[{"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-490":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},950062,1242,"Chapter 490: The Giant Toad Makes Its Move","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-490",490,"\u003Cp>Huh??\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What... what does this mean??\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically speaking, the \"absolute safety\" effect of [Salvation Domain] should not only block damage but also block pain, right?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Li Si said...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt the pain from [Pain Sharing] from the very beginning?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meaning... the pain caused by the Giant Toad's gastric acid essentially exists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's just that the effect of [Salvation Domain] shields this pain?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, Chen Cang and Jiang Ye, who were also inside the [Salvation Domain], didn't feel the pain...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then all this pain was given to Li Si by [Pain Sharing]?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you, buddy, were enduring pain, could you possibly look this utterly unfazed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he questioned this in his heart, he heard Li Si speak again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When I was still a Moon Person, I specifically trained my ability to endure pain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Many people think that thoughts determine actions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But through personal experience, I have very clearly understood—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our thoughts, or more accurately, our 'brains,' are shaped by actions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just like an experiment abroad, in an era without navigation, the brains of taxi drivers in a certain city were different from normal people in the spatial perception area.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just like people who have undergone long-term professional training, such as athletes, their brains also have parts that differ from normal people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Also, like in martial arts novels, martial artists who practice with heavy loads for a long time can become as light as a swallow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All these prove one thing—long-term, fixed behaviors can not only shape the body but also reshape the brain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I, through long-term torture and pain, made my brain's perception of pain become dull.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or it can also be understood that my pain perception threshold has been raised very high.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So the pain that ordinary people find unbearable is, to me, nothing much.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wow...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This explanation, to be honest, isn't the first time Jiang Ye has heard it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they dug up Yang Wenchao at the Burial Ground, Jiang Ye also wondered why Yang Wenchao didn't instinctively fear the Light faction like ordinary dark-type players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yang Wenchao's explanation and Li Si's current explanation coincide perfectly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Jiang Ye's heart, doubts still remain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most incomprehensible part is the \"absolute safety\" state of [Salvation Domain]...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it that this safety state itself has some hidden problems?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or is this guy Li Si secretly playing some tricks?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the [Salvation Domain] skill was released by Li Si.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Jiang Ye would suspect Li Si without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem is, this skill was released by himself, targeting himself and Chen Cang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since it was a skill he personally released, his suspicion of Li Si inevitably lessened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if he forces himself to think one layer deeper, he can't help but feel—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be that Li Si intentionally made him release the skill to reduce his suspicion?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, Jiang Ye's thoughts were in disarray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Si didn't give him time to continue thinking either, speaking at an extremely fast pace:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although this explosion was unexpected, the 'Newborn' being blasted into the air might be a good opportunity!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I previously checked Chen Cang's Data Panel. Among his gorgeous data panel, there is the S-level talent [Blood Element Affinity], and the S-level skill [Blood Prison Contract].\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Perhaps he can try, while separated from the Giant Toad's gastric acid, to use [Blood Prison Contract] on the 'Newborn'?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye truly didn't have time to think more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not that Li Si didn't give him time, but the explosion in the Giant Toad's stomach didn't give him time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the explosion's aftermath dissipated, the \"Newborn\" giant sphere that was blasted into the air began to fall downward again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its falling speed was extremely fast; it wouldn't be long before it fell back into that pool of acid!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Witch Gui Jiang Ye barely used the last wave of the explosion's residual force to give the \"Newborn\" another upward push, slowing its falling speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, as the Witch Gui, Jiang Ye shrank back into the [Heart Demon Nest].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Chen Cang's consciousness returned, it was accompanied by another scream—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah— Damn it?! It hurts it hurts it hurts so fucking much!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, upon checking his body...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The parts of his body stained with gastric acid were not corroded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The parts affected by the explosion didn't show even a trace of a wound...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This left him, who originally wanted to cut away the rotten flesh to suppress the pain, completely stunned for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This... what's going on?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voice of the Witch Gui Jiang Ye soon rang in his mind:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No time to explain! Li Si wants you to try using [Blood Prison Contract] on the 'Newborn'!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the name \"Li Si\" again now, Chen Cang only felt anger: \"I don't believe a damn word he says!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wasn't it agreed that he would release the mechanical eyeballs to carry the 'Newborn' giant sphere? Why did that bamboo tube explode? Where are the mechanical eyeballs inside that bamboo tube?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Witch Gui Jiang Ye had no choice but to explain rapidly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"According to Li Si, he was also schemed against by someone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That bamboo tube is essentially like a safe, a storage-type item for storing important things.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was when Li Si obtained that storage item that he was schemed against...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So the important items he stored were directly destroyed, triggering this explosion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"According to him, he is also a victim. When there's a chance in the future, he will definitely explain the reasons to you and personally apologize.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, our time is tight...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Cang certainly also knew time was tight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was falling, and the giant sphere was also falling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, they would fall back into the acid water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also because time was so tight, Chen Cang didn't have enough time to think.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He endured the pain, waved his hand grandly, and one Wall of Thorns after another erected, building a ladder to the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this ladder made of thorns was also falling because it had no support.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But their existence provided Chen Cang with relay points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He kicked his legs rapidly, like a martial arts hero in wuxia novels who could use qinggong, soaring straight up into the air!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until his hands forcefully pressed against the bottom of the falling giant sphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He casually raised a finger, his sharp nail scratching across his palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then came...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a stream of furious curses: \"What the— hell???\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No way? Bro?? I... can't cut my palm, and I can't draw blood anymore?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What the hell? Is this also the effect of that shield blocking damage?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is too messed up, right? It just blocks all the damage, but it can't block the pain, can it??\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, if Chen Cang thought carefully, he would realize—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he first dived into the acid water, he didn't feel pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was after being \"seized\" by the Witch Gui.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or more accurately, after that bamboo tube-triggered explosion...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he started to feel pain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the situation right now was too urgent; he simply didn't have the time or energy to think about these things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just kept ranting in frustration: \"Using [Blood Prison Contract] requires my fresh blood!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now! The shield you gave me prevents me from drawing blood, what should I do?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This situation was naturally directly relayed to Li Si by Jiang Ye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Si remained calm as ever:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Simple, just remove the [Salvation Domain] now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye fell silent: \"And after that...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Si: \"After that, we can still use my [Salvation Domain]. My skill has passed its Cooldown and can be used.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye could certainly calculate that Li Si's skill could also be used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he removed the [Salvation Domain], he would also sever the connection with the Witch Gui!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he would lose contact with Chen Cang again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Li Si seemed to see through his thoughts and said bluntly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know what you're worried about—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But since I have Chen Cang's [Target Anchor], I naturally have a way to contact him again!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hurry up! If we miss this opportunity, this 'Newborn' might not be able to be born!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye clearly felt that Li Si didn't want him to think more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made him increasingly suspicious...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That bamboo tube-triggered explosion was part of Li Si's plan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But even with suspicion, he had to admit that Li Si was right—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time was indeed too tight!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Cang in the Giant Toad's stomach kept releasing Walls of Thorns, barely delaying the fall of the giant sphere and himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, Jiang Ye didn't dare to delay any more time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Cang's mind heard the voice of the Witch Gui Jiang Ye:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Next, I will remove your shield for 10 seconds.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"10 seconds later, I will release a new shield for you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can you try to complete the [Blood Prison Contract] on this 'Newborn' within these 10 seconds?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, Chen Cang was also vaguely starting to sense something was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If [Blood Prison Contract] could work on the \"Newborn,\" why didn't you say so earlier?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then when he was sitting on the \"Newborn,\" before being covered by the \"shield\" and could cut himself for blood, why didn't you let him try [Blood Prison Contract]?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it, you just had to wait until the \"Newborn\" was blasted into the air to use [Blood Prison Contract], right??\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that explosion...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the bamboo tube that supposedly stored the mechanical eyeballs...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Cang was growing more and more suspicious!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Li Si, that explosion was caused by someone tampering with his bamboo tube...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was also a victim because the mechanical eyeballs were destroyed too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what if this explanation was a lie?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are mechanical eyeballs that easily destroyed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if the mechanical eyeballs weren't destroyed...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then where did the mechanical eyeballs that disappeared in the explosion go?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It just so happens that it was after the mechanical eyeballs disappeared that he was told to use [Blood Prison Contract] on the \"Newborn\"...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it! The more you think about it, the weirder it seems!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, before he could even agree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Witch Gui in his mind urged again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At most, I'll give you 30 seconds! The countdown starts now!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"30... 29... 28...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forcing me onto the stage, right??\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Does this mean if I don't use [Blood Prison Contract] on this \"Newborn,\" you won't even give me the shield after 30 seconds?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Cang hated this feeling of being forced to do something before understanding the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, even though he hated it...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His final choice was still to cut his palm with his nail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After blood seeped from his palm, he pressed it against the bottom of the giant sphere again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then assumed a posture of holding up the giant sphere with his palm, falling together with the giant sphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the reason he still chose to use [Blood Prison Contract] on this \"Newborn\" despite suspecting Li Si was hiding something and scheming...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was mainly due to his trust in the [Protagonist Halo].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Cang believed that all those who wanted to scheme against him would ultimately fail and suffer losses instead!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter what Li Si was scheming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, it would definitely pave the way for him, becoming an opportunity for him as the \"protagonist\"!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood seeping from his palm rapidly spread across the entire surface of the giant sphere, forming a unique pattern of blood-colored lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These blood-colored lines were not dense, completely different from the blood-colored patterns on those mutants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a glance, it indeed looked like a subtle contract pattern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as this [Blood Prison Contract] was about to be completed...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this seemingly boundless space of the Giant Toad's stomach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if from the void, a bluish-grey long tongue suddenly descended again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked exactly the same as the long tongue that previously bound the entire \"giant sphere\" and brought the \"giant sphere\" from the Forest of Oddities to this place!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this is... the Giant Toad's tongue?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell?? The Giant Toad's tongue directly reached into its own stomach?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this reasonable??\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or is it...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he thought was the Giant Toad's stomach is actually not the Giant Toad's stomach, but just a boundless ocean of acid water?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Chen Cang thought this, he felt the world turn upside down!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The acid water originally located \"below\" seemed to pour towards him and the giant sphere as the world turned upside down at this moment!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant sphere that was falling \"downward\" was now falling \"upward\"!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, up and down were reversed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overwhelming acid water poured down crazily as if a hole had been torn in the sky...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at this very moment, that bluish-grey long tongue once again restrained the giant sphere!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, even Chen Cang himself was pressed against the giant sphere by the long tongue's restraint, as if flattened into a piece of paper...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The extreme pain of being flattened at this moment was naturally also shared with Li Si and the Cheng Lin version of Jiang Ye through [Pain Sharing].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, because Jiang Ye had removed the [Salvation Domain], he also shared the pain at this time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So even though he lost contact with the Witch Gui, he quickly judged from this pain—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This feeling... as if being flattened by a tremendous force...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This feeling of being flattened even made it hard for him to breathe, somewhat unable to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, his meaning was clear—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, it should be Li Si's turn to act!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was using his so-called method to contact Chen Cang, or using [Target Anchor] to use [Salvation Domain] on Chen Cang again...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The facts were indeed so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Si soon took out the [Target Anchor] crystal chip again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this time, before he could do anything to the chip...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw that fingernail-sized dark purple crystal chip, as if also subjected to tremendous pressure, instantly began to crack inch by inch!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, it shattered into dark purple sand in Li Si's palm...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This... this??!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye quickly reacted—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could this be... the Giant Toad making a move?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Si's face, covered by his eyes, couldn't easily show emotional changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the heaviness in his voice when he spoke was unmistakable:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Most likely... it's the Giant Toad!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"[Target Anchor] is destroyed, we've completely lost contact with him...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then from now on, we can only rely on the [Protagonist Halo]!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye was speechless for a moment, fell silent briefly, tried hard to adjust his breathing, endured the pain, and then asked quietly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you anticipate long ago that him using [Blood Prison Contract] on the 'Newborn' would likely provoke the Giant Toad to act?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And where exactly did that pair of eyeballs that disappeared in the explosion go?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You... have you really lost contact with Chen Cang?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2478,"2026-06-03T07:17:36.056Z","2026-06-03T07:17:41.424Z",1,"novelbin.me","08c3ac460a94872e60b07c90a411d374cd750cece282e94f2745892378d8d465","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-491","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-489",575,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsurviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-cover.jpg"]