"FWLS65" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

big black slab one that practically absorbed light. McDooley had
it connected to a whole bunch of monitors, which I guess were
monitoring it. A long cable ran from the box to some glass case,
with a cheap tablecloth draped over it, and a wire from that went
to a holoprojector unit; a BAD-ASS big one by the looks of it.

"Yes, 'bitchin''," McDooley said.

"All Mr. Lopwagen requests is to make an attempt at cracking
the code you have yet to crack," Rinhurst said. "We're waiting,
Mr. Lopwagen."

"Huh? Oh, okay. So, like, what's wrong with it?"

"The files are in an unbreakable code," McDooley said,
reading off his clipboard. "Nothing we've ever seen before. My
first guess was that they were just gibberish, scrambled random
data as a decoy for whatever the doctor was hiding in his
computer. Then we found the unit in the glass case and a
connecting socket that matched a non-standard port on the
hardware--"

"This thing?" I asked, tapping the glass through the
tablecloth. McDooley ran forward and grabbed my hand.

"The case cannot be disturbed," he said. "It could hold the
key to the encryption process. If we could get it working, that
is. There is no on switch."

"What's in the case?" I asked, pulling off the tablecloth
before Marty had a chance to object. "Whoa."

"It's part of a human brain," the scientist replied, as I
gazed down at the pink and grey lump of lumps in the bowl under
glass. Several wires ran in and out of it. "Some of it is, at
least. We can't identify the rest, nor can we get it awake."

"Sounds like me on any monday morning. Give it some coffee
and a danish and it'll be fine," I said.

"No digestive system, even if you were not joking."

"Well, whack it around a little. Ma has to do that to me
sometimes. HEY, Mr. Pus-Brain! Wakey wakey!"

I banged on the case a little, jarring the bowl of organs.
Dooley freaked, but didn't do very much to stop me.

I bumped my hip on the case, and the bowl jarred. There was
a little spark and the thing started pulsating.