The Feral Protocol

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Dr. Kaelen Thorne, a renowned simulacrum architect, knew the protocols of Project Chimera by heart. He built the survival engine, perfected its brutal realism, its every danger and reward meticulously coded. But when a catastrophic system failure transports his consciousness into the very simulation he designed, the game becomes terrifyingly real. Trapped in the crude, resilient skin of a 'Veldt-Born' – a primitive, genetically divergent human eking out a brutal existence in the poisoned wastes of a future Earth – Kaelen must shed every vestige of his old self. To survive among the true Veldt-Born, feared and hunted by the remnants of advanced civilization, he must become the most savage, the most unpredictable, a living embodiment of the wilderness's unforgiving spirit. His greatest challenge isn't the mutated beasts or hostile factions, but masking his advanced intellect and modern sensibilities behind a facade of primal fury, lest the 'game' reveal its true, deadly nature. Every hunt, every skirmish, every desperate scavenge for survival is a chess move in a game he never meant to play for real, with his very existence as the prize.