He opened it.

"It works. But don't ask how." "The trees look like origami, but Paimon's float is smooth." "Uninstall if you hear a baby crying from your GPU."

He was inside his own hard drive.

He typed the sacred, forbidden string of words:

Beyond the fake Liyue mountains, there was no ocean. There was a wall of static. And in the center of that static, a hole. A perfect, rectangular hole in the reality of the game. Through it, he could see his own desktop background. The "Teyvat" folder. The Lumine_Stable.exe .

The screen fractured into a thousand windows. Each one showed a different angle of his room. His webcam light flickered on.

Then, the world rendered.

He sat in the dark for ten minutes. Then, carefully, he booted his PC back up. Everything was normal. His desktop. His files. The 68 gigs of free space.