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On his screen, a single line of text blinked, waiting for input.
He zoomed in. The reflection was blurry, pixelated, but he could make out a stamp on the clipboard. It wasn't a logo. It was a date stamp. 2024.
A chill that had nothing to do with the air conditioning ran down his spine. He tabbed back to the previous sets, scanning the backgrounds. In Set 3, on a magazine cover in the background, the text was gibberish. In Set 8, a car in the distance had a license plate that didn't match the state the photos were supposedly taken in.
The file sizes were growing. Set 1 had been 2MB. Set 20 was 20GB.
Elias sat in the sudden silence. The hum of the computers had stopped. The rain against the window had stopped. The world outside was frozen, a static image.
Across the image, a watermark bled into existence, deep red and pulsing.