Someone was standing in the room.
Su Zhan's eyes widened.
A black figure stood in front of him, completely silent.
His skin went cold.
"When did he get here?!"
His breathing stopped. His heart pounded.
If someone saw the black mark on his palm… he was finished.
His thoughts raced with fear.
Would he be tortured? Killed? Sold?
But then… he noticed something strange.
The figure wasn't wearing pants.
No — it wasn't wearing anything.
It didn't even look real.
Su Zhan looked closer, shocked.
The figure… was shaped exactly like him.
Same height. Same build.
No eyes, no mouth, no nose — just a black outline of a human.
Of himself.
"What… what is this…?"
Su Zhan took a step back, sweating.
The figure had no face, but Su Zhan could feel it staring at him.
Suddenly—
A strange sound echoed in his mind.
A short melody, like a machine starting up.
It wasn't a voice, but Su Zhan understood it completely.
Two words:
"Master."
His body froze.
His mouth opened in shock.
The black figure took a knee, like a loyal servant bowing to its lord.
Su Zhan's first clone had been born.
And at that moment…
"Master?"
"Wait!"
"Could it be… it?!"
Su Zhan suddenly raised his palm and stared at the silent black mark.
And in that instant—he understood.
Three low-grade spirit stones.
This was the result of the black mark devouring all three.
"Finally…"
His entire body trembled with excitement. His chest surged with joy, and his eyes burned with ecstasy. He wanted to roar at the sky, to laugh for three minutes straight—
But he held it back.
Don't think the mine is just full of poor people who were kidnapped and forced to work.
What people at the bottom love most… is killing each other.
Su Zhan had only been here for less than a month, but the cruelty and darkness he had witnessed were far worse than anything in his previous life.
Su Zhan took several deep breaths and forced himself to suppress the urge to laugh, but he couldn't stop the smile that tugged at the corners of his mouth…
The grin almost stretched all the way to his ears.
"I've waited so long… and finally, my cheat has arrived!"
"Even if it's a little late, and I've suffered a lot—at least it came! Better late than never!"
Su Zhan's eyes sparkled.
"Based on all the novels I've read… this black shadow—it's my shadow, right? It looks exactly like me, same face, same body… a perfect one-to-one copy!
If I'm right, this should be my clone!"
"In that case… doesn't that mean I now have an absolutely loyal death warrior?!"