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He gripped his steering wheel peripheral, the leather cold against his palms. He selected a battered Lancia Delta Integrale and began. The next morning, Jax’s room was empty
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The physics were... wrong. Too real. Every pebble hitting the undercarriage echoed through his headset like a gunshot. The force feedback on the wheel was violent, nearly wrenching his wrists as he tore through a forest path at midnight. There was no co-driver. No "easy right" or "hairpin left." Just the sound of the engine screaming and a thick, unnatural fog rolling across the virtual road.
Jax pushed the throttle to the floor, his real-world bedroom fading away until he could almost smell the scent of high-octane fuel and wet ferns. As he crossed the finish line of the "forbidden" track, his monitor surged with a blinding white light.