What is the Elias takes? (tries to shut down the server, calls for help, or talks to the simulation?) What is the goal of the simulation? I can adapt the next part of the story to your preference.
At first, it was just white noise. But as he ran it through a high-pass filter, a voice emerged—raw, terrified, and repeating a single phrase over and over: "They didn’t account for the divergence."
Elias, driven by an adrenaline-fueled curiosity, ran the files through a spectroscopic analyzer. The results weren’t sound waves; they were raw data packets from a 2018 experiment in algorithmic predictive modeling that the company had officially claimed was destroyed in a fire.
As the files expanded, the screen flickered. The data wasn't code, and it wasn't finance. It was a sequence of audio files, heavily distorted. Elias patched them into his noise-canceling headphones.