Deep Water — Herding the Tide

Run! Stay off the main road. Hide. Now! Rabble raiders, armor tracking, key. Kill team, giddyup.

Hold tight, don't fall. Military friend Wade, never surrender. What are they doing? They're not chasing people.

They're herding. Push right. Move back. Don't break formation.

Chen Gong. Military intercept acquired. They ID'd the high-density bio-reaction under Jing'an Temple Plaza. Stimulating parasitic tide snow.

Breach team's already down. Readying deep clearance. Tide snow. What's that?

It's a neural net. From the Huangpu mother entity. Its root system underground. Stop them.

Cut into the military feed now. I tried. Been trying. The center's an EM dead zone.

Signal can't leave this building. They can't hear us. They went to steal the hive. I can't breathe.

My airway's burning. Hold on. It's sealed below. Ash can't get in.

I Can't reach. Don't move. Cuff it tight.

Safe below? Unsafe, we go down. Stay, we die. Wrong way, we die.

Pick a slower death. Someone's in there. Nabi. Come here.

Someone. There's still hope.