"Strange powers and supernatural forces?"
Qin Siyang thought for a moment and found Huo Dangkou's words quite reasonable.
Huo Dangkou continued, "Yes. After Sequence Abilities were made public, if you were walking down the street and saw a ball of lightning suddenly appear in someone's hand, then watched him throw it and blast the person in front of him to death, you'd know he had awakened the [Lightning Manipulation] Sequence Ability. But before Sequence Abilities were made public, when you'd never seen anything like that, what would you have called it? Probably something like a 'paranormal phenomenon' or a 'special ability.'"
"Besides, there weren't many people in the first batch of chosen ones to begin with. When the second batch arrived in the Safe Zone, they became an even smaller fraction of the population, making them rarer still. As for people who witnessed them using Sequence Abilities to kill, you could probably count everyone who'd seen it over those five years on one hand. Their voices on the forum would quickly have been drowned out by everyone else's doubts. How could it have become a hot topic?"
"Once the United Government and the various factions decided to reveal Sequence Abilities and designated the Sequence Ability User who awakened on January 1, 2005, as the first to awaken, those earlier voices had even less chance of being heard."
"That makes sense. I hadn't considered that. I thought the United Government, or those first people to awaken, had reached some sort of agreement not to flaunt their powers in public, to avoid disrupting order in the Safe Zone or something."
"If they had that much sense of responsibility, would the Safe Zone look like this today? It wouldn't take many. If there were just five people like Gu Weiyang, this wretched apocalypse