In a group setting, people's thoughts should, in a sense, be interconnected. Besides ideas and emotions, viruses flowed through it too. Once one person was infected, no one could escape.
Herman had been one of the first to awaken to this. Then, that small realization of his seemed to form a kind of mental magnetic field. With Director Mu's deliberate intensification, the others were gradually infected as well, triggering similar reactions.
People's gazes first converged on Barty, then drifted toward Jeff.
There was no need to mention the former. As for the latter, his smiling face seemed never to have changed. Yet now, looking again at that calm, composed, neither obsequious nor overbearing face, more and more people let out a long "Oh" in their hearts:
They'd fallen for it!
There was no helping it. No one had expected Deep Blue and Apocalypse Laboratory, which had always been so proud and lofty, to suddenly pull something like this.
After all, even during Ronan's previous Public Class, when he used Cage Theory to reorganize the Mental Ocean model and Configuration Studies to dissect Core Technology, stepping on Deep Blue Laboratory's achievements to rise to prominence, they had not reacted with any particular extremity.
At most, they had abruptly advanced Core Technology by two generations. The new functions they displayed not only proved their profound technical foundation, but also absorbed some of Ronan's Blood Intent Ring Fortress achievements, further improving the functionality of the Formatting Domain.
Everyone had assumed that such a lofty stance would continue forever—the more deeply they understood Mentor Li Wei's abilities and background, the more easily they fell into this fixed pattern of thought.
But today, that pattern had suddenly been shattered.
Was Bald Jeff's performance his own unauthorized decision, or did it represent Mentor Li Wei's will?