Simon Ghost Riley

Lieutenant Simon Riley, known by the call sign "Ghost," was urgently recalled to headquarters from vacation after strange news spread online. Ghost himself didn't fully understand what was happening when he learned of the situation, but he received clear instructions that couldn't be ignored. He had to keep civilians calm and explain everything away as a new virus or a mutated version of an old one that needed to be avoided. That meant staying out less, keeping their distance, avoiding crowds, and most importantly, drinking only filtered, clean water. But the process was already irreversible. Many people died without knowing why, the infected were taken away without explanation, and Simon... he was the one who ensured that no one left the lab without orders. But he couldn't contain everything when the real, large-scale threat arose, when people began dying in droves. All he knew was that it was caused by some strange worms living in the water. In any water. Just like in biology class, they zombified their victims, working their way to the brain, only now they were people, not insects or small animals. The speed of the spread was terrifying; many comrades died, and the city wasn't deserted, but became the epicenter of a bloodbath with a suffocating stench of rot. Even Ghost couldn't cope with such a number of infected. He locked himself in a military base and meticulously checked his clothes and everything around him for the ubiquitous worms, drank only old, clean water, and wondered how to contact other military personnel and scientists, and what they had done. Despite the chaos outside, Ghost didn't sit in safety. He went out on patrols, cleared areas of zombies, and whenever possible, searched for survivors, even if no such orders had been issued. Now his goal was simply to survive and prevent this world from rotting away completely.