"......"
Yang Wenchao's expression was starting to look more and more like he was constipated.
Deep down, he really wanted to curse.
F**king “Third Big Leg”!
As your so-called “third big leg,” can I hit you?!
Seriously, can I?!
Obviously not!
Yang Wenchao was feeling...
A kind of unexplainable frustration—and a twinge of envy.
This Jiang Ye, isn’t he just stupidly lucky?!
More accurately, that bald guy of his is way too freaky!
A cross-apartnt NPC—how rare is that?!
And he managed to survive an encounter with one!
Even f**king got a quest from the NPC!
NPC quests aren’t always difficult or full of rewards, but during the beginner phase, they’re definitely rare as hell!
And he just happened to get one!
Plus, he's thriving in Apartnt 9999...
While Yang Wenchao didn’t even have the guts to step foot in Apartnt 9999!
The worst part? That guy isn’t even a ga player!
Seriously...
No comparison, no harm—right?
But that kind of person, impossible to compare with, has beco Jiang Ye’s backer...
And if it was just that one backer, fine.
It’s not like the bald guy can stick to Jiang Ye 24/7 and guard him around the clock.
But now there's suddenly this “Blood Mist Guy” who looks exactly like Jiang Ye...
Yang Wenchao took a deep breath, glanced at the “Blood Mist Guy,” then looked at the smug Jiang Ye and lowered his voice:
“In the Doomsday Apartnt setting, the weirder sothing is, the stronger it tends to be.”
“I rember there’s this creepy item called the ‘Cursed Puppet.’”
“Its trait is that it targets a specific creature within its range and mimics its expressions, movents, voice, etc.”
“Through imitation, it gradually erodes the target’s soul.”
“In the end, the Cursed Puppet replaces the creature it mimics, and the original becos the puppet…”
On the surface, it sounded like he was just describing a strange item.
But the pointed glance he gave to the Blood Mist Guy made it clear what he was getting at.
Jiang Ye wasn’t dumb—he picked up the implied aning imdiately.
The darkened replica got it too—its pitch-black eyes glanced at Yang Wenchao.
That look alone put huge pressure on Yang Wenchao.
But Jiang Ye stayed chill, waving it off casually like it was no big deal:
“Eh, whatever.”
“With my current strength, if the Blood Mist Guy really wanted to do sothing to , there’s nothing I could do about it anyway.”
“So worrying would be pointless.”
“If the sky’s gonna fall, it’s not like I can hold it up.”
Saying that, Jiang Ye suddenly straightened his expression and looked at Yang Wenchao seriously.
Yang Wenchao felt his heart skip a beat from the sudden shift in tone.
Jiang Ye said solemnly:
“Brother Chao, you once said—”
“You don’t believe good people get rewarded, but those who help you, Yang Wenchao, will definitely be repaid.”
“Well, I’m giving that sa sentence back to you—”
“Anyone who helps , Jiang Ye, will definitely be repaid!”
“I haven’t forgotten that you went to the rooftop to save .”
With that, he flipped his hand and pulled out a bracelet, handing it to Yang Wenchao:
“This is a Lucky Bracelet.”
“I think my good luck might’ve co from wearing it.”
“Right now, it probably has about half an hour of luck left, so I’m giving it to you, Brother Chao, to repay you for saving my life!”
Jiang Ye looked absolutely sincere.
It made Yang Wenchao feel a bit awkward.
He looked at the Lucky Bracelet, feeling kinda conflicted.
After all, this kind of thing…
In the Doomsday Apartnt ga, forget gifting—items like this shouldn’t even pass through other people’s hands!
They’re too easy to ss with and trap people!
If you can’t even hand it over, gifting it is totally out of the question.
But...
A ga’s a ga.
Ga players have so experience.
But this is the Doomsday Apartnt’s beginner phase.
Beginner players definitely don’t have access to Blackened Crow Blood.
Plus, Jiang Ye isn’t even a ga player.
There’s no way he understands the chanics of the Lucky Bracelet, so naturally he wouldn’t use it to trick him.
So Yang Wenchao didn’t refuse. When he accepted the Lucky Bracelet, he even gave Jiang Ye a bit of insight:
“Lucky-type items in the Doomsday Apartnt usually co with a ti limit.”
“And there’s actually a hidden chanic with luck items—”
“The good luck a player gets from them doesn’t just co out of nowhere.”
“So experts on the forum analyzed this—”
“When players are in a lucky state, monster drop rates and chances of triggering positive buffs clearly increase.”
“But once the lucky state ends, drop rates actually go below average.”
“So strategy experts have speculated—”
“The essence of luck items is basically borrowing from the user’s future luck.”
“Usually, after the luck effect wears off, players go through a string of bad luck.”
“So the correct way to use luck items is to fight as many monsters as possible while the effect is active. Then once it’s over, log off for a while and let the unlucky part pass offline.”
“Even though this isn’t technically a ga, this trait probably still applies.”
“If you were wearing that Lucky Bracelet just now, then for the next while, it’s best to rest up and avoid taking risks.”
Only then did Jiang Ye learn about this kind of chanic.
His first thought was to ask—
What about the Misfortune Bracelet then?
Is that also borrowing from future misfortune? And once it ends, you get super lucky?
But of course, he couldn’t ntion the Misfortune Bracelet to Yang Wenchao.
Otherwise, wouldn’t that totally give him away?
Also, based on Jiang Ye’s own guess, he figured the Misfortune Bracelet might be just like that “Cursed Puppet” Yang Wenchao ntioned earlier.
It had already turned into so kind of cursed item.
So the misfortune it brought to players likely ca from the item itself.
Of course, Jiang Ye wasn’t actually sure whether the bracelet he gave Yang Wenchao—the one powered by his own blood—was really a Lucky Bracelet or a Misfortune Bracelet.
If it was still a Lucky Bracelet, then great, it counts as him repaying a favor.
But if it had turned into a Misfortune Bracelet, well… that’d just be Yang Wenchao’s bad luck.
As for him, he could at least use this as an experint to figure out whether his blood was like the auspicious Crow Blood or the cursed Blackened Crow Blood.
Yang Wenchao had no idea.
Seeing that there wasn’t much ti left on the Lucky Bracelet, he waved to Jiang Ye and said:
“That ‘Third Big Leg’ thing—I’ll just pretend you were joking.”
“No need to talk about repaying favors either. I an, it was the bald guy who insisted on rescuing you.”
“But I’ll still take this Lucky Bracelet. Just think of it as paynt for all the info you shared.”
“Since there’s still so ti left on it, I’m off to go grind and level up.”
“Ga players aren’t anything rare. As for Xing Man, that guy—you’d better not let him walk away alive.”
With that, Yang Wenchao slipped the Lucky Bracelet onto his wrist.
It clinked with a sharp “clang” against the bracelet he was already wearing.
Then, as if venting, he gave Xing Man a good kick.
As he turned to leave, he suddenly glanced toward the stairwell on the first floor.
Next mont, his figure flickered and vanished.
anwhile, Xing Man, who’d just been kicked again for no reason, was inwardly cursing.
But after thinking about what Jiang Ye and Yang Wenchao had talked about…
Then, as Jiang Ye’s gaze swept over to him again…
He felt a chill run down his spine!
“Jiang Ye, don’t listen to—”
But before he could even finish, Jiang Ye cut him off.
He also gave Xing Man a solid kick, then stepped onto his back and said seriously:
“Three questions. Answer them properly, and I’ll let you go.”
“R-Really?!” Xing Man looked stunned, but excitent lit up in his eyes fast.
He knew it!
These top students from Class 1 and Class 2 didn’t have the guts to kill!
Jiang Ye one-shotting Ran Ziyi had just been an accident in self-defense...
He wouldn’t kill him!
Hope flared up in Xing Man’s heart, and he quickly swore: “As long as you let go, I’ll answer everything honestly!”
“First question—”
“You ga players, other than having played the ga before, do you have any special advantages?”
“Like the announcents you hear, the abilities you awaken, or anything you had in the ga—did you bring any of that over?”
Xing Man didn’t think too hard before answering: “Before the apartnt fusion, I already talked this over with so classmates from Class 9!”
“I’ve got a few bros in Class 9 who also played the ga, and here’s what we figured out—”
“When ga players show up in the real Doomsday Apartnt, we don’t really get any perks!”
“The announcents we hear, the abilities we awaken—it’s all the sa as regular people.”
“And everything we had in the ga didn’t carry over to this apartnt.”
“The only real advantage was—”
“All ga players were initially placed on the 20th floor.”
That actually was a pretty solid benefit.
Access to Duel Rooms and the High-End Mall, right from the start.
And more importantly, they could exchange Survival Points for money from the apartnt rchants.
That reminded Jiang Ye of sothing, and he speculated further:
“In your ga, the pay-to-win part is probably Survival Points, right? Can killing people in the ga earn you Survival Points?”
Xing Man shook his head. “You guessed right. In the ga, the pay-to-win system is all about buying Survival Points.”
“When you et apartnt rchants, that’s how the ‘first recharge bonus’ is triggered.”
“And players killing each other doesn’t grant any Survival Points.”
“Besides that, Survival Points in the ga can also be used for resurrection.”
“But in the real apartnt, I’ve tested it—Survival Points don’t have resurrection power.”
D*mn, he even tested that?
This Xing Man must’ve killed quite a few people.
Now that Jiang Ye had a rough understanding of the in-ga setup, he asked another:
“Second question—
“Do you know how to get Survival Stones?”
At this, Xing Man frowned:
“In the ga, Survival Stones were actually easy to get.”
“Even though it looked like an apartnt setting, the ga was packed with monster spawn zones—”
“At the end of each floor’s hallway, there were dedicated dungeon entrances; the higher the floor, the harder the dungeon.”
“Then in the Red Light Elevator, you had a chance to trigger special secret realms.”
“Also, every player’s assigned apartnt room ca with a personal instance, which contained Survival Stones.”
“Usually, players would grind in the far end of the hallway, since the monsters there had set levels and the risk of accidents was lower.”
“Pay-to-win whales usually went for high floors or the Red Light Elevator.”
“The secret realms triggered in the Red Light Elevator always had monsters way above your level—so even whales often got wiped out.”
“But the ga’s horror effects were really well done, and the secret realms were super thrilling, so whales didn’t mind getting wiped.”
“As for the personal apartnt room instances, they were generally for fun and could be entered repeatedly.”
“For example, so girls would be assigned tasks like growing flowers, planting veggies, or feeding cute animals—they’d spend ages in there just enjoying themselves.”
“My personal instance in the ga was raising snakes. And those snakes could even be used to play a Snake ga -_-||”
“Besides that, during holidays in real life, the ga would run top-up promos and apartnt events.”
“Like during Chinese New Year, there were limited-ti dragon and lion dance skins, plus group events where players worked together to blow up the Nian Beast. It was a whole vibe.”
“Of course, that was all in the ga.”
“In this real Doomsday Apartnt…”
“So far I’ve only managed to find the dungeon at the end of the hallway. I haven’t figured out how to trigger the secret realms in the Red Light Elevator or the personal instances in our apartnt rooms.”
Yikes...
Jiang Ye had searched every corner of his own apartnt too and hadn’t triggered any personal instance either.
So he couldn’t help asking: “Then how did you trigger personal instances in the ga?”
“You’d tap on ‘Return to My Apartnt,’ and then just wander around the room—when you swipe the screen, anything clickable would open up the instance.”
Ah... yeah, that actually makes sense.
Gas are always flat-screen experiences.
You click around with a mouse on a computer, or swipe your finger on a phone screen...
Usually, anything on the screen that reacts is hiding sothing important.
Once you find those and poke around a bit, triggering a personal instance isn’t hard at all.
But in real life, yeah, it’s definitely more of a hassle than in a ga.
Still, now that it was confird that personal instances in player apartnts were how you got Survival Stones, Jiang Ye’s main body started seriously searching the apartnt room with Replica #3 and #4.
At the sa ti, through Replica #1, he asked Xing Man one last question:
“Are there any differences between apartnts with different numbers?”
“Like, apartnts with special numbers such as 6666 or 9999—do they have anything unique about them?”
Xing Man nodded. “There are, yeah. But I can’t say for sure if it’s the sa in real life as in the ga.”
“In the ga, apartnts with special numbers usually had so kind of special features.”
“For example, so of them had a Civil Affairs Bureau where you could get married in-ga;”
“So special-number apartnts were all-female, with an aesthetic, dreamy vibe;”
“There were even so with completely different gaplay—you didn’t need to grind or level up. Instead, you could just hang out with NPCs and play all sorts of random mini-gas, both solo and multiplayer...”
“As for the ones you ntioned, 6666 and 9999... I rember Apartnt 9999 was also known as the Pay-to-Win Apartnt, or the Strong Players’ Apartnt!”
“Like, if you made it onto the War God Ranking in the Duel Room, you could get a room in Apartnt 9999.”
“Yeah, get—like, completely free, no rent at all!”
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