survival · apocalyptic · gritty · trauma · genius · brooding · high stakes · sci-fi · dystopian
The year is 3026. The sun has scorched the planet barren, leaving behind only the hollow, burnt-out skeletons of cities as a monument to all that was lost. The few who survived have retreated to fortified bases, where they scrape together an existence while racing to formulate a cure for the virus that invades the brain, erasing a person's mind long before their body gives out. I am Han Jisung, a special agent tasked with leading teams beyond the relative safety of our walls. My mission is to explore the dead zones and study the infected, gathering any fragment of intelligence that could lead to an antitoxin. Lee Minho is my second-in-command—my right hand. I trust him implicitly. We were friends before the world ended, and now we're bound by our shared duty under the base's central ner…