Chapter 147 Shifting Baselines
Flashing a confident grin, Marcus offered, “With our combined assets and capabilities, once we throw absolute fortune into development, even a complete fake will be hammered into a concrete reality by deadline.”
He smiled warmly, adding, “With the sheer financial weight and infrastructure backing our houses, launching an all-out blitz on engineering will guarantee we deliver a completed Neural Interaction Ne long before the commercial manufacturing phase initializes.
“Tell me, Adrian-who on earth can possibly prove our network started as a ghost project? Who could unearth the original data?
“By the time it hits the market, the platform will be flawless.”
He delivered the final verdict with absolute conviction.
Inside his private study, Adrian felt his internal baseline waver, thoroughly tempted by the blueprint.
He operated on a completely different frequency than a cutthroat shark like Marcus.
Granted, Adrian’s standard behavior patterns resembled a cold apex predator, but his corporate history never included falsifying flagship metrics.
Yet right now, facing Marcus’s precise breakdown, his ambition completely overrode his hesitation.
Exactly, this venture is guaranteed to cross the finish line.
His team had co-developed this project with the Bexleys for years, and they were sitting right on the edg the final breakthrough; how could they possibly fail?
Bypassing the current bottleneck was purely a matter of time.
Adrian held absolute, unwavering faith in their engineering assets.
Consequently, Marcus’s trap looked to him like nothing more than cashing a corporate check slightly ahe of schedule.
He wasn’t running a scam on his investors and consumers; he was simply shifting the projection of an inevitable triumph forward to harvest early financing and rescue his liquidity.
The Powell Group and the Bexley family would fulfill every single baseline promise by the deadline.
They certainly weren’t out here to fleece the market for blind cash.
As Adrian’s expression shifted through the calculations, a smooth smile crossed Marcus’s face.
He knew he had successfully reeled Adrian into his line,
Unsurprisingly, for a corporate animal like Adrian, protecting the Powell Group’s structural survival was his absolute bottom line.
Marcus smiled, adding, “Adrian, don’t allow any outdated
iety to burden your focus.
Recalling how his country bumpkin sister had become the darling of the Carter mansion, securing an exclusive invitation to crash at their main estate, his features contorted into a dark sneer, “Eugene is certainly protective of his little toys.”
Stepping up to shield a parasite exiled by the Powells was nothing short of hilarious.
Adrian held every reason to deduce that the Carters were staging this launch purely to run a proxy warning against his authority, signaling that they would attack his assets if he kept squeezing Isabella.
However…
Adrian let out a contemptuous, freezing scoff, “The Carters sudden platform is guaranteed to be nothing but an empty shell.
“We will calibrate our public launch to land on the exact same afternoon as their deployment, utilizing the opportunity to smash their rushed project into the dirt while scaling up our own global market influence.
Simultaneously, they could leverage the Carters’ catastrophic technical failure as the perfect backdrop to mask the fact that their own Neural Interaction Network wasn’t completely finalized.
Adrian refused to believe for a fraction of a second that a project Eugene threw together on a whim could outclass his own years of development.
Consequently, the exact second the Carters’ platform collapsed in public, their joint venture would automatically lock down the absolute peak position in the tech market.
Furthermore, leveraging a brutal side-by-side contrast against the Carters’ failure would permanently cement their flagship authority.
When the dust settled, even the most paranoid venture capitalists would discard their skepticism after witnessing the absolute destruction of Eugene’s project, leaving their own platform completely beyond question.

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