Elias tried to push back his chair, but his legs felt heavy, like lead. He looked down and saw his shins were pixelating, turning into jagged blocks of green and black code.
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The video player flickered to life. The quality was unnervingly crisp for a hidden camera. It showed a basement room lined with lead-shielded glass. Jackerman stood in the center, his back to the lens, staring at a series of glass jars filled with a pulsing, bioluminescent sludge. Elias tried to push back his chair, but
In the video, Jackerman turned around. His eyes were gone—replaced by two flickering, high-definition screens displaying the very room he was standing in, a recursive loop of digital feedback. but his legs felt heavy