Follow the light beam to the red tent and press E at the desk.
NASCON has a place for everyone.
Except the student who never arrived.
At registration, Aira is told she disappeared that morning. Then the courtyard empties and her own shadow steals the project drive. Rewind a locked moment. Record a shadow of yourself to hold it open. And outplay the red copy that only needs one touch to take your place.
Hadi claims Aira has already passed registration. She has only just arrived. Her team is still waiting for the working build.
Move with WASD and run with Shift. The minimap and the amber beam always show your goal. Z records a five second shadow of yourself that repeats what you did: use it to hold switches. F burns the red echo, but only in the stagger after it lunges past you. If the red echo touches you, it steals your place for a moment. Fire is the one clock this campus cannot rewind: what you burn stays burned, and while you carry a flame it reveals words scorched into the ground. J or Esc opens this journal. R restarts.
The blue echo is you, helping you. The red echo is what replaces you. Never confuse them.
The recovered drive shows Aira entering the main hall yesterday. A second Aira follows her inside. The camera records only one leaving.
“Ask me what we named the first build. Do not tell me the answer.”
An older COMSATS corridor waits beyond the doors. Aira has found her missing-person case. She has not found out which version of her closed it.
TO BE CONTINUED · LEVEL 02: THE FORGOTTEN CODE