On August 16, a piece of news spread through the academy.
A large number of televisions had been delivered to campus.
They really were televisions. Many students had seen them with their own eyes, and before long, people were discussing it on the Mind Network.
(Why bring so many televisions here? We can't use the internet, so there's nothing to watch.)
(Someone asked. They said these televisions are different—they have disc drives.)
(Disc drives? What's a disc drive?)
(Is it the kind of television that can play discs?)
(Discs? Aren't those antiques from ages ago?)
(Discs are storage devices, right? So we can use these televisions to watch recordings?)
The students' questions were soon answered.
The academy posted a notice stating that every four student dormitories could collectively claim one old-model television.
These old-model televisions contained no network modules whatsoever, so using them did not risk breaking the rules. Several discs also came with each television.
Some of the discs contained collections of movies and television dramas, while others contained variety shows.
The notice also specifically mentioned that the world's first Ascendant variety show, Decisive Battle Ascendants, produced by the Countermeasure Research Institute, had completed its first episode and been recorded onto discs.
Students could claim televisions and discs, then watch the content for entertainment and ease the suffering of being unable to use the internet.
As soon as the notice came out, the students were overjoyed.
These past two weeks without internet access had nearly driven many of them crazy.
Some people could distract themselves through exercise and other activities, but more people disliked exercise and preferred digital entertainment. Some even only liked controlling game characters to play ball games, while never touching a ball in real life.
So now that televisions and discs had arrived, they at least