Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

As a former lecturer at a pyramid-selling company, Zhou Baiyu was not just reliant on being a charismatic speaker.

He was genuinely adept at arousing people's inner expectations.

However, the promise he made with Yun Duo was not for the sake of achieving a certain purpose through persuasive manipulation; it was likewise from the heart.

The spark within Yun Duo's heart had finally been awakened.

"Actually, for these past few years, I've been waiting for someone like you to appear. It's just that the defeat we experienced was too great a blow for each of us," she said.

"Jiang Xianwu, I want to know your plan, even if it's not feasible at this stage," she added.

Zhou Baiyu nodded and began to share his analysis.

How to awaken hope in everyone's heart, how to awaken hope without attracting the attention of the nightmares in the night sea, how to ensure that after waking up, one could defeat the night demons instead of falling back into slumber.

Yun Duo listened intently, and during the process, she found that Jiang Xianwu had really thought things through comprehensively.

It was just that one of Jiang Xianwu's solutions seemed difficult to achieve:

"Are you saying... you want to conceal the light?" she asked.

Zhou Baiyu nodded:

"To awaken the hope in these people's hearts, they will inevitably shine brightly again," he said.

"But this is a very dangerous thing. Because even if all of you emit light at the same time, awakening me, at this stage, I have no assurance of being able to defeat the night demons," he explained.

"So what I need to do is awaken the fire within you, but suppress the light on your bodies, preventing the monsters of the night sea from noticing your light," he continued.

"We cannot give the night demons time to react. We need this first layer of the dream world to be filled with light instantly. Before this happens, not even a hint of light should appear," he concluded.

Yun Duo understood.

Indeed, just like the conversation she had with Jiang Xianwu today, it had stirred up the inner spark.

She was shining once more.

But if she allowed herself to emit light now, she would be tormented by the nightmares of the night sea.

If the light were devoured, the next same stimulus might not be able to produce light either due to the fear in her heart.

Moreover, humans cannot control light on their own. Once emotions inside the heart are awakened and light is produced, to suppress it, the only way is to quench this passion...

After quenching, there might never be that vigor again, especially since everyone had already failed once.

Therefore, the chance for each person to shine is only once.

To ensure that the one time they shine is exactly when Jiang Xianwu battles the night demons, exactly when Jiang Xianwu has the confidence to defeat the night demons outside the realm of dreams.

However, it's not realistic to expect so many people to find the courage and ignite hope at the same moment.

After all, it's impossible to awaken everyone's inner light with the same set of words.

The people here share a similar despair, but the trigger for hope is different.

For Yun Duo, the trigger for hope was not letting Jin Yi be alone with the moon.

But for others, the same words might not have such a significant impact.

So, this necessitates understanding the 'Yun Duo' of these people, coordinating with Jiang Xianwu in continual persuasion.

This also means, inevitably, not everyone will shine at the same time.

Thus, to ensure that during the final battle, everyone erupts in light simultaneously, is nearly an impossible task,

unless it happens as Jiang Xianwu plans—with the light concealed. But this, just hearing it, sounds absurd.

But Yun Duo suddenly remembered:

"Can you really do this? Speaking of which, before you shone brilliantly... why were you so dim?" she asked.

She recalled that before Jiang Xianwu came from her house not long ago, and during these days, he had always been in a dark state.

She initially thought that this newcomer had resigned himself to fate, but now it seemed he had truly found a way to hide the light.

Zhou Baiyu did not mention the matter of the necklace, merely stating:

"Let's just say it's an ability of mine, but this ability, I still need to find a way to mass-produce," he remarked.

"Have you heard of pioneers? In this place, there are a few pioneers, all quite capable, and we will try to cooperate to provide everyone with a way to conceal their light," he explained.

"But this process is destined to be very lengthy, I don't know... if you can wait that long," he

admitted.

Yun Duo's gaze was resolute:

"I have been waiting many years already," she stated.

She didn't say much more, but that one sentence was enough to show her resolve.

"The light you emitted today should attract the nightmares, right?" Zhou Baiyu suddenly changed the topic.

Yun Duo nodded.

Indeed, she once again had a craving to see the moon. Seeing Jiang Xianwu shine brightly again, her inner hope surged once more.

But this also meant she might endure painful torment tonight.

The nightmares of the night sea might harrow her continuously with Jin Yi's failure, therefore... she might become fearful again tomorrow.

She looked at Zhou Baiyu:

"What will you do? According to what you said, we cannot shine before you are ready, but I might already be marked by the nightmare," she said.

Zhou Baiyu nodded:

"You don't need to worry about that, my ability is to endow objects with new possibilities. These possibilities, there's a certain probability that they can solve the current problem," he explained.

"And before coming to find you, I had already considered, if I awaken your hope, how to avoid the torment of the nightmare," he added.

Yun Duo didn't understand these things, but she felt that Jiang Xianwu seemed to be a very reliable presence.