Leo didn’t click. He opened a translucent grey window on his second monitor and pasted a string of jagged code: loadstring(game:HttpGet("https://githubusercontent.com..."))() .

His PC fans roared like a jet engine. On his screen, the Speed counter began to count backward into negative numbers.

Leo tried to close the script window, but his mouse cursor was gone. His avatar didn't stop. It kept running, faster and faster, breaking through the skybox of the game until he was sprinting through a void of black pixels.

He didn't run; he deleted the distance between himself and the finish line. The stadium became a smear of light. He passed the 50,000-stud mark in a millisecond. Then 1,000,000. He wasn't just winning the race; he was outrunning the game’s ability to render the track.

The Warden’s hand reached out from the void, grabbing Leo’s avatar by the neck. The screen flickered to a dull, static grey. A final system notification appeared: