[{"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-566":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},950088,1242,"Chapter 566: A New Watch","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-566",566,"\u003Cp>Dripping blood on the walls of the hexagonal palace…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Ku listened to Wan Xin’s description of the process and specifically confirmed with him—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wan Xin and the others, with their naked eyes, had not seen any reliefs on the walls either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, it was possible Lin Jing had seen them and simply hadn’t told Wan Xin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any case, what Wan Xin saw seemed to be the same as what Li Ku and others saw with ordinary eyes: walls that were empty, devoid of reliefs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After confirming this, Li Ku specifically asked what the \"Void Mirror Palace\" was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once he understood the \"Void Mirror Palace,\" he confirmed that Lin Jing and his group of five truly came from this \"dungeon\"!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t in a hurry to ask Wan Xin how they had gotten from the Doomsday Apartment’s \"dungeon\" to the Doomsday Prison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he continued quietly listening to Wan Xin recount his experiences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dripping blood on the wall should have caused the entire wall to collapse, revealing a new hexagonal space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that didn’t happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Wan Xin’s description—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His original intention was just to drip a drop of blood to cooperate with Lin Jing’s experiment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, the moment his bleeding finger touched that wall, he felt as if something had bound him, instantly freezing him in place!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially the finger pressed against the wall—it felt like something had bitten it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s more, the blood from his finger was being continuously sucked away by the wall!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Wan Xin was terrified to the extreme!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to call for help, but he couldn’t make a sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jing and the others clearly saw his situation, but they were indifferent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Yang Wenchao had some conscience, but even he couldn’t save him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The suction force from the wall was too terrifying!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, Wan Xin felt as if all the blood in his body had been completely drained!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his consciousness didn’t dissipate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, it seemed to be sucked into the wall, trapped inside some special container.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His consciousness also wanted to cry out for help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that container trapping his consciousness seemed to immobilize even his thoughts, confining him within it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He heard a \"drip drip\" sound of water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And occasionally, a \"bang bang\" sound of giant rocks falling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These sounds seemed very close to him, yet also seemed unrelated to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he just gave up and waited to see if Lin Jing and the others could rescue him…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that state, he wasn’t sure how much time passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trapped in consciousness, his perception of time seemed blurry and distorted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only once, when the sound of falling rocks seemed to come more frequently than usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he felt that the container trapping his consciousness seemed to have its seal broken!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His consciousness could move!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only that…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He seemed to have bumped into many other trapped consciousnesses!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those consciousnesses… had they been trapped longer? Their mental states seemed unstable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He heard all kinds of ghostly screams and shouts—some laughing, some crying…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to Wan Xin’s words—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s like… similar to that crying and laughing baby sound I’m hearing now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By the way, what the hell is that noise? Can it stop?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, Wan Xin vaguely recognized it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place seemed to be…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The underground Burial Ground of the 4444 Apartment!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed he had revived again from a burial ground coffin!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that was strange! He shouldn’t have had any resurrection slots left!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And why, after being revived, was he still wearing a prison watch? Still in the form of this youth named \"Gao Xiang\"?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not his original appearance…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, Wan Xin even wondered if he had fallen into some illusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Were the Li Ku and Jiang Ye before him just figments of his imagination?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t dare ask these questions, of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the baby’s crying and laughing sounds lingering in the air, Li Ku didn’t answer him either. He just urged:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then what? After your consciousness was freed, did you just appear here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wan Xin shook his head. \"Not exactly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After my consciousness was freed, besides the ghostly screams around me, there seemed to be a stream of consciousness pushing me forward.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m not good at controlling my consciousness body, and I couldn’t stay behind as I wished, so I just had to go with that stream, drifting along…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That stream of consciousness was very fast; I couldn’t see clearly what was around me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When it slowed down, I found myself in a pitch-black underground area, faintly able to see a complex network of roots!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that, perhaps, what you call… the World Tree ruins?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Ku didn’t answer that question, just signaled for him to continue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Wan Xin went on: \"My consciousness body seemed to be sucked into a thin, weak root… and then I felt that excruciating pain again, like my blood was being forcibly drained!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, even though I was already a consciousness without blood, I seemed to feel my blood being madly drained…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That pain was countless times more intense than when the wall had sucked my blood!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And it wasn’t just pain—that suffering carried a fear I could hardly bear…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At that moment, I thought that if I could just escape that pain, I’d gladly die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But at that point, I was just a shred of consciousness; I had no idea how to die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just when I thought I would live forever in that extreme pain and fear… I seemed to suddenly die?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or rather, I suddenly reincarnated?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was as if I instantly went from that despairing consciousness into this coffin, with a new physical body…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And then, you dug me out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In summary, Wan Xin really didn’t know what he had gone through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only describe what he had experienced and felt from his perspective, and most of that was just feelings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his descriptions gave Li Ku plenty of information!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dripping water sounds and falling rock sounds he heard while trapped…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Weren’t those the sounds from the 18th floor of the Blood Pool Elevator just before the monsters revived?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Ku had personally witnessed the monsters’ revival, and combining that with Wan Xin’s description…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that after being sucked into the wall, Wan Xin had experienced a monster revival alongside them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, Wan Xin’s account opened a new perspective for Li Ku!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, Li Ku had always thought the monster revival happened only on the 18th floor of the Blood Pool Elevator…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now it seemed that was only because he was on the 18th floor at the time, so he only saw what happened there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The actual monster revival…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Might have covered all floors of the Blood Pool Elevator!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And possibly spaces he hadn’t even seen!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, the revived monsters had indeed scattered and flown away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, according to Wan Xin’s account…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe they were all drawn by a \"stream of consciousness,\" surging together into the World Tree’s root system?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then, did Wan Xin die in the World Tree’s roots and then revive in a coffin?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or did he have something special about him that caused this unique revival?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Ku had many guesses in his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the administrator also gained a lot of information from Wan Xin’s description.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his mind, thoughts were churning, and he was deeply shaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, he bypassed Li Ku entirely and asked Wan Xin directly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When you were trapped in the coffin… did you hear any other sounds?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wan Xin didn’t know this Ninth Day Administrator 4444.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But seeing that he seemed to be with Li Ku and Jiang Ye, he answered honestly: \"I didn’t hear anything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But then again, maybe it was because I spent too little time in the coffin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wan Xin remembered that Yang Wenchao had been dug out too quickly from the coffin before, missing the chance to communicate with some mysterious senior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he, clearly, was even unluckier than Yang Wenchao—this time, he hadn’t been in the coffin long before being dug out…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye, having lost his memory, didn’t know anything and couldn’t glean much useful information from Wan Xin’s description.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But hearing the administrator’s question, he immediately pressed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could the other players revived in those coffins hear anything?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The administrator shook his head. \"Not exactly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I just thought that this young friend here is wearing a watch on his wrist, so maybe he would be chosen…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His words were deliberately vague.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye pressed on: \"Chosen by what?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The administrator just shook his head again, not answering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze was fixed squarely on Wan Xin’s prison watch, and he asked in a gentle tone:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"From what you said, your identity isn’t the 'Gao Xiang' shown on this watch?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You obtained this identity by wearing someone else’s watch?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wan Xin had just thought that this administrator was on the same side as Li Ku and Jiang Ye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But from the brief exchange between the administrator and Jiang Ye, he sensed something off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed the relationship between the administrator and Jiang Ye wasn’t exactly friendly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he didn’t directly answer the administrator’s question; instead, he looked to Jiang Ye for permission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The implication was clear: if Jiang Ye told him to answer, he would answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This behavior made the administrator’s expression sour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye, on the other hand, felt a bit awkward, thinking to himself, Buddy, I really don’t know you!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wan Xin then asked Jiang Ye: \"Have I really returned to the underground Burial Ground of the 4444 Apartment?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can I take off this watch now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The administrator instinctively wanted to answer for Jiang Ye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But considering this unlucky guy wasn’t giving him any face, he just said to Jiang Ye instead:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"With this watch, exploring the Underground Palace will be much more convenient.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The implication was clear, but his tone wasn’t particularly polite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wan Xin’s heart raced—he thought, Just how strong is this guy to show no respect for Jiang Ye?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, he waited for Jiang Ye to signal that he could take off the watch before obediently removing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the watch was off, Wan Xin indeed returned to his own appearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He handed the watch directly to Jiang Ye, showcasing his loyalty as a subordinate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye weighed the watch in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could clearly see the administrator’s almost undisguised covetousness for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he was thinking was…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could he use this watch to take down the administrator’s clone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The administrator probably wouldn’t agree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he accidentally alerted him, it would only make things worse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, for the renewed exploration of the Underground Palace, he might still need the administrator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The perfect opportunity to kill the administrator could be inside the Underground Palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he really couldn’t get out of the Underground Palace, then, according to the administrator’s claim, he could use the resurrection method to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when the administrator used that resurrection method, that would be the perfect moment for Jiang Ye to \"seize the body\"!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, he put the watch away and said to the administrator with a smile:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since it’s useful for exploring the Underground Palace, I’ll keep it for now. We can use it when we start the exploration.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The administrator squinted slightly but didn’t say much, accepting Jiang Ye’s decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He directly asked Li Ku: \"This coffin was opened by you. So now, do you still need me to demonstrate my way of opening a coffin?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his heart, Li Ku hoped the next coffin would reveal Lin Jing, or even Lin Dong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More teammates meant a higher chance of passing the dungeon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he nodded. \"Let’s open another one.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before long, Li Hongbin had dug up another new coffin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Again, it was a pitch-black wooden coffin covered in eerie patterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the administrator took over personally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He casually took out a palm-sized miniature black box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked quite similar to the \"bone ash box\" he had used earlier to contain a monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in size, it was a bit smaller than that box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like a mini version of a bone ash box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye couldn’t help but speculate—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could this bone ash box the administrator took out also be a fragment of a full item?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is, something that had split off from the complete version of the bone ash box?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he thought this, he saw the administrator press the miniature bone ash box against a square-shaped pattern on the front of the wooden coffin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To the naked eye, the miniature bone ash box seemed to embed itself into that pattern!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately afterward, all the patterns on the pitch-black coffin began to be absorbed by the miniature black box—just as they had been absorbed by Li Ku’s black thread earlier!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the special patterns were fully absorbed, the coffin became ordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the administrator’s miniature bone ash box showed no visible changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, no sound of a plea for help came from inside the coffin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Ku didn’t rush to open it either. Instead, he asked the administrator with some curiosity:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This bone ash box of yours—is it also a fragment item? Would you mind showing me its info?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The implication was…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Ku’s Detection Technique couldn’t see through the info on the bone ash box!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye was secretly alarmed, but the administrator explained:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s not that I don’t want to show you; I can’t even examine this thing’s information myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But I can tell you in advance—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This suspected fragment item, the bone ash box, was actually something I discovered while exploring the Underground Palace.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it really is a fragment item…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then perhaps its complete version is also hidden deep within the Underground Palace.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These words were loaded with meaning, and they made Li Ku think back to the projection from Guan Gong’s Eyes—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the paper world explored by those two stick figures, wasn’t there a stick figure trapped inside a square frame?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could that square frame be the complete version of the bone ash box?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or perhaps the complete version of the bone ash box… was a coffin much larger than this one?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This bone ash box could absorb the special patterns from the resurrection coffin…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be that the bone ash box and the resurrection coffin were somehow connected?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Li Ku pondered this, he heard a faint scraping sound—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The coffin, now stripped of its special patterns, seemed to be having its lid quietly pushed open from within…\u003C\u002Fp>",2418,"2026-06-03T07:17:58.030Z","2026-06-03T07:18:08.301Z",1,"novelbin.me","0d8372eb26a6ef6ad66d48d4471cbc455de4b9f440e6adfe4053e5c39dfbaaa9","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-567","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-565",575,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsurviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-cover.jpg"]