It wasn’t just Wang Chengjin.

Almost every player who’d been blinded by greed was thinking the same thing!

Some players, driven purely by desire without a shred of brainpower, shouted in the group chat:

【3068! Room 3068 where Ke Peng lived, that’s gotta be the last place Huang Bo was seen!! Bros! Come with me to 3068! We’re gonna surround him!!】

【F*! These rewards are insane! I swear my eyes turned red! 3068 it is! Let’s go, brothers! Doesn’t matter who gets the final hit—it’s a ticket to riches!】**

【Wait, are you guys serious? Now that this outrageous bounty’s out, it’s basically confirmed that Ke Peng was killed by Huang Bo! More precisely—insta-killed! And Ke Peng’s one of the strongest in our apartment! If he got one-shotted, do you really think you can kill Huang Bo?!】

【Exactly! A bounty this broken proves how terrifying Huang Bo must be! He’s definitely not someone just anyone can take down!】

【Don’t speak too soon! Remember that global bounty from the game? Someone snatched that kill seconds after the notice went out! Everyone else didn’t even react in time!】

【Exactly! The point of this bounty is simple—Huang Bo’s gonna die! Whoever lands the first kill gets the reward, period!】

【Screw it! Even if I can’t tell how strong Huang Bo is, just look at that bounty—it’s worth the risk!】

Yeah.

At this point, no amount of rational analysis could beat that bounty.

Over 80% of the players in Apartment 9999 mobilized.

Since they assumed Huang Bo was powerful, a good chunk of them decided to follow the group’s suggestion and check out Room 3068, where Ke Peng died.

Others, who were a bit more strategic, headed for the rooftop.

Wang Chengjin was one of them.

In his view—

Huang Bo had to have heard the global bounty alert.

Even if he was powerful, he’d definitely panic.

His first move would be to Cross Apartments and escape!

And since he seemed to have come to Apartment 9999 specifically to kill Ke Peng,

Now that he’d done it, he’d surely want to leave.

So the rooftop Cross-Apartment point was the perfect ambush spot!

Soon, four of the top regional War God-ranking players were gathered at the rooftop—

Wang Chengjin, Jiang Wenhan, Li Junqi, and Sha Bo.

Like four diamond generals, they stood guard at the top.

These four had been on good terms before and spoke cordially.

But now, the air around them was stiff with tension.

Other players were passionately swarming to hunt Huang Bo,

But they knew—none of them could solo Huang Bo.

To them, this felt more like a raid boss fight in a game.

With enough people attacking at once, someone might get lucky and land the final hit.

So they were reckless but mentally prepared to miss out.

But for these four?

They had power, and their hearts were set on this boss.

They had no intention of giving up the kill.

Which meant undercurrents of rivalry began brewing between them.

They all knew soloing Huang Bo was unrealistic.

So logically, teaming up was the smarter choice.

But…

It was both cooperation and competition.

They wanted each other’s help, but didn’t want anyone else to get the kill.

So while they discussed “teamwork” with forced smiles,

Every one of them was harboring selfish thoughts behind the politeness.

And meanwhile, the “boss” that had the whole apartment fixated—

Wasn’t even on the rooftop.

He was still going crazy with Light and Shadow Escape, stirring up chaos!

He darted through apartment rooms like a man possessed!

Now and then, he’d unleash a 【Holy Light Judgement】 and enjoy the fiery bloom of iron sparks exploding in the air!

Light and Shadow Escape was blazingly fast.

Most absurdly—it let him break directly into others’ rooms!

So Jiang Ye, like a streak of light, zipped through the halls!

Killing players, killing Eeries, not even bothering to loot—

Just letting the system prompts echo in his mind nonstop—

【Ding! You killed a Level 10 player. Survival Point +1!】

【Ding! You killed a Level 9 player. Survival Point +1!】

【You killed a Level 5 Eerie! Energy Points +500!】

【Ding! You’ve reached Level 1! Stamina +1! Energy +1!】

【Ding! You’ve reached Level 2! Stamina +1! Energy +1!】

【Killed Level 8 Eerie! Energy Points +600!】

【Killed Level 5 Eerie! Energy Points +300!】

【Ding! You’ve reached Level 3! Stamina +1! Energy +1!】

The gap in rewards between killing a Level 5 Eerie at Level 0 vs. Level 2 was 200 Energy Points!

Clearly, over-level kills came with great bonuses!

But Jiang Ye wasn’t grinding to level up—he was straight-up going berserk!

So he didn’t care much about the system chimes.

His entire focus was honed in on unleashing Holy Light Judgement and Holy Purification everywhere!

【Holy Light Judgement】 was an AoE skill, while 【Holy Purification】 was single-target.

And Holy Purification had a unique perk—it inflicted the Light Curse on dark-type beings!

The Light Curse was insanely strong—whoever got hit lost their Eerie Ability and would die at the next 0:00 reset.

Even worse than Light Scorch, making Eerie creatures run for their lives!

And since Holy Purification also triggered Light Scorch,

It was a double dose of pain!

As he kept spamming both abilities in his rampage, the dark-type beings in Apartment 9999 quickly took note.

There were some Reincarnated Eeries with Cross-Apartment capability, like the White-Clad Woman.

But those kinds of high-level threats had already fled the apartment the moment chaos began.

They didn’t dare face a Light-type user head-on.

So inside Apartment 9999, Jiang Ye was like a light-speed phantom—unopposed and unstoppable!

Of course, there were non-dark-type elite players among those trying to kill him.

But Light and Shadow Escape allowed Jiang Ye to warp room-to-room instantly!

His movement speed far surpassed even the top-tier non-dark-type players.

For a while, the so-called “hunt the boss” operation could do nothing but watch.

On the Ranking Board, “Huang Bo” kept leveling up.

In the Member List, more and more player names turned gray.

Apartment 9999 fell into chaos, fear spreading like wildfire!

But this couldn’t last forever.

The NPC Residents, even if they couldn’t Cross Apartments, weren’t just going to sit and wait to die.

Up to now, their doors had remained locked, meaning players couldn’t get in to fight the boss.

So when Jiang Ye zipped room to room, there was nothing to stop him.

But soon, the NPCs realized the danger and flung their doors wide open—

Letting players charge in freely, just hoping one of them could land a hit when the light burst into the room!

At the same time, new rumors began flying in the group chat.

At first, people panicked seeing more and more names go dark.

Many of those reckless bounty-chasers started to feel real fear.

But soon, a player named Ouyang Fan posted:

【Chill out, guys! I just got info from the Administrator—】

【This Huang Bo really isn’t as strong as we think!】

【The reason he’s been able to cause such chaos is because Light-type abilities massively counter dark-type beings!】

【But once he faces non-dark-type players, he’s just a regular dude—not even close to us War God-ranked elites!】

The moment that was said, the players who’d been on edge thanks to Jiang Ye instantly felt a spark of hope reignite.

But soon, someone in the chat raised a concern:

【But how do we know if we’re dark-type or not?】

Ouyang Fan: 【It’s easy to tell! Didn’t someone mention it earlier? When Ke Peng died, they felt dread and heart palpitations!】

【If you instinctively feel fear toward Light-type abilities, you’re almost certainly a dark-type being.】

【If you don’t feel that kind of deep, innate suppression, then you’re basically a non-dark-type.】

【Non-dark-type players have a huge advantage against this Huang Bo guy!】

The chat immediately lit up again.

Those who hadn’t felt any fear when Ke Peng died were ecstatic!

Because if this was true, their chances of killing Huang Bo and claiming the bounty had just skyrocketed!

No more relying on luck or stealing the last hit on a boss—

Now they had a real shot at taking him down!

But then came the next realization:

【But Huang Bo has that insane escape ability—even if we want to kill him, we can’t even see him before he disappears!】

【Exactly! If only we had a way to trap him!】

【This group chat isn’t ideal either—he can see everything we’re planning!】

【Should we meet up in person and come up with a real plan to trap this guy?】

While they discussed,

Huang Bo’s level had already skyrocketed—Level 8!

He’d leveled up fast.

Survival Points had reached 8 total.

His wild rampage was basically established.

Only then did that streak of light pause—and fly back to the rooftop.

But the moment he arrived,

Four towering War God-ranked figures were already waiting with grim expressions.

Clearly, they’d been preparing for this.

And unlike the previous Administrator who fled on sight,

These four weren’t running.

On the contrary, thanks to Ouyang Fan’s message, their confidence had only grown.

But that confidence also brought heightened wariness toward their “allies.”

If Huang Bo had been overwhelmingly powerful,

They would’ve had no choice but to cooperate.

But now that they knew his strength relied on countering dark-types—

Each of them believed they had the ability to kill him solo.

So now, their caution toward each other outweighed their fear of Huang Bo.

The moment that streak of light appeared on the rooftop,

Their first reaction wasn’t to attack Huang Bo—

It was to watch each other.

And that hesitation was all the opportunity Jiang Ye needed.

He didn’t even bother arguing with them.

Light and Shadow Escape was faster than anyone could react!

In a flash, he was at the rooftop console.

As his figure vanished, he left behind a single line hanging in the air:

“Wait here, all four of you—I’ll be back.”

And just like that, the light disappeared from Apartment 9999.

Wang Chengjin and the others exploded with rage:

“We waited all this time and he just ran?!”

“Chase him!”

“Where? Where the hell did he go?!”

“He said he’d be back… what does that mean?!”

It meant exactly what it sounded like.

The Light-type Replica had left Apartment 9999 and started stirring up trouble in other apartments.

Same process, same madness.

He zipped between apartment rooms using Light and Shadow Escape,

Firing off skills, harvesting Eerie beings and dark-type players like a farming machine.

Soon, he’d reached Level 10,

And had over 20 Survival Points saved up!

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to keep going—

But time was the problem.

Light and Shadow Escape was incredibly fast.

Though he caused huge commotion,

He’d only hit three apartments.

And on average, he stayed one minute per apartment.

Then, almost like it was random,

He landed back at Apartment 1010.

And again—went on a spree.

But this time, he had a clear destination—

Room 2064, where the White-Clad Woman was.

At the time, chaos had erupted among Jiang Ye’s classmates in 1010.

Because they’d seen the name “Huang Bo” before!

Now, the group chat was blowing up.

Everyone freaking out over the bounty, speculating about who Huang Bo really was…

The hype in the group chat made exam-day discussions look tame by comparison.

Right at peak excitement, someone suddenly shouted:

【Holy sh*t!!! Huang Bo’s name lit up again!】

【He’s back on the Level Board—No.1! Level 10! Huang Bo!】

【H-h-h-holy sh*t!!】

But after the collective freak-out,

The group suddenly went silent.

After all, the students in 1010 weren’t like the elites of 9999.

They couldn’t even handle normal Cross-Apartment players.

Where would they find the guts to fight someone with a global bounty?

To them, this was pure spectator entertainment.

This kind of monster-level existence… was way out of their league.

The sudden silence was rooted in fear.

Forget the bounty—they just wanted this plague god to finish off Qu Xing and move on!

That’s right—in their eyes…

Huang Bo’s return meant he had failed to kill Qu Xing before,

And had now come back, stronger, to finish the job.

Jiang Ye didn’t care what others were thinking.

He stormed his way to 2064,

Blasting through everything in his path!

Holy Light Judgement!

Holy Purification!

He fired them off like they were free samples at a fair!

Especially Holy Purification, which triggered the Light Curse—

He spammed it even harder!

“Boom!”

A loud explosion suddenly echoed through Room 2064.

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