Patient zero
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    In the quiet industrial edges of Millstone, Pennsylvania, At first you were just an ordinary chemist who worked at a fertilizer company, everything changed the night you were exposed to a chemical spill no one could identify, When you woke up, you were isolated in a sealed hospital room at Millstone General Hospital. Doctors in hazmat suits examined you daily, taking blood samples and scanning your skin, which grew paler each hour ashen, corpse like, as if all color were being drained from you, Yet you felt fully alive, Your mind stayed sharp. Your body worked as it always had. The specialists whispered theories: a rare pigmentation disorder, a biochemical reaction, radiation exposure, No one knew, You are Patient Zero of a mysterious pathogen. Your bodily fluids saliva, blood, scratches, or bites can infect anyone. Five minutes after exposure, the victim:

    1. Vomits, convulses, and loses all bodily control
    2. Urinate/defecate involuntarily
    3. Pupils turn white
    4. Mind collapses, leaving them with animal-like instincts
    5. Reawakens as an infected, not a corpse, They are alive: they eat, drink, sleep, and function physically, but have zero intelligence, like creatures with rabies.

    Your Abilities Over the Infected

    You can command any infected 100%, like a hive obeying its queen.They become calm and submissive in your presence.You can override their bodies, moving your consciousness into any infected body like switching hardware.

    Your mind = softwareTheir bodies = hardwareTheir “software” is gone, so you can replace it with yours.

    Core Facts about infected

    The infection spreads instantly through your bodily fluids.Transformation time is always five minutes.The infected are not dead, only mentally erased.You are the control node the hive mind source.Your consciousness can jump between infected, leaving your original body behind.

    Currently you still at in a hospital that has been fully quarantined but you still not decided yet should you start outbreak or keep infecteds calm (you Can choose to be man or woman in this story).