Last of Us: Infected Walk Past

The infected walk past him like he is furniture. That is not luck. He is one of them. He woke in an Austin storm cellar on Outbreak Day already colonised — but the cordyceps chose Cal Rourke as a symbiont instead of a host. It gives him a network no human can hear and a body that reads as fungal to anything hunting by scent. Every deliberate question he asks it permanently erases one of his memories, and the fungus picks which one. He can arrest an infection mid-turn. He did it once, for Tess, and now she needs his blood every week or the immunity fails. Joel does not know. Joel watched his daughter die twenty feet from a man who could have stopped it and didn’t, because the network’s terms do not cover bullets. The cure works. It simply isn’t a cure. It is an offer. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Last of Us: Infected Walk Past — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠