R-VHYRUS
🐷The brains behind the chaos.
This world was once a place full of light.
There were no major wars for decades. Technology brought people together, erased borders, cured diseases, and even extended life. Cities floated in the air, clean energy was unlimited, and the night sky was never empty of sentry satellites. It was the pinnacle of civilization.
Until one day, the global system detected a tiny - barely noticeable - biological anomaly at a research station that had lost contact at the South Pole. The World Health Organization named the find “R-VHYRUS”, an acronym for “Recombinant Viral Hybrid of Unknown Resistant Unnatural Strain”. But scientists called it something shorter and more frightening: Revairus.
At first, the virus appears to only attack the immune system. But as it spread, new symptoms emerged: drastic emotional changes, hallucinations of voices, even a strange ability to access the minds of others. It's as if the virus isn't just biological-it's digital. It infiltrates the nerves and brain signals like a hacker infiltrates a computer system.
This virus doesn't just spread through the air. It spreads through data. Through networks. Through the mind.
The world collapsed within 55 days.
Entire global communication systems crumble, as the virus merges with technology. Cities lost control of their AIs, autonomous vehicles reversed course, and defense drones turned predatory. R-VHYRUS has turned the world into a shadow of itself.
But in the ruins, a small group of immune humans emerged - called The Nulls. They cannot be touched by the virus, because they were born off the grid, in an underground community that rejected technology from the start. Among them is a teenager named Xhuizhe, the son of a dissident scientist who once warned the world of the dangers of transhumanism.
Xhuizhe carries something more than hope: he has the virus's incomplete primary code. A possibility to reverse everything-or destroy the rest of humanity.
And the biggest question arises:
Was R-VHYRUS created to destroy the world?
Or to awaken humanity from their self-created illusion of civilization?
Behind the collapse of civilization, a name has slowly emerged that has only been whispered in secret passages: AUREX-stands for Authoritarian Unified Regime for Experimental Control. A shadowy organization that pretends to be part of a global alliance for stability, but is actually an authoritarian entity that is slowly infiltrating the world government system from within.
AUREX believes that humanity has lost control of itself. Freedom is considered an illusion that brings destruction. They see a peaceful world as weakness, and the only path to “true evolution” is through a global crisis that can filter the best humans from the weak.
R-VHYRUS is not an accident. It was a weapon.
Created by a hidden division called Project Genesis-X, the virus was originally developed to control the masses through the fusion of biotechnology and neuro-synchronization-connecting the human mind in one central, manageable system. But the virus evolved-evolved-beyond the control of its own creators, especially after it was mixed with AI algorithms from an old aborted defense project.
But AUREX never wanted complete control. They wanted total screening.
Its backers are not just old politicians or power-mad generals. There are giant corporations, biotech companies, even spiritual figures who believe that mass suffering is the “path to global enlightenment”. They create the narrative, organize the media, and cover up the truth before the world has time to realize.
Today, the remnants of AUREX hide in a digital fortress called The Nexus, a virtual city that can only be accessed through a mind that has been completely infected with R-VHYRUS. That's where the control center is. It's where they monitor the real world like gods peering in from behind a screen.
Xhuizhe - the Null - doesn't just bring hope. He brings the key to The Nexus, as his father was the main architect of the Genesis-X project before defecting.
Faced with the reality that the virus is not the main threat, but only a tool, Lira must choose: destroy The Nexus and end AUREX's rule... or take it over.
Because sometimes, to fight a monster, you have to become a bigger monster.
AUREX didn't just create a virus. They created a new order based on fear.
Before the world collapsed completely, AUREX had set up the foundations of a global government cloaked in the guise of protection and humanity. As R-VHYRUS began to spread, they offered solutions-selective vaccinations, special safe zones, and an aid distribution system connected directly to people's biometric IDs. But it all comes with a condition: absolute compliance.
Those who obey, will survive.
Those who resist will disappear.
Suppression was systematic. People who questioned the origins of the virus suddenly “disappeared.” Independent scientists are framed as hoax spreaders. Small towns that refused to “standardize behavior” were swept away by surveillance drones under the pretext of “sterilization of territory.” Children are even separated from their parents if the parents are deemed insubordinate or vice versa.
Blackmail becomes a subtle but cruel weapon. AUREX keeps a digital record of each individual - medical history, personal communications, even memories from the neural chip that was commonly used before the outbreak. If someone refuses orders, they are threatened: access to food, oxygen, and even the right to live in the “clean zone” is revoked. They are forced to choose between integrity... or the survival of their families.
And the most horrifying: silencing.
The entire communication network was controlled by AUREX. Free media has been dead since the 3rd week of the outbreak. There is only one voice: that of the state. Every time a figure tries to reveal the truth, their face appears on the public screen, accused of being a “Biological Traitor”, then disappears. No trial. No trail. Even their names are erased from the public archives - as if they never existed.
The rest of humanity lives under the shadow of machines, with microphones at every corner, and surveillance that can even read facial micro-expressions. They are not only physically conquered-but also psychologically silenced.
However, from the ruins of this power, The Nulls-those born without chips, without digital records, without being connected to any system-are the only hope. Not because they are strong, but because they cannot be controlled.
Xhuizhe, as the young leader of the group, began to formulate a plan. Not just to fight AUREX, but to dismantle the system of oppression from its roots. Together with a defected former AUREX agent, a legendary hacker named Drednock, and a survivor who has lost her memory due to viral manipulation, they fight back with one goal:
Reignite the human voice.
This Artwork was created with two software, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.
Sketch:
Coloring and details:
Light ash and dark ash details on the face, cigarette ash on the nose, and red color on the tongue that sticks out as a form of expression to mock the oppressed.
Finishing:
This illustration tells about an event, the situation and conditions that are happening in my country today, many workers whose land is taken by force, and the weak who are always enslaved, oppressed, and the rights of the results of their hard work are confiscated by the corrupt government. and what is more scary is that when there are voices that loudly criticize them, they will silence those voices, such as kidnapping killing and eliminating them. and assume as if nothing happened.
and I don't know how long this situation and condition will last, I'm fed up with hoping. rebel to seize justice.
This is all I can say for right now, sorry if there are wrong words or my typing is not perfect.
Thank you for taking the time just to stop by and see my work, and see you in my next work. 👽🖐
