CHAPTER I / THE CONTAINMENTThey sealed
the region.
NARCO FALL was once a coastal region of towns, working ports, military installations and research sites. Then the outbreak broke the things people believed would protect them.
Government control collapsed. Communications failed. Streets emptied, but the region did not become quiet. Behind abandoned doors and stalled evacuation lines, the infected kept moving.
When conventional containment failed, nuclear strikes scarred selected parts of the region. Roads closed behind exclusion walls. Checkpoints became borders. The outside world was told to stay away.
The infection survived. In some of the worst-hit places, radiation pushed it into new forms. The operation that was meant to end the danger had changed it instead.
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