[請益] about reported speech

[prudent260 (prudent260)]

It is a lesson talking about the future continuous tense,
and the question in the following bothers me:

I answered it as follows because I thought it was a reported speech:
“David just called. He said he WOULD NOT BE COMING to the meeting.”

However, the website said I was wrong, and the right answer should be:
“David just called. He said he WILL NOT BE COMING to the meeting.”

Don’t we need to change “will” to “would” because the sentence starts
with “he said?”

Thank you for help in advance


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