Curiosity overrode fear. He clicked the sidebar and found a slider labeled lighting-opacity . He dragged it to zero.
The was still open. And it was finished extracting.
The wireframe figure behind him reached out a low-poly hand toward the keyboard.
Elias didn't wait to see what happened next. He pulled the power cable from the wall. The monitor died, and the room plunged into a silence so thick it felt like a stylesheet with no rules. But as his eyes adjusted to the natural dark, he saw it—a faint, blue glow reflecting off the glass of his window.
Elias hesitated. The mouse hovered over the checkbox. He looked around his empty apartment, the quiet hum of the city outside providing a false sense of security. He clicked it.
A notification toasted into the corner of his screen: Warning: Unused assets detected. Run 'purge' to optimize environment? [Y/N]