The Outpost Below Zero

<p>Isolation was supposed to keep Antarctica safe. It didn't.</p><p>After the fiery collapse of Outpost 31 the world believed the nightmare was buried beneath endless miles of ice. But when a distress signal is detected during a raging polar storm a new research team uncovers a horrifying truth: the organism never died. It adapted.</p><p>Among blackened ruins and frozen corridors Nora Kaito and Mila discover fragments of a creature capable of reshaping itself faster than the human mind can comprehend. Every footprint every breath every shadow in the snow is a potential impostor. And when their first rescue attempt fails they realize the infection is no longer bound to flesh-just a microscopic trace can rewrite a living body.</p><p>As nearby stations fall silent and the cold begins to crawl with movement beneath the ice the trio descends into a desperate fight for survival. The creature is no longer hiding; it's learning. And what begins as a search for survivors turns into the race to escape Antarctica before humanity itself is replaced.</p><p>But escape may already be impossible...</p><p>Because some forms of evolution cannot be outrun.</p><p>And in the dark beneath the storm something ancient has awakened-</p><p> and it's not alone.</p>