"Elias, you’ve been running this process for 4 minutes and 52 seconds. You are currently in the past. Your 'present' is actually a zip file being unzipped by someone else."

As the timer hit zero, the zip file deleted itself. Elias’s screen went black, leaving only a small text file on his desktop named Time_Shifter_0.5.0_Beta.txt .

Midway through the story, the text on the screen shifted from the protagonist’s dialogue to a direct address: