Chapter 188: Chapter 188
The eerie pushpin, of course, came from Qu Xing’s Glyph Pattern Ability.
The pushpin was small, dark in color, and hard to notice in a dim environment.
Not to mention, Qu Xing’s SS-tier Dark-type Ability included the S-tier skill [Shadow Body], which was an absolute stealth god-skill!
So when he hid in the shadows and silently activated his Glyph Pattern Ability, most players couldn’t detect a thing.
By the time a stabbing pain hit the eye, panic would suddenly set in.
But by then—it was already too late!
Qu Xing used mental control through the pushpin, not to make the player do anything big,
but simply to control him into disguising as Jiang Ye.
This minor mental control went off without a hitch!
Then, a Replica Swap instantly sent him to the Administrator’s Secret Graveyard!
Because the switch happened just as the player was about to use the apartment’s teleportation device,
the nearby players also using the devices didn’t notice a thing.
They assumed the guy had simply teleported to another apartment.
Once Jiang Ye had moved the target to the Secret Graveyard, he wasn’t about to give him any chance to react.
Mainly because his Observer Replica was currently in a Personal Instance,
so he couldn’t use the [Fate Thread] bond ability to steal the guy’s full memory.
So Jiang Ye immediately used the Administrator-fused Fourth-Tier Entropy Scythe to one-shot him!
A familiar sequence, followed by a familiar prompt—
【Replica killed Replica. You may choose:
1. Convert Replica into Survival Points
Obviously going for revival—Jiang Ye made the choice without hesitation.
Immediately after, the guy who had just been one-shotted revived right there in the Graveyard.
Jiang Ye quickly pulled up his data panel.
【Ability: Hidden Weapon Mastery (A-tier)】
【Skills: Drunken Dream Needle (A), Piercing Nail (A), Flying Leaves Pluck Flowers (B), Explosive Caltrops (B)】
【Glyph Patterns: Fleshweaving (Tier 1), Art of Slaughter (Tier 1)】
This guy wasn’t bad at all...
Even though his Ability was only A-tier,
he had four skills, likely from using multiple Skill Scrolls.
More importantly—his stats were shockingly high, mostly in the 60–70 range!
Combat Power had broken 1300+!
Where’d he get such high stats?!
Jiang Ye took a closer look and quickly realized it was thanks to the [Art of Slaughter] Glyph Pattern.
Players with this ability could gain various benefits from killing.
First, as long as they killed living beings, they’d gain a Dark-type aura boost.
And once that dark aura reached a certain threshold, they’d have a chance to awaken a Dark-type Ability!
Any Glyph Pattern that could help awaken extra Abilities—was definitely no small deal!
Aside from that, Tier 1 [Art of Slaughter] granted temporary stat boosts during combat,
and permanent minor stat increases after each kill.
However, at Tier 1, the max permanent boost was 100 points.
To go beyond that, it’d have to evolve to Tier 2.
But upgrading this Glyph Pattern was tricky—it required a huge number of kills.
And that was just Tier 1—the difficulty of higher-tier evolution was downright absurd!
If this guy seriously planned to keep developing this Glyph Pattern,
he’d eventually become a mindless killing machine!
Still—any Glyph Pattern that increased stats? Jiang Ye was more than happy to have it.
Not to mention—the guy handed over 28 Survival Points for free.
Besides the 2 listed on his data panel,
Jiang Ye also checked his Survival Jade Token, which had 26 more points stored.
That said, Jiang Ye didn’t use those points for now.
Instead, he quickly performed a Replica Swap, sending this guy up to the Rooftop of Apartment 9999.
The entire process flowed smoothly, start to finish.
From an outsider’s view, it’d seem like he just teleported from the Rooftop of Apartment 4444
to Apartment 9999 using the teleportation device.
Something unexpected happened.
Jiang Ye had assumed he’d run into Lin Jing and the others,
who were also performing Cross-Apartment Operations.
But surprisingly, on the rooftop of Apartment 9999, he saw only Ouyang!
Where were Lin Jing and Zhou Qiming’s followers?
Had they not teleported over yet?
Or maybe—they had never planned to teleport to Apartment 9999 in the first place?
Jiang Ye felt something was off.
Sure enough, Ouyang looked surprised when he saw him:
“You came to 9999 too? Weren’t you—”
Mid-sentence, he suddenly stopped, frowning suspiciously: “You…”
D*mn—this Ouyang! Way too sharp!
Just a simple teleport mistake and he’s already suspicious?
Not having the full memory really is a pain in the a!**
If only the main body could unlock a skill that directly acquired replica memories!
Still, Jiang Ye didn’t panic.
He put on a calm face and said in a deep voice, “I came to 9999 for my own reasons.”
As he spoke, he activated Fleshweaving, transforming his face into Jiang Ye’s appearance.
Ouyang looked surprised, but with one Detection, he instantly saw through it—
this “Jiang Ye” had used Fleshweaving to disguise.
At the same time, the Detection skill also revealed that this guy’s panel
was definitely showing the name ‘Ge Ge.’
Even so, Ouyang’s frown only deepened...
“This kind of low-level disguise—who do you think you’re fooling?”
“You say you have your reasons… then what exactly are they?”
Could it be some special instruction from Zhou Qiming?
Jiang Ye wasn’t the only one who noticed Zhou Qiming’s resurrection in Apartment 4444.
All the players who had dealt with Zhou Qiming before had picked up on it too.
But for some reason, Zhou Qiming hadn’t contacted anyone.
Not even his own followers had heard from him.
They tried messaging him through their Survival Jade Tokens, but he never responded.
Ouyang and Lin Jing had originally assumed that the resurrected Zhou Qiming might be trapped
in one of the coffins in the Grave Mound Zone of the Underground Graveyard.
Their plan to request permission from the 4444 Administrator to visit Apartment 0000
was partly to probe the attitude of the new 4444 Administrator,
to see if there was any chance of getting into the Underground Graveyard again.
Unfortunately, this new Administrator of Apartment 4444 clearly wasn’t easy to deal with.
He wouldn’t even grant them passage to Apartment 0000.
So afterward, they didn’t dare bring up the idea of entering the Underground Graveyard again. Follow current novels on NoveI-Fire.ɴet
Zhou Qiming remained missing in action.
They had no idea what his situation really was.
But this Ge Ge… actually seemed like he’d received special orders from Zhou Qiming.
In fact, Ouyang couldn’t help but suspect—
Could this Ge Ge actually be Zhou Qiming in disguise?
Maybe, after his resurrection, to avoid being killed by Jiang Ye again,
he borrowed his follower’s identity to hide himself?
Dozens of possibilities flashed through Ouyang’s mind,
but strangely enough, not one of them was that Ge Ge was Jiang Ye in disguise...
Jiang Ye could pretty much guess the kind of mental gymnastics Ouyang was doing.
So he just acted even more calm and mysterious.
And to Ouyang’s question, he didn’t give any answer at all.
Instead, he shot Ouyang a cold warning glance and said flatly:
“None of your business. Mind your own mouth.”
Ouyang immediately fell silent and turned toward the Administrator Office on the 1st Floor of Apartment 9999.
Jiang Ye, still disguised as “Jiang Ye,” followed close behind.
And at that moment, in the Lobby on the 1st Floor,
the atmosphere inside the Administrator Office was even tenser than they had expected.
The moment they stepped into the lobby, they saw from a distance—
a woman who looked under forty, dressed in a black athletic outfit,
tapping the counter forcefully and glaring aggressively at the 9999 Administrator.
From this angle, Ouyang could only see the woman’s back.
But he had a full view of the 9999 Administrator’s face…
Jiang Ye had really become the Administrator of Apartment 9999!!
Even though he had already suspected it, actually seeing it hit Ouyang like a sledgehammer.
This guy actually solo-killed the 9999 Administrator?!
How the h*ll did he pull that off?!
Could it be that he used some Rookie King privileges after leveling up?
Or did he get help from the veteran players who arrived after midnight?
But those veterans couldn’t even leave Apartment 0000 the next day!
Besides, judging from the Apartment 9999 Group Chat,
Jiang Ye must’ve become the Administrator before midnight on Day Two!
He really killed the Administrator on Day One…
And not just any administrator—the strongest one: the 9999 Administrator!
Ouyang took in a sharp breath, holding it for so long his heart practically went numb from shock!
But then another thought hit him—
Since Jiang Ye had gone from Rookie King to Administrator,
that Rookie King privilege must’ve turned into a Privilege Item, right?
Ouyang’s breath quickened again,
his mind spinning with possibility after possibility.
But just then, he noticed something that stunned him even more—
The once godlike, seemingly out-of-reach Jiang Ye…
Was actually looking like the weaker side in front of that aggressive woman?!
While Ouyang was still frozen in surprise,
the woman seemed to sense his presence and turned to glance at him.
The moment she turned her head, Jiang Ye’s new Ge Ge Replica
hastily removed the “Jiang Ye” disguise and reverted to Ge Ge’s face.
Even so, when the woman’s gaze swept over them, both of them instantly went rigid,
not even daring to breathe.
They looked like they might get killed just by her glare.
Ge Ge Replica’s behavior mirrored Ouyang’s—pure fear and confusion about the woman’s identity.
But Jiang Ye actually knew—
This woman had captured a veteran Light-type Player alive!
And she was very likely a Defender!
She had come to the 9999 Administrator to request a Resident Registry.
Clearly, she wanted to investigate the identities of the Eerie Beings who died in Apartment 9999.
If among those dead Eerie Beings was someone she had been waiting for…
For the Light-type Replica, what awaited was a thousand cuts and slow death!
The only question was—
Would Light have any chance of escaping before being shredded to pieces?