The file sat on the desktop, a simple icon labeled , dated three years before the "Silence" began. When the extraction bar finally hit 100%, it didn't reveal a virus or a weapon, but a digital diary of the end of the world. The First Entry: The Lab

The screen flickers. Outside your window, for the first time in years, you hear the sound of someone—or something—taking a long, ragged breath.

At the bottom of the directory is a file named READ_ME_LAST.txt . It contains a set of GPS coordinates and a final warning: