[{"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-257":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},949629,1242,"Chapter 257: Until You Wake Up","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-257",257,"\u003Cp>Jiang Ye pointed directly at the hourglass:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"See that? There's an extra grain of blood sand inside.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He nodded: \"I noticed it in the last cycle. That was caused by my blood.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye continued: \"Based on the previous cycle—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This grain of blood sand didn't flow into the upper half of the hourglass before the cycle ended.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In other words, if a normal cycle lasts 180 seconds, with this blood sand, the cycle time becomes 179 seconds.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He nodded in agreement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she followed with her own speculation: \"If that's the case, then if we turn all 180 grains into blood sand, maybe we can end the cycle?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was her thought process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye had a different perspective. Frowning, he analyzed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"End the cycle? But what do you think would happen to us if we ended it this way?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haven't you noticed? The first day in our Novice Apartment was unusually long!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Were all the subsequent days that long?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No! I suspect the Doomsday Apartment's abnormal time was also shortening day by day.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And then? What happened when the Doomsday Apartment's final day ended? The apartment was destroyed!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So I have reason to believe—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If we really follow your idea and stain all 180 grains with blood, reducing the cycle time from 180 seconds to 0 seconds...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The result might not be breaking free from the time loop, but rather the three of us being destroyed when time runs out!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye had this thought not just because of his analysis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was another important reason—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, his light clone had heard another self-proclaimed \"same kind\" being in the underground graveyard's tombstone area say this:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If the world is a game... then the only currency is time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Lin Ling later said that so-called \"same kind\" was just his hallucination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye didn't believe Lin Ling's explanation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he remembered those words vividly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So naturally, he now thought—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this 3-minute cycle is a test.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then their chips are those 180 seconds!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet now, they've turned 180 seconds into 179...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He pondered this, glancing again at the hourglass, and felt Jiang Ye made sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rashly reducing the cycle time to zero indeed didn't seem wise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if when the cycle time reached zero, instead of escaping the loop, they entered a 0-second cycle...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wouldn't a 0-second cycle mean destruction?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following Jiang Ye's logic, Guan He had another unsettling thought:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If what you say is true, then even if we don't add blood to the hourglass, the cycle time will still decrease with each repetition.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is our 4th cycle.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Perhaps by the 10th cycle, or some number, the cycle time will automatically decrease!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And if we can't solve this cycle before the time fully runs out...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The result would still be time running out and us being destroyed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He's tone was grave as she spoke these words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, during their discussion, the 4th cycle was nearing its end!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Jiang Ye attempted a second type of clone fusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the 2nd cycle, he had fused the discarded clone outside the grid to the light clone inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he tried fusing the light clone to the clone outside the grid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the result...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Failed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light clone seemed trapped, unable to fuse outward!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thought flashed through Jiang Ye's mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before he could voice it, the 4th cycle ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 5th cycle began—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Welcome back... my children...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Jiang Ye didn't hesitate before speaking to Guan He:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have a bold idea now, but I need to kill you to verify it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He's eyelid twitched slightly as she deadpanned: \"What a coincidence. I also have an idea that requires killing you to verify.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye thought for a moment, then nodded: \"Fine. This cycle you kill me, next cycle I kill you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He was surprised by his straightforwardness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After consideration, she suggested: \"If we do it now, you'll waste two minutes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So let's wait until this cycle is almost over before I kill you. For now, let's analyze some more?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye nodded, pointing at the hourglass:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Actually, before you suggested dripping blood on the mirror, I had another thought.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From our perspective, this hourglass is strange—its sand flows from bottom to top.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So I was thinking—maybe in this cycle grid we're in, it's not just time that's problematic, but space too?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If we could rotate the entire space back to its correct position, moving the hourglass from the mirror's upper right corner to the lower left...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then the sand would flow normally from top to bottom.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Would time then return to normal?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This thought came mainly from Jiang Ye's past readings on time theory, which almost always discussed time and space together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in analyses of time-space research, one principle was almost always used—the fundamental postulate of special relativity: the principle of the constancy of the speed of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time, space, light...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, among the Nomadic Merchant's abilities was an X-tier \"Infinite Space-Time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly combining time and space abilities into one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He carefully considered this and found Jiang Ye's reasoning plausible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes swept across the cycle grid space as she frowned: \"But we don't have space manipulation abilities. How would we rotate this inverted space to its correct position?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, Chen Cang had mostly grasped their situation from their conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He volunteered: \"I can try to determine whether this space is truly inverted.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking out a compass full of holes, he began adjusting it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The compass emitted friction sounds, as if containing another smaller compass inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he manipulated it, the holes on the compass shifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, all holes aligned with the compass's markings. Chen Cang frowned:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Either Lu Renjia's analysis was wrong, or my compass can't detect spatial inversion. In any case, its directional readings are the same as in normal space.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He seemed thoughtful, then turned to Jiang Ye:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The 5th cycle is almost over. Should I do it now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye nodded without resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With death, his consciousness ended early.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Directly connecting from the moment of death to the start of the 6th cycle—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Welcome back... my children...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this for the 6th time, it sounded like a curse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye immediately looked at Guan He: \"Well?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Guan He glanced at Chen Cang and slightly shook her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though she said nothing, Jiang Ye understood—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she killed him last cycle, there had been no bounty announcement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Chen Cang still didn't know he was actually Huang Bo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And to keep this secret, Guan He couldn't explain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meaning—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deaths in the cycle triggered neither bounty rewards nor clone substitutions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They weren't real deaths!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Jiang Ye processed this, Guan He continued:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, you didn't see the end of the last cycle. Let me describe it—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When the hourglass inverted at the last cycle's end, Chen Cang's compass also moved on its own.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So your speculation is likely correct—time and space rotate together.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This cycle I'll let you kill me, but again near the cycle's end.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye's experiment in killing Guan He was to see if killing within this small cycle would trigger the clone-killing-clone effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But based on current information, it likely wouldn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because everything in this cycle grid probably wasn't real!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deaths were fake! The Lightburn was fake!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's why Chen Cang's death and revival didn't spread Lightburn—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was never truly infected with real Lightburn!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye's light clone never truly died, hence no bounty was triggered!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three of them might just be consciousnesses trapped in this Mirror Palace cycle, while their real bodies were elsewhere!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This explained why during his 2nd cycle clone fusion experiment—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While his external clone sensed the discarded clone still fused with it,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the 3rd cycle, he thought the fusion had ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was probably because the discarded clone was fused with his real body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the false body in the cycle was reset at the cycle's start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So his external clone's perception was correct—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Mirror Palace cycle wasn't a true cycle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a fake cycle simulated through special means!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye couldn't help recalling what the Nomadic Merchant had once told him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A rather lengthy speech, whose last line was—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If life cannot wake you, then let reincarnation wake you...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Until you wake up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1392,"2026-06-03T07:17:36.055Z","2026-06-03T07:17:41.424Z",1,"novelbin.me","ead8abac5e6db820d4e2d9d46c543a34bf3f42a31cb2a99fa0b234967a07a13b","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-258","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-256",575,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsurviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-cover.jpg"]