He clicked the "Compile" button. The progress bar crawled across the screen. 98%... 99%... Complete.

Andrei picked up his VR headset and slid it over his eyes. He gripped the force-feedback steering wheel mounted to his desk.

Andrei selected the Nordschleife track, the famous Green Hell where Leo had always dreamed of driving.

Suddenly, he wasn't in a dark workshop anymore. He was sitting in the driver's seat of the E92 . The interior was perfect. He could see the stitching on the leather, the amber glow of the classic BMW instrument cluster, and in the passenger seat, a small, low-resolution photo of him and Leo pinned to the dashboard—a digital replica of the physical photo he still kept in his wallet.