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The woman on the screen smiled, a sad, weary expression. "Nowhere. You have to go there. The coordinates are in the metadata of the final frame. Pack light. It rains a lot." blade runner 2049 open matte 4k download
The film cut to black. A dialogue box popped up, native to the video player, but styled like the film’s retro-futuristic UI. "San Francisco," Elias muttered
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Elias sat in the silence of his dark room. He checked the file properties. The runtime was normal. But the metadata had changed. The GPS coordinates were for a coordinates system he didn't recognize—latitudes and longitudes that pointed to a spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
The screen cut to black. The file finished playing.
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