Alexei's hand hovered over the power button. Then, almost against his will, his eyes drifted to the bottom of the page.
The centre screen flickered, and Alexei's own face stared back—but older, colder, his eyes replaced by tiny spinning 3D render icons. gamegpu
"You are not a reader, Alexei. You are the final stress test. For seven thousand days, we have measured your skepticism, your disbelief. Now we need to know: will you close the browser? Or will you stay, like always, to see the benchmark results?" Alexei's hand hovered over the power button
Test subject: Alexei Volkov. Status: Running. FPS: 0.27. "You are not a reader, Alexei
His finger trembled. But he didn't close the tab.
Some benchmarks, he realized, you never stop running.
The comment section on the right began filling with other usernames. Serega2007 . Nvidia_Fanboy . AMD_Ryzen5 . Real names followed each alias, coordinates, system specs—not of their computers, but of their nervous systems.