[{"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-426":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},949998,1242,"Chapter 426: Welcome...","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-426",426,"\u003Cp>Lin Jing didn't answer for quite some time, for some reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as everyone was starting to suspect something had really happened to him, he finally spoke slowly in a hesitant voice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There might be some differences—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I heard the clicking sound, but the death knell you all discussed, I didn't hear it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And also… the clicking sound you heard was very faint?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The clicking sound I heard seemed to become my heartbeat, which deeply shocked me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My momentary daze just now was also caused by the shocking sensation from that clicking sound.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The others noted down Lin Jing's description, but for the moment, they didn't know what this difference truly signified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, there were plenty who suspected…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps he did have some different sensations, but that didn't mean he was truly revealing them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Jiang Ye thought—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jing probably wasn't lying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because there was no need.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jing, currently trapped within the stone, was essentially without a physical body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this state, he had absolutely no capacity for action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the 75 people currently capable of action were essentially on the same boat as him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, Lin Jing had absolutely no reason whatsoever to lie and mislead them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention, there was still the threat of Jiang Ye's black cloth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, not lying didn't mean not withholding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye had used the [Mask of Deceit] for lie detection, so he was acutely aware—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Deliberate concealment didn't count as lying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Lin Jing was telling the truth, but perhaps he was withholding something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In reality, Jiang Ye's guess was indeed correct!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jing's \"daze\" before immediately answering the question wasn't solely due to the inexplicable shock caused by the clicking sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More importantly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the anomaly occurred, his vision changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, his field of view was relatively dark, dominated by black with less white, opposite to the Forbidden Zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as the clicking sound rang out…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt the small amount of white in his vision seemed affected by the sound waves, vibrating intensely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ripples formed by that vibration also felt similar to sound waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, while Jiang Ye and the others outside were merely listening carefully to the clicking sound,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also spared mental effort to observe the sound wave patterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even more—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When his attention was highly focused on the clicking sound and the sound wave patterns…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He vaguely felt certain images rapidly flashing through his mind!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flashes were too fast, making it difficult for him to discern those images clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he could vaguely sense—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no impression of those images;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they felt completely unfamiliar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, they probably weren't images from his own memory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The color tones of those images were initially eerie and gloomy, faintly tinged with blood, as if ghostly scenes deliberately crafted for horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The images that flashed later had some faint light, allowing him to vaguely capture a bit of environmental background and figures…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, the images flashed too quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they undulated like the ripples of sound waves, making it truly difficult for him to grasp any details.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Add to that Lu Shen's sudden question, he ultimately gave his answer, withholding the matters of ripples appearing in his vision and images flashing through his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And because his vision was focused on the sound wave ripples and his mind concentrated on the images in his head…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jing didn't notice—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shortly after he answered the question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the second bell toll rang out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye's hand reached towards that Next Life Stone again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, a bare finger couldn't touch it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Jiang Ye froze his finger again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He actually just wanted to try again, to see if he could pry the stone loose in the current bell toll environment…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only this time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Prying at the perfectly fitted, seamless joint where it was embedded still had no effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the frozen tip of Jiang Ye's finger accidentally touched the center of the Next Life Stone…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His freezing effect was inexplicably dispelled!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, not dispelled by him actively!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But rather, as if an invisible energy silently erased the freezing effect from his fingertip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was even more miraculous…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though the freezing effect was clearly dispelled—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye's fingertip touching the center of the Next Life Stone still had a tangible sensation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wave of thawing caused a change in his yin realm person body!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye's clones in the Forbidden Zone previously, even when not in yin realm person state, weren't actually affected by the Forbidden Zone's annihilation effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the consequences of multiple unauthorized experiments made him have ideas this time, yet also feel somewhat hesitant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he didn't hesitate for long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roughly around the time the third bell toll rang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye vaguely felt…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the vision of this Zhou Qiming clone, whose body was a yin realm person but with one finger turned solid, something seemed to be flickering!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he was absolutely certain—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His other pure yin realm person clones did not \"see\" this kind of flickering!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, not long after the third bell toll ended, Jiang Ye finally made a decision—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found another clone, pressed its fingertip against the center of the Next Life Stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then directly froze this entire clone!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Subsequently, still without him dispelling the freezing effect, the freezing effect on that clone began to melt away inch by inch along the fingertip…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this entire clone completely transformed from a yin realm person state into a solid entity!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And immediately, Jiang Ye noticed—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vision of this solid entity clone was indeed different from that of the yin realm person clones!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Accompanied by the clicking sound, the vision of this solid entity clone actually seemed to have sound wave ripples undulating!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally, the human naked eye shouldn't be able to see sound waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this Forbidden Zone environment was special;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye's vision was like a snowy screen of black and white…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So against this black-and-white background, he could capture traces of the sound waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye immediately directed the solid entity clone's full mental focus onto those sound wave patterns!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with such intense concentration, the solid entity clone's mind seemed to have images rapidly flashing through it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only, the images flashed too quickly, making it truly difficult to see anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only vaguely sense that the initial images had darker tones, which gradually warmed up later…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye performed this freezing and thawing effect in front of everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, no one noticed anything abnormal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, in their eyes, the thawing effect might have been actively completed by Jiang Ye himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And distinguishing between solid people and yin realm people by the naked eye alone was difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless through touch…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Solid people and yin realm people couldn't touch each other either!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only solid and solid could achieve touch effects!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, as long as one party was a yin realm entity, touch was impossible!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone present were yin realm people;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they couldn't touch solid entities, so naturally they couldn't detect the change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye's solid entity clone quickly retreated to a corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did consider whether he should also perform a yin realm person to solid person conversion on Zhao Dongliu?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To have this guy also help study those flashback images in their minds?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But ultimately, he abandoned this idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Jiang Ye's solid entity clone surviving in the Forbidden Zone was a special circumstance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If others truly turned solid, they would most likely be annihilated by the Forbidden Zone over time, like Xiao Bai, Xu Gou, and the others before…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they hadn't mutated, so their annihilation speed would only be much faster than Xu Gou and the others!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, Jiang Ye better not harm them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, because the images in his mind were truly bizarre and difficult to capture,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye eventually arranged for 11 more clones to go over, undergo freezing and thawing, and successively transform into solid entities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meaning—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among his 25 clones here, aside from the Zhou Qiming clone holding authority, the remaining 24 clones were split evenly into two groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>12 of them were yin realm person clones;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other 12 were solid person clones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The yin realm person clones focused on listening to the bell tolls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The solid person clones focused on capturing the images.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bell tolls were something everyone could hear;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye devoted more energy to the flashback images in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He discovered another very strange phenomenon—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His 12 clones, despite capturing the flashback images at different times,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The images they saw all started dark and then warmed up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if they were watching a movie, but they weren't entering the theater at different times and missing a certain portion of the beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather, they entered at different times, yet all started watching from the very beginning of the movie…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was strange, but it could also be understood as—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They weren't watching the same movie on the same machine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But each used a different phone, each starting the same movie from the beginning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Understood this way…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the movie hadn't ended when they \"left the theater,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the movie ending each person saw should be different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who started earlier should see more content.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who joined last should see the least content.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality, that wasn't the case!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye was observing with full concentration, yet the result…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roughly around the time the 10th bell toll rang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He discovered that the images seen by the 12 solid entity clones synchronized!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just bizarre!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were watching flashback images at different times!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet as they watched, the flashback images they saw actually synchronized!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This couldn't be explained by \"perceptual confusion\" anymore!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But rather, the time for these different individuals had indeed developed a problem!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye couldn't determine exactly what the problem was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But accompanying the 10th bell toll and the synchronization of the flashback images…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He realized—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the 11th bell toll arrived, perhaps something would happen!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other players probably had similar premonitions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because even those who hadn't played games before, pure Newbies like Gao Chang and others, clearly remembered—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they first entered the Novice Apartment, the prompt indicated—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Novice Apartment had an 11-day time limit!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So perhaps this bell tolling would also terminate on the 11th?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, the players who had been discussing gradually quieted down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their expressions were tense, expectant, grave…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And in this tense and oppressive atmosphere, Jiang Ye suddenly had a very inexplicable thought—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first bell toll rang once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before the first bell toll, there was nearly 2 minutes of clicking sound…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could he interpret it as—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the clicking sound started, there was a 0th bell toll that rang 0 times?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, he was actually trying to think from another angle—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was there a Day 0 before Day 1 of the apartment?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the clicking sound before the first bell toll should count as Day 1?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there was a concept of Day 0…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the clicking sound before the first bell toll should count as Day 0.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following these two angles, two different schemes for calculating days actually formed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While pondering this, Jiang Ye couldn't help but wonder…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would they still hear the 11th bell toll?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, they did not hear it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether due to extreme psychological tension or some method again confusing their perception,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the 10th bell toll, before the 11th bell toll, the click-clack sounds they heard seemed to grow increasingly rapid…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this increasingly rapid sound seemed to drive their heartbeats!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As their heartbeats grew faster and faster, everyone sensed something abnormal!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if their heartbeats had jumped out of their bodies!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Jiang Ye's [Observer] clone formed, he had also experienced an extremely abnormal heartbeat once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clearly knew that an accelerated heartbeat required the body to supply more energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But here, they were all ordinary people;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they had no way to empower themselves…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, when the heartbeat reached its limit,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone seemed to explode and die!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, only \"seemed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In reality, their consciousness merely blanked out for an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That instant felt like touching death…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But soon, as if resurrected from death,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything around them changed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, a familiar prompt sounded in everyone's mind—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Welcome… to the Doomsday Prison!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Prison players bear different \"crimes\" and will be executed within stipulated times.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Prison players can obtain different effects such as 「Pardon」, 「Additional Punishment」, 「Sentence Reduction」, 「Probation」, 「Immediate Execution」 based on their own \"performance.\"]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Pardon: The prison player is pardoned of their crime, gains freedom, and can move freely.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Additional Punishment: The prison player's crime is aggravated, with reduced permissions or shortened execution time.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Sentence Reduction: The prison player is forgiven, gaining partial permission enhancement.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Probation: The prison player is forgiven, with their execution time extended.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Immediate Execution: The prison player is heinously guilty and is executed on the spot immediately!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Prison law enforcers are taking action…]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Prison player talent awakening in progress…]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ding! Law enforcers are in position!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ding! Talent awakening completed!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[For individual prison players, 「Exile Fruit」 distribution in progress…]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ding! Exile Fruit distribution completed!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Exile Fruit: Upon consumption, additionally awakens Glyph Pattern Ability!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[We wish all prison players an early ascent to paradise!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Early ascent to paradise?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hah!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye looked at the spherical object suddenly appearing in his palm, resembling a three-dimensional version of a Taiji diagram, thinking this should be the \"Exile Fruit\" mentioned in the system prompt?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prompt said [Exile Fruit] was distributed to individual prison players…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meaning this thing wasn't available to everyone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coincidentally, he had one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye certainly wasn't in a hurry to eat this thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze surveyed the prison he was in, and he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because this so-called \"prison\"…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was exactly identical to the [Prison] environment from the second stage of his personal exclusive instance!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An empty room, only an electronic screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It recorded his crime—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Prisoner Number: 414]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Convict: Zhou Qiming]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Crime: Intentional Homicide]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Sentence: Death Sentence with Reprieve (Countdown 46 minutes)]\u003C\u002Fp>",2343,"2026-06-03T07:17:36.056Z","2026-06-03T07:17:41.425Z",1,"novelbin.me","08d2354f059341cd462796e7e72c7d730379b70ae9b26c7cdcea1a75fbf9f68b","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-427","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-425",575,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsurviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-cover.jpg"]