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Chapter 109
Adam walked down the long corridor. His expression remained completely flat as he approached the laboratory doors where Kian, Darius, and Nuel were standing around Maribel.Kian gave a final, dismissive glance toward Maribel, turned on his heel, and walked away down the opposite side of the hallway. Darius and Nuel followed closely behind him, their heavy boots echoing against the clean tile floor.Adam stopped beside Maribel. He looked down at her hands, which were still gripping the worn straps of her pink rose canvas bag. Her knuckles were white, and her breathing was quick."Are you alright?" Adam asked, his tone level."I am fine," Maribel said, her voice shaking slightly as she adjusted her glasses. "Kian just wanted to shake my confidence before the lab block. He saw the leaderboard. He knows our code is real, Adam. He is terrified because our resource graph is flat.""His opinion does not change the calculation speed," Adam said, his eyes scanning the corridor. "We verified th
Chapter 108
Instead of waiting for the peak daylight hours when the university networks were crowded, Adam and Maribel remained inside the western wing of the mansion until the early hours of the morning. Adam looked at the digital clock on his tablet, which read 3:00 AM. The campus tracking proxies were automated, but their scanning frequency dropped significantly during the deep night cycle to allow for structural backups."We will push the deployment packet now," Adam said, his voice flat as he tapped the final initialization macro. "At this hour, the network admins are offline, and the tracking nodes are running baseline sweeps. Our upload will blend into the standard system noise."Maribel hovered her finger over her laptop enter key, her face illuminated by the cool glow of the terminal screen. "The script is packaged into a compressed binary file. The university firewall will only register it as a routine student maintenance upload. Initiating transfer."With a soft tap, the compiled code
Chapter 107
Maribel sat down in the leather chair, her fingers resting lightly on the clicky keyboard. The touch response of the fancy keys felt completely different from the sticky, worn-out computers in the university undergraduate basic labs. She took a deep breath, trying to calm her racing thoughts as she looked up at the expansive wide three-screen setup displaying a clean, dark coding screen.Adam pulled up a spare chair, sitting just behind her right shoulder. He placed his iPad on the edge of the workbench, its screen displaying the raw system architecture metrics they had copied from her blue notebook."Before uploading our code onto the official Meridian Grand Prix master servers," Adam said, his voice gentle and calm, "we must use this private industrial array to fix real slowdowns. The academy servers use speed limits that conceal tiny delays. If we upload a broken code directly to the competition, Kian's tracking proxies will detect our hidden programs before the first official veri
Chapter 106
"Aunt?" Sophia scoffed, her voice rising as her grip tightened on the stack of documents. The professional composure she usually maintained in front of the estate gates fractured instantly. Her eyes narrowed behind her styled lashes, her gaze sweeping over Maribel's faded top and denim jeans with sharp disapproval. She opened her mouth, clearly intending to correct the assumption with a severe lecture, but Elias stepped forward smoothly."We were just about to leave for a meeting," Elias interrupted, his voice calm, heavy, and completely level. He shifted his leather briefcase to break the direct line of sight between Sophia and the two students. He offered a polite, professional nod to Adam, then directed a brief, civil glance toward Maribel. "Have a nice day, sir. Miss."Maribel, feeling the sudden drop in temperature within the entryway, quickly bowed her head lightly again, her shoulders hunching slightly as she stepped half a pace closer to Adam's side. "Thank you. Have a safe t
Chapter 105
Adam reached his apartment later in the night, his mind processing the details from Maribel's old notebooks. The next day, after the systems engineering lectures ended, the afternoon sun cast long shadows across the main exit gates of the campus. Maribel packed her heavy reference books into her pink rose canvas bag, adjusting the strap over her shoulder as she walked toward the bus stop to board a public bus. Her steps slowed as she neared the perimeter fence.Standing right next to the curb was the sleek, black luxury sedan she had ridden in the previous day. Adam stood beside the passenger door, his attention focused entirely on his iPad screen.Groups of students streaming out of the campus gate instantly noticed the high-end vehicle and the quiet student leaning against its polished frame. Low whispers and murmurs broke out among the passing juniors."Wait, is that the scholarship kid?" a girl in a designer jacket whispered, nudging her friend. "With a car?""Nah," a male studen
Chapter 104
Adam set the notebook down and reached for the next one. He opened the yellowed cover and turned the pages. He went through notebook after notebook, his eyes scanning the columns of handwritten code, peripheral interface configurations, and custom data-routing matrix tables.The more he read, the quieter he became. The soft sound of turning paper was the only sound in the small bedroom.Maribel noticed the silence. She shifted, her fingers tightening around the edge of the plastic storage bin. Her eyes tracked his face, looking for any twitch of his jaw or a frown that would signal a critical flaw in her project. She became nervous. Adam wasn't complimenting anything. He didn't nod, he didn't say good, and he didn't offer a single word of academic validation. He was just reading.While reviewing the third notebook, which detailed the network handshake protocols, Adam learned the truth about the project. Maribel's design wasn't an unfinished student idea. The main part was almost done.
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