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.
Elias looked at the screen one last time. The file name had changed. It now read: . The recording of him looking at the door had just begun. 16296mp4
The timestamp at the bottom of the screen didn't show a date from the past. It was a countdown: 00:14:22:09. When the countdown hit zero, the static returned