1. create a folder to store the files

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/code]
└─$ mkdir patchme
                                                                                                                                              
┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/code]
└─$ cd patchme
                                                       

2. `wget` the files

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/code/patchme]
└─$ wget https://artifacts.picoctf.net/c/201/patchme.flag.py

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/code/patchme]
└─$ wget https://artifacts.picoctf.net/c/201/flag.txt.enc 

3. idk why `./patchme.flag.py` will cause a syntax error (probably because it's not a executable?), so I ran it in VS Code.
4. Here in the source code, we can see that if we sen d the input (`user_pw`): `ak98-=90adfjhgj321sleuth9000`, it's going to decrypt the encoded flag with the key "utilitarian". *(the backslashes (`\`) are used as line continuation characters. They **indicate that the current line of code continues on the next line**. This is often used to improve the readability of code, especially when a single line of code is very long and you want to break it up into multiple lines.)*