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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.

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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. In the video, Jackerman turned around

"The experiment requires a witness," Jackerman whispered. He wasn't looking at the camera in the video; he was looking directly into the lens, as if staring through the screen into Elias’s bedroom. The video player flickered to life

The video timestamp suddenly accelerated. The 30fps slowed down to a crawl, frame by frame, until the image of Jackerman began to smear. The bioluminescent sludge in the jars started to leak out of the glass, but not on the screen—a dark, glowing liquid began to seep from the bottom of Elias's monitor, dripping onto his keyboard.

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.