Elias felt the blood drain from his face. The man in the photo was wearing the same grey hoodie Elias was wearing right now. The book in the man's lap was the same one sitting on Elias’s nightstand at home.
He finally bypassed the secondary layer by mimicking a legacy hardware ID from a decommissioned server in Zurich. The progress bar jumped to 100%. With a hesitant click, Elias extracted the contents. The folder didn't contain code. It contained fragments.
"Part two," Elias whispered, his voice cracking from too much caffeine and too little sleep. "Where is part one?"
"Or they're working for someone who owns the future," Elias replied.
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