The Scorned Heiress's Hidden Empire (by Jade Quinn) novel Chapter 199

Chapter 199

No one answered

A few people were huddled around a computer hooked up to an oscilloscope, the screen flickering with a bunch of messy waves, no pattern in sight.

Natalie stood up and walked over.

She quietly stood at the edge of the group, her lab coat just below her knees. Today, she wore a pair of rimless blue–light glasses.

She pushed her glasses up onto her head, crossed her arms, and stood back, watching the screen from a distance

The people in front were still arguing and crunching numbers, but no matter what they tried, they just couldn’t figure out where the problem was

Natalie’s keen gaze locked onto the waveform for a while. She noticed something, quirked an eyebrow, and spoke up.

“The problem with this waveform isn’t the algorithm. The issue is with this parameter,” Natalie said.

Her voice wasn’t loud, but it cut through the sharp, hushed arguments and sounded especially clear.

Everyone stopped at once, turning to look at her in unison.

Sawyer was the first to react

He’d just told Natalie to sort out the data, and he still had his mind on that pile of work. It would take at least two hours to finish, and he needed that data himself.

Seeing her standing there now, his brows immediately furrowed.

You finished sorting the data?”

His tone was even more impatient than before, his face full of annoyance. “Do you even know what this is? Don’t just spout off here. Go back and finish your data, and stop making things more complicated.”

Natalie glanced at him, her expression calm. “I finished sorting it.”

Sawyer was taken aback and looked up at her.

That data should’ve taken at least two hours to sort out. This freshman had only been here for less than an hour, and nobody had even shown her the ropes. Yet she’d already finished?

He didn’t buy it, but he didn’t have time to check. Right now, the waveform issue was a hundred times more important than any data.

He looked away, lowered his head, and kept scribbling on the paper, muttering. “It you’re done, go sit down and rest. Don get involved here.

“Double–check it a few times, so mistakes don’t delay the project.

Natalie didn’t budge She stopped looking at Sawyer “There won’t be any mistakes”

Her gaze returned to the waveform One hand in her pocket, the other casually raised, she pointed at one of the parameter

boxes on the screen.

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his patter go set it in a positive value,” she said

Sawyer’s face darkened when he heard her still talking. He was already on the verge of losing his temper

He looked up at her, frowning and the tension in the room was almost suffocating

Seeing the situation, a few people quickly uned to smooth things over. “Natalie, don’t make things more complicated here You don’t understand this stuff yet. You haven tyen learned it. Just go back and finish sorting the data”

“Yeah, go back. Getting that data sorted is a real contribbon to the project, and that’s important too”

Sawyer was the team leader for this project, and he had a short fuse. When he lost his temper, it was downright scary

Natalie glanced at the people talking, like Sawyer’s anger didn’t even register for her.

She paid them no mind and kept going, her tone casual, like she was just walking someone through a routine physics question.

“This waveform is off–balance. The positive and negative halves are almost three times apart in amplitude. That’s a classic out–of–phase overlap.

“The signs are flipped. One’s positive feedback, the other’s negative. No wonder it’s not lining up.”

With that, she reached out, tapped a few keys on the keyboard, switched the parameter from positive to negative, and hit

enter.

She moved so fast that nobody around her could even react.

The waveform on the screen jumped, then started to shift.

The messy, chaotic lines looked like they were smoothed out by an invisible hand, lining up neatly, coming together as a perfect set of sine waves.

The lab went dead silent.

They stared at the screen, watching the waveform snap back to normal, blinking, totally stunned.

Wait, is it really fixed? Did that just happen?‘ they thought, totally stunned.

Sawyer’s arm, which had been reaching out to stop Natalie, froze mid–air.

He stared at the screen, mouth hanging open, his eyes going from skeptical to utterly shocked,

The people around him exchanged glances, some gasping, others pushing up their glasses to get a closer look at the screen

Then they all turned to Natalie, their eyes full of complicated emotions, like they were looking at some kind of alien.

“How did you figure that out?” Sawyer asked, his voice rough with excitement.

His tone, which had been impatient just moments ago, was now full of excitement and disbelief

Natalie took her glasses off her head and slipped them back on.

She squinted, almost amused that such a basic issue could stump a whole bunch of so–called research big shots

“The waveform’s asymmetrical. It’s obvious just by looking,” she said.

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The amplitude or positive and negative halves is nearly three times different. That va textbook case of out of phase overhang

“You guys spent all that time ba the algorithm Did you ever stop to think the problem wasn’t even in the algorithm?“

No one answered, not because they didn’t want to, but because they just didn’t know what to say.

They’d spent a whole week on this, four team meetings, tweaking dozens of parameters, writing thousands of lines of code. and checking every tiny detail of the algorithm over and over.

And in the end, the issue wasn’t even with the algorithm. It was just a single parameter’s sign, just switched a plus to a minus, and boom, it was fixed in a second.

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