by my email·Translated by Novel AI Studio
The year 2000, South Africa. A silent terror blooms as the 'Arbor Vitae' alien virus descends, transforming humanity into grotesque botanical abominations. Jake Thompson, a brilliant but emotionally distant virologist, finds himself at ground zero, racing against a six-month timer before his own flesh becomes bark and his loved ones are rooted into the earth. The world descends into arboreal madness, cities swallowed by colossal, sentient flora, and the last vestiges of civilization fight not just the virus, but the mutated horrors it spawns. Jake must brave the encroaching verdant apocalypse, not just for a cure, but to confront the cold, scientific detachment that has always shielded him from human connection before the world itself is irrevocably reforested.
