How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 385

Elodie understood exactly what Alexander meant.

A complete flight control system was a complicated beast-it required constant iteration on the foundational code, refining technical details again and again. Even if VistaLink Technologies and their competitor clashed over something that wasn't the core of the system, as long as there was overlap, they could be accused of theft.

"Elodie, Alex-Neural Intelligence just released a statement."

Esmeralda strode in, dropped a tablet in front of them, and gestured at the screen.

Elodie glanced over it, letting out a short, cold laugh.

The rumor that VistaLink Technologies' engineers had "stolen" code from Neural Intelligence was spreading like wildfire.

point home: “Neural Intelligence will do everything possible to get to the bottom of this. We will not allow the hard work of our engineers and technicians to be plagiarized. We are petitioning the National Patent Review Board to invalidate VistaLink Technologies' flight control system patent, and if our

the wall, as if the verdict was already in. It was the kind of public posturing that could tip

we stole the crown jewels of technology from them. Is that code even theirs? Elodie wrote the original version! Don't they have a shred of self-awareness? Shameless self-promotion, that's all

overlap meant overlap. And for

for grabs, we

mulled it over, frowning. "We need evidence, obviously. But what I really want to know is how they got hold of my source

that the files in Terrence's email were from a version she'd written herself. But now the other side had presented emails with

"But Sylvie's team went straight to making a public spectacle out of it. They slapped the label on us before we could even respond. Now our partners are calling, trying to feel us out -they're worried this

be concerned," Elodie replied calmly. "Let's reassure them for