Bait for the devil
He was the Apex in his element—dark, silent, and utterly lethal.
We moved through the service corridors, taking down guards with a terrifying, synchronized efficiency. I used my suppressed pistol to pick off the perimeter watchers while Girard moved like a shadow, breaking necks before the men could even scream. But as we reached the heavy, reinforced doors of the central lab, the air changed.
The doors hissed open before we could touch them.
The lab was a cathedral of glass and violet neon. Hundreds of tanks lined the walls, filled with human subjects in various stages of a horrific, twitching transformation. And at the far end, standing over a console of glowing data, was a figure that mad
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