[Digital Phase] The third day after the Rules were announced.
A rumor about "Mind Connection" spread like wildfire, rapidly circulating online.
Due to the Rules' restrictions, most people active online now were ordinary people and Ascendants who had failed their challenges. The former occupied a significant share of major social media platforms, discussing that mysterious rumor of unknown origin.
"Can Ascendants really use Mind Power to communicate telepathically, like the rumors say?"
"Where did this news even come from?"
"If they can do that, wouldn't Ascendants no longer need phones or other communication devices in the future? They could just contact each other through telepathy?"
"Holy crap, that would be way too convenient! It's so unfair to us ordinary people!"
This unverified rumor that had spread far and wide inevitably filled ordinary people with envy and jealousy.
As time passed, Ascendants already held greater and greater advantages over ordinary people. Moreover, it was clear to the naked eye that modern human weaponry was becoming less and less capable of restraining Ascendants. Sooner or later, large numbers of Ascendants would no longer fear modern weapons, and when that day came, the status of ordinary people would undoubtedly fall completely to rock bottom.
Now, news had emerged that Ascendants might be able to contact each other through telepathy, which was an even greater blow to ordinary people.
That meant Ascendants could communicate privately through this method in the future, completely shutting ordinary people out. Just thinking about it was frightening!
Even on the website called Ascendant's Home, Non-Ascendants faced no restrictions when registering or logging in. Many of the users active on the site were ordinary people.
If Ascendants gained an independent channel of communication afterward, they would truly be heading down a path completely separate from ordinary people.
The Countermeasure Research