He’d spent weeks piecing it together. Part1.rar through Part9.rar sat on his desktop like jagged shards of a mirror. They were useless without the final piece.

In the video, a figure was standing in the doorway of the server room. Elias spun around. The doorway was empty. He looked back at the screen. In the video, the figure was now standing directly behind his chair.

Elias clicked. The download bar crawled across the screen, a green line reclaiming lost territory. 45 MB. 12 MB. Done.

On the screen, he saw himself from behind, sitting at his desk.

Elias refreshed the page on an archived Indonesian tech board. The link was a ghost, a string of blue text that led to a 404 error for three years. But then, a new comment appeared, timestamped only minutes ago. No username. No avatar. Just the link.