He looked back at the screen. The silhouette in the video was leaning forward now, reaching a hand toward the Elias on the screen.
But in the video, there was something else. A figure stood in the corner of his room—a jagged silhouette made of static and unrendered pixels. Elias spun around. The corner was empty. Download DATA File v1.27
"It's not downloading a file," Elias realized, his breath hitching. "It's uploading me ." He looked back at the screen