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When the countdown hit zero, the static returned. But this time, it wasn't coming from the speakers. It was coming from the hallway outside his office.

The timestamp at the bottom of the screen didn't show a date from the past. It was a countdown: 00:14:22:09. 16296mp4

It wasn’t a video of a room or a person. It was a high-resolution feed of a , a celestial body that shouldn't exist, swirling with colors that the human eye isn't wired to process. As Elias watched, the nebula began to fold in on itself, mimicking the shape of a human iris. When the countdown hit zero, the static returned