Secret True Ending

You stay hidden long enough to watch the exchange complete. Buyers arrive in a second vehicle. Names get spoken. Routes beyond Hollow Pine get referenced. A folded county map changes hands with marks extending far outside this district. Only then do you move. By the time you cut your brother loose, you already have the one thing he was chasing: not just proof of this site, but proof that the tower was one relay in a larger network. Mercer helps close the local ring, but the final page you carry out points somewhere else entirely. Hollow Pine ends, and a new map begins. The storm clears just before dawn, revealing roads you did not know to look for when the night started.