Elias pulled the power cord, but the screen stayed on. He smashed the laptop's motherboard, but the green webcam light continued to glow from the wreckage.
Against every protocol in the manual, Elias copied the file to a "sandbox" laptop—an isolated machine with no internet access. He hit extract. deee.rar
He ran it. The laptop screen went pitch black for ten seconds. Then, the webcam light flickered on—a steady, unblinking green. Elias pulled the power cord, but the screen stayed on