After the Seventeenth Apocalypse Rule was announced, Guan Tong's first reaction was not worry or fear, but confusion.
"Terra... Multiple astronauts were just killed or seriously injured there not long ago, and the authorities still haven't released a detailed investigation report. Could there be some connection?"
Ever since the manned rocket launch, he had been following the matter to some extent.
Now that something had happened to the astronauts there, and a new Apocalypse Rule centered on this satellite had emerged not long after the space agency's press conference... It seemed unlikely that there was no connection at all.
But there was too little information available right now, so he could not make rash guesses.
"Terra has turned crimson, and looking at it triggers the deepest fears within humanity... But judging from the rule's description, seeing it once won't turn someone into a lunatic. There's an accumulation process."
Guan Tong felt it was like the "sanity meter" characters had in certain horror games. Once it emptied, the character would descend into madness, and the game would end.
"As long as I don't look at it, it shouldn't be a major problem... I should check the Hidden Rules first."
He silently summoned the Terminal Panel and entered the rule details.
Under his gaze, the Hidden Rules emerged as colored particles reassembled.
[Hidden Rule Seventeen: Immersed in Fear] [Hidden Rule Content: During the Rule Period, aside from directly looking at the crimson sphere, viewing its images, refractions, reflections, and other forms will also cause varying degrees of influence. Beyond fear, other unknown things are concealed within the crimson power, waiting to be discovered.] [Note: The boundary between madness and sanity is often no more than a single thought. The way to overcome fear is to become it.]
Immersed in fear...