[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c":3,"chapter-surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-256":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Surviving the Doomsday Apartment—With Infinite Clones!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},949628,1242,"Chapter 256: Three-Minute Mini Reincarnation","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-256",256,"\u003Cp>Of course, this so-called “dripping” of anti-gravity sand should more accurately be called “rising.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There wasn’t much sand left in the hourglass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could see that soon, the sand in the lower half would completely rise to the upper half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye and Guan He both guessed that once all the sand in the lower half had flowed to the upper half, time would reset.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The total time was roughly around three minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After some thought, Guan He, seeing time was about to reset again, quickly arranged:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If time really resets in a moment, then in the next reincarnation—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I will deal with Chen Cang first, and you keep watch here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“See if this hourglass was here from the start or if it appeared only after I killed Chen Cang.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Look at the exact time of each reincarnation, accurate to the second.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously, Guan He mentioned a word—reincarnation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, the time resets they were experiencing were like a three-minute reincarnation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter what happened during those three minutes, they would return to the starting moment when entering the Mirror Palace’s central zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But because they shared consciousness with other clones,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye knew that outside time was not reversed but flowed normally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made him wonder—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he used Clone Fusion near the end of these three minutes,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and then everything in the central palace grid reset to three minutes earlier,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>while outside time flowed normally,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>would his Clone Fusion status be removed or continue?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If calculated according to the time inside the palace grid, the fusion state should end because time was reset;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but if based on outside time, it should persist because time itself was not truly reset.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this way, he might gain more information from the contradiction between inside and outside time rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could the clone inside the grid successfully use Clone Fusion?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye thought about it and tried directly, randomly fusing with a discarded clone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result... success!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes flickered, and he didn’t argue with Guan He’s arrangement, just nodded: “Alright, I’ll follow your lead.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shortly after this sentence,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the two watching the hourglass together saw—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>once all the sand in the lower half flowed to the upper half,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the entire hourglass carved onto the mirror surface suddenly started moving!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be precise, it started spinning!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if an invisible hand was flipping the hourglass over!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the moment the hourglass was flipped, the sand in the upper half shifted with the change of position and became the lower half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, the two could no longer see the scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because everything had returned to the “starting point.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In their minds, that ancient and cold voice rang again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Welcome back... my children...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first time they entered the central palace grid of the Mirror Palace, their focus was on the words “welcome” and “children.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after experiencing two time resets in a row,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>hearing the phrase again suddenly made them realize the word “back” held another deeper meaning!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They really had come back!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with the arrangements made before the last reincarnation ended,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this new reincarnation—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye immediately looked toward the hourglass on the mirror surface!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He instantly used a light skill to kill Chen Cang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Cang’s first reaction was: “Ah, I’m dead again...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it! I’m the protagonist!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe the key to breaking the time reset lies in me!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That damn Huang Bo! He can’t get over it and killed me again!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Cang died in great anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Guan He didn’t care at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She flashed beside Jiang Ye and directly asked, “So? Was the hourglass there from the start, or did it appear after I killed Chen Cang?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye: “It was there from the start. And at first, the upper half had no sand.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He then speculated: “In other words, when all the sand in the lower half flows to the upper half, time resets.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So, maybe the way to break this palace grid is to stop the sand in the hourglass from flowing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Didn’t you guys break the mirror with blood before? Maybe now we can drip blood onto this mirror surface with the hourglass...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perhaps if we break this mirror surface, we can solve the time reset problem?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye could feel Guan He really didn’t want Chen Cang to live.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was eager to break the time loop, now that Chen Cang was already dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Jiang Ye felt this time reset problem might not be so easily solved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought of the Clone Fusion experiment he did in the last reincarnation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strange phenomenon had appeared—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the perspective of his light clone, the Clone Fusion effect did disappear with the time reset.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the outside clones did not sense that the discarded clone fused with him had lost the fusion effect!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What did this mean?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The contradiction still existed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the palace grid, Clone Fusion disappeared;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>outside the grid, Clone Fusion still existed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, what was the actual state of that fused discarded clone now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be like Schrödinger’s cat box, where fusion and non-fusion states exist simultaneously??\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye felt something was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He didn’t know what he was thinking and urged, “What are you thinking? Do you think I’m wrong?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye shook his head: “I think you have some reason. Why don’t you try dripping blood on the mirror now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He wanted to ask why he wasn’t the one dripping blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye continued: “Maybe the timing of dripping blood matters.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If we don’t succeed in breaking the mirror with blood in this reincarnation...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then in the next reincarnation, you can drip blood at the exact moment the reincarnation begins. Maybe that time is special.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also an experience Jiang Ye learned from Yang Wenchao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Wenchao encountered a bug entering the Reincarnation Graveyard, which had a zero-o’clock time requirement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Guan He’s eyes lit up, thinking it made a lot of sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because she also thought zero o’clock was indeed a very special moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The apartment even issued announcements specifically for that special time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If every day was considered a reincarnation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then zero o’clock was both the start and end of the reincarnation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the three minutes inside the palace grid was considered a smaller reincarnation,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then the start and end of this mini reincarnation should also have special significance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He agreed with Jiang Ye’s idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she still tentatively said, “How about you try dripping blood to break the mirror instead?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, she knew blood was a very special thing inside the apartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wasn’t sure what the consequences of dripping blood would be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye knew her little thoughts and shook his head:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Dripping blood probably has to be done by you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After all, the start time of this three-minute reincarnation is a fleeting instant, and only the fastest Light and Shadow Escape can catch this moment.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He frowned: “But you’re also light.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye nodded: “I am light, but I can’t reveal myself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I am Lu Renjia, you are Huang Bo. Right now, you are the only light exposed in the apartment.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If Chen Cang sees me, Lu Renjia, using Light and Shadow Escape, do you know what consequences there would be?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, Chen Cang has the Protagonist Halo; even if you want to silence him, it won’t be easy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So this matter can only be done by you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye’s analysis made sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He thought about it and really couldn’t argue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if she wanted to switch identities with Jiang Ye now, playing Lu Renjia while Jiang Ye played Huang Bo,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>once time reset, they would return to the state of entering this reincarnation palace grid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, she would be the light-type Huang Bo...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the three minutes were about to end again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He gritted her teeth, preparing to try dripping blood to break the mirror by breaking her finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the last few grains of sand were about to flow to the upper half, she asked Jiang Ye:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Have you calculated the exact time of reincarnation? Is it exactly three minutes? Or is there a second-level error?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye stared at the hourglass scene and answered directly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It should be exactly three minutes, or 180 seconds.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The sand in the hourglass should be exactly 180 grains.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He’s eyes flickered and she said no more. She waved her bleeding finger and flicked a drop of blood onto the mirror surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, her gaze fixed on the hourglass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Jiang Ye’s clone outside the reincarnation palace grid sensed that the previously fused discarded clone had lost fusion status and returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the palace grid, Jiang Ye’s clone witnessed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the drop of blood flicked onto the mirror by Guan He seemed to come alive, actively flowing toward the hourglass in the upper right corner of the mirror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It even quickly merged directly into the last grain of sand in the lower half of the hourglass image.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That grain, originally just a hollow sand-shaped engraving, instantly turned blood red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, something different from the last reincarnation happened—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last time, the hourglass started to flip only after all the sand flowed from the lower half to the upper half...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, the blood sand was still in the lower half, yet the hourglass flipped early!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if the reincarnation time was one second earlier than the previous three minutes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye’s eyes shifted in alarm. He wanted to say something to Guan He, but there was no time!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second, with the hourglass successfully flipped, they returned to the reincarnation starting point again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Welcome back... my children...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the moment this voice marking the reincarnation start sounded again,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He immediately followed the previous reincarnation’s arrangement and used Light and Shadow Escape to instantly appear at the hourglass on the mirror surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unexpectedly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>another Light and Shadow Escape intercepted her at the same speed without hesitation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Accompanied by the interception was Jiang Ye’s voice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Stop! Don’t drip blood on the upper part!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He was shocked by this voice and indeed gave up on dripping blood at “zero o’clock.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She ended the Light and Shadow Escape effect and returned to Huang Bo’s form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her ugly face looked at Jiang Ye with undisguised shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without her saying it, Jiang Ye knew what shocked her—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had told her to drip blood at the reincarnation “zero o’clock,”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and clearly said he couldn’t reveal his light identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet now, Jiang Ye was willing to reveal his light identity to stop her!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, Chen Cang, who had escaped a disaster this reincarnation, stiffened and was dumbfounded sensing the two light auras!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked at Lu Renjia in disbelief and finally realized—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this guy was also a light-type player!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Chen Cang couldn’t care about that now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He vaguely saw that these two light-type players seemed to have a conflict.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So as soon as the reincarnation started, they fought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Guan He, who had killed him three times, didn’t kill him immediately this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Cang seized this chance and shouted loudly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You two fight me if you want, but could you please stop killing me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After all, with the time reset setting, killing me is useless!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Keeping me alive might help find a way to break the time reset!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He glanced at him and indeed didn’t attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she didn’t respond either; instead, she frowned at Jiang Ye and asked directly: “What do you mean?”\u003C\u002Fp>",1922,"2026-06-03T07:17:36.055Z","2026-06-03T07:17:41.424Z",1,"novelbin.me","a815718b6317a3509a1388d1fedd05da19f83fae064920b00dd2a78763aad276","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-257","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-255",575,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsurviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-cover.jpg"]