Disorder, Court…

Court…

To be honest, before the main body went missing, it seemed to have been locked up in…

[Prison]

Prison!

What the hell?

Prison? Court?

Could this possibly… have some connection?!

Honestly, this was exactly why Jiang Ye hadn’t thought of it before.

Who could have thought of it!

A private instance and a Disorder Court—these two aren’t the same place at all; they’re totally unrelated!

Even now, with this idea popping up, he was still a bit uncertain.

But regardless of certainty, as long as there was a possibility,

he had to investigate!

After all, the main body is the greatest in the vast heavens and earth!

This is the instinctive consensus of all clones.

And since there was now a lead on the main body…

Jiang Ye naturally no longer cared about the Clone Replica Mirror or the Soul Devouring Tomb in the Mist Zone.

His first thought was to check out the Disorder Court.

But soon, he remembered—

The Disorder Court is an extremely special chaotic space.

Players entering at different times are assigned to different spaces based on the number of players.

In game terms, that means different instance difficulties.

The more players, the higher the difficulty.

And Zhou Yuling’s information indicated—

She initially thought 10,000 players would be enough to trigger the highest difficulty of the Disorder Court.

But through some prophecy method, she found out 10,000 wasn’t enough.

That’s why she came to Jiang Ye, wanting to gather 100,000 players.

Jiang Ye hadn’t given much thought to this before.

At most, he just thought he’d gain some experience and benefits helping Zhou Yuling clear the instance.

But now…

He seriously suspected—

If the main body and clones entering the private instance would appear in the Disorder Court…

Then it was very likely the highest difficulty court!

With that in mind, Jiang Ye arranged a few clones to first scout the Disorder Court in the 0000 Apartment.

Meanwhile, his Clone No. 1 directly used the voice transmission bead to contact Zhou Yuling:

“Sister Zhou, Sister Zhou! Calling Sister Zhou!”

“…Summoning spirits?” Zhou Yuling’s tone was not very good.

Jiang Ye didn’t care and immediately said bluntly, “When are we going to the Disorder Court?”

Zhou Yuling was speechless: “Didn’t you say generating clones costs survival points? Without 100,000 survival points, no 100,000 clones, no 100,000 players…

Without 100,000 fully controlled players, how do you go?”

Jiang Ye cautiously asked, “Just 100,000 survival points, can’t the Defenders’ Alliance advance them to us?”

“…” Zhou Yuling twitched at the corner of her mouth: “Just 100,000? Have you listened to what you just said?!”

She was too lazy to curse, so she directly asked, “Weren’t you supposed to capture Qu Xing alive? Did you get him?”

Of course not.

He was too busy, he hadn’t even started the act…

But it wasn’t a big problem, he immediately said, “Qu Xing has a dark affinity talent, with extremely strong stealth methods, really hard to handle!”

Then he asked again, “You mean to say, to use 100,000 clones in the Disorder Court, the only way now is to kill Huang Bo?”

Zhou Yuling seemed to roll her eyes: “What else?”

“Do you really think anyone would lend you 100,000 survival points for free?”

Phew.

Jiang Ye exhaled heavily as he listened.

Looking at it now…

For the main body, he had to try killing Huang Bo to get the bounty reward.

But with the previous buildup, killing Huang Bo and getting the bounty reward might be able to be blamed on the Time-Limited Instant Kill item…

However, the thing messing with his mindset now—

He had finally decided to kill all the clones.

But the light clone was trapped in the cycle grid of the Mirror Palace, and he couldn’t even reach it to kill it.

Just as he was thinking this, Zhou Yuling’s voice came through the voice transmission bead again:

“Qu Xing’s stealth methods should be crackable. If not, you can try asking Administrator 0000. He might be willing to help you.”

“As for me, I’ve run into some problems.”

Zhou Yuling’s tone was casual, as if just mentioning it.

Jiang Ye’s eyes flickered: “I remember you said you were going to the Void Mirror Puppet ruins where Huang Bo is? What’s the progress?”

“The progress…” Zhou Yuling didn’t hide anything and told Jiang Ye about discovering a silvery-white vortex and then entering the Mirror Palace secret realm.

After all, that silvery-white vortex was so obvious, any player who found it would notice.

Zhou Yuling suspected that someone in the Light faction might have also entered the Mirror Palace secret realm.

But she didn’t tell Jiang Ye this speculation and simply explained:

“The situation in this secret realm is quite similar to the original Void Mirror Palace.”

“But the secret realm grid here is somewhat strange—”

“If a player stays in one grid for too long without moving, a Void Mirror Puppet is generated.”

“But for the player to move, they must drip blood onto the Mirror Palace’s mirror surface.”

“But it seems like this Mirror Palace itself deliberately wants the player’s blood…”

“So staying still in one grid in this ghostly place is impossible, but offering blood to move is also impossible.”

As expected from an experienced player, Zhou Yuling understood this secret realm well.

Jiang Ye naturally asked, “So did you move or not?”

Zhou Yuling said flatly, “I tried using chicken blood to activate the mirror surface but failed. However, using other players’ blood works.”

Jiang Ye raised an eyebrow: “You carry other players’ blood with you? It can’t be HIV blood or something, right?”

Zhou Yuling replied exasperatedly, “Of course not. I used a blood-like item, a kind of poison blood.”

Jiang Ye didn’t dwell on what kind of blood it was and asked directly, “With your insight and experience, how should this Mirror Palace secret realm be broken?”

Actually, whether it could be broken or not didn’t matter much; the main thing was to get the light clone out quickly and kill it.

Only then could they get 100,000 survival points to enter the highest difficulty version of the Disorder Court.

However, Zhou Yuling did not answer directly but instead asked him:

“Do you know how the Void Mirror Palace explosion was caused?”

Of course, Jiang Ye knew.

The explosion was triggered when the intelligence clone held the Dice of Fate.

At that time, the situation was chaotic. The intelligence clone used Fu Xi’s clone’s SS-rank skill, Ultimate One-for-One’s ‘Artistic Explosion,’ after merging a large number of clones.

And that ‘Artistic Explosion’…

Honestly, was not quite the same as the usual clones using it.

The intelligence clone sacrificed its heart with ‘Artistic Explosion.’

At that moment, the heart seemed to become very strange under the Dice of Fate’s effect…

So the explosion was terrifying.

The entire Void Mirror Palace was blasted into ruins!

Back then, Jiang Ye didn’t think much and only worried about the intelligence clone…

After confirming that the intelligence clone survived as an Observer, he finally relaxed.

But thinking back now, he noticed some strange phenomena…

The explosion was extremely powerful, turning the entire Void Mirror Palace into ruins.

However…

The two apartment rooms connected to the Void Mirror Palace’s bridgehead—though affected by the blast shockwave—weren’t destroyed.

Why?

Are the two apartment rooms stronger than the Void Mirror Palace?

No!

This was definitely not a matter of strength or sturdiness!

Rather, the explosion seemed to have a planned scope!

Just enough to turn the entire Void Mirror Palace into ruins!

That’s why the ruined Void Mirror Palace and the two rooms were as if severed apart!

From this perspective…

Could it be that the explosion back then was not only the effect of ‘Artistic Explosion’ but also related to the entire Void Mirror Palace?

Jiang Ye even began to suspect…

Maybe clearing the Mirror Palace secret realm required an Observer clone?

But the Observer clone was arranged on the main body’s side!

What could he do now?

The Observer who can clear the Mirror Palace secret realm is trapped in the Disorder Court.

The light clone who can clear the Disorder Court is trapped in the Mirror Palace secret realm.

Isn’t this a deadlock!

Of course, needing the Observer to clear the Mirror Palace secret realm was just Jiang Ye’s guess.

At this moment, he recalled the light clone’s consciousness previously synchronized—

The light clone had gone through seven cycles in the Mirror Palace.

It lost consciousness during the seventh cycle when looking at the two grains of blood sand.

Jiang Ye had always understood the Mirror Palace cycles as seven cycles, with a grain of blood sand generated every three cycles.

But after gaining Zhou Qiming’s memory and knowing the reincarnation truth of the Doomsday Apartment…

He suddenly had a different idea!

The Doomsday Apartment’s reincarnation is divided into two stages.

Could the cycles in the Mirror Palace also be divided into stages?

This wasn’t a baseless comparison.

He suddenly thought of the crucial item—the hourglass.

The light clone had watched the hourglass invert in the cycle grid of the Mirror Palace, then time returned to the starting point.

So naturally, he understood the hourglass inversion as reincarnation.

But from an outsider’s perspective—

Is the hourglass inversion really reincarnation?

No!

Even a fool knows the hourglass inversion means it rotated 180 degrees!

True “reincarnation” means everything returns to the origin point.

That should be a 360-degree rotation!

In other words, the hourglass must invert twice!

Twice equals two stages.

This matches the two stages of the Doomsday Apartment!

While simulating the hourglass rotation in his mind…

Jiang Ye came up with a simpler simulation method—drawing circles.

He initially imagined a simple cycle as starting at a point, making a circle, and returning to the origin.

Such a cycle is shaped like: ○.

The advanced hourglass cycle similarly starts at a point, makes a circle, and returns to the origin.

But next, instead of repeating the same circle, it makes a second circle in the opposite direction before returning to the origin.

Obviously, such a cycle looks like: ∞!

That is, the infinity symbol in mathematics!

These two cycle types—the “one circle” and the “two circles”—can both be considered reincarnation.

And these two cases correspond to the mathematical symbols that made Jiang Ye marvel at the simplest mathematical beauty!

Zero and infinity.

These two values are definitely the most special in mathematics.

In the world of computers, there is only 0 and 1.

And 1 means infinity!

More precisely, 1 is “yes,” 0 is “no.”

Just like the popular saying in the human world—something happens either zero times or countless times.

Just like Lin Ling resolutely wanting to resurrect the Jade Flask, saying—impossibility is just because there’s no precedent.

No precedent in the past doesn’t mean no future.

As long as you break precedent, you can go from 0 to 1.

And 1 is infinity!

For a moment, many thoughts flashed through Jiang Ye’s mind.

Besides marveling at mathematical wonder, a new worry emerged—

Why does the blood sand appear only on the third and sixth reincarnations in the hourglass?

Because if Jiang Ye’s speculation is correct…

The two small cycles the light clone experienced should count as one complete cycle.

Then the blood sand should appear in multiples of two.

It shouldn’t follow the pattern of the third and sixth cycles!

Even counting the fourth and seventh cycles doesn’t fit!

Maybe…

The appearance of the blood sand has no pattern at all?

According to the light clone’s previous guess…

Two forces exist simultaneously in the entire Mirror Palace.

One is an environmental force, the other a special strange force.

The blood sand seems to come from the special strange monsters.

So, when the special strange monsters produce blood sand, they deliberately don’t strictly follow reincarnation rules, to mislead players in the cycle grid?

Perhaps, the “blood sand” itself is a misleading clue!

Jiang Ye kept pondering.

Zhou Yuling’s voice came through the voice transmission bead again:

“Hello? I’m asking you. Have you thought that long? What did you come up with?”

Jiang Ye thought for a moment and suddenly changed the subject, asking Zhou Yuling directly:

“Do you know there’s a problem with Lin Ling’s Life Stone (Incomplete)?”

Zhou Yuling seemed stunned for a moment and asked, “What problem? You mean this item…”

Before she finished, Jiang Ye interrupted firmly: “If you can’t be honest with me, then I’ll reconsider the Disorder Court and joining the Defenders’ Alliance.”

He deliberately spoke more seriously.

Zhou Yuling thought for a moment and sighed lightly:

“You’re quite close with Administrator 4444, huh? Such a small matter, he told you right away…”

After the sigh, she suddenly said, “You wouldn’t… be the version possessed by Administrator 4444, would you?”

“Me? Possessed version?” Jiang Ye frowned, “4444 can only possess three times, right?”

The previous Administrator 4444 only performed three possessions.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to possess more times, but he could only do it three times.

It was like being influenced by the ‘Three Souls and Seven Spirits’ concept’s ‘three.’

Jiang Ye understood it this way, so he asked back.

He didn’t know if Zhou Yuling believed him, but she didn’t talk about it for now and directly asked, “Why bring up the Life Stone (Incomplete) all of a sudden?”

Jiang Ye returned to the main topic: “Because Administrator 4444 told me that after letting the Eternal Witch Gui parasitize the Void Mirror Puppet and use the Life Stone (Incomplete), it simultaneously awakened the memories of both Eternal Witch Gui and the Void Mirror Puppet…”

“And among those memories, the Void Mirror Puppet’s seem to contain everything ‘seen and heard’ since the existence of the Void Mirror Palace.”

“I think this important information might have something to do with the Mirror Palace secret realm?”

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