He's Doing Corporate Espionage
He led me to one of the holographic screens where a progress bar was slowly filling up, which was an indication of the progress of the decryption of a single file.
The thing was that the progress bar showed that it was still at two percent despite the 'time elapsed' to be nine hundred and twenty two hours.
Damn… At this rate, this would take more than five years for it to be completed. No wonder this guy wants me to help him with it.
I turned to him, "Just saying… I have no guarantees that I will be able to decrypt this."
He shrugged, "Even if you fail, I won't lose anything. I have a copy of the file here so use this instead."
He then tapped on the console which prompted a data chip to slide out from it and he handed it over to me.
I took the data chip from him and raised an eyebrow, "So… You just want me to try and hack into this thing?"
"If you can. I'm honestly not expecting much so it's good enough for me that you try it."