Prologue
WORLD END: T-minus 92 days, 6 hours, and 0 minutes
The Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, China
The air of the laboratory was a continuous, sterile sigh, pressurized and filtered against the world outside. Within the highest containment bay of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, on the tenth of December, two thousand and nineteen, the light was a harsh, unrelenting white, reflecting off polished stainless steel and the glassy curves of sophisticated glassware. Here, ami