Return — The Mutation Begins

But that's too little. From the mall site, this is all we got. Then stop yapping.

Split half for activity tests, half for RNA extraction. Can't split it. This isn't normal blood.

One mistake and it's ruined. What's your plan? Compare first.

Just compare. No full extraction. Check if it matches Kuroba's activity pattern.

Fine. Go. Vitals at zero. Neural activity zero.

Reflexes zero. Circulation stopped. Confirmed dead. Anomaly S1.

Source: S-Haina Center. Status: death confirmed. Body integrity ~72%. Second, fatal wounds are at the thorax-abdomen junction and antenna bases.

Not natural growth. It's directed stabbing. This is no longer insect-like. It's still an insect.

Just not the insect it was. Run three controls now. One: blood RNA extraction. Two: neural tissue activity.

Three: posterior debris analysis. Match it with Kuroba's. Results are in. It matched.

Comparison successful. Which means what's in the ant is the same as in Kuroba.

The same one. The real agent is a new RNA virus formed in Kuroba.

It infects hosts, it rewrites them. The fewer neurons, the sooner mutation occurs.

Then animals, and humans. Human neural systems

are complex, so change slows. That's why we don't show signs first.

Everyone exposed to Kuroba—people, life— will start mutating soon. If the first

full mutation emerged, it's not a question of if, it's already begun. Attention, passengers.

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