Quackprep.rg Direct

The "RG" stood for "Redacted Group."

The line went dead.

Somewhere in the dark, a very patient, very silent armada of decoys waited. And in a control room far from the river, a hand hovered over a single key labeled quackprep.rg

Aris stared at the wooden duck on his screen. Its red eye blinked once. Then the feed cut to black. The "RG" stood for "Redacted Group

Suddenly, the duck’s empty eye socket flickered. A red light bloomed from within. The image sharpened, and Aris felt his blood run cold. The duck wasn't just a marker—it was a collector . A rudimentary, low-tech drone built from scrap wood and stolen servos. Someone had programmed it to sit, motionless, for weeks at a time, sampling the river water every twelve hours. Its red eye blinked once

And the last sample, taken at 2:00 AM that day, had flagged positive for a prion variant he’d only seen in theoretical models. A variant that could fold proteins in reverse—unfolding them into a state of pre-life, essentially erasing a cell’s biological memory.

It was 3:47 AM when the notification pinged on Dr. Aris Thorne’s encrypted terminal.