I pulled the power cord from the wall. The monitor stayed on for three seconds too long—long enough to show one final line of code on the screen:
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That’s when the audio kicked in. It wasn't the lo-fi synth soundtrack. It was the sound of a mechanical lung—a rhythmic, metallic wheezing that sped up every time I increased the belt speed. I pulled the power cord from the wall
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