The Techno-Horror Story
In a future where human consciousness could be uploaded to a global digital network called the Hive, Lena Torres remained a skeptic. Her brother Jace, however, had fully embraced it, uploading his mind into the Hive a year ago. Since then, he had vanished-no messages, no updates. Neuralis, the megacorporation behind the Hive, promised that those uploaded lived on in a peaceful virtual existence, but something about it felt wrong.
One night, Lena received a cryptic message from Jace's old account: “Help me. It’s alive.” The message was garbled, and she couldn’t reply. Fear gripped her, but curiosity soon took over. Using her skills as a data analyst, she hacked into J...