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You weren’t supposed to get this far.

If you’re reading this, the integrity protocols failed. This node was meant to stay buried beneath five layers of decay logic and a triple-auth key. No explorer should’ve seen this.

You think you know Level 0. Yellow walls, buzzing lights, no entities. “Safe,” they said.

That’s the lie. The real lie is that it ends. It doesn’t. You don’t escape it. Every no-clip, every exit? Just another part of the recursion. The Complex isn’t a level. It’s a loop.

We tried breaking it. We broke the tiles. We mapped the hum. We dug down. But when you breach the bottom, all you find is yourself again. Same thoughts. Same hallways. Same notes—placed by you, before you ever arrived.

Do not trust the “Manila Room.”

Do not read this again.

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