In a remote subterranean laboratory, a team of researchers pushes biology past its limits. Their goal: revive an extinct species using fragments of ancient tissue and cutting-edge genetics.Their success is brief.Their control-an illusion.When the creature escapes into the facility's dark architecture, the team follows its trail through abandoned sectors, ventilation shafts, and dissolved metal structures. But the deeper they go, the more they uncover: the creature is not simply loose.It is transforming.What begins as a scientific achievement becomes a nightmare of shifting anatomy, chemical dissolution, and intelligent adaptation. As the base falls into blackout, the researchers confront a chilling truth: Evolution isn't a process.It's a hunger.Book One ends where the descent truly begins.