Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

Jiang Lu didn't understand the meaning of that sentence. Out of curiosity, she had ascended the staircase once, taking only one step... and then fell into immense sorrow.

So much so that later on, Jiang Lu's emotions would overflow the instant she saw the stairs.

Fortunately, the Land of Joy was a joyful kingdom. Here there was only happiness.

Everything here was healing people's hearts.

Near the staircase, there was a barrier. As soon as someone approached, Luo Zan inside the castle, Boluke outside the palace, and Aiou would all be informed. They would rescue the person who had "strayed" onto the staircase at the first opportunity.

They would find ways to let that person feel endless joy, immediately.

Just like Jiang Lu.

Now, when Jiang Lu looked at the staircase again, she no longer remembered the purpose of the stairs that led to the top, with a huge ancient bell at the end.

She was left with only laughter.

It was as if everything inside her shell had been hollowed out, then filled with joy.

Zhou Baiyu embraced Jiang Lu:

"I don't know if you still have more genuine feelings, but Jiang Lu, I hope you are truly happy."

"Hahaha, I am truly happy, Jiang Xianwu, thank you! I will always remember you! Hahaha, maybe if you stay here, you'll have your day to enter zone B!"

Zhou Baiyu nodded, released Jiang Lu, and asked:

"Did you bring any items with you when you came here?"

"Let me think, hahaha, it seems there really was something I haven't used in a long time," said Jiang Lu with a laugh.

She then rummaged around the room and found two ceramic cups.

"One for holding rice, one for holding water. These were what I used to survive before I came here. Hahaha, those times were really happy... "

"Back then, I was nearly dead. The cups were always empty. Sometimes I would gaze at the cups, imagining them filled with food, hahaha, hahaha, such happiness..."

Clearly, during those days in the past, she had experienced the fear and despair of survival every day.

She had been so chilled and hungry to the extreme, just like the girl in fairy tales who saw illusions through her matches.

The cups held not only food but also a life she had never had.

But it all seemed to have lost its significance.

Even the memories of her most desperate times now seemed only capable of bringing joy.

Jiang Lu laughed as she recalled those times past.

Hahaha. Hahaha.

She laughed like that, not a forced laughter, but one where the voice could convey an emotion of joy. Yet laughing like this, without stopping, made her seem like a doll that was displaying laughter.

Hahaha, despite those bitter past experiences being not at all funny.

There were many people who could laugh while recounting painful memories of the past, as a way to prove their growth, to let go of the past.

But clearly, Jiang Lu was not one of them.

Zhou Baiyu looked at the cups and found that they could finally be mutated.

The food on this island, the scenery, various items, almost nothing could be mutated.

But the cups were from before Jiang Lu's arrival in the Land of Joy.

The cups had long since lost their value here.

However, everyone who had lived through the apocalypse would carry some possessions to remember the days of hardship.

This provided Zhou Baiyu with an opportunity to mutate.

"Wait for me a moment," Zhou Baiyu said, holding the cups and beginning the mutation.

Now, he had the buff "Mel's Pessimism of the Great Pioneer."

The longer Zhou Baiyu went without using mutation during this summoning, the greater the increase in his traits and combat power. When using mutations, his traits and combat power would slightly decrease, but the chance of positive mutation would slightly increase.

Zhou Baiyu hadn't used mutation for over ten days while here, which allowed the buff to accumulate quite a bit of combat power for him.

If he kept mutating, his combat power would continue to decrease, and the chance of positive mutations would continue to increase.

The more he accumulated combat power, the larger the range for decrease, the greater the room for the probability of positive outcomes to rise.

Zhou Baiyu only mutated three times before he obtained his desired item, thanks to the powerful buff.

He couldn't help but admire that Mel truly deserved the recognition from sister Lin as a Mutated Demon Master.

As the Mutator among the Great Pioneers, Mel could be said to have reached the extremes in both mutated and non-mutated paths.

Even stronger than any other buff he had apart from the "God of Death and Reincarnation's teasing."

Only a genius like sister Lin could be compared.

[Item Name: Clay Telephone. Durability 41/41.]

[Features: Clear sound quality that can even transmit images; the most crucial point—it's a cup that you can drink water from!]

[Introduction: No one as a child hasn't played with clay telephones, right? Two cups connected by a string become the two ends of a receiver.

Of course, an item mutated like this would naturally have more than just simple functions, after all, even phones have video communication these days, so our clay telephone naturally has to keep up, right?

Upon the invitee's consent, the inviter can use the receiver to directly transport the invitee to the inviter's location.]

[Status: Mutable, deviation rate 87%.]

Zhou Baiyu was originally wondering how to infiltrate zone B, but now, he could observe zone B through the item.

"I'll keep one cup to thank you for your company these days. If you're in zone B... well, if you're not happy, but miss me and talk to this cup, I'll hear you."