“……”

One twenty-one, are you fucking trying to take off or something?

This damn thing, isn’t this clearly saying that the quite sincere apology just now is actually only worth 1 survival point?

So it turns out it was just verbal sincerity with no real sincerity in your heart, right?

You’re not even bothering to act?!

Jiang Ye almost laughed out of anger.

However, he knew perfectly well that Zhou Yuling’s apology was just to save face for him.

The real “compensation” part had already been negotiated with Lin Ling.

This Zhou Yuling was shrewd as hell—trying to take advantage of the situation would be difficult now.

So one twenty-one it would be.

Jiang Ye thought for a moment and pretended to be dissatisfied: “Heh, so your little bit of sincerity is only worth one survival point?”

Zhou Yuling remained silent.

After all, she knew perfectly well that Jiang Ye definitely wanted to sell this replica mirror.

At 121, he’d still make a net profit of 119!

Plus there were benefits like clone perspectives.

Damn it, what difference was there from picking up money for free?

To be honest, according to Zhou Yuling’s thinking, this guy selling the mirror to her should actually pay her!

But obviously, getting Jiang Ye to pay up was impossible.

She could only drive down the price.

Zhou Yuling remained calm and composed.

Jiang Ye, on his end, was indeed in a hurry to enter the Court of Disorder and couldn’t be bothered to haggle with her anymore.

So as expected, he pretended to compromise:

“Forget it, out of respect for the White-Robed Woman, one twenty-one it is.”

“However, you need to give me coordinates. I’ll deliver the mirror personally and also meet with the White-Robed Woman again.”

Zhou Yuling glanced at Zhou Yinsu.

Zhou Yinsu barely hesitated before nodding directly.

She believed her relationship with Jiang Ye was quite good.

Seeing her nod so readily, Zhou Yuling gave Jiang Ye the coordinates to Twilight Sands.

This time, Jiang Ye sent Clone No. 1 to Twilight Sands.

His specific request to meet the White-Robed Woman actually had a clear purpose…

That was—Xiao Hei’s origins.

Previously, Jiang Ye hadn’t thought too deeply about it.

But this “fake clone” incident forced him to ponder…

What exactly was the origin of this Xiao Hei who recognized him as master?

Xiao Hei was originally the Clone Replica Mirror that Jiang Ye had abandoned.

In the White-Robed Woman’s room television, it connected to an entire dense forest space.

At that time, Jiang Ye entered one of the trees in the dense forest and experienced a monster-fighting leveling-up process.

Later, seeing the situation turning dangerous, he used a created mirrored clone to replace his real clone.

Essentially, he abandoned a mirrored clone in the danger…

What happened after that, he didn’t know.

He only knew that not long after, this Xiao Hei appeared…

Truly strange.

Because of this fake clone incident, Jiang Ye specifically investigated Xiao Hei’s origins again.

Of course, the so-called “investigation” was just using the complete version of the [Clone Replica Mirror] to check the perspective of the mirrored clone that was in danger at that time.

What he saw was—

After the “earthquake” at that time, wispy ghost-like misty creatures emerged from the cracked fissures.

Then those misty creatures seemed to all pour into Xiao Hei’s body…

Oh no, it wasn’t Xiao Hei at that time, but the mirrored clone.

And such a mirrored clone, after a large number of monsters poured in, gradually lost its “mirrored clone” attributes.

That is to say—

Jiang Ye at that time thought that mirrored clone produced by the Clone Replica Mirror had “died.”

The current Jiang Ye also couldn’t continue viewing the aftermath through the complete replica mirror.

Which means…

After the massive influx of misty creatures, the mirrored clone completely mutated into the later “Xiao Hei.”

So Xiao Hei’s birth could be simply understood as—

The mirrored clone being invaded by monsters.

Of course, its situation was more complex than regular players being invaded by monsters.

First, mirrored clones aren’t living beings, so logically speaking they shouldn’t be able to be invaded by monsters;

Second, normal monster invasion situations involve one monster invading one player.

What happened to Xiao Hei at that time, being invaded by numerous monsters, was truly outrageous.

Comparing this to Jiang Ye’s current speculation about the “fake clone”…

He suspected that the birth of the “fake clone” was someone performing monster invasion on his disconnected clone.

Causing his clone to transform from a normal player status into a monster player.

The consciousness dominating the clone also changed from his own consciousness to that of a monster player.

So from this perspective…

Xiao Hei and the fake clone’s situations shared some similarities.

This naturally made him feel somewhat uneasy.

So he took this opportunity to ask Xiao Bai.

What exactly was going on with that television-connected space of hers.

What exactly were those numerous misty creatures emerging from the ground…

If he could get this information.

Then selling two replica mirrors for 121 would be acceptable.

Thinking this, Clone No. 1 Jiang Ye arrived at the meeting location Zhou Yuling specified in Twilight Sands.

From afar, he could see Zhou Yuling with her purple veil removed, and the White-Robed Woman showing her true appearance.

Their clothing and style were different.

But looking closer, those two faces were indeed identical.

They even felt like they were copy-pasted!

Jiang Ye had seen twins in real life too.

But honestly, even if regular twins wore the same clothes, you could still see some differences.

But Zhou Yuling and Xiao Bai, this pair of twins…

Honestly, they couldn’t even be described as “similar”—they were identical!

As soon as Jiang Ye arrived, he directly stared at them and blurted out:

“You two… are you sure you didn’t use some item to adjust your faces?”

Uh, that sounded a bit rude, so he changed his wording: “In real life, did you also look this identical?”

Xiao Bai was easier to talk to, she directly shook her head:

“No, in real life we only looked very similar when we were little.”

“As we grew up, differences became more apparent, and the distinction was relatively clear.”

“Of course,” she added, “I didn’t grow very big before I died :)”

“……” Jiang Ye didn’t ask how she died, just awkwardly praised: “Well, you’re quite optimistic huh…”

Xiao Bai directly rolled her eyes at him, somewhat sarcastically:

“Pfft, you’ve never died before.”

“If you had died, and been dead for a very, very long time…”

“You’d naturally be optimistic too.”

“After all, human adaptability and self-regulation abilities have always been quite strong.”

The familiar eye roll, she’d done it before.

Jiang Ye thought carefully and felt this made sense.

He didn’t dwell on it, just followed up on the information she revealed:

“So that means, originally looking different, you only became this… identical after entering the Doomsday Apartment?”

Zhou Yuling nodded, thought for a moment, and added: “Remember what I told you before? The apartment players’ ‘physical bodies’ are more like created 「containers」.”

“And the two of us, whether due to genes or blood or some other reason, ended up having almost identical 「containers」.”

Jiang Ye thought for a moment and directly asked: “Do you know if other twins are like you two?”

This question caused Zhou Yuling’s expression to flicker strangely for a moment.

But quickly, she concealed that strange look and said calmly:

“The Defenders’ Alliance has also studied some twins.”

“But most of those twins are regular players.”

“Their situation in the apartment is basically the same as in real life.”

“That is—those who had differences in reality also have differences in the apartment.”

“Cases like me and Yinsu, where one is a player and one is a Reincarnation Ghost, there’s only us.”

After she said this, Jiang Ye suddenly frowned:

“Twins in real life, among billions of people, should be quite numerous…”

“The ‘one case’ you mentioned… probably means among the twins studied by the Defenders’ Alliance, only you’re this one case?”

Saying this, he suddenly raised an eyebrow and irresponsibly speculated: “You wouldn’t happen to be an experimental subject studied by the Defenders’ Alliance, would you?”

As soon as these words came out, Zhou Yuling’s face indeed showed a moment of stiffness.

Meanwhile, Zhou Yinsu beside her looked at her with shocked expression.

Apparently, she didn’t know about this.

However, under Zhou Yinsu’s gaze, Zhou Yuling quickly frowned at Jiang Ye:

“Of course I’m not some experimental subject.”

“I just happened to reunite with Zhou Yinsu who had turned into a monster in the Novice Apartment, and happened to join the Defenders’ Alliance after entering the Doomsday Apartment…”

This bullshit, Jiang Ye of course didn’t believe it.

Even the White-Robed Woman beside them clearly still had doubt in her eyes.

But now wasn’t the time to discuss this.

Zhou Yuling quickly changed the subject:

“Wasn’t it you who said you wanted to enter the Court of Disorder quickly?”

“So now, let’s hurry up and complete the transaction for your replica mirror.”

Jiang Ye thought she was right, so he directly took out two Clone Replica Mirrors and showed them to Zhou Yuling.

Zhou Yuling was about to transfer 121 survival points.

But Jiang Ye waved his hand: “Didn’t I just say, out of respect for Xiao Bai…”

“So before the transaction, I have something to ask Xiao Bai.”

Jiang Ye was getting more and more comfortable calling her “Xiao Bai.”

Zhou Yinsu didn’t correct him either, cutting straight to the point: “First tell me what it is.”

Jiang Ye thought for a moment, then simply snapped his fingers.

Then, a black smoke emerged from beneath the desert.

Soon, the black smoke condensed into Xiao Hei’s form, obediently standing beside Jiang Ye.

Jiang Ye raised an eyebrow at Xiao Bai and introduced: “This is Xiao Hei, you should recognize him, right?”

Zhou Yinsu belatedly realized where her “Xiao Bai” nickname came from.

With that inexplicable unease hidden in her heart, she couldn’t be bothered to dwell on such trivial matters, so she directly nodded:

“What you want to ask me about is related to this Xiao Hei?”

Jiang Ye nodded, straightforwardly saying: “Xiao Hei was originally my mirrored clone…”

“But previously, encountered danger in the space connected to your television.”

“At that time, based on the Clone Replica Mirror’s feedback, I thought that mirrored clone had ‘died’.”

“But later, this Xiao Hei inexplicably appeared.”

“He’s clearly the mutated form of that mirrored clone…”

“But do you know more details about how exactly this mutation happened?”

To be honest, Jiang Ye’s incomplete Clone Replica Mirror also felt somewhat mutated.

He couldn’t help but wonder—

If he continued exploring in this direction…

Could he develop some new functions for the complete version [Clone Replica Mirror]?

While he was thinking this, Xiao Bai over there was so shocked her eyes widened dramatically.

“You mean…”

“What was invaded by numerous monsters back then wasn’t a clone you generated yourself, but a mirrored clone generated by the Replica Mirror?!”

Well…

Actually, what was invaded by monsters at that time was indeed Jiang Ye’s clone.

But anticipating danger, he used clone swapping to replace it with the mirrored clone.

He didn’t want to expose the god-like skill of clone swapping, so he nodded: “Yeah, is there a problem?”

“Is there a problem?” Zhou Yuling and Xiao Bai were almost speechless simultaneously.

Xiao Bai had an expression of having too much to say.

Zhou Yuling said speechlessly:

“Your mirrored clone, it undoubtedly belongs to non-living entities, right?”

“But have you ever seen monsters invade non-living entities?”

Jiang Ye shook his head: “Exactly because I haven’t seen it, I wondered if maybe the monsters raised in Xiao Bai’s space were special?”

“If I’m not mistaken, that space was specifically a monster-raising space, right?”

Like monster raisers would have special monster-raising spaces.

And the monsters they raised were specifically for invading players to help them awaken Glyph Pattern Abilities.

Regular monster-raising spaces were very small and only raised one small monster.

Like the shop of the Guiwen Master that Wu Ying visited before—each medicine cabinet-like compartment was a small monster-raising space.

Of course, there were also large monster-raising spaces that raised numerous monsters.

But this situation was usually like raising gu—fighting until the strongest “king” emerged with relatively stronger Glyph Pattern Abilities.

So after gaining more knowledge and broader perspective, Jiang Ye naturally suspected that space where numerous monsters emerged was a monster-raising space.

However, he asked lightly.

But Zhou Yuling and Xiao Bai’s expressions turned quite strange.

After a long silence, Zhou Yuling seemed unsure what to say.

Instead, Xiao Bai suddenly stared at Xiao Hei for a long time, then abruptly said to Jiang Ye:

“During the chess game before, didn’t you express wanting clones to participate in the Abyss Restricted Zone exploration?”

“How about letting this Xiao Hei participate too?”

“If you agree to let this Xiao Hei follow me to explore the Abyss Restricted Zone, then I can tell you the secret about that so-called 「monster-raising space」 of yours…”

After three Life Stone memory thefts greatly broadened his horizons, Jiang Ye’s brain worked incredibly fast.

Hearing Xiao Bai say this, he directly blurted out:

“That 「monster-raising space」 of yours… wouldn’t happen to be related to the Abyss Restricted Zone too, would it?”

This direct question made Xiao Bai’s expression stiffen.

She didn’t answer directly, instead asking again:

“So? Weren’t you originally planning to participate in the Abyss Restricted Zone exploration anyway?”

Indeed.

However.

Jiang Ye raised an eyebrow again: “About having Xiao Hei participate in the Abyss Restricted Zone exploration—don’t you need to ask Lin Ling for instructions?”

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