The eyes were looking directly at the camera. Directly at him.
Elias hit play. At first, it was just the hiss of cosmic radiation. But as he looked at the waveform, he saw it wasn't random. The peaks and valleys formed shapes—mathematical constants, then chemical structures, and finally, a coordinate string pointing to a dead patch of space near the Oort Cloud. 02RC62BZ44UL09.7z
Underneath the static, a rhythmic thumping emerged. A heartbeat. The eyes were looking directly at the camera