Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

The night enshrouded a vast area, but a few people still saw it, the center of that domain—a one-stop shopping mall, a hub for various businesses.

Many years ago, before the apocalypse had arrived, this place would have been bustling with human activity—shopping, eating, playing, or watching movies, and on weekends, bringing children for parent-child interaction.

After the apocalypse struck, many goods were looted from here, medicine, water, food, batteries...

The shopping mall was comprised of six floors.

Each floor housed many shops, clothing stores, toy stores, jewelry stores, and even a small car exhibition on the first floor.

Of course, the cars had all disappeared, jewelry was not considered a valuable commodity in the apocalypse, but at the time of its onset, it was still plundered thoroughly.

The shelves in each shop were in a state of extraordinary disarray and covered in a thick layer of dust.

No one had visited this place for a long time; there were many such shopping centers in the once prosperous Songjiang City, and this shopping mall was no exception.

Yet nobody could have imagined that today, it would become the focal point of the "Hunt the Prisoner," and it would bustle with activity once more.

With five minutes remaining until the one-hour evaluation and settlement.

Zhou Baiyu was already hiding in a gift shop on the second floor.

The first floor was all various jewelry, watches, glasses stores, and cosmetics.

The second floor was mainly a collection of clothing stores, but there were also some small gift shops.

This was also the most suitable place for Mutated Items that Zhou Baiyu could think of.

The entire shopping mall was so quiet that when that loud person came running... even though Zhou Baiyu was a floor away, he heard his frantic shouts.

The hunt had begun.

But in this moment, Zhou Baiyu was no longer as panicked.

The items in the gift shop were mostly fanciful and impractical—hats, hairpins, Crystal Ball, playing cards... various delicate trinkets.

Some had already lost their original function due to time, and most of the packaged boxes had corroded over the years since the apocalypse, to the point of being unrecognizable.

Luckily, parts made of special materials had largely retained their original appearance.

Zhou Baiyu didn't mind, for there was only one thing he could do now—

Before these shoes gathered a crowd in the building... find a way to add a few more aces to his hand.

"There are just over four minutes left; my performance will affect the situation on the chief's side, of course... it's quite possible that there's also no progress on the chief's side, which may bring me some negative effects."

Zhou Baiyu held his breath, the item in his hand being a small toy from a mystery box.

The toy was a purple-haired girl with smoky makeup, only palm-sized, probably a gift for young girls with no practical use, merely a decorative piece.

Zhou Baiyu didn't know what to Mutate into, so he simply picked one that looked good to him.

"Let's go with this one, take a gamble!"

That feeling of powerlessness as a different walker surged at this moment.

With no aces up his sleeve, everything depended on luck, and the only solution to deal with an enemy who was determined to kill him and wouldn't be dissuaded was to run.

But Zhou Baiyu wasn't panicked.

He held the little toy in his hands and stared at it intently for three seconds.

[Item Name: Dancing Smoky-Makeup Magical Girl...]

Zhou Baiyu closed his eyes for a moment, knowing he did not need to read further.

From the name of the item alone, he knew... he had Mutated something utterly useless.

A dancing toy could do nothing at all.

He quickly began the second Mutation, but because he used too much force...

He twisted the head off the "Magical Girl" toy.

As time passed, the materials had become brittle due to oxidation, and in his carelessness... the toy was decapitated.

The head fell to the ground, making a sound akin to a marble rolling on the floor.

The sound wasn't loud.

But in the extreme silence of the surroundings, it was bound to attract attention.

And the person pacing below... suddenly raised his head.

"Damn it!"

The atmosphere instantly became fraught with tension, but Zhou Baiyu suddenly discovered... after losing its head, he had Mutated a Divine Artifact.

[Item Name: Headless Girl Searching for a Head.]

[Skill: Tyrant's Header. Durability 2/2.]

[Description: An evil Mutated Item, in simple terms, we find it difficult to define whether it is a positive Mutation or a chaotic one, but perhaps... under certain conditions, it can be useful to you.

Affix 1: Please do not gaze at a girl's bare neck... because if it gets angry, it will snatch your head to place upon itself. (Effective only on humans)

Affix 2: If you can find a suitable head for her, she will whisper secrets to you.

Affix 3: She needs a good sister; if you find her one, she will dance for you.]

[Status: Unmutatable (Living things cannot be mutated.)]

The moment he read the introduction, Zhou Baiyu felt the toy without a head in his hand almost rebel against him... he urgently sensed the toy turning around, a scene that scared Zhou Baiyu so much he quickly looked away.

The toy in his hand stopped suddenly.

"Fuck... that was close, such a bullshit job, almost got killed by my own Mutated Item..."

If Zhou Baiyu's gaze had lingered on the toy girl's neck a moment longer, his head might now have been attached to the toy.

A head many times larger than the toy itself attached to it... that image would certainly have been unsettling.

Zhou Baiyu covered his eyes with his hands, and quickly had an idea: