"SYNCHRONIZING WITH LOCAL BIOMETRIC SIGNATURE. ANALYZING SURROUNDING UNDEAD FREQUENCIES."

Kaelen didn't believe in magic. He believed in data.

From the flooded stairwells, they came. Dozens. Hundreds. Their moans layered into a low, thunderous chorus. Kaelen ran, clutching the Faraday cage to his chest like a holy relic.

A new prompt: "ACTIVATE CHAIN REACTION? (Y/N)"

His journey led him to the "Silicon Catacombs," the flooded basement of what was once a massive digital distribution hub. The servers, now cold and draped in bioluminescent fungi, hummed with a faint, ghostly power from a backup generator that had been chugging on autopilot for three years.