"Kain my boy, I am sorry that you ended up like this due to an incompetent supervisor like me."
Kain looked up weakly from the bed through his blurred vision at his research supervisor who was covered head to toe in a hazmat suit. This summer "job" was really supposed to be more like a reward for Kain who had lost his parents.
An all-expenses paid trip to another country while working under a prestigious professor, which would look great on future job applications.
However, Kain knew that there was no hope of him ever leaving this country. If even his professor, Dr. Blackwell, couldn't figure out what exactly this thing was, then there was truly no hope for him.
What's even more strange is that up until this point they couldn't even get a hint of if the perpetrator was a bacteria, virus, or something else.
