???

Holy sht?!

No way?!

Jiang Ye thought that when Guan He said to have Light go kill all 26 Apartment Bosses, that was already outrageous enough…

But now this Apartment Trader was even more ridiculously arrogant!

When others (like Jiang Ye) talked about killing Apartment Bosses, it was all talk, just running their mouth.

In reality, up until now, he hadn’t even seen what an Apartment Boss looked like.

But now!

This Apartment Trader actually said—

He could directly drag an Apartment Boss over for Jiang Ye to kill!!

This—this!!

Jiang Ye listened, his brain buzzing.

Even though it was hard to believe.

He knew what the Apartment Trader meant—

This Trader’s strength probably far exceeded what Reincarnated Eeries understood.

Maybe, in essence, he was even stronger than the Apartment Bosses!

Jiang Ye wasn’t sure if he should believe what the Trader said.

But actually, if you think about it from the angle of “rarity defines value”…

There were the most Apartment Administrators—ten thousand per district.

There were also 26 Apartment Bosses.

But the Apartment Trader… seemed to be one of a kind…

So it’s very likely that the powerful spatial abilities and unlimited Replication were just the tip of the iceberg that Reincarnated Eeries had seen.

His true strength might go far beyond anything the Reincarnated Eeries or even all the Administrators could imagine!

So when Jiang Ye questioned whether he might die before the Doomsday Apartment was destroyed, the Trader actually laughed.

Because with his strength, he was absolutely confident about that—

Nope!

He was sure he could survive until the Doomsday Apartment’s final end!

Thinking that, Jiang Ye was shaken to his core.

But, he had seen some sht in his time.

He quickly turned his thoughts around and deliberately challenged the Trader:

“You say you’ll grab an Apartment Boss just like that?”

“Easy to talk big—who can’t do that?”

“If you’re really that good, bring me the 9999 Administrator and let me kill him first?”

He actually just said that casually.

Didn’t expect, this Trader was surprisingly easygoing, and agreed on the spot.

He straight-up said: “I’ll give you three seconds to get ready.”

“Three—”

Holy sh*t?! For real?!!

Jiang Ye didn’t waste a second: Madman Mask, Entropy Scythe, Replica Fusion!

“Two—”

Use Fu Xi’s extreme one-for-one? Or go with Light-type abilities?

Right right right, and Vow too, gotta prep that!

“One—”

Even while scrambling, Jiang Ye still had the mind to use the Vow skill to test it.

The reward rating for killing an Apartment Boss—easily reached SSS-tier.

But the reward rating for killing the Apartment Trader…

Was actually three question marks!

He was still in shock.

Then he saw the Trader raise his hand, grabbing into the void.

In that moment, Jiang Ye felt like he was witnessing a top-tier spatial ability.

The whole space seemed to be sliced open like a rift…

Then, the 9999 Administrator’s figure was yanked right out of that rift!

The sight made Jiang Ye’s scalp tingle and eyes go wide!

Like a mortal kid seeing a space-shattering cultivator for the first time!

Shock!

The kind of shock you’d remember until death!

Before, when Jiang Ye just heard the words “spatial ability,” he didn’t feel much.

But now, seeing it with his own eyes, he finally realized how insanely powerful this ability was!

This—this had to be a Concept-Level Ability, right?!

Of course, at this moment, the only one getting their scalp fried from the shock wasn’t just Jiang Ye.

There was also…

Our dear 9999 Administrator 🙂

And besides the shock, what 9999 Administrator felt most… was terror!

Overwhelming terror, like Death had arrived in person!

He hadn’t even figured out what was going on when—“BOOM”—a thunderous blast rang out.

And before his eyes flashed a burst of Holy Light so intense it made his soul tremble, and his body react in raw fear!

Jiang Ye used both Extreme One-for-One and Light-type abilities.

He even tried to cheat a little by letting the Light-type ability’s area hit the Trader too…

But what shocked him even more—

The Apartment Trader didn’t dodge or flinch, completely unfazed by the Light Scorch!

To be precise, he seemed totally unaffected by Light-type abilities, no fear at all!!

At that point, Jiang Ye was finally certain—

That unreliable scam artist White-Clad Woman!

Sure enough, messed up again!

When she sent him to kill 4444 before, she didn’t even know its Death-State!

Later, she gave him the task to kill the Apartment Trader and said Light-type abilities should pierce through the Trader’s infinite Replication.

If one Replica got scorched, they’d all be infected.

But in reality?!

The Apartment Trader wasn’t scared of Light Scorch, not scared of Light at all!

This kind of existence—was probably way, way stronger than even Apartment Bosses!

Once again, the Reincarnated Eerie intel had a massive failure!

But even though Jiang Ye was floored by the Trader’s strength…

He still got the message he was hoping for—

【Beginner Apartment Announcement:】

【The Administrator of this Apartment has been killed by player Jiang Ye!】

【The duties and privileges of this apartment’s Administrator have been automatically transferred to Jiang Ye!】

This was the announcement heard by players in Apartment 9999.

Meanwhile, the Replica holding the 4444 Administrator identity also received a system-wide administrator notification.

It informed all Administrators that the 9999 Administrator’s privileges had been transferred to Jiang Ye…

Naturally, following such an announcement—

The admin group chat, which had been buzzing about when the Trader would off Jiang Ye, suddenly went dead silent.

For a long while, not a single message popped up.

Until—

9999:【Hi? Hello everyone :)】

9999:【I’m the newly promoted 9999 Administrator, please take care of me, colleagues :)】

9999:【Huh? Why is no one talking? Just a newbie asking: have you all been muted or something [confused].jpg】

Meanwhile, in the Apartment 9999 group chat, after a long silence, Li Aoliang suddenly chimed in:

【This is kind of awkward… I don’t know what to say…】

【I was kinda panicking at first, but now not so much… Since Administrators can’t randomly kill players, right?】

Other players:【……】

Besides that—

Another announcement sounded in the minds of all Rookie Kings.

【Ding!】

【Congratulations to Rookie King Jiang Ye (1027) for successfully becoming the Administrator of Apartment 9999!】

【The Rookie King status will remain for 3 minutes. After 3 minutes, Jiang Ye (1027) will automatically lose the Rookie King privilege!】

Following that, the Rookie King group chat also fell into eerie silence.

Soon, it turned into a one-man show by Jiang Ye—

Jiang Ye (1027):【Sigh, guess the seniors were right—this Rookie King title didn’t last even a few minutes before I lost it…】

Jiang Ye (1027):【Hey, even though we only had a few minutes together, I’ll remember you all.】

Jiang Ye (1027):【Especially @Yan Cheng (307), heard you’re only interested in being an Administrator of a special apartment? Well, I’ll be waiting for you at Apartment 9999 :)】

Wu Yu (618):【……】

Yan Cheng (307):【……】

Replica No. 1 also turned to the White-Clad Woman and said:

“Huh? That’s weird, how come you didn’t mention that if the Rookie King kills an Apartment Administrator, they automatically get promoted?”

“That way I wouldn’t need to sacrifice my Replica just to get rid of the Rookie King status?”

White-Clad Woman: “???”

Of course, the other Replicas were just showing off a bit, taking up only a sliver of Jiang Ye’s focus.

Jiang Ye’s main attention was still on the outrageous Apartment Trader.

After witnessing firsthand that this guy wasn’t even afraid of Light…

He was now completely convinced by what the Trader had said.

This guy’s power really was beyond the Apartment Bosses! And far beyond anything the Reincarnated Eeries knew!

But even someone like this… still coveted the Death-State Cross of the 4444 Administrator…

More precisely, that thing was called—the Reincarnation Key.

Once Jiang Ye calmed down, he began to reassess everything.

Unfortunately, the Apartment Trader was wrapped in a black robe, with no visible features—let alone expressions or eyes…

It was highly likely that what appeared here wasn’t even the real body.

Maybe just a Replica…

Or even just a phantom…

Jiang Ye couldn’t read a single thing from him.

He took a deep breath and finally asked the Trader again, in a low voice:

“The Reincarnation Key…”

“So, at your level, what you’re pursuing—is it really just surviving the Doomsday Apartment’s cycle?”

“But this kind of reincarnation…”

Jiang Ye mulled it over again and looked back at the Trader, asking seriously:

“What do you think… is the point of it?”

“Meaning, huh?” The Apartment Trader seemed to ponder for a moment.

His voice was always that casual, laid-back tone.

Even now, he spoke slowly and carelessly:

“Not sure if it was some famous writer, or a Taoist, or a mage who once said—”

“Everything you go through… is to awaken you.”

“If love can’t awaken you, then let pain do it;”

“If pain doesn’t work, then greater pain will;”

“If even greater pain doesn’t, then let loss awaken you;”

“If loss can’t do it, then let life awaken you;”

“If life can’t awaken you, then let—reincarnation—awaken you…”

“Until—you finally wake up.”

That passage…

The Trader spoke it like he’d said it thousands of times before.

His tone was calm, but carried immense weight.

For some reason, as he said it, a strange image surfaced in Jiang Ye’s mind.

It looked like—Sisyphus from mythology, endlessly pushing a boulder up a hill…

Push the boulder up, then it rolls back down…

In that process, Sisyphus endlessly reincarnates.

And at some point, the image shifted—

From pushing a boulder to carrying a heavy cross on his back…

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