The familiar world collapsed when the virus began changing nature itself. Ordinary animals turned into monsters that people couldn’t cope with. People now live in enclaves and have complicated relations with cyborg androids that defend their independence. They are ruled by Immortals—genetically modified elites with rather unusual tastes. They’re busy not so much fighting cadavers and saving humanity as their own games and experiments.
The settlement of “Omega” is dying, and the only survivor tries to reach another settlement in the network. But once he gets there, he realizes he isn’t the only survivor. However, the other two claim that it was they who lived in “Omega”... even though they don’t know each other.