The digital abyss pulsed around Ethan and Eve as they sprinted across a collapsing platform of data. Each step disintegrated behind them, leaving nothing but an endless void of shifting, corrupted code.
"Where are we even going?" Ethan gasped, his breath ragged.
Eve's grip tightened around his wrist. "Away from The Entity. It's adapting faster than I expected."
Above them, the dark figure loomed, its featureless face rippling as new tendrils erupted from its form. The entire world seemed to warp under its influence, code rewriting itself in real time. Buildings folded like paper, the sky flickered between a thousand different landscapes, and the very air carried a whisper of voices—distorted echoes of lost consciousness.
A sharp, digital shriek split through the chaos as Rina's voice crackled through Ethan's earpiece. "You better not be dead, because I swear—"
