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His heart hammered. He remembered that night now. It was the first time he’d left his apartment in weeks. The city had been a graveyard of shuttered shops and silent sirens. He had been filming the "emptiness" for a project he never finished.

Elias found the file in a forgotten folder labeled Misc_Backup_2021 . Among thousands of screenshots and blurry pet photos, the name stood out for its clinical precision: 21411495_video_2021-02-10_21-21.jpg . 21411495_video_2021-02-10_21-21.jpg

The timestamp told the story of a specific Tuesday night: February 10, 2021, at 9:21 PM. His heart hammered