Holy sh*t??
Big Daddy??
WTF?!!
Did I f***ing accidentally summon the Trader??
Was I so focused on reading chat that my hand slipped or sothing??
No way!!
There’s no way I’d make such a rookie mistake!
If I ss up, it better be a high-level mistake, not this dumb sh*t!
Jiang Ye felt a wave of disorientation.
His whole body stiffened as he turned his head—
And sure enough—
There it was, cloaked in black from head to toe.
More precisely, a being wrapped entirely in a black robe…
Even though that robe revealed no visible features,
Jiang Ye recognized it almost instantly—
This was the eerie black shadow from the 20th floor hallway that had randomly handed him a Survival Jade Token!
In other words—
The legendary Apartnt Trader!!
How could Jiang Ye not tense up all over?!
After all, the Administrator chat had hinted loud and clear—
This guy was no ordinary figure!
For him, killing a player and taking the 10,000 Survival Point penalty? Probably no big deal!
Of course, if it were just a single Replica dying, it wouldn’t matter so much…
But what Jiang Ye feared the most—
Was whether this guy really could, like the rumors said, wipe out all his Replicas in one shot!
Because this Trader dude also seed to have a powerful Replica ability...
And right as he appeared, he ntioned the Replica Reflection Mirror…
How much did he already know about Jiang Ye’s setup?
Why show up now? For what purpose?!
Jiang Ye wasn’t just physically tense—his nerves were on high alert too.
So high he was borderline losing it—and still managed to awkwardly laugh and reply:
“Yeah… it’s, uh, working pretty well :)”
“……” Even as he said it, he realized that sounded almost like a deliberate provocation.
Hahahaha, didn’t Little Bai just tell him to be careful not to provoke the Trader?
At this point, Jiang Ye’s mind was racing with one thought:
Survive. Get the h*ll out.
But then—
From the depths of that dark robe, a soft chuckle echoed.
Followed by a voice:
“Good to hear.”
“In that case… how about a trade?”
Trade…
Sure, the Trader existed to make deals with Players.
But Jiang Ye could tell—
This guy wasn’t talking about your average Survival Points for Items kind of deal.
After a mont of thought, Jiang Ye asked cautiously, “Let’s hear it. What kind of trade?”
The Trader was blunt and to the point:
“You give the cross, and I’ll give you the Replica Reflection Mirror. How about it?”
The cross?
He must an the cross dropped by the 4444 Administrator?
Wait—this Trader knew Jiang Ye had that cross?!
But of course, Jiang Ye wasn’t going to admit to anything.
He frowned and said, “What cross?”
“And isn’t the Replica Reflection Mirror already mine?”
He was visibly tense now.
Thinking—
No way this guy is shaless enough to take sothing he already sold to a Player and try to sell it again, right?
That’d be absolutely villain behavior.
Sure, it was Huang Qi who bought it, not him…
But if the Trader actually pulled that move, Huang Qi would probably be rolling in his grave, too angry to rest.
Thankfully—
The Trader wasn’t that shaless.
He clarified:
“The Replica Reflection Mirror you own… to be precise, is actually: Replica Reflection Mirror (Incomplete).”
“The full version of the Replica Reflection Mirror is still with .”
As he spoke, he seed to rember sothing and gave Jiang Ye a little lesson:
“Do you know what ‘(Incomplete)’ ans in these item nas?”
“Generally speaking, items labeled with (Incomplete) are all quite powerful.”
“And each of them has a complete counterpart.”
“The complete version can produce large numbers of its (Incomplete) versions.”
“For example—rcy of the Reaper (Incomplete), Abyssal Veil (Incomplete), Chaos Furnace (Incomplete), Fortunes Turn (Incomplete)…”
“All of these have corresponding complete versions.”
He spoke casually.
But Jiang Ye’s brain was practically buzzing!
Because those four (Incomplete) items the Trader just listed…
Were all things Jiang Ye had personally encountered!
rcy of the Reaper (Incomplete) was a one-ti-use item that Wang Chengjin used—
And it let him experience a resurrection like rewinding ti!
Even the incomplete version had already blown Jiang Ye’s mind—
So how terrifying would the complete version be?!
And the other three—Abyssal Veil (Incomplete), Chaos Furnace (Incomplete), Fortunes Turn (Incomplete)…
Those were all the rewards Little Bai had given him in advance for killing the Apartnt Trader!!
And this Trader?
He knew about all three!
Plus—none of those items were simple.
Abyssal Veil (Incomplete) could create a temporary abyssal zone that sealed off all spatial teleportation—
It was tailor-made to counter the Trader.
In fact, it was extrely effective against Light-type escape skills like Light and Shadow Escape.
Chaos Furnace (Incomplete) was also incredibly valuable…
Its effect is the fusion of multiple items into one!
Take Guan He’s Special-Grade Madman Mask, for example—it was created by fusing ten Madman Masks using the Chaos Furnace.
You could say that even an incomplete Chaos Furnace is more valuable than ten regular Madman Masks combined!
The only downside?
The incomplete version is single-use—after one use, it’s completely destroyed.
Then there’s Fortunes Turn (Incomplete)—a top-like item etched with eerie spiral patterns.
Its effect?
While the top spins, the Player receives insane buffs like “Undying,” “Invincible,” and “Ultimate Luck”!
With these buffs stacked together, a Player could be even harder to kill than soone in Death-State from Apartnt 4444!
Of course, being incomplete, it’s still only usable once, and the buff duration is tied to how long the top keeps spinning.
But even so—just the incomplete versions of these items are already ga-breaking...
Now, according to the Trader—
All incomplete items have complete counterparts!
And the complete versions can produce their own incomplete copies—just like a main body generating Replicas…
This…
Jiang Ye could barely wrap his mind around it.
What level of insane power must the full versions of those items have?!
But the one he cared about most was, of course—
The complete Replica Reflection Mirror!
The incomplete version Jiang Ye currently owned could only produce one Mirror Replica at a ti.
But if he had the complete version, he could generate multiple incomplete versions—
Which ant multiple Replicas at the sa ti!
This…
Jiang Ye couldn’t help but wonder—
Could it be that the Apartnt Trader’s army of Replicas…
Wasn’t a Talent, nor a Privilege,
But a result of using the full version of the Replica Reflection Mirror?!
That!
That made Jiang Ye want the full version so badly!!
This item—it was practically made for him!
For the first ti ever, Jiang Ye felt this intensely drawn to an item.
Not even the Raven Egg—which had gotten Little Bai all worked up—had made him feel like this.
And now, the Trader was saying—
He was willing to trade the complete version of the Replica Reflection Mirror…
Holy sh*t!
No wonder he’s the Trader. He really knows how to bait a deal!
Still, no matter how tempted Jiang Ye was—he wasn’t stupid.
He knew one simple truth:
No rchant ever makes a loss.
If the Trader was willing to swap the full Replica Reflection Mirror for the cross—
Then it could only an one thing:
The cross is worth even more than the mirror.
That thought made him all the more curious—
What exactly is this cross?
The Apartnt Boss wanted it.
Even Reincarnated Eeries like Guan He were after it…
Yet Reincarnated Eeries like the White-Clad Woman didn’t even seem to know it existed…
Jiang Ye’s mind churned. Then he probed the Trader:
“You an the cross that dropped from the 4444 Administrator?”
“What exactly is that thing? What makes it so valuable?”
He frowned—he could sense the Trader didn’t want to explain.
So he added coldly:
“If you won’t explain what that cross actually is, then there’s no way I’m making a deal.”
The Trader remained silent for a long mont.
Then finally, he spoke—his voice deep and slow:
“That cross… among the top-tier Privilege Players, it’s known as—
The Reincarnation Key.”
“They say that whoever possesses the Reincarnation Key… can reincarnate into the next Doomsday Apartnt when this one is destroyed.”
“Of course, this is only speculation among Privilege Players. No one can say for certain whether the cross really does that.”
Jiang Ye frowned. He didn’t buy it.
“You’re not even sure that’s true, yet you’re willing to trade your complete Replica Reflection Mirror for it?”
“If I’m not mistaken, that mirror is your trump card, isn’t it?”
“Aren’t you afraid that after trading it away, you won’t even live to see the Doomsday Apartnt’s end?”
His doubts were genuine.
But the Trader responded with a soft, odd little laugh.
Then suddenly, in an unusually frank tone, he said:
“Your quest has three phases, right?”
“Phase One: kill the Apartnt Administrator.
Phase Two: kill the Apartnt Trader.
Phase Three: kill the Apartnt Boss.”
“……”
The mont he said that, Jiang Ye felt… awkward.
But not surprised.
After all, the Trader had already revealed he knew the reward items for his quest.
So knowing the quest details wasn’t a stretch.
Jiang Ye nodded.
And then—
The Trader dropped a bombshell:
“To be honest, those Reincarnated Eeries…”
“Their vision is still too limited.”
“If they had access to more high-tier privilege intel, they never would’ve designed the task chain like that.”
“Because the correct order should be—”
“Phase One: Kill the Apartnt Administrator;
Phase Two: Kill all 26 Apartnt Bosses;
Phase Three: Kill the Apartnt Trader.”
When he said “kill the Trader,” his voice was so casual—like it was nothing to him.
And then, as if that wasn’t shocking enough, he added:
“If you accept my deal—”
“And if you’re confident in your own strength—”
“I can even grab an Apartnt Boss for you to kill. Right now.”
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