Stasis (Book 1.2): Beta by Osborne E.W

Author:Osborne, E.W. [Osborne, E.W.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Zombies Apocalypse
Published: 2017-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

By the time Wills got to Neil’s room twenty minutes later, he had managed to decode the numbers they are ready had. With a pen and a simple piece of paper, he had scrawled out a bunch of letters.

Wills entered without knocking, his expression more animated than Neil had ever seen it. “What’s going on?”

Neil thrust the piece of paper up in the air like a trophy, waiting for a response. Wills snatched it and sat on his bed, his heavy breathing slowing as his heart rate came down. He silently stared at the piece of paper for a minute before looking up.

“What the fuck is this?”

“I broke the code!”

Wills looked at him as if he lost his mind. He turned the piece of paper around so Neil could see his own writing and read from memory. “I see four A’s, to T’s, you haven’t solved anything.” Neil’s heart sank by a fraction until he noticed a grin curling Will’s mouth. “But you do have something.”

Neil grabbed the paper. “No, this is it. We just need to figure out what it says.”

“How did you get these letters?”

“It’s really stupid, like so obvious I can’t believe I didn’t see it before. The thing in computer science called hexadecimal and…”

Wills threw himself back onto the bed with a loud groan. “Jesus Christ. I’ve spent the last how many days reading about every code breaker in history, and you could’ve just told me this?”

Neil bristled. “Well you are the mathematician. If either of us dropped the ball on this, it’s you.”

“You’re the computer science major! This is literally your language!”

“But this is shit that they just tell us about, now that we actually use. Like,” he shifted in his seat, searching for the best analogy that could cut Wills’ attitude. “You know when an abacus is but can you actually use it?”

“Yes.”

Neil let out his own groan of frustration. “Can we please just try and figure out what the fuck this says? This is the closest we’ve been in were sitting here…”

Wills rapidly typed in the letters Neil had translated and projected them up on the smart wall.

“Okay, we have four A’s…”

Neil jumped in. “Actually, it’s three lowercase and one capitalized.” When Wills gave him a dirty look, he defended, “What? There’s a difference. In the actual code there’s a difference between the…”

“Fine, fine. With the capital I and the A, I’m guessing the sentence starts with A.”

Neil frowned at the wall, mentally rearranging the letters around create as many words as he could. “Why do you assume that?”

“Because I don’t know what else to start with,” Wills huffed.

Over the next ten minutes the pair continued to talk over one another, their voices rising. An outsider would be forgiven for thinking they were fighting. But really their excitement came from the feeling that they were getting close, dangerously close.

When they’re over exuberance peaked, Neil leaned back and threaded his hands behind his head. “We’re assuming this is in English,” he said, thinking out loud.

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