Transforming Succubus: Almost Doomsday

Time rewound to daytime.

When Jiang Lu finally entered the long-desired Zone B, what presented itself before her eyes was not the paradise she had imagined countless times.

The soap bubbles in the sky refracted light into a myriad of colors.

People once believed that above the foam laid the happiest realm only Lord Aiou could usher one into.

But in this world, anything built upon foam is even more fragile than the foam itself.

Jiang Lu did remember that she, guided by Lord Aiou, kept ascending the staircase up and up.

But she did not know that the journey upward in life doesn't always get better.

When she saw that swirl-like door, Aiou commanded:

"Thank you for your laughter in Zone A, Jiang Lu, my good child. Continue to keep laughing in Zone B. Your laughter will become our favorite symphony."

At that time, Jiang Lu still did not know what exactly she was facing.

She truly believed it to be a blessing. Little did she think it was a vicious mockery.

In the Land of Joy's Zone B, upon arrival, Jiang Lu saw soil that seemed scorched to a crimson hue.

She saw countless emaciated figures no longer resembling human shape, only wrinkled skin wrapped around skeletal frames.

Every face had eye sockets devoid of any light, every belly stuck to the back.

They shuffled and staggered about like zombies, their mouths emitting "hahaha" laughs.

Jiang Lu also let out "hahaha" laughter.

She was in agony.

In just an instant, as the vortex-like door vanished, Jiang Lu felt endless weariness and pain assail her.

The real pain made her body bloodied and battered.

She realized she shouldn't be laughing, but for some reason, as a human, she seemed left only with a smile.

Her skin dried up visibly fast, all the nutrients in her body kept seeping out.

Her hair started to become greasy, her wheat-colored skin lost its sheen, and her small canine teeth began to fall off, one by one, from the increasingly dry and withered gums.

Clueless, she had no idea how to express pain, how to display fear; she only knew her condition was dire, yet she kept on laughing.

Hahaha, hahaha...

Such joyful laughter, in such a place, sounded much like an optimist making the best of terrible suffering.

"What exactly are we so happy about?"

The pain twisted her face into grotesqueness, making her smile as deformed as it could be.

Occasionally, someone would turn their head upon hearing a strange, robust laugh, see a new face, notice that distorted expression, then turn away again to continue wandering aimlessly.

There was no exit here.

When the vortex disappeared, the world seemed like a Möbius strip; as long as one kept walking forward, they would traverse the same paths over and over.

Endless torment was assured, eternally on the opposite side of happiness.

Even now, Jiang Lu had not realized how the immense hunger, emptiness, and pain came to be.

Just as she once naïvely believed—Luo Zan could use divine power to conjure a castle's worth of food.

She never understood one thing: in this world, everything was equivalent exchange; everything had a price to pay.

All delight and joy had their opposites as well.

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Late at night.

Hearing Jiang Lu's plea for help, Zhou Baiyu's mind connected all the dots.

"Jiang Xianwu, I'm so sleepy. I was so hungry during the day, I've never felt that hungry... Now I'm cold and sleepy, but I just can't fall asleep, hahaha, hahaha..."

"Save me hahaha, I'm in so much pain, my body hurts, hahaha, hahaha..."

Her laughter grew weaker and weaker, yet it just wouldn't stop.

Through the dirt telephone, Zhou Baiyu saw countless people like Jiang Lu letting out desperate laughs.

Jiang Lu's expression became chaotic, despair hiding beneath her smile, like two different paints interlaced, blending into an unprecedented color.

An ugly, eye-jarring color, the girl with the small canine teeth, now in a ghastly, bloodied state, exhibited an even uglier smile.

On the burnt-red earth, the colossal idol had revealed its true face—

It was a beautiful woman.

But horns and a tail made Zhou Baiyu realize this was no human.

"Boluke is a succubus? How could it be a succubus?"

This clashed with some of Baiyu's inner speculations—how could it be a succubus?

In Baiyu's view, Boluke seemed more likely to be an incubus.

In fact, he had already recalled what that familiar feeling was.

Upon seeing Boluke, Zhou Baiyu kept pondering the origin of that sense of familiarity.

Recently, he finally understood—

Boluke's eyes were exactly how he imagined the most beautiful female eyes to be.

At that time, Zhou Baiyu speculated that everything here was related to incubi.

Everything here was also related to "desire."

But now, he saw a colossal idol at the center of Zone B as well.

The idol wasn't wrapped anymore but exposed in the form of a succubus.

Also, beside the immense succubus idol, there was another winding staircase upwards.

This puzzled Zhou Baiyu. Of course, whether it was a succubus or incubus, even though he had a good relationship with Midel, those who had committed such evil acts against humankind must be eradicated.