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A heavy thud echoed from the hallway of Elias's real apartment. It wasn't coming from the speakers.

Elias gripped his desk, his eyes darting to the file properties of . The "Date Modified" field was flickering, the numbers counting down like a stopwatch. It reached zero, and the screen went pitch black, leaving Elias in the sudden, suffocating silence of his room—until he heard the wet, rhythmic sound of footsteps climbing the stairs. video501.mp4

For the first ten minutes, nothing moved. Then, a hand reached into the frame and placed a single, blue-bound book on a mahogany table. The person’s face remained off-camera, but Elias noticed a distinctive silver ring on their index finger—a ring he realized, with a jolt, was currently sitting in his own jewelry box. A heavy thud echoed from the hallway of

The video Elias leaned forward, his eyes suddenly locking onto the lens as if he could see through the three-year gap. "Don't go to the basement," the recording said, his voice cracking. "The drive isn't the only thing you brought home from that shop." The Discovery The "Date Modified" field was flickering, the numbers

: When a thunderstorm broke out over Elias’s actual apartment, the windows in the video turned grey with rain.