CHAPTER 406: NOTHING BUT WHITE IN SIGHT

Xu Gou and the others frowned, abruptly turning to look at the projections of the chubby guy and the old woman, their expressions tense.

Xiao Bai, however, looked pale, her gaze fixed on the square space enclosed by snake bodies.

Peng Gu tentatively called out toward the chubby guy's direction, "Senior?"

No matter what, that array disk had flown out from within Chubby Senior's body.

They naturally assumed subconsciously—

The two seniors, who appeared to have become projections without perception, actually still retained awareness of the outside world!

Superficially, they were projections, but they might very well be fully aware of everything happening in this enclosed space!

Perhaps the red mark in Tao Sheng's skull could indeed affect their projections, which was why Chubby Senior proactively took action, using the array disk to teleport Tao Sheng away?

So now, were their actions still under the surveillance of the two seniors?

Xu Gou felt extremely nervous, frozen in place, not daring to move recklessly.

Peng Gu received no response and hesitated, unsure whether to approach and check if the two seniors were still in their projection state.

Only Jiang Ye noticed a detail—

Back when it first started snowing.

The chubby guy had already used that array disk with a round top and square base.

However, his behavior at the time seemed to be...

Affected by the heavy snow and cold, the array disk couldn't be used at all!

But just now, how could the array disk be used again?

This doubt was something others present would surely notice as well.

However, they probably thought that the situation where the array disk couldn't be used earlier was just an act by Chubby Senior.

But Jiang Ye couldn't help but suspect—

What if the chubby guy's inability to use the array disk back then wasn't an act?

Then, his ability to use the turntable now...

This was truly suspicious!

Perhaps, while the array disk superficially flew out from the chubby guy's projection, someone else was actually controlling it? Like the Formation Master? s̩

Or perhaps, during the time they transformed into projections, something happened to the two seniors? That's why the chubby guy could now use the array disk?

Or perhaps, during the time they were skinning Tao Sheng alive, the environment of the forbidden zone itself underwent some change?

Jiang Ye's thoughts raced wildly, and he soon noticed—

Xiao Bai, who had looked displeased since Tao Sheng's disappearance, now had an increasingly abnormal expression!

Not only Jiang Ye noticed, but Xu Gou and the others noticed too.

They originally thought Tao Sheng's disappearance made her look upset.

But now it seemed...

They saw Xiao Bai suddenly raise her hand to support the "wall" made of snake bodies, her voice low and hoarse:

"I strongly suspect that activating that array disk just now caused other effects..."

"You only saw Tao Sheng disappear, but I feel an inexplicable pressure."

"This pressure doesn't act directly on me, but on the black snakes I released."

"In this short time, this pressure keeps intensifying..."

"I feel like I can't hold on much longer."

As she spoke, her breathing even became unsteady, and after finishing, she gasped for air, panting heavily.

Xu Gou and the others were shocked: "What do you mean by 'can't hold on much longer'?"

Huff— Huff—

Xiao Bai took two more sharp breaths before speaking rapidly: "One minute at most... no! Maybe not even a minute! I must recall my black snakes!"

As she spoke, she suddenly looked toward the direction of the two projections:

"If you two seniors are truly still conscious, please show us a way out..."

"Otherwise, I really can't hold on anymore!"

Xiao Bai's hand supporting the snake body wall slid down, and her entire body knelt on one knee.

After panting a few more times and seeing no reaction from the two seniors' projections, she began counting down while gasping:

"Three—"

At this, Xu Gou and the others panicked!

What would they face after these snake bodies were withdrawn?!

"Two—"

Xu Gou suddenly lunged forward, trying to grab the still-floating Ghost Valley Soul Shepherd Formation array disk.

However, the array disk seemed like a sentient living creature, casually drifting aside to avoid Xu Gou's grasp.

"One!"

Accompanied by Xiao Bai's nearly exhausted cry.

The walls made of snake bodies collapsed and disintegrated rapidly from all directions.

The thick black snakes quickly shrank while flying back onto Xiao Bai's head.

As the snake body walls disintegrated, everyone finally saw the outside world again...

But what did they see?

It seemed like they saw something, yet also seemed to see nothing!

Everything before their eyes was like a vast expanse of white snow.

But actually, when they reached out to touch it, they felt no sensation of snow at all.

Moreover, upon closer observation, it would reveal—

This wasn't snow at all, but simply pure white!

Boundless, no matter how they changed angles or adjusted their vision...

Everything their eyes could see was nothing but a sheet of snowy white!

They couldn't even see their own hands!

Even if they covered their eyes by feel, even if they actively lowered their eyelids...

All they could "see" was white!

This feeling was as if they had become reversely blind.

Normal blind people can only "see" black, while they could only "see" white!

Moreover, as this situation persisted, they gradually developed symptoms of snow blindness.

Their eyes hurt intensely, the originally relatively mild white gradually turned into blinding "light," causing them pain and tears...

But even with tears blurring their vision, the white light remained, even growing increasingly intense!

Those present were originally dark-type creatures.

Although this bizarre light sensation didn't belong to direct light-based abilities.

It still made them extremely uncomfortable.

Several mutants even struggled to resist the urge to gouge out their painfully unbearable eyes.

Xiao Bai was also extremely uncomfortable in this environment.

However...

Whether she sensed something or it was the little black snake's initiative.

Her flowing long hair actively drifted forward, quickly covering her eyes.

This way, Xiao Bai's vision was still white, but the blinding light sensation diminished considerably.

She slowly exhaled and quickly called out to those around her:

"Are you all okay? Try covering your eyes with your hair...?"

As she spoke, Xiao Bai lost confidence.

After all, she had long hair.

But the others present all had short hair...

Sure enough, the people around didn't respond;

instead, they finally couldn't hold back their groans and roars.

Yu Mo, with the thickest skin, even while hissing in pain, said bluntly:

"Big sister? Sister Zhou? Does covering with hair really work? Do you have extra hair? Can you lend me some to cover my eyes too? Damn it, my hair is too short!"

As he spoke, Yu Mo groped toward the direction of Xiao Bai's voice.

The others also abandoned their pride, all groping toward Xiao Bai's direction.

However, before they could even touch anything, they felt a flying kick that sent them flying backward.

And Xiao Bai simultaneously sensed—

It was "Xiao Hei," fused within her hair, who had now separated from the fusion state.

Xiao Hei's eyes were an eerie black.

And these eyes were currently being used by Jiang Ye.

For some reason, his experience was different from the others.

He directly asked Xiao Bai, "The white you see, is it blinding?"

Xiao Bai nodded, then remembered Xiao Hei probably couldn't see either, and said, "Yes, at first it was just white, then it became like light, increasingly blinding!"

If not for her hair covering her eyes, she would probably be unable to bear that burning pain from the light sensation by now.

She was even somewhat afraid—could this pain from seeing light with her eyes be a weakened version of Lightburn?

Jiang Ye also heard the fear in her voice.

However, what made him feel afraid deep down was the unique scene in his field of vision.

What he saw wasn't a complete expanse of white.

But rather black and white interwoven, densely packed...

Moreover, these densely packed black and white patterns were flickering!

It gave him the feeling of...

The snow screen that appears when old television signals are poor!

What horrified Jiang Ye was precisely the concept of "poor signal"!

This damn...

If we compare the world they're in to an old television...

Then this so-called "forbidden zone"—could it be a place in this world with "poor signal"?

So could this "signal" be coming from outside the "television"?

For a moment, Jiang Ye felt an inexplicable sense of horror.

Meanwhile, the screams from those voices grew increasingly intense.

Even Xiao Bai's voice carried terror:

"Jiang Ye, are you still there? I feel the situation is very bad!"

"Even with my hair covering my eyes, that blinding light sensation keeps getting stronger..."

"I even feel like my eyes might be burning up!"

"I even suspect that if this continues, my entire body will melt away in this light..."

Her voice indeed sounded afraid.

That kind of nearly despairing fear.

Because dying by "being melted by light" was too unique.

When players are "Erased," it's as if they're melted by light, quickly turning into light points!

And accompanying her increasingly despairing voice, the screams from Xu Gou and the others grew increasingly frantic:

"Hisss— No! I don't want to die!"

Jiang Ye sensed these sounds moving rapidly.

It wasn't hard to imagine that those guys, driven mad by the light stimulation, were now running around aimlessly in this "snowy white" expanse!

"Anyone who doesn't want to die, stop right there, don't run around!"

Jiang Ye shouted sharply, and indeed heard the screams stop moving, though they didn't cease.

However, someone finally managed to suppress their pain and called out toward his direction: "You... Jiang Ye?"

"Which Jiang Ye are you? Yu Mo? Wu Ying? Or someone impersonating him?"

"Why, why are you here?"

The speaker was Xu Gou.

He had heard Jiang Ye's voice before, as many players in the White Tower had obtained Jiang Ye-style mimic masks.

Even Yu Mo had turned into Jiang Ye's face after mutation.

The reason he thought this Jiang Ye wasn't Yu Mo was partly because he heard Yu Mo's screams.

Another was that he heard Xiao Bai's words, clearly calling out "Jiang Ye."

He just wasn't sure which Jiang Ye this was.

After all, in his view, quite a few people could impersonate Jiang Ye.

Jiang Ye naturally didn't answer him.

To be honest, given the current situation, he didn't know what to do either.

However, after hearing Xiao Bai's words, a thought quickly flashed through his mind.

So he called out toward Xu Gou's direction: "Do you and Peng Gu have any extra survival points left?"

Peng Gu was struggling to suppress his roars but couldn't make a sound.

Xu Gou managed to reply: "I... still have a few hundred survival points..."

Peng Gu barely managed to say: "I also... hiss hiss..."

Jiang Ye directly ordered: "If you don't want to die, transfer all your survival points to Yu Mo!"

Yu Mo was still screaming, somewhat confused by these words, but that didn't stop him from continuing to scream in pain.

Xu Gou and Peng Gu, however, didn't act immediately.

In Jiang Ye's densely packed black and white vision, he didn't see any flickering movement, so he said in a deep voice:

"If this continues, you'll all die! Better to lend me your survival points for an experiment, maybe we can grasp a thread of survival!"

As soon as he said this, Xiao Bai also quickly thought of something and immediately shouted:

"Trust him!"

"Jiang Ye has the ability to consume survival points!"

The ability to consume survival points!

Xu Gou wasn't a novice like Jiang Ye;

he had long heard of such abilities.

Hearing this now naturally shocked him.

So he finally stopped hesitating and groped toward the direction of Yu Mo's screams.

Peng Gu also gritted his teeth and took action.

Soon, from within the expanse of white, Xu Gou's voice came again: "All transferred! What now?"

What now...

Jiang Ye silently recited—

Clone Fusion!

Then, his figure disappeared into the snowy white.

The next second, "Yu Mo's" screams vanished.

Clearly, Yu Mo had now become the fused Jiang Ye!

The body was still Yu Mo's body...

But Jiang Ye's field of vision remained the densely packed black and white pattern.

This...

Xiao Hei's eyes were indeed eerie?

He had no time to ponder the reason, so he tentatively generated a new clone.

Yes, even though it was said that talent abilities couldn't be used in the forbidden zone.

Jiang Ye's clone-related abilities could still be used, including generating clones!

Soon, a new clone was generated, and in this disconnected world, he gained another shared consciousness!

Jiang Ye couldn't see the new clone.

But the new clone's consciousness could be shared.

So through the new clone's perspective, he saw the new clone's data panel—

[Jiang Ye]

[Level: 0]

[Physical: 100]

[Spirit: 100]

[Combat Power: 1999]

[Survival Points: 0]

[Talent: Light Element Affinity (SSS)]

[Skills: Solar Flare Burst (SS), Sacred Link (SS), Pale Beam (SS), Reverse Light Stealth (S), Light and Shadow Swap (S), Light and Shadow Escape (S)]

Holy moly??

Not bad!

Jiang Ye had anticipated that in this special environment, he might be able to generate special clones...

But he didn't expect the very first one to be an SSS-level light clone!

You should know, among those ninety thousand light clones in the Court of Disorder, although they were all light-based, none had SSS-level talents!

But here, he directly generated a light clone!

This excited him so much his scalp tingled, and he wished he could use all his survival points at once to generate an invincibly powerful light-based army!

However, this idea wasn't feasible.

The ninety thousand light clones in the Court of Disorder were essentially [Puppet Clones] generated by Clone No. 1 using the A-level skill [Puppet Clones] given by Zhou Yuling.

Those puppet clones didn't consume the main body's energy.

But proper clone generation would affect the main body.

So even though Jiang Ye wasn't short of survival points now, he didn't dare generate too many clones casually.

Only to confirm whether this SSS-level light clone was a coincidence, he generated another new clone.