Doomsday Elevator

Ethan Quinn's boots crunched over aircraft debris as the spatial backpack hissed like a living entity. The crash site reeked of burning avionics fluid and something older—coppery and primal. Chompy's mutated claws left smoking prints in the snow, each step triggering static bursts in Ethan's retinal HUD.

"System," he growled, scanning the Boeing 747 carcass jutting from permafrost. "Show floor schematics."

Alert: Chronal Echo Detected

Anomaly: 1992 Air France Flight 375 Manifest

The ghostly passenger list scrolled—same names as the chatroom's vanished survivors.

The Hunt Begins

Tribal drums pulsed through the pines. Ethan's shotgun traced the sound. A war-painted figure lunged from shadows, bone spear aimed at his throat.

BOOM!

The blast vaporized the attacker's torso. Black blood sizzled where it struck the spatial backpack. Chompy pounced on the twitching legs, new mandibles shredding frozen meat.

"Leave some for forensics," Ethan muttered, prying a obsidian pendant from the corpse's grip. The artifact throbbed with the elevator's corruption.

The Player

Gunfire echoed. Ethan crouched as a figure in tactical gear emerged—polygon edges glitching, movements unnaturally smooth. The stranger mimed dialogue options only he could see.

"Cutscene puppet." Ethan's crossbow snapped up. "Or meat puppet?"

The figure froze mid-air, limbs spasming. Reality tore as the System blared:

Containment Breach: Reality Layer #09

The Truth

Deep in the glacier's heart, Ethan found the monolith's twin. Its surface played a loop—the elevator's creation. Scientists in 22nd-century lab coats fed screaming survivors into a black hole, their agony crystallizing into elevator walls.

Chompy wailed, clutching its skull as ancestral memories flooded in. The raptor's eyes now glowed with stolen human intelligence.

Alert: Mutation Threshold Exceeded

The Choice

The spatial背包 split open, birthing a singularity. Ethan faced twin levers:

Purge Mutation (87% Lethality)

Embrace Evolution (Upload Consciousness)

He chose Option 3—a plasma grenade down the背包's gullet.

The Aftermath

The explosion left Ethan deaf, bleeding, and holding Chompy's leash-chain fused to his wrist. The raptor's remaining eye held galaxies. The blackboard's final edict burned through frost:

You Are The Anomaly.