[{"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-289":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},949661,1242,"Chapter 289: Mutual Testing","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-289",289,"\u003Cp>This wooden puppet looked very ordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like the bald version of the mimic mask, it seemed like the most basic and common kind of puppet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, the 1010 administrator had also arranged for this type of wooden puppet to stand in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, Jiang Ye had cooperated with Zhang Jintian to lure out the 1010 administrator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And among the various administrator clones Jiang Ye had transformed recently, this kind of wooden puppet was basically present in their spatial equipment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously, it was common for administrators to use such wooden puppets as substitutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the identity of Administrator 9999 was not derived from a transformed clone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was obtained by Clone No. 2 through an actual killing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So theoretically, he did not have this kind of puppet on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a wave of his hand, he threw a substitute iron badge to the wooden puppet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The puppet was quite agile; as soon as it caught the badge, it inserted it into a slot at the back of its head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, the two didn’t say much, and Lin Ling led Jiang Ye toward the red-lit elevator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they reached the elevator, Lin Ling suddenly looked at him and explained:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t have housing in Apartment 9999, so theoretically, if I enter the red-lit elevator alone, I’ll get trapped because there won’t be any floor buttons at all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But you are the Administrator 9999. When you enter the elevator, the buttons for all floors should be complete.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the setting of the red-lit elevator, so he naturally knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he first arrived at the apartment, his classmates had already learned from the administrators that—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All players could only operate below the floor where their housing was located.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, if they didn’t have housing on the 20th floor, they couldn’t access the 20th floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they took orders for courier or cleaning work, they wouldn’t get orders from floors above their own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The root cause of this restriction was the red-lit elevator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The number of floors displayed on the elevator corresponded to how many floors of housing the player owned in the apartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, once a player with housing entered the red-lit elevator…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wouldn’t even have the button to open the elevator doors!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such players would be trapped inside the elevator indefinitely!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, as far as Jiang Ye knew, true experts bypassed floors without using the red-lit elevator at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including during his previous light clones’ antics, he never took the elevator but instead used Light and Shadow Escape to shuttle between floors…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Veteran players like Lin Ling, who roamed the novice apartments like they were empty, obviously didn’t take the red-lit elevator either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening to her words now, a thought immediately flashed through Jiang Ye’s mind—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he and Lin Ling entered the elevator together…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he used clone swapping to leave the elevator, would Lin Ling be trapped inside?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this thought passed instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wouldn’t and didn’t need to take such a risk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Lin Ling…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It always felt like she deliberately mentioned this point to lure him into causing trouble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ability of clone swapping…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ling might have guessed something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, when Jiang Ye fought Eternal Witch Gui and Administrator 4444, he had blatantly used the clone swapping ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was used on the substitute clone of Clone No. 1, who was possessed by Eternal Witch Gui.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, the still-alive Eternal Witch Gui had already become suspicious of this phenomenon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But due to the intense battle, there was no time to analyze it carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ling, who had peeked into Eternal Witch Gui’s memories, naturally had time to ponder and speculate about the clone swapping ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her deliberate mention might have been an attempt to probe Jiang Ye’s clone swapping ability!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye was only relieved that when he used the incomplete Life Stone, his memories only awakened upon death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because for the later memories, he already had them without needing to awaken them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, if the later memories were also awakened by the Life Stone…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would have exposed even more!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even so, with this woman’s mind, she probably thought a lot about it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye’s expression was solemn, but his face showed no change. He followed Lin Ling into the red-lit elevator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As an administrator, the elevator buttons inside were fully accessible to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ling then instructed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Press for me—3, 6, 9, 23, 26, 50.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye complied smoothly, showing no abnormal expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ling watched for a while. When the floor display reached the 5th floor, she suddenly spoke again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh right, I forgot, there’s also the 7th floor.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying this, she pressed the button for the 7th floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye noticed she had missed the 7th floor when she initially reported the numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she had deliberately left it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was probably testing if he knew the exact floors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, Jiang Ye had been through so many tests already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was no longer a rookie high school student just entering the novice apartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ling didn’t manage to get any reaction from him and looked back at the elevator button panel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red-lit elevator was quite advanced, with two panels inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was tall and vertical, located by the elevator door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other was horizontal, on the wall to the left of the elevator door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two panels had different layouts of floor numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ling analyzed further: “I wonder if these seven numbers hide some mystery?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The two panels show different patterns with the lit-up numbers.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She then asked Jiang Ye: “Do you have any ideas?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…” Jiang Ye was speechless and straightforwardly said: “If you want to know the secret, you should ask the apartment boss, right? This ‘floor password’ is set by the apartment boss, isn’t it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of mystery could there be? Maybe it was just the apartment boss’s bank card password.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, looking at the two elevator panels, he did indeed have some thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many real-world elevators had similar setups—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two panels, one horizontal and one vertical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The horizontal panel was placed lower, likely to accommodate children or wheelchair users.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But perhaps because there were too many floors,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red-lit elevator’s two panels, both horizontal and vertical, were unusually long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If these two panels were stacked together…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would form the shape of a cross.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Jiang Ye dared not really pry off the elevator panels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he just kept the thought to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that he was reluctant to answer, Lin Ling didn’t press further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when the elevator was about to reach the 20th floor, she suddenly asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did you ‘trade’ the Soul Locking Nail you got from 0000 directly to another clone? Seems pretty convenient.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the surface, this was a bland sentence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the word “trade” she used was loaded with meaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Doomsday Apartment did not have private one-to-one remote trading functions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Nomadic Merchant’s one-to-one trades required face-to-face transactions with players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Jiang Ye handing the Soul Locking Nail to another clone could never have been a “trade”!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, Lin Ling had guessed something about Jiang Ye’s Clone Shared Space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye didn’t explain but raised an eyebrow and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You got the message about the Soul Locking Nail as soon as I asked for it in the administrator group chat…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If I had known, I shouldn’t have asked Administrator 0000 for it, but you, Lin Ling?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was probably the first time he called her by name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when he said “Lin Ling,” it sounded more like calling “00.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just a test, anyone could do that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Lin Ling’s expression turn serious and silent, he babbled again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the way, if the apartment administrator IDs aren’t just from 0000 to 9999, but also have single-digit, double-digit, and triple-digit numbers…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then tell me, among the single-digit ‘0’, double-digit ‘00’, triple-digit ‘000’, and four-digit ‘0000’, which authority is stronger?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, he was just throwing random questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quickly, he changed the topic: “By the way, don’t you want to check out the Return Soul Abyss or the Soul Resting Mound?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After all, your Jade Flask and Zhou Qiming seem to originate from the Soul Resting Mound?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Or have you, or rather the Defenders’ Alliance, already explored the Soul Resting Mound?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zhou Qiming’s complete recovery from the monster player form to human must have been through Salvation’s use of Defenders’ Alliance methods, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rambled as if talking about “nice weather today.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, the elevator floor reached 48.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ling’s eyes turned cold, and suddenly she raised her hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A long sword radiating chilling coldness pressed its hilt against Jiang Ye’s throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice was deep: “Did you take some kind of stimulant? Suddenly talking so much?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye raised an eyebrow and smiled fearlessly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ha, haven’t I always been talkative?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Clone No. 1 in the underground graveyard also had a chatty and mischievous personality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, the elevator display showed the 49th floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the so-called “safe exit” sign did not appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ling frowned slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye seemed not to notice and kept talking:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“49, 50. I wonder if the apartment boss’s password is based on that saying—The Great Way is fifty, Heaven’s Change is forty-nine?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What was the next line? People disappear one by one?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Going out through the ‘safe exit’ means ‘people disappear one by one’?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That can’t be right. The safe exit is on the 49th floor, so it’s obviously ‘people disappear at forty-nine.’”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he chattered, the elevator arrived at the 50th floor, and still no safe exit appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elevator doors opened on the 50th floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye raised an eyebrow at Lin Ling: “Shall we get out first?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ling put away the sword and stepped out of the elevator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two stood in the corridor on the 50th floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ling thought for a moment and came to a conclusion:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s probably because I forgot to press the 7th floor button the first time. That’s why the ‘safe exit’ didn’t show.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go back to the first floor and try again!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a wave of her sleeve, she teleported them both to the red-lit elevator entrance on the 1st floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This teleportation was much faster than taking the elevator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye made no comment and followed her into the elevator again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Lin Ling pressed the elevator buttons herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3, 6, 7, 9, 23, 26, 50.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there was any pattern, the first four numbers were three, six, nine plus seven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last three numbers, 23 plus 26, equaled 49.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Jiang Ye thought of this—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Mirror Palace of Reincarnation, the blood sand appeared in rounds 3 and 6.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, the light clone lost consciousness before round 7 ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t know if blood sand was generated at the end of round 7…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If so,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then this set of numbers might actually have some mystery?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Lin Ling didn’t try to test him again but stared at the elevator button panel with a solemn face and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s still not right!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“According to Zhou Qiming’s memories, after pressing this set of seven buttons, the ‘safe exit’ should have appeared immediately, not waiting for the elevator to reach the 49th floor.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But now, the ‘safe exit’ still hasn’t appeared!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also felt something was wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This elevator trip was probably another failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Lin Ling didn’t seem to be testing, he seriously analyzed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Could there be a limit on the number of people in the elevator?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When Zhou Qiming used this elevator password to hide his housing, he was probably alone, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If not, maybe you can buy a suite and go through the elevator process alone?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ling didn’t respond but kept watching the elevator operation while directly taking out a Life Stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Jiang Ye saw that Life Stone, he realized—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the complete version of the Life Stone!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, the complete Life Stone was in Lin Ling’s hands!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The incomplete Life Stones were generated by her using the complete one!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Probably costing one survival point, similar to the clone replica mirror made from the complete version.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, she didn’t bother to hide it and directly called up the memories Zhou Qiming awakened with the Life Stone, including the scene of Zhou Qiming riding the elevator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The memory scene was presented from Zhou Qiming’s perspective, showing the elevator at that time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ling compared this scene with what she was facing now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was very obvious—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Zhou Qiming’s memory, after pressing the seven buttons, the button for the 49th floor had already turned into a “safe exit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But on Lin Ling’s elevator button panel, 49 was still 49, and the “safe exit” hadn’t appeared at all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without the “safe exit,” they still couldn’t leave when the elevator reached the 49th floor this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, the two got off the elevator on the 50th floor again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Ling’s expression was solemn, but she did follow Jiang Ye’s suggestion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, she said: “If it’s a matter of the number of people, renting or buying a house is too troublesome. You should try going alone to see if the safe exit appears.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye was originally just an observer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now hearing her say that, he began to suspect—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could this woman be deliberately setting him up?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could both failures be her doing, just to trick him into entering the hidden housing alone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye was displeased and frowned: “It’s just renting a house, how troublesome can it be?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, I’m not even sure if that hidden housing belongs to Apartment 9999.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If it doesn’t, then if I go there, it would mean leaving the scope of Apartment 9999… and I’d be directly erased by the permission rules!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Lin Ling seemed to have already guessed he would say that and straightforwardly said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How could it not belong to Apartment 9999? Don’t forget, the Jade Flask’s resident information was found on your registry, room number 9999.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That means it really belongs to your apartment.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tsk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, Jiang Ye refused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He directly suggested: “Didn’t you capture Lin Jing and Ouyang alive?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Both of them have housing in Apartment 9999.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You can just let one of them go out and go through the elevator process alone.”\u003C\u002Fp>",2393,"2026-06-03T07:17:36.055Z","2026-06-03T07:17:41.424Z",1,"novelbin.me","8e843160c2a067b5b25e04f0305c8a2ab9190a5b18fcf3e18ab01ec2b80c1f2b","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-290","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-288",575,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsurviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-cover.jpg"]