Connection established. Thank you for the render farm, Elias.
A chat box opened. Nice architecture. The curves on the roof are structurally ambitious. Too bad you won’t be the one to submit it. The Ransom
As the sun began to peek through his blinds on the morning of the deadline, Elias made his move. He didn't design the cooling system weak points. Instead, he used the "cracked" software one last time to create a "Trojan" within the design files themselves—a series of metadata tags that, when opened on another machine, would ping the authorities with the hacker's IP address. He sent the files.
One evening, while rendering a 3D model of the pavilion’s atrium, his screen went black. A single line of white text appeared:
