He leaned closer. The seventeenth entry read:
Elias pushed his chair back. The laptop’s screen flickered. The command prompt wasn’t echoing his keystrokes anymore—it was displaying a live log: cmd device manager
The CMD window typed back, not in his voice: He leaned closer
His own laptop, sitting beside him, suddenly rebooted. Then the repair shop’s main server went dark. The lights overhead hummed at a wrong frequency. In the black CMD window, a final line appeared: sitting beside him
The list returned seventeen network adapters. The laptop only had one physical card.