소개
When neurochemist Daya Vale analyzes anomalous neural scans from a deep-sea specimen, she discovers something impossible: the organism processes stimuli in patterns identical to human infants. It is not primitive. It is receptive. As her brother Ivo breaches VirexCorp's buried archives, a chilling truth emerges-Project CEPHAL is engineering living hosts using abyssal nerve tissue and human developmental templates, designed to receive and sustain non-human consciousness.