“……”

The White-Robed Woman carefully considered before replying:

“Otherwise, why don’t you just go burn Lin Ling to death?”

Jiang Ye was shocked: “Huh? Really? Would she stand still and let me burn her?”

“……” The White-Robed Woman: “Maybe… you could try?”

“Ahem, never mind then.”

Jiang Ye preferred to play things safe.

Moreover, right now, rescuing his main body took absolute priority over everything else.

He suppressed that mischievous heart of his that constantly wanted to stir up trouble.

After simply lighting a torch and scanning around the target tree to confirm there were no Water Screen Eyes nearby,

He merged with a wind-element talent clone, directly using Wind Wings to fly to the treetop, finding the yellowish leaf with black spots that the White-Robed Woman had mentioned.

Truth be told, the black spots covered such a large area of that leaf that at first glance, the entire leaf appeared almost completely black.

The yellowish parts were extremely inconspicuous.

Looking at the withered, droopy appearance of the leaf, Jiang Ye had a bad feeling about this.

Sure enough, his premonition was quickly confirmed—

He didn’t directly enter the space within that leaf.

Instead, he laid the leaf flat on his palm, then like using spatial equipment, discovered that within that space indeed lay a small black snake.

But that small black snake…

Jiang Ye focused his mind.

That small black snake then appeared on his right palm.

Cool temperature, stiff texture…

What the hell?

Jiang Ye stored that leaf in the Clone Shared Space, then used the tip of his left pinky finger to very gently poke the black snake’s head.

The texture felt like that tiny snake head was as hard as a fucking brick!

It’s over!

His bad premonition had come true—

This thing was clearly a dead snake!

Though the snake was dead, Jiang Ye’s hope wasn’t.

He wondered if perhaps this thing was just in suspended animation to conserve energy?

Maybe this thing could still be saved?

So, focusing his mind, Jiang Ye decisively bit his finger and brought his bleeding wound close to the snake’s head.

Based on the black snake’s liking for his blood, if the snake were alive, it should react to his blood, right?

However…

Jiang Ye coated the entire snake head with his blood.

Still, absolutely no reaction!

Damn it!

A wasted trip, getting excited for nothing!

Jiang Ye felt speechless internally, but soon, he became almost certain—

“You already knew the black snake was dead, didn’t you?”

“Telling me it was near death, deliberately making me waste my time?”

If it were truly near death, Xiao Bai wouldn’t have left the black snake unattended.

So, Xiao Bai must have already confirmed the black snake’s death.

However, facing his accusation, Xiao Bai didn’t respond.

Only after a moment of silence did she speak in an even more exhausted and helpless tone:

“I just thought… it’s such a pity that the little snake I put so much effort into raising died…”

“So I placed my hopes on maybe you being able to resurrect it?”

Jiang Ye immediately pressed: “So how do we resurrect it?”

“I don’t know.” Xiao Bai answered bluntly. “Maybe try using your blood?”

“……”

Jiang Ye glanced at the blood-coated snake head and said helplessly: “Clearly that doesn’t work.”

“Then maybe try the Reincarnation Graveyard? If you can enter the Reincarnation Graveyard…”

Right! The Reincarnation Graveyard!

Although this little black snake hadn’t been bound to a resurrection stone from the Reincarnation Graveyard.

When Yang Wenchao previously used the [Mechanical Heart] to directly use the Reincarnation Graveyard’s coffins, he essentially hadn’t used resurrection stones either!

He and Wan Xin, while in their Mechanical Undead State, had directly stored their “corpses” into the Reincarnation Graveyard’s coffins.

Soon after, when the coffins arrived at the underground graveyard from the Reincarnation Graveyard and were dug up, both Yang Wenchao and Wan Xin had been resurrected!

Although they shared one body, it truly counted as using “corpses” to achieve resurrection!

So this little black snake…

Maybe it really could still be saved!

Thinking this, Jiang Ye directly used the Clone Shared Space to have a clone located in the Reincarnation Graveyard retrieve the little black snake.

In the Reincarnation Graveyard, he had specifically stationed several clones as anchor points for clone replacement.

Of course, these [Tool Clones] serving as exchange coordinates weren’t idle either.

They had specifically dug up many reincarnation coffins.

So at this moment, Jiang Ye didn’t need to specifically dig—there were ready-made coffins available for use.

He acted extremely quickly, directly placing the little black snake’s corpse into a reincarnation coffin.

Then remembering that his blood might have nourishing effects on the little black snake…

So Jiang Ye specifically drew another bowl of blood, then placed the little black snake’s corpse into the blood-filled bowl.

After completing this, he buried the reincarnation coffin in the soil.

Of course, while burying the coffin, he also arranged for another clone to receive it in the underground graveyard.

Originally, Jiang Ye had sent Yang Wenchao to the underground graveyard to find that mysterious entity in the tombstone area.

To avoid disturbing Yang Wenchao’s meeting with the big shot, he hadn’t stationed any clones there as third wheels.

But now, testing the mysterious tombstone area entity was far less important than rescuing his main body from the Court of Disorder.

So Jiang Ye entered the underground graveyard without any hesitation.

He had thought he might interrupt Yang Wenchao’s meeting with the mysterious entity…

But instead discovered that throughout the entire underground graveyard, there was no sign of Yang Wenchao at all!

This was strange.

The clone he left in the 4444 Apartment had personally seen Yang Wenchao go to the underground graveyard.

And he was absolutely certain that Yang Wenchao hadn’t left the graveyard…

So were Yang Wenchao and the mysterious tombstone area entity meeting in another mysterious space?

Of course, none of this was the main point…

After confirming he hadn’t disturbed Yang Wenchao’s meeting with the big shot, Jiang Ye immediately took action.

He arranged for several clones to frantically dig up graves!

With time being tight, his efficiency was extremely high.

Almost less than a minute after the little black snake’s coffin was buried in the Reincarnation Graveyard,

The clone in the underground graveyard successfully dug up a coffin!

Previously, Jiang Ye had used the Entropy Reaper to violently open coffins.

But now, these coffins were his wealth, so he naturally wasn’t so violent anymore.

Directly using his Administrator 4444 privileges, he could normally open the coffins.

Soon, the coffin lid opened, and a figure leaped out.

This figure stared at Jiang Ye as if seeing a ghost, his whole body rigid.

Jiang Ye and this person stared at each other wide-eyed.

After an awkward silence lasted a moment, Jiang Ye couldn’t help but blurt out:

“No way? Buddy? Why?”

Yang Wenchao was even more speechless than him.

Even carrying a hint of near-breaking-point collapse in his speechlessness:

Even carrying a hint of near-breaking-point collapse in his speechlessness:

“Why is it you digging me up again??!”

“……”

Hearing this, Jiang Ye belatedly realized—

“Could it be that the mysterious big shot was preparing to secretly meet with you in the coffin, but before you could meet, I dug you up again?”

“……” Yang Wenchao didn’t answer, but it was almost an admission.

This made Jiang Ye feel somewhat awkward: “Sorry about that, how about I bury you back again?”

Yang Wenchao was silent for a moment before shaking his head: “No need to go through that trouble, I’ll just die again…”

But truth be told, he wasn’t very confident—

If he died again, could he really successfully complete the meeting with the mysterious big shot in the coffin?

Thinking this, Jiang Ye directly waved his hand dismissively:

“Whatever, I’m really busy right now, no time to deal with you. How about you just join my clone army and help me dig up coffins!”

As he said this, Jiang Ye immediately began digging the next grave mound without pause.

Yang Wenchao scanned the area, thought for a moment, then also took action.

While helping dig graves, he asked a nearby Jiang Ye clone:

“What are you digging for?”

“Is it one of your important clones? Or some important person?”

Jiang Ye didn’t avoid the question, answering bluntly: “It’s a little black snake.”

Yang Wenchao suddenly made a surprised “Huh?” sound.

Jiang Ye’s clone focused on digging graves, not even shifting his gaze.

He didn’t pay much attention to Yang Wenchao’s surprised sound.

However, the next second, he heard Yang Wenchao say in a strange tone:

“Are you sure it’s a ‘little black snake’ and not a ‘little red snake’?”

???

Hearing this, Jiang Ye suddenly turned to look in Yang Wenchao’s direction.

He saw him pulling out from the charred grave mound soil as if seeing a ghost…

A thin, long little red snake!

About seven inches in length…

Completely blood-red in color…

Logically, looking at this little red snake that was about the same size as the little black snake, Jiang Ye should have first thought of the little black snake corpse he had buried.

But instead…

He stared blankly at the scene of Yang Wenchao pulling that little red snake from the soil.

What surfaced in his mind wasn’t the little black snake, but…

The blood-red chains wrapped around the cross-shaped tombstones in the Reincarnation Graveyard!

Even, because he had obtained Zhou Qiming’s memories, Jiang Ye knew—

On the rooftop of the Doomsday Apartment, that Moon Phase Clock controlling the apartment’s time was also tightly bound by those chains that seemed to flow with blood!

And this little red snake at this moment, like those chains, gave the feeling that—

It originally had a pure black appearance.

Only that inside flowed fresh red blood!

This realization and feeling made Jiang Ye freeze on the spot.

Staring at the little red snake as if seeing a ghost.

Yang Wenchao, who had pulled out the little red snake, naturally noticed his abnormality.

He examined the little red snake with increasing surprise and suspicion, unable to help frowning:

“Is this the ‘little black snake’ you’re looking for?”

“But this thing… it wasn’t in a coffin?”

Yang Wenchao was absolutely certain that the grave mound where he dug up this little red snake didn’t contain a coffin.

He had originally thought he’d dug up a monster from the grave mound.

If Jiang Ye hadn’t said he was looking for a little black snake, he would have almost directly slapped this “monster” to death.

Of course, at this moment Yang Wenchao faintly felt—

He probably didn’t have the ability to slap this little red snake to death with one blow.

Sure enough, while holding the snake’s tail and examining the little red snake,

He saw the little red snake’s pair of pure black beady eyes suddenly “glare” at him.

Then with several “hiss hiss hiss” sounds,

The snake tail he was holding directly turned into cool red mist.

Yang Wenchao’s fingers grasped empty air.

The next second he saw…

That slender little red snake flew directly to Jiang Ye’s side.

Hissing as it circled around him.

Because there wasn’t just one Jiang Ye in the graveyard at this moment,

The little red snake circled around this Jiang Ye, then went to circle around the next Jiang Ye.

Appearing lively and joyful.

Because he was concerned about the situation in the Court of Disorder, Jiang Ye quickly regained his composure.

The clone closest to Yang Wenchao raised a hand and said to the little red snake: “Come here.”

Then with a “whoosh” sound,

The little red snake directly wrapped around his wrist.

Looking like a bright blood-red bracelet.

Jiang Ye again poked the bright red snake head with his fingertip and asked: “Can you talk?”

The little red snake lightly flicked its tongue: “Hiss—hiss—”

“……” Clearly it couldn’t.

However, it seemed to understand human speech.

Jiang Ye commanded: “Turn into blood mist?”

The next second, the little red snake indeed turned into a small patch of blood mist.

Jiang Ye: “Expand the blood mist range?”

Then with a “whoosh,” the blood mist rapidly spread throughout the entire underground graveyard.

As if it could envelop the entire graveyard within the blood mist range in minutes!

Jiang Ye quickly shouted: “Stop stop! Pull it back!”

So the blood mist range automatically shrank.

Jiang Ye really wanted to take this little red snake back to the Reincarnation Graveyard.

Use it to conduct more experiments on the cross-shaped tombstones in the Reincarnation Graveyard.

See if this little red snake truly had some connection with the chains on the cross-shaped tombstones.

However, time was too tight. After a moment of silence, he didn’t conduct any more experiments.

The next second, the clone wearing the little red snake as a bracelet directly exchanged places with a clone in the Twilight Sands.

The clone wearing the little red snake skillfully entered the red-lit elevator and pressed the button for the 18th floor.

The following process was similar to Clone No. 1’s experience before.

The moment the red-lit elevator opened on the 18th floor, a wave of milky-white gas invaded the elevator.

Jiang Ye steadied his mind and directly commanded the little red snake: “Turn to mist!”

This time, the command was simplified to two words.

But the little red snake’s reaction was still rapid.

The red mist carrying a chilling coolness quickly collided with the invading milky-white gas!

Visibly, those emerging milky-white gases seemed to be devoured by the red mist!

Just as the milky-white gas invading the elevator was completely devoured, and Jiang Ye regained connection with his external clones, feeling joy,

Another wave of milky-white gas invaded the elevator cabin.

And without receiving Jiang Ye’s command, the red mist actively transformed back into the little red snake state.

It again circled around Jiang Ye, making “hiss hiss” sounds.

But this time, the sounds clearly carried a sense of urgency, as if trying to express something.

Jiang Ye reacted quickly enough, immediately biting his finger.

The little red snake’s cool tongue directly locked onto his bleeding wound.

And because the elevator’s opening time was limited,

Jiang Ye, feeling the strange sensation of being blood-sucked, steeled himself and directly gripped the little red snake tightly, stepping out of the elevator.

Truth be told, he was making a very risky decision.

Because, according to the characteristics of the waiting area described by Zhou Yuling,

Players entering the waiting area were randomly distributed within that pure black space.

Even if Jiang Ye entered the waiting area, it would be basically difficult to meet with the previously disconnected clones!

He actually placed his hopes on being able to share consciousness with other clones after reaching the waiting area, thereby synchronizing information.

But that didn’t happen.

This clone carrying the little red snake was also in a state of disconnection from other clones!

Moreover, this clone quickly discovered—

Time was running out!

The countdown timer in the upper right corner of his vision showed 【00:11】!

Meaning, only 11 seconds remained!

What could mere ten seconds accomplish?

Jiang Ye looked at that little red snake that seemed to have grown onto his finger.

His heartbeat pounded like thunder, and a crazy idea suddenly emerged in his mind—

“If I let you drink all of my blood…”

“How much white mist can you devour?”

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