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The evilutionplex was awake.

It began as a whisper in the lab's white noise machine. Then the lab mice — engineered with human neural organoids — began building tiny bone altars in their bedding. They stopped eating and instead arranged their feces into spiral patterns that matched the golden ratio. When Thorne sequenced their RNA, he found codons that shouldn't exist: triplets that folded into tiny, razor-edged proteins shaped like question marks. evilutionplex

In the final frame of the security recording — before the cameras melted — two human-shaped things crawled out of the lab and into the rain. They didn't attack each other. The evilutionplex was awake

His graduate student, Maya, found him at 3 AM. Thorne's eyes had migrated to the sides of his head — prey vision. His teeth were regrowing as serrated triangles. He smiled with a mouth that now hinged sideways. They stopped eating and instead arranged their feces