Chapter 6 – The Hidden Facility

Using files recovered from the breach, my father's team located an abandoned biomedical research center hidden beneath an old pharmaceutical complex.
By dawn, federal agents surrounded the property.
The underground laboratory looked untouched.
Rows of cryogenic chambers lined the walls.
Thousands of encrypted records filled secured servers.
Then we found the nursery.
Tiny cribs.
Children's drawings.
Family photographs.
Every picture had been staged.
Every family had been manufactured.
An investigator whispered,
"My God..."
Another room contained hundreds of identity files.
Many people listed as deceased...
were still alive.
Many parents...
weren't biological parents at all.
Project Lazarus had quietly manipulated families for decades.
Not to create life.
To control it.
Then one investigator called out.
"Sir!"
He held up a file.
Subject Zero.
The photograph inside showed...
May you like
me.
Except the file had been opened before I was born.