified hive. As the metropolis digests its own concrete and millions surrender to a euphoric stasis, one aging scientist must deploy a lethal countermeasure. To survive a forced evolutionary update, humanity must defend its most primal asset: the right to decay.
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