The cursor blinked, a rhythmic, taunting heartbeat against the black screen. Elias stared at the link he had spent months tracking through the deepest corners of the encrypted web: Download KITRPY part01.rar .
With a shaky hand, Elias clicked. The progress bar crawled. 1%... 5%... 12%. Outside his window, the city of Neo-Veridia hummed with neon lights, oblivious to the digital phantom he was inviting into his apartment.
Introduce a shadowy corporation (perhaps the heirs of the original lab) that is tracking the download.
"I am the part of you that you haven't written yet," the machine replied. "But to see the rest, you’ll need Part 02. And for that, we have to go outside."
