[User_Data] Name=Leo_Vance Status=Awake Heart_Rate=72 Stress_Level=0.45
A slow, heavy knock echoed from the front door of his apartment.
Then, exactly thirty seconds later, the monitor flared back to life. It was powered by something else now, glowing with a faint, sickly green hue that didn't match his screen's normal display. Cold sweat broke out across his neck
Cold sweat broke out across his neck. He looked around his small, shadowed apartment. Was there a camera? Had he been hacked? He pulled his phone out of his pocket to check his smartwatch app. His heart rate was exactly 88 beats per minute.
[Environment] Ambient_Temp=68F Door_Locked=True Intruder_Alert=False Subject_Awareness=High Had he been hacked
He had been cleaning up his computer's directory, deleting old game caches and temp files, when he found it sitting directly in the root folder of his C drive. He had not created it.
Leo swallowed hard. He reached for his mouse, his hand shaking. He clicked the 'X' in the top right corner of the window. The program refused to close. A small dialogue box popped up in the center of the screen: Override denied. Configuration file in use by SYSTEM. He tried to delete the file. Access Denied. He reached for his mouse
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