Chapter 274: Chapter 274
Jiang Ye was stunned as he listened to the robot’s voice.
It wasn’t because of what the robot said.
It was that the robot’s voice sounded exactly like the mechanical announcement in the Novice Apartment!
The same cold, indifferent tone, completely emotionless!
That all the apartment announcements were made by this thing??
Jiang Ye immediately recalled when the 1010 administrator impersonated him with a death escape trick and deliberately forged an administrator death announcement.
From the perspective of forged announcements...
Thinking this, Jiang Ye’s surprise faded by more than half, and his attention shifted to the term “apartment lifespan.”
The word “lifespan,” when used for inanimate objects, generally refers to service life.
And considering the Doomsday Apartment’s doomed destruction...
Apartment lifespan must mean the time left before the apartment’s destruction. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ novᴇlfire.net
So, the Reincarnation Key can be used to delay the apartment’s destruction?
Wasn’t apartment time controlled by the Moon Phase Clock?
Could the Moon Phase Clock’s time flow be manipulated by humans?
Could it be that sacrificing something could slow down the time flow controlled by the Moon Phase Clock?
Just as Jiang Ye was thinking this, the Nomadic Merchant gave the robot a cryptic chuckle:
“Oh? Sacrificing the Reincarnation Key can strengthen the resistance of the Moon Phase hand? That’s news to me.”
The Nomadic Merchant’s voice sounded casual, with no discernible emotion.
But there was a hint of mockery and skepticism in those words.
The robot’s mechanical face showed no emotion.
Even its mechanical voice sounded like it was simply doing business.
It said, “The prophecy comes from the Crow; I believe it should be accurate.”
Jiang Ye’s heart skipped a beat.
So the Crow, the divine bird of the Duoe Organization, truly possessed prophetic abilities?
He wondered how the Crow’s prophecy ability compared to his Observer clone’s SSS-rank Prophecy ultimate technique—who was stronger?
Jiang Ye was still pondering when the Nomadic Merchant casually said:
“Oh, since it’s the Crow’s prophecy, it really shouldn’t be wrong.”
But then the Nomadic Merchant’s tone shifted abruptly: “However…”
“For the apartment’s lifespan, huh, sounds so nice.”
“You guys use the name of the Moon Phase Clock and dare to steal my stuff... tsk tsk.”
“Do you think you can hide it from me, or do you simply not take me seriously?”
Though the Nomadic Merchant spoke lightly, his voice was dripping with oppressive pressure!
Jiang Ye watched the scene while mentally flattering the Nomadic Merchant: Hmph! Exactly! Those two bastards! They really don’t take big brother Nomadic Merchant seriously!
They definitely deserve a good thrashing, hmph!
Just as Jiang Ye was enjoying the lively scene, he suddenly felt something was off.
Neither the robot nor the young man responded to the Nomadic Merchant’s accusations and remained silent.
The Nomadic Merchant, however, answered his own question with a soft, cold laugh:
“Or maybe you think the Ninth Day’s major reshuffle is coming soon, and even for this reshuffle, I won’t touch you temporarily?”
Upon hearing this, the young man’s eyes flickered, a complicated and dark emotion flashing across his face.
The robot still showed no expression.
Then the Nomadic Merchant chuckled again: “Yeah, the calculations are pretty good. Even for the reshuffle, I won’t strike you on the eighth day.”
Not attacking these two on the eighth day?
What was this reshuffle?
Jiang Ye was just wondering this when memories automatically surfaced in his mind from the Eternal Witch Gui clone who had once used the Life Stone.
That Eternal Witch Gui had existed almost since the birth of the Doomsday Apartment.
According to her memory, the entire development of the Doomsday Apartment so far could be roughly divided into two stages—
The first seven days and the eighth day.
During the first seven days, the Doomsday Apartment was in a flourishing stage.
All players worked hard to develop themselves, plundered resources, and strove to become stronger at any cost.
In this stage, many strong players emerged, with newcomers and veterans continuously replacing each other.
Amid fierce competition, the apartment became like a breeding ground, nurturing various powerful players and factions.
Most importantly, various permission identities gradually came under the firm control of strong players.
In the early days, the “apartment boss” permission identity would transfer from one player to another during fights.
But as the breeding pattern neared its end, those permission identities eventually landed in the hands of true powerhouses.
Furthermore, these permission holders, to secure their positions—and ostensibly for the apartment’s stable development—gradually formed alliances.
For example, the 26 apartment bosses used to be lone wolves focused solely on their own interests.
Later, they allied to help each other.
Their goal was to ensure their permission identities could no longer be taken away by others.
The same applied to other permission identities.
To protect their identities and interests, they took all kinds of measures, mainly suppressing newcomers, blocking their upward paths, and preventing them from gaining permission identities.
Of course, identities like “Newcomer King” and “Apartment Administrator” were still relatively fluid and were among the few permission identities accessible to newcomers.
This trend of development was exactly the class solidification that Jiang Ye had previously envisioned!
He had imagined it, but it seemed the apartment’s strong players hadn’t thought of it.
But in a world ruled by the strong without legal constraints, who would sacrifice personal interests for the public good?
Thus, class solidification was almost an inevitable historical trend.
This class solidification had already been gradually reaching its peak by the seventh day of the Doomsday Apartment.
However, just as the Novice Apartment would have veteran players break the pattern of newcomers on the eighth day,
At zero o’clock on the eighth day in the Doomsday Apartment, a major event occurred!
It was precisely the major reshuffle the Nomadic Merchant just mentioned!
The entire reshuffle mode was somewhat similar to “Midnight Ring.”
Both occurred at zero o’clock and directly dragged players into the chaos, regardless of their own will.
The difference was that “Midnight Ring” involved ordinary players.
While the reshuffle involved permission identity players!
Fortunately, the death rate in the reshuffle was not as terrifying as in “Midnight Ring.”
But it was still estimated to be over 50%.
This upheaval caused cracks in the originally stable apartment class system.
Many permission identities became vacant and gradually fell into the hands of newcomers.
Among the current 26 apartment bosses, only about a dozen survived the reshuffle.
Also, because of the zero o’clock reshuffle, the eighth day’s development of the Doomsday Apartment changed somewhat.
Ordinary players couldn’t feel this and didn’t even know of the reshuffle’s existence.
Even more surprisingly to Jiang Ye—
Only a few current apartment administrators knew about the reshuffle!
According to Eternal Witch Gui’s memories, only a few special-numbered administrators—0000, 6666, 9999, and 4444—survived the reshuffle and thus knew about it.
Most other administrators took office only on the eighth day.
This meant the original team of administrators had an extremely high mortality rate during the reshuffle!
This was understandable.
After all, the administrator permission identity was practically the lowest and most expendable in the entire Doomsday Apartment.
If administrators got caught in the reshuffle, they were guaranteed cannon fodder.
Based on speculation from permission identity players—
The entire reshuffle event would repeat again at zero o’clock on the ninth day!
So, to stabilize administrator players’ mentality,
The secret of the reshuffle had not been leaked to ordinary players or regular administrators.
It seemed the permission identity players deliberately used the large and lowest-tier administrator group as cannon fodder during the reshuffle.
Currently, the Doomsday Apartment was just about to end the eighth day, with the ninth day’s reshuffle imminent.
Therefore, the predicted “Ninth Day Major Reshuffle” was obviously not far off.
Jiang Ye was still a bit dazed after receiving this information from Eternal Witch Gui’s memory!
When he came back to his senses, his mind was filled with:
I was just thinking about turning all administrator identities into my clones...
And now you tell me these administrator identities are to be used as cannon fodder in the reshuffle??
So all my hard work was just to die!?