The chamber became silent.
Not ordinary silence.
Not shock.
Not fear.
This was something else.
The kind of silence that comes when everything you believed turns out to be a lie.
Because Adam had just destroyed the foundation of Genesis.
"It's a tomb."
The words echoed through the underground facility.
Aarya stared at the monitor.
Unable to move.
Unable to think.
A tomb?
Subject Zero wasn't a laboratory.
It wasn't a prison.
It wasn't even a Genesis facility.
Then what had Victor spent decades protecting?
What had thousands of people died for?
"What do you mean?"
Aarya's voice barely worked.
Adam looked at her sadly.
Like a man who knew the truth would hurt.
Because it always did.
"The island existed long before Genesis."
The room froze.
Long before Genesis?
Long be
