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The sound of someone pounding on the door to his 1985 Chevy G20 van woke Wendell from his sleep. “Just a sec...” Wendell rubbing his eyes. The pounding continued. “RUSTY! I said just a second!” Wendell knew Rusty’s rapid knock. Rocking his head back and forth to get the kinks out of his neck, Wendell slid across the seat and opened the sliding door. “What have you got now?” Wendell asked seeing Rusty holding the Satchel.
“Computer!” Rusty said scratching his white beard. “$100! Small bills only!”
Wendell let out a deep sigh. “Look man... I told you. I’m done with that stuff. I’m not a programmer anymore. I’m just a dude living his life... Off the grid... Away from the man... Fuck computers.”
“$50!” Rusty barked and then spat on the ground. “Lowest I’ll go.”
Wendell sighed. “Look man...”
“$25!!!” Rusty interrupted. “Rusty needs his fix!”
Wendell again sighed. “Fuck... Let me see it.” Wendell said motioning for the satchel.
“$5 to touch!” Rusty pulled the satchel back.
“Fine.” Wendell dug a $5 bill from his pocket and tossed it to Rusty.
Rusty grabbed the wrinkled bill and inspected it. “Here.” He said tossing the satchel to Wendell. Rusty quick spun around and began to stumble off.
“Rusty just wait a...” Wendell sighed. “Okay then...” Wendell knew Rusty was on his way to buy a bottle of Boone’s Farm.
“So what the hell is in here?” Wendell mumbled as he opened up the satchel. “Interesting...” Wendell pulled a practically brand new laptop out of the bag. “This is pretty nice... I wonder if it has any charge.” He said hitting the power on the laptop. The Windows XP splash screen popped up on the display and after about a minute of waiting the login screen popped up. “Okay... So I could probably get a few hundred bucks out of this on eBay...” Wendell powered the laptop off and sat it on the back seat. “So what else is in here?” He said pulled the device and the note out of the bag. “What the fuck is this?” Wendell began inspecting the camera-like device, but unsure as to what it was he sat the device down next to the laptop and took a look at the note.
