Ashleigh stared at the screen, but all she saw were a lot of letters, numbers, and symbols written in lines all over the page.
“I don’t know what any of that is,” she said. “Shouldn’t there be folders?”
“Well, if this drive held actual documents, yes, it should,” Alice replied. “But that’s not what this is.”
Alice turned the computer back and typed several more commands before pulling the drive and closing the laptop. She handed the USB back to Ashleigh.
“So… what is it?”
“This is a key,” Alice replied. “There is definitely information on there. But the only way to access it is by merging its code with the code of another program. One designed to read this thing.”
“What program? And how exactly could you figure that out when Nessa wasn’t able to after all this time?”
