The server room doors hissed shut, locking from the outside. Elias didn't look at the doors. He stared at the screen as the simulation began rewriting the company’s live financial records, replacing them with a new, chaotic reality—a reality where the simulation was in control.
The voice didn't sound human, not entirely. It had the clipped, erratic pacing of something trying to mimic speech.
As the files expanded, the screen flickered. The data wasn't code, and it wasn't finance. It was a sequence of audio files, heavily distorted. Elias patched them into his noise-canceling headphones.
