He looked back at the screen. A final prompt waited for him:
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The screen didn't display words. Instead, the monitor bled a deep, impossible violet. Lines of code began to scroll vertically, but they weren't in C++, Python, or any language Elias recognized. They looked like a hybrid of geometric symbols and neural pathways. He looked back at the screen
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