File: Mutant.meltdown.zip ... -

The computer case began to bulge. The plastic seams groaned and then snapped, revealing pulsating, vein-lined muscle where the motherboard should have been. The GPU fans were now spinning inside a ribcage of gleaming white bone.

The final log entry on the screen, just before the monitor was swallowed by a layer of shivering film, read: Extraction Complete. Host Optimized. File: Mutant.Meltdown.zip ...

Elias backed away, but his keyboard had already fused to his desk, the keys turning into soft, blinking eyes. The horror was no longer external; his own hand, still resting on the mouse, was starting to tingle. He looked down to see his skin turning the same sickly amber as the fluid. The computer case began to bulge