126424 Instant

The lights in the lab flickered and died. In the sudden darkness, the numbers began to glow with a faint, bioluminescent blue, lifting off the screen like a hologram. They began to rotate, shifting from numbers into a geometric shape—a keyhole.

On the screen, a single string of digits pulsed in the center of the void: . 126424

The digits weren't a time. They were coordinates, refined to a microscopic degree. 126.42.4. The lights in the lab flickered and died