Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

"I'm leaving... If you make it through the dream within a dream and have any questions, come ask me. My name is Yun Duo. You can call me Aduo."

Aduo trotted away.

Zhou Baiyu didn't ask any more questions; he didn't want to trouble others, so he returned to his room.

There was nothing else in the room, only a bed.

Since this was a dream realm, the people here couldn't really tell if time was flowing or not.

They didn't need to eat, drink, or relieve themselves.

Their purpose for living was to lie on that bed, sleep, and dream.

Zhou Baiyu knew well that when playing a game, one must listen to the NPCs' words, as they can save you from many detours.

But sometimes, you need to interpret the NPCs' words in the opposite way.

"Try not to sleep as much as possible? It seems that only by sleeping will I find more clues."

"Speaking of which, those people just now, it seems like every one of them severely lacked sleep."

Zhou Baiyu recalled the men and women he had seen, all with severe dark circles under their eyes, looking like they were chronically sleep-deprived.

He prepared to lie on the bed.

But just as he attempted to do so, he suddenly discovered—he could mutate.

Yes, the bed—had a note attached.

[Item Name: The Gallows]

[Feature: Extremely easy to fall asleep.]

[Introduction: The Night Sea hides many monsters, all the night demons have various manifestations in the Night Sea.

Some night demons become the giant whales of the night sea, others grow strange tentacles, akin to big squids in the night sea.

They delight in toying with humans in their dreams. And they have not seen—one as luminous as you for a very, very long time.

You are destined to be well entertained. Truthfully, mutating this bed is of little value; no matter how you mutate it, you cannot change anything.]

[Status: Mutatable, deviation rate 87%.]

The Night Sea?

It seems this is the destination of the dream within a dream; by the sound of it, a darker place.

Zhou Baiyu now only had a few doubts.

How could he leave this dream and wake up?

Kill the eternal night within the dream? Clearly, that was impossible. Just as the status bar said, in another person's dream, can you really triumph over them?

In the end, Zhou Baiyu chose not to mutate.

Because he knew that everything done in this dream was in vain.

What he really needed to do was find a way to leave.

After closing his eyes, Zhou Baiyu regulated his breathing, cleared his mind, and—in the quickest possible way—stepped into the dream.

...

...

Dreaming within a dream; it is said that people can experience this a few times in their lives.

When Zhou Baiyu awoke again, he found himself standing in a hazy world.

And at the very top of this world—where the sky should be—

Zhou Baiyu saw a pitch-black sea.

As if the night turned into seawater, within the vast water glowed the silhouettes of gigantic creatures, moving about in the dark Night Sea.

If one has megalophobia, they might be petrified at the sight of this sea.

Zhou Baiyu raised his head and saw an eye.

A colossal eye that covered the sky and the sun, gradually emerging from the depths of the Night Sea.

How big was it really?

It seemed a single eyelash could be thousands of kilometers long, as if a pupil could fit an entire city!

As the enormous pupil contracted for a moment, Zhou Baiyu even thought the Night Sea in the sky would fall down... as if to be buried alive by the heavy night!

This giant eye was just one of the monsters of the Night Sea, attracted by the light emanating from Zhou Baiyu.

In a desolate world akin to a barren wilderness, Zhou Baiyu seemed to be looking into the eyes of an ancient deity.

An eye so grand made him feel his own insignificance.

This is the domain of the night demons!

In this world, the night demons are an unbeatable presence.

Even just an eye seemed like it could stuff the world of all who dream into it.

Seeing such a huge pupil for the first time, Zhou Baiyu was profoundly shocked. It was like something from a science fiction movie, like a monster lurking in space, stretching out its planet-sized giant palm.

But the next second...

The giant pupil seemed capable of destroying one's will—

Zhou Baiyu suddenly clutched his head, in agony.

Everything in his memory... was shattered in an instant.

He saw a vision. Linyi City completely destroyed, his parents turned into corrupted beings while fleeing...

The leader of Future Gate, together with Guang Tongchen, tried to stop the demon clan's onslaught, but along with everyone from Future Gate—all perished without exception!

Ling Hansu died, Zhou Shou died, Bai Ling died!

The entire continent plunged into darkness, all disputes of old and new, the chess games of gods, the forerunners and purifiers...

Were all rendered void under absolute darkness.

In just a few seconds... Zhou Baiyu experienced the end of the world.

The true end of the world.

In this apocalypse, everyone he knew had died—even Zhou Shou, Bai Ling, An Ya, Lin, and Midel... none had met a good end.

The light on his body dimmed rapidly.

And behind that giant eye... there were hundreds, thousands more just as immense.

Their gazes, one after another, shone upon Zhou Baiyu.

The pain Zhou Baiyu had experienced, intensified, resurfacing over and again in a vicious cycle.

In the face of the vast Night Sea, against the indomitable leviathans within—the creatures known as nightmares—