He fell asleep to the hum of his router. At 3:00 AM, his laptop screen flickered on by itself. There was no login, no password. Just the familiar, grimy homepage of 9xflix.onl . And playing automatically, in a loop, was the final scene of Chandrakar —the villain's laugh echoing through the dark room.
He didn't press it. But he didn't have to. The laptop's camera light turned green. And in the reflection of the black screen, he saw a figure standing behind him in his own room—a figure that looked exactly like the film's villain, but with the hollow, pixelated eyes of a buffering video.
Rohan smirked. "Scare tactic," he muttered, closing the laptop.