He tried letting Qu Xing use this Glyph Pattern Ability on the Administrator’s Replica.

The Administrator Replica had 100 Attribute Points—naturally stronger than Qu Xing.

But even so, as long as Qu Xing shot a pushpin into the Administrator Replica’s eye…

Then even the stronger Administrator could still be controlled by Qu Xing—for a few seconds!

Of course, the Administrator couldn’t be in Death-State.

Otherwise, the pushpin couldn’t be driven into his eye.

In other words, if this were back when they were fighting the 1010 Administrator—

Qu Xing would have been able to hard-control the 1010 Administrator for a few seconds.

Of course, if it were just that, it wouldn’t be very useful.

After all, the 1010 Administrator’s 【Gluttonous Body】 gave him an immensely powerful physique.

Controlling him for a few seconds alone—Qu Xing wouldn’t be able to break through his physical defenses.

But!

He could control the Administrator to transform into Jiang Ye during those few seconds!

And once he became Jiang Ye—he’d be considered a Replica of Jiang Ye!

Then the room for follow-up maneuvers would be massive!

Naturally, now that Jiang Ye had the mental control–type Glyph Pattern Ability 【Dark Eerie Puppet】,

he had gained a clearer understanding of what “mental control” truly entailed.

Mental control was not a simple or easy thing.

Just because a power was strong didn’t mean you could make the target do anything.

This kind of control usually violated the target’s innate will.

And the stronger a person’s natural will, the harder they were to mentally control.

If you forced someone to do something that went against their deepest instincts,

the likelihood of them breaking free from the control would increase.

For example—

If you mentally controlled a player and made him kill his most beloved daughter—

This act would violently conflict with his internal will.

There would be a high chance he’d snap out of it mid-action and escape mental control.

So similarly, trying to make a player commit suicide through mental control—

Was practically impossible.

And for the same reason,

Players could train certain aspects of their will to avoid being mentally controlled.

Like anti-PUA techniques—

Training yourself to reduce susceptibility to manipulation.

But…

Even if players in Doomsday Apartment trained themselves against mental control—

It’s highly unlikely that included resisting “becoming Jiang Ye” as a mental block.

So as long as Qu Xing could get even a few seconds of mental control—

He could absolutely make the target take on Jiang Ye’s appearance!

In other words, become a Replica of Jiang Ye!

And that was exactly what excited Jiang Ye the most!

Once they became a Replica, then Replica Swap, Replica-vs-Replica Kill, Replica Revival…

An entire combo of operations could follow seamlessly!

The key part was—when a Replica was revived in this way,

Jiang Ye could directly obtain the target’s accumulated Survival Points!

Even the Survival Points listed on their Data Panel could be obtained this way!

After that, he could use the extra points to generate more Replicas!

Jiang Ye’s grand cause of 【Infinite Replication】 would speed up dramatically!

Of course, this was still just a hypothesis for now.

Whether it would work so smoothly on other players—he’d need time to test it…

After awakening his Glyph Pattern Ability, Qu Xing himself had undergone some changes.

First was his appearance.

Originally, a gentle-looking young man with lingering youthful innocence,

he now exuded a mysterious and deep aura due to the strange sigils flashing within his right eye.

Overall, he looked… more strikingly handsome.

Also, while most players had Glyph Pattern “tattoos” marked somewhere on their body,

his “tattoo” was hidden inside his eye.

Which made it quite unique.

Besides that, his Attributes had received a noticeable boost after awakening.

Perhaps due to the mental-control nature of this Glyph Pattern Ability—

Stamina increased by just 1 point,

but Energy increased by a full 10 points!

Jiang Ye couldn’t wait to test out Qu Xing’s mental control power

and see how it could help him generate more Replicas.

So, the Dark-Type Replica that was originally going to remain in the Secret Graveyard

ultimately left it for now.

Then, Jiang Ye began considering letting the Light Replica awaken a Glyph Pattern Ability too.

He had thought of something—

If a Glyph Pattern Ability could be extracted, and reassigned…

Could one person’s Glyph Pattern Ability be removed and then transferred to someone else?

From Wu Ying’s memories, this idea was pure fantasy.

But after seeing what the Apartment Trader could do—

Jiang Ye no longer held Wu Ying’s knowledge in such high regard.

Clearly, Wu Ying was just a mediocre veteran player.

His knowledge was broader than Jiang Ye’s, sure—but still limited.

Thankfully, Wu Ying’s Replica was inside Doomsday Apartment,

and with Duoe—a major organization—behind him,

it was easy for him to gather intel.

At that moment, the Duoe group chat was buzzing with discussion

about the impending midnight hour and the flood of veteran players soon arriving at Apartment 0000.

Players in Doomsday Apartment naturally sided with the veterans.

They couldn’t wait to see the veterans stomp newbies,

to watch rookies wail in despair.

But most of all—

they hoped this batch of veterans would quickly take down the Light-type Player.

【Should be easy, right? The first batch of veterans this time aren’t those useless non-Dark players—they’re mostly elites from the Defenders’ Alliance!】

【Defenders’ Alliance? Elites? I don’t think those words belong in the same sentence!】

【Exactly! Those stuck-up guys aren’t even that strong, and they look down on players with Glyph Pattern Abilities… Where do they get off?! [eyeroll].jpg】

【Maybe they’re so cocky because they’re immune to Light? Either way, they’re probably going to be insufferable after this.】

【I don’t get what’s so great about the Defenders anyway! In a world where the strong rule, raw power is all that matters!】

【Still, if any Defender manages to claim the Kill-on-Sight Order reward, they might skyrocket on the spot!】

【No matter how high they rise, without a Glyph Pattern Ability, relying solely on Abilities and Skills—they still won’t match up to Glyph Pattern players!】

As the saying goes: your stance defines your bias.

The Defenders looked down on Glyph Pattern users,

and those who became strong through Glyph Patterns looked down on the Defenders.

Duoe’s members were simultaneously hoping the Defenders would eliminate the Light Player

while bashing the Defenders at every turn.

Jiang Ye’s Wu Ying Replica seized the chance and asked:

【By the way, why do the Defenders insist on not awakening Glyph Pattern Abilities? Could there be another reason?】

His comment wasn’t out of place.

Unfortunately, the others didn’t catch his deeper point.

In response, the Duoe members did throw out some conspiracy theories—but they were about Light.

【Could the Defenders have foreseen the rise of Light?】

【I feel the same. The appearance of this Light-type Player feels too sudden. I even heard rumors that there are more hidden Light-type beings in Doomsday Apartment!】

【If one day, a bunch of hidden Light-types show up and try to “restore the rightful rule of Light” over Doomsday Apartment, then the Defenders will probably side with them!】

【If those hidden Light-types exist, the Defenders are probably in the loop!】

【Those Defenders already seem out of place. Seriously, why hasn’t our leader soul-scanned them?】

【Easier said than done. It’s not that simple to soul-scan an entire group of players! But I wonder if the Defenders entering Apartment 0000 this time will get scanned?】

【I doubt it. Light showed up, and the Defenders are the rescue party! How could you soul-scan your own backup? That’s ridiculous!】

“……”

The others chatted on enthusiastically.

Jiang Ye felt a bit helpless inside.

Right now, even when people discussed the Defenders,

most players just associated them with the Light.

No one would randomly start doubting Glyph Pattern Abilities.

Seeing that Wu Ying wasn’t getting anywhere with his questioning,

Jiang Ye decided not to push him to say anything more suspicious.

But surprisingly—

Just as Wu Ying was about to drop the topic,

a Duoe member privately messaged him.

It was Zi Sang Haoyun,

the one who had often bragged in the group about his VIP player connections.

According to Wu Ying’s memories, he didn’t have a great impression of Zi Sang Haoyun.

He found the guy pretentious—

Always flaunting how many VIP bigwigs he knew.

To Wu Ying, it was like listening to some average Joe talk nonstop about how “my buddy Jack Ma blah blah blah.”

Of course, to be fair, Wu Ying was also a bit jealous of him.

Still, he’d never shown it, and the two had never had any direct conflicts.

Not long ago, it was also Zi Sang Haoyun who mentioned in the group that—

normal VIP players didn’t have the authority to fuse special apartments like 4444.

So, he speculated that Mo Chayuan, who had fused Apartment 4444,

was probably a much higher-level VVVIP player.

From that bit of info alone,

it was clear Zi Sang wasn’t just showing off—

his connections were real, not just empty boasts.

And now, Zi Sang privately messaged Wu Ying with a question directly related to what he’d just asked:

Zi Sang Haoyun: 【That comment you made about the Defenders refusing to awaken Glyph Pattern Abilities—do you know something we don’t? Some insider rumor?】

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