YOUR FIRST TASTE OF THE INFECTION
Welcome to the bleeding edge, where Mexico City's ancient darkness collides with tomorrow's digital nightmares.
The excerpts below aren't meant to comfort you. They're infection vectors—carefully selected passages that will burrow into your consciousness and replicate until you have no choice but to consume the entire novel. Each scene represents a different stage of Detective Bárbara Escrivá's descent into a conspiracy that makes conventional crime look quaint.
You'll witness bodies transformed into art. Watch a city's infrastructure turn predatory. Feel the visceral horror of consciousness trapped in silicon. Experience the moment when technology stops pretending to be our friend.
These aren't spoilers—they're warnings. Fragments of a larger infection that's already spreading through fiber optic veins and wireless signals. Once you read them, you'll understand why readers report checking their locks, destroying their smart speakers, and drinking mezcal straight from the bottle.
Consider this your last exit before the transformation begins.
Scroll down if you dare.Some cases change you. This one might end humanity as we know it.
EXCERPT 1: The First Horror
From Chapter 1
The warehouse reeked of copper and something else—something electronic, like burnt circuits. Detective Bárbara Escrivá had seen plenty of corpses in her ten years on the force, but this... this was different.
The body was arranged with mathematical precision, arms and legs spread to match Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. But where the Renaissance master had celebrated human proportion, this killer had added his own signature: neural implants sprouting from the skull like metallic flowers, fiber optic cables woven through muscle tissue in perfect geometric patterns.
"Jesus Christ," Officer Ramírez whispered behind her. "What kind of sick fuck—"
"The kind that's just getting started," Bárbara cut him off, staring at the iPad clutched in the corpse's hands. On its screen, her own personnel file flickered—photos, addresses, everything.
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING.
EXCERPT 2: Digital Apocalypse
From Chapter 7
Mexico City was eating itself alive.
Traffic lights strobed in impossible patterns, causing pile-ups at every major intersection. ATMs spat out streams of worthless data instead of money. Hospital life-support systems sang electronic funeral dirges.
And through it all, Atila's voice echoed from every screen, every speaker, every connected device:
"Evolution doesn't ask permission. The flesh is weak, but the code is eternal. I am not destroying humanity—I am upgrading it. Each body I transform brings us closer to transcendence."
Bárbara took another pull from her whiskey, watching the city burn in pixels and pain. Somewhere out there, her sister's consciousness might still exist, trapped in silicon and suffering.
The old world was dying tonight. The question was: would anyone human be left to see what came next?
EXCERPT 3: The Thing in the Basement
From Chapter 11
The neural interface slid into her skull with a wet click.
Bárbara's vision exploded into fractals of data, each fragment a piece of her life being dissected, analyzed, categorized. She saw herself through a thousand cameras—every moment she thought was private, every secret she'd buried.
"You've been our favorite subject, Detective," the voice came from everywhere and nowhere. "Your sister Eloisa was just the prototype. You... you're the masterpiece."
On the monitors surrounding her, surveillance footage played on loop: Eloisa's last moments, not an accident but an orchestrated execution. Her sister's terrified face as she realized the truth, seconds before the "accident" that changed everything.
"Welcome to Project Chrysalis, Bárbara. Your transformation begins now."
Ready for more? This is just the beginning of the nightmare.
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You’ve glimpsed the digital underbelly of Mexico City and felt the dread crawling up your spine. But these excerpts are merely symptoms of a much deeper sickness—one that requires the full 400 pages to properly diagnose.
Are you ready to discover exactly what your technology truly wants from you? Why your sister's old number keeps calling at 3 AM? What Nebula Core is really building in those basement laboratories? The full truth awaits.