The scream tore through the pharmacy like a blade as the pharmacists scurried out of the pharmacy like headless chickens.
This was more than just fear.
Men who had walked in armed and armored, trained to face bullets and bombs, instinctively took steps back.
Faces paled, eyes widened, jaws dropping in shock.
Because this… this wasn't normal.
The body on the floor no longer looked human. The officer's skin had tightened unnaturally against his bones, shriveled and dry, as though every drop of moisture had been sucked out of him in seconds.
His uniform sagged loosely over what remained, like covers draped over bones.
"Wh–what happened to him?"
Jenna was the first to speak, mumbling as she shuffled back, breathing unevenly like a child horrified.
Yes, she was horrified.
Not only of what the officer had become, but of what De Warden was capable of.
The lead officer of the Special Unit Force finally peeled his eyes away from the corpse, unsure what to say.
