1. A Hard Day's Night Online

The neon sign for The Rusty Gear flickered, casting a rhythmic, sickly pink glow over Elias’s grease-stained workbench. It was 3:00 AM, the dead space of a Tuesday, and Elias was living his own version of a hard day’s night.

The rain hammered against the corrugated metal roof, a relentless percussive beat that matched the throbbing in his temples. He’d been awake for twenty-eight hours, fueled by lukewarm synthetic coffee and the desperate need to pay his rent. 1. A Hard Day's Night

"Just one more bypass," he muttered, his fingers shaking as he hovered a soldering iron over the delicate motherboard. The neon sign for The Rusty Gear flickered,