It was a confession box with no exit.

She stared at the screen. The thunderstorm in the game was now raging inside her skull.

Her character, a generic avatar she hadn't chosen, stepped out of the apartment and into the city. But this wasn't the bustling neon ghost town of the original game. This was Pk-xd-v0.40.0-mod 2021 .

“Others?” she whispered. The official servers had been dark for years.