Surviving the Doomsday Apartment—With Infinite Clones!-Chapter 150: The Death-State of 4444

Oh dmn!
This 4444…
So f**ing arrogant and smug!
You’d never guess this was the same guy who ran for his life at the sight of a Light-type!
And while he was running his mouth like that,
the whistle sounded above the arena, signaling the official start of the PK Battle.
At that moment, Jiang Ye was still debating—
Should he strike first, seize the initiative, and go for a fast win?
Or hold back for now and have a round of verbal sparring with the guy?
He was also curious about 4444’s choice.
4444 clearly chose the latter—he was planning to talk trash first.
When the whistle blew, he stood motionless in place, showing no intention of attacking.
And seeing that Jiang Ye also wasn’t moving,
he suddenly sneered and said:
“You really think I didn’t see through your little provocation?”
Hearing that, Jiang Ye was a little surprised.
This...
This 4444 actually figured out that his remarks in the chat were bait?
And even after realizing that, he still went ahead and fused the apartments without fear...
4444 saw the surprise in 1010’s eyes, and was clearly pleased with it.
He stayed perfectly still, calm and leisurely.
After enjoying 1010’s stunned expression, he continued in a relaxed tone:
“If I’m not mistaken—”
“It was that Jiang Ye who got you to provoke me, trying to bait me into fusing our two apartments, right?”
“You’re already dead meat in his hands.”
“But if you fused with me, maybe there was still a sliver of hope.”
“He probably even promised you some big reward, right?”
“Or loaned you some game-breaking item to boost your confidence and courage?”
“You fell for it, and that’s why you suddenly went ballistic in the chat, trying to bait me.”
“All just to guide me into pulling strings and initiating the fusion myself.”
“Tsk tsk tsk—”
4444 sneered again, his expression full of disdain as he spat out:
“Judging by your face, I hit the nail on the head, didn’t I?”
“Heh. With those little tricks of yours, and you really thought you could fool me?”
Well then…
Jiang Ye really was surprised.
He couldn’t help blurting out his thoughts:
“So you knew it was bait and still rushed in to die?”
“In that case, when you’re dying, won’t you regret it like hell?”
The way he said it couldn’t have been more honest.
Jiang Ye had restored his Administrator Replica’s appearance to that of a middle-aged man.
His eyes had that slightly cloudy, world-weary look that came with age and experience.
But right now, as he asked those two simple questions,
those eyes suddenly lit up with an almost childlike innocence.
4444 looked like a younger middle-aged man.
He burst out laughing at the questions:
“Me? Rushing to die? Hahahahaha!”
“That’s the funniest joke I’ve heard since becoming the 4444 Administrator!”
“You want to see me regret it in my final moments, huh?”
“Well then, watch carefully! I’ll die for you right now!”
As he spoke, 4444 spread his arms wide and tilted his head back slightly.
He had a tall, lean build, dressed in a sleek black robe that stretched from his neck to his ankles—
a single piece that fit snugly to his frame.
It made him look almost imprisoned inside the robe.
If you ignored his face and looked only at his posture,
he resembled a Dracula-type, a noble vampire.
Right now, standing with arms wide open and head held high,
he looked like a black crucifix nailed to the ground.
At the same time, there was something solemn and sacred—Dark-type holiness—about his presence.
At that moment, it was as if he had undergone a baptism of some sort.
His raised head echoed with a powerful declaration:
“Death to me—is nothing at all!”
As those words rang out,
Jiang Ye noticed that this guy’s entire presence had undergone some kind of eerie transformation.
But with his current vision, he couldn’t yet tell exactly what had changed.
He furrowed his brows slightly, unease rising in his heart.
And then the 4444 Administrator smiled calmly and said:
“Go ahead. I’ll just stand here.
You can use any method you want on me.”
“If you can so much as scratch me…”
“I’ll rip off my head and let you use it as a soccer ball.”
Still ridiculously arrogant.
And his tone and expression couldn’t be more relaxed.
Jiang Ye suddenly felt an unexplained heaviness.
He no longer dared to underestimate the man.
After a brief moment of thought, he raised his right hand.
A massive axe appeared in his palm—
the Administrator’s signature giant axe.
It grew several times in size,
so much that Jiang Ye didn’t even need to move—
just a simple swing brought the axe straight down on 4444.
However…
That massive axe passed through like it was hitting thin air!
4444’s body turned illusory—his form a phantom—as the axe phased right through!
His expression remained unchanged: a calm, fearless smile.
He clearly hadn’t been hurt at all!
Still, Jiang Ye was just testing the waters.
Seeing this, he remained calm.
With a sweep of his hand, the axe vanished—replaced by the Entropy Scythe.
When that black void-rift-like blade materialized in his palm—
4444 still showed no change in expression.
He even chuckled:
“Just as I thought…”
“Jiang Ye even lent you a Concept-Level Weapon to help convince you, huh?”
“Heh! So naive! He really thinks I’m afraid of a Concept Weapon?”
“No worries. Once the fusion’s complete, I’ll personally show him what it means when they say—‘a frog in a well can’t speak of the ocean, and a summer bug knows nothing of ice.’”
“You two really don’t know your place!”
Faced with these continued arrogant remarks, Jiang Ye was shocked again!
Was this 4444 Administrator really that insane?!
Not even afraid of a Concept Weapon?!
Even though he had a feeling how this would go,
he still gave it a try—swinging the Entropy Scythe straight at 4444.
And sure enough—
it was the same result as with the giant axe!
The entire Entropy Scythe passed through like air, hitting nothing!
Even though 4444’s figure stood plainly in front of him,
none of his attacks could lock onto the guy!
This…
this weird state seemed… kind of similar to the Observer, didn’t it?
But the Observer can’t even be seen with the naked eye…
Jiang Ye’s mind raced with theories.
4444, meanwhile, coldly chuckled again:
“What now? Fresh out of tricks?”
“Now you know which one of us is going to regret this?”
Jiang Ye didn’t answer.
Instead, he immediately tried using the Observer ability to cast the S-tier Ultimate—Dice of Fate.
But once again, things didn’t go as expected!
Even though the Dice of Fate floated above 4444’s head,
it failed to roll—because there was “no valid target”!
What…
Jiang Ye hadn’t expected this at all!
The Entropy Scythe, the Dice of Fate—both completely useless!
No wonder this guy had been so fearless!
Even knowing it was bait, he walked right into the fusion without hesitation!
This ability of his… it was practically broken!
No matter if it was the axe, the Entropy Scythe, or the Dice of Fate—
none of them could lock onto him!
Yes!
Jiang Ye was now almost certain—
4444’s “broken” ability was that he couldn’t be locked onto…
And then there was that phrase he said earlier—
Death to me is nothing at all.
In other words…
maybe he was already dead?
Just recently, Jiang Ye had learned from Yang Wenchao that entering Graveyard 4444 required entering at midnight in a Mechanical Undead State.
And Mechanical Undead State… might just be a kind of Death-State!
So the administrator of the entire Apartment 4444—
might be someone who possessed the ability to shift into Death-State!
And that might explain why Zhou Qiming, Guan He, and that mysterious same-kind in the Graveyard’s tombstone zone…
all wanted to kill the 4444 Administrator?
Death-State...
But how do you kill someone in that kind of state?
Use Light?
4444 ran the moment he saw Light before—clearly, he was afraid of it.
So maybe the Death-State itself… could be purified by Light?
With that thought, Jiang Ye felt a bit more at ease.
But he didn’t immediately fuse with a Light-type Replica to act.
Instead, he quietly arranged for some outside support—
In other words, from over at No. 1 Replica’s side, he pulled out a glass orb and said bluntly:
“Little Bai, Little Bai! Calling Little Bai!”
“……”
Previously, when Jiang Ye called her “White-Clad Woman,” Yinsu would correct him, saying it was “inauspicious.”
Now this punk had gotten even more brazen and just started calling her “Little Bai”…
Yet this time, she didn’t correct him.
Her tone was rather impatient, but beneath the impatience, there seemed to be a deeper emotion:
“I know you already killed an Administrator and completed the first part of the mission.”
“Wait until we meet up. I’ll give you the reward for part two in advance when we do.”
“And that surprise I mentioned earlier—I’ll give you that too.”
Clearly, when Jiang Ye killed the Administrator, White-Clad Woman, who had issued the mission, also received a notification about his progress.
But what surprised Jiang Ye was—
“Huh? I killed an Administrator?”
“But didn’t he resurrect afterward, and get the admin privileges transferred back?”
“Does that still count as a successful kill?”
His question was perfectly reasonable.
But Yang Wenchao and Wan Xin beside him looked utterly shocked, like they’d seen a ghost!
Wait, what?
Weren’t they just discussing how to enter Graveyard 4444 this whole time?!
When the hll did you sneak off and kill an Administrator??*
Sure, they knew by now that Jiang Ye had Replicas…
But killing an Administrator?
In their understanding, not even ten top-tier players together could guarantee a kill!
Yet Jiang Ye—
He… he did it alone??
That’s f***ing unreal!
At the same time, even White-Clad Woman was stunned.
The f***? The Administrator privileges got transferred, and yet he still revived?
That kind of situation was unheard of!
She couldn’t make sense of it either, and so she muttered a guess:
“You sure you weren’t tricked? If the privileges were already handed off, how could the Administrator revive?”
Jiang Ye explained helplessly, “It was a real resurrection. The privileges that were transferred to me got handed back to him.”
“……”
White-Clad Woman fell silent. After a long pause, she replied, as if it was the most natural thing in the world:
“Fine, whatever. If he resurrected, just kill him again.”
“……”
D*mn, when you put it like that, it’s hard to argue.
Still, Jiang Ye offered a reasonable point:
“I would love to kill him again, but didn’t 1010 and 4444 fuse afterward?”
“The two admins are in the middle of a PK Battle—I can’t interfere.”
“For now I can only wait until the fusion is over and then go after the 4444 Administrator.”
“Actually, the reason I contacted you was to ask—”
“How exactly do you kill the 4444 Administrator?”
“Didn’t you say you agreed to help kill him in exchange for the Raven Egg?”
“So you know he has a ‘Death-State,’ right?”
“How do you kill a 4444 Administrator in ‘Death-State’?”
What he really wanted to know was, if he didn’t use Light-type, was there still a way to kill 4444?
After all, White-Clad Woman had seemed pretty confident before that she could do it.
Which meant there had to be other methods besides Light.
But…
Her next reply caught Jiang Ye completely off guard.
Her voice sounded a bit awkward.
She cleared her throat and then said, very seriously:
“About the 4444 Administrator’s ‘Death-State’—I just found out about that.”
“??”
Jiang Ye: “What? What do you mean?”
Little Bai: “It means… the earlier me was way too confident, and made a bad judgment. With my abilities, I absolutely can’t kill 4444.”
“……”
Ah… well then.
Jiang Ye was speechless.
But he quickly asked: “You just found out? Who told you? Where are you now?”
Little Bai’s attitude toward Jiang Ye was clearly way better than before.
Right now, she was answering everything he asked:
“Still with an old friend I mentioned before. She’s the one who told me.”
“According to her—”
“The only way to kill a Death-State 4444 is with Light-type.”
“She had already given a Special-Grade Madman Mask, fused from ten normal ones, to a Light-type.”
“Unfortunately, that idiot Light-type used the Madman Mask too early…”
“4444 went into hiding, and Light couldn’t find him. With no target, even a Madman Mask is useless.”
“Oh right, the Madman Mask you used to kill the Administrator—Light lent it to you, right?”
“That mask was stolen by Light from my old friend.”
Well now.
So White-Clad Woman actually knew Guan He—
Or more accurately, she knew the Reincarnated Eerie that was symbiotically fused with Guan He.
And from what Jiang Ye could tell,
that Reincarnated Eerie was probably even stronger than White-Clad Woman.
Maybe more knowledgeable, too!
She had already known that the 4444 Administrator possessed this broken Death-State…
And knew that only Light-type could counter it.
Jiang Ye’s thoughts spiraled wildly.
Then another doubt came to him—
If 4444 in Death-State is basically unkillable…
Then in the game, the player who once killed the 4444 Administrator and later died from a Kill-on-Sight Order—
how the h*ll did he pull it off?
Jiang Ye had gone back and forth about it before.
First, he suspected the guy was Light-type;
then he dismissed it.
But now…
he was once again thinking—maybe that player was Light-type?
Otherwise, how do you explain him killing the 4444 Administrator?
Thinking along those lines, he exchanged a glance with Yang Wenchao and asked:
“The 4444 Administrator in the game… he had Death-State too, right?”
Yang Wenchao was clearly deep in thought.
He, too, had started to suspect—
Death-State and Mechanical Undead State must be related.
So the Administrator’s Death-State probably had something to do with Graveyard 4444.
From that angle, the 4444 in the game must have had Death-State too.
Then…
did the player who killed him in-game really have Light-type?
Or…
was there some other way to destroy Death-State?
Along with this confusion, another of Yang Wenchao’s beliefs was overturned.
He had always thought—
that the secret Graveyard 4444 was known only to him.
After all, he’d exploited that bug to bury dozens of accounts there for free.
And 4444 Administrator had never exposed or stopped him.
So he assumed that 4444 didn’t even know the other graveyard existed.
But now… if 4444 had Death-State,
he should be able to access Graveyard 4444 even more easily!
Which meant—he knew.
He just never stopped or exposed Yang Wenchao…
But why?
Yang Wenchao’s thoughts were spinning just as fast.
Meanwhile, Jiang Ye’s voice came from beside him:
“By the way, is there any way to get a Light-type onto the Administrator PK Arena?”