Chapter 165: Big News
"Miss Elizabeth, some news has been spreading on the streets about something called gifted ones."
Early that morning, before Elizabeth had even left the Ono Hotel, Ayako hurried into the suite to report a new piece of information.
"Gifted ones?" she asked, certain she had never heard the term.
"People who can counter programmatic transcendents," Ayako said with a slight frown, relaying what the streets already knew.
Following the Bank's assassination of the Reed Group's special-condition person, Steven Reed—also known as Reitai, the street dog of the Hanging Gardens District—the read-only storage box he had left behind in the mind network automatically opened.
Reitai had a secret research project, and his Personality Magic Cube was bound to the box. The moment the cube dissipated, it triggered the box's program, jumping to specific coordinates for replication and dissemination.
Almost overnight, the information spread from a few virtual pubs in the mind network out to the streets of every district.
The Superhuman Research Association's human experimentation and Mutant research were exposed, alongside the very existence of these gifted ones.
After listening to Ayako, Elizabeth hurriedly told her to head back out and gather more street intel on the matter.