Marko’s fingers moved on autopilot. It was 11:47 PM, his cheap desk lamp flickered, and his “To Do” list for work sat untouched. Instead, he typed the same four words he’d typed a thousand times into the cracked search bar: Besplatni Stripovi Za Citanje Online .

The usual sites loaded—the ones with the pop-up ads for dating apps and the poorly translated splash pages. He ignored them. He was hunting for a ghost.

"Besplatni Stripovi Za Citanje Online – 1,981,041,212 pages read. 0 pages lived."