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Preface

A flu vaccine hat collapsed civilization

So as simple as an immunization was found to stop the spread of cancer It had been hailed ide as a ht they had co monumental

They had, but what they brought to huotten the vaccine started exhibiting signs of cannibalism and necrosis

They becaht they were safe if they stayed aaited out the sickness They refused to take responsibility for what they had done, what they had created They thought they were helping people, curing so as cancer

They had been wrong

Whatever was in the flu shots infected people, changing so the that wasn’t considered huer It slowly killed them from the inside out, ical reasoning vanish

And this was the world they lived in now, trying to survive each and every day with obstacles thrown against them

Starvation, death, rape, and being hunted by walking corpses was the world now, and the ones standing needed to be the strongest, having no re to survive

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New York City: Five years ago

The yrated in front of hiar to his mouth, and inhaled deeply The sht before hi in front of hiether, and the thought of theuarantee in the very near future

The club he was currently in was one of many he owned in New York This was his empire, his world, and he controlled it any way he saw fit He wasn’t a good row as a king in every way He fucked any fe He killed without remorse when the time called for it, and he never looked back Never He did things to ensure he stayed on top, and because of that, he survived He always survived, and alould

Marco, one of thefor him, stepped up to Collin, leaned down, and whispered in his ear, “Mr Suthers, the shipment is here for your inspection”

Collin stood, smoothed his hands down his three-piece suit, and made his way to the backroo, but this space was used to store the club supplies and conduct Collin’s less than legal business deals Heand stopped at the stainless-steel wall that held bottles of stocked liquor He gestured for Marco to proceed He crouched and pushed one of the boxes of bottled beer aside Marco pressed the hidden lever that had the wall opening up and revealing a small office Collin heard the side door open and saoforith black briefcases in their hands His h they had been frisked before they were allowed in his club, he didn’t trust anyone

They walked into the backroo theuns visible if these two junkie fuckers thought to try anything If they were smart and knew Collin’s reputation, they would not, of course, but they were drug addicts, so anything was possible

“Collin, we have some primo shit here—”

“Just shut up and put the fucking cases on the table” Collin didn’t have tiive a shit what these assholes thought “If the product isn’t up to standards, then the solution for bringing s is sih he didn’t usually do business with junkies, their product was known to be top-shelf shit He’d find out for himself

The men set the cases on the desk, opened theiven Collin a hard-on “Sae of cocaine with the blade, and held it up to one of the er to try, and he moved forward and sniffed the white power off the stainless steel After a few seconds of Collin waiting to see if the fucker would drop dead, he had one of his hly, and then nodded

“The product is priood in the back of the throat”