3.6 - Internet Speed Test

Elias tried to click "Cancel," but his mouse was frozen. The browser wasn't downloading data anymore; it was pulling something through . The Overflow

Elias watched the cursor pulse a neon, toxic green. In the rural silence of Blackwood Creek, where pages usually loaded with the tectonic pace of a glacier, the needle was pinned past the physical limits of his fiber-optic cable. The readout was impossible: The First Anomaly Internet Speed Test 3.6

A chime, low and metallic, echoed through the house. The progress bar reached 100%, but it didn't stop. It shattered the edge of the window, bleeding lines of raw code across his wallpaper. The room smelled of ozone and scorched copper. Elias tried to click "Cancel," but his mouse was frozen