"Nice gaming chair," someone typed.
The last thing Ghost_6ix heard before his PC shut down permanently was the sound of every player in the server, in perfect unison, firing a single shot.
It went white .
Kai didn't move his mouse. He just held down left-click.
The kill feed glitched. The word "[BANNED?]" flickered next to it, but no ban came. Kai's private injector was too new, too fresh from the dark forum where he'd paid 0.04 Bitcoin.
Click.
He wasn't fighting The Serpents anymore. He was fighting the game itself. And the game had just toggled its own
Kai tried to move his mouse. His character spun in a perfect, impossible 360-degree arc, then aimed at the sky. His own health bar appeared in the corner.