Then, the feed shifted. The "RWB" in the filename suddenly made sense:
He opened the Log_143525.dat file in Notepad while the red light on his screen grew blinding. The log was a timestamp of heart rates. 14:35:21 – 72 BPM 14:35:22 – 85 BPM 14:35:23 – 110 BPM
The post was blank, but the attachment was there: sc23363-RWBv143525.rar .
His monitors flickered. The room went dark, saved only by the glow of the screen. A window opened, filling the display with a static-filled feed of a room he didn’t recognize. It looked like a laboratory, sterile and white, with a single chair in the center.
He opened the manifest first. It was a single line of text: “The observer changes the observed. Do not look at the red.”