Intro. For a long time, no one could say exactly when it all began .
Some blamed an isolated laboratory in the mountains of Eastern Europe. Others said the virus had been awakened in the ancient ice of a melting glacier. There were still those who believed that it was just... came up .
The first official record appeared in an ordinary hospital. One man arrived with a high fever, tremors and a blank stare that frightened even the most experienced doctors. His tests did not point to any known disease.
Twelve hours later, he died.
Two hours later... He stood up.
It was not a resurrection. It was not a miracle. It was nothing that science had seen before.
His body was alive enough to move, but the person who had been that man was no longer there .
The virus was tentatively called VX-13 .
It attacked the brain slowly and cruelly. First came the common symptoms: fever, pain, mental confusion. Then there were lapses of memory.