Chapter 246: Chapter 246

Yuan Yihong looked rough and fierce, and the moment he met Zhang Minghan, he called him “Zhang Softy”...

Jiang Ye thought this guy would be hard to persuade.

He was planning to coax him a bit more.

But unexpectedly, this big guy looked fierce but actually listened to reason.

His eyes rolled around, then suddenly lit up. He slapped his palm loudly and said with great enthusiasm:

“I think what you said makes sense!”

“If the shop owner wants me to check the [Shop Rules] and [Today’s Specials]... now that I think about it, it really feels like a hint for me!”

Saying that, he fixed his burning gaze on the two thin boards pasted on the wall.

He raised his right hand high and shouted, “I want to identify!”

Which one should he point at?

No matter, the first identification was free, the second only cost 10 Survival Points.

At worst, he would point at both!

The shop owner had to be hiding among those two masks!

Yuan Yihong was extremely confident, his entire demeanor full of heroic spirit, like a mighty general returning victorious from battle.

Jiang Ye felt this guy was really reckless.

At the same time, he was thinking about how to trick him into continuing to identify until the fourth time, when the disguise mask would be handed over...

After the air was silent for a while, the shop owner’s voice came, confirming to Yuan Yihong: “Are you sure you want to identify?”

Jiang Ye heard that strange tone.

Suddenly, a bad premonition surged in his heart.

But Yuan Yihong probably didn’t notice the subtle atmosphere.

His loud voice was merciless, directly declaring: “I’m sure I want to identify!”

“First identify the [Shop Rules], if it’s wrong then the [Today’s Specials]!”

After this guy confirmed his identification.

Unlike Jiang Ye’s successful identification before,

The voice from above was not the shop owner’s hearty laugh “Hahaha”.

Instead, it was the shop owner’s enraged curse:

“I’ll f***ing kill you!!!”

“Bringing nine trash masks as a surprise was bad enough...”

“You bastard! You f***ing! Is this how you helped me get Yuan Yihong’s disguise mask?!”

“And a VIP too? I’m f***ing blacklisting you! Blacklisting! Must blacklist, damn it!”

The furious voice bombarded Jiang Ye, cursing wildly.

Jiang Ye worried that the shop owner, now broken emotionally, might do something to him, so he quickly fled.

Taking advantage of his VIP customer status, he immediately disappeared from the shop.

This was really awkward!

He had genuinely intended to trick Yuan Yihong into a wrong identification...

Who would have thought the shop owner was actually hiding inside the [Shop Rules] mask!

A casual identification actually made Yuan Yihong succeed...

Who could Jiang Ye complain to!

The key was, he really did not expect the shop owner to be stupid enough to hide in the Shop Rules mask.

With so many masks in the shop, randomly picking one to hide behind would hardly get identified so directly.

But deliberately hiding inside the Shop Rules mask, any customer with a brain would think in that direction and identify it right away!

With such intelligence, and still being the shop owner? He’d be bankrupt for sure! Googlᴇ search novel⁂fire.net

Really pathetic and reckless, no words to describe...

What Jiang Ye didn’t know was—

The shop owner hiding in the Shop Rules this time was tailor-made for Yuan Yihong.

Yuan Yihong was an old customer.

His personality was that of a rough brute.

He had some strategy in big matters but rarely paid attention to details.

Besides, he had touched the Shop Rules before when he came to the store.

So he naturally assumed the Shop Rules couldn’t be a mask.

Therefore, for this event, there was no way he would identify the Shop Rules...

Emmm, if Jiang Ye hadn’t “coaxed” him...

Yuan Yihong wasn’t really stupid.

Once he heard the shop owner’s angry curses, he quickly reacted—

“Good kid! Trying to trick me, huh? Luckily, I’ve always been lucky!”

He glanced arrogantly at the appearing shop owner, reminding:

“I remember the shop owner told me before — honesty is the foundation, it’s the shop owner’s identity constraint on you.”

If it weren’t for this constraint, the shop owner could have lied when others identified, claiming their success was wrong.

Because of the identity’s restriction, he couldn’t cheat.

He could only scowl and give Yuan Yihong the VIP customer status.

Then he had to redeem the other two promised items.

Of course, Jiang Ye, who had already run away, naturally didn’t know what happened afterward in the shop.

He only knew the shop owner didn’t directly cancel his VIP status as the curses suggested.

But it was obvious that next time he went to get masks from the shop...

He would definitely face retaliation...

However, Jiang Ye was not worried.

After putting the modified [Enforcer Mask] and [Madman Mask] into the clone shared space,

The slaughter operation by the secret clone Qu Xing could officially begin.

He had long selected more than a dozen administrators who could be killed immediately.

But before actually moving, there was one hidden problem that troubled him greatly.

For Jiang Ye now, killing administrators was really not difficult.

The hard part was how to minimize the disturbance caused.

If he killed administrators straightforwardly, even if it caused noise, it wouldn’t matter.

It would only make other administrators fearful, realizing a powerful new player was killing administrators.

Even if they reported it to the apartment owner, the owner’s hands wouldn’t reach the novice apartment before the light-element threat was completely removed.

But the problem was, Jiang Ye’s method of killing administrators was not ordinary.

He planned to use Qu Xing’s Glyph Pattern Ability to turn administrators into clones.

Then clones would kill clones, then revive clones, achieving clone transformation effects.

To accomplish this, it would be like killing the 1010 administrator before.

Other administrators would first receive an announcement that an XX administrator was killed.

Then they would receive another announcement that the same XX administrator revived.

If such abnormal announcements appeared once, it might be fine.

If they appeared continuously...

No matter how dumb those administrators were, they would sense something was wrong.

So Jiang Ye hesitated.

Should he ignore the announcements, letting other administrators guess wildly and figure out countermeasures?

Or should he come up with a way to solve the announcement problem?

But what could he do?

Qu Xing had thought for a long time and still hadn’t found a good solution even after obtaining the [Enforcer Mask] and [Madman Mask].

Now it seemed he could only ignore this hidden danger and let the administrators get restless...

Fortunately, on the other side, the light clone in the Mirror Palace secret realm had just discovered a major piece of good news!

While sensing that the fake Lu Renjia clone was strolling around the Mirror Palace like walking a dog,

He let the real Lu Renjia (light clone) stay long enough in the same Mirror Palace grid.

Of course, just by itself, no clone was generated in that grid.

Until Lu Renjia clone ran to another grid and waited a moment, he indeed sensed—

Another clone had appeared in the grid where he had stayed for quite a while!

This time, because Chen Cang wasn’t there, Jiang Ye directly returned.

Lu Renjia ran back into the Mirror Palace where the clone had appeared.

So he saw with his own eyes—

A fake Lu Renjia with a body obviously bearing a glassy texture was slowly condensing under the illumination of six mirrors!

And just as real Lu Renjia and fake Lu Renjia locked eyes,

Jiang Ye, as the real Lu Renjia, did not hesitate to fire a True Vision Eye.

However, the information obtained was only two simple lines:

[Special Status: Undying and Immortal]

What the hell?! Undying and immortal?!

That was freaking outrageous!

Moreover, judging by the name “Void Mirror Puppet,” this thing was obviously a special secret realm ghost born from the Void Mirror Palace secret realm...

But honestly, neither Zhang Minghan’s memory nor Wan Xin’s game guide had any information about this peculiar secret realm “Void Mirror Palace.”

That was understandable.

After all, this thing seemed to be born only after the Dice of Fate exploded the entire Void Mirror Palace.

Whether in the game or in the current Doomsday Apartment, this situation should never have appeared before.

So he could only rely on himself to research and analyze it.

Jiang Ye first sensed—

This existence identical in appearance to Lu Renjia truly belonged to his clone.

He could use clone skills on it.

But this clone was essentially more like a fake clone formed by a player taking his face.

This fake clone was essentially not his real clone but controlled by the player’s self-consciousness.

Normally, Jiang Ye needed to kill those fake clones first.

Then revive them as clones to destroy the player’s self-consciousness inside, completely transforming them into his own clones.

So far, Jiang Ye had specially classified his clones into several categories.

The highest rank in his mind was [Generated Clone].

As the name suggests, it was a clone personally generated by him, sharing consciousness and synchronizing all information.

Almost equal to [Generated Clone] was [Transformed Clone].

As the name implies, [Transformed Clone] was a player completely transformed into his clone, such as Wu Ying, Zhang Minghan, or administrator Luo Qi.

These clones eventually shared consciousness and synchronized information with him.

Apart from not having the identity “Jiang Ye,” they were basically the same as generated clones.

One rank lower than these two types was [Puppet Clone].

Puppet Clones were a new clone type obtained after Clone 1 learned the [Puppet Clone] skill.

They were also personally generated by Jiang Ye, costing 1 Survival Point each.

However, these Puppet Clones temporarily had no self-consciousness.

The advantage was they didn’t consume his main body’s energy; the downside was they weren’t as flexible as clones sharing consciousness.

Lower than this was [Tool Clone].

Clones created using items like Phantom Lamp or Clone Replica Mirror were tool clones.

They had no self-consciousness and were not considered living beings.

Their main use was as tools for skills like [Clone Fusion] or [Clone Swap], hence called [Tool Clone].

Oh, and the string puppets made from silk thread blood dolls, costing ten hairs each, were excellent tools for [Clone Substitute Death].

After [Tool Clone], the lowest rank of clone he called [Fake Clone].

That referred to players who used disguise masks or other disguise methods to become his likeness.

These [Fake Clones] could still be sensed by Jiang Ye, and he could use clone skills on them.

But because player self-consciousness existed inside these clones, Jiang Ye couldn’t easily use clone skills on them to avoid detection.

Due to player self-consciousness, [Fake Clones] were ranked the lowest in his clone hierarchy and technically weren’t his true clones.

However, all those [Fake Clones] had the potential to evolve into [Transformed Clones].

So the potential value of [Fake Clones] was still high.

[Generated Clone] > [Transformed Clone] > [Puppet Clone] > [Tool Clone] > [Fake Clone].

[Puppet Clones] could upgrade to [Generated Clones].

[Fake Clones] could upgrade to [Transformed Clones].

By categorizing them this way, sensing so many clones became logically clear.

As for the “Void Mirror Puppet” clone produced by the Void Mirror Palace secret realm...

Jiang Ye temporarily classified it as a [Fake Clone].

So his first reaction was naturally—

Try to see if he could turn it into a [Transformed Clone]!

Thinking this, he didn’t hesitate to attack it.

But the result was the same as when Chen Cang attacked the fake Lu Renjia.

Jiang Ye’s attack shattered the newly generated fake Lu Renjia, but it quickly restored itself!

The undying and immortal effect was clearly no joke.

Then, Jiang Ye casually created a tool clone.

Next, he let the tool clone fuse with the SS-rank ultimate one-for-one Fu Xi clone.

When using the ultimate one-for-one this way, the replaced one was the tool clone.

The terrifying shadow condensed by the ultimate one-for-one locked onto the Void Mirror Puppet in a death-locking pose.

Jiang Ye almost thought the Mirror Palace grid would be destroyed again.

The Mirror Palace grid he was in was indeed briefly destroyed.

But like breaking the mirror surface with blood before,

The shattered mirrors quickly reformed with broken bodies.

The entire Mirror Palace grid restored itself in an instant.

Jiang Ye did not hear any notification in his mind.

As expected! The Void Mirror Puppet, blasted by the ultimate one-for-one to not even have glass shards left, somehow reformed its body with unknown materials!