Wang Hai’s screams were growing weaker and weaker.

After he managed to squeeze out a few “yes”s from his throat, the eerie injury in his Light Spot state spread to his throat.

His vocal cords were destroyed, and he could no longer make a sound.

It even felt like he could suffocate and die at any moment!

Such a terrifying condition made all the players inside the Dark Spirit Barrier feel a chill run down their spines and their scalps go numb.

They had never seen such an eerie kind of injury before—it just instinctively filled them with fear.

But the fake Wang Hai, the real Bald Guy, recognized that injury.

If you looked closely, you’d see—

The injury spreading across Wang Hai’s face looked just like Light Scorch!

But Light Scorch only occurred on Dark-type Beings!

And Wang Hai clearly wasn’t a Dark-type!

The only thing that could cause such a terrifying effect on a non-Dark-type being was…

A Concept-Level Weapon!!

No wonder the Mysterious Bald Guy was scared shtless!

What he couldn’t understand was—

How the hll could a mere Beginner Apartment have a Concept-Level Weapon?!

This sht was just way too outrageous!!

Could he have fallen into some kind of heaven-defying illusion?

Or was this not even the Beginner Apartment to begin with?!

Bottom line, the Mysterious Bald Guy was beyond shocked, questioning his entire life!

In the midst of this shock, he was already thinking about running away.

But suddenly, he sensed a fear like the Grim Reaper himself had arrived!

Logically, he had already died many times.

He should’ve long gotten used to the feeling of death—shouldn’t even feel afraid.

But at that moment, he just couldn’t help it—his whole body trembled uncontrollably, scalp tingled, and his mind was filled with nothing but sheer terror!

In that instant, his heart pounded so hard it felt like it leaped into his throat!

His pupils shook, and only one word remained in his mind—Run! Get the f** out!

But then, suddenly, a dark flash of light actually broke in from outside the Dark Spirit Barrier!

That scene—like a black hole space suddenly shattering—looked exactly like what had happened back in Room 6996 of Apartment 9669, when Jiang Ye forced Wang Hai to flee and the barrier was dispelled!

It was just like a black curtain being ripped apart, a black hole space collapsing!

Only this time, as the Dark Spirit Barrier shattered…

The Dark Spirit Compass in the fake Wang Hai’s hand suddenly let out a cracking sound—“ka-cha!”

All the players trapped inside the barrier went stiff, their eyes nearly bursting out of their sockets!

Right before their eyes, they all saw a flash of light!

A flash of light holding a scythe that looked like a rift in the darkness, charging straight at them!

Light moved with blinding speed!

In that moment, as the Dark Spirit Barrier shattered, the entire audience was left shocked! Terrified!

All their eyes widened in disbelief, like their pupils were literally about to shatter!

But then…

That flash of light suddenly changed direction in the blink of an eye!

“Bang!”

“Bang!”

“Bang bang!!”

Amid those booming sounds,

the Entropy Scythe struck the teleportation consoles on the rooftop at incredible speed.

Those consoles, which were used for teleportation, were rapidly breaking apart under the assault of the Entropy Scythe…

That’s right! As soon as Jiang Ye arrived at Apartment 4444, he made a beeline for the rooftop—not for anything else, but to destroy those teleportation consoles!

Lin Jing and Ouyang wanted to seal off Apartment 4444, right?

Want to seal the apartment?

Fine, he’d just do it himself—by force—with the Entropy Scythe!

And this kind of physical lockdown seemed even more effective than an Administrator’s authority-based seal.

Not only were all the players inside Apartment 4444 now trapped—

even players from other apartments couldn’t teleport in anymore.

However…

Just as Jiang Ye, in his Light and Shadow Escape state, was happily smashing consoles with the Entropy Scythe,

he accidentally bumped into someone.

Why would someone suddenly appear?

Because those consoles themselves were Teleportation Arrays.

Someone had just teleported over from another apartment.

And that person…

was none other than Guan He, who had been robbed of her Madman Mask back in Apartment 9669!

Guan He hadn’t even had time to react—

she saw that scythe, like a rift in darkness, coming at her with terrifying force.

Her expression changed drastically, instantly losing all composure, and blurted out:

“Holy sht.”

Right after that, like a reflex, she turned red in an instant.

A red headband appeared on her head, and her entire state shifted.

Yeah, just like Blue Dragon Kui turning into Red Dragon Kui in a flash.

Guan He instantly transformed into the Red Handkerchief Woman.

But even in that form, she still lost all composure and shrieked even louder:

“Holy sht!!!”

Then, she freaked out and turned blue again—no wait, she reverted to her normal Guan He form.

Having gone through two rounds of such extreme fear, her face was now ghostly pale, and tears were about to fall.

She even instinctively cried out “Mommy!” and then, trembling, crushed an item.

In the next second, her shaking figure disappeared from the rooftop.

Yep, Guan He ran away.

But she didn’t make it out of Apartment 4444.

Because in that insanely short period of time, Jiang Ye had already destroyed all the teleportation consoles on the rooftop!

Any normal player couldn’t have done it.

First off, the consoles weren’t the kind of items you could break with just anything.

If not for the Entropy Scythe, even a Light-type couldn’t have pulled this off.

Second was the speed.

There were too many consoles. Without Light and Shadow Escape, it would’ve been impossible to destroy them all this fast.

Unfortunately…

While Jiang Ye was swinging the Entropy Scythe and wrecking consoles—

Guan He ran, Bald Guy ran, Lin Jing and Ouyang ran, everyone on the rooftop ran!

Of course, Wang Hai didn’t run. He was dead.

And now that the consoles were destroyed, the rest couldn’t teleport to other apartments either.

So even if they ran, they were still stuck in Apartment 4444.

And for someone like Jiang Ye, who had Light and Shadow Escape and the Entropy Scythe, this was basically like catching turtles in a jar—effortless!

So satisfying 🙂

Lin Jing’s reason for wanting Jiang Ye to seal Apartment 4444 was to trap and kill the Light-type.

But now, the situation had flipped—

The Light-type sealed Apartment 4444, ready to hunt everyone else instead!

Jiang Ye, completely satisfied, smashed the final console and eagerly anticipated the upcoming game of cat and mouse.

He even publicly posted in the now-silent Apartment 4444 Chat Group—

Huang Bo: 【Weren’t you all the ones willing to go all out to seal off Apartment 4444? So how come now that I’ve helped you seal it, you don’t look too happy? @Lin Jing @Ouyang Fan】

Now that was the peak of arrogance!

Lin Jing and Ouyang were too busy running for their lives to even think about replying.

But just then—

a sudden announcement echoed in every Apartment 4444 player’s mind—

【Ding! Beginner Apartment Emergency Announcement:】

【Administrator of Apartment 4444 has issued a Kill-on-Sight Order against player “Huang Bo”!】

【Any player who successfully kills Huang Bo will receive the following rewards:】

【1. Madman Mask *5】

【2. Platinum Treasure Chest *5】

【3. Survival Points *5000】

【4. One Free Housing Unit in This Apartment】

The reward wasn’t as generous as what the Administrator of Apartment 9999 had offered before.

Still, it was pretty generous.

Back when that announcement popped up in Apartment 9999, the whole Chat Group had exploded.

But right now, the Chat Group for Apartment 4444 remained quiet as a mouse.

Looks like these players had at least a decent sense of self-awareness.

They were clearly aware of their current predicament.

As for this Administrator of Apartment 4444, he seemed a bit out of touch.

Jiang Ye let out a slight smile, then used Light and Shadow Escape to dive straight for the first floor.

At the same time, in just this brief moment—

His Comprehension Replica, far away in the Void Mirror Palace, rolled the Dice of Fate two more times.

The first roll landed on Scepter, boosting both Stamina and Energy attributes by +10.

The second roll finally landed on the one Jiang Ye had been hoping for: Crown!

The Crown’s effect was an increase in Luck.

His two powerful SS-tier Replicas—the Light and Dark ones—were both generated after he had previously rolled a Crown.

So Jiang Ye kept rolling the Dice of Fate hoping to get another Crown, to create more overpowered Replicas!

Now that he had the Crown, the Comprehension Replica had no Survival Points.

But that wasn’t a problem—Jiang Ye had already planned ahead.

Back in Room 6996 of Apartment 9669, Guan He and four other players had transferred a total of 12 Survival Points to him.

Those Survival Points were stored inside a Survival Jade Token.

And the points inside could be extracted into the Data Panel.

Of course, once transferred to the Data Panel, the Survival Points could no longer be traded.

Jiang Ye didn’t care.

He immediately extracted 2 Survival Points for the Comprehension Replica, testing the waters by creating two new Replicas.

And sure enough, with the added luck, these two new Replicas were not ordinary!

【Fu Xi】

【Level: 0】

【Stamina: 10】

【Energy: 10】

【Combat Power: 100】

【Survival Points: 0】

【Ability: One-for-One Extremes (SS)】

【Effect: You can choose to die in exchange for the guaranteed death of a target. (Both deaths are SS-tier)】

【Skills: Artistic Explosion (S), Eyes of Hatred (S)】

【Artistic Explosion (S): You may sacrifice your body or a bound item to explode the target. Explosion power is based on the value of the sacrifice. Sacrificing your body usually yields greater value than sacrificing bound items.】

【Eyes of Hatred (S): You can mark a target with hatred. When the hatred value reaches a certain threshold, you may sacrifice your eyes to kill the target. If the hatred value is too low, the target will be injured instead. The death tier is based on hatred level, up to a maximum of S-tier.】

This…

On an average player, this SS-tier Ability might be a bit of a gimmick.

But for Jiang Ye, who had Replica Substitution,

this was basically a point-and-kill move!!

Could this ability let him directly trade for the Apartment Boss’s death?

This… this?? Wasn’t this a bit too OP?!

That said, the reason why all his Replicas currently had access to Replica Substitution

was mostly thanks to the effect of the Soul Link (S-tier Skill).

And that S-tier Skill had a time limit.

Once it expired, the Replicas would no longer have access to Replica Substitution,

and pulling off a One-for-One Extreme would require fusing the Replica back into his Main Body at midnight

and letting the Main Body use this game-breaking ability.

Of course, there was an even better solution:

to make Soul Link a permanently owned skill.

That was also one of the main reasons Jiang Ye hadn’t rushed to kill Lin Jing and Ouyang yet.

He was still counting on those two to help him upgrade the trial-version skill into a permanent one.

The second Replica was also SS-tier.

【Li Zhi】

【Level: 0】

【Stamina: 10】

【Energy: 10】

【Combat Power: 100】

【Survival Points: 0】

【Ability: Lofty Ambition (SS)】

【Skill: Vow (S)】

【Vow (S): You may set a timed goal. If you succeed within the time limit, you gain a reward. If you fail, you suffer a penalty.】

Uh…

Another growth-type ability.

No offensive power at the beginning—would need time to grow.

Jiang Ye wasn’t disappointed, though.

In fact, he was kind of excited.

After all, with his army of Replicas backing him up, this ambitious Replica couldn’t possibly fail in his vows!

He was pretty curious what kind of rewards he might get for fulfilling those vows.

But the most urgent thing now

was to create more high-quality Replicas while the luck boost was still active!

So he immediately extracted 5 more Survival Points for the Comprehension Replica and continued generating Replicas!

Meanwhile, back in Apartment 4444—

Jiang Ye had just charged down to the first floor, and from afar, he saw—

the White-Clad Woman’s head full of black snakes had all been severed and were lying all over the floor!

And surrounding her were dozens of identical White-Clad Women!

They clawed and lunged, the snakes on their heads writhing as if blown by wind, forming an all-out assault against the White-Clad Woman!

A middle-aged man, suspected to be the Administrator of Apartment 4444,

was holding a strange-looking mirror and aiming it at the White-Clad Woman from a distance.

On top of that, the floor beneath the battle was covered in eerie runes.

The runes appeared to be under the Administrator’s control.

And judging from the current situation,

it looked like the White-Clad Woman was losing the fight!

But when Jiang Ye saw the floor full of White-Clad Women, his eyes gleamed with excitement!

He put on his Madman Mask, swung the Entropy Scythe, and shouted from afar:

“Little Bai! I’m here to help you!”

That one excited “roar” completely stunned the White-Clad Woman!

The black lines above her head—just the snake bodies with no heads—suddenly stood up straight.

It looked like she’d been struck by lightning.

She didn’t even need to turn around to see where Jiang Ye was coming from—

her mind instantly filled with one thought: Holy sh*t! Can you not?!

From the Administrator’s point of view—

he also froze completely and didn’t even need to look to know the Light-type had arrived.

His scalp tingled, his pupils shook, and just like the White-Clad Woman, a line popped into his head: Holy sht! Are you f**ing serious!!

At that moment, the whole battle scene seemed to be screaming just one thing—

Don’t! Come! Over! Here!!!

Unfortunately…

No one heard the heartfelt cries of these two suddenly kindred-spirited Dark-type Beings.

Jiang Ye certainly didn’t.

His eyes sparkled with even more excitement as he charged toward the cluster of White-Clad Women.

“Aaaahhhhhhh!!!!”

In an instant, dozens of White-Clad Women let out ghostly, bloodcurdling screams.

And the Administrator of Apartment 4444 suddenly flung the mirror in his hand at one of the White-Clad Women.

Then, in the blink of an eye, he operated the front desk console and—

his trembling figure disappeared…

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