Within a few hours, and by midnight, the news of the incident on the island of (..) had spread like wildfire across the nation.
How could it not, when military forces had been deployed to contain the situation—surrounding the island with navy ships, sealing off every possible escape route?
The public was on the brink of hysteria. The cause? A mysterious, unidentified virus—one that could turn humans into bloodthirsty monsters.
It was like something pulled straight from a dystopian horror film.
Zombies? Some began to believe the world's end was no longer a fictional fantasy. Panic took hold, and families stormed stores in a frenzy of irrational survival instinct.
It quickly escalated into a national emergency.
Forget the poor families who could only afford a few kilograms of rice—
The wealthy were stockpiling entire warehouses.
