Leo’s internet had been crawling for three days. His room was a graveyard of empty energy drink cans and discarded snack wrappers, all sacrificed at the altar of a progress bar. He was downloading Devil.May.Cry.5.Deluxe.Edition , split into twenty grueling RAR files. He had nineteen of them. He just needed the final piece of the puzzle.
Real-world Leo froze. He felt a sudden, icy draft on the back of his neck. The smell of ozone and burnt silicon filled the air. Devil.May.Cry.5.Deluxe.Edition.part7.rar
It wasn't plugged in. There was no power. But the screen glowed with a dull, sickly red light. Across the center of the black display, white text began to crawl, mimicking the game’s iconic font: Leo’s internet had been crawling for three days