In the past, Dwayne had told Robert that the guardians used telepathy to communicate with one another at long distances as they lived on different continents. And so, Robert was offended quite often and would make sarcastic comments about how the other guardians excluded him while they spoke to one another telepathically. Nevertheless, putting aside his personal feelings, Robert worried that if Angelica couldn’t contact Jin, then there might’ve been some sort of interference or problem with their telepathic communication.

{Oh, I was getting a lot of spam messages recently, so I muted it…} Jin said.

{What?} Robert asked, confused.

Robert’s question reminded Jin of something, and the latter took out his phone. Spanning throughout the entire morning, he had received dozens of missed calls from Angelica and the other guardians.

{Come to think of it, it would’ve been faster to ask you telepathically.}

Angelica bumped her right fist on the palm of her left hand, seemingly having forgotten about that option until now.

{Then what about intercontinental telepathy?} Robert asked.

As Robert obsessed over telepathy, Jin shook his phone in front of him and answered indifferently. 

{Why bother using that when we’ve got smartphones now?}

In fact, Jin and Angelica ridiculed Robert and called him primitive for not using modern technology. And thus, Robert felt like a complete fool once he remembered that when he first became a guardian, he’d thrown away his phone in the hope of one day using telepathy.

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