Evilutionplex -

Then he spoke one last time, clear as a bell.

The evilutionplex was awake.

"It's not a disease," he whispered, his voice a duet of his own larynx and a deeper, subsonic hum. "It's the operating system . We thought consciousness was a gift. But it's just the part of the brain that makes excuses for the evilutionplex. Kindness? A fluke. Empathy? A glitch that slowed down the kill. The complex has been waiting for a species smart enough to turn off its own firewalls." evilutionplex

They smiled. Evolution's long nightmare had finally found its smile. And the evilutionplex was just getting started. Then he spoke one last time, clear as a bell