Chapter 336: Chapter 336
The Little Red Snake swayed its slender red tail, flicking its tongue while emitting urgent "hissing" sounds.
Since it couldn't speak, Jiang Ye couldn't determine the exact meaning behind these "hisses."
He could only vaguely speculate from the slightly urgent tone...
That it probably couldn't.
He himself reasoned that the probability wasn't great.
After all, the entire black waiting space gave him an overwhelmingly eerie feeling.
Even with 99,999 players at the court's maximum capacity waiting here, no "encounters" had occurred...
So undoubtedly, the entire spatial range must be extremely vast.
But honestly, this clone of Jiang Ye had entered the Court of Disorder forcibly bringing the little red snake with the intention of sacrifice from the very beginning.
He wasn't sure what arrangements Clone No. 1 had made upon entering the court.
But this discarded clone that entered last with only 11 seconds remaining definitely wasn't part of Clone No. 1's plans.
Whatever he did would disrupt Clone No. 1's arrangements.
So this clone came in prepared to sacrifice itself from the start.
What he needed to do was deliver the little red snake to Clone No. 1 before sacrificing himself.
Because information wasn't shared after losing connection.
At this moment, this discarded clone didn't know about the ninety thousand light clones.
So he still believed that Clone No. 1 would lead the other clones as their commander to participate in the "court session" phase.
Thinking this, Jiang Ye changed his questioning approach:
"If not devouring all the white mist, but finding another 'me,' meaning your other 'master'? Can you do that?"
This time, the little red snake's "hissing" sounded less urgent, carrying obvious hesitation.
And by now, the time left for Jiang Ye was running out.
So he couldn't be bothered to speculate about the little red snake's meaning anymore, directly using his most resolute tone to declare firmly:
"Be good, be decisive, don't hesitate—you must do this!"
"Starting now, immediately, right away, suck all my blood dry!"
"Then, carrying my corpse, go find your other master who shares the same blood essence as me!"
"This is an order! You must accomplish this whether you can or not!"
His tone was exceptionally severe.
The little red snake's swaying tail even drooped down in fright.
But quickly, it "whooshed" and coiled around Jiang Ye's neck.
It bit directly into his carotid artery.
Oh my god that bite—Jiang Ye felt like his entire soul was being sucked out!
Honestly, he had experienced clone sacrifice before, so he had technically experienced death.
Even more, when his intelligence clone grasped the Dice of Fate earlier, that terrifying sensation of heavy heartbeat and approaching death had strongly impacted his soul.
Yet at this moment, the feeling of having all his blood drained away...
Was even more terrifying than holding the Dice of Fate!
At this moment, Jiang Ye's sacrificing clone stiffened completely, his pupils trembling.
Even amidst the trembling, they nearly shattered!
This sensation of great terror that seemed to transcend life and death made his survival instinct subconsciously want to strangle this blood-sucking red snake.
But he desperately restrained this survival instinct.
And this willpower forcefully opposing instinct plunged him into an even deeper abyss of suffering beneath the great terror.
Even to the point where veins bulged throughout his body, his entire condition utterly miserable.
What the clone currently being forcibly drained of blood didn't know was—
Right as he experienced this great terror in absolute disconnection within this milky-white gas...
All his other disconnected clones...
Including all light clones in this pure black waiting area, and Clone No. 1...
Including clones outside the court worriedly concerned about the Court of Disorder's progress...
Even including those 【Fake Clones】that only used Jiang Ye's face but weren't essentially him!
Even more, including the main body trapped within the exclusive instance's tranquil space!
All simultaneously felt that indescribable sensation of great terror at this moment!
And this situation was happening for the first time.
The external clones didn't know what was happening either, but since they shared some information with that sacrificing clone, they were somewhat prepared for that clone's intentions.
So the external clones could somewhat realize—
This inexplicable fear seeming to come from the soul's depths might originate from some clone experiencing massive blood loss!
But Clone No. 1 and the numerous light clones in the court waiting area didn't know about the little red snake's existence.
As the countdown approached its end, they felt that bone-deep fear...
In that moment, Clone No. 1 and the many light clones even felt like the sky was collapsing.
But this panic remained within acceptable limits.
After all, this batch of clones thought this might be the fear the Court of Disorder at maximum capacity imposed on all players about to participate in the extreme court...
Yet the main body currently trapped in the stationary "Prison" was truly, completely panicked!
The main body had no idea what was happening...
He directly suspected whether this fear more terrifying than near-death meant "the hour had come," and the external clones failed to successfully rescue him??
Meaning, including the main body, all clones were about to be completely erased?!
Honestly, in that moment, even the main body felt despair!
In the frozen time, he felt like days passed like years, his nerves stretched to near breaking point!
And this fear of unknown origin seemed to completely snap the taut string in his mind stretched to its limit!
At this moment, the main body was nearly going mad!
He couldn't just sit waiting for death !
He had to find a way to save himself!
But what exactly should he do? What else could he do?
He had already tried virtually every method, unable to leave any trace in this frozen spacetime!
At this moment, pure despair!
Of course, this despair affecting all "Jiang Ye"s didn't last too long.
Not even exceeding ten seconds.
That sacrificing clone was quickly drained by the little red snake into a desiccated corpse!
Meanwhile, the little red snake swelled wildly in size during the blood-sucking process, becoming a big red snake!
Before completely draining all blood from that corpse, the big red snake grabbed the dried corpse and immediately took action.
It hadn't been brainwashed by Zhou Yuling's so-called "don't move around" strategy.
It only knew that this master who contributed his hot blood demanded it must find the other master!
So, the red snake transformed into mist, moving with extreme speed!
In this pure black waiting area where even spacetime seemed frozen, that streak of vivid red rapidly flowing through the darkness naturally attracted all waiting players' attention.
Zhou Yuling, originally staring intently at the 【countdown timer】 in her vision's upper right corner with extremely tense emotions.
Suddenly spotting that abnormal red, felt great alarm, shocked and suspicious!
Who was that? daring to move around in the court waiting area?
Why wasn't it directly erased by the rules?!
The many other Jiang Yes naturally noticed too.
He instinctively thought this was some hidden expert not in Zhou Yuling's plans causing trouble.
Just didn't know what trouble this hidden expert intended to cause?
If aiming to disrupt Zhou Yuling's plan to lead the team into the extreme court, Jiang Ye would be the first to disagree!
Simultaneously, because the fear that had just faded from mind and body still left him apprehensive.
Almost all Jiang Yes in the waiting area grew increasingly uneasy.
Until Clone No. 1 Jiang Ye and two light clones beside him saw from afar that streak of vivid red shooting straight toward them!
Clone No. 1 Jiang Ye witnessed with his own eyes—
That streak of vivid red carried a desiccated corpse within it!
Even more terrifying...
That desiccated corpse belonged to one of his clones!!
This mysterious blood-red expert really was coming for him!
At this moment, Clone No. 1 Jiang Ye even wanted to directly shout for Nomadic Merchant daddy to save him!
Of course, his instinctive reaction was to directly fuse with a light clone, preparing to use Light and Shadow Escape to flee instantly.
Just after clone fusion, before he could use Light and Shadow Escape.
He felt a cool, silky aura envelop him inside and out.
Simultaneously, he faintly sensed...
This cool, silky aura gave him an extremely familiar feeling!
Just as he felt shocked and suspicious.
He saw that wisp of vivid red completely shoot before him!
Extremely urgent "hissing" sounds, as if anxiously trying to express something.
Immediately after, that completely blood-drained desiccated corpse was directly thrown before Clone No. 1 Jiang Ye.
When viewing from afar earlier, Jiang Ye only felt this desiccated corpse belonged to one of his clones.
But when the corpse lay completely displayed before him, he became one hundred percent certain.
Honestly, having grown to this point, Jiang Ye had experienced many storms and seen various scenes big and small.
Yet this was practically the first time he saw a desiccated corpse drained of blood that belonged to himself...
This feeling was very peculiar.
Making that great terror sensation resurface in his heart.
Simultaneously, a soul-touching image emerged in his mind—
In the movie "Triangle," the protagonist experiencing reincarnation discovers numerous corpses on the ship.
All those corpses belong to the same person.
They died in different reincarnations.
Also revealing reincarnation's existence to the entire movie.
Simultaneously, that mountain of corpses belonging to the same person became the most unforgettable terrifying scene for Jiang Ye when watching the movie...
Now that scene reappeared in Jiang Ye's mind.
Although only one desiccated corpse lay before him.
He seemed to see the mountain of corpses and sea of blood behind it through this corpse!
Of course, he immediately noticed too—
This desiccated corpse's right palm tightly clutched a piece of paper.
Clone No. 1 Jiang Ye naturally realized now—
His fear didn't come from this streak of red charging toward him.
Instead, this blood-colored existence seemed to harbor no malice.
Combined with time being urgent, Clone No. 1 Jiang Ye had no time to think further, immediately squatting to pry open the dried corpse's hand.
However, just as the dried corpse's hand was pried open...
The countdown in vision reached 【00:00】!
Originally, according to Zhou Yuling's explanation—
Countdown reaching 0 meant the previous session's "court session."
After that, the pure black waiting area would have a blank 30 seconds, with no countdown in vision.
And their 99,999 players needed to wait these 30 seconds, then at the next countdown's start, participate in the next session's extreme court's "court session."
The triggered extreme court situation clearly differed from Zhou Yuling's explanation!
The 【00:00】countdown directly froze in all players' vision upper right corner!
Neither disappearing directly, nor restarting timing from 【30:00】.
As if time itself was completely frozen at this moment!
Simultaneously, all players in the pure black waiting area now heard an announcement in their minds!
【Waiting area player count has reached extreme court session standards!】
【Extreme court session is about to begin, Court of Disorder will permanently close!】
【All waiting area players, please choose whether to participate in this extreme court session.】 Read full story at novel(ꜰ)ire.net
Players like Zhou Yuling who originally awaited the extreme court session naturally hesitated not at all, immediately selecting ＜Yes＞!
However quickly, they discovered—
This ＜Yes＞ option was temporarily sealed!
And the option came with a 30-second countdown!
So, most likely meaning—
They needed to wait until the 30-second countdown ended before selecting ＜Yes＞.
Zhou Yuling originally felt somewhat flustered due to unexpected circumstances.
But seeing this, she calmed down again.
Because although the process had some special circumstances.
Essentially, the changes weren't significant.
They still waited 30 seconds before participating in the extreme court session.
At most, if other players currently existed in the court waiting area, these unplanned players would also be notified about the 【extreme court】's existence.
Meaning, over one hundred thousand players would compete for those 99,999 extreme spots.
But probably not a big problem...
After all, Jiang Ye possessed numerous clones, likely still occupying a significant portion of participating spots.
As long as they maintained numerical advantage.
Then after session start, advantage would still lie with Zhou Yuling's side.
Therefore, this unexpected session process didn't overly fluster Zhou Yuling.
What she cared more about was actually Jiang Ye's light-element clones generated in the elevator;
As well as that blood-red color suddenly appearing in the pure black waiting area as the countdown nearly ended...
Somehow, that blood-red color gave her a very uneasy feeling...
Other followers who received session strategy from Zhou Yuling in advance didn't particularly mind this session announcement either.
In their view, it just changed from entering at 【29:59】countdown to waiting for the ＜Yes＞ option to unseal.
They weren't fools, possessing this level of adaptability.
Only Jiang Ye felt extremely uneasy now!
Because he previously tested—
Attempting to exit the court, forcibly selecting ＜No＞ resulted in erasure by regulations!
And the announcement stated—
The Court of Disorder would permanently close after the extreme court session opened!
Players in the waiting area who failed to secure among the 99,999 spots would likely die directly!
Or, be permanently trapped in the Court of Disorder waiting area!
Those followers intending to enter the Court of Disorder naturally wouldn't consider this.
But other players in the waiting area might realize this, forcibly competing for those 99,999 session spots!
And Jiang Ye's other clones failing to secure session spots...
Might not have his imagined second and third teams, instead dying directly!
Envisioning the worst scenario in his mind, simultaneously, Clone No. 1 quickly examined the note in the dried corpse's palm.