Surviving the Doomsday Apartment—With Infinite Clones! Chapter 422: Death and Resurrection of the Pot

Chapter 422: Death and Resurrection of the Pot

This phenonon...

Was unexpected, yet seed to make sense in hindsight.

Just monts ago, when Lin Jing pressed his palm against the sphere, he transmitted the freezing effect to the entire sphere.

And now, this sphere could actually freeze like a normal living creature when struck by the Ice Crystal Tear Drop, and transmit the freezing effect to the beings inside the sphere.

Just as Jiang Ye stared at the frozen ice crystal sphere, slightly lost in thought...

The black cloth he had casually thrown onto the sphere after extracting it from the punk earlier began to autonomously "expand" for so unknown reason!

Originally a small, dense, pitch-black piece of cloth, it rapidly spread across the entire ice crystal sphere!

This phenonon could also be considered unexpected yet reasonable.

Jiang Ye had previously worn the black ribbon given by Lin Ling to suppress Lightburn.

That black ribbon could easily be stretched and deford.

Moreover, when he impersonated Salvation's cha on the apartnt rooftop, the leader of the Defenders' Alliance had revealed to him—

The "black cloth" he created to suppress Lightburn was quite crude.

Whereas the Defenders' Alliance had improvent thods that could give the "black cloth" more effects.

So now, this crude black cloth made by Jiang Ye being able to autonomously expand and grow larger wasn't really anything strange.

However...

The black ribbon Jiang Ye had seen before didn't seem to change in material or thickness during the stretching and expansion process.

It was like those offspring larvae in cryptobiosis could continue reproducing even in their dormant state.

But the black cloth currently attached to the sphere was different.

As it expanded across the sphere, it clearly showed a tendency to beco thinner and more transparent.

Whether it actually beca thinner was hard to determine.

But to the naked eye, it definitely beca more "transparent."

The originally thick, deep black color faded.

Finally, when the black cloth expanded to cover the entire sphere, its color beca a semi-transparent black.

Instead, the two figures inside the sphere appeared darker than when the sphere was transparent?

Jiang Ye stared unblinkingly at the semi-transparent black sphere, nurous thoughts flashing through his mind.

At this mont, he had two operations he could easily perform with just a thought—

The first was to retrieve the black cloth covering the sphere.

The second was to retrieve the Ice Crystal Tear Drop shot toward the sphere.

As his strength grew, he had gradually beco soone bold, with eccentric and crazy behavior.

He had previously dared to skin his own clone alive, searching manually for the Blood Realm Worm with unknown risks in the skull...

He had conducted plenty of bold experints.

Logically, he should be unrestrained now and experint freely as he wished.

However...

After a flurry of thoughts in his mind, he didn't act rashly.

Instead, he suddenly turned his gaze to Zhao Dongliu and asked aningfully:

"What next?"

Zhao Dongliu seed montarily stunned: "What?"

Jiang Ye raised an eyebrow, not avoiding the topic: "I'm asking, what should we do next? Retrieve the offspring larva infected with Lightburn, or the offspring larva that transford into black cloth?"

Zhao Dongliu didn't answer imdiately, his gaze deeply eting Jiang Ye's.

After a long while, his tightly pressed lips suddenly relaxed, his entire body easing up as he raised an eyebrow:

"Does this question count toward your question quota?"

"Heh, as expected." Jiang Ye continued to look deeply at this guy.

As expected, this Zhao Dongliu...

Was indeed Apartnt Boss Q!

Also Wu Ce, who was instantly killed by the Old Woman after exiting the Court of Disorder!

His ability regarding [Personality Split] really allowed him to be like a natural-born actor, effortlessly handling multiple identities!

Jiang Ye even sowhat suspected...

Whether this guy might have female version identities too...

For example, Lin Ling?

During the ti Lin Ling was out of contact, this guy appeared in the Court of Disorder...

This guy obtained the [Privileged One] Permission Iron Piece for Yuan Qiu.

And clearly had so connection with that Old Woman who also belonged to the Defenders' Alliance.

So although he possessed the Apartnt Boss Q permission identity from the Apartnt Faction, there was a high probability he was actually from the Defenders' Alliance!

Even more...

Jiang Ye sowhat suspected whether that so-called Alliance Leader Fu Li might also be one of this guy's personality split identities??

In an instant, various thoughts and conjectures flooded his mind.

Without evidence, Jiang Ye didn't jump to conclusions with his speculations.

He had considered using one question quota to completely uncover Apartnt Boss Q's full range of identities.

However, he ultimately had no intention of using his question quota for now.

He withdrew his gaze and looked back at the semi-transparent sphere.

At this mont, he actually felt a sense of panic, as if he was being led by the nose.

But...

It didn't matter.

Because he was also looking forward to seeing what would happen under Lin Ling's carefully laid plans.

Thus.

After a mont of silence in the air.

Jiang Ye spoke: "I certainly won't waste a question quota on this question."

"And since you don't seem to care either, that probably ans no matter how I operate, everything is under control?"

As he spoke, Jiang Ye didn't wait for this guy's response.

He raised his hand, retrieving the black cloth, retrieving the ice crystal...

He chose both available options simultaneously.

And Zhao Dongliu beside him indeed looked unconcerned, his gaze fixed intently on the massive sphere.

This ti, retrieving the Ice Crystal Tear Drop was indeed different from usual!

Under normal circumstances, when frozen players thaw, it only takes an instant for the frozen state to dissipate.

But this ice crystal sphere was different.

When the freezing effect was lifted, the entire sphere emitted cracking sounds like ice breaking.

And visibly—

After the black cloth withdrew, the sphere didn't return to pure transparency from its semi-transparent black state.

Instead, it remained semi-transparent.

And...

Accompanied by the ice-cracking sounds, obvious fissures appeared on the sphere's surface!

And those fissures, like the cracks on Tao Sheng's skull, also showed a deep black color!

Crack...

The ice-breaking sounds continued.

On the sphere covered with black fissures, it seed like ice fragnts were breaking off.

It also seed like an invisible carving knife was ticulously sculpting the ice crystal sphere.

Jiang Ye witnessed with his own eyes, keenly detecting—

The sphere's entire appearance was changing along with the cracking sounds!

Visibly, it transford from a perfect sphere to a teacup shape—slightly narrower at top and bottom, wider in the middle.

Overall, it looked...

Like a teapot without a handle or spout!

A teapot?

No!

"Is this the Jade Flask?"

Soon.

The ice-breaking cracking sounds stopped.

The entire sphere had transford into a very obvious flask body without a spout or handle.

Jiang Ye's gaze toward Zhao Dongliu beca increasingly certain.

Zhao Dongliu didn't answer, but his gaze toward the flask body clearly showed barely concealed excitent.

By now, the punk's heart-wrenching screams from Lightburn infection had already ceased.

He seed near death, his entire mosaic body appearing thin and blurry.

As if at any mont, he would completely vanish from this world.

Jiang Ye had a thought and casually threw the black cloth toward the punk again.

Then, he focused intently on looking toward the entire giant flask body.

He reached out to touch it, but still couldn't make contact.

But it didn't matter, he called out toward the flask body:

"Lin Jing? Wang Lingling? Still alive?"

Lin Jing remained motionless like a sleeping infant.

But the body belonging to Wang Lingling seed to respond to so summons, floating out...

Yes! Floating!

Wang Lingling looked exactly like Aladdin, floating out from the flask body!

Half of her body was outside the flask body.

The other half remained inside the flask body, faintly appearing in a smoke-like state!

Old classmates who knew Wang Lingling were dumbfounded.

And the bold, quick-thinking Lu Fang directly gasped in shock: "Aladdin??"

Unfortunately, this Aladdin didn't respond to him.

And anyone could see clearly—

This Aladdin·Wang had hollow, drifting eyes, like a soulless wandering ghost.

By now, other old classmates like Gao Chang and Bai Ruowan also gathered courage to approach.

They stared at Wang Lingling as if seeing a ghost, and the bolder ones called out to her softly.

Calls of "Aladdin" received no response.

Calls of "Wang Lingling" elicited so faint response.

Jiang Ye also took the opportunity to ask: "Do you rember that you're Wang Lingling?"

As he spoke, he intentionally reached out to touch this obviously transford "yin realm person" wandering spirit.

But he couldn't make contact.

Zhao Dongliu beside him beat him to it, throwing what appeared to be an ordinary protective talisman toward Wang Lingling.

That flash of red seed to bring a faint trace of living vitality to Wang Lingling's ghostly pale, drowned-ghost-like complexion.

But it was fleeting.

The protective talisman finally appeared on Wang Lingling's chest.

Then, she no longer responded to any calls regarding "Wang Lingling" and sank back into the flask body.

Jiang Ye's gaze fixed firmly on Zhao Dongliu.

Zhao Dongliu remained silent for a mont, then raised an eyebrow at him: "Even now, still not planning to waste a question quota?"

Jiang Ye raised an eyebrow, then suddenly smiled:

"If I'm not mistaken..."

"No matter who you are, or who you represent..."

"At least right now, there's one situation not under your control."

As he spoke, he rested his chin on his hand, seemingly organizing his thoughts, then soon said directly:

"The Formation Master's Ghost Valley Soul Shepherd Formation really seems quite impressive."

"Even in the Forbidden Zone, he can [Free Movent]?"

He deliberately emphasized the words "Free Movent."

Then continued: "However, this kind of [Free Movent] seems to have accidents too?"

"For example..."

"He transmitted the entire black ice domain into the Forbidden Zone."

"But actually, the black ice domain isn't within his field of vision."

"One could even say, it's not under his control."

"The entire domain that should be under control has lost contact with the Formation Master and the entire Defenders' Alliance..."

"So you proactively revealed yourself to , probably wanting to find a way out together?"

The air fell silent.

Zhao Dongliu in his white coat appeared clean and aloof, his lips slightly pressed, looking quite serious.

He didn't answer imdiately.

Jiang Ye took the opportunity to size him up.

After a mont, Jiang Ye smiled again:

"If I'm not mistaken..."

"The researcher Chen Ji ntioned by Zhou Yuling in the Defenders' Alliance, is that also you?"

"Has your research on the Forbidden Zone already involved... mining the world information stored in the Forbidden Zone?"

Regarding the "researcher" question, Zhao Dongliu's expression didn't change.

But the latter part about "Forbidden Zone storing world information" genuinely made Zhao Dongliu's gaze toward him tremble with shock.

However, he soon cald down and asked gravely:

"World information... Did the Nomadic rchant ntion this term to you?"

"No." Jiang Ye directly shook his head, "I guessed it myself."

These simple words once again turned the shock in Zhao Dongliu's eyes into ghost-like astonishnt!

He sized up Jiang Ye up and down for a long ti, seemingly unable to believe it.

He frowned: "Even if it's a guess, there should be so basis, right?"

Jiang Ye nodded: "The irreversible annihilation effect on players in the Forbidden Zone resembles gradual erasure."

"And the Forbidden Zone in my vision isn't pure white like you see."

"Instead, it looks like the snow screen of an old TV with no signal."

"I thought of dinsional collapse from the Dual-Vector Foil..."

He only briefly explained a few sentences, but Zhao Dongliu was shocked again: "Dual-Vector Foil?!"

"Are you saying we live in a Dual-Vector Foil world?"

As he spoke, he seed to co back to his senses, looked around, and corrected himself:

"More accurately, a kind of 'tri-vector foil' world?"

"Or perhaps, our perception makes us think we're in a three-dinsional world, but we're actually two-dinsional?"

Jiang Ye of course didn't answer, because he wasn't clear about it either.

Zhao Dongliu clearly didn't expect an answer either.

After a mont of silence, he looked at Jiang Ye with complex emotions and finally laid his cards on the table:

"Since you've already guessed this much, I might as well tell you—"

"You guessed correctly."

"Regarding the Jade Flask's revival... it's not just about reviving an ordinary individual."

"Because what we're deeply exploring is no longer 'revival' within the apartnt system."

"But rather, a deep exploration of death itself."

"Just as you easily 'guessed'..."

"The Defenders' Alliance has basically confird—"

"In the Doomsday Apartnt, all truly aningful 'deaths' point to the Forbidden Zone."

"Perhaps just as you 'guessed'..."

"Every 'day' we experience, and every living being..."

"Are preserved in the Forbidden Zone in a special information flow state."

"That is what you said—this void Forbidden Zone stores the entire world's information."

"Perhaps, the state of the world after destruction is exactly like this—empty, nothingness, pure white."

"Then, when the Doomsday Apartnt is reborn..."

"This pure white will release the world information, forming what we perceive as the 'Reincarnation' effect..."

Jiang Ye's heart pounded, he suddenly beca particularly curious about how those Reincarnators actually experienced reincarnation amidst this destruction and rebirth?

Like Administrator 4444 in the previous reincarnation, seizing ga players' bodies from ga NPCs?

That didn't seem quite right.

The reincarnation achieved in that situation seed different from the "destruction" and "birth" ford by the Forbidden Zone storing and releasing the world.

However...

Jiang Ye could almost be certain:

"Are there Reincarnators in your Defenders' Alliance?"

"So you can conduct experints seeking information from the Forbidden Zone?"

His tone was almost certain.

But Zhao Dongliu shook his head: "There are Reincarnators, but you're mistaken—"

"Our experints haven't succeeded."

"The Jade Flask revival you saw didn't mine the information stored in the Forbidden Zone."

"It can only be considered at most... her revival from residual information left in the world."

"That is to say, it's still revival within the apartnt system."