
The organization only flies aircraft over the city to drop supplies from large crates including the medicine Antizin, a temporary cure for the Harran Virus that halts infection for an extended period of time.

Since the beginning of the quarantine, people have viewed the actions of the GRE as very selfish and lacking in real effort to clear out the virus. The city and surrounding countryside have been quarantined by the Global Relief Effort, a humanitarian military branch tasked with supplying the survivors in Harran with supplies and evacuation transport. Originally a form of the rabies virus, the Harran Virus is a disease that can spread quickly through the exchange of bodily fluids, usually a bite or cut, and victims of the virus experience symptoms within hours of being exposed. It’s never fully revealed how or where the Harran Virus outbreak started, but the virus’ origins can be traced to a Colonel in the Harrani military that had close ties to viral research. It also rewards the player with a special cosmetic outfit.Dying Light and Dying Light: The Following take place in the fictional Middle-Eastern city of Harran following the outbreak of a deadly virus that has turned people into feral zombies. Though it altogether foregoes Mother's choice, this secret ending's outcome is identical to the Nuclear Option. In that truck is a nuclear warhead, which the player can then detonate. There is, however, a similar secret ending that requires the player to locate a seemingly random collection of codes and keycards scattered throughout the game world, then use them to enter a nondescript military truck abandoned on a city highway. This ending allows for the virus's greatest chance of successfully being contained - an important point when considering which ending is canon. Though the long-term consequences aren't seen, the game's familiar characters and locations are likely destroyed in the nuclear explosion. Kyle inputs them and, standing by the Mother, dies in a nuclear blast that presumably engulfs the entire area. Kyle received a set of codes from an earlier character that arms and detonates the weapon. If the player helps the Mother, Kyle follows her to a back room to find a nuclear warhead. The player, at this point, can choose to go along with the Mother's plan or defy her and fight to escape. As a culmination of the ancient religion her cult has co-opted, the Mother asks Kyle to detonate a nuclear weapon, installed by the military as a "fail-safe," sacrificing himself and everyone in Harran to stop the virus and potentially save all of humanity. Second, the Mother herself is one of these sentient, mutated Infected, whose use of the elixir has granted her control of her faculties during the daytime.Īs a terrified Kyle backs away from the Mother's disfigured face, she presents him with a request.

First, the cult's elixir, far from a cure or even a symptom suppressor, slowly turns its users into Infected, albeit able to control themselves during the day while still turning feral at night.

In The Following, Kyle investigates the "Cult of the Sun" and its mysterious leader, "the Mother." The cult seems to successfully protect people of the countryside around Harran from becoming Infected.Īs Kyle slowly gains the trust of the cult, in a bid to determine if they have a cure for the virus, he finally uncovers two horrifying facts. Throughout Dying Light, Kyle Crane lends aid to the survivors in the city of Harran as they fight off Infected, try to suppress the symptoms of the virus and, ultimately, work to develop a cure.
