The battle royale originated from a popular internet game from a century ago. Of course, there were some differences, but the rules were very similar.

Plundering resources was only the first stage. Once the siren rang out in the sky, the director would descend onto the battlefield in person.

The director was going to do two things after entering the battlezone, the first of which was to implement the zone. The zone was essentially a large-scale cyberhex ability. He was going to plant cyberhexes around the area that all of the participants were in, and anyone who left the boundaries of the green barrier or lingered near it and refused to leave would be afflicted by those cyberhexes, which would slowly torture them to death.

In addition to that, he was also going to cast counter-cyberhexes onto all of the artificial...