登入The lights hummed softly above the tables in the hospital break room, projecting a bright sterile light onto the small metal table where Madison was studying the inventory manifests. Sitting opposite Madison was Dr. Spencer Whitaker, typing the lists of things they would need in the quarantine hospital. His eyes kept moving between the digital medical lists on his laptop screen and the encrypted flash drive that Madison gave him a little bit earlier at the meeting in the café."You're asking me to turn away from a decade's worth of clinical studies and institution security," Spencer spoke softly, breaking the silence. There was no hesitation in his voice. Only the excited sound of a researcher whose theories were proven correct by someone with terrifying vision and knowledge. "You're asking me to trust a prophecy about an airborne extinction-level pathogen.""I am not asking you to trust the prophecy, Spencer," Madison spoke calmly, pushing a sheet of printed chemical assay across th
Exiting from the high-rise of the corporate financial advisory firm and stepping into the city center energy, she realized that the legal destruction of Carter's business life is now complete. The financial advisor had said, "By tomorrow morning, I will have your court filings done. I will have all of your emergency account freeze orders and property transfer petitions signed by you."That was a good sign, and the distress family clinic was already acquired from Mary Smith. However, there is still one more objective in her master roadmap left for the day: finding her core medical research and production lead.Madison needs somebody who is brilliant, completely incorruptible, and utterly ethical, somebody who would be able to produce advanced antiviral medications and immunizations once the Ash Rot starts to mutate.Stepping out of the car into the city center, she decided to take a trip to the medical district. There is an upscale independent clinical research laboratory located clos
For one year, one month, and two days, she was trapped as a ghost. She had to watch from the shadows as Carter and Ann feasted on what was left, while little Belle was forced to starve in the dirt, abused and mocked by Reed and Ann. She watched her daughter cry herself to sleep night after night. Driven by a mother's primal fury, Madison had burned through the very last tethers of her spiritual energy, manifesting small miracles like a bottle of water and a warm blanket, only to watch Carter and Ann violently snatch them away from Belle's trembling hands.Her screams in the void had bled the cosmic veil, awakening the universe's ultimate mercy: a second chance.And now she is back in the land of the living with ninety days left before Day Zero. She was going to ensure that when the world burned this time, she held the keys to life and death, and the traitors, especially the one she was looking at right now, would find no mercy at her gates.Her breath hitched for a second and her fi
DECEMBER 31ST, 2026 (PREVIOUS TIMELINE)The kitchen smelled delicious, the aroma of roasted rosemary chicken and garlic butter made Madison’s mouth water. From beyond the big glass windows of the luxury estate house, a creepy fog started to creep up on their manicured lawns, blurring the streetlights, but inside everything was warm, safe and domestic.Humming along, Madison was cutting vegetables near her best friend Ann Fletcher, who was laughing and leaning against the countertop with a glass of white wine in her hands, as if she was her supporting sisterly confidante. Madison felt no trace of suspicion; Ann was her best friend for over a decade, the only one whom she told her deepest secrets.In the living room, Belle, her four-year-old child, was sitting on the floor coloring the picture book with crayons while cartoons were playing quietly on the television. Down the hall, Carter and his good friend Reed Parker were drinking some scotch, chatting about their business and laugh
While the industrial trucks unloaded their first batches of vacuum sealed rations, medicines, air filtration systems into private commercial storage facilities, Madison easily managed to transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of essential pharmaceuticals, surgical kits, purification tablets and heavy-duty toolkits directly into her System Storage Space, monitoring the log with a hint of satisfaction.But when she tried to evaluate the expenses, the grim reality slapped her in the face.Given the industrial amount of food and medicines, fuel drums, generation arrays, the large retainers paid out for faster commercial permissions, Madison was already running low on the funds accumulated during many years of joint living and diligent nursing salary. There was less than thirty percent of her cash left in the bank accounts, yet millions were still needed to buy or build a clinic, acquire specialized bio-hazard equipment, and build out the physical security infrastructure of her f
"Hey Maddy, are you feeling well, sweetie?" Carter's voice buzzed through the receiver, oozing with the kind of insincere charm he always applied in dealing with his corporate connections and Ann Fletcher. "You seem... different, this morning?"Madison leaned against the kitchen countertop, staring through the large window towards the garden outside, where the early morning sun was beginning to caress the meticulously maintained hedges of the luxurious suburban estate. "Different? Maybe I'm just finally waking up," Madison answered smoothly, her voice laced with icy sweetness, which caused her mother to throw her a curious glance. "Don't worry about me. I've got some serious business to take care of today. Just do your job... you must be really busy.""Yes. I have a lot of meetings today with Reed and the corporate partners," Carter said quickly, trying to finish the phone conversation fast."Take all the time you need, Carter." Madison answered with soft, cold laughter. Enjoy your me







