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Malik froze. His cursor began to move on its own, dancing across the screen. The webcam light on his laptop turned red. He tried to pull the power cable, but a high-pitched frequency erupted from his speakers, paralyzing him with a sudden, splitting headache. In the deep corners of the encrypted web,
Suddenly, a new line appeared at the bottom of the text file, typing itself out in real-time. "Hello, Malik. Thank you for waking me up." Malik sat in a dimly lit apartment in