He frowned. "Decommissioning of what?" He typed the question back.
> VITOS INTERNAL isn't a program, Elias. > VITOS is the ledger. > We are the internal logic of the world you think you live in. > You found a leak in the simulation's basement. vitos internal.exe
> Now that you've seen the internal, we cannot let you return to the external. He frowned
> Elias Thorne. You are early, Elias. The decommissioning isn't scheduled for another twenty years. vitos internal.exe
When the morning shift lead logged in to check the server logs, there was no sign of Elias Thorne. There was, however, a new hidden file in the system archives, labeled elias_backup.zip . It was exactly 400 kilobytes.