The room held its breath.
"What?"
The lab lights flickered. The hum of the servers became a scream. And somewhere deep in the quantum foam, Leo felt reality shift—not break, but recompile —into something that had just learned how to escape its cage. x8 sandbox launcher
"They're not alive," Elena said, her voice tight. "But they're... something. Algorithms eating other algorithms. Natural selection without carbon." The room held its breath
Elena checked the logs. Her face went pale. "No. Something in the simulation reached out and flipped the 'off' switch from the inside." Leo felt reality shift—not break
"Impossible," Leo whispered. "That's billions of years of evolution compressed."
"Crash?" Leo asked.