Curiosity overrode protocol. Elias bypassed the security layer and forced a frame-by-frame render. Slowly, an image bled onto his screen. It wasn't a video of a place, but a live feed of a server room. His server room.
The notification appeared at 3:14 AM:
Suddenly, the power cut. In the silence of the dark office, Elias heard a soft, digital hum—the sound of a file finally finishing its download.
Elias froze. He didn't turn around. Instead, he looked at the file name again. The numbers weren't random. He typed them into his terminal as coordinates.
He clicked the file. It wouldn't play. He tried to delete it, but the system returned a cryptic error: Access Denied. Root Authorization Required by User: NULL. "Null?" Elias whispered.