Lifeless

Prologue

This is Doctor 3107 with the final entry on a lethal, top-secret experiment my colleagues and I worked on for many months. 

A brief timeline will follow to compensate for a report:

January 1st, 2020~

Our experiment began testing on this day. We were asked by the U.S. to create a deadly toxin that could be used in certain types of food and liquids. Although no one wished to use their knowledge to create such a thing, we had to if we wanted to keep our jobs. 

The government gave us a few samples to work on that they had been preparing for quite a while, as we later found out.

These mixtures were nothing short of deadly, but they wanted us to test them on humans nonetheless. Again, we didn't want to. We simply wanted our jobs. 

So we did as we were told. No questions asked. 

January 3rd, 2020~

My team failed the first experiment. Our volunteer died- they knew what would happen when they signed up though. It was not likely for them to live. After all, we were testing a toxin. Of course, this wasn't "deadly enough" for the government. They wanted something that could cause a more...violent death.

March 31st, 2020~

This day marked the last test. After 3 long, horrendous, death-filled months, we completed the task. The final product was the deadliest mixture yet.

April 1st, 2020~

We wrapped up the poison with a "neat little bow" and prepped the lab for decontamination. The President, the rest of the government, and whomever else involved in this received the package. Whatever happened next was out of our control and not our responsibility. 

April 10th, 2020~

Strange things began to happen throughout the country. Millions were ill with some new virus. Thousands were already dead. My team figured that something suspicious was going on from the start.

April 12, 2020~

Reports of "the undead" were in the news for the first time. Many thought it was just a prank, a hoax of some sort.

April 13, 2020~

It was a horrible Monday for everyone. I turned on the news this morning, simply curious about the undead hoax. What I saw confirmed it. The news reporter was being eaten on live television. Her face being ripped apart by a seemingly normal person...except for the fact that their face and limbs were rotting. Many called it a coincidence, heck, they made it out to be cannibalism by some junkie. I don't know how they could have thought that. What that thing was doing- it wasn't human.

April 20, 2020~

People were finally starting to believe that the apocalypse was upon us when all news stations were shut down along with the Internet. They were all rushing to the store for food, supplies, and whatever else they thought they would need for the end of the world. However, little did they know, that's just what the government wanted them to do. They were falling right into their little trap.

April 22, 2020~

Highways were backed up with people trying to escape. I took note that they all had one thing in common; food and survival supplies stacked to the brim of their cars. Seemed smart, but it really wasn't.

April 23, 2020~

Everyone on the escape route was sick; at least that's what the emergency radio broadcasts said. My theory at the start was that this illness was airborne, but that quickly went out the window when even people hiding out in bunkers got sick and tried to get help. It must have had something to do with the toxin. All of these cannibals in the news had the same side-effects as our test subjects in the lab. 

April 25, 2020~

I threw out nearly all of my supplies that I bought after the experiment and saved a few for a test. I really do think that either a food or a drink had something to do with this illness. 

***

It turns out, I was right. The food did have something to do with the virus. It had the toxin in it, which was causing the illness, and somehow the "back to life and rotten flesh" thing as well.

I say with much regret that I take as much responsibility as the government for this turn of events.

However, to my defense, I didn't realize the horrible things that were to be done with the toxin. 

I didn't know that it would be used as a primary secret-weapon in World War III; that it would be used to kill off millions of people just to control the population.

I didn't know that is would cause an incurable virus.

My toxin didn't just kill everyone and everything it came across. 

It brought them back to life.

Just not the same as they been before.

All of my mistakes have followed me, so don't think that I am going to be unpunished for my actions. Right now, I'm being surrounded by the lifeless creatures which are the result of my creation. So, I admit that this is all my fault. I'm sorry. 

I'd love to fix this. 

I just don't have the time. 

So, dear reader, I apologize if I'm bringing your hopes down if you thought that you could find the cure here. 

It doesn't even exist. I've tried, believe me, it's just impossible.

I don't have much more time left. As for you, I would just give up. With the amount of intelligence combined for the final product in the experiment, there's no hope for anyone at this point. Or ever.

-Journal Entry Complete-

-Closed off by Doctor 3107-