Elias grabbed his phone to take a photo, but the screen only showed the game’s UI. A mission objective appeared in his peripheral vision, floating in the air in glowing white text: TIME LIMIT: 00:59
With a final, jagged click of the hard drive, the progress bar vanished. Download Complete.
A notification popped up on his desktop. It wasn't a system error. It was a chat window from an unknown user named O_ROUGE . O_ROUGE: Don't look at the screen. Look at the shadows.
The hum from the computer grew into a deafening roar. The red cubes began to spill out of the monitor like physical objects, bouncing off his keyboard and dissolving into the carpet.
The door to his closet was slightly ajar. On the monitor, the digital version of his closet was wide open, revealing a swirling, glitching vortex of red cubes—the Infinite's Ruby effect.
