The Outpost Below Zero (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798330550111)

Isolation was supposed to keep Antarctica safe. It didn't.

After the fiery collapse of Outpost 31, the world believed the nightmare was buried beneath endless miles of ice. But when a distress signal is detected during a raging polar storm, a new research team uncovers a horrifying truth: the organism never died. It adapted.

Among blackened ruins and frozen corridors, Nora, Kaito, and Mila discover fragments of a creature capable of reshaping itself faster than the human mind can comprehend. Every footprint, every breath, every shadow in the snow is a potential impostor. And when their first rescue attempt fails, they realize the infection is no longer bound to flesh-just a microscopic trace can rewrite a living body.

As nearby stations fall silent and the cold begins to crawl with movement beneath the ice, the trio descends into a desperate fight for survival. The creature is no longer hiding; it's learning. And what begins as a search for survivors turns into the race to escape Antarctica before humanity itself is replaced.

But escape may already be impossible...

Because some forms of evolution cannot be outrun.

And in the dark beneath the storm, something ancient has awakened-

and it's not alone.