Arjun’s finger hovered over ‘Y’ for Yes.

Then the screen flickered. A message appeared in monospaced green text:

The screen went black. Then, static. Then—impossibly—a full 3D menu loaded. Sparkling helmets. Rain-slicked tarmac. The hum of idling V6 hybrids. His laptop’s fan went silent. No heat. No lag. It was like the game wasn’t running on his hardware at all, but something else. Something behind the screen.

Double-click.

And below it, in tiny red letters: