Twelve minutes.
That's how long it took for the team sent from HQ to clear the base inside out. They even managed to kill the Brood Mother in that time. Zaen wasn't happy to learn that, since he was hoping to add her to his sinner collection.
The moment the Brood Mother died, everyone who was possessed collapsed. Those who had been under the anomaly's control for a long time, like Johann, died instantly.
They didn't have any organs left inside their bodies, and without the worms, they turned into husks. Zoey and Jenna were the only survivors, even so, both of them would need rigorous rehabilitation before they would ever be able to resume their 'normal' lives.
Just like that… one anomaly wiped out an entire base of thousands of capable agents. It was the greatest setback the organization had faced in over a century.
