As Arthur finished reading the last log, he noticed something strange. The clock on his computer taskbar had stopped. He looked at his phone; the screen was frozen at 2:23 PM.

He described a pulsing, iridescent core that responded to the compressed frequency 0.69 Hz. He realized the logistics company wasn't moving freight; they were feeding the core "time" harvested from the sixty-nine-minute gaps.

He looked back at the file properties of . The "Date Created" field was flickering. It was no longer showing 2026. It was showing today’s date, but the year was 2029.