"mory loss??"
The Cardboard Box Monster's two pitch-black holes emitted a slightly strange sound, clearly tinged with suspicion.
Those two holes suddenly rged into one.
It resembled a dark vortex, aid directly at Li Ku in his Death State.
Li Ku could vaguely sense that the black hole was probably capable of sucking people inside.
However, in his Death State, he wouldn't be sucked in.
Sure enough, after this attempt yielded no results, the black hole atop the Cardboard Box Monster's head split back into two holes, from which a voice sounded again:
"Judging by your condition, it shouldn't be mory loss, but rather..."
"You appear to have the identity of a player, but in reality... you were probably recently possessed by a monster, right?"
"Moreover, judging by your strength, you're likely a Reincarnation Ghost."
"But would a Reincarnation Ghost possess a player?"
"And... a 'mory-less' Reincarnation Ghost? Could also be an ignorant monster that never had mories from the start?"
"But an ignorant monster would find it very difficult to grow into a Reincarnation Ghost, and couldn't possibly be as strong as you."
"With your strength, you should be a Reincarnation Ghost whose mindset changed, who actively discarded so mories."
"Then, during the process of discarding mories, improper handling caused you to forget so common-sense mories as well."
"That should be it... right?"
The Cardboard Box Monster analyzed on its own, its tone sotis confident, sotis doubtful.
anwhile, Li Ku learned from the information it revealed—
This Cardboard Box Monster really did seem to be a monster!
And according to what it said, monsters and players seed to be two different identities.
And monsters could possess players? Transition from monster to player?!
And among monsters, there also seed to be distinctions.
Ignorant monsters without mories were probably the weakest type of monster?
And Reincarnation Ghosts... were a type of powerful monster?
Wait? Reincarnation Ghost?
Reincarnation?
Feeling shocked and suspicious in his heart, Li Ku continued to fish for information by playing along:
"So it seems, I should be a Reincarnation Ghost who possessed a player, and then for so reason lost many mories, including common sense."
"So... what is a Reincarnation Ghost? Where does the experience of 'reincarnation' co into play?"
The Cardboard Box Monster fell silent for a mont, then continued its explanation:
"A Reincarnation Ghost is the kind of monster that can reincarnate within the Novice Apartnt."
"Simply put, it can survive from this Novice Apartnt to the next Novice Apartnt."
"Novice Apartnt..." Li Ku muttered these four words, "So the place I'm in now is called the 'Novice Apartnt'?"
"Obviously!" The Cardboard Box Monster retorted with exasperation, but quickly considering this was a formidable Reincarnation Ghost senior, it hurriedly continued explaining, "The Novice Apartnt is a temporary apartnt set up by the Doomsday Apartnt when accepting new players, or rather, screening new players."
"This temporary apartnt only exists for 11 days each ti."
"After 11 days, the old temporary apartnt is destroyed. Then the Doomsday Apartnt generates a new temporary apartnt to accept a new batch of players."
"New players generally refer to this 11-day temporary apartnt as the Novice Apartnt."
"However, on the Eighth Day, veteran players from the Doomsday Apartnt will descend upon the Novice Apartnt to further screen new players from the veterans' perspective."
"Of course, the veteran players will also take away a batch of monsters, usually choosing to help monsters possess new players, allowing the monsters to obtain player identities, and then go to the Doomsday Apartnt as players."
"The remaining monsters that nobody wants, unable to reach the Doomsday Apartnt and unwilling to be destroyed along with the Novice Apartnt, can find their own way to reincarnate within the Novice Apartnt."
"The 'reincarnation' of a Reincarnation Ghost ans exactly this."
The Cardboard Box Monster seed to guess what Li Ku would ask next and directly added, "If you're going to ask how to reincarnate, then I'm sorry, I don't know! I'm not a Reincarnation Ghost!"
"You, as a Reincarnation Ghost, are indeed very powerful among all monsters. But I advise you, it's best not to offend too much."
"Because I am a monster with veteran players as my backers."
"When the Eighth Day of this cycle's Novice Apartnt arrives, veteran players will co find to help possess a newcor and obtain a player identity."
While saying this, the Cardboard Box Monster seed quite confident.
This was probably also why it hadn't fled directly like the bandaged monster in Room 4949.
Li Ku summarized the information it revealed in his mind, unconsciously falling into deep thought.
As for Jiang Ye...
He was sowhat shocked, sure.
But the information revealed by this Cardboard Box Monster wasn't exactly unfamiliar to him.
Damn it...
Isn't this just the situation during the Doomsday Apartnt era?!
So... damn it, did he really travel back to the Doomsday Apartnt era again?!
Could it be...
That the hidden space on the 49th floor is actually a passage connecting two tilines?
Huh??
Then what does the mutation in the Abyss Restricted Zone count as?
Thinking this, Jiang Ye directly asked the Cardboard Box Monster:
"Have you heard about the mutation in the Abyss Restricted Zone while in the Novice Apartnt?"
Whether it could "see" Jiang Ye or sensed him as a fellow monster, the Cardboard Box Monster didn't seem particularly surprised by Jiang Ye's sudden voice.
The two black holes on its head directly responded:
"The mutation in the Abyss Restricted Zone... wasn't that sothing that happened on the Eighth Day?"
This answer made Jiang Ye freeze completely.
He was about to ask more.
But Li Ku beat him to it, questioning the Cardboard Box Monster: "You just said that on the Eighth Day, veteran players will co pick you up..."
"This ans the current ti is not the Eighth Day."
"But how did the mutation in the Abyss Restricted Zone beco sothing that happened on the Eighth Day?"
Asking this, Li Ku belatedly realized...
Perhaps what the Guiwen ntioned about the 'mutation in the Abyss Restricted Zone' didn't happen on the Eighth Day of this Novice Apartnt, but on the Eighth Day of the previous Novice Apartnt?
Just as he thought this, the Cardboard Box Monster's explanation turned out different from what he imagined—
"The Eighth Day I ntioned isn't the Eighth Day of the Novice Apartnt, but the Eighth Day of the entire Doomsday Apartnt."
"The Novice Apartnt and the Doomsday Apartnt have a subordinate relationship."
"You can think of the Doomsday Apartnt as the branches of a tree, and the Novice Apartnt as the leaves."
"A tree's leaves grow and wither over ti... then continue growing and withering the following year."
"The Novice Apartnt is like that; it grows within a survival cycle, then withers."
"And the Doomsday Apartnt is that tree; it's always there."
"The survival cycle of each Novice Apartnt is 11 days."
"And the survival cycle of the Doomsday Apartnt is also 11 days."
"But these two 11-day periods don't follow the sa ti standard."
"Within one day of the Doomsday Apartnt, many 11-day Novice Apartnts can be derived."
"It's like a human lifespan versus a mayfly's lifespan."
"Within a human's lifeti, over thirty thousand mayflies complete their lifespans."
With this explanation, Li Ku sowhat understood: "So..."
"The mutation in the Abyss Restricted Zone happened on the Eighth Day according to the Doomsday Apartnt's ti standard?"
"Then what day is it now according to the Doomsday Apartnt's ti?"
The Cardboard Box Monster answered: "The Ninth Day, and it's just the beginning of the Ninth Day."
"The mutation in the Abyss Restricted Zone directly destroyed the final Novice Apartnt cycle of the Eighth Day."
"And the Novice Apartnt we're in now is precisely the first cycle of the Ninth Day's Novice Apartnts."
Hearing this...
Jiang Ye increasingly felt that, damn it, could this really be travel between two tilines?
A large group of players traveled to the Doomsday Prison era.
anwhile, the Doomsday Apartnt era directly switched from the Eighth Day to the Ninth Day!
So when he returned from the Doomsday Prison era to the Doomsday Apartnt era... he returned to the early stage of the Doomsday Apartnt's Ninth Day?
Hiss...
In that case, those "ti-traveling" existences directly skipped the special ti node of zero o'clock in the Doomsday Apartnt?
Originally, at zero o'clock on the Ninth Day, beings infected with Lightburn should have been erased.
But those existences, through "ti travel," skipped zero o'clock?
Jiang Ye suddenly couldn't help but suspect...
That Evil Infant Wulie who survived from the Seventh Day to the Eighth Day...
Could it be that he also skipped the zero o'clock of the Eighth Day through such ans, which is why he wasn't erased during the zero o'clock settlent?
Even...
The reason Evil Infant Wulie rejuvenated and beca an "evil infant," could it be that before the ti travel at the end of the Eighth Day, he had already traveled to the Doomsday Prison era once?!
This...
Is indeed possible!
If they hadn't already experienced ti travel...
How could existences like the Formation Master predict the existence of ti travel?
For a mont, nurous thoughts flashed through Jiang Ye's mind.
He couldn't help but ask the Cardboard Box Monster again: "Do you know what happened to Salvation in the Doomsday Apartnt?"
"Wasn't he infected with Lightburn? Did he survive the Eighth Day?"
The Cardboard Box Monster clearly found this strange—wasn't it agreed you had mory loss? You seem to know quite a lot?
However, since it wasn't particularly secret information anyway, it naturally had no reservations and continued answering:
"Salvation is definitely dead. Not only Salvation died, but all those various powerful seniors who were formidable on the Eighth Day seem to have been purged."
"However, so monsters say they died in that terrifying mutation of the Abyss Restricted Zone;"
"Other monsters say they died in the Ninth Day Major Reshuffle."
"The so-called 'Major Reshuffle' is also a term that just beca popular."
"It's said that those top-tier permission seniors, VIP Players, etc., experience a major reshuffle at zero o'clock of the Doomsday Apartnt."
"It's said the major reshuffle at zero o'clock on the Eighth Day killed almost half of the top seniors."
"And the major reshuffle on the Ninth Day seems to have purged 99% of the top-tier seniors!"
"Leaving others aside, it seems even the administrators of our Novice Apartnt were all purged..."
While saying this, the Cardboard Box Monster's tone, besides gossip, carried so sighing and lingering fear.
Listening to it, Jiang Ye couldn't help but suspect...
Could the "ti travel" he understood actually be the Ninth Day Major Reshuffle itself?
It's just that all players involved didn't know it was the Ninth Day Major Reshuffle?
That seems a bit inconsistent...
After all, players like Zhou Qiming, Cheng Lin, etc., don't seem to et the conditions for being drawn into a "Major Reshuffle."
However...
Could it be that the Ninth Day Major Reshuffle is different from the Eighth Day's?
No longer only players with specific permission identities from the Eighth Day get drawn into it?
But players from other specific regions also get drawn into it?
For example, the Abyss Restricted Zone, the black ice domain?
Even, in the Cardboard Box Monster's understanding, the entire Novice Apartnt destroyed by the mutation in the Abyss Restricted Zone...
Were actually all drawn into the Ninth Day Major Reshuffle?
Actually...
Whether it's the Ninth Day Major Reshuffle or ti travel...
Both could be explained.
You could directly understand the Ninth Day Major Reshuffle as ti travel.
And thinking carefully, whether it's the Ninth Day Major Reshuffle or ti travel... they actually share so commonalities.
Both have a key detail worth noting—
Ti!
The Ninth Day Major Reshuffle is destined to happen at "zero o'clock" on the Ninth Day.
Ti travel is equivalent to directly reversing ti.
So, these two...
Perhaps are inextricably linked to the [Moon Phase Clock] on the Doomsday Apartnt Rooftop?
The zero o'clock of the Doomsday Apartnt itself is determined by the [Moon Phase Clock].
And the matter of ti travel...
Is clearly closely related to the Blood Pool that extends iron chains to restrain the [Moon Phase Clock].
After all, at this mont, Jiang Ye and Li Ku seem to have used the Blood Pool Elevator within the Blood Pool to return to the current Doomsday Apartnt era...
Huh? Wait?!
Jiang Ye suddenly thought again—
If there really is a passage connecting two tilines within the "Blood Pool"...
Then after ti traveling from the elevator at the bottom of the Blood Pool in the Doomsday Prison era...
Why didn't he and Li Ku appear in the space at the bottom of the Blood Pool on the Doomsday Apartnt Rooftop?
Instead, they ca out from the red-lit elevator in the Novice Apartnt?
From this, it's not hard to see that the red-lit elevator also seems to have so issues.
And then...
The previous apartnt boss also created a hidden space on the 49th floor of the red-lit elevator in Apartnt 9999.
Could it be that the hidden space created by the apartnt boss is the passage connecting two tilines?
Jiang Ye felt that was probably unlikely?
Does the apartnt boss have that much power?
A more likely situation might be—
They just created a space in the red-lit elevator of the Novice Apartnt that leads to so secret within the Blood Pool.
Perhaps even they themselves didn't know that secret within the Blood Pool connects two tilines?
These temporarily unclear things, Jiang Ye temporarily stopped thinking about them.
During his brief period of contemplation, Li Ku was also calculating the ti agreed upon with Lin Dong.
Finally, with an urgent tone, he asked the Cardboard Box Monster:
"So the elevator in this 49th-floor corridor belongs to the Novice Apartnt's elevator, and it leads to other floors of this Novice Apartnt?"
The Cardboard Box Monster couldn't nod, but answered straightforwardly: "Of course."
After saying this, it added: "However, players in the red-lit elevator can also get drawn into so strange secret realms at any ti."
Li Ku fell silent for a mont, then said solemnly: "I'll go take a look inside the elevator first, then co back later to learn more from you."
Saying this, his shadowy form swiftly flew towards the red-lit elevator on the 49th floor.
Reaching the elevator, he checked the ti on the Prison watch and called out to Jiang Ye: "Guiwen? Are you there?"
"Or... you don't want to go back with ?"
Jiang Ye fell silent for a mont, then stated: "If I guess correctly, simply returning to the elevator won't take us back."
As soon as the words fell, Li Ku, precisely at the 180-second mark, pressed the button to open the elevator door.
With a "ding," the opened elevator was indeed empty, with no sign of Lin Dong or the others.
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