Chapter 261: Chapter 261

Jiang Ye thought to himself—

The problem is, Wang Lingling’s Lightburn and my Lightburn both actually come from "Huang Bo"!

If there was any difference, that would be strange!

But deep down, he knew very well.

No matter how seriously Zhou Yuling spoke, as if she just wanted to borrow blood for research,

In reality, she probably knew his blood was not ordinary.

The first to realize his blood was unusual was the White-Robed Woman, who discovered and informed him.

It was obvious that Zhou Yuling and the White-Robed Woman had a close connection.

Jiang Ye naturally couldn’t agree outright.

He frowned and said, “Wang Lingling was captured alive by you; you can research her however you want.”

“But asking me to lend my blood for research is a bit hard to accept.”

“After all, whether in ancient witchcraft or science fiction literature, blood is a very special existence.”

“Even in our Doomsday Apartment itself, some items require blood drops to recognize and bind to their owner.”

“Moreover, there’s this as a precedent…” He took out the drop of dark blood that could sense Huang Bo’s location with meaning, “Under these circumstances, how could I casually lend my blood to you for some experiment?”

“Or… are you not really asking to borrow but threatening?”

After Jiang Ye said this, the atmosphere in Room 2064 grew somewhat stiff.

Zhou Yuling’s personality was actually quite arrogant.

Earlier, Jiang Ye had seen from Wu Ying’s perspective her slapping that demon youth who shouted at her.

But facing Jiang Ye, Zhou Yuling was surprisingly polite.

The tension only lasted a moment before Zhou Yuling broke the silence and patiently explained again:

“In fact, what you worry about with witchcraft and such can never happen.”

She said as she took out a tiny glass bottle about the size of a finger joint.

Inside the bottle was about one-third dark-colored blood.

“This is Blackened Crow Blood.”

When Zhou Yuling spoke those words, her tone couldn’t help but grow sincerely solemn.

Then she took out a soil-yellow talisman paper.

With a snap of her fingers, the talisman ignited.

She carefully guided the burning talisman ashes into the small glass bottle.

At the same time, she solemnly explained:

“This is a very ordinary curse talisman.”

“If it were the blood of a normal player, the curse would fall upon that player…”

As Zhou Yuling said this, Jiang Ye already noticed—

That woman’s originally snow-white skin now showed a cold icy blue.

Even Jiang Ye, sitting nearby, felt the chilling aura.

Soon, her hair and eyelashes even crystallized into ice shards.

After Jiang Ye confirmed he saw this clearly, Zhou Yuling waved her trembling large hand as if pulling something out of her body. The rıghtful source is novel•fire.net

With a pinch, the chilling aura in the air slowly dissipated.

“It’s just an experiment, so it’s a small curse with an obvious effect.”

“The result is very clear—”

“I used Blackened Crow Blood, trying to curse the Blackened Crow.”

“But the result was— the curse ultimately fell upon me.”

“In other words, the Blackened Crow itself cannot be cursed through its blood.”

“By the same logic, using your blood cannot harm you either.”

“If you don’t believe me, you can try using your own blood for testing.”

She took out a clean small glass bottle and a soil-yellow talisman, handing both to Jiang Ye.

“You must also want to know what effect your blood has, right?”

“To be honest, if researched properly, the effects of player blood might even become an asset.”

“If your blood truly has some special effect, wasting it would be a shame.”

Looking at the glass bottle and talisman, Jiang Ye suddenly said to her:

“The effect of the hidden Light-element aura in the ‘HIV blood’— could it be that your Defenders’ Alliance researched that as well?”

Zhou Yuling did not deny it; after a moment’s thought, she actively shared some information:

“Actually, after many players enter the Doomsday Apartment, diseases on their bodies are automatically cleared, including HIV.”

“In other words, even if someone has HIV, once entering the Novice Apartment, the HIV is eradicated. Their blood is no longer ‘HIV blood.’”

The ‘HIV blood’ appearing in the apartment is from players infected after entering the apartment??

This news is quite explosive, isn’t it?!

Zhou Yuling probably guessed what he was thinking and explained again:

“The earliest ‘HIV blood’ researched by the Defenders’ Alliance was indeed produced in the Doomsday Apartment.”

“But not all players entering the apartment have their diseases eradicated.”

“Some people retain their diseases.”

“And according to professional researchers from our Defenders’ Alliance—”

“Those retained diseases might actually bring some benefits to the players.”

“Of course, there’s also a bolder hypothesis—”

“We believe that our physical bodies inside the Doomsday Apartment are not truly our real bodies. They are bodies created by the apartment for us.”

“Such created bodies are like crafts born from an industrial assembly line; it’s normal for them to be disease-free.”

“And the bodies with diseases… might be special artworks.”

“Some researchers think those diseased bodies might be players’ real bodies truly entering the apartment…”

“Others think it’s just different treatment during the apartment’s body creation process—”

“The disease-free bodies are assembly-line crafts;”

“The diseased bodies are carefully sculpted artworks.”

“Much like how Nüwa treated humans differently when creating them.”

Zhou Yuling spoke with complete seriousness while Jiang Ye’s scalp tingled.

What kind of nonsense was this?

Nüwa creating humans, the apartment creating humans…

Some are crafts, some are artworks…

Jiang Ye suddenly wondered if his failure to awaken his talent when first entering the apartment was related to this body-creating mechanism.

His body wasn’t created by the apartment, so his talent awakening failed?

Then why did he later awaken an X-tier talent?

He was neither a craft nor an artwork…

While Jiang Ye pondered this, Zhou Yuling continued:

“Regarding this bold hypothesis, based on the cemetery in 4444 Apartment—”

“Some players can actually resurrect by burying their accounts in the cemetery…”

“The resurrected bodies look exactly like their original bodies.”

“This seems to prove that our bodies in the apartment are created just like Nüwa’s humans.”

Jiang Ye slowly snapped back to reality and casually speculated in a relaxed tone:

“I once saw a sci-fi movie about Earth’s destruction. Humans preserved their seeds by sending some out to explore new homes, and some were stored in frozen pods buried deep underground.”

“Those in frozen pods had their bodies frozen to prevent decay, while their consciousness entered another spiritual world…”

“Could we be in the same situation?”

His joking tone made Zhou Yuling’s tone lighten.

Zhou Yuling rolled her eyes and dryly retorted, “What kind of trash sci-fi movie did you watch?”

“My version had frozen pods inside a spaceship.”

“And one person woke up from the frozen pod. Everyone else was still frozen, but he was awake, alone and desperate on the spaceship…”

Jiang Ye rolled his eyes back and sarcastically replied, “Your kind is the real trash sci-fi! No, that’s not even sci-fi, that’s a comedy!”

“…” Zhou Yuling recalled the absurd survival scenes in the spaceship and admitted it was definitely a comedy.

She cleared her throat and said dryly, “We’re getting off topic, right?”

Jiang Ye relaxed and suddenly looked at the glass bottle, voluntarily dripping a drop of blood inside.

Then he pushed the glass bottle and talisman back:

“If this is to be tested, you should be the one experimenting, to see if the curse backfires on you or normally appears on me.”

Zhou Yuling nodded, then repeated the demonstration, burning the talisman and casting the curse.

In the end, the curse indeed appeared on her.

Once again, the chilling aura filled Room 2064, and Zhou Yuling even shivered.

Soon she dispelled the curse, sniffed, and then spoke more solemnly:

“If you still don’t trust us, you can send a clone to follow along. You can watch the entire research process on your blood by our researchers.”

Jiang Ye originally just wanted to test the effect of his blood and whether the curse would backfire, but he had no intention to really lend his blood.

Yet hearing this, he felt somewhat eased.

If a clone could go to the Defenders’ Alliance’s dedicated research facility…

Wouldn’t that mean more information!

He raised an eyebrow and said, “From what you say, even if I’m infected with Lightburn, the Defenders’ Alliance still welcomes me to join?”

Zhou Yuling raised her brow and nodded: “Didn’t I say so from the start?”

“Everyone must die eventually. Maybe you infected with Lightburn will hold on until the apartment is destroyed before you die?”