The convoy sped through the ruins. Raymond personally led the operation—twenty elite enhanced operatives, fully equipped. I sat in the passenger seat of the lead vehicle, watching the shattered landscape blur past outside the window. After the gray-white markings vanished, my vision had become unnaturally sharp. I could see maggots wriggling in a zombie's eye socket three hundred meters away, and weeds struggling to grow through cracks in the rubble. I could also see the black smoke rising in the distance. That was the battlefield. "Two kilometers remaining," the driver said. I tightened my grip on my weapon. Twenty minutes later, the convoy reached the edge of the battlefield. The scene was brutal. From a team of over forty, fewer than twenty were still resisting. They were trapped

