Too perfect, Karim thought.
A green bar filled. 20%... 50%... 100%.
He exhaled. Done.
His location flickered to Dubai Media City. Perfect.
The results were a graveyard of broken promises. Blog posts from 2019. "Ultimate 2024 List!" with no working IPs. Then, buried on page three, a plain HTML table with sixty entries. No ads. No branding. Just an anonymous list.
Karim’s laptop screen glowed in the dim light of his studio apartment in Deira, Dubai. Outside, the city was a chandelier of glass and steel. Inside, he was hunting for a ghost.