"Come on, connect!"
"Join ours. There are already over a hundred people in our network!"
"What's a hundred? We've got over four hundred!"
"Does it matter who joins whom? It's all shared anyway."
A week after the rules took effect, as information about Mind Connections spread, the academy's students began connecting with one another in droves.
Although network devices could no longer be used, they could join an entirely new "Mind Network." To young people who loved new things, it was both novel and exciting, and they flocked to it.
The academy neither encouraged nor opposed these connections. It merely posted notices outside the teaching buildings and dormitories, telling students to proceed with caution.
After all, no one knew whether these Mind Connections had side effects, or whether connecting recklessly might lead to any bad consequences.
Some naturally cautious students indeed refrained from rashly forming Mind Connections with others.
Others worried that, once connected, some of their more shameful inner thoughts might be exposed, leaving them utterly humiliated.
However, according to those who had already joined a Mind Network, inner thoughts were not directly transmitted to other connected users. Only information one consciously wished to convey would be sent out.
And naturally, the source of the leaked information about Mind Connections was Guan Tong.
His method of spreading the news was simple. He made slips of paper containing the information and had Shadow place them in gathering spots for ordinary people.
Ordinary people were not restricted by the rules and could use the internet freely. As long as some of them posted the news online, it would surely spread quickly.
Things had developed just as Guan Tong expected. In merely three or four days, the relevant information had spread across the country and even overseas, while Mind Connections became wildly