He opened → Virus & threat protection → Protection history . There it was: Threat quarantined: “UplayR1Loader” .

And as he air-assassinated his first target, he whispered to the empty room: “Requiescat in pace, uplay_r1_loader64.dll.”

He downloaded (for 64-bit systems) from Microsoft’s official site. Installed it. Rebooted.

Alex ignored them. He was a rational gamer.

Alex navigated to . He saw VC++ 2015, 2017, 2019. But 2013? Missing.

The error laughed back at him.