Leo laughed nervously and clicked N .
The pigeon outside his window finally finished its wing flap, looked straight at him, and whispered in his own voice: "Don’t."
By day, he was a middling QA tester for a failing VR startup. By night, he tinkered with an old quantum-entangled random number generator he’d bought off a darknet auction. He called the project "CTG" — short for Chaotic Topology Generator . crazyctg.com
The website now displayed a single button: R E S E T _ W O R L D
He raised a trembling finger.
Below it, a counter ticked upward: NUMBER OF PREVIOUS RESETS: 10,347
That’s when the sky outside his window turned into static. Leo laughed nervously and clicked N
Leo pressed Y anyway.