“Do you accept the End User License Agreement for your life?”
Liam hesitated. His cybersecurity class had drilled one thing: never run unknown executables. But his thesis introduction was already written. His literature review was pristine. All he needed was to write the methodology and conclusion. And Word was locked.
His heart stopped. He slammed the power button. But when the laptop rebooted, the BIOS splash screen was different. A skull made of ASCII characters. And below it, a countdown: 47:21:03.
