The spatial trap rune shattered, rapidly forming a distorted black hole.
Song Hao was instantly swept into it by a powerful suction. He felt himself falling and tumbling at tremendous speed.
He had no idea how long this lasted. A blinding white light flashed before his eyes, then everything fell silent.
He found himself somewhere completely unfamiliar.
Thick fog filled the surroundings. Strange outlines loomed indistinctly through it, resembling both natural mountains and rivers and artificial structures, as though he had entered a mysterious space in another dimension.
He looked up at a massive, spinning black hole overhead.
Streaks of light kept emerging from the black hole, landing beside him and coalescing into figures of other races.
But some streaks were crushed into bloody mist by an invisible force before they reached the ground, dissipating in the air.
One thing was certain: these streaks were all living beings that had triggered traps and entered this rule-based Game Space, but they seemed to receive three different kinds of treatment.
"Guide, what's going on?"
In response, the Guide Avatar floating beside Song Hao answered with a languid expression:
[It's simple. Rule-based games obviously require a certain level of intelligence. The Youlü Council divides the beings transported here after triggering traps into three categories: intelligent, unintelligent, and those they can't afford to offend.]
[Intelligent beings are transported into the Game Space like you. Unintelligent beings are shredded into vital energy to serve as game prizes. Those they can't afford to offend get sent back where they came from...]
As the Guide spoke, he pointed at a distant streak of light that had turned back immediately after entering the space.
A virtual image of a pale-blue-skinned being immediately appeared before Song Hao.
[Like this being. The Youlü Council thinks they can't afford to offend