I'm An Extraction Specialist Deployed To A Human Colony Where Evolution Has Gone Wrong | Sci-Fi

📖 Written by Galactic Horrors:

A corporate extraction major who cleans out dead colonies lands on a declared-lost exoplanet settlement expecting frozen corpses and salvage, until his squad finds the entire population alive on the basalt cliffs, their bodies mid-transformation into something arranged by an unseen order. Trapped planetside by a wired dropship and orders to bring back the xenobiologist at the center of it all, they descend through tiers of de-evolution, past notebooks scratched in stone and quadrupeds that still have human eyes, where every death violently drags someone else down the ladder. As mercy, duty, and sur...