Waking up…

If viewed from the perspective of this three-minute mini reincarnation cycle,

the waking required by this light clone should be—

to allow the consciousness trapped here to break free from the cycle and return to the dormant body?

Is that right?

Actually, whether it is or isn’t isn’t that important.

Just like how people live, the meaning of life they pursue might not be that crucial either.

What matters is every single moment.

His current problem was how to solve this reincarnation deadlock.

Jiang Ye’s gaze landed again on the hourglass image.

Suddenly, his pupils trembled violently.

He realized he had actually overlooked one very, very obvious key point!

Such an obvious flicker in his expression naturally caught Guan He and Chen Cang’s attention as well.

Guan He quickly asked, “What did you think of now?”

Jiang Ye stared at the hourglass: “I found that we have ignored one of the easiest problems to overlook.”

Guan He and Chen Cang followed his gaze and looked at the hourglass.

But they frowned, “What problem?”

Because each reincarnation only lasted three minutes, the three trapped here had quickly developed a habit of speaking at an extremely fast pace.

Their speech was like doubled speed.

But Jiang Ye’s speech speed slowed down to about 1.5 times, emphasizing his seriousness:

“I discovered—”

“Everything inside this reincarnation grid is caught in the cycle.”

“At the start of each reincarnation, everything is reset.”

“However, there is one exception—it continues from the previous reincarnation to the next and is not reset!”

He spoke with great seriousness.

At this point, it was already quite clear.

The other two followed his words.

Guan He’s mouth twitched slightly as she suddenly thought of something:

“You’re talking about that grain of blood sand, right?”

Jiang Ye nodded heavily: “Yes! That grain of blood sand!”

“…”

Alright.

Indeed, as Jiang Ye said, the blood sand was very special.

It bridged the gap between reincarnations.

But honestly, his discovery was kind of… umm, hard to explain.

It was like a little kid excitedly saying, “I found out apples only fall down from trees, never up!”

From a normal person’s perspective, that was damn obvious nonsense.

Only some philosophers who liked to complicate things would come up with long twisted theories.

Did Guan He and Chen Cang not know the blood sand was special?

Of course they did!

Wasn’t it Jiang Ye himself who said—

that the blood sand inside the hourglass didn’t move?

Symbolizing that their reincarnation time had changed from 180 seconds to 179 seconds.

The fourth and fifth reincarnations indeed confirmed this, with only 179 seconds remaining.

Now in the sixth reincarnation, time was tight, so Guan He didn’t have time to complain.

She only asked extremely quickly, “Yes yes yes, that grain of blood sand is very special, so what? What can we do with it?”

Jiang Ye hadn’t fully figured that out either.

But pressed for time, he shared his thoughts as he pondered:

“We have been stuck thinking only about the reincarnation here…”

“But in the entire Void Mirror Palace secret realm, we also encountered another strange existence—the Void Mirror Puppet!”

“I personally witnessed—those Void Mirror Puppets pressing their noses to the mirror surface and seemingly sucking something away, probably blood.”

“So I was thinking…”

He hesitated as he spoke, “Could it be possible to suck the blood on that blood sand with a nose too?”

“…”

Guan He was a bit speechless.

But as a person of action, she immediately rushed forward: “I’ll try to see if I can suck it away with my nose…”

She said this without much confidence.

The result was naturally a failure.

She sniffed at the mirror surface, then flew to the hourglass image, trying to suck at that grain of blood sand alone.

Sniff sniff sniff, she felt like a fool; the blood sand remained motionless.

Jiang Ye was not surprised.

But then he thought—

if the Void Mirror Puppet was used as a clone fusion, then in fusion state, could it suck away that drop of blood?

The key was, if it really sucked away that drop of blood, what consequences would that trigger?

He had no clue about the outcome of imitating the mirror puppet’s blood-sucking.

But he came up with a rather confident guess—

“Speaking of the Void Mirror Puppet, I created two Void Mirror Puppets that looked like Lu Renjia.”

“And those two Void Mirror Puppets were generated because I stayed long enough inside the same grid.”

“I stayed in those ordinary grids outside, which were two meters per side.”

“And this giant reincarnation grid at the center of the mirror palace… in a sense, it’s also a type of grid.”

“So now I strongly suspect—”

“If we stay long enough in this grid, will we also create a stronger and more special Void Mirror Puppet?”

“This reincarnation grid traps us here through the cycle, just to produce such a special Void Mirror Puppet?”

“When the reincarnation time changes from 179 seconds to zero…”

“That’s both the moment of our destruction and the moment a special Void Mirror Puppet is generated?”

His idea indeed caused Guan He and Chen Cang to widen their eyes in surprise!

It had to be said, it was very possible!

Especially Chen Cang, who suddenly recalled those two Void Mirror Puppets he had seen—how they had shown anger but then immediately turned and fled…

That fleeing carried a meaning like “A gentleman’s revenge can wait ten years!”

Those two little mirror puppets might have known from the start—

they would be trapped in this reincarnation grid, becoming nourishment for the mirror palace to nurture a special mirror puppet!

Thinking this way, the two felt naturally heavy-hearted.

Only Jiang Ye had a different mindset from them.

Those two were probably chasing secret realm opportunities.

But for Jiang Ye, this secret realm itself was his greatest opportunity!

After all, those two Void Mirror Puppets could be used as his clones!

One of those Void Mirror Puppets, number two, was currently wandering alone.

Number one was swapped by Jiang Ye’s clone to the Reincarnation Graveyard and became the body inhabited by the Conscious Soul Body of Eternal Witch Gui…

In other words, the mirror puppets could be used by Jiang Ye!

If this reincarnation grid trapped them just to create a stronger special mirror puppet…

And if the special mirror puppet still borrowed his appearance,

wouldn’t the special mirror puppet still be his clone?

Then he could completely give up struggling and drag Guan He and Chen Cang down with him!

Sacrifice these two to exchange for a powerful special mirror puppet!

Honestly, if it was a discarded clone trapped here with Guan He and Chen Cang, he would really do it.

But the key was, it was the light clone trapped.

He really felt a bit reluctant.

However, with this mindset, Jiang Ye relaxed quite a bit.

Basically, if he could break the cycle, he would.

If he couldn’t, then he would just die here.

Just consider it as sacrificing one clone to contribute to a stronger clone.

Maybe, when the real death came, the clone would trigger the death substitution, and the light clone could be saved, who knows?

Jiang Ye relaxed.

Chen Cang and Guan He, however, felt heavy-hearted because of the speculation that they were nourishment for the special mirror puppet.

Chen Cang subconsciously blamed Lu Renjia a little.

Because it was Lu Renjia’s tip that made him specifically rush to the central area to explore and crash headfirst into this reincarnation grid.

But despite the blame, Chen Cang quickly regained confidence.

Being trapped dead in the reincarnation grid was serious.

But he would definitely not be trapped dead here!

According to his experience—the protagonist’s desperate moments were often the turning points for their rise!

From another perspective, if not for this reincarnation grid, wouldn’t he have been dead under the light system’s hands long ago?

So this reincarnation grid also saved his life.

Therefore, his earlier thought was definitely correct—

this reincarnation grid was his opportunity!

He could even use this opportunity to counterkill Huang Bo and obtain the generous bounty reward!

With these thoughts, Chen Cang’s mind became more lively—

For now, whether it was this reincarnation grid or the Void Mirror Puppet,

both were related to “blood.”

The hourglass in the reincarnation grid had its sand grains infected by blood, shortening the cycle time;

The Void Mirror Puppet sucked the blood players left on the mirror surface when breaking it…

At this moment, Chen Cang also understood.

The earlier mirror puppet that walked him like a dog was deliberately guiding him to shed more blood on those mirror surfaces.

The mirror puppet then circled around, sucking his blood!

Although this behavior was obviously strange.

Chen Cang was not alarmed.

When Jiang Ye was trying to curry favor with Huang Bo and confronted Wang Hai and Wang Lin in apartment 6996 of apartment 9669…

Jiang Ye had used a special ability to release blood mist.

At that time, Chen Cang was like a backdrop with no presence and felt nothing unusual.

But soon after, his blood mutated.

Even during one opportunity, he was invaded by a reckless monster.

The wild monsters in the Novice Apartment would completely invade ordinary players, making them lose self-awareness and become monster players.

Unfortunately, Chen Cang was not an ordinary player.

He counterkilled the reckless monster that invaded him.

And thus awakened his first Glyph Pattern Ability—the Blood Curse.

It was strange to say.

That invading monster’s original Glyph Pattern Ability was not the Blood Curse.

But somehow, when it came to him, it transformed into the Blood Curse.

Later, after obtaining the powerful skill Protagonist Halo, Chen Cang just considered it his protagonist halo helping him grow.

In short, his mutated blood was special.

That brainless mirror puppet dared to suck his blood, it surely would not end well!

And the opportunity of the reincarnation grid might also require his blood to break the cycle!

Exactly! A considerate opportunity was often tailored for the protagonist!

He had a bloodline talent and the Blood Curse.

This obvious blood-related opportunity was custom-made for him, wasn’t it?

Now sure that he was the key, Chen Cang’s next step was how to conceal it.

Ideally, he wanted to secretly seize the opportunity under Huang Bo’s and Lu Renjia’s noses without their noticing.

“Lu Renjia” was fine; although this guy hid his light system identity,

his attitude toward Chen Cang was friendly, wanting to make him a subordinate from the first meeting.

But “Huang Bo” bore a bounty on his head and was Chen Cang’s destined kill target.

In the first three reincarnations, “Huang Bo” killed him without hesitation…

Giving him a reason to counterkill “Huang Bo”!

Chen Cang thought this through and felt that in the current situation, the first thing he should do was make a secret agreement with “Lu Renjia”!

First, recruit this subordinate into his camp!

Quietly isolate his enemy “Huang Bo.”

Then he could secretly cooperate with “Lu Renjia” to seize the opportunity!

Normally, it was very difficult for the three of them to make a secret agreement under “Huang Bo”’s watchful eyes.

But in this reincarnation, there was a perfect opportunity—

In the previous reincarnation, “Huang Bo” killed “Lu Renjia”;

According to their agreement, in this reincarnation, “Lu Renjia” would kill “Huang Bo.”

The time after “Huang Bo” was killed was the best chance for Chen Cang and “Lu Renjia” to reach a secret agreement!

However, that tiny bit of time was really too short!

While thinking this through, Chen Cang also noticed from the hourglass—

The sixth reincarnation was about to end soon!

He secretly gave “Lu Renjia” a look.

“Huang Bo” was still alive, so he dared not make it too obvious.

He only hoped that “Lu Renjia” the subordinate had the insight.

Chen Cang secretly swore in his heart, as long as this subordinate had that insight, he wouldn’t mind giving him some benefits to help him take off!

After all, a dark system player having a light system subordinate…

Such a shocking thing was also standard for protagonists.

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