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Kai’s hands were shaking. He opened the second video. Soreu_lost_run . Soreu was another legend – the first person to finish "Hardcore 5" without a hook. In this video, he was in the same shifting map. But he wasn't running. He was crying. "It knows my real name," he whispered. "It talks through the chat. It knows where I live."

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Then another.

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